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ESTABLISHED 1866.
Columbia Democrat,
ESTABLISHED 1837. CONSOLIDATED 1869.
PUBLISHED .EVERY THURSDAY MORNING
Bloomsburg, the County seat of Columbia
County, Pennsylvania.
•KO. E. EL WELL EDITOR.
D. J. TABKEH, LOCAL EDITOR.
GEO. C. ROAN, FORERAN.
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anco; $1.50 If not paid lu advance Outside
he county, $1.85 a year, strictly in advance,
til communications should be addressed to
THE COLUMBIAN.
Bloomsburg, Pa.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, I.S 9 S!
CANDIDATES.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
North Side, Second term.
WILLIAM CHRISMAN,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE OF THE 26TH
JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
E. R. IKELER,
of Bloomsburg.
'*• ~i. tniGL- FOR CONGRESS,
L. FRITZ,
out - °ff Bloomsburg.
aver •
1 green, * nR STATE SENATOR,
W. H. RHAWN
••i of Catawissa.
thhjl FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
<3./ C. Z. SOHLICHER
of Beaver township.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
(South Side)
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
Catawissa Township.
FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE OF 26TH JUDICIAL
DISTRICT,
R. R. LITTLE,
of Bloomsburg.
Charles Emory Smith, editor of the
Philadelphia Press, was last week ap
pointed Postmaster General, vice Mr.
Gary resigned. The resignation is
said to be due to differences in the
Cabinet. Mr. Gary is a very strong
peace advocate and was not at all in
harmony with the war policy of the
administration.
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Money for the War.
The Ways and Means Committee
I has Deen prompt in formulating its
I |measure to fill the National Treasury
I (with the funds which are as essential
as ships and soldiers for carrying on
|k the war. Both houses of Congress
Wk should be equally patriotic and effi
cient in passing it.
kSfc* It is estimated that the Revenue
will produce from $90,000,000 to
I $100,000,000 annually, levied solely
in internal taxes. Tea and coffee are
exempted from taxation, because of
the desire to refrain from placing bur
dens on the common necessaries of
life. The increased taxes on beer,
tobacco, chemical preparations, mer
cantile paper, securities and legal in
struments will not be felt heavily by
the masses of the people, and what
ever slight inconvenience they impose
"V borne as a patii-
obligation.
'('While it is hoped that the issue of
j so large a sum in bonds as the $5OO,
000,000 authorized will not be requir
ed, it is yet the part of prudence to
give the Secretary of the Treasury
power to secure ample funds at all
times. Opposition to the issue of
these securities, either by the Senators
or by the' public press, is unpatriotic
and. utterly without justification at this
juncture. Criticism of the govern
ment because these bonds, like other
securities issued in the past, are speci
fically payable in "coin" is unfounded
in reason. Every human being in the
Un'ted Stales knows that "coin"
means gold under the explicit pledge
pot the government to uphold the gold
standard. It would have been im-
I I possible at this juncture to pass a
j I gold bond bill through the Senate,
I I even if there had been no other con
I I siderations in the way of such a
V measure.
These bonds are as good as gold ;
, they will be paid in gold or its equiva
-9 lent, and every loyal American, in
Congress or out of it, will refrain from
criticising them or fighting the bill
that makes their issue possible.— Ex.
jPay of the National Guard.
Attorney General McCormick has
rendered an opinion as to the pay
ment ot the National Guard in the
event of its mobilization for govern
ment purposes. It is in substance
S that "its commissioned officers shall
be paid the same as officers of like
t grade in the regular army of the
j United States : its first sergeant $3
I per day, its sergeants $2 per day, its
corporals $1.75 per day, its musicians
and privates $1.50 per day" from the
time they are called forth "until such
time as they may be mustered into
~ service of the government of the
J United States." Then cf course their
compensation will be the same as
that of members of the regular army.
WAR DECLARED.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE I.
The Consuls who have been con
sulted concerning this scheme ex
press the opinion that a much larger
military force will be required to
accomplish what the United States
desires, which is to send arms and
ammunition for the combatant Cu
bans in the field, and food for the
non-combatants now suffering so
cruelly from Spanish barbarity.
The consuls have no doubt that if
50,000 or 60,000 Cubans, who are
acclimated, could be furnished with
arms and supplies in abundance,
they could do some very effective
work in combination with our naval
fleet. The rainy season, which is
now approaching, will greatly re
duce the Spanish army during the
next three months, and with an ef
fective blockade, it is only a ques
of time in the judgment of the Con
suls when Blanco and his Spanish
army will be compelled to surren
der.
WHAT EACH STATE WILE FURNISH.
The following are the quotas to
be furnished by each state.
Alabama, two regiments of in
fantry and one battalion.
Arkansas, two regiments of in
fantry.
California, two regiments of in
fantry,two battalions and four heavy
batteries.
Colorado, one regiment of infan
try and one light battery.
Connecticut, one regiment of in
fantry, one light battery and two
heavy batteries.
Delaware, one regiment of in
fantry.
Florida, one regiment of infantry.
Georgia, two regiments of infan
try and two light batteriesi
Illinois, seven regiments of in
fantry and one regiment of cavalry.
Indiana, four regiments of in
fantry and two light batteries. -
lowa, three regiments of infantry
and two light batteries.
Kansas, three regiments of in
fantry.
Kentucky, three regiments of in
fantry and two troops of cavalry.
Louisiana, two regiments of in
fantry^.
Maine, one regiment of infantry
and one heavy batterj'.
Maryland, one regiment of in
fantry, four heavy batteries.
Massachusetts, four regiments of
infantry and three heavy batteries.
Michigan, four regiments of in
fantry.
Minnesota, three regiments of in
fantry.
Mississippi, two regiments of in
fantry.
Missouri, five regiments of in
fantry and one light battery.
Montana, one regiment of in
fantry.
Nebraska, two regiments of in
fantry.
New Hampshire, one regiment of 1
infantry.
New Jersey, three regiments of
infantry.
New York, twelve regiments of
infantry and two troops of cavalry.
North Carolina, two regiments of
infantry and one heavy battery.
Ohio, six regiments of infantry,
two light batteries and two squad
rons of cavalry.
Oregon, one regiment of infantry.
Pennsylvania, ten regiments of
infantry, four heavy batteries.
Rhode Island, one regiment of
infantry.
South Carolina, one regiment of
infantry, one battalion and one
heavy battery.
Tennessee, three regiments of in
fantry.
Texas, three regiments of infantry
and one regiment of cavalry.
Utah, one troop cavalry and two
light batteries.
Vermont,one regiment of infantry
Virginia, three regiments of in
fantry.
Washington, one regiment of in
fantry.
West Virginia, one regiment of
infantry.
Wisconsin, three regiments of in
fantry.
Wyoming, one battalion and one
troop of cavalry.
District of Columbia, one battal
ion.
North Dakota, five troops of cav
alry.
South Dakota, seven troops of
cavalry.
Idaho, two troops of cavalry.
Nevada, one troop cavalry.
Arizona, two troops cavalry.
New Mexico, four troops cavalry.
Oklahoma, one troop cavalry.
County Chairman H. A. McKillip
has issued his call for the Republican
Counly Convention to be held at the
Court House in Bloonisburg on Mon
day, May 16, 1898, at two o'clock,
tor the purpose of electing two dele
gates to the State Convention which
will be held June 2, 1898.
8,600 will be Pennsylvania's share
of the 125,000 troops asked for by
President McKinley.
-WE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG.
Dip's Weekly Review of Trade,
R. O. Dun & Co.'s weekly review
of trade says :
War is no longer to be avoided, and
business is somewhat contracted by
bankers' apprehensions.
Railway stock earnings have been
14.3 per cent, larger than last year
for the first half oi April.
The wheat market furnishes just
occasion for a material advance in
prices. The exports from Atlantic
coast ports have been 3,104,309
bushels, flour included, against 1,190,
392 last year, and from Pacific coast
points 435,686 bushels, against 63,-
230 last year, making for the three
weeks of April 8,389,492 bushels from
Atlantic ports, against 3,588,170
bushels last year, and from Pacific
ports 2,529,628 bushels, against 712,-
871 for the same week last year. The
exports of corn during the same three
weeks have been 11,340,188. bushels,
against 10,221,161 bushels last year.
With 40,000 tons bessemer iron
sold at Pittsburg for $10.40, and with
dealings in grey forge unchanged, and
sales of 30,000 tons to car wheel
makers alone in Chicago, and 10,000
tons at Eastern works of Pennsyl
vania, with some at the South for pipe
manufacturers, the enormous produc
tion does not diminish, and the de
mand for finished products includes
contracts for 3000 tons in the build
ing of two new merchant ships, with
many other contracts in sight to re
place vessels bought by the govern
ment, for two new piers at Key West,
3000 tons ; for the Chicago Postoflice,
9000 tons; for the Uarrisburg Capitol,
2800 tons; for car building, including
one of 3000 tons at Pittsburg ; for a
government building at Portland,
Oregon, 1000 tons; for track eleva
tion at Chicago, 2700 tons ; tor plates
at Chicago, including one for 2000
tons; for 40,000 tons rails to the
Maryland Steel Co., 30,000 to be
shipped to Siberia, and 10,000 to the
Continent, and for 7000 tons to a
Pittsburg concern for Quito.
Failures for the week have been
204 in the United Slates, against 218
last year, and 29 in Canada, against
21 last year.
STRAY PARAGRAPHS.
Unsettled —the weather.
Bulletin boards are being closely
watched.
You can't expect short cakes to
keep long.
In stylish families, dinner is tak
en as a matter of course.
A bit of red, white and blue will
draw a crowd these days, 110 matter
where it is displayed.
A force of hands are at work
cleaning away the winter's accumu
lation of dirt on Main Street.
Bloontsburg Company A Volun
teers have not received a call yet,
but it may come at any time.
When you once tell a woman she
is pretty, she immediately begins to
pose as a professional beauty.
Two handsome new American
flags are floating proudly from the
Leader store on Market Street.
It is a conceded fact that we will
make it hot for the Spaniards, but
the Cuban climate will also make
it hot for our boys.
We are told that the bang has
had its day. May be as a coiffure
this statement is reliable, but the
cannons are still with us.
Strong Today
Because Hood's Sarsaparilla
Built Up His System
Child Was Weak, Had Night Sweats
arid Poor Appetite.
"Our youngest child was in a bad con
dition. One physician said the trouble
was malaria and another thought It carao
from the stomach and liver. Meantlmo
the child kept growing weaker. He had
night sweats, poor appetite and various
other troubles. We worried along for
two years, and then we determined to
try Hood's Sarsaparilla, and from the
first day we noticed a change in our
little boy. We kept on until he had
taken about three bottles. Today he la a
strong, hearty child. We have always
had to keep him Indoors in winter, but
last winter he was out with other children
and we found no trace of the old trouble
returning." Alfred H.vrsrberger, 70
Washington Avenue, Altoona, Pa.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the best—ln fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $6.
HnnH'e Plllc d 0 not purge ' pa,n or
I IUUU S Kills gripe. Druggists. 250.
Quick Communication
Facilitates] Business.
Use the LOCAL TELETHONS
and Communicate.
Direct with persons in Berwick, Cita
wissa, Danville, Riverside, Kupert,
Willow Grove, Almedia, Lightotreet,
Lime Ridge, Miffhnville, Millville,
Rohrsbnrg, Nescopeck, Orangtvilie,
Stillwater and Benton. Also long
distance lines to nearly a'l the towns
in the different States. Rates reason
able. Local exchange over I'ostoffice.
CENTRAL PENNA. TELEPHONE
& SUPPLY CO.,
JOHN KENYON, Manager.
M. % .£ i
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Our Leaders For Spring. ■
Swell Spring Overcoats, new j Handsome Suits for Chil-1 Men's nobby spring all wool
shades, lap seams, well lined, Lj ren> ve stee styles, from Suits from
from
$7.00 | $1.65 | $5.00
Remember our goods are ALL NEW, no old stock. Call and be sur
prised at what you can buy for little money at
Townsend's Star Clothing House.
War Pictures in the Htw York Ledger-
The New York Ledger has a new
attraction. Without changing its char
acter as a story paper and family week
ly, it has added large full-page illustra
tions of contemporary events and
characters. A recent number had a
fine portrait of General Nelson A.
Miles on its first page, and the current
number follows with an equally good
portrait of Captain William T. Samp
son. The next number will contain
an excellent full-page portrait of Com
modore Winfield Scott Schley. These
men are likely to become national
heroes, and our people are interested
in having life-like representations of
them for preservation. The large
double-page pictures in the above
numbers of the Ledger , of New York
Harbor and its fortifications, charac
teristic scenes in the city of Havana,
the Flying Squadron, and picturesque
Key West, are illustrations of great
interest and beauty, showing import
ant localities likely to he the theater
of great events in the near future.
This is a step worthy of this favorite
weekly paper and its enterprising pro
prietors. The price of the Ledger,
with its twenty pages of reading
matter and illustrations, is five cents.
It can be ordered of the local news
dealer or ot the publishers, Robert
Bonner's Sons, Ledger Building, New
York.
A strange man is going the rounds
of the saloons and stores in Scranton
paying the proprietors money on al
leged debts of which they know noth
ing. He is well dressed and carries a
roll of paper money in his overcoat
pocket. He enters a store and asks
for the owner. He then says that he
has just'returned from the Klondike,
where he struck it rich,and wants to pay
a bill which he has owed the proprietor
for four or five years. The owner cf
the place is taken by surprise, and says
that he does not remember having
ever credited him. The stranger then
draws his money from his overcoat
pocket and insists on paying the bill.
If the storekeeper refuses to take the
money he leaves a bill on the counter
anyhow and walks from the store.
Married.
At the parsonage of Trinity Reform
ed Church, by the Rev. C. H. Brandt
on Saturday afternoon April 23d, Mr-
James E. Miller of Fishingcreek, and
Miss Sallie E. Hill of Fowlersville.
WIDOWS' APPRAISEMENTS.
The following Widows' Appraisements will
be presented 1.0 the Orphans' Court of Columbia
county, May 2,1890, and continued nisi, and un
less exceptions are flled within four days, will
be continued dually.
Estate of C. H. Harpstcr, late of Miniln town
ship, Personalty $3OO 00.
Estate of John B. Casey, late of the Town of
Bloomsburg, Personalty $160.00.
Estate of Peter Melllck, late of Sit. Pleasant
township, Personalty $BOO.OO.
Estate of C. A Becker, late of Berwick Boro.,
Personalty $BOO.OO.
Estate of Uriah Welllver, late of Madison
township, Personalty $46.00, Kealty $280.00.
Estate of Isaac 8. Pursel, late of Hemlock
township. Personalty $BOO.OO.
Estate of Thomas B. Cole, late of Benton
township, Personalty $300.i 0.
Kstute of W. W. lless late of Fishingcreek
township. Personalty (Siio.OO.
Estate of William 11. Yetter, late of the Town
of Bloomshurg, Hoalty $BOO.OO.
Clerk's Office, W. H. HENIIIE,
Bloomshurg, Pa., Apr. 7, 1898. Clerk O. C.
ELECTION NOTICE.
Agreeably to the provisions of an act of As
sembly, passed the 121 U day of April, 1875, the
annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Bloomshurg Literary Institute and State Nor
mal School of the Sixth District will be held on
the nrst Monday of May. being May 2, 1898, be
tween the hours or two and four o'clock in the
afternoon of said day at the office of Normal
school In the Dormitory In the town of Blooms
burg, Pa., at which time four persons will be
elect ed Tt ustees on the part of the stockholders
to serve for a period of three years; at the same
time four persons will bo nominated to the
superintendent of Publio Instruction, from
which he may appoint two trustees on the part
of the Stale to serve for a period of three years.
JOHN M. CLAIIK,
4-28-te . Secretary.
2ry the COL UMBIAN a year.
A QUESTION
OF QUALITY AND VALUE
Set forth the argument for to-day's selling features. No flitusy
imitations are tolerated in this stoie for the purpose of naming
alluring price- figures.
Lace Curtains.
500 pairs strong comprise
the lot. An interesting item
to offer just at house cleaning
time. Perhaps for more inter
esting in actual saving than all
could understand without a
personal investigation.
T his is an instance where
wholesale quantity buying dem
onstrates its value creating for
the customers.
45c pr., Gsc, 75c, 79c, 98c,
$l, 1.25, 1.35, 1 50. 1.75, 2 00,
2.25, 2 75, up to $7.50.
Wavla Goods.
Owing we suppose to climate
influence, have not been moving
fast enough to suit us. The
following prices will move them
even in the face of a backward
spring we think.
30 pieces of fine Organdie,
worth 12^4c., we put on sale
Wed. morning, April 27, at Bc.
Wrappers.
We will put on sale on Wed.
morning, a lot of ladies' wrap
pers, made of Simpson's silver
gray calico goods, worth $l.OO,
we will sell for 79c. Another
lot worth $1.25 go for 9Sc.
Ladies' Muslin
Underwear.
Three of the biggest bargains
ever offered in Bloomsburg go
on sale Wednesday morning.
Ladies' robes, worth 65c, at 48c.
" robes, " 50c, at 29c.
" drawers " 25c, at 19c.
Ribbons.
Our ribbon stock has never
been as large or as complete
as you will find it now.
Moire taffeta sash ribbon
5 in. wide, 30c, worth 50c., in
all the new shades tor spring.
F, P. PUBSEL.
East I CORSER'S IBLPOMSEIO,
street. NEW SHOE STORE. piJJ'l
LOOK IT OYER
See if you don't need a new pair of Shoes for dress or for
work, and then come here and examine goods and prices. Men's
solid, serviceable working and plow shoes at $l.OO and $1.25.
Dress shoes, wide and narrow toes. $l.lO, $1.25, $1.75.
These shoes for the quality and price is a saviug to you of from
25c. to 50c. on each pair.
' We invite the women and girls that wear sizes 13,1, 2or
3to look at our job lot of shoes at 79c. Were sold at $2 and
$3. See them in front of store.
CORSER'S
Schuyler's old hardware stand. BLOOMSBURQ
Double faced sateen ribbon in
all shades and widths. Striped
and plaid in all widths and
shades at prices that will please
you.
Dress Goods. ■
A collection double the quan
tity and sorts that we have
hitherto shown. Assortments
that will compare favorably
with any in the country. If
the largest variety to select
from at lowest prices will win
your trade, we are bound to
sell jo'i vour spring dress.
We offer one special lot this
week at 39c, worth 50c.
Lot 2 at 56c yd., worth 65c.
Lot 3 at 65c yd., worth 85c.
Dinner Sets.
We will put on sale Wed.
Apr. 27, 8 sets dishes, 100 pes.
in each set, goods that we can
guarantee, with neat decora,
tions, at $7.48 a set.
Lot 2, 100 pieces for $9.76 set.
Lot 3, 100 pes. Johnson Bros.
porcelain at $10.48 set.
Lot 4, 100 pes. Johnson Bros.
porcelain at $l2 50 set.
Lot 5, 100 pes. Johnson Bros,
porcelain at $l4 00 set.
Lot 6. 100 pes. Johnson Bros.
porcelain at $16.00.
Groceries.
In our Grocery Department
we will so 11 for the next ten
days, commencing April 27,
and we will sell until May 9,
one grade ot standard Rio cof
fee ac 10c a lb.
Chase and Sanborn's coffee,
2 pounds for 25c.
Van Camp's baked beans,
prepared with tonßdo sauce, at
11c a can, a saving to you of
4c on each cau you buy.