THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA.
First Naitonal Bank,
Bloomsburg, Pa.
E. W. M. Low, President.
J. M. Stavcr, Vice President.
E. B. Tustin, Vice President.
E. F. Carpenter, Cashier.
The First National Bank
solicits a share of your busi
ness upon the basis of
Sound and Progressive
Banking, Liberal and Ac
curate Treatment.
Statement of Condition September 15, '02.
RESOURCES.
Loan .... $294, 144 47
U. S. Bonds , , , 50, coo 00
Hanking House . . . 27,56043
Stocks and Securities . , J8j.706.75
Cash & due from Banks & U.S. Tr. 109,217 53
Total
LIABILITIES,
Capital ,
Surplus .
Undivided Profits
Circulation .
Deposits ,
Total
$664,629.18
f 50,000.00
125,000 00
1 1,067.24
50,000.00
428,561.94
$664,629.18
THE COLUMBIAN.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
DISASTROUS MINE OAVE-IN.
FiVe Buildings Engulfed Thrilling Escape
ol 150 Men.
Established 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Every Thursday Morning,
At Bloomsliurg, the County Scat of
Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
GEO. E. EL WELL, Editor.
D. J.'TASKER, Local Editor.
GEO. C. KOAN, Foreman.
Terms t Inside the county $1.00 a year
in advance; $1.50 if not paid in advance.
Outside the county, f 1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
All communications should be addressed
THE COLUMBIAN, BloomsburR, Pa.
THURSDAY, JANUARYS. 1903.
Ikeler Defeats Mayne.
In its report of the proceedings ot
the State Legislature on Tuesday
the North American says:
Representative Fred T. Ikeler.of
Columbia, won the Democratic en
dorsement for Speaker in the caucus
of House Democrats Tuesday right
in the judiciary general committee
room, defeating Representative J
W. Mayne, of Lehigh, by a vote of
26 to 16. Ikeler had the support of
the members who objected to
Mayne's ultra-anti-fusion views and
of those subject to the influence of
State Chairman Creasy, who is par
sonally at odds with Mayne.
Colonel J. M. Guffey, who
was here to-day, announced that he
was taking no part in the Speaker
ship controversy, but the Mayne
people accuse him of having assist
ed Creasy in lining up members for
Ikeler. ' Guffey positively refused to
be interviewed on any political sub
ject.
State to Build New Bridge Over
Susquehanna.
Thi State Board of Property has
decided to build a new bridge over
the Susquehanna at Lewisburg, autho
rized by the Legislature of 1901
without delay, and the plans will be
drawn at once. The bridge will be
about 1,200 feet long and will be con
structed of steel with stone abut
merits.
The construction of this bridge has
been advocated for years and the bill
for its construction, which was passed
in 1 86 1, is the only one which puts
construction of a state bridge into the
hands of the Board of Property. The
other bridges have been built under
the directon of the Board of Public
Buildings and Grounds.
Recently the County Commission
-ers of Union and Northumberland
counties appeared before the Board
and urged the building of the bridge
over the Susquehanna.
The Board ot Public Buildings and
Grounds will let several bridge con
tracts during the coming year. . The
plans for some of them are being
drawn.
Puts Life into His Wooden Anns.
Writing better with a wooden hand
than most men can with their natural
hands, George Hunlock, of Danville,
has seemingly injected life into his
artifical arms.
When Hunlock lost both arms
years ago, while employed as a brake
man on the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western Railroad, he resolved that
this misfortune would not spoil his
life work. Then he accepted a posi
tion as watchman on the Railroad
street crossing, at Danville and a few
years later piocured two artificial arms
models of modern mechanism. By
the mere motion of his shoulder where
the arms were attached, he soon learn
ed to control the limbs first in simp!
motions and then in eating, lighting
his pipe and swinging a lantern.
Recently Hunlock attempted writ
ing. It was slow and tedious work, but
several days' practice soon gave his
penmanship character and finish.
Mr. Hunlock is still employed as
watchman at the Railroad street cross
ing. He is a genial, whole-sonled fel
low and has many friends.
of other officials made an examina
tion about 5 o'clock. They reported
that the settling had ceased. The
workings which caved were in the
uppermost of the worked out veins.
The timbers, it w explained by the
company officials, supported a thin
roof of rock, which in turn supported
strata of quicksand and gravel extend
ing to the surface. The timbers
rotted, the roof gave way and the
quicksand sifted through, carrying the
giavcl with it.
The water mains broke and a tor
rent of water poured through the
aperture and down a forty-five-foot
plane which has its heading just at
the point where the roof broke
through. Not until all that was above
the area of the old workings which
caved in had been sucked into the
opening and down the slope did the
settling cease. Fortunately for the
company, the surface ceased cracking
ninety-feet from the river bank. Had
it reached the river the mine would
have been drowned.
Aching Joints
In tlio fincrr, too?, t.rnia, and other
parts of i.he biviy, rtc Jeii.ta that aro
inflnmed r.nd mvo!! rt ly l-Vumnticm
thai rtei'l conOilion of tho blocd which
ftffocfs the i!-.uwl's uli.t.
Sulicrcra uivad to move, especially
after citlinr Ivr.is )o!g, and their
condition i.? ij. i.nly worse- in wet
weather.
"It hns bron n loni rinre wo hrire
ben without Itoixt'a m.-mpnrlllA. My
fatlirr thinks lia n;d not Jo without It.
Ho has Uccn tr.mi.Vd vith rtieunmtlsm
slnre ho wan ft buy, I'ttil Hood's Snrsapn
rlila Is t!ie only medicine ho can take that
will enaMo h:m to tttke his place In tsa
Mold." Mtss Ada Doty, Sidney, Iowa.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Remove the cause of rheumatism no
outward application can. Tako them.
The Columbia & Montour Elec
trie Railway Co. has received a new
snow sweeper of the Brill make.
One of the most disastrous cave-ins
that have occurred in the history of
Lackawanna Valley, took place at
the Eddy Creek Collierv. OIvDhant.
Friday afternoon.
About 3 o'clock a portentons rum
bling was heard, which gave the peo
ple warning. Families in the vicinity
urnedly vacated their houses, but
none too soon, for, a few minutes
later a large surface, nearly a block
in area, went down mto the working.
Five buildings including the O'Brien
Hotel were engulfed, sinking to a
depth of fifty feet, wheie they took
fire. The City fire department finally
extinguished the flames.
At 3 o'clock the settling began. At
3.30 it was no longer perceptible. In
he intervening half hour O Brten s
three-story 40x60 hotel, Mrs. Ann
Evans double dwelling adjoinirg it,
Mrs. Jane ckerly's double store
building across thi street, and a one
story barber shop next to it were a
tnpund of debris in the yawning pit,
with the uppermost part of the mound
forty feet below the surface. O'Brien's
hotel, which plunged first into the
openingvhas entirely disappeared. A
stove that was in the hotel kitchen
wa3 seen in the mine by a party of
mine officials who went to the edge
of the fall to observe its extent. The
vein that caved is 115 feet below tne
surface.
The settling' started in the street
just in front of the hotel property,
corner of Lackawanna and River
streets. It was first noticed by parties
standing on the hotel oorcn. The
brick street pave was seen to be work
ing and the telegraph poles and trees
along the curb were noticed to be
wobbling.
The cause was at once apparent
and the alarm given to all the neigh
borhood. Two sick eussts were re
moved from the hotel and taken two
blocks away to a private house. Some
attempt was made a saving the con
tents of the buildings, but the rapidly
increasing size of the opening in the
street put a stop to this and every
one fled from the neighborhood.
1 wenty minutes after the disturb
ance was nrst noticed the opening
had widened until it reached all the
way across the street and halfway
Deneath the OBnen hotel. Then
with a terrific crash the big hotel
pitched forward, turned completely
about and landed on its roof in the
bottom of the abyss.
An immense amount of earth from
an about the edge of the hotel- went
down with it and a moment later the
adjoining double dwelling of Mrs.
Evans fell over the edge and demol
ished itself on the ruins of the hotel,
The Ackerly double store building
and the Evans barber shop properties
slid into the chasm about the same
time, and piled themselves, broken
and twisted, on the other debris.
District Superintendent Bennett, of
the Delaware & Hudson Company,
went into the mine and with a party
Ex-Judge Isaao Kinney Krickbaum Dead.
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j Coughing
a
I in, oivrn nn tn die with
quick consumption. I then began
to use Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I
improved at once, and am. now In
perfect health." Chas. E. Hart
man, Gibbstown, N. Y.
It's too risky, playing
with your cough.
The first thing you
know it will be down
deep in your lungs and
the play will be over. Be
gin early with Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral and stop
the cough.
Three sizes t 2k., 50c., f I. All dniiflstt.
Coniult your doctor. If lie eye take It,
then (to a lie say.. If tin tulln you not
to take It, then don't take It. He kjiowe.
Lesvs It with him. We re wllllne.
J. O. AY Kit CO., Lowoll, Mass.
This highly respected neighbor
and citizen passed away peacefully
last Monday afternoon at half past
3 o'clock, aged 77 years, 10 mouths
and 1 2 days. He was widely known
through business transactions and
by reputation. But we knew him
in a higher sense. For forty-one
years we were his nearest neighbor,
and adjoined properties. His
mother, whose maideti name was
Anna Kinney, was married to Philip
K. Krickbaum March 24, 1824 and
died in October 1873; and the latter
died, Nov. 10, 1856. Six children
blessed this union Isaac K. Susan
C, Mary A., Samuel P., Margaret
and Klmira ; all of whom are de
ceased except Susan C. widow of
the late Peter La 11 bach, who was
born Sept. 30, 1826. The father
of the subject of this sketch was
bom in Montgomery County Nov.
i. 793 and was of German de
scent and came from Catawissa
township to Benton in the year
1B19, and 1820 built a cabin, and
cleared up the farm which the de
ceased inherited at the death of his
father. His educational opportu
nues were limited, but well 1111
proved, at tending: school at Canibra,
Catawissa and later the district
school, called "Cranberry Marsh,"
at Hamiline. He taught a district
school a term or two, served as
Justice of the Peace 17 consecutive
years, was elected Associate Judge
ot Columbia County in 1S77 in
which capacity he served five years
He was married to Miss Susannah
Drum, Feb. 22, 1866, and who died
in the Spring of 1898. The Judge
was a man of marked and decided
characterestics, and of irreproach
able character. . He had his pre
judices and favoritisms, and neves
minced words in the expression of
them. He was a very positive man,
and hence, it was but natural, that
he should encounter uegatives. He
was generous, charitable, benevo
lent and hospitable, and withal a
kind and obliging neighbor. He
was cue' of Benton's best and
staunchest citizens. He had high
ideals of life, and enjoyed himself
in all of its walks in which duty
and circumstances placed him.
He possessed the happy faculty
of presence of mind in times of
danger and excitement. He told
the writer, at the time it occurred,
during Molly McGuireism, as he
was returning from the coal region
market, to which be bad - taken a
load of produce, he was met and
halted, in a lonely and secluded
spot on the mountain, by a gang of
thugs, who demanded bis money.
The Judge said to them: "You
are such a fine looking set of boys,
and so well dressed, you certainly
don't want my money.'.' This
melted the thugs, and the leader
said: " I guess we'll let him go
Thus he thwarted the purpose of
the highwaymen.
He was always willing to lend a
helping hand to the poor and needy
Upon entering the sick room of the
dying man the last . Sunday of his
life, he said to us, "I am still with
you." To which we replied, "I
hope you will remain with us a
great while yet;" when he said,'"I
will accept it, if it is the Lord's
will." A more cheerful person at
death's door, it has never been our
privilege to witness. He gazed
over into eternity with the same
complacency as he would over the
ordinary affairs of daily life. He
was conscious to the last moment
and expected momentarily the end
His earthly career, though ended,
was exemplary and praiseworthy
nis virtues were of sterling quality
and worthy of imitation. While we
all hoped that be would . speedily
recover lrom the effects of his ex
perience with his team, a turn for
the worse terminated his life.
His industrious habits should be
an inspiration to all forms of em
ployees, as he helped his hired man
cut up about fourteen acres of corn
last fall.
J. C. W.
Judge Krickbamn served 011 the
bench as an associate judge, during
Judge Elwell's term. He com
manded the respect of the bar and
of the whole county. He was a
man of sterling worth and integrity,
and his loss is one that will be
generally felt. Unfortunately the
men of Judge Krickbaum's kind
are not so numerous as they used
to be.
The, funeral took place in Benton
this Thursday morning, at 10
o'clock, and was conducted by
Rev. Mr. Diggles, of St Gabriel's
church of which deceased was a
member.
DAD DV H
r 1 I 1 i
NEW
YEAR
HAPPY
NEW
YEAR
Retiring early Saturday evening
after a hard day's work at his trade,
that of a stonemason, in apparently
good health, Elias Sterner of Center
township, was stricken suddenly
during the night with peritonitis
and before morning dawned he was
dead. He was employed at Ber
wick.
You can find the nicest and largest
line of bibles, large and small in
Bloomsburg at Meicer s Drug and
Book Store.
BIG REDUCTIONS
IN ALL. WINTER
SUITS AND OVERCOATS
AT
Townseed's
FASHIONABLE
CLOTHING HOUSE.
nirn a
MTU B
YEAR
K2E2T3EEX2S2JC
HAPPY
NEW
YEAR
An Opportunity riot to be Slighted.
A Sale of Bed Spreads.
Domestic and
Housekeeping Goods.
To make this sale the buying benefit
it is intended for, we have cut loose from
profit in these important items. Look
about here and save money.
YARD WIDE COTTON.
10 yds. of good bleached muslin for
50c, worth 6c.
10 yds. of fine bleached muslin for
66c, worth 8c.
10 yds. of bleached muslin, as good
as Hill, for 75c.
10 yds. of unbleached muslin for 39c.
10 yds. of fine good unbleached mus
lin for 50c.
10 yds. of heavy thread unbleached
muslin for 69c.
Sheeting Muslins.
9- 4 unbleached sheetings at i 5c.
10- 4 unbleached sheetings at 18c.
Bleached Sheeting.
9- 4 Utica sheetings at 25c.
10- 4 " " 30c.
Sheets and Pillow Slips
Ready to Use.
9-4 bleached Pepperal sheets at 52c.
9- 4 bleached sheets.best quality, at 65c.
1 0- 4 bleached sheets, best quality, at
75C
9- 4 hemstitched bleached Utica sheets
' at 79c.
10- 4 bleached hemstitched Utica sheets
at 89c.
Bed spreads are always a safe pur
chase at a low price. Prices are lower
during this sale than you'll again see
them for a long time to come.
$1.25 bed spread at 95c.
$1.98 ' $1.69
$2.25 " " $1.98
$3 25 " " " $2.89
J2.6y " " " $2.49
The Outing Flannels. Flan
nelettes and Bates' Seer
suckers. Heavily stocked here, hence the price
pinch will be all the sharpen read. ;
Big assortment of outing flannels, best
makes, worth 10c. and 12c, at 8c.
40 pieces of flannelettes, worth 10c.,
at 6c.
. 15 and 17c. flannelettes reduced to
12xic.
, Bates' seersuckers in short lengths at
ioc., worth i2jc.j
The Bed Comforts must
also go
And these prices will make them go in
a hurry. If you can't use them this .
season buy them for next season. There's
good economy in it.
98c. comforts reduced to 75c.
$1.40 " " $1.25
$1.98 " " " $1.69
$2.50 " " " $2.19
A Big Bargain in Cambric
Embroidery and I nsertings.
This is a chance you can't afford to
miss. This big lot of cambric embroid
eries and insertings are at least one
third below their real value.
This Store Begins It's big January Sal$
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. 6, 1903,
What this Sale Means to You.
In the first place it means money saving. Such money
saving as is impossible atany other time of the year. There's
a plain business reason for it. We want this big stock reduced
before spring goods come in. It is also necessary that this stock
reduction should be made in a short time. Now, as there is
nothing in this world that will reduce stock quicker than re
duced prices, we have made these, reductions. Every depart
ment has been carefully gone through, and such liberal price
concessions made that you cannot fail to be impressed with the
importance of this event, The history of previous sales of this
sort has been, the store has been thronged with pleased purchas
' ers each of the twelve days of its continuance.
As this store is progressive, it's aim this timo is to put in
the shade all previous records. With your co-operation we shall
accomplish our object.
This Sale will close the night of January 19.
2T. IP. ZFTTZRSiEL.