Jltf Columbia pcmortiU, TABtHHED O N"nLID.Ti:i) - p:ji.:.ESt by 1LWILL EITTENEENDER EVERY KH1DAY MOKNINO At BJpotnsburs. tno county sit of toWikUa C ounty, Pennsylvania. Tsmii: ln:4 the enmity, tl .00 a year Id ! rn; li.M It not paid In advance outside the county. t yer. s'rlctly In advne. All comiULl.'6:ioci should be addressed to THE COIXMBIAN. BloomsburK, I'a FRIDAY. Jl'LV is ,lSoJ. Fur Prf.sidext GROVER CLEVELAND, of New York. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT ADLA! E. STEVENSON, ol Illinois. STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET FOR CONfiRIMMAS AT I.AROl. GEORGE A. ALLEN. Erie. THOMAS P. MEKKITT. rterks. CHRISTOPIIEK I3EYDKICK, VenantfO. rOR KI.ECT0R8 AT !.AR(iI. MORTIMER Y. ELLIOTT. Tlosa. 4NO. C. BULLITT. Phlldlphla. THOMAS B. KENNEDY, Franklin. DAVID T. WATSON. All gheny. FOR DISTRICT ILICTORS. Samuel G. Thompson. Adam Conway. W. Redwood Wright. John O. James. James DuJTey, S. W. Trimmer, Azttr Lathrop, Thomas ChaHan:. P. H. Strubinger. Joseph D. Orr, Andrew A. Payton. Michael Lelbel, J. K. 1 C'lcm't It. Walnwrlsht. Charles U. LatlertT, neotve K. t.UNS William Molan. Charles D. Breci. Samuel s. Lelby, T. C. Hippie. W. P. Illmmflreich II. li. Piper. Charles A. Fagan. Inhn D. Braden. Yhoir-A Mi Dowell. . iia::. C0TJ5TY C0MM1TTZE SILETIKO- A meeting of the Democratic Standing Committee will be held on Saturday July the 23rd, 1S9J at a o'clock, in the Grand Jury Room, in the town of Bloorusburg, tor the pur pose of making an apportionment of Delegates to the several election dis tricts in Columbia County. Jno. R. Town send, County Chairman. J. H. Mercer, Secretary. We announce in the proper place this week the name of Hon. S. P. Wol verton of Sunbury as a candidate or renomination for Congress from : us district. He has made a very ac- eptable representative, is one ot the ablest men in the state, and Columbia county will give him her endorse ment for a second terra undoubtedly, as no other name is announced in this county, nor have we heard any one mentioned in any of the other coun ties of the district. It looks like a un animous renomination. While Mr. Carnegie rests in the shade of Coworth Park, at his High land summer retreat in Scotland, and his partner, Mr. Phipps, revels in the luxuries of Knebworth Castle and en joys the society of English noblemen, the managers of their works at Home stead, this State, are building fortifica tions around and laying hot water pipes through their mills, preparatory to a siege with their workingmen, whose wages suffered another reduc tion on the 1st of July. With Carne gie and Phipps it is a question of great er profits that they may make more liberal contributions to the Republi can campaign fund and lavish more money on European homes and Euro pean luxuries. With their men it is a question of bread and butter for their families and the simplest and cheap est necessaries that human beings can exist upon. Easton Sentinel. Taxed From Head to Foot- The American laborer in the most highly protected industries goes upon a strike against the lowering of his wages, wearing a cap taxed 50 per cent, a shirt taxed 80 per cent., and a suit of clothes taxed 100 per cnt. He talks the situation ever with his wife, and until the SherirT distrains on him for his rent he rests his feet, wear ing shoes taxed 25 per cent, on a car pet taxed fifty per cent. He cuts the bacon produced by the unprotected farmer with a knife taxed 100 per cent., and if his wife cries over their prospects she wipes her eyes with a handkerchief taxed 55 per cent. If she does not persuade him to go back to work at lower wages his place is supplied by the foreign pauper labor of Bohemia or Poland, and he has leisure to reflect on how protection helps him. Jlaltimore JVeir. Qood Ground for Hope ia Illinois, When you come to think '.hat the Democrats of Illinois have fourteen Representatives in Congress in a Del egation of twenty, a majority in the State Legislature and a Democratic Senator, and in 1891 elected their State ticket by a majority of nearly ten thousand vctes, it doesn't seem al together unreasonable to put it in tlv; list of JdcbataV.e States. Fattison Will Visit the Troop. THE CALL TO HOMESTEAD TAKES 1 ME I LACK OK THE ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT. Governor Paltison has receive.', tie following telegram from Gen-jr.d S".nvJen dated Homestead: "The troops are all in camp and in position. A strong provost patrol is securing the town. J here js no troub le and no prospect cf it at this time 6 P. M. Sheriff McCIeary has gone heme but leaves a representative. 1 he liovernor expects no news from Homestead, believing as he does, that there will be no trouble. He says he will visit the troops there when inspection takes place, as the present outing will take the place of the annual encampment. The men will be drilled and inspected as usual on those occasions, so far as thei duties as preservers of the peace will permit. The Governor said to-night in the course of a conversation relative to the impression which prevails at Home stead and elsewhere, that the troops will have nothing to do with protect tr.g non union men, that the State authorities will not concern itself with inquiring wheather the men are union or non-union men. 1 he troops are there to preserve the peace and to protect all persons in their rijht Colonel Volkmar, of the United States armv, is expected here to-niirht to join the party of inspection as tne rep resentative of the United States Gov ernment. The party will go to Mount Gretna first. Cleveland Savs No ins WIFE'S NAME MIST NOT BE USED IN CONNECTION WITH CAMPAIGN CLIPS. The following correspondence ex plains itself : New York, June 26, 1S92. 'Mrs. Grover Cleveland: 'Dear Madam : It gives us great pleasure as representatives of that great body of women of Democratic sympathies to inform you that a trances Cleveland Influence Club has been formed by the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters of New York Democrats. We have taken the liberty of using your name for the first of the many Influence Clubs which we trust will spring up through out the country, and after November 8 will confirm the judgment of that Republican leader regarding 1893, that 'the women did it.' 'We feel that this campaign is to lift the burden of taxation from the homes of the land, and we, as home defenders, desire a part in the struggle. "Yours respectfully, "Mary Frost Ormsbt, 'President Frances Cleveland In fluence Club, No. 1." Gray Gables, Buzzards Bay, Mass., July 0, 1892. "Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby : "My Dear Madam : Mrs. Cleve land has referred to me your letter in forming her of the organization of a 'Frances Cleveland Influence Club.' "It is by no means pleasant to dis sent from the methods which sincere friends adopt, when their efforts not only demonstrate their friendliness but when they also seek to subserve the public good and are, therefore, en gaged in a patriotic service. "It is, however, impossible for us to approve of the use of Mrs. Cleveland's name in the designation of clubs de signed to do political work. We trust you will not undervalue our objection, because it rests upon the sentiment that the name now sacred in the home circle as wife and mother may well be spared in the organization and operation of clubs created to exert political influence, "Your3 very truly, "Grover Cleveland." The Situation. Gov. Pattison called out the troops at the right time and in the right way. He waited as was his plain duty to do, until it became evident that the civil arm was inadequate. He then ordered out the military in such force as to render its simple presence suffi cient, probably, to repress all disorder without its actual use. Such action was as humane as it was wise. There is but one tiling for the locked out men to do. They must submit to the law. They must keep the peace. Their quarrel is with their employers. They must not make it a quarrel with organized society. It is a protest against wage reduction. It must not be made a revolt against law and order. They must not resist the authority of the State. They must not make war upon the community. On the other hand there ought to be a concerted effort to secure justice for these men. Whatever law or logic may say, it will be a grievous hard ship if they are refused, as Mr. t rick threatens, even the opportunity to ne- gotiate for restoration to their employ ment. There is no reason for an attitude so vindictive and no justice in it. So ciety, which properly insists that the men shall not by force exclude the owners of the works from the posses sion and use of their property, should also insist by every means open to pub' lie opinion upon an abandonment of the intolerant attitude assumed toward them by the Carnegie Company. The case is one for negotiation and arbitration, not one for the arbitrary condemnation of men to a permanent 1 ...... f i li',,.;.) WA9HINGT05 LETTE2L Washington, July 9. 1892. Representative Gates of Alabama, who is chairman cf the House vm n.ittcc which has z to Homestead t lec'.n its investigation of the mur- ders at that place by men in the em hloymentcf the p'ir.kertons, is very I much in earnest a!out getting to the bottom ol the horrible affair. He could have taken the committee to Homestead sooner, but he wished to give Carnegie's men an opportunity to bury their murdered comrades before calling upon them for testimony. After getting statements from the workingmen and from Carnegie's rej- resentativcs the committee will return to Washington where the two Pinker tons have been summoned, to be put through a most riqid examination as to their share and responsibility for the Homestead tragedy. A number 01 labor leaders, including Mr. Pow derly, hive also been notified to ap pear oetore the committee when it returns to ashington. Congress has mane up its mind, in advance of any report from the committee, that the I mkerton method of employing and arming bodies of men is vicious and un-Amencan and must co. Upon being shown that more monev would be needed during the current fiscal year than had ben appropriated by the House, the House conferees agreed to Senate amendments to the Pension Appropriation bill increasing the total amount carried by the bill nearly $12,000,000. The bill as it now stands appropriates $1 46.71 7. t?o. Senator Wolcott agrees with Senator est and others of his colleagues in believing that the U. S. Geological Survey is of very little use aside from furnishing snug berths for friends of its Director, and, as it costs about a mil lion a year, he has introduced 9 reso lution authorizing an investigation as to its usefulness and the necessity for its continuance. The lobbying ex perience of the Director will make it easy for him to "hang up" this resolu tion. For some time a sub-committee of the House committee on Manufactures has been engaged investigating the numerous trusts and combines. Its report to the full committee, iust made. says that trusts, combinations and as sociations are in control of the pro duction, distribution and prices of very many of the articles of most ceneral consumption ; that prices to the con sumers are increased, while wages of those employed bv the trusts are re- duced ; that all past legislation on the subject is insufficient and impractic able, recommends as a remedy the placing of all articles which are under or may come under the control of a trust upon the free Int. This recom mendation is neither new nor novel. but it is good, hard, horse sense all the same, and if carried out would throttle nearly every trust now existing in this country. Ihe House World's Fair committee presented a supplementary report con taining additional reasons for making that ?5 0,000,000 appropriation for the rair. a minority report, signed bv Representative Little, of New York. and Wheeler of Alabama, declares that the exposition is in no sense a zov- emment undertaking and that no money should be appropriated there for, except for the expenses of the national commission. Congressional sentiment is largely in favor of the ap propriation, and there is little doubt of its being made. senator Mills has gone to Texas to take the stump against the third party movement which, in the absence of serious opposition, has been making considerable progress in that State. As indicated in this corresDondence. weeks ago the House committee which investigated the Pension Office has recommended the dismissal of Com missioner Raum from Office, on the ground of his general unfitnesss to su pervise and govern a large number of employes, and because he has prosti tuted his office for private gain and for political purposes. The committee also recommends numerous reforms in the business of the Pension Office, including a reduction in the Attorney's fee to $5, without authority to stipu late for more. This report which will be approved by the House makes pleasant summer reading for Mr. Har rison, who is solely responsible for Raum's continuance in office. One day's record of the House, un der a suspension of the rules : Passed, the tin plate bill, the silver lead ore bill, the bill amending the land grant act of 1S90, the bill giving Utah home rule, the bill limiting the quantity of cioming mat may oe orougnt in tree of duty by returning travelers, and the bill providing for the use of automatic car couplers on all freight trains. The House committee on Rules will report a special order for the con sideration of the free coinage bill on Wednesday and the succeeding legis lative day. The bill can be passed under this order if a majority of the House so wills. Eaglesmere Railroad- The last rail on the railroad leading to Eagle's Mere, the Summer resort on the top of the mountains, was laid Saturday. The first train steamed up the steep grades, and the whistle of the locomotive for the first tune brokethe primitive stillness. Pas senger trains will be ran .regularly hereafter. urw r.TJ 'yw ri " kz Then-Whit? General Snowden is in peaceful and comp'cte possession of the Carnegie Woiks at Home-tead. IVirg as dis creet as he is courteous as a soldier, lie declined the r.iockety of a welcome to the storm centre of lawlessness to the music of the band of the lawless. There is peace now ; but when the marrow of the issue shall be reached, then what ? Mr. Frick, who fully represents Mr. Carnegie in this struggle, has never misled anyone as to his purpose. He has been bold and explicit in ex pressing Jus intention to sever the Homestead works from all control of the Amalgamated Association, and to employ men. either in or out of that organization, who would accept his scale and rules. Being now restored to the possession of his property, he will doubtless employ new men to start his works, and then what ? This is the very marrow of the dis pute, and it was this violently disputed right of Mr. Frick to employ whom he preferred that led to not and blood shed and that has brought the troops to Homestead. It is idle to say that the violence was solely against the mercenaries of the Pinkertons. If the workmen had not taken lawless pos session of property in which they had no pretense of ownership, to prevent the employment of any but them selves, the Pinkerton men would never have been summoned there ; and it should not be torgotten that the troops are now there to do lawfully just what the Pinkerton men were called to do without authority of law. When the new workmen come to start the Homestead works, then what ? The crucial test of the willingness of the striking men at Homestead to obey the law will come very soon, 33 Mr. Frick has announced his purpose to start his works with such new labor as he shall find acceptable and such of his employes as shall renounce allegiance to the Association. If the new workmen shall be permitted to enter upon their service without mo lestation or threat, the mission of the military will be ended. But when these new men come to work, and old employes are invited to desert the As sociation to retain employment, then what ? Time. Taa Con7ent:oa Ended- CLOSE Or THE GREAT CHRISTIAN EN DEAVOR GATHERING IN NEW YORK. New Yosk. Tulv to. The Ut Axv of the great Christian Endeavorers be gan at q o'clock this morninu with a prayer meeting in the Madison Square uaruen, conducted Dy A. li. rennell, of Boston. Tta thousand delegates were present, and after several pray ers ana mucn nymn-smging tne meet ing adjourned at 10.15 o'clock to enable the delegates to attend regular services in the different evangelical churches of this city. The afternoon session at the G.ir. den began at i o'clock, President iiaric presiding, i-uily 15,000 dele gates were in attendance, desnite the intense heat. After the prayer and praise meeting oriel reports were re ceived from the committee conferences, under the direction ot William Shaw, treasurer of the united society, who reported the greatest enthusiasm had been manifested bv the delegates at different denominational rallies held during the convention. At one of them $1,500 had been subscribed for the completion of a missionary church at sail iane City, ihe friends or Quakers, he also said, formed a Chris tian Endeavor Society at yesterday's rauy 01 tneir delegates. "Throw Out the Lifeline." wasunrr by Mr. Stebbins, after which Ira D. sanKey spoice on the subject ot Chris tian Endeavor in Great Britain. He had just returned, he said, from a six months' campaign with Mr. Moody in Scotland and, having attended the National Christian Endeavor Conven tion, held six weeks ago in the city of Chester, he had an opportunity of see ing something of the working nf rh society in the old country, and he was glad to say that it was making great progress in l-.ngiand, Scotland and Wales. Ireland, he said, was very far behind, but if there weretmore Chris tian Endeavor societies there it would be the best kind of home rule Ireland could have. An address on irosDel temnerance was given by John G. Woolley, of Minnesota, followed by singing and a paper entitled "Among the Northwest Indians," by Eric Young, of Toronto, Ont. The Rev. John Henry Barrow, D. D., of Chicago, sooke on the "Posl sibilities of the World's Fair." JETHA'S FIR ANT) ASHES. A VII.L.V'-K REDUCED TO RUINS AND MANY THOUGHT TO HAVE PERISHED. Rome, July 13 The eruption of Mount -Etna is rapidly increasing in violence. The fires in the crater show great activity. Loud explosions arc continually taking place. A severe earthquake shock oecurred this morn irg, which reduced to ruins the village of Giarre, on the coast of Sicily five hour's journey from the craters of Mt. .Etna. The population of Giarre is ahnnr iS .000. No mention of luss of life is 1 made, but it ;s teared here th.it many have perished. Cyrus V, Tiuld D'.au. DottPs Fekrv, N. Y. July 12.--Cyrus W. Field died at 9:50 o !o.k this morning at his home at Ar.lh'ey Park. Those at the deathbed in cluded David Dudley Field, Mrs. Isabella Judson, Cyrus W. Field Judson, Mrs. Dudley Field, Frank Judson and the attending physician. Cyrus W. Field was born in Stock bridge Mass., November 30, 1819. He was educated in his native village. At the age of 15 he wtntto New York to carve out his fortune. He obtained a position as clerk in the store of A. T. Stewart. Before he was 2 1 years old he had saved some money and gone into business on his own account. He began the manu facture and sale of paper, and within a dozen years he was at the head of a large prosperous business. In 1853. having amassed a fortune, he retired from active business. For thirteen years Mr. Field gave his time to the Atlantic cable. He made scores of visits to Europe, per sonally oversaw the laying of the first cable, which parted in mid ocean and was lost, but he mas not discouraged. The out-break of war delayed the project, but did not dampen his arbor. When the war was over he went to work and secured the co-operation of the United States and Great Britain. Both of the Governments loaned big war ships to assist in laying the cable, and the great work was accomplished on July 27, 1867. Two cables were laid in the effort to make one complete, and both are in operation to-day. Congress voted him a gold medal and the thanks of the nation. England would have done the same had she not been prevented because he was a foreigner, the Chamber of Commerce of New York a gold medal, thanks of the state cf Wisconsin with a gold medal, a decoration from King Victor Emanuel of Italy and an entire service of silver from George Peabody. He was per sonally a man of striking characteristics keen, aleit, vigorous. A Chance for Composers- In order to stimulate American composition, The Lading' Home Journal has just made public an at tractive series of liberal nrizes for the best original musical composition by composers resident in the United States and Canada. The prizes call for a waltz, a piano comnosition. a pleasing ballad and a popular song, an anthem and the four best hvmn tune3. The competition is open until November 1st. next. Theonnortunitv has an additional attractiveness since the prize compositions will form part of a series for which Strauss is writing an original waltz, and Chirles fimmml and Sir Arthur Sullivan each an origin al song. A "Flyer," Indeed. THE FASTEST SCHEDULED TRAiv IV AMERICA RINS FROM PHILADELPHIA TO THE SEA VIA THE READING'S ROYAL ROUTE. That there is a streak of "snnrtintr blood" in the veins of the most sedate among us is evidenced by the uni versal interest manifested in m;i.i speeds and the delight with which the average man hails e.irh triumph of the locomotive over the ww.Ui.,.v.u iieiucius 01 time ana dis tance. The much-vaunted '-Flvi no. Srntrh. man" express train between London and Edinburgh, in r.reit rtritam ;e still regarded by many persons as the lasiesi reguiany scheduled train in the world. This, however, w a mU'ii-.. the speed of the "Scotchman" having been excelled by several railroads in this country, notably by the New York vcmrai, whose "Empire State Ex press" between New York and Buffalo has, until within a few days, claimed the title of the fastest regular train in the world. This eelehratpH trnin nine from New York to Buffalo, a distance 01 440 miles, in eight hours and forty -!, wint.i is ai me rate ot seventy-one seconds -to each mile, or fifty and two-thirds miles ner linnr l in ducting all stops the average running - ui " m is nitv-two and twelve one-hundredths miles per hour. Mi: Chas. y, llauer 01 Fraderic. Md., suffered, terribly for oTvr ten year with abioesjes and ruiaiiag iota 011 1 !. B' ,Ie ,r'Jre, "v'''t5-- Bw weak n,l thin, unrt wai oWlce.l ti Me cv.0 am, 1 Kocrf'3 Sarsaparilia !V;'.!:,i;!r',t,1r'J, PV'1 cur. Mr. Hiuer I, - - - .? . !. ?'.""" I.JfU, Maf. --.f.'o.-. New, however, ror:e? a nov ra: ant for high speed h-rors. it i"1' been disanercd that tlie k,,,!,35 Railroad's 3.30 P. M. f :n l'hil.uklphia t. Atlantic C-u . k,i0 as tile "Seventy.M.nu; !;ya n actually the fastest regul.uiy si ht.lul,,'.! passenger train in the Woild. nt distance from Chestnut street wiia,rtl Camden terminus of the rj;',roul U about a mile and a half, and the ferry boat trip and transfer of the passen gers fiomj llhecars occupies tcn minutes. Thisleave sixty minutes for the rail.ride, and that is precisely tin time allowed by the schedule to cover the fifty-five and a half miles which intervene between the Camden depot and the station in Atlantic City A little figuring will show that this is a speed of sixty-five seconds to the mile, or a rate of fifty-five and a half miles per hour, beating the former re. cord six seconds per mile and almost five miles per hour. It should be understood that tliis refers to the speed of regular schedul. ed trains over the entire length of their scheduled runs, and not to mere buits of speed or stretches of fist running to make up for lost time or delays. The rate of fifty-five and a half miles per hour is exceeded every day on the Reading Railroad, and possibly on some oth-jr lines, but on no railroad in the world, so far as known, is there a train run from end to end of its route at so great an average st eed as that of the "Seventy Minute Flyer." When the latter was established it was not with the purpose of breakin; a record, but the officials were coiff. dent of their ability to run a train safely and promptly in the specified time, or less if required. It was de termined, however, to limit the train to six cars in order to insure quickness. 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