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ARRESTED AT SUNBURY.
HE MADE NO DENIAL OF HI3 GUILT.
Frank Geist Stole a Watch and $12.00, and
Tried to Escape, but it Apprehended
In the Attempt.
Frank Geist, of Berwick, was arrest
ed in this city early Tuesday mo:nhg
and taken back home by Chief of
Police Waltz, where he is wanted on
a charge of larceny.
Frank Geist, D. J. Gallagher, and
Chas. Hooper are all young men and
work together at the car shops in Ber
wick. They were very intimate and
roomed together at the boarding
house. Monday morning the three
young men went to work together as
usual. About ten o'clock Geist in
formed the boss he wasn't feeling well
and was going home. Gallagher and
Hooper heard the conversation, but
thought nothing ot it at the time.
When they went to the boarding house
for dinner the boarding mistress told
them that Geist had been there,
changed his clothes and started out to
hunt another job. This aroused their
suspicion and they went to their room
to investigate. They found that Geist
had been there before them and help
ed himself to their valuables. A gold
watch and chain, a ring and twelve
dollars in money were taken from
Hooper's Sunday clothes and Galla
gher was minus three dollars in green
backs. The two victims informed the
boarding mistress of their loss and
started in hunt of Geist. At the rail
road station they learned that Geist
had been there on Sunday night and
inquired what time he could catch a
train for Northumberland on Monday.
Turning sleuth hounds the fellows
took the next train for Northumber
land. At the Palmer House they learned
that a fellow answering Geisl's des
cription had taken dinner there but
had paid his bill and left. The hand
writing on the register resembled
Geist's, and he gave Berwick as his
place of residence. Finding no trace
of him there they boarded the street
car and came to Sunbury. Consult
ing the local police they started to
scour the city. About half past one
Tuesday morning, as Hooper and
Gallagher were standing at the Cen
tral Hotel corner, they noticed a man
going out Market street. Following
him, they learned that it was the very
man they were looking for. They
charged him with robbery and called
officers Harman and Mettler, who
took him to the lockup. He made no
denial, and said he had thrown the
watch and ring away when they met
him on Market street. The ring was
found, but the watch is still missing.
The prisoner was taken back to Ber
wick by Chief Waltz at 10 o'clock,
where Hooper and Gallagher will pre
fer a charge of larceny against him.
Sunbury Daily.
(He was brought to (this town on
Tuesday by Constable fclayberger of
Berwick, secured by a pair of shining
bracelets, and after scouring the town
in a vain attempt to secure the bail
necessary to give him his freedom un
til court, he was taken to jail. Ed.)
There is scarcely a locality in
which working men have not been
benefitted by the general revival in
business, but we have yet to hear of
an instance in which wages have ad
vanced with a more rapid stride
than among the engineers and fire
men of the D. L. & W. railroad.
These at present are paid by the
day, but after October ist a mileage
basis will go into effect, which on
this division will give engineers a
raise of over $2 per day and firemen
one of $1. 20 per day making the
minimum daily earnings of the
former some $5.10 and that of the
latter $3.20.
George Applemau the well known
carriage dealer of Rohrsburg, and
generally acknowledged to be Co
lumbia County's best quoit tosser,
met defeat here on Monday, losing
nine out of fifteen games. George
says it makes him feel bad to have
his colors lowered, but it occurs so
unfrequently that he can easily sur-
v've t' .
Proprietor G. Snyder, of the Kx
change Hotel, has added to the ap
pearance and safety ot his hotel
front by placing a neat grating 011
the right and a higher railing on
the left of the entrance to the hotel.
The work was done by C. B. Ohl.
J. A. lless is having a new pave
ment laid in front of his property on
Main street.
VETERANS AT MILLVILLE.
The fourth annual reunion of the
Columbia County Veteran Associa
tion occurred at Millville on Satur
day, and was attended by a crowd of
people variously estimated at from
3,000 to 4,000.
The weather was perfect, and the
successful carrying out of every de
tail that might tend to the pleasure of
the old soldiers and their friends by
the committee in charge, made the
event a very enjoyable affair.
After a parade through the princi
pal streets of the town the people as
sembled at Glenwood Grove to listen
to speeches appropriate to the occa
sion. After the meeting had been called
to order a short business session was
held. It was decided, by a unani
mous vote, to hold the 1900 reunion
at Benton, after which the following
officers were elected : President,
Lieut. R. R. Karns, of Benton vice
president, J. W. Evans, Berwick j sec
retary, F. S. Smith, Benton j treasurer,
John R. Keeler, Benton.
The address of welcome was made
by Burgess A. W. Eves, of Millville,
and the response by I. H. Seesholtz,
of Catawissa. Others who made ad
dresses were Hon. W. T. Creasy, of
Catawissa, Democratic candidate for
State Treasurer, Jas. C. Brown, Esq.,
of Bloomsburg, and several others.
In his address Mr. Creasy alluded
to the veterans, in the following com
plimentary manner: "From Bull Run
to Appomattox, your record is one of
bravery and heroism. Your noble
deeds need no word of commendation
from anyone. History has recorded
them on its pages of honor, valor and
patriotism. And aside from all this,
your self consciousness that you did
your duty to your God, your family
and your country, is in itself, a re
ward worth more than all that can be
said or written by others. To you
brave veterans, more than anyone else,
belongs the honor of the friendly feel
ing between the boys that wore the
blue, and those that wore the gray,
and the good fellowship existing be
tween us and those who were once our
foes. You have preserved the union
on the battlefield and you have ce
mented the nation by your spirit of
forgiveness. While your numbers are
fast diminishing, and one by one you
answer the last great roll call, may
those who follow you never forget the
brave, heroic and patriotic deeds of
you veterans, who by your valor and
magnanimity left us a united nation
and a free people, which we, who are
left behind, will with God's help, keep
intact."
Change on the Beading
The P. & R. Railway Company is
about to make another change which
will remove the last trace of executive
power lrom Shauiokin and the other
towns on the Catawissa division, and
which will affect every crew or train
passing over it. In a very short while
the running of all trains will bs direct
ed from the trainmaster's office at
Tamaqua, instead of by the different
train runners at Mahanoy Plane, Gor
don, Shamokin and Catawissa. Early
in the year it was shown that the
company had this change in view but
for some reasons or other they aband
oned it until recently. From one
central office it will not require so
many men to run the trains as at
present, and some of the four train
dispatchers, at Shamokin, two at Gor
don, two at Mahanoy Plane, and four
at Catawissa, will be transferred to
the office at Tamaqua and some will
either be laid off or given other positions.
Married.
Heckman Oman: At Orange
ville, Pa., Sept. 5, 1899 by Rev. N.
B. Smith. Mr. Charles E. Heckman
of Centre township and Miss Eva C.
Oman of Mt. Pleasant township, Co
lumbia County, Pa.
George Keiter is the proud owner
of a handsome bay mare, which he
purchased up the river on Saturday.
We do not know the animal's record,
but it has the reputation of being
quite a stepper. George will, no
doubt, make somebody take his dust
hereafter.
John Metherel, aged twelve years,
feU from a tree on Monday and was
severely injured. His arm was dis
located in two places, and a bone was
broken. It is feared that the lad is
injured internally.
The members of the Bloomsburg
Band will hold a dance on three even
ings of the Fair, to raise money to
pay off the debt now existing.
BLOOMSUU11G, PA., THURSDAY, SKl'TEMBKR 21,
STRAY PARAGRAPHS.
When a man has been out late
truth is on the home stretch.
The Boston Agitator records the
marriage of John Coburn, only three
feet high. No wonder he wanted to
get spliced.
Slanders, issuing from red and
beautiful lips, are like foul and ugly
spiders crawling from the blushing
heart ot a ipse.
We presume it will not be de
nied that he is a bad agent, who, in
stead of doing the business of his
employer, does him.
One of our divines asks why
Cain, who seems to have offered his
sacrifice in good faith, didn't obtain
divine approbation. Probably be
cause he wasn't Abel.
In Nebraska, it is said, that a
man stone blind has been appointed
to the bench. The fact that justice
is blind is hardly a good reason why
her ministers should be so too.
A writer in one of the Philadel
phia dailies says that the Republican
cause never appeared in more celes
tial colors than at present. Probably
the fellow means that it looks blue.
A young man in Wayne county,
last week, undertook, for a wager, to
leap down a bank fifteen feet high,
and killed himself in the act. This
was one way of " jumping to a con
clusion." On Tuesday a vagabond was
convicted in an adjoining county of
stealing two watches. He made a
pathetic speech after his conviction,
describing his failure in business and
all his misfortunes in life to " pro
crastination." He seems to have
been the embodiment of procrastina
"on, which the poet tells us is the
thief of time."
International Commercial Congress.
Greatest Peace Congress in the History of the
World Assembles October 10th.
That the international Commercial
Congress, which is to assemble in
the Auditorium of the National Ex
port Evposition on October 10th, wiil
be the greatest industrial congress
ever held is now beyond all doubt. It
will be an important and spectacular
event, and is believed will mark an
epoch in the history of international
trade.
More than forty of the prominent
government of the earth have named
official envoys, and in addition there
will be delegates from more than two
hundred chambers of commerce and
other trades bodies in all countries. It
is expected that President McKinley
will make the opening address, and
that he will be followed by General
Diaz, the President of Mexico.
The ceremonies of the opening are
destined to be of a most beautiful and
impressive character. Besides the no
tables from nearly every nation who
will attend the entire Diplomatic Corps
at Washington are to be present in
the full official regalia of their exalted
positions. The Governors of many
States, Members of the Cabinet, Con
gressmen, Mayors of cities and hun
dreds ot other prominent peronages
are expected to be present.
A rather sudden death, due prob
ably to an attack of heart disease
occurred at West Third Street, this
town, Monday afternoon, when
Benjamin Gilmore, an old and res
pected citizen was called to his long
home. Mr. Gilmore was a veteran
of the Civil War, a member of Ent
Post No. 250, G. A. R, and alsq a
member of the Columbia Veteran
Association and the Loyal Veteran
Legion. Had he lived till Novem
ber he would have been seventy-two
years old. His survivers are a wife
two sisters and a brother. His sist-e-s
are residents of Reading and his
brother of Cleveland, Ohio. The
funeral occurred yesterday after
noon. Burial was made in the new
cemetery.
The Borough Council of Centra
lia met in regular session on Wed
nesday evening of last week and
decided to borrow 1,000 for the
purpose of paying for sewerage,
and also instructed the finance com
mittee to make a temporary loan to
meet the current expenses of the
borough. O. B. Millard is to fur
nish the money at 4 per cent.
liiimnr savs that Robert Mercur.
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., of
Ceutralia, and Mis urace, the es
timable and accomplished daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Ilouck,
will be united in marriage iu the
early part ot November. The an
nouncement is the source of much
pleasure to their legion of friends.
S The Columbian 2
I PUZZLES, f
G. Edward Elwkll, Manager.
D. J. Tasker, Asst. Manager.
Last week's puzzles seemed to take
better than the Dewey Puzzle, and
the prizes were hotly contested for.
Several answers were correct but
the answers of Miss Isabel Blue, of
Danville, had the earliest post-mark
consequently tiking the ist. prize.
The next earliest were those of Mrs.
William Leverett, of Philadelphia.
We hope our readers will continue
to take as much interest in the puzzles
in the future as they manifested last
week.
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The following puzzle is longer than
usual, but it is very easy after you
get it. The first correct answer re
ceived will be given a Wirt Fountain
Pen, and the second correct one to
be received a Pair of Beautiful Gold
Cuff Buttons.
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(geographical puzzle.)
As I was eating a river of Arica, I
was called by a fort in Scotland, for
he saw a lake 0 British America com
ing along an island of New England
at full gallop after an ocean in the
Eastern Hemisphere with another isle
east of England who was a river in
Indiana.
The lake 0 British America after a
long cape southeast of Newfoundland
gave up the county in Kansas in a
cafe of California and ran back to
the North American lake.
Several men, one a river in New
York another a sea in China, another
a mountain U Oregon, and another a
river in Minnesota, all of them a
county in Ohio, went with a great
county in Indiana after the British
American lake, which had crawled in
to a cave which was a range of moun
tains in the United States and hard to
get at and so they lost him, but they
caught a river of Illinois, a town in
Pennsylvania, a creek in Vermont,
and a river in British America. Tkey
took them home, and tied the river of
Illinois to a mountain in Missouri,
driven into a tree which was an island
in the Mediterranean. They let the
town in Pennsylvania loose, and he
went to an old town in Wisconsin.
The creek of Vermont died for want
of water. They hung the British
American river up in a tree which
was a city in the western part of Utah
to keep a bay of New England (which
was flying over head) from eating him
up.
As the men were by that time a
part of Austria they rut off a piece of
the British American river and a
group of islands in Polynesea fried it
for them, seasoning with a group of
islands in the Pacific and a South
American ciCy also a lake in western
Uni':d States.
After the meal was cooked, and
they had eatjn a bay of New Zealand,
they dispersed to their different
homes. -
Address all communications to
Manager Pjzzle Dept.
The Columbian,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
All answers must be sent in on or
before Monday, Sept. 25th.
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Answers to Last Week's Puzzles.
I. Bagatelle, whist, dice, chess, loto,
checkers, cricket.
II. Peach, pear, cedar, orange,
clove, beech, nectarine, aspen, ash,
maple, apple, cherry, olive, lemon,
cocoa, plum, teak, lime, cypress, pine.
Columbia County Fair, Bloomsburg, Pa.
The Columbia County Agricultural
Society will hold its Forty-fifth annual
exhibition on October 10, ir, 12, and
131 beginning on Tuesday and closing
on Friday. All the railroads leading
nto Bloomsburg will run special trains
at reduced rates. From the large num
ber of inquiries for premium lists and
entry blanks already received the man
agement expect to have a larger and
better class of exhibits than ever. The
attractions will be up to date and the
following speed program will no doubt
bring the speediest horses in this and
adjoining states to contest for the
money. The races begin Wednesday
with 2:30 class trotting, 2:19 pace,
2:40 pace and 3:00 trot or pace for
farmers' horses. Thursday 2:20 class
trotting, jv?f pace and 2:16 trot
or pace. Friday, the closing day, the
free for all, 2:30 pace and 2:25 trot
$3000 will be paid in purses. Prem
iums in all classes are liberal. Write
to A. N. Yost, Secretary for Catalogue.
IS99.
Take
To step into our store for a few
minutes and look over our new
styles of Hart, Sch affner & Marx
Suits.
They are acknowledged to be
the finest clothes made in this
country. It will certainly pay you
to see thelm and get our prices
before you decide what to wear
this season.
He Was a Six
Foot Four fflan !
Big of the chest and lirobs, and as he came in he said :
" I'm going to give you all the trouble I can, 'till I get just
what fits me."
Less than five minutes later the salesman said . " Try
this on.'' It was a first-rate fit one of those clay worsteds,
size 48. The vest, perfect. The trousers, 37 inches in length
perfect, without an alteration of button, or anything the
most trifling. Jle wore it away on his back a more than pleased
man.
Couldn't have been fitted better had it been made to his
measure, and it cost fully two thirds less.
We have these large Suits to size 50.
Ben (lidding,
The Clothier, Bloomsburg, Pa.
The Leader Department Store.
Porch Rugs, Brussels, 59c, Velvet, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Mattings
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
We do not care to carry any
mattings over this season. We
bought too heavily, but we'll
make them go at a price.
HERE THEY ARE.
3 rolls, were 35c, now 25c
4 rolls, were 40c, now 35c '
25 rolls, were 25 c, now 18c
8 rolls, were 17c, now 14c
4 rolls, were 15c, now i2$c
Good assortment of patterns
and colorings.
Come in and see them. They are sold nowhere else.'as
we control the output. They are cheaper than boards.
In Our Dry Goods Department.
Physicians &
Surgeon's Soap,
2 cakes for 15c,
sold elsewhere
for 20c. Have
you tried it ?
The finest lath
ering and the
purest soap in
the market.
Shirt Waists.
If there is an unshirtwaisted
woman in Columbia count)',
here is her opportunity.
25 PER CENT. IS THE CUT
right through on every shirt
waist in stock.
to carry them
The Leader Store Co., Ltd.
Fourthgand Tlarket Streets.
NO. 33
Time
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
to Close.
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Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet rugs, 90c
Velvet ugs, 90c
Physicians &
Surgeon's Soap,
2 cakes for 15c,
sold elsewhere
for 20c. Have
you tried it ?
The finest lath
ering and the
purest soap on
the market.
We don't want
over,