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THE COLUMBIAN.
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THE COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT,
Eiriii.isiiKr 1837. Consolidated 1869
Published Eveky Thursday Mokninc,
At Hlonmsliurg, the County Scat of
Coluinlii.i County, Pennsylvania.
CEO. E. E(.Wi:i.I,, Editor.
1). 1. TASKEK, Local Editor.
C.EO. C. KOAN, I ouumas.
Tkkmm tns'ule the county !? t.oo a year
n advance ; $1. Co if not paid in a lvance.
Outsi le the county, $ 1.25 a year, strictly in
Advance.
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THE COLUMBIAN, Ploomst.ur, Pa.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 19.
Political Announcements.
Subject to the Rules of the Demo
cratic Party.
Primary Election Saturday, June
6th, 3 to 7 p. m.
FOR SHERIFF
CHARLES B. ENT,
of Bloomsburg.
FOR SHERIFF
V. V. BLACK,
of Bloomsburg.
WASHINGTON.
i com our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, March 9, 1903.
The Fifty-seventh Congress expired
precisely at noon on the 4th. of March,
after several night sessions anil a vain
attempt on the part of the republicans
to enact two important measures in
t-hc closing hours of the session. The
Aldrxh currency bill, which was in
troduced and reported to the Senate
at the eleventh hour was defeated by
the democrats because they held that
it had not been debated sufficiently
and the Philippine tariff bill met with
the same fate. The latter measure as
it passed the House would have, it is
admitted, accomplished some good
j and have afforded needed relief to the
inipinos, out as amenuea oy tne
Senate eommittee would have failed
of the purpose tor which itwasintene
ed. The House granted a reduction
of 75 per cent from the Dingley rates
on all imports from the Philippines
but the republicans in the Senate pro
tested against so liberal a reduction
and amended the bill to provide for
but 50 per cent reduction on sugar
and tobacco and admit all other goods
free of duty. As sugar and tobacco
are how-ever, the only products which
the Philippines can export to this
country the emptiness of the amend
ment is apparent.
Throughout the latter part of the
short session there has been the ut
most bitterness and partisan feeling
between the two parties in the Senate
and House. This was produced in
the Senate by the long filibuster con
ducted by a minority of the repub
licans against the Statehood bill and
in the House by the democrats, be
cause of the unwananted unseating
of Representative Butler of Missouri
in favor of Mr. Waganer of the same
district. Mr. Butler was elected by
6,300 majority but because of certain
election frauds the republican majority
threw out enough votes to seat the
republican asoirant for his seat. At
times the feeling in the House ran so
strong that it was only by the exercise
of extreme watchfulness on the Dart of
the cooler headed members of both
parties that personal violence was a
voided.
After long night sessions in both
nouses, congress met for its last ses
sion at 10 o'clock on the morninor of
the 4th. All the important business
had been conducted the night before
and the senate was treated to two
scathing arraignments of the republi
can party by republican senators.
Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts took oc
casion to point out that the failure of
the Philippine tariff bill demonstrated
that this government had erred in at-
tempting to legislate for the Philippine
1 Islands, that neither Hotu; nor Sen
ate was large enough to rise above
partisan and selfish purposes and leg
islate for another and alien people and
that he hoped the members of his party
would learn the lesson and relinquish
their attempt to govern a people "with
out the consent of the governed.
Senator Mason, delivering his fare
well speech in the Senate, dwelt on
the failure of the Statehood bill, the
long republican filibuster and the
coercion of the Filipinos. He hoped
the republicans would learn the lesson
before it was too late and would re
cord freedom to inhabitants of our
insular possessions. Summing up,
amid ureat laughter, Mr. Mason said.
"The Statehood bill goes floating out
on the Panama canal. The Aldnch
bill is a chief mourner. The Philip
pine bill is one of the victims of the
slaughter. The pure food biil and the
pure drink bill, in mourning and des
pair go down to the gloom all marked
for thd dead house because the Senate
of the United States is afraid to truit
its own majority to do business."
A veto most crediiable to the Pre
sident, but chiefly remarkable because
it dssclosed the nature of a bill which
had passed both houses of Congress,
was received during the dosing hours
of the session. This bill restored to
the rank of Captain of -Infantry one
Edward Bailey-and placed him on the
retired list where he would receive the
pay of a tetired Captain for the rest of
his days. Mr. Roosevelt's veto dis
closed the fact that Captain Bailey
during his career as an officer of the
army had been cou-tmartialed seven
times. He had been convicted of al
most every violation of the regulations
of which an officer could be cuiltv.
He had on one occasion been dis
missed from the service and his sen.
tence commuted by executive clemency
He harl finailv been convicted ot
drunkenness and embezzlement and
dismissed and yet Congress had vot
ed to restore him to full rank. The
bill was introduced in the Senate by
Senator Burnham of New Hampshire
and favorably reported by Senator
Scott of West Virginia. As Congress
is in the Inbtt of accepting the verdict
of its committees without much in
vestigation the responsibility rests
chiefly on the senators named.
The Senate meets tortay to ratify
the Cuban and Panama treaties. Sen
ator Morgan still persists in his oppo
sition to the latter and told your cor
respondent today that he would op
pose it in its present form as long as
his physical endurance lasted, As the
remaining sessions of the Senate will
be secret, news with regard to the
proceedings will be gathered with
great difficulty but the test of endur
ance which Senator Morgan has set
himself promises to prove most inter
esting Ir is not btlieved that any
other senator shares Senator Morgan's
apprehension ot the results of ratifying
the Panama convention.
Among the new senators sworn in
today wes Senator Gorman of Mary-
Asth
ma
"One of my daughters had a
terrible case of asthma. We tried
almost everything, but without re
lief. We then tried Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral, and three and one-half
bottles cured her." Emma Jane
Entsminger, Langsville. O.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
certainlycuresmany cases
of asthma.
And it cures bronchitis,
hoarseness, weak lungs,
whooping-cough, croup,
winter coughs, night
coughs, and hard colds.
Tbrta iIim 1 25c, SOc, II All drojxUU.
Conault your doctor. If ha iayi Ulta It.
than do at ha iayi. If ba UU 70a not
to ukf It, than don't Ufca It. Ha know.
lH It with talm. Wa ara willing.
J. 0. AV JCR CO., Lowell, Half.
land, who resumes his old place in the
Senate having already selected the
chair on the democratic side of the
chamber which he occupied when for
merly a member of the Senate. (1 teat
things are expected as a result c( Mr.
Gorman's return. It is believed that
he will be accorded his o'd place as
democratic leader, a position never
adequately filled since Mr. Gorman
left the Senate. The greatest weak
ness of the democrats in the Senate
during recent sessions has been the
lack of competent leadership and all
express the belief that in this respect
he will prove the Moses of his party
Mr. Gorman said today to your cor
respondent that he did not believe
that any legislation by the House
would be necessary to the carrying in
to effect of the provisions of the Cuban
treaty. He held that the President
and the Senate possessed full power
to effert a treaty of any description
without the consent of the House
He said he would be glad to see the
case settled in the courts but had no
doubt as to the decision which would
be rendered if the Supreme Court were
to pass upon it..
P1G8 DIED FROM HYDROPHOBIA.
A few week ago there appeared
in these columns nn article about a
mad dog in Mifflin township having
bitten numerous cattle and hogs.
The sequel to this is that V. II.
Miller of Mifflinville has lost three
shoats from hydrophobia. One
died last Friday and one on Satur
day, and he shot the third on Sat
urday evening. These and four
others were all in one pen when the
first one was seized, and he doesn't
know whether they were all bitten
bv the dog, or whether some of the
pigs were bitten by the others, nor
whether the four still livine were
bitten at all. As yet they show no
symptoms, but there is a very un
pleasant uncertainty about the
matter that Mr. Miller does not en
joy Thepigsthat went mad would
stand on their hind legs and snap
their jaws and froth at the mouth.
Mr. Miller S3ys he does not know
whit to do with the four living
hogs. They are apparently nil
right, but he does not want to fit
ten them, because, if they' were bit
ten, there is no telling when they
might be attacked by the disease.
They will weigh about 125 pounds
apiece, and he does not want to lose
them. He was in town on Tuesday
and called on the county commis
sioners, but they had no jurisdiction
in the case. He also called upon
the Board of Health, but they could
do nothing.
1 he remedy for losses of th's
kind is in the act of Assembly of
1 00 1 which provides that the funds
raised by the taxation of dogs, as
provided by the act of the General
Assembly, entitled An act for the
taxation of dogs and the protection
of sheep,' approved the twenty-fifth
day ot May 1893, in addition to the
application thereof for the payment
of losses by the destruction and dam
ages to sheep, be applied for horses,
mules, cattle and swine bitten by
mad dog or mad dogs, and des
troyed or necessary to be destroyed
by reason thereof. Said damages
shall be acertained and recovered in
the same manner as provided by
sections three, four and five of said
act: Provided, That in no casesli3ll
the value of each horse or mule ex
ceed $100.00. the value of each head
of cattle, $4.0.00, and each head of
swine, $6.00.
The sections referred to provide
that the person suffering loss may
complain to a Justice in writing,
stating when, where and how such
damage was done, and by whose
dog if known. The justice shall
notify the auditors who shall de
termine the damage and report to
the justice, who shall make out a
cetificate, and deliver the same to
the claimant to be delivered to the
commissioners. The latter on re
ceiving the report shall draw their
order on the treasurer for the a
mount of damages reported, to be
paid out of the dog tax.
Evangelical Appointments.
The Central Pennsylvania Confer
ence of the Evangelical Church has
made the following appointments for
this district.
I.ewisburg, J. W. Thompson; Mil
ton, J. D. Snortessj Milton Circuit,
J. A. Foss; Muncy Valley, J O. Biggs;
Dushore, W. J. Campbelh, Lopez, J.
F. Hower; Danville, E. B Dunn;
Bloomsburg, J. Shambachs Espy, W.
H. Stover; Waller, W. A. Faus; Col
umbia, J. R. Sechrist; Berwick, H.
W. Buck; Beiwick Mission, E. E.
Shaffer; Nescopeck, D. F. Young;
Luzerne, E. L. Kesslerj Zions Grove,
A. Minsker; West Nanticoke, H. R.
Wilkes; Ransom, B. F. Keller; Scran
ton, W. I. Shambaugh; Susquehanna,
F. F. Myer; West Clifford, H. W.
Thomas. '
A. L. Reeser, I. M. Pines, W. P.
Thomas, members of Lewisburg quar
terly conference.
Steelton's lady basket ball team
will play the Normal girls in the
"gym" Saturday afternoon.
Spring Humors
Como to most people and cause many
troubles, pimple, boils and other
eruption!!, besides loss of npprtito,
that tired feeling, ills of biliousness,
indigestion and headache.
Tho sooner ono gets rid of thorn tho
better, and tho way to get rid of them
and to build up tho system that bus
suffered from them is to tako
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and Pills
Forming in comblnafion the Spring
Mcdieino par excellence, ot unequalled
strength In purifying tho blood as
shown by unequalled, radical and per
manent cures of
Scrofula Salt Rheum
Scald Head Bolls, Pimples
All Kind of Humor Psoriasis
Blood Poisoning Rheumatism
Catarrh Dyspepsia, Etc
Accept no substitute, but bo sure to
get Hood's, and get it today.
THAT CATaWISSA OABE-
The case against E. I). Tewksbury,
charged with violating the election
laws of the state by distributing
whiskey to voters on election day was
heard befote Squire Jacoby Saturday
morning. The infraction was sup
posed to have been committed at the
Three Points Hotel in Catawissi
township on the fourth day of Novem
ber last. The prosecutor was Jacob
M. Craig, a private detective, in the
employ of the Indianapolis Detective
Agency. He was represented in the
procei dings by R. R. John while John
G. Harman was counsel for the De
fendant. Testimony was given by George
Derr, Edward Fisher, George Murray,
Henry Fox, David Hower, William
Kum, Michael FetUrolf, and the
pros-eciitor.
Derr swote that Tewksbury had
given whiskey to all the witnesses in
the case, and that he himself had
drank from the bottle. His story,
however was flatly contradicted by
the other witnesses. They not only
didn't drink from the bottle, but had
not seen any liquor about the place.
In disposing ol the case, the justice
said "it may he that the one witness
toid the truth ar.d the other five lied,
but I am going to take the broader
view of it, and believe the evidence f
the five. The defendant is therefore
discharged.'
It is rumored that an action for
perjury will be brought, and that the
prosecutor, with that purpose in view,
is now gathering additional testimony.
Trolley (Jo- Will tfegia Woik Ktxt Vk
The Trolley company will begin
the work of laying its tracks across
the river bridge at Catawissa next
week. The material, or a good
portion of it, is already on the
ground, and the extension of the
line will now be only a matter of a
short time. "It can't come too
soon" said a resident of our neigh
boring town on Tuesday. Even in
its unfinished condition, and com
pelled as our people are to cross the
bridge, traffic on this end of the
line has been big, but it has been
nothing to what it will be when the
cars once enter the town. Con
siderable dissatisfaction is expressed
however over the excessive fare.
Ten cents to ride from the bridge to
Bloomsburg seems pretty steep.
Of course when the cars once get
across the bridge the fare will be
quite reasonable and I don't think
our people will offer any objection."
T. he situation at the other end of
the line according to one of the
officials of the road is unchanged.
If the road is to be built into Nesco
peck, the people of that town, he
says must change their attitude.
They appear to want the conve
nience, but are unwilling to make
any concessions. They insist on
taxing the poles, they want the
girder rail, and other things which
mean a great deal. Concluding, he
said "when the people of Nescopeck
make up their minds to show the
proper spirit in the matter they can
have the road, ut we don't pro
pose to force it upon them."
Wbat is a Melodrama?
A great many people labor under
the delusion that a melodrama is a
play that must be full of "blood
and thunder" before it can be
designated by that title. This is a
mistake. A melodrama is a drama
iu which music plays an important
figure and adds much to the beauty
of certain scenes. In "When the
Bell Tolls" there is an absence of
sensationalism and its place is sup
plied by a romantic story, full ol
heart throbs and intensely inter
esting. The field that the play
wright has entered is a novel one,
and around the historic and quaint
ly picturesque walls of the Monast-
ry ot bt. Bernard is located tne
charming play ''When the Bell
Tolls." It will be seen at the
Opera House next Saturday night.
BIG REDUCTIONS
IN ALL
SUITS AND
ara
a
Townsencfs
FASHIONABLE
CLOTHING HOUSE.
New
Of Every Kind
At no time this Spring can you find such a big as
sortment of Merchandise of every kind to pick from as
now. Our different lines have been selected with care
from first hands and we can say without fear of contra
diction that we can show you the choicest general line" in
Central Pennsylvania.
Seersuckers.
We put on sale this week one case of seersuckers, regular 12J
cent qualities in short pieces.
per yard.
Bleached and Unbleached Muslin.
There has been quite an advance in all Cotton Goods in the
last month, but we have quite a stock of muslin on hand and will
give our customers the advantage of the old price this week.
10 yards ot Unbleached Muslin at 50c., worth today 7c. yard
10 " " Heavy "
10 " " Bleached
10 " ' "
New Wrappers for Spring.
Black and White, Gray, Red. Blue and any color you may
want in wrappers for spring. You know the kind we" sell, the
ones that are made full, fit as nice, and are made as well as you
could do it yourself. Price 75c, 89c, 98c, $1.25, $1.39 and $1.40
Window Shades.
Most any color and at any
price. You will find a saving if
you buy them at this store.
Price 10 cents a piece to $1.00.
Suit Cases and Tele
scopes. Suit Cases 1.40, 1.50,4.00,4.25
and 7.50.
Telescopes, 65, 75, 80, 85, 90
and 98c.
Go-Carts.
We handle the two best makes of Go-Carts. We have never
shown so big an assortment and you will be pleased the way
they are priced, $6.98 to $28.00.
Special sale of Lace Curtains will begin next week.
F. P. Pursel.
They are still boring for oil in
Bradford county. One well iu
Asylum township is down 1650
feet, and of course the drillers say
that there is every indication of oil.
Should they fail in striking petro
leum some where in the earth, we
would advise them to keep on
boring until they reach the Pacific
Ocean, and they may striks whale
oil.
WINTER
OVERCOATS
AT
op Sppfrj
We wil sell them this week at 10c
" " 69c., " " 9c. "
" ' 66c., " " 8c. "
" as sfood as Hill's at 7c.
Mattresses and Springs
We handle nothing but the
best makes.
Mattresses, 2.50, 3.50, 4.00,
5.50, 6.50, 8.00 and $12.00.
Springs, 2.00. 2.50, 3.00, 3.75.
4.50 to $7.50.
White Enameled
Beds.
2.75 to $18.00 each.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature of 2fa&ffl&&&
Try The Columbian a year.