THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
That's the position we maintain in the shoe
trade. Our shoes are of the best makes, new
est styles, all widths, and sold at prices with
in the reach of all. A fair trial will convince
you that our's is the place at which to buy
your shoes.
W, 0.
Clarks' Building, Main
'HIE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
roa sale.
Dcwlrnble meant lots anrt t number of good
kousea anil lots In Hloomburg, 1'a The beat
knslDess stand In BloomttbuiK- A very deslra.
We properly containing 1W acres and tlrst clans
bnlldlnU Willi tfood will In a business worm
laud to $1600 per y ear at Willow urove.
Dwellings in Espy, Oranjfevlllo and Bench
Haven. A large number of farms In Columbia
County, one In Luzerne County, one In Virginia.
Two country Store Stands In Columbia Count y
and one In Luzerne county. A water power
planing mill, dry dock and lumber yard and
beds In Beach llaven, 1'a. Also 10 acres of
ood farm land at same place, by M. 1'. LL'T5
B)N, Insurance and Kcal Estate Agents,
BLOOvtabUKU, PA.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
t If IDOWKK'8 NOTIi'E. A HESPKCTAHLK
YV widow of middle age, a good house,
wiper, and having a child three years old with
ner, wou'u be pleased to keep house for some
TOKpec.tJtOle widower in or near uioomsouvg.
Kefoience given and requirea. rot
address Columbian Okhck, care of
For part lculari
I. J. J.
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LL KIHD8 OF BLANKS FOU JUSTICES
and gonbtablks at the Columbian on
oe. .
BADHB. WB AKK PREPARED TO SHOW
samples of met al, celluloid, woven and
ribbon badges for all kinds of orders and tto
olelles, andean aave them made to order on
abort notice, see Bamples and get prices.
AddresaTDB Columbian, bloouisburg, Pa.
TUSTI0K8AND CONSTABLES FEE BILL.
J Just ices and const ables can procuro copies
of fee bill under the act of 188, at Tn K Colpm.
tiin omce. It Is printed In pamphlet form,
Dd Is very convenient for reference. It also
oontalns t he act of 1KM) concerning the destruc
tion of wolves, wildcats, foxes and minks. Tliny
will be sent by mail to any address on receipt
Of 20 cents In stamps. tf.
rPEWKITKK. A HAMMOND TYPE-WHIT-IN(
machine, having tho universal key
board and being lu Ilrst-claas condition In fact
pew la for sale cheap to a responsible buyer.
Too can save money by calling at the Colum
bian office tor came and address of owner.
la-sil-tf.
Hotel for Sale.
The owners of Proctor Inn, Jamison
Oty, offer for sale the entire property.
It is a four story building with porches
entirely around first and second floors.
The house is handsomely furnished
throughout, and will be sold either
with or without the furniture. If not
sold with the building the furniture
will be sold at public sale. For par
ticulars address Lock Box A., Blooms
burg, Pa. 1 2-1 4-tf.
Houses to Kent
Cheap houses for rent, apply at 2 1 7
West First Street, Bloomsburg.
12-7 6t.
Boarding
And furnished rooms to rent on Main
street. Steam, gas, hot and cold wa
ter and bath. Apply to Mrs. M.
Phillips, at Phiilips' Cafe. tf
NEIGHBORHOOD HEWS
ateresting Items From Various Points In
the County, Reported by Our Staff of
Correspondents.
East Benton.
The hard times more than ever
press the poor to pay their bills more
promptly.
A sleighing party of young people
called on us last Friday night,
Our family paid Will Pealer's a
visit last Tuesday where we enjoyed a
rare treat of a musical concert.
Ralph Doty, a young man and son
of David Doty, isaboy of rare accom
plishments, lie is not only an expert
with the mouth organ in playing any
tune in unison with the piano, but is
also an expert in drawing and paint
ing. While he has never had any
instruction in these arts, and while
the natural talent has led almost to
perfection, he now contemplates tak
ing a course in drawing and painting.
We are now enjoying an old fash
ioned winter with an unusual depth of
snow.
Last Friday one of your townsmen, I
William Chrisman. passed this place, i
It is so seldom that we see a Blooms
burger in this section excel t in cam-
paign seasons.
Miss Rhetta Depoe of this town
ship and Mr. Albertson of Cambra
were united in the holy bond of
matrimony last Thursday by Rev. T.
H. Tubbs.
Bowman Crawford of this place is
complaining ill at this time.
A Greatly ASiicttd Family.
Within one week Mr Henry C.
Learn and his wife Rhod.i A, of
Ilriarcreck, lust three promising child
ren by diphiheria. Their names and
ages arc as follows: Gcoiye P. did
Jan. 14, age 6 year, il months and
20 days; Isaac K. died Jan. 17, age
5 yeass, 2 months and 16 Hays; and
Mary Pauline died Jan 2C, aged 3
yeais and 12 las. The bereaved
have the heartfelt sympathies of the
community.
Street.
LEGISLATIVE REOOBD.
A New Congressional Apporlionment Bill.--Also
a Judicial Apportionment Bill, fcc.
On the 2 ist instant Senator Mer
edith introduced his Congressional
apportionment bill which, having the
approval of the republican leaders, is
expected to become law with but
little or no amendment. If so, it will
give Philadelphia and Allegheny each
an additional Congressman. In Phila
delphia the old plan is pursued of
placing all the Democratic wards into
the Third district, making the other
five distrials all overwhelmingly Re
publican. The only change in the
Third district is that the Second ward
is added to it.
Many important charitable bequests
have fallen because of the provision
of the act of 1855, making such be
quests void if the will is executed less
than 30 days before the testator's
death. To avoid all such failures to
carry out the wishes of the deceased,
Senator Vaughn, of Armstrong, intro
duced a bill repealing that provision.
JUDICIAL APPORTIONMENT BILL.
Senator Brewer, of Franklin Coun
ty, introduced the Judicial Apportion
ment bill, which provides for the
creation of Circuit Courts of Appeal,
to be presided over by Common Pleas
Judges, and which will finally dispose
of certain cases and tend to greatly
relieve the Supreme Court. A similar
bill was introduced in the House by
Mr. Kunkel, of Dauphin,
Among the other bills introduced
were two by Senator Gobin, one of
which makes an appropriation for the
construction of the approaches and
other surroundings to the equestrian
statue of General Meade in the rear of
the angle at Gettysburg. The other is
a supplement to the act providing for
the acquisition by the State of land
for a public park at Valley Forge,
making an additional appropriation
and providing for the acquisition of
additional ground.
The act reorganizing the banking
department and increasing the salary
of the. commissioner from $4,000 to
$6,000 was passed on second reading
in the Senate.
It is, perhaps, a burning necessity
to increase the pay of this commis
sioner from $4,000 to $6,000, in view
of the trend of the times and the
affluent condition of the unappropriat
ed funds in the treasury. 1
. A LITTLE MORE JUSTICE TO JUSTICES
AND NOTARIES.
A bill having a very wide scope was
introduced by Mr. Smith, of Jefferson.
It gives Justices of the Peace author
ity to hear and deteimine cases in
certain offenses with the aid of juries,
and to impose sentence.
Governor Hastings has inaugurated
a new policy in the matter of making
nominations for notaries public. Sena
torial courtesy has always " hung np "
such appointments when a Senator
from the district objected. Governor
Hastings will submit all applications
for appointment to the Senator from
the district befcre nominating to the
Senate. When there is objection
efforts will be made to adjust all
differences.
The Governor also recalled from
the Senate to night all appointments
made by Governor Pattison and
which had been rejected by the
Senate, so as to open the way for new
appointments.
Mr. Lawrence, chairman ol the
joint committee to invite Co'onel
McClure to deliver an address on the
life and services of the late Andrew
G. Curtin, reported that the commit-
tee nail discharged its duty, and that
"lonel McClure had fixed the even-
,nK yl January 30
of January 30 as the time for
delivering the address,
The subject being one well worthy
of culofei..tic effort, and Mr. McClure
being just the man to do it up right,
this occasion will be raised above the
ordinary, and the promised eulogy of
Oov. Curtin by Alex. McUure will
reach the remotest parts of the civi
lized world through the greatest ed
ucational medium known to the world,
namely, the press.
Bills were read in place as follows 1
Mr. Bliss, Delaware, providing lor
additional Law Jucil-c in the Thirty
reconcl district ; making appropriation
01 4)io,ooo to John Morton Monu
incut Association, Chester ; authotiz
111 street railway companies and
traction motor companies and lessees
of any street railway company to carry
Ireignt and collect compensation
tiu retor,
As to the little fish thus attempting
to niub'e at the same bait the big one
1
nave monopolized lor, 10, these many
years, time alone will tell just how
V
A Clean
Collar
One that you enn keep clenn all
the time a collar that docs not
wilt when you get over-heated ;
that docs not fray on the edge, or
tear out at the buttonholes, and
can be cleaned by simply wiping
off with a wet sponge or cloth.
These collars and cull's are made
by covering linen collars or cuffs
on both sides with waterproof
"celluloid," thus Riving strength
and durability. They are the only
waterproof goods so made, and
every piece is stamped as follows:
EuuloiiI
MARK.
Ask for this, and refuse to take
any imitation if you expect sat
isfaction. If your dealer docs not
keep them, send direct to us, en
closing amount, and we will mail
you sample. Collars 85 cts. each.
Cuflscocts. nnir. .Stntrnizp. nnd
i whether stand-up or turned-down
l collar is wanted.
THE CELLULOID CO.
Broadway,
flew lone
mucn ireignt, express, tec, motor or
electric railways will be allowed to
carry as competitors and dividend
destroyers. For it must be remember
ed that the. trend of legislation is not
towards competition. It is generally
the other way, in the interest of big
things and toward the monopoly and
wealth that results from high protec
tion of aggregated wealth in any and
every shape.
Mr. Griner, Luzerne, for the pre
vention of sectarian influences in the
schools, and prohibiting teachers from
wearing any uniform designating a
religious, civic, political or military
organization.
This is an American notion some
what in conflict with the old Roman
sectarian idea about what kind of
school teaching we should have in
this land of religious freedom. Roman
anism and Americanism are too large
ly at variance to blend very sweetly
to-day in the public school room. This
bill is well calculated to avoid the
attempt now being made by the
Romans.
Caucus Nominations,
Voters can cast their ballots for
only one inspector of election in each
district. In making nominations for
that office, therefore, only one name
should be selected at the caucuses on
each party ticket, as otherwise the
commissioners may send the certifi
cates back for correction. The same
applies when several persons are to
be elected to the same office : as for
instance members of a borough
council No more than the number
to be elected should be named by
the caucus, as the law contemplates
the selection of the proper number
by the caucus and does not intend that
voters shall leave that fight until the
election, thus putting the county to
extra expense 111 printing tickets, be
sides making the ballot much more
complicated.
G. A. Lohman, a prominent res
taurant keeper of Wilkes-Barre, com
mitted suicide by drowning in a pond
near Kingston on Saturday morning.
lielore making the fatal plunee
Lohmann had taken off his overcoat,
hat and necktie, placed his gold
watch and diamond stud in the pocket
of his overcoat and left them all on
tne Dank, ills name was written
with a blue pencil inside his hat. The
water at the spot where he was drown
ed is about eight feet deep.
tie had $80,000 life insurance, and
though supposed to be a wealthy man,
it is believed that the premiums be
came burdensome, and rather than
permit his policies to lapse, he killed
htmseit so that his family could get
the insurance.
A Friuter Suicides.
Harry Pierson, a well-known Cam-
den printer, committed suicide on
Sunday by taking laudanum. He
entered the composing room of a daily
newspaper and picked up a bottle
containing the drug, with which one
of the printers had been bathing a
contused eye. Before any one in the
room realized what he was doing
Pierson litted the bottle to his mouth
and saying, " Here goes," swallowed
its contents. He then went out upon
the btreet and, after walking a half
block, reeled and fell to the pavement.
He was removed to his home, where
he died before medical aid could be
rendered. His family and friends'are
unable to account for his action.
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Drowned in Ice Gold Water,
On the 20th instant the State of
Missouri, a passenger steamer running
between Cincinnati and Memphis,
sank in ten minutes after striking a
rock. Strange to say but thirty seven
of the 100 passengers on her drowned,
63 out of the number having been
rescued. Consternation seized the
passengers and it was a fight for life
in many cases.
The State of Missouri is a very long
stern wheeler, plying between Cincin
nati and New Orleans. She had on
board a fairly large cargo of freight
and 100 cabin passengers, besides a
crew of sixty. At Alton the river
narrows, and the water being high an
extremely swift current results. This
threw the stern of the boat in towards
the Indiana shore. Before the pilot
could regain control of the boat she
hit a rock, tearing a long hole in the
hold at the water line. The shock
was terrific and consternation seized
upon the passengers and in a moment
they were frantic. Without regard of
consequences they rushed to the upper
decks in the hope of delaying the
inevitable, as the boat was rapidly
sinking. Women and children were
trampled upon, but it is believed all
got out of the cabin. Then the scram
ble for scats in the yawls began. , It
was a fight for life, in which many
combatants are believed to have gone
to their death. The first yawl launch
ed was sunk within twenty feet of
where it struck the water. It is believed
every one in it was drowned in sight
of the affrighted people huddled to
gether on the sinking steamer. A
second yawl was then pushed off con
taining four women. This is believed
to have reached shore. Just when
there seemed hope that by means of
this yawl the passengers could be saved
the steamer gave another terrific lurch
and literally broke into pieces, and in
ten minutes from the moment the
rock was struck nothing but the hull
remained.
The cabin, decks and pilot house
floated away, dragging down into the
water every one upon it. The lighter
freight was washed from the main
deck and on this men, women and
children clung as best they could,
many, however, only to fall back into
the ice cold water. Several succeed-
in getting into the trees and were
rescued by farmers and by passing
steamers.
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BRANCH OFFICES.
Jamison Citv, J. p, Kennedy, Barber Shop,
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Cuawissa, Dcrr'i Shoe House,
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