-'F COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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'ilu (foIumMa Democrat,
KSTMIulsIlKn HW. CONKO,irATErlfW.
PUBLISHB.) VICKY Tlll'KSDAY MOKNINU
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foamy, Venrmylvanla.
GEO. R. KI.WKLL EDITOH.
1). J. TAWKKH. Local EniTOH.
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THE COLUMBIAN,
Uloomslmnr, Pa.
THURSDAY, JUNE ao. 1899.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
SAMUEL L. MESTREZAT,
of Fayette County.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPERtOR COURT,
CHARLES J. REILLY,
of Lycoming County.
FOR STATE TREASURER,
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
of Columbia County.
DEM00RATIO COUNTY TIOKET-
TOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
W. H. FISHER,
from the South Side.
WILLIAM KRICKBAUM,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER,
JEREMIAH SNYDER,
of Lorust Twp.
FOR PROTHONOTARY AND CLERK OF
THE COURTS,
WILLIAM H. HENRIE,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REGISTER AND RECORDER,
J. C. RUTTER, JR.,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOHN G. HARMAN,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR COUNTY AUDITORS,
WM. BOGERT,
of Scott Twp.
G. H. SHARPLESS,
of Catawissa.
Guffey and Harrity Will Act Together.
A Strong Combination Formed to Unite the
Democratic party of the State.
Rumors have been rife for some
time past in political circles to the
effect that former Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee
William F. Ilrrity and Present
Member of the National Committee
for Pennsylvania James M. Guffey
were negotiating a treaty of peace
by the terms of which they and their
friends were to come together for the
purpose of operating in concert in
the Democratic organization. These
rumors were verified Saturday, and
hereafter Messrs. Harrity and Guffey
will be found working in double
harness for the benefit of the Penn
sylvania Democracy.
A perfect alliance has been form
ed and there is every prospect that
it will be strengthened from day to
day and result in a substantial in
crease in the Democratic vote
throughout the State. By the terms
of the arrangements made for bring
ing the Eastern and the Western
leaders together Colonel Guffey will
retain his sat in the national or
ganization of the party and Mr.
Harrity will be named by the
Democratic State Convention next
year as one of the eight delegates-at-large
to the national convention.
Mr. Guffey and Mr. Harrity will
work hand in hand in the v general
management of the party, and it is
believed by the Democratic leaders
that harmony and unity will soon
be established.
"He Laughs Best
Who Laughs Last."
A hearty laugh indicates a degree of
good health obtainable through pure blood.
As but one person in ten has pure blood,
the other nine should purify the blood
with Hood's SarsAp&rilla. Then they can
laugh first, List and all the time, for
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the
doing business.
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powerful and must prevail. The more widely m
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Knowledge
THE TRUTH
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Our June Sale Will Continue.
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The fight for the Republican
nomination for County Commis
sioner is growing warmer as the
time wears on. There are three
aspirants in the field, namely
Nehemiah Kitchen, ot Greenwood
township, the present incumbent of
the office; C. P. Follmer, of Benton
and O. T. Wilson of this town
The convention will be held the
second week in August.
Governor Stone has signed the
bill which requires transient retail
merchants in boroughs to pay
license of not less than $25 nor more
than S200 a month, the amount t
be taxed by council. In townships
the license for such dealers will be
$25 a month and is made payable to
the county treasurer for the use of
the school funds of that township.
The act requires that all licenses
must be renewed monthly. There
is a fine ot not less than $100 nor
more than $200 for failure to obtain
the license.
There is a law prohibiting the
sale of firearms to boys under six
teen years of age, and yet it is well
known that the law is almost daily
violated. If it were not so, how
would young lads come into posses
sion of such weapons ? Some years
ago a north of the mountain hard
ware dealer got off cheaply by pay
ing a doctor's bill of $So, a boy
under that age having purchased a
pistol and shot himself through the
hand. Had the parent not been len
ient, the fine and costs would have
run up to over $200. Judge Sulz
berger, of Philadelphia, fined a
store keeper, who sold two beys
under sixteen years a revolver each
and a box of cartridges, $50 for
each offense and the costs in addi
tion, making in all, $133.74.
Nearly every morning the papers
bring us reports of great victories
won by our troops over the Filipi
nos. One day we hear that the
enemy is on the verge of surrender
ing, and the next that the day of
deliverance is as far away as ever.
. The National Watchman just about
hits the nail on the head when it
says: ".The war in the Philippines
has already cost the American
people twelve million dollars. In
addition to the money expended we
have practically destroyed the health
of at least twenty thousand soldiers
to whom pensions must be paid in
the future. Hundreds of our brave
boys have been killed upon the bat
tle field and have died ot disease.
To offset all this loss we can only
boast of having killed a few thous
and Filipinos, and succeeded in
making the people of those islands
our permanent enemies; inflicted
great moral injury -upon our own
people and forfeited our good name
among the civilized and Christian
nations of the earth. What are we
fighting for?" r
Last Week'i Business
The outgo of more gold last
week, $4,000,000 so far reported,
makes it clear that Europe is in
need. The French ministerial cri
sis has been grave and prolonged,
the collapse of German speculation
in industrial stocks threatens some
trouble, but perhaps the South Af
rican uncertainty causes most dis
turbance. Whatever the cause, Eu
rope needs money, and cannot claim
its own from the west this year,
but must borrow. Exchange and
trade balances show that this coun
try is not called upon to pay, but
the money is worth more to lenders
abroad than it is here. Home
finances are most satisfactory. Rev
enue falls behind expenditures for
the fiscal year less than $100,000,
000, and but for $230,000,000 war
expenses, including payment for
the Philippine debts and for Cuban
soldiers, the revenue exclusive of
that from the war taxes exceeds or
dinary expenses. Trade balances,
in spite of exports from New York
19 per cent, less than last year's
and imports 26 per cent, greater,
still promise a large excess of ex
ports for June.
Nor is there any substance in the
idea that largre foreign sales of
securities are moving gold. The
best evidence attainable shows that
in January and February about
$8,250,000 worth of securities came
to this side, and since February not
more than $4,000,000 in excess of
shipments. In character, transac
tions have been of the trading and
noc of the investment sort. Stocks
here have weakened, but almost
exclusively in industrials, which
toreigners do not tou:h, these de
clining $2.08 per share on the av
erage this week, while railroad
stocks have averaged a decline of
only 29 cents per share. Earnings
for the first half of June are better
than for any previous month this
year, 10.0 per cent, larger than in
1892, the Granger roads gaining
most largely over last year in spite
of the reduced movement of grain.
Duns Review.
CHAUTAUQUA.
Low-Rate Excursion via Pennsylvania
Railroad.
On July 7 the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company will run a special
excursion from Philadelphia, Balti
more, Washington, Reading, Al
toona, Bellefonte, Lock Haven,
Shamokin, Wilkes- Barre, Sunbury,
and Williamsport, and principal in
termediate stations, and stations on
the Delaware Division. Philadel
phia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, and on the Cumberland
Valley Railroad, to Chautauqua,
N. Y. Special train wilt start from
Harrisburg at 11:35 A.M. Con
necting trains will leave Philadel
phia 8:40 A. M., Washington 7:55
A. M., Baltimore 8:55 A. M., Al
toona 7:15 A. M., Wilkesbarre 7:30
A. M., Lock Haven 11:25 A. M.
Round-trip tickets, good to return
on regular trains not later than
August 5, will be sold at rate of
$10.00 from Philadelphia. Balti
more, and Washington, and at pro
portionate rates from other stations.
It has been decided by the D. L.
& W. Railroad Company not to ap
point any successor to ueneral Man
ager Hallstead. The work formerly
done by the general manager will
be looked after in the future by
Presideut Truesdale.
STATE NEW8 ITEMS.
The new traction management,
it is reported, purpose putting on
a through line of Pullman trolley
cars, with all modern conveniences,
between Wilkes-Barre and Scran
ton. The Mount Cartnel school
board has advanced the salaries of
its primary teachers 50 cents a week
after a promise of years to do some
thing along that line.
The trustees of the Keystone
State Normal School, at Kutztown,
will offer the principalship of the
institution to State Superintendent
Schaeffer, it is said.
Earl Tinna, 10 years old, was
drowned while bathing in the Sus
quehanna River at Towanda Tues
day morning. He was not discov
ered by his companions until it was
too late to save nun.
While James Bastian and L.
Monroe Reeder of Williamsport
were raising an outline from the
river Tuesday morning the .latter
became dizzy and fell backwards in
to the river and was drowned.
Raymond Wilson, aged 15
years, died Saturday at Easton, of
j lock-jaw, resulting from a pistol
wouna in uie aoaomen, received a
few days ago while playing "Buffalo
Bill' ' with several companions.
Many violations of the factory
law, by the employment for long
hours of girls under 13 years ot
age, have been discoveiedat Hazle
ton and the surrounding towns, and
the prosecution of parents will fol
low.
Increase of pensions have been
granted to Henry Burbank's heirs,
Towanda, $10 to $17 per mouth;
John D. Shaffer, Williamsport, $6
to $3; William Hessler, Hunters
ville, $6 to $3; Abraham Campbell,
Sunbury, $17 to $24.
The Ellis & Lessig Iron and
Steel Company gave notice Monday
evening of an increase in pud-
dlers' rates July 1 to $3.75 per ton,
and Helpers to 3 s cents per ton
This is the highest rate paid for six
years in that town.
Andrew Carr, a foundrvtnan,
committed suicide at New Castle on
Tuesday by swallowing carbolic
acid. Carr gave directions before
committing the deed as to collection
of his life insurance. Ill health was
the supposed cause for the suicide
At the Christian Workers camp
meeting at High's Woods, Thurs
day, Mrs, H. E. Graham, a mission
ary worker denounced church
strawberry festivals. She said they
are in the class with other "devil
fandangles,, so often employed in
supporting the gospel.
rroui present indications the
celebration of the 100th anniver
sary of the settlement ot Tamaqua,
to be held July 4th, promises to be
an elaborate affair. The committee
appointed have labored nrduously,
and so tar their efforts have been
crowned with success.
i nomas c uaroer, a pronun
ent Democratic politician, died at
Mifflinburg Tuesday after a linger
ing illness. Mr. Barber was for
several terms chairman of the Union
County Committee.served as County
Commissioner and a delegate to the
Chicago Convention in 1896.
Lewis Seitzingcr, of Frackville,
a salesman, while driving down the
mountain from Aristes, formerly
Montana, to Centralia, was thrown
from his carnage head foremost.
He sustained painful injuries and
for a while was unconscious. He
Our Serges j Astonishing
And qualify make them so. tA gn offered in Men's Suits. Closing out
All Wool, from ..... PU.UU froni a large stock. All - -
- ; -rr Wool, from P5i)
The farmer can supply himself for
the harvest field, or for cliurch, from our Boys' Clothing, in all styles, and
stock. prices to suit you.
Remember, the place to buy your
Clothing, Hats, Shirts and Furnishings,
-IS AT-
TOWNSEND'S
STAR CLOTHING HOUSE.
was removed to the State Hospital.
Governor Stone, who arrived at
Chambersburg Friday afternoon to
go trout fishing m Fulton county,
declared that he would not make
any appointment to the Supreme
Court bench just now, as he had
offered the place to several Demo
crats, and they all refused. This
means he will not appoint Judge
Mestrezat the Democratic nominee.
June Argument.-
In a recent statement furnished
to the Associated Press by Professor
Booker T. Washington, the well
known colored leader and principal
of Tnskegee College, he lays par
ticular stress on the blight of lynch
ing, and points out its evil effects
upon those communities 111 which
it is practiced and tolerated. Mr.
Washington says: "We might as
well meet the facts bravely and
widely. Since the beginning of the
world crime has been committed 'in
all civilized and uncivilized coun
tries and a certain amount of crime
will always be committed both in
the North and South, but I believe
that the crime of rape can be stop
ped. In proportion to the news and
intelligence of the South there ex
ists a little more crime than in sev-1
eral other sections of the country,
but by the lynching habit we are
constantly advertising ourselves to
the world as a lawless people. We
can not disregard the teachings of
the civilized world for 1800 years
that the only way to punish crime
is by law. W hen we leave this dtc
tum chaos begins. I am not plead
ing for the negro alone. Lynching
injures, hinders and blunts the
moral sensibilities of the young and
tender manhood of the South. Nev
shall I forget the remark made by
a little nine year old white boy,
with blue eyes and flaxen hair.
The little fellow said to his mother,
after he had returned from a lynch
ing: 'I have seen a man hanged;
now I wish I could see one burned. '
Rather than hear such a remark
from one of my little boys I would
rather see him dead. This is not all;
every community guilty of lynching
says in so many words to the Gov
ernor, to the legislature, to the
sheriff, to the jury and to the judge:
1 nave no laita in you and no
respect for you. We have no respect
for the law which we helped to
make.' " Lynching does more
than this; it halts and hinders the
progress of any community in which
it is perpetrated or tolerated, and
is quite as repugnant to civilized,
law abiding people as is the pract
ice of cannibalism.
Dull times in a store are expensive to the store
keepei expensive to the customer. We long ago deter
mined to skip this sort of expense. Wants there always
are and if we make it profitable to forestall your wants
we are then kept busy. We improve the general store
service by never letting the wheel run slowly. We make
money in time saved, and you make money by anticipat
ing your needs.
Percales.
We put on sale one case of
black and "white and silver gray
percales this week. They would
be cheap at 8c. but we will sell
them this week at 5c the yd.
Shirt Waists
Reduced.
The waists we have sold all
Season $1.00, $1.15 and $1.25
we will sell this week at 89c.
We put on sale this morning
a lot of Munson s newest pat
terns in white lawn waists.
Price $1.00, 1.25, and $1.50.
Our Shoe Sale.
There was a big lot of ladies'
shoes, left our store last week
but we stiTl have a big lot left.
It will be a money saving to you
if you buy them and don't need
them until fall. The $3.50 shoe
we are selling at $1.98 not all
sizes. We can give you all
sizes and the different widths
in Buttoned and Polish. These
lots are our regular $3.00 shoes
and extra irood value at that
price. Our sale price, $2.39
Dress Goods
At Half Price.
A lot of wool dress goods that
have sold for 65c. and 75c. they
are specially good weight for
separate skirts. We sell them at
33C
The Sale Of
Under Huslin.
Continues with unabated in
terest. v hy should it? Aren t
the values tempting, and aren't
the goods crispest, freshest and
altogether the most desirable
you ever saw. Everyone who
has been here will sav so. What
do you think about them ?
85c drawers, made full tucked,
and trimmed with fine Cambric
inserting and wide embroidered
ruffle, reduced to 69c.
65c night robe, made with
tucks,-rufitles, and trimmed with
embroidery, reduced to 49c.
Special offer in our
Grocery Dept.
We will sell for the next two
weeks Queen olives at 19c a
bottle the same goods that we
sell at 25c.
12 cakes of red star soap for
25c.
10 cakes of Lyn's soap for 25c.
10 boxes of Soapine for 25c.
If you want your jellies to
keep nice we will sell you a
pound of paraffine for 13c.
Screens, for your windows,
24x2s, at 28c; 24x32, at 30c.
Vancamps' potted ham and
tongue, 10c.
Armour's potted ham and
tongue, 7c.
Potted chicken and turkey at
15c.
50 pounds of the best blended
flour at 90c. If it does not
make good bread we will take
it back.
F. P. Pursel.
To Cure Cou.tlpatlon Forever.
Take Caac.reL Candy Cathartic. lOoorSHo.
II C O. O. (all to cure, druggiiiu refund money.
Qaeen 1 Quality
For Women.
$3.00.
Style, Fit, Wear.
None Better.
W. C. McKINNEY,
No. 8 East Main St
THAT BOY OF MINE
Costs me more to keep supplied with shoes than
. all the rest of my family, until I went to the
Bloomsburg Store Company t
and bought him the
Owl Calf Braml of Shoes.
WHEN YOU WANT
Shoes That Will Wear,
Correct Fit,
Latest Styles,;
Come to
Bloomsburg.
us.
W
e carry
Lowest Prices,
the largest line
in
Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited.
corner.Main and Centre. ALFRED McHENRY, Manager
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