8 We Can Sell You A GOOD FOR $2.25, Guaranteed for 1 Year. o- KI.OOMSBURG, TA. " THE CO LU M BlAVtT BLOOMSBURG. PA. 3. S. Williams & Soa, BLOOMSBURG TA Public Sale Criers and General Auctioneers. W" Klfteon years experience. Satisfaction guaranteed. Best returns of any anlecrlera In UttRnectlonof the State. Write for terms and Oaviea. vcr disappoint our patrons. 1-ft General Auctioneer. When you need good auctioneer it will pay you to call on the undersigned. I have hxl 13 years experience, I deal fair with my fellow-bidders, therefore, I am able to pet yuu the best returns of any sale crycr in this section anil I charge the least for it Resi dence, C. K. Buckalew f irm. Light Street road. Fot oftice address, Bloomsburg. Pa. Letters addressed to me will receive prompt attention. n-Stf J. H, Ertwine. Games irom 5 cents to fctioo at Mercer's Drue & Book Store. Newspaper men have more .griev ances than the merchants, but they are more long suffering. They do mote for the good of the town than any other agency, and yet a great deal of printing that could be done just as satisfactorily here is sent away. And newspaper men, with their .great big hearts, do lots of puffing of money making eveflts for religious and benev olent organizations free of charge, and sometimes the same organiza tions get the printing they pay for away from the newspapers. And that's why newspaper men, if troubled with the least bit of sensitiveness, find their great big hearts sort of ossifying as they grow older. Ilugies-i UIe Mail. The Schuykill people who want the Legislature to amrnd the license law so as to remove from the discretion of the court the number ol licenses that shall oe granted, have prepared a table showing the number of saloons and the population in the leading places in that county. In McAdoo there is a saloon for every tevent y-three inhabitants; in Girardville one for ev ery ioj; in Minersville, one for every 104; in Pottsville, one (or very eoc; iu Tamaqua, ore for eiry 158; and so on with a number of other places. Port Carbon appears to be the least favored, having but one saloon tor each 319 inhabitants, and yet they an all get as roach as they want to drink most likely. The agitators in this movement waot the judges res trained from granting more ttupa one li cense for each 300 inhabitants. The councils of Scranton are pret ty thoroughly stirred up by the action of the trolley company in retaliating upon the citizens for their sympathy with the strikers by cutting off trans fers and all tree rides. A resolution requiring the transfers to be restored has been passed and signed by the Mayor. It is now proposed to enact a measure that will compel the com pany to carry free all city officials, councilmen, police officers, aod city employees It is contended that the city new has to pay these tares when officials go about on business, and that there are a number of council oien who are too conscientious to accept passes even when they are to be had. If they were entitled ,to these privileges under the city law they vould feel under no obligation to the company. It is evident that the court cils do not intend to stop half way in jetting even with the trolley people. ABSOLUTELY Makes the food more delicious and wholesome acru sums Mweta to., new raw. Lamps from .25 cents to $13.00 at Mercer's Drug & Hook Store. The man who don't advertise tap ped on the window as he went by, and motioned for tis to come in. We entered, and he held out a hall-dollar and said: "Send me your paper. I have stopped that miserable sheet across the way, and hereafter will give you all my business." Our heart didn't jump much, for we knew him of old. We thanked him, entered the name in our little book and started out. "Say, hold on a minute," he called, "you migrit say, as a matter of news that I have the sole agancy for Risem's baking powd.-r, and that we give away a dollar present with every twenty-five cent purchase. People will be glad to hear it. "1)0 you want to advertise?'' we asked. "Well, no; I car.'t afford th it, business is so dull. Thought you would do some thing tor a good subscriber." We kept on scribbling, just to avoid a dispute with him, but you can t find a word about Risem's baking powder in this paper. "I have been advertising a little he continued. "Feller round here last week getting up one of them hotel registers and I gave him $2 to put my name in it, along with some others," "You had your name in that advertising desk at the post-office, didn't you," we asked. "Yes, and that was a darn fraud," he declared. "Fact is I get stuck 'most every time I go into an advertising deal, and that's what makes me so down on the bull game. Put my name in that re volving clock at the depot, and that train indicator, and run an advertise ment once six months in the Month ly Prohibitionist,' printed out in Ohio, but didn't make a red cent with all of it. It's just throwing money away to advertise and so I never go into any scheme unless I think they really need it, like some church affair." "Did the hotel register man really need your two dollars?" we asked. He began grinding a pound of coffee, and'did not hear us, and we sauntered out. It occurred to us that spring election is coming on, and he was getting in line to run for something. Just watch and see if we have not guessed correctly. Dushore Reviexv. A Chicken and Waffla Supper, .Under the auspices of the U. Ev. Aid Society, to be held in the Sani tarium, near the D. L. & W. depot, Thursday and Friday evenings, Jan uary 24 and 25, from 5 to 10 p. m. Tickets, .35 and 15c. Ice cream and cake extra. The ladies kindly ask to be patronized. Tut; WAGES OF SIN- Several years ago the presiding elder of the Danville district M. E. Conference, preached a powerful sermon at Mountain Grove Lamp Meeting. "The Wages of Sin is Death," and at its close made a fervent appeal to the unsaved to re pent ere it was too late. Under the tree to the right of the tabernacle tent and outside of the circle stood a comely-looking, well-dressed, ood faced boyish looking young man from Bloomsburg, who, like so many other young men had gone on the excursion for a day's outing and good time to Mountain Grove Camp Meeting. While strolling with a young iriend the- voice ot the divine caught his attention and he stopped for a moment. But his interest in the sermon grew until an hour bad passed and the sermon ended'' aod ere it closed his companion saw teirs ot repentance roll down his cheek, but indecision plainly portrayed itself in his face. "Shall I or shall I not flee from the wrath to come?" He pond ered in his soul, the good angel all the while saying Yes" the evil one prompting "No," and saying, "There is p'enty of time in the future," and in a moment of weakness, with a heavy heart, he turned his back from the one who preached salvation to all and from the altar of mercy before him and his companion he drove thoughts of heaven and hell away in pursuit of pleasure. A short time afterwards this same young man drifted down east, passed through Sunbury where acquaintances of his still live and remember him. Farther -down east be drifted and after wander ing from one citv after another he finally landed in Paterson, N. J., and now is known over the wide world as the degenerate murderer of Jennie Basschietcr, and who is destined in a short time to realize in all of its awful reality, "the wages of sin is death."' E.x. The foregoing story is a very pretty one, and is going the rounds of the papers, but the murderer alluded to never si Bloomsburg or , Columbia County. tHJRE THE COLUMBIAN, FOR MURDER. Continued from 1st Tage. E. S. Gearhart. Ksn. made the otien 1 1 1 ins address to the iurv for the defence. I" - - - He said that the defence: is ready to -l . l . . T-i 1 it,-. . 1 atimn inai uoyu wintersieen nrcti me j fatal shot that killed M. L. Fisher, but it is not ready to admit that it was j shot deliberately and with malice as charged in the indictment. He said ' that the defence b evidence, will try to show two things that at the time J the shot was fired, the defendant was mentally incompetent, and that the shot was fired purely in self defence. . He then related the details of what the defence expected to prove. Boyd Wmtersteen was sworn in his own behalf. He said he was forty-one years old, and was born in Columbia county. He related the incidents that occurred while he was employed on the Bennett farm; of his refusal to drive a kicking horse and his dis charge; of his quarrel with Strotise and Fisher; of meeting Fisher in the road when the following conversation took place: "Don t vou think you treated me mean?" said Wintersleen. No, I don't," was the reply. "Well, how about that board bill at Strouse's, will you pay that?" . "No, I will not, and damn you, if you don't leave the place I will " He then explained that Fisher at this point made a motion as if to draw a revolver, and says that he hurriedly drew his own weapon and fired; that 'he then started and ran away and did not remember what had happened after that. Winterstecn's story was not shaken by cross-examination. About thirty witnesses were called who testified to Winterstecn's previous good character for peaceableness, among them being quite a number from Bloomsburg, by whom he had been employed. At three o'clock on Monday the evidence closed, and court adjourned until the ringing ot the Court House bell. The bell rang at 9:30 on Tuesday morning. Judge Hinckley and E. S. Gearhart addressed the jury on be half ot the defendant, occupying the time until the noon adjournment. At 1:30 o'clock when Court adjourned, only Associate Judge Thompson ap peared on the bench, lie stated that Judge Little was too ill to hold Court any more that day, and an adjourn ment was made until 9:30 Wednes day morning. Judge Little has not felt well during the term, as he is suf fering from the grippe. He was abl to be in Court on Wednesday after noon, and after James Scarlet had addressed the jury on behalf of the Commonwealthjudge Little delivered his charge, and the jury went out about four o'clock. The jury came in at 0:45 o'clock last night and rendered a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter, after having been out just six hours. The agreement was reached on the sixth ballot. At first the jury stood two for first and five for second degree murder, and five for acquittal. 1 The penalty for the crime of which Winteisteen stands convicted is soli tary and separate confinement at hard labor for not to exceed twelve years, and a fine of not to exceed $1,000. The Burglar Was Wanted at Washington. The following despatch appeared in the Philadelphia Press last Friday, from Wilkes-Barre, under date of Jan uary j 7 : "A clipping from the Philadelphia Press, of October 25, under date of Wilkes-Barre, has resulted in clearing up a mystery that is of interest to Washington County. Oistrict Attorney Jones to day re ceived a photograph from the District Attorney of Washington County and the clipping. The item referred to the burglar who was shot dead at Cambra, this county, last October, while attempting to break into the postorlice there. The Washington County authori ties, by means of the description given, have been able to identify the dead burglar as a. criminal who was wanted there, and for whom the po lice have been looking for six montns." WauU$80,0JO Danei J. C. Begley, formerly the editor of the Windber Journal, who was injured in the railroad accident at the station in Johnstown last July, has en end suit against the Pennsylvania railroad company for $30,000. Suit will also be brought agaidst the company for $30,000 damages by his wife, who lost a leg in the accident, and $20,000 dimases lor the death of theirjchild. The suits will be tried in the Somer set county courts. Burglars Blew Safe Open- Burglars at Nonhun.berland Tues day morning succeeded in securing between $30 and $35 from the safe in the store of Van Ait n Co. & Waples. People living in ihe. vicinity ot the store heard three loud reports about 3:30 o'clock in the imrning, but noth ing more was thought of it until the store was opei,ed in the morning, when it was discovered that the safe was blown to pieces. BLOOMSBURG, COURT PROCEEDINGS. FRIDAY. Court convened at a p. m. Friday, with Associate Judges Fox and Kurtz on the bench Petitions of TTlomas Mooney, John Ma'arkey, Win. Gushalonis, Gottlieb Bernard, John Gushalonis, John Pre. koski, Joseph Zarelski, Joseph Lieon owicz, Joseph Yetcovitch and Fabia Shamatis, for naturalization papers, filed. They were swoin and admitted as citizens of the United States. SATURDAY. Court convened at 4: to p. m. Sat urday. His Honor R. R. Little and As sociate Judges Fox and Kurtz on the bench. The motion for a new trial in the case of Riter Goss, convicted of manslaughter at December Court, was argued by Col. Freeze and Fred Ike ler for the defendant, and by District Attorney John G. Harman for the Commonwealth. The defense claims that the Court erred in admitting the testimony of Rev. O. L. Buck, con cerning the attempt of Goss to run him down on the same day, and that the Court erred in its charge to the jury. Mr. Harman vigorously op pose:! these propositions. Judge Lit tle held the case under advisement. LICENSE COURT. License Court convened at 10 a. m. Monday with Associate Judges Fox and Kurtz on the bench, Judge Lit tle being engaged in court at Dan ville, trying the Wintersteen murder case. H. Mont. Smith, Esq., presented a petition of voters of the town of Bloomsburg for the removal of screens. etc., from the bars of hotels and saloons in the town of 'Blooms burg. J. G. Freeze, Esq., offered auditor s report in the estate of E. A. Rawlings for confirmation. The judges decided to grant license to all old applicants against whom no remonstrances were filed, and those against whom remonstrances have been fileu will be heard on Saturday, Jan. 26th at 10 a. m. rred Ikeler, Esq., presented a pe tition in the estate of Cornelius Reece to have property set aside to widow without the expense of an administra tion. S. B. Karns, Esq., ol Benton, pre sented a petition for the appointment of Clark Fiedler as constable to fill the unexpired term of W. B. Gibbons, who resigned. Piano Tuning. Will Guernsey, the piano tuner spent all last week in town. He will be here again the first week in Febru ary. Leave orders for tuning at this office. Filipino Offer Allegiance. Manila, January 22. The disal lowance by the Military Board of the claims of Holman & Co.. mer chants, of lloilo, for damage to and destruction of property during the period of appeasement, which findings have been approved by General MacArthur, establishes a precedent against compensating for similar property losses in the terri tory in which the war operations were conducted. The oath of allegiance lias been administered in a church in Vigan to ever one thousand persons, who acknowledged they had contributed to the insurgent cause. Chaplain Fitzgerald addressed the natives in Spanish. The parish priest trans lated his remarks into Ilocauo and administered the oath. About four hundred persons in the vicinity of Malabou assembled in the church and on the plaza have also taken the oath. General Grant has made many captures and arrests. At present he is on a scouting expedition with over 50 men. Those who are proved to be insurgents are held. Battery I, of the Third Artillery, has captured 50 armed men at Mun tintupa. Various other minor cap tures and surrenders have been made in Southern Ltizon. The Eleventh Cavalry has ar rived here on the transport Meade, from Camariiics. They will sail for home on the same ship, Febru ary. 1, as the Thirty-sixth Infantry. The men who are to sail Saturday were reviewed and addressed this evening by General MacArthur. He thanked the soldiers enthusias tically for the part thsy had ab.y borne in the history-making epoch in the Philippines. He said they had sustained the traditions of a hardy and soldierly race and mer ited the plaudits of their country men on their return home. Speaking of the various advan tages of such occasions, General MacArthur said : "The chief advantage is the en gendering of a warlike spirit, with out which no nation can continne to live and by which alone a nation is created ani maJe perpetual." The Twenty-seventh Regiment will sail February 5 and the Thir tieth February 15. The largest line of juvenile books and prices right at Mercer's Drug & Bx)k Store. PA, I. W. Hartman & Son. 1-4 TO 1-2 OFF. COATS, JACKETS, CAM, LIU lie Mir tmi is Better Thin i Sollar Era. ' They're Going, If Prices Will Sell Them ! Women's Coats, Capes, Jack ets and Furs, at July prices. One quarter to one half their real value AT HARTMANS. WE'LL SUIT YOUR TASTE. Ladies' Jackets. Mack Kersey Jacket, high rolling collar, lined with extra aualitv black satin, stitched edges, pearl buttons. Reduced irom $10.00 to Tan Kersey Jacket, lined with guaranteed satin, of same color, strapped seams, stitched around edees. fancy stitched lappcls on collar, fine pearl buttons. Rc duced from $12.50 to S7.50. Tan Kersey Jacket, lined with good grade cotton lining, high rolling collar, stitched edges, and in every way a good $5.00 garment. Reduced to $3.69. Ladies' Suits. Black Cheviot Suit, jacket silk lined, skirt lined with Percaline, seams on jacket and skirt strapped with satin and stitched. Reduced from $22 00 to $17.00. Black Cheviot Suits, jacket A lot of Ladies' Coats, Children's long and short Coats, that were carried over from last season, are on a special table, at 98c for your choice. I. W. HARTHAN & SON, BLOOMSBURG. PA. 19 INCREASE- Roman Catholic Church Hat 10,774.987 Momberi in the " United States, a Growth ot 645,312 In Ihe Past Year 11,987 Priesti. According to the Catholic directory, just issued, the Roman Catholic pop ulation of the United States is 10,- 774.9S7, a growth during the year of 45i3'. The statistics for 1901 show that there are in the Catholic Church in the United States thirteen archbish ops, one of whom is cardinal, and eighty bishops. The number of priests is 11,987, of whom 3010 are members of religious orders, and 8077 are secular clergymen. There are 6127 churches, with resident priests, 3518 missions with churches and 1774 chapels. 1 he archdiocese in New ork is the richest in America. Rheumatism. Nobody knows all about it; and nothing, now known, will always cure it. Doctors try Scott's Emul sion of Cod Live1- Oil, when they think it is caused by im perfect digestion of food. You can do the same. It may or may not be caused by the failure of stomach and bowels to do their work. If it is: you will cure it; if not, you will do no harm. The way, to cure a disease is to stop its cause, and help the body get back to its habit of health. When Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil does that, it cures; when it don't, it don't cure. It never does harm. The genuine has this picture on it, take no other. If you have 1:0 1 tried it, send for free hin'.plc, its agrccullc tatto will surprise, vou. SCOTT & nowxr, Ch.niist, tooTearl St.. X. V. lie, t-Ji.oo; til urugsisis. E ' I. W. Hartman & Son. lined with silk, skirt Percaline lined. Reduced from $15.00 to $10.00. Black and Colored Suits, in many sizes and shapes. Rc. duccd from $7.50 and $10.00 to $4.95 'and $5.95. Furs. Muffs, Collars and Collarettes, are here for immediate sale, at jess than wholesale prices. before the XNew Season will ue - time cf remarkable cuUing of all Ladies', Misses and Children's Capes. Coats and Jackets AT HARTMANS'. We'll Price Ttem So You'll Boy Them Capes. Golf Capes reduced from $7.50 to $4.95. Golf Capes reduced from $8.50 to $5.95. I'lush Capes reduced from $to.oo and $11.00 to $7.95. Children's Coats. About 25 Coats here yet, to be sold at once. We" have clipped one-third off of some prices, one-half off others. Al most all sizes in the lot. It Wasn't in the Hat. In the naturalization couit at Wilkes Barre, recently, one ambitious alien had a series of questions and answers that had been prepared and type written by a friend. He had pasted the list on the inside of his ha!, which he held in front of him. Everything worked smoothly for a time and the questions of the court concerning American forms of government were quickly and intelligently answered Finally Judge Halsey sprung a simple question and the applicant looked startled and stared into the crown of his hat He could not find an answ er on his list, got red in the face, stam mered and was finally called out at the plate. WANTED ACTIVE MAX, OF GOOIl character, to ileliyer and collect in Pcnnsyl vanw for old established manufacturing wholesale house, f 900 a year, sure pay. Honesty more than experience required. Our reference, any linnk, in any citv. En closed self-addressed stamped envelop. Manufacturers, Third Floor, 334 Dearliora St , Chicago. 10-25-l6t. The February "Kew" Lippincott- The Complete Novel of ihe m mill is entitled " Novel Complication,'' bv Ed ward S. Van Vile. This is a clever ice of humor four., ltd on a case of mistaken identi ty. William F. liar ton, an English capital ist, conies with hi Wife n Am.ir, nn pleasure trip. Misname on the register at ii ,.aiuuri 11 me signni lor a rusn 01 reporters and lion-hunters, who believe hi to be William F. Barton, a writer of realistic fiction, whose reputation among the fair scs is world-wide. Almost before they compre hend the Situation, this hitherto quiet man and woman nie ihr Mml i. m a wh rlpoul of excitement. Fortunatel .!. oiu ton nas literary aspirations and is familiar with the books supposed to have been written by her husband, so she comes 10 his rescue. AlioriiVir ii i iiiiu tjl- with just a touch of sentiment. ine scries 01 College Talcs I egun in the January number is continued this month in a contribution by an alumnus of "dear old I'enn." "Smith of rennsylvania,' " br francis Churchill Williams, is a splendid specimen of student, doubtless to be found ia tveiy collie, but this particular "Smiih" must make the "Pennsylvania" boys feel like sllOlltinp a lrit,' 1-1 D...M, T'l.. !-....- T -. .r xujr; i lie 1 tint- Harvai.l foot-ball game des. riled at ihe close of the story is great "A Bloodless Vendetta," bv Henry Wil ton 1 nomas, author of The Last Ladv of ..lunerry, is in I lie same vein as this volume. I'iiIIL th. v....i... i. . i,..- v miiiul,, ICUU. Ill," me in Iinhan New Vork. is jolly and clever and ends happily. irs. OaWoid s Cellar Party," hy a writer who boirows Ihree stars from Ihe firmament for a ixn uimn . i,, .1, society whoie cry is "Give me novel'y, or give me death!" Eliis Parker Butler contributes a local election story called "The Juniper-Street Episode." It hni- h., . .....r.A ... does not need the privilege of the ballot W Colonel Charles Foineroy Button paper on "Lincoln a An Antat;on.i" it full ol .ment V rr mi nic, .n Ku i j 11.. r w-v ij pis. utll IlICIIUlV'li'v of ihe mar'yred President's. This is Miuly ... me inci.raiion ol Lincoln's lir.lsilay, rebruary u. I in- ecoi.O article on "Tails with Chf nre Women, bv Lily Uowaid, is equally mtcresi w,th that pul l.shed last inouih. We rrad niuih about high-class wo lien m China, but Mm llnu...i . ii aln.ut those in lowly ifr. This tin e l e "rH"' "c 1-ngM sine ol their livts. .-u many nones are told about IlnrDJia Fnetchie's flag that the version entitled "True Barbara Priri. hi. . 1. n, VI, 1. her. carries conviction with it. Poems are vontributcd by Edwin I- SaUa aod Jennie iktts Hattswick.
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