VOL.
BLOOMSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1899.
NO. 46
34
FLAMES PLAT HA.V00-
A Lirge Barn, the Property ol John K. Bitten
bender Destroyed Friday Night.
Just as the tenant, William Baylor
and his family were preparing to retire
about ten o'clock Friday night, Mr.
Baylor glanced out of the upstairs
window and was horrified to see the
large barn enveloped in flames. With
' out taking time to put on all his
clothes he rushed out of the house,
and lone handed tried to save the
stock, consisting of horses and cows,
but before he had succeeded the fire
overtook him and he was compelled
to abandon the task and as a result
two cows and a calf perished while
six other cows were badly Durned.
The other contents of the building,
hay, grain, farming impliments,
wagons, harness, etc., were totally
destroyed.
The old bell in the Town Hall was
used to give the alarm, this was fol
lowed by an alarm sent in from box
41, located at the corner of East and
Sixth street. The response from those
most needed in such an emergency
was prompt, but owing to the out of
the way location of the burning struct
ure, succor from the firemen was im
possible and all that could be clone
was to confine it to the building
already doomed.
The origin of the fire is a deep
mysiery. Mr. Baylor had been into
town and returned home about eight
o'clock, at which time everything was
alright. It appears to be the general
opinion that it was the work of an
incendiary, but of this there is a lack
of evidence to substantiate the belief,
unless from a basis of pure malice
and such a motive is hardly conceivable.
The loss will be quite heavy but
the insurance will probably cover
everything.
At the Opera House a fair sized
audience had assembled to witness
the performance of "Kidnapped in
New York. The curtain had just gone
down on the second act when some
one. observing the reflection in the
sky, caused by the burning barn,
thonphtlesslv and without anv consid
eration for the liability of casualties,
in such a case, yelled "fire" at the
toD of his voice. In an instant the
audience was rushing for the doors
and not until the location of the' fire
was known, could order be restored,
Anv Derson who displays such a lack
of sense bv vellinc fire in any building
and tfc us endangers the lives of the
Tvnnle there conereeated. deserves to
i' i i i '
be severely dealt with, but luckily for
him he was not known.
Called to Her Long Home-
Again it becomes our sad duty to
chronicle the sad intelligence of the
death of one of Catawissa's beloved
residents. Mrs. Georee S. Gilbert,
hirh occurred last Sunday nieht.
Mrs. Gilbert retired in her usual good
health, about nine o'clock in the even
ing. Short v after midnieht Mr. OH
bert was awakened by a voice, and
getting up, found his wife suffering
from asthma. Inasmuch as she had
been subject to spells of this kind, it
was thoucht it would soon pass away.
But alas, it was her last struggle for
breath on earth, and Detore anytning
could be done to relieve her suffer
ing, her spirit took its flight to the
tn-eat bevond.
The deceased was a daughter of
the late Tohn Sharpless. was highly
respected by all who knew her, and
her death is deeply mourned by the
entire community. She leaves a hus
band and four children, namely: Tohn,
of Philadelphia. Mrs. Dr. Reynolds,
of Danville. Mrs. Frank Maloy, of
Scranton, and Laura, at home.
A Home Wedding.
Mr. Carlton A. Caswell and Miss
Edith M. Reber, only daughter of Dr,
and Mrs. W. M. Reber, were united
in the holy bonds of wedlock by Rev
M. E. McLinn. pastor of St. Mat
thew's Lutheran Church, at the home
of the bride's parents, North Market
street, this town, at 10 ociock a. m
Tuesday. Only the families of the
contracting parties, and a few intimate
friends, were present.
The couple entered the parlor to
the strains of a beautiful wedding
march, rendered by Miss Llizabeth
Kuhn. The bride was very tastefully
downed in a dark blue traveling suit
After the ceremony a dainty repast
was served.
The happy couple departed on an
extended wedding tour, after which
thev will return and begin married
life in Bloomsburg. m
COURT PK00EEDING8.
convened Monday
E. M. Dunham was
When court
afternoon, Hon
presiding.
Charles Frantz, Charles Charles H.
ritz, P. W. Gordon, O. II. Heming
way, J. K. McAnall, John Payne and
Z. Schlicher were excused from
serving as jurymen.
In the case of Wm. Krickbaum vs.
ohn W. Hoffman, certiorari, the
Court, in an opinion filed, reversed the
judgment of the Justice for the reason
that that the return of the Justice fail
ed to show in the inquisition of facts
found, that a certain rent or agree
ment was reserved by Wm. Krick
baum from Jno. Hoffman.
Road in Greenwood township and
borough of Millville. Proceedings set
aside.
Overseers of Poor of Cleveland
township vs. Overseers of Poor of
Middle Creek, Snyder Co. Order of
removal reversed and proceedings va
cated and Overseers of Cleveland
township to pay all costs of proceedings.
hstate of Peter Appleman. Ex
ceptions to report of Auditor, Order
of Court made is hereby vacated and
hts of parties to be as they were be
fore said order was made. Hearing
of above case, November 28, 1899.
John Michael vs. Harriet Michael,
vorce decreed.
John M. Fairchild vs. A. F. Martz
et al. Petition of E. A. Wilson for
ule to show cause why he should not
be subrogated to rights of plaintiff.
Rule granted.
Consigned to the Grave.
The funeral of the late Jeremiah
Wintersteen which took place in this
ity, Saturday last, was quite largely
attended. Rev. Dr. Shindel officiated.
The pall bearers were Messrs. D. R.
Williams, M. D. L. Sechler, William
Rishel, O. B. Sweilzer, Joseph H.
ohnson and Abram Burger. Inter
ment was made at btraub s church,
Amon? those who attended the funeral
from out of town were the following:
Mrs. Parvine Swisher, Miss Mary
Whipple, Milton; George Sandel,
Lewisburg; Frank Sandle, Wmfield;
Mrs. Benson Lyons, Mrs. Milton Hess,
Mrs. Richard Angell, Howard Watts
and wife, Elmer Lyons, Mrs. William
Wintersteen, Charles Wintersteen and
wife, Mrs. Calvin Kressler, Miss Mar
tha Sidler, and William E. Knorr,
Bloomsburg; Chandlee Eves and
Thomas Wilson, Millville; Elias Watts
and wife and Phineas Whitmoyer and
wife, Pine Summit. Danville Amer
ican.
Veteran Editor's Sudden Death.
While showing his wife a newly
bound book of memories pertaining
to the golden wedding, celebrated by
the couple on October 25th, John F.
Meginnis, of Wilhamsport, one of the
best known newspaper men of the
state, fell to the floor dead. He went
to Harrisburg Saturday morning, re
turnintr home in the evening. Imme
diately after reaching the house he
opened the volume which he ' had in
his hand. As he was pointing to the
title page, it tell from his hand and he
tottered over and expired, without
uttering a word. He was seventy-six
years of age. He was an editor for
upwards of thirty-five years and quite
frequently during that time has writ
ten articles pertaining to the history
of Columbia County, always writing
over the signature of Tohn of Lan
caster. His last narrative, in which
he described a trip through this
county appeared in many of the papers
hereabouts only a few months ago.
A Correction.
Some evil disposed person is cir
culating the report that we are selling
milk from cows that were burned or
injured by the recent fire. At no time
have we used milk from any cow in
jured. All cows severely burned have
been killed, and those less injured
taken to comfortable places for care.
We are purchasing milk from parties
having good cows to supply our cus
tomers until we can rebuild a barn and
obtain other cows. We thank our
patrons for their forbearance with us
and assure them that we will furnish
only the best at our usual price of 5
cer.ts a quart.
J. K. BlTTENBENDER.
8TEAT PARAGRAPHS.
The merry jingle of sleigh bells
will be heard ere long.
1 he elevator boy usually has a
pull, but he also has his ups and
downs.
- Too much beef, explains High
School's defeat at Berwick Saturday
afternoon.
We believe that a great many
political speeches are literally parri
cides, that is they kill their . fathers.
vveve seen it illustrated.
It seems so strange that church
edifices not unfrequently give way; they
generally contain more sleepers than
any other sort of building.
1 here are a great many people
who say more than the truth on some
occasions and balance the account
with their consciences by saying less
on others.
Before the election a certain can
didate said he felt victory in his bones.
He was unmercifully thrashed at the
polls and now he is boning everybody
trying to find out how it all happened.
"I m not afraid of a barrel of cider,
said one of our street corner ornaments
to a chum as the writer was passing
up the street yesterday. Undoubtedly
correct. A barrel of cider would run
at his approach.
One-f $1 ---H.T. -11-21-99-5-This
means that for one fare plus
one dollar the Lackawanna Railroad
will sell on November 21, 1899, from
Mt. Morris, Ithaca, Oswego, Utica,
and an intermediate points, tickets to
New York and return, permitting the
holder to spend five full days in the
metropolis.
This week of November 21 will be
one of the gayest and most interesting
of the entire winter. One of the
greatest football games of the year,
that between Columbia College and
the Carlisle Indians, will be played at
Manhattan field on November 25.
Columbia College recently defeated
Yale on the gridiron. It s eleven is
the only aggregation of football play
ers outside of the "Big Four that
ever scored against Yale. The Carlisle
Indians have defeated some of the
best college football teams in the
United States.
At the theatres the week will be a
particularly brilliant one. Among their
attractions will be the following: May
Irwin in "Sister Mary"; Julia Arthur
in "More than yueen 'ne Alice
Nielson Opera Company in "The
Singing Girl"; Julia Marlow in "Bar
bara Freitchie"; Virginia Harned in
"The Song of the Sword: John Drew
in "The Tyranny of Tears"; Mrs.
Fiske in "Becky Sharp"; Richaid
Mansfield, William Gillette, the Kend
alls, Annie Russell, Anna Held, Wil
liam H. Crane and others.
The city itself will be an attraction
as it has already doned its holiday
dress.
The tickets at one fare plus one
dollar for the round trip will be sold
on November 21, and must be used
for the going journey at or betore
midnight of that date. They may be
used for the return journey on any
train leaving New York before mid
night on November 26.
Stillwater's New Officers.
The following officers were elected
to the new offices created by the Bor
ough of Stillwater :
Burgess Daniel McHenry.
Councilmen Chas. Wesley, B. F
Pealer. W. L. McHenry, Moses Mc-
Henry, T. H. Edgar, J. 13. kams, J
N. McHenry.
School Directors Lhas. Wesley,
I. W. Edgar, T. H. Edgar, E. P,
Bender, A. B. McHenry, E. E. Wag
ner.
Auditors P. D. Wesley, O. D.
McHenry, M. W. McHenry.
Justice of Peace Moses Mc
Henry, E. B. Beisbline.
Ham Constable J. F. McHenry,
Constahle J. V. McHenry.
Poor Overseers Wm. Girton,D.
N. McHenry.
Assessor C. O. Stauffer.
Tudge of Election J. B. Karns.
Inspectors H. A. McHenry, B
Pealer.
Heart disease caused the death of
Mrs. Frank Giger, at her home, in
Montour township, Monday night,
The deceased was 24 years old, a
daughter of the late Daniel Reedy,
and a daughter-in-law of Josiah
Giger, ot this town. The iuneral
will take place from the house this
afternoon at two o'clock.
F.
George Ahleman, a clerk in James
II. Mercer's Drug and Book Store,
met with an accident on Saturday,
which might have resulted in the loss
of an eye. He was liquidizing car.
bolic acid, when the accummulation
of gas exploded. He has been
obliged to wear a bandage over his
left eye ever since.
The shower of stars and meteors
did not occur Monday night as was
anticipated. Tuesday and WedneS'
day nights the sky was overspread
I with dark clouds.
TEACHER'S INSTITUTE.
uperb Courio of Evening Entertalnmentt.
County Superintendent J. K. Miller
is busily engaged making arrange
ments for the Annual Teacher's In
stitute to be held here November 27
to December 1, inclusive. He has
secured a brilliant corps of instructors,
and the course of evening entertain
ment is equal if not superior to any
that he has ever had the pleasure of
presenting to the teachers of Columbia
county. They are as follows:
MONDAY EVENING.
The opening entertainment of the
week will be the International Grand
Operatic Company, the personnel of
which is as follows: Miss Clara Doug
las Carroll, Miss Grace Lee Carroll,
sopranos; Miss Ethel Houston Du Fre,
contralto;Signor Agoslino MontegrirTo,
tenor; Mr. Arthur Randolph Seaton,
baritone; Sig. Comincio Gnarro, musi
cal director and pianist. The pro
gram will be in three parts. The first
part will consist of solos, duets, trios
and quartettes. For the second part,
the second act of Hotows Grand
Opera "Martha" will be given, to be
followed by the performance of Cav-
allsria Rusticaua, as part three. The
company comes with the endorsement
of press and public wherever it has ap
peared.
TUESDAY EVENING.
Dr. Frink Bristol will lecture. Sub
ject "l;rains . 1 he Michigan L.ity
Evening Despatch says of him: "Rev.
Frank Bristol appeared at the Armory
ast night, under the Lpworth League
Lecture Course, in his lecture on
Brains." The speaker captured his
audience from the start. He is a very
anid talker and he opened his speech
by a few minutes of exceptionally rapid
speaking, which commanded the
closest of attention from the beginning.
From that time on the peopie were
grasping each word as it was uttered,
and Rev. Bristol was carrying them
along by his oratory as completely as
if they had been a part ot his own in
terested and scholarly intellect. For
nearly two hours he gave to the audi
ence a stream overflowing with wit,
pathos and inspiring words of patri
otism, which one must have heard to
appreciate it.
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The concluding number of the
Course will be Mr. Alton Packard in
his celebrated art entertainment and
chalk talks. As a guarantee of his
ability to please an audience we take
from the Kinton, Ohio, News-Re
publican the following: "Mr. Packard
is an artist who makes his hngers do
what tongue cannot do. From the
time he took up his situation before
the easels till the very close he held
his audience intntly watching every
move and wondering what those few
strokes of the crayon would bring forth.
In his pictures he not only entertains,
but instructs by showing how the pen
cil is made to portray character, not
only in people, but in the landscape.
His story of a hat was a clever way ot
portraying various types of men we
meet. As an entertainment, the affair
was a great success. Mr. Packard is
beyond a doubt, a star in his line ot
work, and a worthy follower in the
footsteps of the great Nast."
Reserved seats at S. R. Bidleman s
book store. Course tickets $r.oo.
Single admission 50c.
Ladies. Beware of This Man.
A Wellsboro exchange says : A
number of ladies of this borough
were swindled last week out of $5.00
each by a smooth-tongued young
gentleman. The swindler stopped at
the Sandbach House and claimed to
represent a ladies' tailoring establish
ment, located somewhere in Massa
chusetts. He solicited orders for
tailor-made suits at the remarkable
low price of $6 per suit, in order to
advertise the house which he repre
sented. The number of orders was
limited to fifteen. That is the sub
stance of the story the swindler told.
He displayed samples of the goods,
from which the ladies were to make
selections, and when an order was
taken he exacted $5 in advance, the
balance to be paid to a lady, who
would call at the house and make the
suit.
BEN. GIDDING.
One Tells Another
And you witness every day the power of that in
fluence. You never read an advertisement for poor
clothes. Strange, too, for there's more than good.
Each advertiser represents his own as being the bet
ter, and cheaper than others. Not so here. Ours is
as good as our best energies, ability, knowledge, ex
perience, carefulness and watchfulness, can get. It
may not be so good, it may be better than others.
Only one way for you to know come and see. One
thing sure, business is growing here.
Yesterday's best i3 to-day's starting point.
Good storekeeping means progress.
"We are ten years ahead of our imitators. They
can't reach us. You'd do well to keep track of what
is going on here. What a man or boy needs we offer
here.
Every Part of the Store
Was grandly active all last week. Why not ?
No store never had greater inducements to activity.
The stocks are largely in place. The varieties are such
as you would want. The prices are less than you sus
pect. Our Men's Department, our Boys' Department,
our Children's Department, our Furnishing Depart
ment, our Hat Department, are all teeming with new,
bright, fresh goods.
We want your trade. May we have it ?
We'll treat you right.
Ben Gidding,
White Front, Bloomsburg, Pa.
or Rant.
Proctor Inn, well furnished, from
Feb. 1 st 1900. Rent cheap. Apply
to G. E. Elwell or A. L. Fritz, Blooms,
burg, Pa. tf
The Leader Department Store.
Furniture Repairing & Upholstering.
We have re-opened our repair department, under expert,
enced management, and are prepared to do all kinds of repair
and upholstering work at short notice. Goods called for and de-livered.
Red Flannel Underwear.
Wo are plosino- out a line of these troods at 2Sc. Thev'are
honestly all wool and we have sold a great many of them at,$i,
but to get rid of the balance we cut the price f
Ladies' Waists.
We have a new line of these goods, in flannel and mercer
ized cotton, neat fitting and tasty in appearance. A good one
for 50c, the best for $2.00.
Ladies' Suits and Jackets.
Look at our 8S.00 Suits. We have them up to $18.00.
These are silk lined throughout.
Carpets ! Carpets !
We are cleaning up a lot of remnants and slow sellers. If
we have enough to cover your room we can give you a decided
bargain. All carpets will be higher in price for spring, but with
us, you 11 always hnd us lower in price, and with a larger assort
ment, than anywhere in the town.
We have one or two rolls, suitable for chamber carpets.
The price has been right along 30c. To close out the dropped
patterns we make the price 20c. We have also a few rolls which
we sold for 45c. We'll make the price 25c. to close. Kindly bear
in mind that no one can sell you so cheaply as we. You are
dealing with first hands.
FREE. We have a lot of carpets, suitable for buggies.
Come and buy $1.00 worth of anything ,and put a fresh carpet
in your carriage.
Galvanized Buckets.
We have eight dozen heavy buckets to sell. Extra wet
made for a special purpose. We intended ordering eight, but by
mistake the eight dozen were shipped, and so we want to sell
them quickly. They would oe good value anywhere at 50c.
Give us 65c. for two of them and we'll let them go,
Snow, the first of the season, fell
to the extent of about an inch in
Bloomsburg on Tuesday. C. B.
Ent and John Watson were the first
to take advantage of it.
The Leader Store Co., Ltd.
Fourth and flarket Streets.