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THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED l86f.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT.
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869,
rUBI.ISIIEDl-.VKRY 11IURSDAY MOKNINU,
At liloomslmrg, the Counly Scat of
Columbia Countv, Pennsylvixnin.
OEO. K. EI.WKi.L, Editor.
1). J. TASKER, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, I orkman.
Terms : Inside the county $ 1.00 11 year
in advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, 1.25 a year, strictly in
advance.
All communications should he addressed
THE COLUMBIAN,
Uloomslmrg, I'a.
VHURMMY, MAY 24, 1900.
Democratic State Ticket.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
P. GRAY MEEK,
of Centre Co.
FOR CONC.RESSMF.N-AT-I.ARGK,
N. M. EDWARDS,
of Lycoming Co.
HENRY E. GRIMM,
of Bucks Co.
Democratic Candidates.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
(South Side)
C. Z. SCHLICHER,
of Beaver Twp.
FOR SHERIFF,
O. B. YOCUM,
of Cleveland Twp,
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
WILLIAM T. CREASY,
(South Side)
of Catawissa Twp.
FOR SHERIFF,
DANIEL KNORR,
of Locust Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
(North Side)
GEORGE W. STERNER,
of Hemlock Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
R. G. F. KSHINKA,
(North Side)
of Briarcreek Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
FRED. IKELER,
(North Side)
of Bloomsburg.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
A. P. YOUNG,
of Greenwood Twp.
DEMOCRATIC PKIMART ELECTION
NOTICE.
The Democratic primary election
of Columbia county will be held
on Saturday, the oth day of Tune
A. D. 1900. The polls will open
at the regular voting places in each
election district between the hours
of 3 and 7 o'clock p. m.
Official tickets will be placed in
charge of the officers of each elec
tion board, from whom they can be
procured by the Democratic voters.
Candidates for the following named
offices are to be voted for at this
election, to wit :
One person for Congress.
Two persons for Representatives.
One person for Sheriff.
One person for Coroner.
One person for ' Jury Commis
sioner.
Each district ' will also elect
committeeman and a primary elec
tion board, to consist of a judge of
election ana two clerks.
The county convention will be
held in the Court House, at Blooms
burg, Tuesday, Juhe 12, A. D.
1900, at 11 o'clock a. tn.
The members of the standing
committee will meet at the place
ano time ot Holding the county
convention at 2 o'clock p. m. , lor
the purpose of electing a county
chairman and secretary.
Christian'A. Small,
Chairman
R. G. F. Kashixki, Secretary.
Braver Twp., May 18, iyoo.
Democrats of Columbia Co. :
Two years ago I announced my
name as a candidate for member of
the Legislature from the south side
of the river, and after doing so,
I was earnestly solicited by W. T.
Creasy, and many other of hi.
friends, to withdraw my announce
ment in the interest of party har
mony, and was promised by Creasy
and his friends that if I would wait
'till 1900 they would give me their
cordial support. Creasy made his
promise in the presence of promi
nent party leaders, whose names I
will give if it should become ne
cessary. After mature reflection I
withdrew. But how is Mr. Creasy
treating me ? Instead of living up
, to his word he has announced for
the fourth term, in violation of his
solemn promise to me and my
friends. I call upon the good Dem
ocrats ot Columbia county for their
support, and if nominated, as I be
lieve I will be, I pledge my word as
a man and a Democrat to give my
best services to my constituents.
Respectfully yours,
C. Z. SCHLICHER.
The Philadelphia limes has
passed into the possession of a syn
dicate, headed by C. F. Kindred,
general agent of the P. & R. Ry.
Company. It is understood that
Col. A. K. McClure, who has been
a part owner since the journal was
started, about twenty-five years
ago, will remain with the new
management as editor in chief.
Mr. Kindred has been a Republican
leader for a number of years, and
it is stated that the Times will be
conducted as a Republican organiz
ation sheet. It will be in opposi
tion to the Durham and Penrose
wing in Philadelphia.
The visit of 1,500 Cuban teachers
to the United States, in the. near
future, to get an insight into Amer
ican methods of teaching will be a
novel experiment. They are to be
brought here on government ves
sels, and Harvard University prom
ises to take them in hand and give
them instruction. We hope this
unique experiment may result in
sowing seed that will yield good
results in education. There is
great need of improvement in the
Cuban schools. Spanish rule having
left them in a very rudimentary
condition. The trip will cost the
Cuban teachers nothing. There
will be opportunity to reap profit
from this outing.
REGISTERED CANDIDATES.
The following candidates have
registered with the County Chair
man, and their names will be print
ed on the ballots to be used at the
primary election : Congress, Rufus
K. Polk; Representatives, G. W.
Sterner, Fred Ikeler, A. P. Young,
K. G. F. Kshinki, Wm. T. Creasy,
C. Z. Schlicher; Sheriff. Daniel
Knorr, Geo. Rhawn, O. B. Yocuin:
Coroner, Dr. B. F. Sharpless, Da
vid Walsh; Jury Commissioner.
Adam Suit, David A. Shultz.
The Innocent Bystander.
Whenever a wild man runs amuck
and begins to tear up the street
paving and fire off guns, the crush
ing hand of Fate takes tight hold of
the back hair of the Innocent By
stander and dumps him into the
yawning tomb. If the rope that
raises a teti ton safe happens to part
the presence of one of the tribe is
invariably indicated by the slight
grease spot that is discovered when
the wreck is cleared away. When
a violent riot breaks loose and the
local troops are called out, the hot
head always finds a billet in the
frame of the neutral gentlemen who
is on hand for purely pacific and
rubbering purposes. The St. Louis
car strike has already reduced the
Missouri branch of the family by
one, and if the trouble only con
tinues for a little while, its members
will certainly suffer a sorry deple
tion. The wonder is that the Amal
gamated Association of Rubbernecks
has not long since become extinct.
The ingenious citizenr of Ken
tucky seem to be the onlv ceoole
who have been able to master the
problem. In the pleasant Bluegrass
country, every man carries his own
gun, and when a fracas starts he
seeks absolute safety by pulling it
with great dispatch and dealing
out some gun powder compliments
of his own. In this wav. the pop
ulation of Kentucky is preserved
and the strangers from other parts
who are not up to the forefront ot
the march of progress are the ouly
people who suffer extinction.
1 he Kentucky method is with
out doubt the only plan by which
the Great American Onlooker can
hope to escape total annihilation.
Eclipse of the Sun
A total eclipse of the sun which is
scheduled for May 28th, will be the
first in eleven years, and it will be
eighteen years before the country will
have another opportunity to observe
one. The eclipse will be visible in
this section, but not in its totality.
According to the almanac for this
year, which gives the times when the
eclipse will be visible at different
points in Pennsylvania, the eclinse
here will begin at 7:20 a. m. and end
at g:ee a. m.
Reduced Rates to North Manchester, Ind.,
via 1 ennsyivania nanroaa.
For meeting of German Bantist
Brethren, at North Manchester, Ind..
May 29 to June 8, 1900, the Pennsyl
vania .Railroad Company will place
special excursion tickets on sale May
29 to June 3, 1900, from stations west
of Baltimore (not inclusive), and Lan
caster and Reading (inclusive), and
south of and including Sunbury, at
rate ot one first class limited fare for
the round trip. Tickets will be good
returning until July 1, inclusive. 2U7
Farm For Sale.
A good farm in Mt. Pleasant town
ship, containing 109 acres, about 30
acres of it timber land. Good build
ings, good water, only three miles from
Bloomsburg. Terms easy. Inauire
of H. A. McKillin. Bloomsburtr. Pa.
5-10 4t.
THE COLUMBIAN,
4t The "Best is
the Cheapest
Experience teaches that
good clothes wear longest
good food gives Best nutrition,
and a good medicine that
cures disease is naturally the
Best and cheapest. Hood's
Sarsaparilla is the best medi
cine money can buy, because
it cures when all others fail.
Poor Health "Had poor health for
years, pains in shoulders, buck and hips,
with consUnt headache, nervousness and
no appetite. Used Hood's SarsaparilU,
gained strength and can tvork hard all
day: tat heartily and sleep tvell. Hook
it because it helped my husband to tvhom
it gave strength." Mrs. E. J. Ciffels,
Moose Lake, Minn.
dlbcd&SaUabailfl
JJood'i Miu rHT llli ;th. nnn-lrrltntln and
only cathartlo to UrtnMooj-rsriprtII:
Admiral Dewey dpnles that he ever
snld Democrats are fools In ppfire and
traitors In war. ind says that he lias
fond remembrance of many Democrats
he has met, some of whom were the
best fighters In the country. Fltrntln
Is the highest quality that a military
man can nee In a human being, and It
Is perhaps excusable In Dewev to refer
to fighting Democrats as If thev were
the aalt of the party. Though fighting
arises from one of the lowest propen
sltles of wicked human nature. Dew-
and his fellow naval and military com
rades magnify the man of blood Into
a more honorable personage than the
minister of the gospel; and the people,
who are still dominated by the In
stincts of the Ravage rather than the
principles taught by the lowly Naza
rene, accord more money and more
honor to the man whose business It Is
to kill and destroy than to him whose
mission Is one of peace and good will.
Fighting is the delight of savage
beasts, the pastime of barbarous men
and should find no encouragement from
men who pretend to be civilized and
above all, from those who think them
selves Christians. The very similes
we use in speaking of fighting Indicate
that it belongs to a plane far too low
to be creditable to man. We speak of
righting like cats and dogs; like tigers
like fiends, demons or devils, but never
of fighting like Methodists: like Pres
byterians; like saints. Christians or
preachers. Killing human beings and
destroying their property Is the worst
possible business in which men can
engage, no matter by what name it may
be called or wnat excuse may be offer
ed in its behalf. If Dewey could pos
slbly have suggested something else
than fighting to creditable to Demo
crats it would nave been more compli
mentary to the party which he hopes
may nominate him for the presidency,
but which will not. It is time that
higher qualities than bulldog courage
and a willingness to run the risk of
being killed in order to kill somebody
else should come to the front, no mat
ter whether the killing be done under
the plea of patriotism or benevolent
assimilation or whether it be called by
its plain Anglo-Saxon name of murder.
SOLD E1S BOD?.
Murderer Hummel to be Exhibited After the
Expiation of His Crime.
Murderer Hummel on Monday
closed a bargain with Manager
George H. Bubb, of the Lycoming
Opera House, Williamsport. The
deal'is one in which for a new suit
of clothes, a coffin and a burial
place, Hummel's body is to be de
livered to Bubb alter the execution,
JU11C5. mr. uDo s purpose is o
exhibit the body in various cities
1 his agreement, made at the re
peated solicitation of the murderer
himselt, was drawn by a lawyer
ana properly witnessed In fulfill
ment of his part of the agreement
Mr. Bubb on Monday purchased a
ouriai place on the farm of Hum
mel's brother-in-law, Joseph Moon,
in Black Hole Valley, within sight
of the house where Hummel com
mitted the quadruple murder.
Here a grave will be dug, walled to
tne top ana a heavy covering will
be placed thereon to prevent the
theft of the body after it has been
exhibited around the country.
as a lurthcr precaution Joseph
Moon has agreed to keep vigil over
the grave, night and day, and if
necessary, use force to prevent the
theft of the murderer's body. The
coffin has been contracted for and
Hummel is already in possession of
the suit of clothes which he will
wear as a scaffold habit.
All these details were planned
and arranged by Hummel himself.
The final detail of the contract is
that Hummel shall make public ac
knowledgement on the scaffold of
the sale of his body. Hummel was
led to this more by his fear of the
dissecting table than by his desire
for notoriety, or, as he states it, to
give everybody who wants it a
chance to look at him.
The exhibition of this brutal
murderer's body ought to be pre
vented by the authorities wherever
it is attempted.
For Bout.
Two of the best rooms for offices
in the town, second floor front Co
LUMiiiAN building. Will be rented
together or separately. Water, steam
heat, electric liyht, and all modern
conveniences. Terms low. Inauire
of Geo. E. Elwell. tf
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
STAR C10TDIE
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READY
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Hade to Your Measure,
TOWM
All the latest novelties for spring wear, in hats,
caps, shirts, underwear and neckwear, can always
be found at
Townsend's Star Clothing House.
A RAPID AOOUMMULATION.
A Senator With an Income ol $30,000 a
Day.
Senator Clark, ol Montana, is said
to be the richest man in the United
States Senate. His income, says the
Washington limes, is $30,000 a day.
There are eleven millionaires in the
Senate. Senator Kean, of Vew Jer
sey, follows Senator Clark in rank of
wealth, and is estimated to be worth
$10,000,000, which yields him daily
about $2,000. Next follows Senator
McMillan, of Michigan, who is con
sidered to be worth $5,000,000; Sen
ator Elkins, of West Virginia, worth
certainly $3,000,000 and constantly
increasing; Senator Hanna, of Ohio,
worth $3,000,000; Senator Depew, of
New York, is credited with more than
$1,000,000. Rhode Island Senators,
Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Wetmore, are
both millionaires, and the list is com
pleted with Senators Fairbanks, of In
diana; Scott, of West Virginia, and
Hale, of Maine.
Senator James, of Nevada, has at
times a claim to a position upon this
list, but as a speculator in mining
stock the estimate of his wealth will
vary from one day when he is unques
tionably a millionaire to another day
when he is not to be counted as hav
ing above moderate wealth.
In contrast to these senatorial Croe
suses are the poor men of the Senate
who have little more than the salary
allotted to their position, a petty sum
of $5,000 per annum. In this cate
gory are Senators Allen, Nebraska;
Bate, Tennessee; Berry, Arkansas;
Beveridge, Indiana; Bui rows, Michi
gan; Butler, North Carolina; Chilton,
Texas; Clay, Georgia; Cockrell, Mis
souri; Cullom, Illinois; Deboe, Ken
tucky; Heitfeld. Idaho; " Jones, Ar
kansas; Kenney, Delaware; Kyle,
South Dakota; Lindsay, Kentucky;
Vest, Missouri; Tillman, South Caro
lina; Shoup, Idaho; Pritchard, North
Carolina; Mason, Illinois; Morgan,
Alabama; Mallory, Florida; McCum-
bef, North Dakota, and McBride, Or
egon. Mrs. F. G. Whitmoyer and two
children, who were poisoned by eat-
ng chocolate candy, at their home, in
Sereno, last week, are still in a criti
cal condition. They have been con
scious but one day since partaking of
the poisonous confectionery.
Does the
I Baby Thrive!
)lf not, something must be
wrong with its food. If the f
mntlin.'. nilb J 'I T
, , niuuiu a iimn uukmi l nuur
ish it, she needs SCOTT'S
EMULSION. It supplies the"
. , elements of fat required for
the baby. If baby is not
3 1 nourished by its artificial
I food, then it requires '
t Scott's Emulsion j
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Douie win nave the desired
7 effect. It SP.CUTK in Kavo a
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I magical effect upon babies I
ana children. A fir v.rnt
f bottle will prove the truth
or our statements.
Should be taken lit summer at
well as winter.
5- "'1 tl-oo, ll JrilKKlMi.
SCOTT It liUWNb, Chtmuu, New York.
HOUSE !
-FOR-
GA1MENTS,
TO WEAR,
GO TO
no"-
Of a Bargain Nature.
Every item in this " ad " will be sold at less than
its normal value. This is a plain statement, but a state
ment of facts, nevertheless. There's a little profit for
us, a very little profit. The big end of it goes to you.
If you ask us why, we will tell you that we con
sider it good adyertising to occasionally give our buy
ing public a surprise of this sort. We've done it before,
and you've appreciated it, and we know you'll not be
slow to appreciate this chance. Just another bit of em
phasis. EVERY ITEM ADVERTISED IS FRESH,
NEW AND SEASONABLE.
A SUIT CHANCE.
The Eton Jacket is here
to stay and its ease and
convenience are so well
liked that you scarcely buy
any other sort. This is a
chance) for you. The suit
we have sold all season at
$12.50 we have reduced to
SS.50.
DRESS GOODS BARGAINS.
If you need Dress Goods
of any sort for waists,
skirts or Children's Dress-'
es, then you'll read this
through. After reading
you'll want to investigate.
A lot of all wool plaid that
were bought this spring
marked 56c. a yard we re
duce to 29c.
COLORED SHIRT WAISTS.
You know the kind we
keep, the Acorn Brand.
The best fitting waist made.
We have sold all our $1.00
out and to save buying
others we reduce all our
$1.25 waists to $1.00.
WHITE SHIRT WAISTS.
A big lot more of White
Lawn Waists in very pretty
styles, most all with the
long French back and va
riously trimmed with plaits
and inser.'on. Prices $1.00,
1.25, 1.40, 1.79, 1.89, 2.00,
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Our New Spring Values.
We have just received, for the spring trade, the very latest
styles in Dress Goods, Waist Silks, Trimmings, Ribbons, Laces,
market' St)'le DressGoods and Fancy Notions in the
t tLDITES' SPRING SUITS Ladies' and Misses' Spring
Jackets. Latest styles, right prices.
SHOES ! SHOES ! Great values, nobbv styles, small prices.
Our sales on shoes still increase. We are up to date at all times
in this department.
SHIRT WAISTS AND SEPARATE SKIRTS.-It will
pay you to see the styles and learn prices.
LADIES' WRAl'PERS.-We keep a complete line.
nave you seen our great sewing machine ? We are handling
one of the best on the market. Up to date in every respect and
fll lo,wcst .If yu, ,exPct to buy, it will pay you to see our
make of machine and learn our prices.
IN OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT. We are at the
",'u 1,1 u"u Brnuenes, taney Clnnaware. In dinner and chamber
sets our sales are increasing every day.
You will find it will always pay to trade with us. Our aim
has ever been to give you latest styles and best prices.
Bloomsburg Store Co., Limited.
Corner Main and Centre. ALFRED McIIENRY, Mgr.
m
BED ROOM FURNITURE.
Do you want to buy a
bed room suit ? If you do
we can save you from $3.00
to $j.oo on each suite.
Come and see ours and we
will prove it to you. Prices,
$16.00, 18.00, 23.00, 25.00,
34.oot 39.00.
COLORED NEGLIGE SHIRTS.
Soft Madras neglige
shirts 50c, with separate
cuffs 7scmade like our reg
ular $..oo shirts. Neat
patterns all sizes.
UNBLEACHED MUSLIN.
Unbleached muslin the
same weight as Appleton
A and will count the same
at 6Jc, worth 7$c.
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR '
Last week we sold a big lot
of these elegantlp made goods.
That means that people have
been telling tales.
Skirts from 50c. to $5.00
Night Gowns from 37c. to
$5.00
Drawers from 19c. to $2.75
Corset Covers from i24c. to
$1.00
Childrsn's Slips from 19c. to
85c.
Children's Dresses from 25c.
to $1.20
Chemise from 28c. to $1.00
FLOUR.
We are still selling Lily
Patent Flour 50 lb. at 90c.
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