THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
HE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Established 1837. Consolidated i S6g.
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At llloomstiurg, the County Scat of
Columbia Countv, rennsylvania.
GEO. E. KLWELL, Editor
D. J. TASKKR, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, Foreman.
Terms : Inside the county $1.00 a year .
n advance; $l.co if not paid in advance. 1
j uutsiue tne county, If 1.25 a year, strictly in
avaucc.
All communications should lie addressed
THE COLUMBIAN,
IHonmshurg, l'a.
THURSDAY, Al'Ol'ST 16, 1900.
The Columbian is for the Dem
ocratic ticket national, state and
county. The names of all candi
dates will be hoisted in due time.
They are omitted lor the present,
because they occupy space without
serving any good purpose so long
before the election.
The worst trouncing the Quay
machine has yet had, was given
them in Bradford county at their
recent convention, when the anti
Quay people nominated a state sen
ator and three representatives, turn
ed down the Quay County chair
man and put in their own man.
The fight between Ruhlin and
Fitzsimmons, in Madison Square
Garden, New York, on Friday
night last, ended in a victory for
the latter. Ruhlin's ability appears
to have been over estimated. Con
siderable money was placed on him.
because of his victory over Sharky
recently. The end came in the
sixth round, when Fitz. landed
heavily on his opponent's jaw,
knocking him down and out. After
) the fight Ruhlm admitted that he
j was unable to cope with the cornish-
-. man.
Candidates Notified-
: The Democratic candidates for
President and Vice-President were
I formally notified of their nomina
i tion, at Indianapolis last Thursday,
i They were greeted by cheering
i thousands. Mr. Bryan's speech
was a masterly one, and one op-
ponents are much worried because
toe did not devote any time to free
silver. The speech makes a whole
crntTA rf fin tvrw nrr wa 1 o r ! nrni
t to reproduce it here.
Fastest Trains in tne World.
An English railway official, real
izing that British railways were
not up to the standard of the French
and American railways in the mat
ter of fast train service, compiled
for three of the most prominent
British companies, the Northeast'
ern, North British and Great North
J ern, a table showing the speeds of
the fastest scheduled trains in the
li world, which, in the year 189c),
ran at the rate of more than fifty-
five miles an hour lrom start to
5 stop. A glance at the list shows
j that the first four trains run be-
tweeu Philadelphia and Atlantic
' City. When one visits his favorite
J seaside resort he may feel confident
jthat on either the Reading or Penn
ijsylvania road he is being shot
i throuarh SDace at a creater velocity
,h o .
t than he could be anywhere else on
' the face of the earth. The speed
j(of these trains is so great that some
,of the English Directors refused to
" believe the schedules, declaring it
( impossible to move trains at such
' speeds.
ST&.TE EEWS IS BElEF-
; Melancholy over his lost health,
Dr. Cyrus B. Schreiner cut his throat
; with a razir, at Pittsburg, and bled
I to death.
i Prisoners in the Estks Countv
..jail may write two letters a month at
tlie expense of the jail and two at
ijtheir own expense.
li Elkland township, Sullivan county
;:is being devastated by fhines. Huck
sters bringing produce to the hotels at
Eagle's Mere report that owing to the
dry condition of everything there, due
to prolonged drought, growing crops
are iamng a prey to the hres, as well
nr, f ...i. : 1 - ,l. 1 -
a luicDis. wiiiic me residents ot a
number of settlements have been
compelled to flee from their homes,
which were swallowed up in the gen
eral dtstruction.
i The Shamokin anJ Edgewood Elec
"trie Railway Company, the presidert
'jf which is ex-Con-ressnun M. H.
is.uip, win make application to
iilie Governor on the 3 lit iast. thro
ugh its attorney, S. P. Wolverton, of
ounuury, m order to arr.enJ the route
tnd line ot the railroAd io as to ex
pend from Locust Dale in Columbia
f :ounty to Trevorton by way of Locust
.JJ'Jap, Excelsior, Springfield, Boydtcwn
nd that the present lines of said com
oany at Shamokin be extended to
trevorton. This extension will also
. un to Springfield, Boydtown, Brady,
xcelsior, Alaska, Locust Gap and
1, locust Dale, where connect;ons will
i-e made with the Schuylkill Traction
f ne for Ashlanii. O
7 .n.utt, T.t4tllirjr
Mane, Shenandoah and Mahanoy
City.
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Aug. 13, 1900.
Official absenteeism had up to the
present week merely been a cause of
regret that Mr. McKinley and mem
bers of his administration should so
far forget the obligations of the oath
they took upon assuming office as
to go away from their official posts,
for their own personal pleasure,
while the Chinese situation was at
such a critical stage; but this week
it has been a cause of shame and
deep humiliation to every patriotic
American. hen Minister Con
ger's message, saying that the Im
perial Chinese troops were daily
firing upon the British Legation in
Pekin, in which he and all the other
foreign ministers are cooped up as
prisoners, arrived in Washington,
neither the President nor the Secre
tary of State were on hand to deal
with it, and nobody can say now
what this government intends to do
about it. That public opinion will
compel it to do more than hobnob
with the Chinese Minister to the U.
S. and endorse all the fairy tales he
can invent is extremely probable.
Much as Mr. McKinley dislikes to
call an extra session of Congress to
decide what this government shall
do, which he should have done
weeks ago, it looks now as though
he would not be able to avoid it and
drift along, hoping for some oppor
tunity to do something or to make
a bluff at doing something that
would be beneficial to his writing
political fortunes. The time for
drifting has passed. Mr. McKin
ley' s so-called "ultimatum" to the
Chinese government, sent through
Consul-General Fowler, at Snang
hai, informing China that the situa
tion reported by Miuister Conger
was intolerable, will hardly scare
the Chinese. They are not fools.
They know that in this country
Congress alone has authority to de
clare war. For that reason, if for
no other. Congress ought to be call
ed in extra session. It would con
vince the Chinese that we meant
business.
Senator Lindsay, whose term will
expire next March, having stated
in an interview published by a
Washington paper his belief that
Mr. McKinley would be re-elected,
democrats are wondering what sort
of a Federal appointment he is after.
Democrats are delighted with Col.
Bryan's speech of acceptance, es
pecially that portion of it which so
clearly points out the difference be
tween legitimate expansion-acquiring
territory to become future States
and the imperialism which acquir
es islands to become colonial pos
sessions. The speech is probably
the most complete argument against
imperialism ever presented in a
single publication, and should be
carefully studied by every democrat
who wishes to fit himself to demol
ish every argument the republicans
have yet advanced in favor of the
imperialistic loreign policy of the
McKinley administration. In fact,
the speech might be called tlie
democratic primer of the present
campaign.
The periodical statement that
this government had sent an ulti
matum to the Sultan of Turkey
demanding immediate payment ot
those American missionary claims,
which came out this week, has
grown both tiresome and farcical.
It was from the first laughed at by
the diplomatic corps, the European
members of which know something
of how the Sultan treats demands
upon him for money. A gentleman
who is in a position to make a good
guess said: "It would not surprise
me if in the last weeks of the cam
paign Mr. McKinley sent a strong
naval force to compel the Sultan to
pay these claims and incidentally to
inject a little jingoism into the po
litical campaign at home."
It is not customary for candidates
for President to take any hand in
the management of their own cam
paign, but Mr. McKinley is doing
it. He recently became so thoro
ughly alarmed that he told Hanna
that he intended to reserve the veto
right over every important move
contemplated by the National Com
mittee ana mat nothing outside of
the regular routine programme
must be done by the Committee
until it had been submitted to and
approved by him. Mr. Charles G.
Dawes, Comptroller of the Cur
rency, is one of Mr. McKinley's
personal friends who acts as a go
between in transmitting messages to
and from the National committee,
when Hanna is not available.
The colored camn mecttup adver
tised to be held at this Dlace on
Sunday was a comnlete failure
They brought five loads of water
melons ana otner supplies and one
hack load of neonle. but nrmnt fiv
o'clock in the afternoon left for
home, with all thev brought Mill.
ville Tablet.
RAILROADKINC DEAD
0. P. Huntington's Sudden De
mise In Forest Camp.
ME MULTIMILLIONAIRE'S CAREER.
g tn rt I'll In Life Wllliont a Dnllnt
mnil Left Vnt Inter?! Scattered
From Ooran tn (iri'iin. the
Volne iff Which I l'libiiloim.
NEW YOKK. Auk. l.V-Collifi V.
Iluiitinittnn, prcsiilcut of I lie Southern
I'm ilio Kiiilroml I'ninpinty, Ik dt-uil lit
1'iiic Knot IoiIko, his luxiiiimi en nip in
the Ailii-oiiiliirk nenr Kaniui'llo hike.
Ilo wii In his nevi-tity-iiiiitli yrur. 1 Until
lemiltcd from In-art ilisrusr.
Mr. lIuiitiiiKt on, with Mrs. Hunting
ton, went into the Wuoils lust TlmrKiliijr
nfternooii mill ttecuii-il to lit- in excellent
health.
Apparently well on retiriiiK at 11
o'clock Monday iiinlil, he was taken sod
dcnJv with n choking ppell, which wns
qiiile common with him and which wns
not thought to be BerioUM, but he 1 icon tne
worse. As soon at the serioiisnrss of the
nttnek wns renlisted a mi-nKi-iiger wns dis
patched to the neighboring camp of Gov
ernor LoiiiikIii'iit fur n doctor. Mr. Hunt
ington died without regaining conscious
ness, not more thnn ten minutes having
passed bet worn the attack and his death.
CAKKKIt OP Mil. HUNTINGTON.
Mr. Huntington started in life without
a dollar and died worth so much that his
possessions could be estimated enl Indef
initely as "worth millions." He wns Intl
mutely connected with the business life
of the entire country, as his belongings
were scattered from ocean to mean. Tlie
monumental work of his enreer wns the
building of the Central I'acitic railroad.
With nil his wculth, he never censed to
labor, mill death found him still one of
the virile forces of tinnnce.
This ninu, whose life story seems llk.
n I'utnuiii.-p, was born ut Hiirwinton,
Conn., Oct. 22, 1821. He was of the
same family that produced Samuel Hunt
ington, signer of the Duclaration of Inde
pendence, president of the Continental
congress, governor and chief justice of
Connecticut. The family also gave to the
world Bishop F. I). Huntiugtoii and I)an
lei Huntington, the famous painter. ThC
father of Mr. Huntington was n farmer
und, like many another Yankee, mndo
little articles of novelty for sale during
the winters to help out.
When as a boy of 14 the future mil
lionaire quit school, his father agreed
that if he would support himself entirely
thereafter he might have for himself all
he could earn. This offer was taken up,
and the hoy enme to New York at once
and bought enough goods on credit to set
up a store nenr home.
While carrying on his little business as
a youth ho traveled much through the
middle states and the south. At 23 he
went into business with his brother at
Oneonta, Otsego county, this state. Tie
was married soon afterward. In Oc
tober, 1848, the brothers made a ship
ment of goods to California, and next
spring Collis followed. He joined the
army of gold hunters by way of the
isthmus. He lingered on the Isthmus for
three mouths and then proceeded to San
Francisco and from thence to Sacra
mento. In the latter city he decided to
make a start nnd, in company with Mark
Hopkins, set up n hardware store in a
tent.
That store mndo a fortune for the
partners and Is today one of the insti
tutions of the city under the firm name
of Huntington & Hopkins.
It wns in this store that the plnns for
n transcontinental railroad were origi
nated ami perfected by Mr. Huntington,
nnd his partners, I.eland Stanford and
Charles Crocker, all united in paying Hit
expenses of a preliminary survey across
the mountains. In 1S."U tin-si- men or
ganized the Central l'aiilie Itailroad
THIN
Lots of
people
nave thin
nair. Per-
laps their
Earents
ad thin
HAIR
hair;
haps
children have
hair. But this
not make it necessary
for them to have thin
hair.
One
makes the hair healthy
and vigorous; makes
it grow thick and
lon. It cures dan
druff also.
It always restores
color to' gray hair,
all the dark. Hfh rrnr
of early life. There is
no longer need of
your looking old be
fore your time.
11.00 a bottle. All druggists.
"A a remedy for restoring color
to tlin lmir I belli! vo Aycir'a lluir
Vigor has no equal. It has alwuys
given me porluut autialuutiuu la
every way."
Mrs. A. M. Htiii hi.,
Aug. 18, IMS. ilmuuiuiiUKport, N.Y.
Write thm Doator.
!! will iPnrt yon n book on The
Itnlr uutl hi'ulp free, upon reuiieit.
It you tin not ohum all tlie hi-iuflte
vial expeeteil troni the line of the
vltcur rile the iiuctur ebuut It.
AdtlreM,
Dll. J, C. ATER,
i.uwell, Men.
r;u vim i
1m
II
mm
vigor
dWfiES u
Harvest Trousers,
OVERALLS, SHIRTS. ETC.
FOR SALE AT
Townsend's Star Clothing House,
BLOOriSBURG, PA.
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company, witn ir. nrnnrorn president
nnd Mr. Huntington vice president. In
that capacity he went to T-Vashington and
put through congress the hill authoriz
ing the construction of the rond and con
trihuting bonds to help in the construc
tion. The day tho bill wns signed he
telegrnphcd to his pnrtners:
"The bill hns passed, nnd we hnve
drawn the elcphnnt."
Hefore the charter could become avail
able the company had to raise .$1,000 n
mile. This money Mr. Iluntigton got
in this city at once by the use of his
wonderful credit. He and his compan
ions then began tho construction of the
rond and completed with private capi
tal enough mileage to malic the federal
bonds nvnilable.
With this road as a nucleus Mr. Hun
tington designed and built the entire
California system, which has now over
9,000 miles of steel tracks. He also built
an Atlantic system that, with the South
ern Pacific and Chesapeake and Ohio,
forms a continuous line lietween Newport
News and San Francisco of -1,001) miles.
Not satisfied with the conquest of a
continent, Mr. Huntington made his road
n world influence by extending It by
steamships from Newport News to Lon
don and from Snn Francisco to Chinn.
The Huntington tomb in Woodlawn
cemetery is probably the most splendid
private one in America. It is said to
have cost more thnn $300,000. It crowns
the crest of tho hill and overlooks the
New York Central tracks and the beauti
ful Bronx vulley. Although finished sev
eral years ago, it is teunntless, and the
body of the great designer of roads will
be the first to repose in it.
Mr. Huntington had one son, who is
nbout 30 yenrs old and a noted student.
His first wife, who was ICIiznhcth Stod
dard, daughter of a farmer nnd a play
mate of his youth, died in 1NS3. She was
buried in AVoodlnwn cemetery, Itoscoe
Conkllng nnd other celebrated men serv
ing ns pallbearers.
A year after her death Mr. Huntington
astonished his friends by marrying ngnin.
The ceremony wns performed by Henry
Ward Ueechur, the bride being Mrs. A.
P. Worshnm, who survives him.
In addition to his other vast interests
Mr. Huntington enjoyed the reputatien
of being one of the largest, if not the
largest, single landholders in this coun
try. Of. his entire real estute holdings
the property owned by him in cities wag
only a small part. He also held title to
large farming tracts as well as to vast
undeveloped areas in California, Ken
tucky and West Virginia nud in Mexico
nnd Guatemala.
A VorniK Thief.
OSWEtiO, N. Y Aug. H.-Frank
Kenan, a 7-year-old child, broke Into a
grocery store here nud stole a quantity
of tobacco and cigarettes. The boy rais
ed a window and climbed in. He wiU bv
eut to a reformatory.
New Bridges-
The Commissioners at their meet
ing onWeJnesday ol last week opened
bids lor the erection of substructures
of the new county bridges. The fol
lowing contracts were awarded.
The bridge over Raven creek in
Benton twp. to T. J. Seigfricd for
$1.60 a yard and for excavation 10c.
a yard. The arch bridge over Briar
creek near M.MI. Tetty's in Briarcreek
twp. to T.J. Seigfricd for $2.75 a
yard and 30c. a yard for excavation.
The Litwiler bridge in Locust twp.
was awarded to L). E. Yeager for
$3.75 a yard and 40c. a yard for ex
cavation. For raising and repairing
i!ie bridge over Hemlock creek near
J. f. Gordon's to V. J. Kirgston for
$96.00. The bridge over Wabash
creek in Montour twp. was awarded
to C. H. Keimard for $2.70 a yard
and 75c a yard for excavation. The
Dallnian bridge in Mt. Pleasant twp.
was awaided to J. E. Zeigler for $1 00
a yard and 30c. a yard fur excavation.
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Tor Rent.
Two of the best rooms for oflices
in the town, second floor front Co
lumman building. Will be rented
together or separately. Water, steam
heat, electric light, and all mode-i
conveniences. Terms low. Inmiirf.
of Geo. E. Klwell. if
OAHTOrtlA.
ine Kind Yo
1 ne Kind you Have Always Bought
CELEBRATED
it
Trade Talk
As we get nearer the "heel"
of summer these trade talks of
ours become more interesting.
Prices, which have already been
pinched, we pinch again, and
still again, if we find that it is
necessary to move the balance
of the summer stuff. Money
saving themes are always inter
esting to the average buyer.
Suppose you look through the
following list. Perhaps there's
some needed thing here noted
that will just strike you right:
ANOTHER SHY AT
WASH WAISTS.
We've reduced the price
this time to less than the
cost of bare materials. You
wear waists until Novem
ber. Good for house wear
all winter. This reduction
will be for only one week.
All our waists that we sold
from $1 25 to $1 65 reduced
to 59. We will begin to
sell at this price Friday,
August 17.
MUSLINS.
We put on sale this week
a good, fine unbleached
muslin, 36 ins. wide. 10
yards for 50c.
DRESS GOODS.
The nights are getting
cool and you need new
wool skirts. If you do,
you can get some bargains
here.
35c all wool cloth reduced
to 19c.
50c Novelty Dress Goods,
We are still sellino-
hemmed, ready to use, at
F.
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For Sate By
Bloomsl?urg, Pa.
55 Eo)
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for August.
75c to 1 00 Dress Goods,
58c
OUR A UGUST
LINEN SALE.
We have sold a big lot
of table linen, napkins and
toweling, thelast week, but
we have more. If you will
need the goods soon, it will
pay you to come to our
store this week.
2,5c linen reduced to
21c
45c
50c
65c
75c
79c
98c
$1 25
1 39
50c
56c
70c
85c
90c
$1 00
1 25
1 50
1 75
We call special attention
to the unbleached linen, 70
ins. wide, at 49c, and the
Seaman linen at 48c. Nap
kins at all prices. All li1
en toweling at 6c, CJc, 8Jc,
IOC, IIC, I2C, I2$C
those larrre counterpanes,
oSc
They would be cheap at
P. PURSEL.
rcn CEririr.MEN
JO
NAM AND PRICE ONF.VERYPAI8
The CrossettShoe wioT
UTRtME STYLE AT POPULAR PRICtS III CSCSilNO
trie FEET ONE SHOULD LOOK rOB fir. DURABILITY,
1 AND STYLE. YOU FIND ALL THESE I M THE
crossett Shoe.
Lewis isv
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