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I)tt |,olum!>ian.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
iHJu Columbia llewofrat,
MTABLIBHED 1837. CONSOLIDATED 1869.
PUBLISHED Every THURSDAY MORNING
Hloomsbtirg, the County seat of Columbia
county, Pennsylvania.
*0. E. ELWELL EDITOR.
D. J. TASKER, LOCAL EDITOR.
UEO. C. itOAN, Forkmar.
Tons:—lnside tuo county 11.00 a yearln ad
vance; sl.su If not paid In advance Outsldo
the county, $1.25 a year,trlctly In advance.
All communications should be addressed to
TIIE COLUMBIAN,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1898.
DEMOOEATIO STATE TICKET.
GOVERNOR,
HON. GEORGE A. JENKS.
of Jefferson county.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
HON. WILLIAM 11. SOWDEN,
of Lehigh county.
SECRETARY OE INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
PATRICK DELACEY,
of Lackawanna.
JUDGES SUPERIOR COURT,
WILLIAM TRICKET,
of Cumberland.
C. M. EOWER,
of Centre.
i CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
JERRY N. WEILER,
of Carbon.
F. P. lAMS.
of Allegheny.
"1 have been a Republican since
iB6O but our party now stinks in the
nostrils of any decent man. If the
people are willing to uphold this cor
ruption and dishonesty, God save
i the country ! —Ex-Postmaster General
John Wanamaker."
The proposition for a peace con-
ference of nations, which is now be
ing considered, nearly knocked the
European countries off their pins.
Well, it was enough to startle them.
Just think who proposed it—Russia.
Should the Republicans of New
York nominate Teddy Roosevelt ior
Governor, it is very likely that the
Democrats will endorse him and
make his nomination unanimous.
He seems to be the choice of the
people, and the Democrats will not
oppose public sentiment.
There is no political advantage in
the war for either political party, says
the Sullivan Review. The Republi
cans happened to be in power when
the war was declared, but the Demo
crats have given it their loyal and
active support. In regard to the in
rfficiency displayed, the Republican
papers are now the most active in de
nouncing Secretary Alger. Some
t other issue will have to be found to
fight about.
Every voter, no matter of what po
litical faith he may be, should mark
what the Democratic candidate for
Governor says in the following sen- j
tence, which is taken from his speech
at Bedford Springs recently : " When
the power of the State becomes
the private capital of faithless offic-
I ials, it is a common expedient of
the beneficiaries of such misused power
to seek escape from accountability to
the citizen by frantic appeals to the
opinions, prejudices and passions of
pyty majorities on federal questions."
Overabundant War Revenue.
The war taxes are likely to yield
about $ 144,000,000 per year. Add
ing to this sum the $200,000,000
borrowed through the issue of bonds,
the funds in thd Federal Treasury will
have been reinlorced from extraordi
nary sources of income to the extent
of $344,000,c00. After all the war
expenditures shail have been defrayed :
there will probably remain in ihe |
Treasury an unused balance of $lOO,- 1
coo,ooo.
No man could have foietold when j
the war began that it would be merely j
a three-months affair, and it was tin- I
doubtedlv wiser to have more money
than to have less money than
was needed for pushing the fighting.
Our financial readiness to go on with
the war is also a very substantial make
weight 111 the .negotiations for favora
ble terms of peace.
Taking it for granted, however, that
• ■ Spain has had a bellyful of fighting,
* and that the terms of peace will in
volve no use for ready cash which is
not already apparent, the very large
surplus in the Treasury will become a
source of anxiety. There is not
sound money virtue enough in the
Republican party to take advantage
of opportunity and cancel a hundred
million dollars of the floating debt.
The danger is that the surplus will be
dissipated in unwarranted schemes of
expenditure. The country has had
such past experiences in Congression
al dealing with Treasury surpluses as
to create apprehension for the near
future.— Ex.
A BRITISH VICTORY.
KITCHENER REPORTS HIS LOSS AT
OMDURMAN.
Additional Particulars in Retard to the
Fighting In the Soudan—Gordon la
Avenged and Mal.dlttm I. Ended—The
Dm-vlshes Fought Fiercely.
London, Sept. s.—The War office at
4.10 o'clock this morning received a re
port from the commander of the forces
at Omdurman stating that the number
of officers and men killed in the fight
ing which resulted In the victory of the
Anglo-Egyptian expedition over the
Dervishes was forty-six officers and
men killed and 333 wounded.
A special dispatch to the Dally News
gays that the Lancers, who hacked
their way through the Dervish lines In
the face of a murderous fire, were en
trapped by the nature of the ground.
They were advancing in proper forma
tion with scouts thrown out, when they
suddenly discovered a force of seven
hundred Dervishes in the bushes.
The Lancers charged swiftly at the
Dervishes, who fell back upon a still
larger force, with the result that the
Lancers found themselves exposed to
the fire of two thousand men at close
quarters.
In the charge they lost, two officers
and twenty men killed and four offi
cers and twenty-one men wounded.
The few additional particulars of the
fighting at Omdurman received here
this afternoon show that the only Bri
tish officers killed, were Lieutenant
Grenfell of the Twelfth Landers and
Captain Caldecott of the Royal War
wick regiment. The Anglo-Egyptian
casualties are divided as follows: Bri
tish. killed 25, wounded 104; natives,
killed 21, wounded 228. Officers wound
ed, 21, of which seven were British.
The evening newspapers continue
their felicitation upon the victory and
declare that Gordon is avenged and
Mahdlsm killed.
The latest reports say that the for
ees are still In pursuit of the Kha
lifa.
The report, together with further de
tails contained in last night's London
dispatches, follows:
The remnant of the Khalifa's forces
ha.-, surrendered. I have a very large
number of prisoners. Cavalry and
gunboats are pursuing the Khalifa and
his chiefs. They have only 450 fight
ing men with them.
I visited Khartoum to-day and found
It a complete ruin. The people are de
lighted. Khartoum is the bn3t posi
tion. Omdurman's stench was unbear
able, and therefore I have moved to
Khi'i-ahumbat. Tho wounded are do
ing well.
The English newspaper correspond
ents are unanimous in their acknowl
edgements ol the bravery of the Der
vishes.
The news of General Kitchener's vic
tory over the Dervishes at Omdurman
was received with the greatest satis
faction here, where it is held that Eng
land has at last wiped out the stagma
attaching to her defeat In the previous
expedition to the Soudan.
Early this morning crowds gathered
about tho statue in Trafalgar square
of General Charles (Chinese) Gordon,
who was killed at Khartoum on Janu
ary 28, 1885, after having been besieged
in the city by the Dervishes for 337
days.
Some one had placed on the pedestal
a placard with tthe inscription, "Av
enged at last," and when the people
saw it they burst out into loud cheer
ing.
The feature of the battle /was a
charge of the Lancers on a large body
of the enemy who vastly outnumbered
them.
Empire Htxte's Valuation.
Albany, Sept. 7.—The state board of
equalization, comprising the elective
state officers, the lieutenant governor
and the speaker of the assembly, met
yesterday and adopted the equalization
table for 1898, based on the assessed
valuations of real estate In each coun
ty for 1897.
The assessed value of real and per
sonal property taxable locally for all
purposes in the state for 1897 shows a
net gain over the assessments of 1894
of 3391,625,325, the increase in real pro
perty assessment being over $300,000,-
000.
This enormous increase in the roal
assessment throughout the state ne
cessitated a considerable change in the
list of percentages, upon which tlie ta
ble of equalization is based.
The total assessed value of real pro
perty in the state Is $4,349,801,526, and of
personal property $548,809,493.
Compared with the preceding year,
the assessed value of personal property
Increased about $84,000,000.
The assessed value of real estate in
New York county is $1,787,066,091, and
of personal property $301,664,741.
r G aits one's Will.
London, Sept. 6. —The will of the late
Right Hon. William E. Gladstone has
been probated. It shows that his per
sonal estate was valued at $59,506
pounds. His will was written by him
self In an ordinary memorandum book.
It Is a document of about two thou
sand words, and is a remarkable speci
men of penmanship. The second clause
of the will has reference to the fun
erul arrangements and says:
"Commending myself to the infinite
mercies o" God In the Incarnate Son as
my only and sufficient hope, I leave
the particulars of my burial to my ex
ecutors, specifying only that they be
very simple and private, unless there
be conclusive reasons to the contrary.
And I desire to be burled where my
wife may also He. On no account shail
a laudatory inscription be placed over
me."
Brooklyn Heroes on tlie Way.
Brooklyn, Sept. 7.—Brooklyn's gal
lant cavalrymen, the heroes of Porto
Rico, are on their way home to meet
the reception Brooklyn 1b eagerly wait
ing to give to them.
Troop C left Porto Rico Saturday
morning at 5 o'clock. They are due
here Saturday.
Majority for Afrikander Band.
Cape Town, Sept. 7.—The government
victory at the polls in Mltenhage prac
tically ends the elections, which have
resulted in the return to the assembly
of forty members of the Afrikander
bund and 37 PregrsMlVM. ■ ,
THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, Pf
STATE MEWS.
—Easton's public schools have
been closeil on account of the heat.
—Trying to board a freight train,
Clayton Thomas fell and was killed
at Milton on Friday.
—Lightning struck St. Peter's Cath
olic Church, at Towanda, on Sunday,
causing a loss of about $l,OOO.
—A tramp, arrested at Hazleton,
for sleeping on the pavement, was
found to have $4OO on his person.
—Patrick Marron was brought
home from camp hospital and buried
with military honors at Ashland on
Friday.
—While his mother's back was
turned, an infant son of A. W. Saus
ser, of Easton, upset a crockful of
boiling water over himself and was
scalded to death.
—While cutting wood with a
hatchet, Freddie Gabel, of Chambers
burg, dared his little sister, Mary, to
put her hand on the block, and then
accidentally chopped off three of her
fingers.
—There were more than twenty
deaths, caused by the heat, in Phila
delphia, during the past week, and
four times that many prostrations.
The thermometer hovered close to
the too mark. Work in many of the
factories was abandoned in the after
noons.
—The Shamokin Weekly Times,
says, "If the hot weather continues,
the school board will either close the
schools, or order one session a day.
In the school rooms, for several days,
the thermometers have registered be
tween 80 and 95 degrees throughout
the day, which is entirely too severe
for children.
DVSPEPSIA'S CLUTCH.— Dr. Von
Stan's Pineapple Tablets are nature's
most wonderful remedy for all disoi
ders of the stomach. The digestive
powers of pineapple can be tested by
mixing equal parts of pineapple and
beef and agitating at a temperature
o." 130° Fahrenheit, when the meat
will be entirely digested. Pineapple
Tablets relieve in one day. 35 cents.
Sold by C. A. Kleini. 5
Camp Meade. Midu'etovn, Pa.
Special Reduced Rates via Philadelphia &
Reading Railway.
'l'he Philadelphia A; Reading Ry.
announces that during the continu
ance of Camp Meade, at Middletown,
excursion tickets, good for two days,
including day of sale, or from Satur
day until Monday, will be sold at
special rates. For information as to
rates, time of trains, etc., consult any
P. & R. ticket agent.
Many People Turned Away-
Prom Evenln g News, lianbury,conn.,Nov. 50, '97.
The animotiscope was so success
ful upon the occasion of its other
visit to Danbury that people were
anxious to see it. Fifteen minutes
after the doors were opened last even
ing every seat in the building was
taken. Chairs were placed in the
aisles and all of the standing room
was occupied. At least one thousand
persons were in the building when the
entertainment began. Many others
went away, being unable even to get
standing room.
In the Bloomsburg Opera House,
Thursday evening, Sept. 8. Diagram
now open at Bidleman's book store.
Itching, burning, creeping,.crawl
ing skin diseases relieved in a few
minutes by Agnew's Ointment. Dr.
Agnew's Ointment relieves instantly,
and cures tetter, salt rheum, scald
head, eczema, ulcers, blotches, and
all eruptions 01 the skin. It is sooth
ing and quieting and acts like magic
in all baby humors, irritation of the
scalp or rashes during teething time.
35c. a box. Sold by C. A. Kleim. 3
Mrs. Wheeler—"John, there's a
burglar downstairs." Mr. Wheeler
(sleepily)—" I guess not, dear." Mrs.
W—"Yes, I heard him stonible over
your wheel." Mr. W. (excitedly)-
" The clumsy brute; I'll go down
and give him a piece of my mind."
Strong_Today
Because Hood's Sarnaparilla
Built Up His System
Child Was Weak, Had Night Sweats
and Poor Appetite.
" Oar youngest child was ia a bad con
dition. One physician said the trouble
was malaria and another thought It came
from the stomach and liver. "Meantime
the child kept growing weaker. He had
night sweats, poor appetite and various
other troubles. We worried
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 throe bottles. Today he Is a
strong, hoarty child. Wo 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 troublo
returning." ALFRED HAKSHBEKGEB, 70
Washington Avenue, Altoons, Pa.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is the best—la fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. (1; six for |S.
Hood's
August Sales!
MB! TO BE SOU BUT AT COST.
CONSISTING OF £—=3*
CLOTHSNC
For Men, Boys and Children,
HATS, GAPS, SHIRTS, &0,
To make room for fall and winter goods, ,
at prices that will surprise you.
CALL AND EXAHINE AT
Townsend's Star Clothing House.
STRAY PARAGRAPHS.
—Now that the cruel war 19 o'er,
To Ills sweetUeart braver, prouder,
The soldier Is coming borne to tan,
Another kind ot powder.
Equinoctial storms will soon be
here.
—You have to be in the swim to
float a loan '
—A good watch will run home just
as well as on a visit.
—When Uorbett arranges a fight
his first thought is always his "sec
ond."
—No, it's a mistake. Women with
golden hair don't always have silvery
voices.
—One can find considerable enjoy
ment in reading about the "Beautiful
Snow " these days.
—The Normal School Foot Ball
Team will commence practicing foi
the fall campaign next week.
—There will be considerable re
pairing done on the Fair grounds be
iore the exhibition commences.
—What has become of Andree ?
He should come home, now that
Peary has started for the North Pole.
—Hid you ever notice how it
pleases some people to be persuaded
to do what they had intended to do
anyway ?
—There is no use talking, the
Bloomsburg Band is rounding into
one of the finest musical organiza
tions in this section.
—Waggles—l hear the most popu
lar book of the year is " Our Bank
Book." Waggles—Uon't you believe
it, for there's nothing in it.
—Bloomsburg will be somewhat
livelier next week. The Normal
School opens on Tuesday, and the
appearance of five or six hundred
students will make things seem old
fashioned once again.
DROI'SY AND HEART DISEASE.—A
great cure and a great testimony:
"For ten years I suffered greatly from
heart disease, fluttering of the heart
and smothering spells, made my life a
torment. I was confined to my bed.
Dropsy set in. My physician told me
to prepare for the worst. I tried Dr.
Agnew's Cure for the Heart. One
dose gave great relief, one bottle
cured the dropsy and my heart."—
Mrs. James Adams, Syracuse, N. Y.
Sold by C. A. Kleim i
Lithographed bonds, stock certifi
cates, and checks are furnished at
THE COLUMBIAN office. tf.
EXECUTRIX' NOTICE.
Estate of Peter Solleder, late of Blotmisburg, Pa.,
deceased.
S'otlce 1s hereby given that letters testamentary
on the estate or /*eter Solleder, late of the Unrv or
bloomsburg, Columbia tvunty, Ha., dewased,
har- t'l-eri 'fronted to ifttry E. frilleder, resident of
said Unnn, to whom all persons indebted to said,
estate are requested to make -payment, and those
having claims or demands mill make known the
same without delay.
MARY E SOLLEDER !
y 1-W. Executrix.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Jos. S. Albert son. deceased.
The undersigned auditor appointed by the Or
phans' Court of Columbia County, to make dis
tribution of the funds in the hands of the Admin
istrator, to and among the parties legally entitled
thereto, will meet the. jmrties interested Jor the.
purpose of his appointment at his office in the
'Colon cf liloomsburg, I\L, on Tuesday September
80, A. D. 18W, at 10 o'clock In the forenoon of said
day, when and where all persona are required to
present their claims against the estate of said de
ceased or be debarred from coming In for a
share thereof.
9-1-BJ. W. A. EVERT,
Auditor.
NOTICE OF INSOLVENCY
In the matter of the petition ot William HefT
ron, an Insolvent. To tbe creditors of said peti
tioner :
Notice Is hereby given tliat a petition of
William ileffron, bas neon tiled In the Court of
Common l'lens of the county ot Columbia, pray
ing the Court for the benefit of tbe Insolvent
laws ot this Commonwealth, and for a dis
charge thereunder. The said Court has fixed
the court as the place, and on Monday Septem
ber 28, A. D. 1(8)8 at it) o'clock A. M. as the time
tor bearing the said petition.
W. A. EVERT,
Attorney pro Petitioner,
Sept. 1,1898.
F, P. PURSEL.
OUR NEW
FALMESS^GOODS
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
By virtue or a wilt 'or Fl. Fa., Issued out of
the Court or Common ''leas and to me directed,
thero win be exposed to public sale at the
Court House In Bloomsbutg, Columbia county,
Pa, on
SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, IS9S,
at two o'clock p. in., all that messuage or niece
of land situate in the town or liloomsburg,
county or Columbia and state ot Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as rollows, to-wlt: Be
ginning at the southeast corner or Market
street and Sixth street, thence along the south
side or Sixth street north sixty-tour degrees
and flfty-alx minutes east seventy-seven and
two-tweltth feet, thence north sixty and one
half degrees, east one hundred and twenty-one
feet and two Inches to Whitman's alley;
thence south twenty-nve degrees and tttty-slx
minutes, east fltty-four feet to land conveyed to
Delaware, Lackawanna a Western Railroad c'o.
by D. J. Wallor and Julia Waller, his wife;
thence fltty-seven and one-half degrees west
one hundred and ninety-eight and one-halt feet
to Market street; thenco north twenty-nve de
grees and tlfty-slx minutes, west seventy and
one-third feet to the place ot beginning, where
on are erected a
3-STORY BRICK, STORE AND
OFFICE BUILDING,
a frame warehouse and other framo buildings.
Seized and taken Into execution at the suit of
H. a. suppiec and Airred Glrton, executors of
the estate of Q. W. Supplee, deceased, vs. The
Farmers' Produce Exchange, Limited, and to be
sold as the property of the Farmers' Produce
Exchange, Limited. W. W. BLACK,
Tustln, Atty. Sheriff.
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War and BntUneKH.
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ican squadron. ID the battle of lire, success
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WIDOWS* APPRAISEMENTS.
The following Widows' Appraisements will be
presented to the Orphans Court of Columbia
county, Sept. 26, 1898, and confirmed nisi, and
unless exceptions are filed within four days
will be confirmed finally.
Est. of Christian M. Redder, late of Scott
Twp., deceased. Personalty $BOO.
T Kst. of Sam not Thomas, late of Kishln^ereefc
Est. or Peter Sponenberg, late of Centre Twp.,
deceased. Personally |7ABa
Realty 9221.20.
Est. of John Slngley, late of Main Twp. de
ceased. Personalty giw.SO.
Realty 9000 0d
Eat. of William Shultz, late of Madison Twp.,
deceased. Personalty 9000.
Est. of Samuel Youug, lute of Jackson Twp:,
deceased Personalty 9-lnn.oo.
Est. of George Russel, late of Hemlock Twp.,
deceased. Personal y 9>. r >4.44
Realty 9145.58
Est. of Wllltam G. Glrton, late of Town of
B loomsburg, deceased. Personalty 9294.18.
Clerk's Office W. H. HENKIE,
Bloomsburg, Pa., Clerk O. O.
Sept. 1,1396.