Supplemerit-THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1896. BRIEF MENTION. About People Tou Know. John K. Fidler spent Monday in Danville Cap't. John M. Huckalew of Fishing Creek, was in town on Friday. George Patterson of Trenton, N. J., was a Blooms! urg visitor on Saturday. John W ird.m of Wilkcslnrre, spent Mon day in town attending to business. Paul 11. Shultz of the I'niversity of Penn sylvania, is home to send ihe holidays. Mrs. Alunm Fry has been quite ill for tho past two weeks. Mi-s I'miiia Webb is clerk inij in the Leader store. J. I.ce I farmm to.ik a buinc's trip to Scranton on Saturday. Win. Ilii'lon spent a few days in Wilkes ban? this v e'.. Kobt. I lartnian of I'.ighth Sttcrt, to k in the sights ol l'hdadelph a last ween- Mr John Turner of Scranton transacted badness in Hlooiiisburg on Saturday. Hon. M. J I'hillipsof Sullivan County, was in to.vn on Saturday, on business. Clark V. Miller of Milll nville, spent Mon day at this place transacting business. Miss I.eatha Fockard left last week for a few week's visit to h r sister, Mrs. Freas I licks, at ilummelstown. Rev. Rogers Israel, Rector of St. Luke's cluncli nt Scranton, preaehe I in St Paul's church Wednesday evming. Miss Maude Sherwood is one of the extra, force of clerks at 1 lartnian & Son's, during the holiday liade. I ss Annie Fox returned from Jcnkintown on Monday, where she had been spending Several weeks with her sister, Mrs. Gilbert. Mrs. Chas. B. Mcllenry, of Denton, is visiting nt the home of M. and Mis. J. S. Woods, on Fast Fifth Street Mr. John Warton of Scranton, was in Kloonisburg between trains on Tuesday at tending to business. Judge Ikeler is engaged this week and next in the contested election case of Jmlpe in Schuylkill county. T)r. Johns ol Hazleton, addressed the congregation of the Lutheran Church, in the interest of the Y. M. C. A. last Sunday moining. Mr. A J. Townsend and son Paul, of Philadelphia, visited her sister, Mrs. Rev. U. C. Conner at the M. E. Parsonage, cor ner Market and Third Street, last week. Miss Margaret I.aubach is in Berwick this week teaching the new operator of the Telephone exchange which has just been opened at that place. Arthur Colley, who for some time past has been employed at the Tube Works, left on Monday morning for Shiekshiuny, where he will fill the position of foreman of the tube works at that place. OOUNUIL PRO'JEEDINGS, New Hose Cart Purchased for the Friend ship Fire Co. REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE. The regular monthly meeting of the Town Council was attended last Thursday night by President W. O. Holmes, and members Charles Kun kle, W. D. Brobst, E. A. Rawlings, W. R. Kocher and F. J. Richard. The Flnarce Committee, Messrs. Kunkle, Kocher and Richard, made the following report : We, the members of the Finance Committee of the Town Council of said Town, to whom has been referr ed the question of holding an election to obtain consent to issue bonds for the purpose of raising funds to pay off the present floating indebtedness of the municipality and to provide for future outlays and indebtedness to be incurred in internal improvements, beg leave to report : That the bonded debt of the said Town is at present equal to 2 per cent, of the assessed valuation, and that there is also a floating indebted ness amounting to about $12000. It will be seen, therefore, that this float ing indebtedness is in excess of the Constitutional limit and has been illegally created. We are advised by the Town Soli citor, that the Council can not law fully issue bonds for this excess in debtedness, either with or without an election, for the reason that an elec tion, so as is proposed, only relates to some future indebtedness hereafter to be incurred, should the electors consent, but does not affect questions of debt already created without sub mission to the people ; and that the said debt could not be funded without an election because it is in excess of the limit imposed by law. As we have already said in a former report to your body, the only way to pay this floating indebtedness which has been improperly created is by additional taxation, or by snch an economic administration of affairs as will permit the Council to gradually liquidate the same out of the current revenues. Of course, at the present rate of expenditure this could not be done, but we would again advise, as we did heretofore; that our affairs be manag ed more economically, and that the tax rate be increased to an amount not greater than one per cent. We are also advised that an elec tion to obtain funds for future outlays, may be properly held if the same is thought advisable. Hut, in our opinion, we do not think that under the present condition of our finances any new debts should be incurred to such an amount as would warrant an election and issue of bonds. Such a course would only increase our funded debt without relieving us from the $12000 of un lawful excess. We theieforc report the resolution referred with a negative recommenda tion. Rawlings moved that the report be laid on the table for action at a special meeting, a meeting ol full Council. Seconded by Brobst. Mo lion lost, At this point member Ciorrey arrived and the ayes and nays were then called on the same motion. Yeas Rawlings, Gorrcy, Brobst, Holmes. Nays Richard, Kocher, Kunkle, whereupon the motion was carried and report laid on the table. Geo. Ferguson reports pavement along the Hendershott property on Eighth Street in a dangerous condi tion and asks that same be repaired W. L. Demarree made Council a proposition in reference to opening of Scott alley near Fair Ground, that he will sell enough ground for the alley for $350, or sell all of :he ground east of his lumber sheds for $450 if used as a street sometime, but if sold the Town is to sell it back to him for $100, same as they pay for it. Re ferred to Finance Committee with power to act- A request was made by C. II. Kline to have the pole removed from in front of Adams Express office, which was put there by the Republi can club. Referred to Sti eet Com mittee. A petition was presented by resi dent of South Market and Port Noble streets, asking lor fire protection in that vicinity. On motion of Kocher and Rawlings, Council agreed to place a water plug as prayed for. Petition presented asking that Locust street "be accepted by the Town, from 2nd to 5th, and ordained and graded as speedily as possible. Gorrey and Kunkle moved that the petition be laid on the table. Carried unanimously. Constable handed in his report saying he had served notice on Wm. Girton and Elwood Heacock on 6th street, and Mary E. Brown and A. Z. Schoch on 4th street, requesting them to put down their pavements. Building permit granted to W. R. Kocher for frame house on Catherine street. A report was handed in saying that the Friendship Fire Company was in need of eight pair of gum boots, oil, waste, &c. Referred to Committee on Fire with power to act. The Fire Committee recommend ed the purchase of a hose truck, as per specifications submitted by the American Fire Engine Co. for $135. On motion Council authorized the committee to make said purchase. J. C. Millard presented a release signed by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Millard, releasing the Town from further damages along her property on First Street, in consideration of $150 already agreed upon and to be paid to her by the Town. Go.reyand Rawlings moved that the release be accepted and an order drawn for the amount as soon as the release is properly acknowledged. Carried. An electric light was asked for at a point on Sixth street between Jeiler son and Market, for use during the winter months only. - Referred to Light Committee. G. B. Martin sent in a complaint as to the bad condition of the Light Street road, stating that if same is not put in proper shape it will be re turned to Court. Referred to Street Committee. Bills were presented and Secretary directed to issue orders for same as fellows : C. B. Ent, recording releases. . $27.50 A. V. Hower, making 3 arrests 1.30 W. L. Demaree, for lumber.. 8.72 C. W. Runyon, har Iware. . . . 19.85 Steam Co., steam for Town Hall ,5., 3 Harman & Hassert, iron jaw for crusher and work. , .. 9.33 O. B. Mellick, cement work at the Central Hotel crossing 14.61 Moyer Bros., one bbl. cement 3.25 Clearfield Brick Co., for 800 vitrified brick pavers 8.00 P. & R. RR. Co., freight on ' brick . . 13.00 I). L. & W. RR. Co., freight on cobble stone 16.40 Samuel Neyhard, sand for Centre Street crossing 2.25 Car Mfg. Co. iron, oak and woik 22.70 Water Co., 57 hydrants 891 7 Knorr and Culp, policemen. . 80.00 R. H. Ringler, Secretary.... 20.00 W. G. Ferguson also presented a bill of $100.88 for putting in the gut ter at L. E. Waller's, M.J. Hess', Tustin's and Miller's and lor work connected with same. The bill was referred back for correction. R. C. Buckalew appeared and ask ed Council to have a bridge placed over the Main street gutter at the alley between the Court House and Farmers Bank. His request was granted. C. W. Neal presented a draft of the proposed extension of Filth street from Leonard west about a distance of 638 feet. He stated he had releases from Wirt and Magee and himself, and offered to do the neces sary work, which would cost about $500, and take for his pay an order for the amount and apply same on his Town taxes. Referred to the Street Committee to report at a special meeting. George Bilig asked Council why the Ordinance requiring people to put down their pavements on Leonard street, is not enforced. He says some of the property holders have failed to comply. L. S. Wintersteen, attorney for W. H. Yetter, appeared and stated that they had filed exceptions and an appeal in the matter of the assessment of damages by reason of opening Jefferson street, and asks Council to have the mrtter adjusted soon as convenient. Referred for considera tion to the special meeting. Mr. Wintersteen, also attorney for Mrs. H. W. Sloan, spoke in regard to the appropriations of ground belong to his client for a public highway along the river or what is known as Fifteenth St. He wants Council to go over the ground and see if an amicable settlement can be made as to amount of damages. Referred to Finance Committee. W. H. Yetter asked that a crossing be put down over Fourth Street, at Jefferson. Referred to Street Com mittee. No further business appearing, the Council adjourned. WASHINGTON. From our Itctrular Correspoiicien Washington, Dec. 14th, 1S96. "Dear Boss : Unless you can buy us several more Senators it will be impossible to pay a tariff dividend on the investments of the late cam paign." While the above is not the exact wording of the message sent by the caucus of Republican Senators to King Hanna, it contains the substance and real meaning of the request of the caucus steering committee, that Mr. Ilanna shall try to "influence" the election of Senators who will pledge them selves to act with the Republicans on the tariff, in several states. Among the legislatures upon which the Republican Senators desire Mr. Ilanna to try his ' influence" are those ef North Carolina, Kentucky, Washington and South Dakota. If high tariff Senators can be secured for all these, the passage of a high tariff bill at the extra session of the next Congress will be assured. Otherwise the matter has been made very doubtful, with the chances against high tariff, by the action of the silver Republicans in declining invitations to enter the Republican Senatorial caucus. While the caucus of Republican Senators did not by a formal vote abandon the Dingley tariff bill, they did what was practically the same thing when they referred it to the steering committee and empowered that committee to act upon its own judgment. Pressure from the wool en manufacturers may compel the Republican Senators to demonstrate by some sort of a vote, not necessar ily on the bill itself, that the Ding ley bill cannot pass, but the bill is as dead as Ben. Harrison's force bill, so far as any serious attempt to pass it is concerned. The Re publicans couldn't pass it if they wanted to, and very few of them want to. This was shown last week when the bill was before the Senate for a few minutes (on Senator Al len's motion to take it up, which carried by a vote of 35 to 21), by the consternation which existed among the Republicans who had voted for the motion because they were afraid to do otherwise. Representative Stokes of S. C. has been served with notice of a double contest for his seat in the present and in the next House. Dr. Stokes came to Washington last year with the proper certificate of election but his scat was contest ed by Mr. Johnson, a -Republican. Finding nothing in the case upon which to base an excuse for giving Johnson the sent, the Republicans of the House declared the seat va cant. The two men were again candidates and Dr. Stokes was elected to the vacancy and also to the next House. Johnson's con test depends more upon the Repub lican majority than it does npon any evidence he expects to produce. Senator Blauchard voiced the sentiment of nearly all of the demo crats in both branches of Congress when he said: "The democratic party, while beaten in the recent election, is compact organized, and full of hope for the future. It .simply bides its time. It has lost some material which can be spared, and gained lots of friends, adherents, and well-wishers. It has always been a party of wonderful recupera tive capacity. It will be ready for the fray in 189.8 and in 1900. Woe to the republican party if it docs not make good that dangerous promise it has heralded throughout the land, of prosperity and good times." Senator Quay has astonished those who thought they knew him, not only by his change of tactics he has heretofore been the most silent of fighters but by the word ing of some of his published inter views against the candidacy of Mr. John Wanamaker for the Senate. For instance, when he said . "In the U. S. Senate, we have million aires and business men enough to serve all legitimate purposes. Sena tors are needed who have no special ties but who will act for the inter est of the country in gross without special affinities. The people most deserving of representation and most in need of legislative protec tion are the farmers, the small store keepers, the artisans and the laborers, and I stand by them." The truthfulness of the above is unquestioned, but that it should come from Mr. Quay is astonishing. While not himself a millionaire, Mr. Quay has always had the repu tation of being in touch with the millionaires of the country. But, he is first of all a politician, and as such is apt to make use of what he thinks to be the most effective weapons to carry his purpose. Senator Mills has left all the other resolutions relating to Cuba away behind by offering one direct ing the President to take forcible Iossession of Cuba and hold it until the Cubans organize a government of their own. The House is going right ahead passing bills just as though the Senate Calendar was not already choked up with House bills passed at the last session which haven't a ghost of a chance to get acted upon. The mountain would not go to Mahomet, so Mahomet went to the mountain. After remaining in Wash ington neatly a week, stopping just around the corner from the hotel at which Speaker Reed makes his home in Washington, without re ceiving a call from Mr. Reed, Boss Ilanna decided to call upon Mr. Reed, and he did so at the latter's office in the Capitol. In view of the humble manner in which most of the republicans waited upon Hanna, this call must have been a little humiliating to him; that it was pleasant to Tom Reed is certain. A Bonanza in Oil. Much Excitement in the Northern Part of Pennsylvania. Much interest is being centered in the oil fields of the northern part of this State. Several weeks ago parties began to open up an abandoned fields in McKean county, and the venture is proving a bonanza. New towns are being built, where but a short time ago was a wilderness. The boom has centered at a village called Chipmonk, and it is said that twenty-five houses were built there in two days. The excitement rivals the scenes that were enacted in the oil regions almost thirty years ago. Melvin St. Clair of Milton, who was charged with the murder of Will iam Catherman, was acquitted at Sunbury last week. . Court Proceedings Continued. Fist of Petit Jurors called. Those ex cused were Lulhcr F.ycr of Catawissa, Davis John of Main, Geo. S. Mcllenry of Kenton, Thos. Sherwood and F. A. Wiiman of Ncrwirk. Report of viewers in favor of a road in town of Bloomsburg beginning nt the shop ofC. K. Richie on North Iron St. and end. ing nt Race bridge confirmed nisi. Width 3 f-'-t. Commonwealth vs. Thou. K. Harder and sons Charles and Guy, Charles Hamlin prosecutor, was tried, charge, nssanlt and buttery. Verdict not guilty, Bn(' costs divided between prosecutor and defendants. Return of inquest c-tale of Daniel Morris, deceased, confirmed nisi. Com vs. Cuitis Honaberger. Assault and battery. True liill. Following roads, &c , confirmed absolutely: Report of viewers against bridge in Madi son township near Jacob Wintersteen's. Report against road in Tine township near Gusiavus I lens'. Report in favor of road in Giecnwood township near J no. C. Lemons. Report in favor of road in IScnton twp. near S. H. O'Hricn's. Report in favor of road in Montour town ship, near Geo. Y. Mourey's. Report against road in Catawissa twp. near John Shuman's Report widening Third Street, Benton Borough. Curtis Honaberger vs. Gabriel Wetzel, assault and battery. Verdict, defendant not guilty and each to pay one half the costs. Report of Grand Jury in favor of a county bridge in Cleveland township. Sale of real estate of A. K. Smith, late of. Jerscytown, deceased, ordered and John B. Casey appointed Trustee to sell same. Estate of I'eter Creasy. Frank lkelcr ap pointed auditor to make distribution. The jury in the case against Wm. Harvey, Fliilip Hess, I'cier I less, Katharine Mc llenry, Win 1). I less, Allie Harvey, Wm. Hartlett, James Hess, John Hess nnd Rhoda Hess, who were charged with forcible entry and detainer on the premises of J. I'. Frit and occupied by J. C. I.inn in Sugarloaf township, brought in a verdict of guilty. GRAND JURY REPORT. We have examined the public buildings and find them in fairly good condition, ex cept that some rep iuwcre needed in several of the cells nt 'the jail as follows : To the . iron bedsteads a number of which have broken legs nnd are otherwise racked ; also to the plumbing in two or more of the cells ; the basins and hoppers in same being broken anl pans of same gone. We also recom mend that some action be taken by the Court in the case of John Vandcrslice now confined in a cell at the jail, to the jury he seems to be insane nnd a dangerous person, and that he should be removed to some more proper place than our county jail. C. W. Runyam, Foreman. Com. vs. J. R. Fowler, charge selling liquor on election day. Flea, guilty. "On the statements of counsel for the defendant and the District Attorney that the sale was made on the evening of November 3rd, 1896, after the polls were closed and the vjte an nounced 10 the public and the defendant be lieving that he had then a right to sell under the law and for that reason asked for a sus pension of sentence so far as the same re lates to imprisonment of the defendant, it is so ordered and the sentence of the Court is that you J. K. Fowler pay the costs of prose cution and a fine of $50 to the Common wealth or give bail for the payment of the same to the Sheriff within ten days and stand committed until this sentence is coin plied with. By the Court." Com. vs. Philip Hess et. al. Now Dec ember to, 1896, the reasons filed in this case by Defendants' Counsel for a new trial and in arrest of judgment are over-ruled and while we consider the verdict of the Jury right nnd proper according to the evidence and the charge of the Court, yet in order that Allie Harvey and Rhoda Hess being married women acting in the presence of their husbands shall not nnd cannot be held for crime committed, the verdict of the Jury is set aside as to them, and in order that James Hess, John Hess and Wm Hartlett shall not be predjudiced by the verdict aforesaid, or the charge of Court, we set aside as to them the verdict so far as it relates to their guilt of forcible entry, and sentence them only in reference to their guilt of forcible detainer, and that they the said James Hess, John Hess and Wm. Bart, le t each pay one-seventh of the costs of prosecution and that Peter Hess, Philip Hess, W. A. Hess, Katharine Mcllenry and Win. Harvey pay a fine of one dollar each to the Commonwealth and that each also pay one-seventh of the costs of prose cution within fifty days of this date and in Case of non-payment of said fines and costs at the expiration of that time a bench war rant may issue to apprehend the defendants sentenced or any of them and commit them to the custody of the Sheriff. By the Court. Accidentally Shot. Jacob Thomas of Wilkesbarre, started on a hunting trip on the Nanti coke Mountains yesterday. He stop ped at his uncle's house to get sup per. His cousin picked up the gun and pointed it at the young man, thinking there was no cap on it, but the gun went off, the contents strik ing Thomas in the side and leg below the knee, tearing away a large portion of the calf. The following letters are advertised Dec. 15, 1896: Frank Roy Kvans, Mrs. Kate Fletcher, Mr. Jas. Foster, Ella Heard, Miss Sallie Hill, Mr. Hoope, N. B. Staplcton, Mr. Amsey Vananken, Mr. Thomas Wilson. " Cards: Mr. Tobias Williams. Will be sent to the ead letter office Dec. 29, 1896. James H. Merckr, P. M. The Superintendent of buildings of New York, last week made the start ling statement that 3,200 buildings in New York City are absolutely unsafe. S
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