THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. t itolumbian. ESTABLISHED 1869. 'ilbe (Totumbia gjfiuorrat, JtSIABiISIlED 1?37. CONSOLIDATED 18fi. PCBLISHKD "SVEHY TIIIHSDAY MOHNINO at Bloomsburg, the county seat of Columbia County, Pennsylvania. .40. E. KLWELL EDITOR. D. i. TASK EH, Local Editor. UEO. '. KUAN, Fohinan. Tims: Inside the county fi.ooayearln ad vance; li.M if not paid In advance Out aide ka county, $i.as a year, strictly In advance. 411 communications should be addressed to TBI COLUMBIAN. Bloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, SKPTEMKER 9, 1897. EEEDERIEES1GNS. A change in Governor Hastings cabinet was made on Wednesday, by the resignation of General Frank Reeder, secretary of the Common wealth, and the appointment of James H. Lambert to fill the vacancy. The resignation was requested by Hast ings, and Reeder's connection with the $20,000 indemnity bond is the alleged cause of the Governor s action More temovals or enforced resigna tions are hinted. In reply to ques tions concerning his resignation Mr, Reeder said : "Yes, it is true, I have resigned. The governor last Thursday night sent to me a written request for my resig nation in which no reason for such request was stated, but which I at once acceded to by delivering my written resignation into the hands of Mr. Beitler, the governor's private secretary. The governor's request was very formal. Building and Loan Associations The annual report of the Banking Commissioner upon the building and loan associations of the State contains several interesting features. First of all it shows that despite business de pression and hard times the people of small means, who are the chief share holders of these associations, continu ed to save money during the entire year, the assets of the 1.173 local as sociations naving increased more than seven per cent, over the assets reported for the previous year. It shows, too, that only one-third of the shareholders are borrowers. Forty- two new associations were chartered and only five failures occurred among trie strictly local associations. The general conditions of these as sociations is shown to be sound, and their affairs well and economically managed, an exhibit that should lead to a very marked addition to the $107,008,110.80 which stood to their credit last year. Times are better now and there will be more money in the hands of the working people for investment. lhe report shows that on the whole there is no sounder form of investment, for while the rates of interest secured are moderate the in vestments are safe, and those who put their money in are reasonably certain to get it back when they want it, with a secure and moderate increase. The rate of interest is above that paid by the savings banks, and the encourage ment tor investing small savings in this way is very great. There have been some cases of mismanagement brought to light dun ing the year which should serve as a warning to all local associations to take nothing for granted. The sud den death of one man who was an official in not less than twenty associ ations in an inland city, leaving his accounts in a confused and tangled state, emphasizes the necessity for a complete annual exhibit of the ac counts of every association to an au diting committee composed of men who will audit. There is a tendency in the smaller towns, where every body knows everybody else, to entrust the entire management of one or more associations to a well-known c.tizen of admitted integrity. Such men are liable to die suddenly or to become embarrassed in their own affairs, and the only safe way is to exact such a clear system of accounts that no matter who dies or fails in business the shareholders of every as sociation shall be able to know to a cent the condition of their invest ments. While the Bank Commissioner's re port shows that on the whole the con dition ot these associations is sound and that they are wisely managed, it should be the aim of the shareholders of each association to improve upon this until there is no further room for improvement. The few failures that have occurred show where the weak spots are, and should serve as object lessons upon what to avoid in future. - Times. The corn crop in the west is below that of last year, and the prices are higher. Speculators have turned to corn in preference to wheat, and the fact that fcurope may have to take our corn as well as wheat, in order to have sufficient food supply has tended to send the prices up. Dunn' Weekly Review of Trade, " Failures in August were in num ber not 17 per cent, less than in August, 1896, but in amount of lia bilities 70.8 per cent, smaller. July and August show a lower average of liabilities per failure than has ever been known in any year or even in any quarter of the 23 years R. G. Dun & Co. have kept quarterly records. The improvement is also wen aistriDuted, extending to nearly every important branch of business, but in clothing, jewelry and unclassi fied trading only two months of the past 47 have shown smaller failures, in general stores and furniture only three, in groceries, hats and iron manufacture only four, in hat and chemical manufactures only five, and in clothing manufacture only six months of the 47. The ratio of de faulted liabilities to payments at clear ing houses has been smaller in July and August than in any other month since early in 1893. August was the hrst month in which the daily average of settlements through clearing-houses exceeded materially that of the corresponding month of i8oj, the excess at the principal cities being 12.3 percent Nor is this due, as might be supposed, to activity in stock speculation, for the stock exchange clearing-house now disposes of a very large share of transactions, so that they affect bank exchanges far less than five years ago, The volume of business here has been distinctly larger in other than specula tive lines than it was then, and in textile goods phenomenally large, though slackening this week, buyers having nearly completed their initial purchases. With an extraordinary movement in grain, heavy real estate and building transactions, and in creased business in iron products, the month was clearly the busiest August ever known. The World's Shortage in Wheat. The Mark Lane Express, the dis tinguished British authority on crop reports, in its issue of Monday, figured that the net shortage in the world's supply of wheat would amount to 1 4, 000,000 quarters, or 112,000,000 bushels, which would have to be sup plied by this country. The Express adds that "should the demand be act ually as large as this the stores of old wheat will be used up, and a crisis of great seriousness will only be prevent ed by generally good prospects for the spring of 1898." A crisis in the wheat markets of Europe might easily be serious in other than commercial ways its po litical consequences might be of a por tentous nature. But among other in evitable results of dollar wheat will be a vastly increased acreage in this country ; and this may serve as a stop gap to stay the stomachs and preserve the peace of Europe. Death of Judge Weidman Judge Mason Weidman died at his home in Pottsville Friday afternoon last. Judge weidman was a naf.ve of the city of Lebanon, and went to Pottsville when a young man. Al though in politics a democrat, he was not a strong partisan and was always opposed to associating politics witn the judiciary and when a vacancy occurred on the bench through the death of Judge Green he was appoint ed by Governor Pattison to the posi tion, and in the following fall was nominated and elected for the full term. Soon after his election he was taken sick and confined to the house up to the time of his death. Judge Weidman was a man of culture and education and had he enjoyed good health would have no doubt proved himself worthy of the exalted position Devoted to Bryan. Chairman Garman Says Democrats Put Him Next Jefferson and Jackson. In answer to a query from a New York paper as to whether the growing prosperity of the country has shaken the faith of Democrats and Populists of this state in the silver issue and whether their loyalty to Mr. Bryan as leader is as great as ever, State Chairman Garman sent the following : "The Democrats in general con sider any prese.it evidences of pros perity due entirely to accidental cir cumstances, and we can see no special reason to believe that prosperity is here except by a spurt. Nor have the Democrats lost faith in the silver issue. Their loyalty to Bryan has become a devotion. He is placed next to Jefferson and Jackson in Democratic esteem." Important Pension Decision- An important decision for pension ers' widows have been given by Assist ant Secretary of the Interior Davis, that where the evidence shows the cause for pension was complicated with a disease which was the immedi ate cause of the soldier's death, the widow's claim on account of the death from these complications will be sus tained, the death being held to be in the line of duty in the service. Spain's Threat. The following letter, written by Spain's Prime Minister, is very boast ful. He says t " Our position is clear and our de termination to repel any unjust pre tention of the United States s:i em phatic that we are resolved before yielding to go to all extremes, even to war if necessary, in order to defend our sacred rights in Cuba. " Nor, if we go to war, shall we be less confident of the triumph of Spain. We will be the champions of the great political principle of European coloni zation in America against the wrong idea that the United States is the ar biter of national life and property in the New World. Europe will not consent to our tailure, and apart from the fact that our arms will have a better occasion to display their strength in a contest against a civilized country than fn the guerilla fights in the manieuas of Cuba, we shall have, even if we fail, a hand to lift us up in the last moments." PENNSYLVANIA NEWS ITEMS. The Farr eight hour law will be enforced at Hazleton. The peach crop in the eastern part of Pennsylvania is of tremendous size. Pennsylvania Master Horse- shoers are in convention at Harrisburg this week. The National Commandery of the United States Regular Army and Navy Veterans will meet in Reading, beginning next Monday. Martin Moran, of Providence, Lackawanna Countv, who died last week, was 117 years old and believed to be the oldest resident in this state Reading's embarrassed building and loan associations will settle their debts to each other upon a three per cent basis on or before January 1 1899. Ex-Mayor Charles B. Sutton, of Wilkesbarre, died on Monday, aged sixty-seven years. He was a republi can in politics and served two terms as mayor of Wilkesbarre. He was prominent in Grand Army circles. Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld, of Illinois, addressed an audience of about 5,000 people at Washington park Philadelphia, Mondty afternoon. His subject was "Municipal and Gov ernment Ownership and Government by Injunction." The mammoth manufacturing plant, Mendelssohn park, near Mc Keesport, containingthe Mendelssohn piano works, the BarckhorT organ works and the Dickson & Wood brick works was burned to the ground at an early hour Monday morning, entailing a loss of $65000. Legislator Walter E. Ritter of Williamsport, announced on Tuesday that he would accept the Democratic nomination for Auditor General given him by last week's State convention at Reading. The Young Men's Dem ocratic Club, of which Mr. Ritter is president, is making preparations to have a monster ratification meeting. The Luzerne County Democratic Convention Tuesday was largely at tended. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed, and, after a hard day's work, a good ticket was placed in the field. There was a stiff fight for the head of the ticket, that of District Attorney. There were three candidates Colonel T. R. Martin, S. S. Herring and Bernard McManus. Two ballots were necessary for a choice. Martin led on the first ballot, and was nominated on the second, after Herring had with drawn. Did Sot Like Texas. In the old civil docket recent'y brought to light in the court house at Greensburg, Pa., there are several cases recorded against George Wash ington. In the course of the year 1787 three claims were entered against him to compel him to pay taxes. The humorous clerk of that time has written the following under the claims : "George Washington, Esq.. appeareth not to like taxes." Ex. ciroffiiflDa Makes life misery to thousands of people. It manifests itself in many different ways, like goitre, swellings, running sores, boils, salt rheum and pimples and other eruptions. Scarce ly a man is wholly free from it, in some form. It clings tenaciously until the last vestige of scrofulous poison is eradicated by Hood's Sarsaparilla, the One True- Blood Purifier. Thousands of voluntary testimonials tell of suffering from scrofula, often inherited and most tenacious, positive ly, perfectly and permanently cured by KlOOCR Sarsaparilla Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co.. Lowell, Mass. Be sure to get Hoop's and only Hood's. rsii are the nest after-dinner nOOd 8 JrlllS plus, aid digestion, iba. IQHH R. TQWNSBKD.fD MawUnt frflL. ABB SUITS FROM 318.00. MISSING LINKS. Fish stories are now In their prime. Pleasure may be a shadow, but It uses a heap of substance. Boston has a dead man's curve which Is even worse than New York's. In the fifth century before Christ re fined copper was deemed as precious as gold. He who knows the world will not be too bashful. He who knows him self will not be Impudent. During Queen Victoria's reign the taxes in Great Britain have doubled, and trade has Increased sevenfold. Queen Victoria, In returning thanks for past favors, gives notice that she will continue business at the old stand. She Of course, you all talked about me as soon as I left? He No, dear; we thought you had attended to that sufficiently. The Boston Transcript thinks that the two most attractive places In the country for conventions are New York and Boston. Your personal affairs are of mighty little concern to the world unless you have been dolns something that you oughtn't to. Life. Hood, In describing the meeting of a man and a Hon, said: "The man ran oft with all his might, and the lion with all his mane." The following Is an advertisement in a Kansas paper: "Man and wife desire board and room in private family. Must have Btorm cave." Many persons of Irregular habits and lives charge to our climate numerous aches and pains which are the result of their own heedlessness. The Atchison Globe says: We find in the course of a day that we have nil the outdoor exercise we need in dodging people who ride wheels. In New Zealand the boys swim riv ers and climb hills to go to school. Here they frequently stay away from school to swim rivers and climb hills. Railroad engineers In Germany are rewarded for carefulness. If they rui ten years without accident, each engi neer receives a gold medal and about nve hundred dollars in cash. The number of immigrants who ar rived in New York during the fiscal year Just closed was 180,550, of whom 106.040 were males. Total immigration. to the united States was some 220.00O. AN IDLE MOMENT. The new revenue cutter is a record cutter, too. Wlgsby was asked what mine was the best to invest in, and replied, "Mine own. Boys will be boys. This is nonsense. Boys will be men if they live long euougn. Every man is of the opinion that he paid a terrible price for his exnerlence. while others got thelre at a bargain counter. The late Princess Alice of Hesse did much for the progress of women, and her memory Is fondly cherished by tnose wno were benefited by her kind ness. Tar and feathers do not seem to be an antiquated mode of punishment, ot least In Nebraska, where a man was recently tortured for cruelty to hla step-daughter. The Machlas. Me.. Union tells of an Auburn man, who has been confined to a sickbed seven weeks now, and who wrote a book three years ago on "How not to be elck." Husband Why are you so anxious for me to insure my life? Devoted Wife Well, darling, what chance should 1 have of marrying again if you left me penlless? "I have proposed to seven girls this summer already," said Tlmmins, "and I haven't been able to get accepted once. Dinged if I am not beginning to feel llko one of my poems." A French gentleman, who bad heard rum called spirits, went Into a hotel and called for a glass of punch, re questing at the same time that It should be made of "ghosts from the Vest Indies." There Is a wealth of subtle logic In the epitaph Inscribed on the tomb ot a North Carolina moonshiner: "Killed by the government for making whiskey out of corn grown front seed furnish ed by a congressman." Miss Madeline Pollard, who disap peared from public view after her sen sational suit against COugressmarf Breckinridge, is living quietly in Lon don, and Is understood to be studying with a view to engaging in literary work. A watchful and "eloquent parrot hung in the saloon ot John Stadler, in Muncie, Ind. The proprietor and his family slept up stairs. A fire broke out while the occupants were in deep slumber, and they were alarmed in time to save their lives by the parrot constantly shouting: "Fire! Fire! Get me out!" PoEtal Bobber's Eme In Court, William Moore and James Lewis, in the United States Court at Williamsport, on Tuesday, were found guilty of robbing the post office at Barnesboro, Cambria County. Moore was sentenced to five years, and Lew is to four years and six months in the CORNER MAIN & MARKET Sts BLOOMSBURG PA. Fall Opening! We are ready to show you GOODS that are to be seen in the markets of the world. Here they are in almost countless numbers for your selecting. Don't delay until the best are gone, as they are too stylish and inex. pensive to let pass. Ooods are early and you save that advance Dress Goods. Here they are gathered from all parts of the United States and Europe after many mouths of hard work, for your selec tion. They are indeed pretty, and will bear your closest in spection. Before you buy give us a call, we are sure to please you. Mixed Suitings, very pretty, all wool, 3G in. wide, 23c yd. Worth to-day at wholesale 2oc Wool Serges, in all colors, 30 in. wide, 2oc yd. All wool Serges in all colors 50 in. wide, 50c yd. Cost 50c to manufacture to day. Three lots of Mixed Suitings we will offer at extremely low pricts. Lot No. 1, 38 in wide, 42c. " " 2, " 45c. " "3, " 48c. The 42c one is worth 50c ALL WOOL SUITINGS in all the latest styles, too nu merous to mention here, 40 in. wide, 5Gc to $1.25 a yd. BROA D CLOTH, imported and American made. Our American goods equal to the imported and at less money. Made by Folwell Bros. & Co., of Phila. Best goods that Ave can buy, 48 in., 70c yd. Imported, 50 in. wide, $1 yd. BLOOMSBURG, PA. penitentiary. Moore, who attempted to commit suicide while in jail at Hollidaysburg, appeared in Court with his throat wrapped in a bandage. He told Judge Burlington that Moore was not his right name, but declined to give the latter, for fear his parents in Philadelphia would learn of his dis grace. SHERIFFS SALE. By virtue ot a writ ot Fl. Fa., Issued out ot the Common Pleas ot Columbia County Pa., and to me directed, there will be exposed to public sale at the Court House, Id Bloomsburg, Pa., on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1897, at 3 o'clock P. M., All those two messuage, tenements or tracts of land situate In the town ship ot Greenwood, county ot Columbia, and state ot Pennsylvania, the nrst thereof bound ed aud dcs'-ilbed as follows, to-wlt: Beginning at a post, corner ot land ot Thomas Poke; theuee sou'h tX degrees west lOtf perches; thence north 87M degrees west ltil 8-10 perches, north 8H degrees east IS perches, north 77 de grees west OH perches to a post, south TV de grees went 64 perches to a white pine; north degrees east It', Mo porches to a chestnut, south 79 dssrees west 76 !-lo perches to a rock oak; south no degrees west 00 tMO perches to a post, south 45 degrees east 73 perches to the place of beginning, containing 98J ACRES, being the same tract of land which Rdward hltehle and wife by deed dated the isith day of Dec. 1881, granted and conveyed to I. K. Tit man, recorded Jan. 31, Itttl In Deed Book 37 p 197. The second thereof beginning at a post, a corner of land of Thomas Poke; thenc i along line of said Poke, south 80 degrees east 49 per ches to a post; south 4') degrees east 02 1M0 perches to a post, thence by land of Edward Ktchle, south 00 degrees west 6) 8-10 perches to a rock oak; south 79 dogrees west 7s -10 per. ches to a chestnut, north lltf degreeseast 16 W0 perches to a white pine; south 79 degrees west ill perches to a post; thence by land ot James Musters, north 87tf degrees west 118 perches to a post on bank ot creek; north 42X degrees eat 54 perches to a hemlock, south 7Htf degrees east 80 perches to a white pine; north aV degrees east 13 perches to a post north 42X degrees" east 33 5-10 perches to a post, south NTH de grees east 55 perches to a post, south X de grees west 85 perches to a post, north 87.x de greet west ti 5-10 perohes to the place of be gluulug, containing I.j8 Acres, 11 Ptiohes Hatter, I TROUSERS I FROM 85.00. Fall Opening! all the latest styles in FALL going up in price, but we bought now. Dress Trimmings. Braids by the yard, in all colors and different widths. Braids by the sets, 50c to 3. Loops and Ornaments for front of dresses. Jets by the yard and set. Silks. Our line of Silks for this season far surpasses any we have ever shown. They are here in gala array and ask for you to look at them. Changeable Taffetas, 75c. Figured silks, 75, 80, 85, SI. Lining silks, 24 in. 35c. Groceries. We are prepared to offer you rare bargains in this depart ment. We have made double efforts to please you and we are offering you goods here now at prices that they cost to buy ' wholesale. You may buy the same priced goods elsewhere but how about the quality of them. Will you give us a trial. Jardinieres. When you move your flowers inside and want Jardinieres, we ask you to see ours. Our line is the largest in town and our assortment of shapes and sizes is complete. whereon are erected a FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, barn, wagon shed, and otherout-bulldlngs, fruit trees and water on premises. The land Is In a high state of cultivation for growing grain and grass,elng the same property which W. w. Kves and wife by deed dated 7 day of April, 1871, granted and conveyed to I. K. Tltman, recorded the 81 day of Jan. 188 1, In deed book 37, p. 1M. excepting thereout and therefrom the second tract, 88 acres sold to John Shultz, and 3 acres sold to Henry Warner, which two deeds do not appear ot record. Seized, taken Into execution at the suit ot Jos. W. Eves, now to use or Edward Kltchle vs. I. K. Tltman, and to be sold as the property of I. K. Tltman. J. B. McHENKY, ShorilT. Ikilbr & Ikilik, Attys. Ho More GREASY LAMPS Can be Bandied with Kid tUores . noh-explosiVe: Patsnttdln th UnHod State and Principal CoJf et tks World. Ssndfor copy of "Navtrout' 'c2 Price, 91.00 of jour dealer, or deliver free on receipt of price by ROSE MANUFACTURING CO. SII-13 N. THIRD ST.. PHILADELPHIA. CAUTION I SaHSWg only limp thai Is guarsnlood to politicly tr'"J2 money rfundd),lliatlfrMtroi grtasf-JW1 korowno and that la absolutoly non-wplosh, .lutllnl-U 18m. PH1LADA. MUSICAL ACADEMY. 1617 Hprnce i , iMtliacia, ! HICII. KKi'K A'Kll, DIKKCTOK. , Prlvuti und inns lessoua luull hcanc u M uaio. S.-IHI for lllusl rated cati.l.igucs it!"' full Information. l,IUi pupils lu ' 'TT'Y-S last seisou. l' Sir mm 0
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