THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ, PA. MOVING JMY FIXED. American Rule In Cuba to End May LO. SECRETARY ROOT'S ORDER TO WOOD A Kinnll I'ori'p f Artillerymen to He Left tit Iiiii (dfihl liffciiNcn I- or n It hip Oilier Amerleiin 'i' roo i to Hi- Wlthilrnwn. AVAKIUMJTON, M.inli Hi;. - Sivri'tu r,V Knot bus limtle piilili"' Ills unit r to GcihtiiI Wood (liri'ciiiiK lit tn to turn ovrr tin1 control of the K.iviM'inncnt t Cuba to Its ju'oplc on Miiy L'D next. Tlio order riMiiiircH tin1 ('ulnin Mivrrinncnt to nnsiiini' nil tri-iit.v o'ilii;ntioiin iiml lliri'CtN (il'IK'l'ill WoOll to I'Otll illll a small nrtilli-ry fotvo to avoiil t-;i 1tii; I lie Island entirely defenseless until tin' "ilan jrovenmieiit nliall organize i!s own force. Tlio text -of tlii order Is ; follows: "You arc niitliorized to in'oxiile for the inauguration on tin' limit of May next of tin' .uveHmieiit elected liy tin: people of Cubit anil upon tin.' establish ment of said Koveinmiiil to leave the government ami control of the Islam! of Culm to lis ttvili, inirsuaiit to the provisions of the net of eotnn'cys en titled 'An act initkinn iipprtirialiiii for the army for the tinea I year ciidinj; June .'Ml, liioiV approved Miirch 1!. 1!MH. "T'poti the transfer of overninent and control to the president and eon press so elected you will advise them that such transfer is upon the express understanding and condition that the new ijoverninent does thereupon and by the acceptance thereof, pursuant to the provisions of tlio appendix to the PRESIDENT ELECT PALM A. constitution of Culm, adopted by the constitutional convention on the 12tli of June, 1!)01, assume and undertake all and several of the obligations as sumed by the United States with re spect to Cuba by the treaty between the United States of America and her ninjenty the queen recent of Spain, signed nt Paris on the loth day of It cember, IN'.lK. It is the purpose of the United States government forthwith upon the Inauguration f the new gov ernment of Cuba to terminate the occu pancy of the island by the United States and to withdraw from that Is land the military forces now in occu pancy thereof. But for the preservation nd care of the coast defenses of the island and to avoid leaving the Island ttutirely defenseless against external attack you may leave in the coast forti fications such snxill number of artil lerymen as may be necessary for such reasonable time as may be required o enable the new government to organ ize and substitute therefor nn ade quate military force of its own, by which time it is anticipated that the naval stations referred to in the statute and in the appendix to the constitution above cited will have been agreed upon and the said artillerymen may be transferred thereto. "You will couviAie the congress elect ed by the people of Cuba In joint ses sion at such reasonable time before the 20th of May us shall be necessary therefor for the purpose of performing the duties of counting and rectifying the electoral vote for president and vice president under the fifty-eighth article of the Cuban constitution. At the name time you will publish and certify to the people of Cuba the Instrument adopted aa the constitution of Cuba by the con stitutional convention on the 21st day of February, l'.mi, together with the appendix added thereto and forming u part thereof adopted by the said con vention on the 12th day of June, 11(01. It Is the understanding of (he govern ment of the United States that the gov ernment of the island will pass to the new president and congress of Cuba as it going concern, all the laws promul gated by the government of occupation continuing in force and effect and all the judicial nnd subordinate executive nnd administrative oliieers continuing in the lawful discharge of their present functions until ch;fm,'ed by the consti tutional officers of the new govern nient. At the same moment the respon sibility of the United States for the col lection and expenditure of revenues and for the proper performance of duty by the officers and employees of tlio insular government 'Will end - the re sponsibility of the new government of Cuba therefor will commence. May 20. President Elect Tomns Estrada Pul ma of Cuba, having finished his con ferences with President Koosevelt, Sec retary Hoot and other otlielalH on mat ters connected witli the transfer of the ikland from American to Cuban control, left the city at midnight for his New Turk home, where he will remain until the last of April, when he will leave New York for Santiago province, in which he will spend a few days, going thence to Havana to be Inaugurated Cuba therefor will commence." Ik wi SOME DAIRY FACTS. Jle- lofk l.rml In I'rniturttan of Milk, Hotter nnd flirrne. WASHINGTON. March 2.1. - The complete census statistics of dairy mat ters Just announced show that of the ri.":i!.i'.."7 farms in the country -t.rdJ.210 report dairy cows nnd dairy product and that in 1.S!! Hie total dairy product had a valuation of $ l71i,:H!l.'J.Vi. Of the f'trniH reporting dairy cows-and prod uct ;!.-7,."7X were classed as dairy farms, having derived at least 40 per cent of their gross income from dairy products. The number of dairy cows was 17. Kt:'. (171. The receipts from dairy products sold aggregated S2Sl.f.2'.MCS, and prod ucts consumed on the farm were val ued at ?1'.tO,7:i!,2!l7. There were pro duced from the dairy cows reported a total of 7,2',!i.:;!i2,r.71 gallons of milk, tin average of 121 gallons per cow. Of this milk 2.i:s.'.tir,:tt2 gallons were sold, for which the farmers received 1MS-1. S 12,202. The farmers also report the sale of 2o,7(W,i'2 gallons of cream, for which they received .S.s:!S.77iS. Farms num bering :i.0i7,.j to report the manufacture of butter, and 1.".t!70 report the manu facture of cheese. The farms report lug butter manufactured 1.071.7 l."i,127 pounds, of which "l.s,l;0.02d pounds were sold, for which the farmers re ceived $m;.imm;,4 10. Farms reporting cheese manufactured 1ii.:7l!,:t;tt) pounds. of which 14.!!2,542 pounds were sold. for which the farmers received $1,342, 414. New York reports the largest number of dairy cows. l,."i01,(io,S. tlio largest value of dairy products, $r."i.474,l.V, and the largest number of gallons of milk produced, milk sold, cream sold and butter as well as cheese made. Peuusyl vania stands second. POSSIBILITY OF PEACE. Announcement In tlio lluuso of Cum- inona lleeel veil Willi t'lioom. LONI'ON, March 25. On a dispatch from Pretoria just made public Lord Kitchener gives his usual weekly total of captures, etc., but does not mention the Sella Ik burger Incident. The liaily Chronicle this morning as serts Hint an armistice has been ar ranged pending the duration of Schalk- burger's mission to Ucneral Ie Wot, and that offensive operations against He Wet, Pelarey and P.ottm will lie suspended, these three generals having agreed honorably to observe the armis tice nnd to refrain from operations un til the return of the envoys to the Iioer lines. It is believed, continues The Daily Chronicle, that the envoys, after ac quainting Hotha with the result of their mission, will again confer with Lord Kitchener, although no second confer ence with Lord Kitchener has actually been arranged. Interview W ith Kltoliener. 1 LONDON. March 24. A dispntch from Pretoria says: "Acting President . Scha Ikbnrger. F. W. Kelts, ex-secre- i tary of state of the Transvaal, and Commandants Lucas Meyer and Krogh i urrlved here yesterday on n special train from Balmoral, about fifty miles east of here. They reached Balmoral under u flag of truce. After a short stay here they proceeded for the Or ange Ulver Colony. 'Upon arriving here Mr. Schalkbur- ger and his party drove Immediately to Lord Kitchener's headquarters, where they had an interview with the com mander In chief. The Boers afterward proceeded to the railroad station nnd entrained nt 5 o'clock for Kroonstadt, Orange Ulver Colony, whence they will go out under a safe conduct. TEN YEARS FOR EACH. Noel)-, Heevon and Itnthuone Moat Ainu I'ay II envy I'lnox. HAVANA, March lio.-The trials be fore the audienciit court of the cases arising from the embezzlement of Cu ban postal funds have resulted in the following sentences: C. F. W. Neely, ten years' imprison ment und to pay a fine of $.(l,70l. W. II. Beeves, ten years' Imprison ment and to pay a fine of $35,510. Estes U. Bnthhouc, ten years' Impris onment und to pay a fine of $115,324. A Kevoltlnic Deed. TONAWANDA, N. Y., March 22. J. B. Post, a farmer, thirty-live years old, living four miles south of this vil lage, bound his wife, Amanda Post, to a stake in the bullpen of his stable. She wore a red calico apron, which drove a confined bull to frenzy, and in its rage it attacked the woman and gored her to death. It is said that tlio man's act was caused by jealousy of a preacher, lllram Coates by name, who lives half a mile south of the Post farm. Coates has been a frequent caller at the Post farm, und the ulght before he met Mrs. Post at u prayer meeting ut Konmore. A I'yroinnnlac. NEW YOKK, March 22.-Edward J. Farley, a confessed pyromunluc, was arraigned in tlw Center street court, charged with settiug tiro to the Astor House ut midnight Tuesday last. lie lias confessed to Fire Marshal Freel of tills county to having set tiro nineteen different times to various places In New Y'ork, and nine of these fires were started in the Astor House during the time he was connected with that hotel. Five 1'rlaonera Bnrued to JH-uth. KOSCIUSKO, Miss., March 24.-Five county convicts made an attempt on Saturday night to burn their way out of prison, burniug the stockade house In which they were confined down over their heads, cremating themselves. They were all negroes. Schoolteacher! at White llouac. WASHINGTON, March 20. - The president yesterday received a delega tion or M Uuffalo schoolteachers They were escorted to the White House by llepreseutatlve Alexander. CANAL SCHEME DEAD Assembly Committee Will Not Report Davis Bill. .0YER50R ODELL SOT DISCOURAGED lie Think lntirvotnont l.enlnlnl Ion Will Not lie Alintulonoil An Kx trn ffonialon In Not Likely In Ho t n Mod. 'ALBANY, N. Y., March 20.-Coventor Odell said hist night In discussing the canal Improvement situation: "I have done nil that 1 could to get the legislature to take action on the Davis bill, which provides for the ex penditure of $;51.S(H,tHti for the Im provement of the Erie and Champlaln canals, but the cause seems hopeless. The ndvoentes of canal improvement held two conferences with me today, the last late this afternoon, nt which I told them that I hud seen Speaker Nix on, chairman of the assembly rules committee, and that he hail said that it was Impossible to get the committee to report the Davis bill. The canal men went away feeling that nothing will be done this year In the way of legislation in the line of canal improvement. They gave me a final answer refusing to ac cept the alternative referendum pro posed as a compromise. They asked me to call an extra session of the legisla ture to consider and dispose of the ca nal Improvement problem, but that I refused to do, as 1 could not see what good it would do In view of the position which the assembly has taken. "My position on canal legislation has not changed. I recommended in my annual message an Improvement proj ect, which was subsequently embodied in the Davis bill. Tliat recommenda tion was made after conference with the leaders of the legislature, who nt that time favored the proposition. As the session advanced opposition devel oped, culminating In the situation which at present exists." Governor Odell was asked whether lu view of the failure of two legislatures to pass . improvement legislation It meant an abandonment on the part of the state of any improvement of the connls. lie replied: "I certainly do not. Great projects of this character sometimes take years to develop. You have an' illustration of that in the years It has taken congress to dispose of the Isthmian canal prob lem." The nctiou of the assembly In not passing the canal bill is held by the ad vocates of the improvement to be caus ed mainly by the position taken by the fourteen representatives of Albany, Kenssehier, Onondaga nnd Monroe counties in voting against the VVeekcs bill, which included the Oswego canal wiiuin the scope of the proposed im provement. Mayor Low's bills have passed the assembly. The employer's liability bill and the Pennsylvania tunnel bill have passed the senate. 1 Toyekn'a Mnyor lloraen hipped. TOPKKA. Kan., March 25. Miss Blanche Boise, u protegee of Mrs. Na tion, horsewhipped Mayor Parker in ids office at the city building. Three times she slushed the mayor before he tore the rawhide out of her baud nnd pushed her into the hall. When seen by reporters after his scourging, Mayor Parker refused to discuss it. The wo mnn Mho whipped him talked freely. She said: "I was in sympathy with Mrs. Nation, but did not take part in her raids. I have come to the conclu sion that the only wax-to make public officers enforce the temperance laws is to horsewhip them. I have an organi zation behind me, nnd we have whips for Governor Stanley and Judge Ha- zen. I will wait and see how tills dose acts on Mayor Parker before I repeat it. I think It is a good plan." The Cholera nt Mnnlln. MANILA. March 25.-The outbreak of cholera here does not create alarm. No white persons have been stricken with the disease. According to the re port of the medical authorities there huve been, ail told, twenty-six cases and twenty-one deaths. Experts have gone to investigate the five cuses nt Mnlolos, just north of Manila, and the two eases at Apafrl, in northern Luzon. The moving of trains on the railroad between here and Dagupnn has been prohibited, and no bout will be allowed to leuve Manila for lnterlslund ports for the next five days. The object of these restrictions is to prevent a gen eral exodus und the consequent possi bility of spreading the disease. Ilnraored War on Great Britain. BERLIN, March 20. Copious dis patches received from New York and Washington and published here de scribe France and Russia at meditating war upon Great Britain and Jupnn over China and as seeking assurances from Germuny of thut country's neu trality. The foreign olilce repudiates this story und avers that Russia and France have not made uuy such In quiries here. Wilcox Found Guilty, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, March 24. Twelve good men and true, after mnny hours of deliberation, have found James Wilcox guilty of the murder of ids sweetheart, Ella Cropsy, with whom she left the parlor of her par ents' home on the night of Nov. 12 last and was never again seen until her body was given up by the river that flows close to her home several weeks urter. Nine Men Burled Aliva. CLEVELAND, O., March 20. While excavating for a new gashouse on Lighthouse street hill there was a caveln, und nine men were buried un der tons of earth. The recovery of the dead bodies but cot yet been com plwtod. NOT SO ABSENT-MINDED. Ilrltlfth Snlillrra In nnth Afrlm Savril ..1,000,000 for the Folka nt Ho.no. The post nfliee Is throwing1 some side lights npou the character of the British soldier which will be read "with interest. It appears that Tommy is not such nn absent-minded beg fjnr as lie Is made out to be. Tommy himself has always resented the sou briquet, nnd the fact that he has sent n million of money home from the Cape in postal orders during the past year Is n colossal testimony to bis thrift and thought fulness nf home needs, says the Loudon Ex press, This useful public service ha n vsection with every column for tel egraphic nnd postal work, and not only do they get letters safely through Boer-ridden territory, but they manage to preserve government stock from capture with preat skill nnd foresight. Of course some postal dispatches have fallen into the en emy's hands, but the check upon be lated j.'iail bags is so keen that the misuse of postal orders is rare. Mail running from columns off the railway is a dangerous game, nnd the army post office man requires not only to be an efficient postal servant, but a strategist, in so much ns to know when not to send. Sev eral denths have occurred in (lie de fense of the mail bags, so that lie has to be n combatant at times. A lazy livct may lie only a tired liver, or a starved liver. A stick is all right for the buck of a lory man, Kn'. it would he a snvnge as well as a stupid thing to heat a weary nun or a starving man because he lagged in his work. So in treating the lag ging liver it is a great mistake to lash it W'th drastic drug. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred a torpid or slngpish liver is but n symptom of nn ill-nourished body, whose organs are weary wiih overwo.-k. Let your liver alone. Start wiih the stomach and its allied organs of digestion and nutrition. lut tlicm in proper winking order, and see how quickly your liver will become active and eneigeiic. Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery has made many marvelous cures of " liver trouble" by its wonderful control of the orgnns of digestion and nutriiion. It restores the normal activity of the stomach, increases the secretions of the blood making glands, cleanses the system from poisonous accumulations, ami so relieves the liver of the burdens imposed upon it by the defec tion of other organs. Byers-"Do you believe there's luck in odd numbers?'' Sellers-" Yes; if youalways look out for number one." WORTH $300,000,000. The Fresidcnt of a certain big Oil Com pany is said to be worth $300,000,000. A tidy bit of money and no mistake. And yet he isn't happy. In an address to a Bible class he spoke of trials and troubles of the rich and the loads they have to carry. A young lady whispered to a friend that ha might wear a Benson's Porous Plaster on his back or, better still, divide the money among the members of the class. I don't know why her idea about the plaster makes me want to laugh, but it does. All the same I have seen plenty of people laugh after pntting Benson's Plasters on their backs or chests, or on any other spot where there was weight, heaviness, weakness or pain. It may be the sharp stabs of neuralgia, the aches and wrenches of rheumatism ; it may be oolds in muscles or bones ; it may be those kidney or lumbago thrusts that make you yell as at a dog bite ; or it may be a strain ororamp, anything that want quiet ing and comforting. iJout bother wun salves, liniments, lotions, etc, or with any of the stupid and useless old style plasters. CIbd on a Benson's. It relieves at one and eures quickly. It stops the pain and makes yon laugh for the very ease and good feeling of it. But watch out against im itations and substitutes. All druggists, or we will prepay postage on any number ordered in the United StateB on receipt of 2oo. each. Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, N.Y. Mothers 1 MonitRS ! Mothers 1 How muny children are at this season feverish and constipated, with had stomach and headache. Mother Gray's Sweet Pow ders lor Children will always cure. If worms are present they will certainly remove them. At all druggusu, 2J its. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, I.eKoy, N. Y. 3-27 d4t The budding genius is very often nipped in the bud. O A & T O X t X A. . Bears tk ) Kind You Have Always Bought 1'he Markets. BLOOMSBURG MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY, RETAIL PR ICKS, Butter, per pound Eggs, per dozen Lard, per pound Ham, per pound Beef (quarter), per pound 26 16 "4 4 6 to 8 Wheat, per bushel I oo Oats. do 05 Rye, do 6o Flour per bbl 4 4 Hay, per ton 14 00 Potatoes, (new), per bushel I 00 Turnips, do 4 Tallow, per pound .1 Shoulder, do Side meat, do Vinegar, per qt Dried apples, per pound 06 10 12 2 3i 05 Cow hides, do Steer do do ....... Calf skin Sheep pelts Shelled corn, per bushel 80 75 82 Corn meat, cwt , 2 00 than, cwt I 4 Chop, cwt I 50 Middlings, cwt I 4 Chickens, per pound, new 12 do do old 10 Geese, do 1 2 J Ducks, do 12 do .'. 08 COAL, Number 6, delivered 3 50 do 4 and g delivered, , 4 40 do 6, at yard 315 do .4 and 5, at yard 4 25 Tlio Kind You llavo Alwnys Bought, nnd which lias been In uso for over 30 years, lias homo Iho signature of antl lias been matlo under Ills pcr fyT nonal supervision slneo Its Infancy rvj. ottcUAi Allow no ono to deceive you In this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-ns-jrood" nro but Experiments that triflo with and endanger tlio health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless subst'.lnto for Castor Oil, Paro poric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It Is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphino nor other Narcotlo Mihstauce. Its ago Is its guarantee. It destroys AVonu nnd nllays Peverishness. It cures Iiarrhtea nnd Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, eures Constipation nnd Flatulency. It assimilates the Pood, regulates tho Stomach and IJowcls, giving healthy and natural Bleep Tho Children's Panacea Tho Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS 7 Sears the The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THC OCMTAUn tfOMMMV, TV MURMV THCT, MCW VOMR OfTV. ALEXANDER MiUTllUiKS fc UU. DEALERS IN Cigars, Toticco Candies, Fruits and Huts SOLE AGENTS FOR Henry Mail lard's Fine Candies. Fresh Every Week. DPtTlT-S GOOJDS A SPECIALTT, SOLE AGENTS FOR F. F. Adams & Co's Fine Bole agents tor the Horiry Clay, Londros, Normal, Indian Princess, Samson, Silver At Bloomsburg Pa. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF CAlfcFET, MATTING, or OSffi CLOTH, YOU WILL FIND A NICE LINE AT Doos'aboe Court HoubC. A large lot of Window Curtains in stock. 800 STOCK HOGS For our Distillery Pens. Will pay 54 cents per pound tor gcbd thrifty shoats. Weight running FROM 75 TO 150 LBS. We are buying and will fill our pens as soon as possible, so any one who wants to avail themselves of this market should deliver their stock as soon as convenient, or communi cate with us at once. ROHR McHENRY & SON, Benton, Pa. IIook-"Thcre's lots of good fish in the sen," Nye--"There ouht to be, judging from the number of big ones I've heard about that got away." Ten cents will buy trial size of Kly's Cream Balm; enough to convince you lhat it is the greatest of remedies for nasal catarrh or cold in the head. Full size 50 cents. All druggists. We mail it. ELY ltKOS., 56 Warren St., New York. 153 Second Street, Albany, N. Y. Messrs. Ei.Y Hroh.i I nulTeied greatly with catarrh and tried difluient remedies without effect. After using one bottle of your Cream Halm I found relief and I can not praise too highly such a remedy. Sept. 27, 1899. Miss Cora VYillard. Signature of Cut Chewing Tobaceo following brands of Clgarr 20 Year of Vile Catarrh. Chas. O. Brown, journalist, of lJuluth, Minn., writes: I have been a sufTerer from Throat ami Nnsnl Catarrh for over 20 years, during which time my head has been stopped ( and my condition truly miserable. Within 15 minutes after usim Or. Agnew's Catarrh al l'owder I obtained relief. Three bottle have almost, if not entirely, cured me." Joe. Sold by C. A. Kleim. 37 It must be the spur of the moment that makes lime go so lusl. Ask your dealer for Allen's Foot-Easb. A powder for the feet. It cures Swollea, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Fert, Coins und Uunions. At all Druggists and hoe stores, 25c. Ask today. 3-27 dt
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