The Columbian. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, May 26, 1898, Image 1

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    VOL. 33
COM. DEWEY HEARD FROM
He Reports Scarcity of Provisions
and Residents of Manila Fear
an Upiising of Spanish Sol
diers.
Washington. May 26.—The navy de
partment has received a cablegram
trom Admiral Dewey, as follows:
Manila, Friday,
Via Hong Kong, Tuesday.
Secretary Navy, Washington:
.Situation unchanged. Strict blockade
utinued. Greait scarcity of provisions
111 Manila. Foreign subjects fear an
outbreak of the Spanish soldiers and
ihuy will be transferred to Cavlte by
ihe foreign men-of-war In the harbor.
Aguinaldo, the rebel commander-in
rhief, who was brought here from Hong
Kong on the McCulloch, is organizing
a force of native cavalry, and may ren
der assistance that will be valuable.
DEWEY.
3ERYERA IS CAGED
BY TWO SQUADRONS.
3ape Verd Fleet Found in Santi
ago Harbor, and the Great
Crash Is Only Hours Away,
Washington, May 25.—The great bat
tle of the war is to take place in the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The
Spanish fleet, under Admiral Cervera,
Is inside. The fight may come off any
minute. The authorities in Washington,
ilthough guarding the facts Jealously,
.re looking for immediate action.
ARMOR FOR BATTLESHIPS.
(etlilehem and Carnegie Companies Put
in Bills This Time.
Washington, May 25. —Bids were op
ined yesterday for supplying the armor
Sir the three' ba/ttleships, Illinois, Ala
bama and Wisconsin, now in course of
instruction ait the Union Iron Works,
•Jewport News and Cramps. This is
.he second time that the government
las endeavored to secure bids for sup
>lylng the armor of these ships. The
lrat effort, made about a year ago, was
insuccessful because Congress had
nade the minimum cost per ton for the
i.-mor at a figure below the cost of
iroduction. The present naval appro
bation bill having increased the price
illowed to S4OO per ton, to-day's effort
cas successful.
For the Illinois the two armor com
•anies, Bethlehem and Carnegie, dlvid
•d their bids, one taking tne lighter ar
nor and the other the heavier. For the
klabama the Bethlehem Company bid
i 1,022,504, while the Carnegie Company
lid not bid. For the Wisconsin the
Carnegie Company bid $1,023,504. The
•ate in each case was S4OO per ton flat
or bolts and armor, the maximum al
owed by Congress. The Bethlehem
Company undertakes to begin deliveries
if the armor within seven months af
ler contract and to supply 300 tons
nonthly. The Carnegie Company will
legin December first next and supply
ihe same amount monthly.
FOOD*FOR BLANCO.
innouncFA That Dutlen Have Been Re
moved and Hints at Blockade Running.
London, .May 25.—A Madrid censored
llspatch alleges that General Blanco's
Irst official public expression on the
iood Question has Just been received
here.
General Blanco, the Madrid cable
;ram writer says, declares that he does
lot need food, but ait the same time it
b announced that all duties on food en
ering Cuba have been removed, and
hat if any ship brings supplies she
nay be unloaded without a moment's
lelay or any custom house formalities.
The announcement also takes pains
o indicate West India islands, where
bod may be obtained and conveyed to
luba with least risk of capture.
MISS CISNEROS' ROMANCE.
to We.l a Former Cnban Banker Wl.o
Aided in Rescuing Her From Prlnon.
Washington, May 21.—Evangel ina
Cossio y Clsneros, the young Cuban
tlrl, is soon to wed Carlos Carbonel, the
ormer Cuban banker, who was yes
erday nominated by President McKln
ey to be a lieutenant and aide on the
itaff of Major General Fitzhugn Lee.
When Karl Decker went to Havana
rlth the express purpose of liberating
diss Clsneros, he found a trusted lteu
enant In the person of Mr. Corbonel,
ilthough, like Mr. Decker, he was at
ihe time unacquainted with the fair
ioung Cuban.
When the night of the rescue from
he Havana prison came, Mr. Carbonel
las at Decker's side during the entire
iffalr. To Carbonel was entrusted the
luty and privilege of accompanying
the girl to New York.
Companionship between the two na-
Ives of a common clime 'soon ripened
nto love, and the usual details of
■ourtshlp followed, with the result that
he wedding will shortly take place,
irobably before Lieutenant Carbonel
•hall be ordered Into the field, although
to definite time has been decided on by
Hiss Clsneros, her guardian, Mrs. Lo
;an ,or the groom to be.
School child ien are rejoicing over
the coming vacation time.
FAKE ADVERTISING.
Advertising judiciously placed is
undoubtedly a good thing. When
properly handled it brings a return
that much more than compensates for
the outlay. But there are many so
called advertising schemes that are
merely intended to put money into
the pockets of the schemer, without
benefiting the advertiser a farthing,
and this town has been so extensively
worked in that direction that we deem
it our duty to call attention to some
of these schemes. Only recently a
half dozen or more parties have visit
ed Bloomsburg to gather in money for
themselves, and they have so often
succeeded that the town now has an
established reputation among that
craft as one of the most gullible in
fake advertising in the state.
Here are a few examples of what
we mean. A stranger calls on a busi
ness man and solicits an advertise
ment to be placed on a large blotter,
with other business cards. This
blotter is to be used on a writing tab
let, and the tablet is to be presented
to the leading hotel and to be kept in
the office for the use of guests who
want writing material. When there
is a call for such material, the clerk
hands the guest this tablet, and when
he opens it the advertisements appear
on the blotter before him.
Great scheme, and it costs only
four dollars a card. Five hundred
blotters will be printed, which will last
a long time, and the advertiser will be
greatly benefitted. The business man,
especially if he be one who has never
spent a dollar in advertising in the
local papers, sees a great thing in this
proposition, signs an order for the
card, and his caller passes on to
another victim. After securing orders
amounting to forty dollars, the stranger
goes to a printing office, makes a con
tract for printing, not five hundred,
but forty blotters, for five dollars.goes
around and collects his money, and
leaves town the same night with thirty
five dollars in his pocket for his day's
work. The blotters and writing case
are presented to the' leading hotel,
laid away under the counter, and are
never seen by a guest of the house.
No man could write on such a thing
if it were given to him. The adver
tiser's money is thrown away.
Another fake is the railroad time
table man, who works about the same
scheme, gets up a card with timetables
l on it, and business cards all over it,
has about half as many printed as
p.omised, and does not distribute half
of those.
Another one promises to put up
cards on the inside of every hotel and
boarding house bedroom door in town,
on which is pnnted.the law 'elating
to lodgers at public houses. He se
cures business cards to be printed on
the same sheet, gets a few printed,
hands them to some of the hotels where
they are consigned to oblivion, and
never seen again, and the sc v *mer in
almost every case, blows in his money
at the bar.
And so on down the list. The
wonder is that apparently shrewd busi
ness men should be so blind as to
patronize such fakes. We have done
considerable printing for these tramps,
and have made money out of them by
charging big prices, and hence we
know that most of the people who
throw away their money on such
schemes, are those whose names never
appear in the advertising columns of
the local papers. They patronize
strangers rather than reliable home
institutions, and get faked. Barnum
was right in what he said about the
American people wanting to be hum
bugged, and we could go oh with
instance after instance where these
schemes have been worked, where
not one penny of good has been done
the advertiser.
PROHIBITION OONVJJNTiON.
Yhe State Prohibition Conven
tion was held at Harrisbtvg last
week. Following are the nomina
tions : For Governor, Rev. .Silas C.
Swallow of Harrisburg ; L,ic.;tenant
Governor E. D. Nicholas o r '-"ilkes-
Barre ; Secretary of Intern-' affairs
Sterling W. Dickson of Berwick.
The platform adopted co" .ains a
bitter tirade against the o ale of
liquor and the last legislature. One
of the planks expresses sympathy
for Cuba and pledges the support
-of the party to support the nation's
honor.
W. B. Cummings andChas. B.
Lutz of town attended the conven
tion.
Charles P. Sloan and Mr S . Ed
wards were married in Philadelphia
last Thursday, and returned to
Bloomsburg 011 Saturday.
BLOOMSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1898.
Memorial Day Program ,
Headquarters Col. Ent Post No.
■250 Department of Pennsylvania
G. A. R.
Comrades will meet at their hall
at 10 A. M. and attend Divine Ser
vice at the Lutheran church, Sun
day preceding memorial day- All
soldiers and sailors invited.
Comrades will meet at their hall
at 7A. M. Start for Altredia ceme
tery at 7:30 A. M. accoin t died by
the Bloomsburg cornet band,"where
they will be met by other Societies,
Schools and citizens of Espy and
.Almedia. After appropriate ser
vice the graves will be decorated.
A detail of the P. O. S. of A. will
decorate at the Vauderslice grave
yard 011 Sunday.
At 2:30 p. M. the post and other
orders, societies and schools will
form 011 Market Square and march
to West Street, countermarch up
Main Street to East, countermarch
down Main to Center and up Center
to Cemetery. The Memorial Ser
vice will be conducted at the Sold
iers Circle and details sent from
there to decorate the graves of the
fallen heroes.
OOMMENOEMt.NT WEEK.
The Seventh Annual Commence
inent of the Bloomsburg Public
Schools will take place next week.
There will be eight contestants in
the Junior oratorical contest, for
which three prizes will be awarded,
the first a gold medal, second set of
books and the third a Wirt Fountain
pen.
The music for the exercises will
be furnished by RifFo's orchestra.
Following is the program :
May 29, 7:30 p. m.—Class Ser
ntbn, Lutheran Church, Rev. M.
E. McLinu.
May 30, 8:00 p. 111. —Junior Ora
torical Contest, Opera House.
May, 31, 8 p. m.—Cantata by the
Third Street School, Opera House.
June 1, 7:30 p. m.—B. Junior
Sociable, High School.
June 2, S:oo p. m.—Seventh
Annual Commencement, Opera
House.
June 3, 8:00 p. tn. —Alumni Ban
quet, Exchange Hotel.
Dewey's Men to Get $200,000-
Besides the thanks of Congress and
the President about $200,000 in prize
money will be distributed among the
officers and men comprising Rear
Admiral Uewey's fleet at Manila.
Naval officers have discovered that
section 4,635 of the Revised Statutes
authorizes the payment of a bounty
of SIOO for each man on an enemy's
ship of war that is destroyed in action.
There were probably no less than
2000 men in the Spanish fleet when
Dewey and his brave fighters destroy
ed it on May 1, and this would mean
aggregate premiums of $200,000 to be
divided among American sailors.
Col. J. G. Freeze has just pub
lished a history of the Episcopal
Church in Columbia County, which
contains much valuable and inter
esting information. Besides a his
tory of St. Paul's it contains all that
is known of St. Gabriel's, Sugar
loaf, St. Jatne's; Derry, St. John's
Catawissa, and the church at Ber
wick. Col. Freeze is Columbia
County's recognized leading histor
ian, and the facts gathered by him
can be relied upon as correct.
How ofien do we see young boys
on the street at late hours in the night
when they should be home. It is a
practice far too common in every
town, and one which is bound to re
sult to the boys sorrow. It is at the
quiet hours of the night, that boys
plan and execute mischief. Follow
up the lives of the boys who were
always allowed the freedom of the
streets, and given their own way in
everything. They are the ones who
crowd our work houses, and bring
sorrcw to parents.
The new bridge over the river at
Catawissa has been opened for
travel. The work is all finished
with the exception of filling in at
the west end, which will be done
by the Commissioners, the depart
ment at Harrisburg having advised
them to do so in order to avert any
law suit, which might occur by at
tempting to force the contractor to
do any additional work. This is
one of the first bridges built by the
State under the recent act of the
legislature.
Rev. J. C. Grimes, of Jonestown,
preached in the M. E. Church Sun
day evening.
Wash Suits
for Boys, ages 3 to 12.
Just the thing for warm weather.
Blue pin stripe Tan with white
with trimmed Mptrimmings,
sailor collar 98c.
Several other lines at 1.25, 1.50, 2.00, $2.50.
The superiority of our boys' suits are well
known by mothers who have
bought them.
We have also made decided reductions
in our other lines of Boys' Wool Suits in
Blouse, Fauntleroy or Vestee.
Men's Suits are selling at about one
third less than regular prices.
5.00, 7.50, 8.00, and $lO
for suits worth at least a third more.
Straw hats, crash hats, large line,
25c and upwards.
GIBDIHG & GO.
The Ohurch and the War.
An Illustration of the Religious Sentiment
of the Country.
Trinity Episcopal Church, Detroit,
flies the nation's flag from its tower
and the rector announces that it will
wave there every day during the
present war, and thereafter upon
every day of national importance.
The raising of the banner to its place
was made the occasion of quite a cele
bration, clergymen of two or three
other churches being present in their
priestly robes. Several of the prayers
of the church were read, among them
those for the President and others in
authority and for the nation in time
of war. In the course of his remarks
the rector said :
When we first resolved to raise the
national flag over our church it was
because our nation was engaged in a
war more justified than any ever be
fore fought in the history of the world.
Now we are able to make this oc
casion also a celebration of a great
victory. We raise this flag in the
hope and expectation that the cause
of humanity and justice, for which
this war is undertaken, shall triumph'.
People have come to me objecting to
the raising of the flag upon the church.
I believe that there is no more ap
propriate places. I have small use
for people who cannot lap their reli
gion over into everyday life. Christ
ian citizenship should be the aim of
every man.
Another speaker said: "This is
an unusually appropriate time for the
flag of our country to be raised over
a house of worship. We raise this
flag in recognition of the justness of
our cause and of the fact that we can
pray with the utmost sincerity for the
blessing of God to rest upon our
arms." A great audience was present
on the occasion, and after the ser
vices wen f outside and watched the
raising of the banner to the flagstaff
and listened to a salute of twenty-one
guns from a small cannon. Then the
people went home with some r new
ideas in their heads, doubtless, as to
the close connection between patriot
ism and religion.
The Bioomsbttrg Driving Club is
making preparations for a series of
rkces to be held on July 4 and son
the fair grounds. SIOOO will be
given away in purses.
Poster's Weather Predictions-
The next storm wave will reach
the Pacific coast about the 26th,
cross west of Rockies country by
close of 27th, great central valleys
28th to 30th, eastern states 31st.
Warm wave will cross the west
of Rockies country about 25th,
great central valleys 28th, eastern
states 30th. Cool wave will cross
the west of Rockies country about
29th, great central valleys 31st,
eastern states June 2d.
During the last week in May
severe storms may be expected in
the northern states, and local heavy
showers will occur in a few places.
The coolest week of the month,
east of the Rockies, was predicted
to occur near the date of this bulle
tin, and the country was also warn
ed that soon after this time appre
hensions of a serious drouth would
arise.
It is stated on good military
authority that more men have al
ready volunteered their services to
Uncle Sam than would be required
for five such wars as the present one
promises to be. If this be true, and
it undoubtedly is, there will cer
tainly be no necessity for a draft
during its progress. In the late
Civil War against a foe, a great
deal more formidable than Spain
to-day, and when our strength was
but a fraction of what it is now the
draft was not made until after more
than two years of hard campaign
ing.
So great is the desire among the
young men of Bloomsburg to en
list, that several became very angry
on Monday evening when they
were informed that they failed to
pass the physical examination and
could not be accepted.
While it is disappointing to the
young men to be knocked out from
going to the front on account of
some physical debility, yet it is per
fectly right and proper to reject all
who do not come up to the require
ment. When one considers the
over burdened pension roll of to
day, it is easily seen why so many
volunteers are rejected.
George H. Welliver will sell a
carload of fine Ohio horses at the
Exchange Hotel stables this after
noon.
THE WAfi.
There is no change in the situa
tion.as we go to press. The Presi
dent has issued his second call for
troops. It is believed that the
Spanish fleet under Cervera is
bottled up in the Santiago Harbor,
and that the flying squadron will
be able to keep it in the narrow
neck until it surrenders or be starv
ed out.
The Phillipine expedition consist
ing of three big transports and 2500
soldiers left San Francisco yester
day afternoon.
There is 110 better way to keep
alive the spirit of freedom and love
of liberty than to properly celebrate
the National birthday on July 4th.
Of late years, the successful Ameri
can citizen claimed to be entirely
"too busy for such foolishness,-"
and the result is that the good old
fashioned fourth of July celebration,
when the salt of the earth gathered
together in honor of the day and
the men who made the day, has
ceased to be a yearly custom. The
year 1898 seems to be just the orop
er time to revise the old style way
of perpetuating Independence Day.
Another Scheme-
A clever scheme is being worked
by a pair of smart fellows in nearby
towns. One goes through the country
on a good bicycle. When he stride's
a town he claims to be hard up, and
offers to sell the wheel cheap to o et
some money. The boys admire
bicycles and bite readily, paying a
small price for a firjt class wheel
After a few days the other sharper
turns up and claims to be looking f
a man who stole his wheel. He des
cribes it well giving the number, and
the owner has to part with it. The
sharpers raise from S2O to S4O a trip,
and start lor greener fields.
The post office department ad
vises the friends and relatives of
soluiers who are at the front that in
addressing letters to them they
should mark plainly the comi ly
and regiment to which they belong,
as it will greatly facilitate the dis
tribution of the mails. This applies
to both the regulars and the volun
teers.
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