8 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. THURSDAY, OCTOBSR S. t. ARGUMENT C00RT- Ctfttidertble Buint Betore Regular Octo ber Setion. Regular monthly argument court convened Monday morning at ten o'clock, ith all the judges present Before any business had been trans acted Judge Little took occasion to pay a high tribute to the Lie Chief Justice J. Brewster McCollum whose death occurred on Sunday. He spoke ot hini in the most glowing terms. It is no surprise he saul tnat he was so profoundly respected. He was an able jurist and his life was an exemplary one, and inspired esteem. In closing he expressed the sorrow of the court ai his death. V. H. Rhawn. Esq. also made ter remarks concerning the death of Chief Justice McCollum. He referred to the time that he held Court here, especially presiding for President Judge Elwell, and recalled the trial and argument of cases before him, his bich degree of courtesy and kindly consideration. Mr. Rhawn spoke of him as belonging to that class ot great lawyers and judges that are bowing to the ravages of time the tlwells, Woodwards and others. His life and character is worthy of emulation, and will leave an influence for good. Petition ot the Almedia Mining Company to set aside summons served on them, as same was intended for service upon Almedia Mining Com pany, two different corporations. Bond of Haines Yost, administrator of the estate ot &isan Glassmeyer, late of Cleveland township, approved. Ordered and decreed that charter for Franklin Band be approved, on prayer of corpotatton through C- E. atreisher. Esq , on recommendation of Colonel John G. Freeze, examiner. Order made for twenty four grand jurors, forty-eight petit and traverse jurors for first week, and for thirty six traverse jurors for second week of December court, the pent jurors for the first week to be in court at ten o'clock on Tuesday morning of the first week. H. Mont. Smith presented petition of Anna M. Skeer, guardian of Joseph Skecr, praying authority to pay for the support, maintenance and edu cation cf her ward the sum ot $joo, which would make an annual allow ance of $900. "-i Bond of H. N. Luiz, in the sum of $500, as guardian oi John Ashleman, approved. William C. Johnston, Esq , present ed petition of Maude Confer and Doyle Confer, minors, or the appoint ment of guardian. Frank Heller ap pointed and bond of $200 approved. Supplemental report, by master, William C. Jchnston, Esq., in the divorce case of Seybert vs. Seybert, for adultery, recommending decree of divorce. Decree made accordingly. Preliminary injunction granted on prayer of Louisa Small against Jacob Carl, to s:ay the defendant's digging of ditch, causing water to flood plain tiffs land. Hearing to dissolve same set for Monday, October 19, kt ten o'clock a. ra. Argument upon the exceptions made to the report of viewers in tavor of a new road in Cleveland township. C. A. Small, Esq , argued in favor of the exceptions, while C J. Fisher, Esq , upheld the viewers' re port Petition of Edna AvenlL a minor child over fourteen years of age, for appointment of her brother, Charles S. Averill, of Vi!kes-Birre, as guardi an. Prayer granted and appointment made, with bond in the sura of $100. Report ot sale of real estate of Daniel S. Kitchen, deceased, con aimed absolute. G. M. Tustin, Esq., presented peti tion of R. R. Little, testamentary guardian of his minor child, Josiah T. Little, for authority to sell strip of ward's land to the Susquehanna, Bloomsburg & Berwick Ra-lroaJ. Petition granted and sale ordered as pmed for. S. B. Kiir.s, Ff q , moved that the license of Oscar Sutton, who has been WE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS mSUCSTTTUTE jllll Bilious? Dizzy? Headache? Pain back of your eyes? It's your liver! Use Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black T Use Buckingham's Dye SOctt.cttfruf (' R. P. HtUltCo., Nttfcvi N.H proprietor of the Exchange Hotel in Bent.m, be transferred to Howard Hile. Motion granted. In the matter of the petition of Samuel Knecht and William Hosier, supervisors of Mifflin township for the granting of a grade crossing over the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's tracks at south end of the new river bridge at Mifflin. L. E. Waller one of the counsel for the Railroad Com pany moved that the petition be thrown out by the Court on the ground that the petitioner were part ies to the injunction now in force, The motion, however, was overruled. In the respondents answer it is claimed that it is notihe supervisors duty to build said road, that the peti lion was not brought under the act of June t, 1902, and states that the re spondents had offered $1,200 toward making overhead crossing. Defendant denied that it is the natural and convenient manner of crossing tracks to have grade crossing; denied f reat difficulties to construct overhead crossing, and also that such overhead crossing would involve an excessive burden of expense on the township. At the conclusion of the reading of the answer Mr. alier stated that the ofTer made by the Railroad Company to give $12,000 toward making an overhead crossing had never been withdrawn. Several witnesses were called by the petitioners which served to show the desirability of a grade crossing. In his testimony Dr. V. Hower, stated that it would be difficult to conceive ot a grade crossing less dargerous than the one prayed for in this in stance. All the freight trains run at knight while nearly all the travel is by- da v. The matter was laid over. It will be taken up again today. Petition ot Toor Overseers of Borough of Berwick to compel the childieo and grandchildren oi Samuel Schweppenheiser to support him. It was recommended that the four sons and four grandsons of said Samuel Schweppenheiser and wife should pay the sum of $20 per month, according to the recommendation of C- C. Evans, Esq., attorney for petitioners. in such proportions as were set forth in said recommendation. Petition granted and recommendation as to parties and proposition of payment accepted by court. The Court awarded citation on I. W. McKelvy, on petition of executors of Martha McKelvy, deceased, and Hattie C. Ru'.ter, for a citation in re estate of Will'am McKelvy, deceased. The committment of arren Bloom in the Oyer and Terminer, Mas trans ferred to the Quarter Sessions. At this juncture Col Freeze ad dressed the Court and membets of the Bar on the death of the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, J. Brewster McCollum. He said: I am under obligation to the Court and also to the courtesy of the mem bers of the bar for leave to say a few words this morning in commemoration of the Honorable J. Brewster Mc Collum, late Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Judge McCollum was born about the year 1S32 or '3 m the county of Susquehanna, in the state of Pennsyl vania, and passed almost all his lite within its borders. He studied law and was prepared for admission to the bar under Mr. R. B. Little, one of the members of a family ot great lawyers; and in addi. f.on to the instructions that be receiv ed from his preceptor.-he was aided by great natural abilities. The Goddess of Oood Luc pre sided at his birth, and the concatena tion cf circunisiai ces whicn has en abled Judge McCollum to rise from the bar to the highest place in the judiciary ot Penns)Kania is a iif.'e curious. He was admitted to the bar about the ear 1 $5 5 and practiced in the county cf Susquehanna where he was admitted, until his elevation to the bench. And i; is one ot the curious facts of which I shall meution'sevcral that he was nominated for the bench and elected in a county largely Re publican, beirg himself, however, a Democrat of me old school. While upon the bench of the county oi Susquehanna and the district to which it belonged, we came to be ac quainted with him here in Co'.urob.a county, because upon several occas ions during the lime when Jude Elwell was in ill health, Judge Mc Collum was called here to pieside over our Com is All the members of the bar who were in attendance upon those sessions cannot help but re member, and must have been struck at the time by the urbanity and quiet THE COLUMBIAN, with which he maintained order, and 1 : I I 1 -.1 . . ... .re. ' laiiicu lurwaru wunoui a jar or Uiin culty, the general business of the Court. All the cases that were tried, in some of which I had the honor to have a part, were tried with equal care and judgment. And we were much impressed by the fact of the g-eat knowledge of the law which Judge McCollum exhibited, his ability to grasp a point as soon as it was stated to him, and the knowledge of the law that he possessed in the application of it to any case that came before him. In some of these cases, otie in pa t c ular,l remember the President Judge ot this Court was one of the trial lawyers upon the other side. I do not think I ought to have any hesitancy in say ing that I was beaten in the case. Another case that I tried before him, which was one of very consider able importance, was not decided by Judge McCollum until three or four days beiore he took his seat upon the Supreme Bench. It is a little curious in another mat ter, to show that the Goddess ot Good Luck was always with Judge Mc Collum, tha: Ins term upon the bench in Susquehanna county expired about the time that there happened to be an election of a Justice of the Supreme Court. We all know that the constitution and the laws of the State of Pennsyl vania were such that when there was but one judyje to be elected, as the condition of politics is at present, the Republican candidate was sure of an election. But Judge McCollum's friends in the upper end ot the State had rallied to his support and were in sisting very strongly upon tiis nomina tion to that office, although at the time it was impossible in the ordinary current of events to elect him. I had the honor of being a member of the convention which nominated L W;, l'me; Whev We boarded the train here at Bloomsburs we touml it tilled with delegates and friends ot Judge McCollum from the upper end of the State. It happened, however, that not very long before the occasion of which I am .... -- "i nis prouacicu 111 neami, oeen caiieil here to hold Court, with whom we j were extremely pleased; a man ofless polished manners, perhaps, than Judge McCollum, of some more apparent torce ot character ana speech, but a good lawyer who tried cases remark ably welL I allude to Judge Bucher, of Un;on county. When it came to be ascertained by an interchange of views between the gentlemen from the northeast and our selves that Judge Bucher was our can didate, the leader of the forces of Judge McCollum came to me and said- uIf you gentlemen are in favor of Judge Bucher and it should happen that Judge Bucher retires from the contest or cannot oiawc iac nom.na-j lion, we would be glad if they would him, afier consulting our friends in the differeit cars, that we would do so very gladly; that we knew him quite M efore we got to Hamburg where the convention was being held, word came to " by some nyrssenger that Judge Bucher had concluded to retire from the contest, mainly because as IUW VVU""VU uw ay " u but one candidate was to be elected to the Supreme Bench, he would of course be the candidate of the dom inant party, and there was no chance for a Democrat )r a uemocrau Judge McCollum, however, through hie fnn?c cfrwvl fit th rintct anA I with a little work on the part of his friends, was nominated and he went upon the ticket That was another evidence of the fact that the Goddess of Good Luck was with the Judge. It happened, as another fact in con nection with the matter, that Judze Trunkey, who was at that time in Eutope for his health, died during the campaign. The result of that death was that there were two vacancies to be filled, and as no man could vote in a case of that kind for more thanonr, thereby Judge McCollum's election was as sure as that of Judge Mitchell. When the vote was counted of course that was the result and Jude McCol lum went upon the Supreme Bench. Anohter curious fact was, thtt under the law, when two judges are elected at the s.me time to the Sjpreme Bench, they drew lots for the right to tak the oldest dated commission and to have the first Chief Justiceship, and in that, as in all his l.te before, Judge McCollum drew the lot and was en titled, by virtue of that, to the first Chief Justiceship when his turn came although he was elected at the same time with Judge Mitchell In that wav he came to be upon the Supreme Bench, and came to be Chief Justice. I don't know that I need to say with how much care and judgment and leil knowledge and gentlemanly and kind! manners toward all mem bers of the bar who practiced before him. Judge McCol'um conducted the affairs of that Court during the time when he was Chief Justice. But bis legal skill, his urbanity, all that goes to make up a judge, and a good judge, belanged to Judge McCollum. BLOOMSBURG, The history of his life is, therefore, one that has a great many features in it; things that could not have happen ed to anybody, except for the appar. ently fortuitous incidents that were connected with them and immediately preceded the Judge's advancement. It is inpossible to say what may have been '.he reason for al these happenings, and we can only suppose that in the ways of inscrutable Provt. dence sou.ething was known of Judge McCollum. of his own psychological influence over all men who ever came in contact with him that naturally turned them toward him, and that the death of Judge Trunkey was, perhaps, the crowning point of his career. Whatever we may think, however, and whatever we may say, one thing is certain: that Juiije McCollum won hs honors fairly and wore them well. W. H. Rhawn: Gentlemen of the Bar: At this lime and upon this occa sion I oiler the following resolution: That a committee of the meebers of the bar of this judicial district be ap pointed to draft appropriate resolu tions to be spread upon the minutes of this Court, and to be conveyed to the family of Chiet Justice McCollum, deceased. l A. Small, Esq , seconded this motion, which carried. The Court then appointed William H. Rhawn, Colonel John G. Freeze and C. A. Small, to draw up proper resolutions. Petition of Anna M. Skeer for further allawance of $300 for the sup port, maintenance and education of her ward, Joseph Skeer; granted, and order made accordingly. Argument in the case of Ada Scott vs. Harvey Call and Jennie Carl. Judgment was entered upon a bond in mortgage, and execution issued thereon, the defendants in bond being bound to have property in question mortgage, with a collection fee a! eJ as of mo of , insured, oesiae the usual bond in How- part of mortgage of ten per cent. The contention was over the payment of the costs of execution and sale, amounting to about $75 or $too, and over the payment of attorney's fee of 535.00 to C. A. bmad, Esq., who trom Ada Scott to himself. The Court took the matter under consideration. The petition of M. A. Bibby, guar dian, vs. H. R. Grimef. deceased, was a(,jspate over an attornev-s fee of $6s,77 now ln hands of Shiflr exceptions to Auditor s report in the estate of Abram Whitner. deceas ed, which was confirmed nisi on Sep tember 71b, was argued. Motion by Hon. William Chrisman to quash indictmer t against John Hams and Henry Deighmiller, Sup I ervisors ct Hemlock township, for non repair of road, leading from the Red Rock Bridge to Mordansville. because the indictment failed tc con clude to the common nuisance of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsvlvania in th,. Little took the Mr- Benjamin Chapia as President Lincoln- Normal Aditorilm OD Mon. even; in a kndid , of President Uncofn. Thi . DQ mere caricaturet It U stud fc a thoughtful student of biography. Mr. Chapin's work is of the highest order, ab sorbingly . interesting and deeply j impresr.tve. lo impersonate satistactoruy a popular historic rrf . f m character has been great actors since the I inception ot the histrionic art. 1 Irving recently failed in the role of i Napoleon, and never has an historic character of America been portray . c . ed in anything like a satisiactory manner, except merely in make-up. But after many years of conscien tious research aud careful prepara tion. Benjamin Chapin, of New ors City, has succeeded in im personating a character which is probably the greatest and mot difficult among the historic charac ters of America Abraham Linco.n, STORY OLCAL- Dtsemtrvd by Dr. Divltf Ktnntdy Only kionty nimtsy aou tnaer buaraniea. Dr. Drid Kennedr wm born in Kew York Citr, tut t n tr!y g La Uuiilv cjoved to Eoxburr. K. T. He .t prajiuit'l in 1 60 trm ibe JCew Vcrk Cvlle,: ct ThyiciM sd Saiyeotid. 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We can oner a small block of "Yreka" at 171 cents per share. We Buy and Sell all and can doubtless save DENT & SHARPLESS, First National Bank Bldg. Both 'Phones. Divorce Wu Hot Show's Kenitrfis We have been requested to con tradict the report printed in a local contemporary which stated that "Outhe Trail ' which appeared in Bloomsburg Monday night was closed because of domestic troubles. Such was not the case. The show was called in simply because it was not making any mouey for its own ers. Mr. Peck, who was here with the Company, is a part owner. In conversation with the Coixmbian representative Monday afternoon, he stated that he had received word from Leon Washburn, the other half owner, suggesting that he pay their people the salaries due them and close. He accordingly tele graphed Mr. Washburn for S500, and the money arrived by I'. S. Mxpress money order Tuesday morning. Mr. Peck left here at once to look alter his interests in other shows. It is true that Leon W. Wash bum's wife has instituted proceed ings for a divorce, and has attach ed the receipts of his No. 2 and 3 t'cc'.e Tom's Cabin Co's. at their future stands, but these proceedings had absolutely nothiug to do with the "On the Trail Co." neither have they any bearing on Mr Washburn's company which ap pears nere tomorrow eveuiug, it Leicg his No. 1 Company. The pomes belonging to " Ou ibe Trail" were left here to be picked up by Uncle Tom's Cabin Co. tomorrow. and a nnr !M a ivt OCKXXXXXXX0 One Hundred per cent, on Stock within six months, Unlisted Mining Stocks you money on any of them. BLOOMSBURG. PA. TO INVEST OR SPECULATE in stocki go to a reliable broker, S. GolJbe "n. ISew ork Consolidated Slock Exchan-e. lluyi and tells nck, bond and Orain. Cot- respondence invited. 0-10-4 W. H. TIOORE, MAIN' AND IRON' STREETS. Bl.OONfcBURG, P.. Our Fall and Winter SHOES are now in stock. By my careful watching the needs of the people in the shoe line I am able to furnish you with shoes for style, fit and service far above the ordinary shoe. Come in and let us Fit vou with a pair. V. H. MOORE, Cor. Main and Iron Su. BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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