TME COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. P ESTABLISHED 1868. &tte Columbia Jjcmorrat, KSTABi.1SIlEt 1ST. rONMOMDATKniSM. fUBLlMHS.) fVBKY T1IUKSUAY MOKNIMU rilomnsburg, the County Boat of Columbia I'ouiay, Pennsylvania. GEO. (t. KI,WKLL KniTOR. T. J. TASKBK, I.Oi'AI. KDITOR. GBU. V. HOAX, KORRHiN. VRi-. Ins1rtPtBecoit.t!r It. (10 a year In n1 nco; It not pBld In advnnen Outside tup oounty, a year, strictly In advaru-c. All communications should be addressed t o TUB COLUMBIAN. Bloomsburg, Pa. THURSDAY, Al'RIL 6, 1S99. POLITICAL CARDS. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, W. F. STOHNER, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, A. N. YOST, of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, J. C. RUTTER, JR., of Bloomsburg. FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER, DR. T. C. IIARTER, of Bloomsburg. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, C. A. SMALL, of Catawissa. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY, JOHN G. HARMAN, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, J. K. SHARPLESS, of Catawissa. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, W. B. SNYDER, of Locust Twp. FOR COUNTY TREASURER, JERRY SNYDER, of Locust Twp. FOR PROTHON0TARY AND CLERK OF THE COURTS, WILLIAM II. HENRIE, of Bloomsburg. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, J. W. PERRY, of Sugarloaf Twp. FQR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, W. H. FISHER, from the South Side. FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER, JOHN N. GORDON, of Montour. tr The above announcements are all subject to the decision of the Democntlc County Con vention, to be held Tuesday, June lath, 18. Primary election, Saturday, June 10, s to 7 p. m. The investigation as to the beef lurnisnea tue army, now going on, will undoubtedly prove a complete vindication of Gen. Miles' charges. The Democratic committee of .Bradford county has instructed the delegates to the state convention to support D. C. DeWitt of Towanda as a candidate for Judge of the, Sup reme Court. Numerous efforts have been made to raise the sunken Spanish war ves sels at Santiago, but without suc cess. It is now likely that no furth er effort will be made, anrl that in. dividuals will be permitted to break up me nuns. Congressman Monroe II. Kulp says the charge is absolutely false in every particular that he ever ap proached Mr. Brown on the subject and never made him an offer either to absent himself from the conven tion or to cast his vote for Quay. The formation of a chewing gum trust is now undzr consideration. It will have a capital of $15,000,000. If the price should advance, it will certainly set prettv hard on th chewers. They have our sympathy. It is a pity that the prevailing mania for combinations should invade the rights of those who chew. State Chairman John M. Garman has decided not to be a candidate for re-election, and Col. Guffey fa vors the election of John S. Rilling, of Pittsburg. Chairman Howley, of Allegheny county, has an nounced his candidacy for the place. It has been supposed here tofore that Guffey and Howley were acting harmoniously, but Howley's move would indicate some friction. Howley is a very young man to fill the position. The residents of Philadelphia are hoping and praying that Mayor Ashbrdge who was sworn into of fice on Monday will be successful in giving that city a better water sup ply, and thus put a stop to the spreading typhoid epidemic. From all accounts, and they are substanti ated by a large number of deaths daily, the people are indeed to be pitied. But about the only way to correct the evil is to elect a new set Of councilmen. It may not be the quickest, but it is certainly the sur est and best method. IT WA8 I DORSE TKADE. Kx - Congressman Monroe II. Kulp. of this district, was examined before the bribery investigating committee, at Harrisburg, on Tues day. Here is a report ot his testi mony : Mr. Kulp is the gentleman whom Representative Francis K. Brown. of Union countv. testified as having offered him $200, and later increased the amount to $300, in an effort to get him to absent himself from the hrst joint convention, at which can didates for the United States Sena tor were voted for. Mr. KuId was nervous and nr- parently ill at ease, and testified in a halting and subdued manner. lie was asked bv Chairman Fow. after he had been sworn, if he tie sired to make a statement, and said that he did. " Have vou stated within the last twenty-four hours." asked Mr. Fow, "that you were going to lay it down to horse trade ? ' ' In reply Mr. KuId said : " I have not said that I was srointr to lay it down to horse trade, but I said it was a horse question. Mr. Kulp was then permitted to make his statement, which was as lollows : " In the first place, I have known Mr. Brown a number of vears : lived in his neighborhood, and have seen him several times, both before his election and after his election. He voluntarily left me under the impression that he was friendly to ward Mr. Quay. The date of this conversation I do not exactly remem ber, l met him here in the Com monwealth Hotel one night. I do not exactly remember ; I think it was the night of the niaucruration. He was standing in the lobby there, and I walked up to Mr. Brown and talked a few words and asked whether he would care about p-ninc down to the Lochiel Hotel to meet Senator Quay. He told me that he did not care about meetiue him at that time, and we talked a few words, and I asked him whether he would not get his coat and would like to take a walk. He pot his coat and we started down Market street toward the bridge. " After we left the hotel I made a special request of him if he could find his way clear to vote for Sena tor Quay. It was a personal matter with me, and he and I have always been warm friends, and I would like to have him do so if he possi bly could. He said that he could not do it at that time, but if any thing turned up later he would do it. SAID IT WAS A HORSE TKADE. " We then dropped the Senator ial question and talked other busi ness. I had been buying horses from him and we needed a lot of horses and I asked him if he could not go away for several days and he said he could not. I told him I wanted some horses and I would like to have him go along with me to Philadelphia. He told me that he thought he could not do it, peo ple would think that he wanted to get away from voting. I said that I did not think anybody would question him in regard to attending to some business. " I said there was a matter of a couple hundred dollars in for him it depended upon the number of norses ne coma buy. He told me he would let me know later. That was all the conversation we rad." Mr. Kulp was subjected to a vig orous cross-examination by Chair man Fow, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Young and other members of the commit- tee, but insisted on the truth of his statement that he had not offered any money to Mr. Brown in an ef fort to get him to absent himself from the first vote on the Senatorship. He admitted the truth of evprv. thing that Mr. Brown stated, as to the details of their meetinir And conversation, but insisted that the Union County Representative was mistaken in the laneuaee he im plied. He stated that he had not offered two or three hundred dollars to absent himself, but told him that there might be two or three hun dred dollars in the business which he desired him to engage in for mm. On beintr ouestioned as tn Mr Brown's character for truth and veracity. Mr. KuId said that he had known Mr. Brown for a number of years and that his reputation for trutn ana veracity was of the best He said that he had no business troubles or ouarrels of anv kind with Mr. Brown, and when asked if lie could give him any reason for tue statement given bv Mr. Brown he stated that the only way that hi could account for it was that Mr Brown must have misunderstood the language he used on the occa sion in question. In the course of his testimony Mr. Kulp stated that Mr. Brown had given him to understand that he was not opposed to Senator Quay. He stated, in fact, that Mr. Brown had voluntarily led him to believe that he was in favor of Sen ator Quay. On being questioned by Chair man Fow as to what he meant by this statement, Mr. Kulp said : " Why, he led me to think so at one time before his'election. I met him at Lewisburg and I jumped on his wagon and he drove me out to the mill. Now, look here, he said, I understand your position, I know that you are a Quay man and I would not like you to do anything against me. I will do the fair thing and stand in with you. If I vote for a Republican at all I will vote for Quay. ' ' Chairman Fow Did you not know, Mr. Kulp, that Mr. Brown was running distinctly on an anti Quay ticket ? Answer He was supposed to be. " Was not Mr. Focht the Quay candidate," asked Mr. Fow, "and Mr. Brown the anti-Quay candi date?" " Well, yes," said Mr. Kulp; I guess that is true." In the course of his statement, made when he first went on the wit ness stand, Mr. Kulp asserted that he parted with Mr. Brown on the evening that the two met in Harris burg with the understanding that Mr. Brown would let him know later what he would do in the mat ter. On being questioned by Mr. Young on that point, Mr. Kulp ad mitted that he had never heard from Mr. Brown since on the sub ject, but furnished no reason for the failure of Mr. Brown to again dis cuss with him the matter, which, he insisted, referred to the purchas ing of a number of horses. Samuel A. Luckey, for twenty- seven years connected with the Scranton Republican, and most of that time its managing editor, was tound dead in bed, at his room in the Hotel Jermyn, at Scranton, Monday afternoon. He got out the morning's paper and went home at daybreak, apparently in good health. He was 60 years of age and unmarried. trl1llnx fur Corn!. The coral reef committee of the Roy al Society has received letters giving an outline of the operations of the party from Sydney at the atoll of Fun afuti. The bore hole, which was abandoned last year at a depth of 698 feet, has been carried by September 6 to 987 feet, chiefly In very hard dolomlte-llke coral rock. The party was also fur nished with a drill specially construct ed toTnake a boring In the bed of the lagoon. The work was undertaken, thanks to the ready help and skill of Commander Sturdee, from the deck of her majesty's ship Porpoise, at a place where the water was 101 feet deep. The drill penetrated rapidly to a total depth of 245 feet, passing through sandy material (composed of frag ments of calcareous organisms, among which bits of coral became more fre quent In descending). At the depth mentioned a mass of hard coral was struck which could not be pierced, as the great length of the unsupported pipe on the one hand and the loose na ture of the material on the other pre vented them from using the ordinary methods. Captain Sturdee then euc ceeded In warping the Porpoise to a spot ninety feet nearer the middle of the lagoon. Here the depth was the same, and the bore was carried 112 feet Into the bed before the time ar rived when the ship had to leave Fun afutl. At this place there was sand. as before, to a depth of eighty feet the remainder consisting of a rather harder coral gravel, the lumps rang ing up to the size of a man's fist The work at the main drill was being con tlnued when letters left the Island. "Peace Hath Her Victories cWp less renowned than war, ' ' said Milton, and now, in the Spring, is the time to get a peaceful victory over the impurities which have been accumulating in the blood during Winter's hearty eating. The ban ner of peace is borne aloft by Hood s Sarsaparilla. It brings rest and comfort to the weary body racked by pains of all sorts and kinds. Its beneficial effects provo it to be the great specific to be relied upon for victory. Hood's never dtniq ipoinlg. Scrofula " JlunninK scrofula tores niiulu me tdiumieil by m-lqlihortt. Medical treutinent failed. A relative ured me to try Jloorl'H bursuponllu. Did so and In few months the Bores completely Iieuled. ' Mrs, J. M. Hatch, Etna, K. JI. Catarrh-" Disagreeable catarrhal drop pliiKa in my throat made mo nervous and dizzy. My liver was torpid. Hood's Har saparllla corrected not!) troubles. Al health Is very good," Mrs. Klviba , Bmii.ky, 171 Main St., Auburn, Maine. Tumors -"A tumor as big as a larpe marble tuine under my tongue and instead of letting my physician operate on It, I used my favorite spring tonic, Hood's Sarsapa rilla. The bunch soon disappeared." Mas. II. M. C'obi bn, ti Uulon Ht., Lowell, Muss. cf&CCfa Swuabaxiffa Hood'tJMllacura llrer lilt, the non IrrtutlnR and only cathartic io take with Huud'f SrirHI. r yiiiaif(T f i ' ' 4 J t '' Star Clothing STATE HEWS ITEMS. C. L,. Cleaver, Republican county chairman of Northumber land county, had M. Bloom arrested at Mt. Carmcl, charged with selling cigarettes to the former's 15-year- old son. Bloom was held m S;oo bail for court. To save his mother from his father's murderous attack, Lewis Dennis, of near Millheim. killed his father. Samuel Dennis, the dead man, had been the subject of epileptic fits for several years. Monday night he and his wife went to bed as usual, but some time dur ing the after part of the night the son heard his mother call for help. He quickly ran to the room, and on striking a match in the darkness, found that his father had become insane and was in the act of chok ing his mother to death. She had become so exhausted m the strug gle for her life that the crazy man had almost accomplished his mur derous deed, and the son, failing to bring him under control by ordinary means, picked up a chair and struck the tnaniac a blow over the head with such force that he fell uncon scious at his feet and died shortly afterwards. Mrs. Dennis is still in a precarious condition, and is under the care of two physicians. It is the general belief that Dennis would have killed his wife and then com mitted suicide, as he had often ex pressed the wish that he was dead. Bloomsburg has, indeed, been fortunate the past winter in regard to burglaries. Considering the many other towns hereabouts that have been visited by large gangs of tramps and dead beats, we have certainly been lucky in escaping. A great deal of credit for this con dition of affairs is due our chief of police Wesley Knorr. Night after night he has locked up "knights " of the road, who, if they had been allowed to roam the streets, would undobtedly have plyed their voca tion, and robberies and housebreak ings would have been the result. His method of locking up all sus picious looking characters, thus preventing further trouble, is ex actly right. Modern Fills, The day of powerful drastic pills is past and everyone who is troubled with torpidity of the liver, constipation headache or indigestion may be well thankful that it is. Every modern family medicine chest should contain a supply of Hood's Pills, the modern cathartic. While gentle and mild in action, they are tiioroughty efficient and cure indigestion, billiousness, sick headache and other troubles due to a deranged condition of the stom ach, liver or bowels. Warren F. Leland, proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, New York, which was destroyed by fire a few weeks ago, died on Tuesday from an operation for appendicitis. His wife, daughter and two cousins, lost their lives in the fire, TI13 Homeliest Man iu Bloomsburg as well as the handsomest, and others, are invited to call on any druggist and get FREE a trial bottle of Kemp's Hal- sam for the l nroat and lyings, a rem edy that is guaranteed to cure and re lieve- all Chronic and Acute (Joughs, Asthmfi, Bronchitis and Consumption. Price 95c. an( 50C" 3 3 d-4 Pain Unnecessary in CKii.uniarii. Fain Is no longer necessary in childbirth. Its causes, being understood, are easily over, come, the labor being made short, easy and free from danger, morning sickness, swelled limbs, and like evils readily cured. Cut this out; it may save your life, sulTer not a day longer, but send us 3 cent stamp anil receive in sealed envelope full pariiculurs, testimon ials, confidential letter, &c. Address, Frank Thomas & Co., Baltimore, Md. 3-3 6 m Values That Eclipse Them All. High Grade Goods at Low Prices. OUR ALL-WOOL SUITS AT Is a Marvel of Cheapness to all who see them. LOTS AT TOWNS END'S VALUES! We wish to emphasize the meaning, as it is employed in this announcement. The princi ple upon which this business is built is value giving the best quality and the greatest quantity for the lowest price, consistent with modern merchandising. Such has been our method of win ning the confidence of the public, and such will always be our plan of holding that confidence. Spring Silk A Furor. Not one bit too strong an ex pression. Ihe showing has created a furor among the women of this town. They ap preciate newness, correctness, prettiness and extreme values. A lot of sash silks, in neat, pretty plaids, at 50c. 24-inch wide dark ground, neat figure China, 50c. Taffeta, in all the spring col orings, at 75c. In striped dots and new spring effects we have never had so many, or such a pretty lot. Prices, from 75c. to $1.60. A great many special patterns, in 4-yd lengths, for waists. Ladies' Shirt Waists. We show the Munson shirt waists. We have them again this season, because there is no waist made as nice, or that fit so well. It is a satisfaction to sell them. We have them from 98c to $1.75. Shoes. You know this store. You know the perfection of fit and style of the Armstrong shoes. Our spring order has just been opened and put on sale the grade we sold before at $2.75. We bought a lot this spring. The quality and the new spring shapes we will sell at $2.29. F. P. SPECIAL SALE! o Now is the time to get bargains. During the next xo days we will give you many goods at and below cost Wool Dress Goods that was 25c, now 15c. Dress Goods, from soc tow Do not miss these special sales. We have just received new Rnn ply of pretty Coats, Capes and Fur Collarettes for ladies fS sets for children. ' rur Ladies' Tailor-Made Suits, from $5.00 up Ladies' Coats, Capes, Separate Skirts. 6oats for misses and children. In this line our stock is large. Prices low. KSeSand Ladies Fur Coll.irfittpc frma-.. r 1 r., . ' Vw "P. Uur sales in Shoes increases daily. Ladies' Fin qv1c, f 79c. u? Gent.; Fine Shoes, from Sc.p Goifl T' Good ilushn 3I0. Our stock of Underwear is complete We Str cSfi!i:cXbra"d st0Ckitt2S for always right. It will pay you to see our goods before yof buy Bloomsburg Stars Co., Limited. Corner Main and Centre. ALFRED McIIENRY, Manager' $5.00 F BARGAINS- House, word value, and define its true Our $2.25 shoe we will sell you at S1.75. Children and misses' shoes. We sell the Iiay State Shoes. There is no shoe that will wear equal to them for the price you pay for them. Hose. We make two offers in chil dren's hose this week. One lot is worth 25c a pair, but we will sell them this week and next at 19c. Another lot would be at 20c a pair, but they go for 2 pair for 25c These are new goods, and the colors are fast. The New Cottons. Organdies, satteens, figures dimities every fabric fixed by fashion as correct is included in the showing. 25c organdies at I2$c. ioc. lawns at 8c, Neck Dressings. We thought our last year's j stock of women's neckwear grand, it was for last vear, but these neckwear now surpass themselves with each succeed ing season. You musn't miss this collection. Gloves for Easter. Easter is the time every lady should have a new pair o'f gloves, if nothing else. Our stock would supply a great many of them with gloves, in any of the new spring shades. Price. 75c, $1.00 and $1.25. Purse!
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