8 THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG, PA. THUKSIi.W, NOVKMHI'.K i(, 190J. ODU OLUBBtKU 0FFER3- Arrangements) have been made whereby we can offer onr subscrib ers some leading publications at trrpfitlv reduced rates. Below are four different offers. Read them over: FIRST OKFIiR. Tiik Columbian for one year $1 00, nnd a 1 tirtniium we will ctve an Insurance Rilirv in the Pennsylvania Life and Acci dent Association o Philadelphia, good (or one year, fur 1 00 in cue or accident re suiting in death, or $5.00 a week (or dis ability. SECOND OFFER. The Columbian, -ft. 00 "New York World", Thricea week, fi.no Regular price of bot'i, f J.00 We will fend the two (or one year for f 1.60 THIRD OFFER. Ths Columbian, 'New York Tribune Farmer", f l.oo l.oo Regular price for both, f l.fo We will send the two (or one year for $1.25 FOURTH OFFER. Ths Columbian, "The Cosmopolitan Magazine", "The Twentieth Century Home", Regular price for the three $3.00 We will send the three publications for one year (or if 2.00 The New York Tiriee-a-Jl eei World contains six pages every issue, and as its name indicates, comes three times a week. It is too well known to need any intro duction. We offer it for a little over half the regular price. See our second offer. The New York Tribune Farmer is an illustrated weekly, and one of the beet of its class. It is full of valuable information to tillers of the soil. You can get it through our club for one-fourth its regular price. See third offer. The Cosmopolitan Magazine is known in every home. There are none better and few as good. The Twentieth Century Home is a new magazine published by the Cosmopolitan company in their beautiful building on the Hudson. It has many uew and striking feat ures, and aims at the same high standard as the Cosmopolitan. We have made an arrangement by which we are enabled to present you with this valuable publication for one year free. Read our fourth offer. Where can you get so much good reading matter for so little money? We cannot tell how long we will be able to continue these offers. Don't lose the opportunity, but send in your order now. All orders must be accompanied with the cash. Sample copiesof The Columbian, the World, and Iribune Farmer, will be sent on request. The Mag azines can be seen at this office. SeadiDg Seed To Farme.s- The agricultural department at Washington began its annual dis tribution of field and garden seeds to farmers all over the country. More than a thousand tons of seed, put up in 4.s, 000,000 packages, will be distributed at a cost to the Gov ernment of $270,000. Each member of congress is allowed 12,500 pack ages of garden seeds in five varie ties. In addition to this the de partment has an allowance of 700, 000 packages, which it sends to its correspondents through the country and to state experiment station, grange associations and weather bureaus. The distribution of seeds this year exceeds that of any other previous year. Porcupines are doing much dam age to the timber on the 20,000 acre tract owned by Colonel R. Bruce Ricketts, on North Mountain, and he has engaged skilled hunters to exterminate them. They cut the bark from the trees and kill them. In three days the hunters have kill ed twenty-one porcupines and one large catamount. THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure. THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE flit Good Pills Aycr's Pills .ire good pills. You know that. The best family laxative you can buy. Want your moustache cr beard a beautiful brown or rich black ? Use Buckingham's Dye lOctt.oldruggittior R. P. HaM & Co , N.ihut.N H DYING OPERATOR WIRC8 "I'M SHOT" Telegrapher Slain at Lonely Signal Tower Sent Mossagfl Before Murderer Finished Crime by Boa'ing Kim With a Bar. "I am shot; I am dying," Tina tragic message was received over New York Central the wire inthe Railroad offices at Jersey Shore Junction at 6.30 o'clock Thursday evening.. It came from Brown's tower, about three miles west of Jersey Shore, where William Clen denin, a telegraph operator, was stationed. A few minutes later a locomotive, with an operator and an armed crew aboard was speeding up the track toward the tower. Arrived there, the truth of the startling message was revealed. Lying on the floor of the tower, by the side of the telegraph instruments, was the dead body of Clcudenin. Not only had he been shot, but the murderer had made sure of his crime by battering his victim over the head with an iron bar, crushing in his skull, while Cleudenin was sending his last message. Robbery is believed to have been the motive. Clendeuin received j crimes. his month's pay that day aud the station kobbkd at clearfikld. money is missing. Robbers entered the passenger Twenty minutes before the mes- ' station of the Pennsylvania Rail sage from Clendeniu was received ' road at Clearfield last Saturday and at Jersey Shore Junction a freight j with nitro-glycerine blew open the train had passed Brown's tower and safe, but were frightened away be Cotiductor Witherall had entered ! fore securing any booty. The in the tower and registered. He saw a stranger there when he went in, but paid little attention to him, the man turning his head when With erall entered. Who he was or what he was doing there is not known, : but it seems probable that he is the man who committed the murder. The bullet struck the operator in thehad, and the nerve and pres-: the message while he was dying is remarkable After the shot had been fired and while the operator's stiffening fingers was ticking off the tragic message, the murderer evidently picked up the iron bar, which was found near the body, and pounded his victim over the head with it. The country in this viciuitv of of the scene of the crime is being scoured by scores of searchers for the murderer. It is believed he will be captured. Brown s tower, where Clendenin was stationed, is in Clinton County, near the bridge where the Beech Creek Division ot the New York Central crosses the river, about midway between Oak Grove and Youngdale. It is a farming com munity and there are no houses near the tower. Cleudenin was about 35 years old and unmarried. He lived with his mother and sister at Youngdale, about a mile west of the scene of the crime. OTHER RAILROADMEN ATTACKED. John Dalton, night watchman at the Philadelphia & Reading station at Girardville, was attacked at mid night last Friday night by four masked burglars and, at the pistol's poiut, was locked in a room while the desperadoes ransacked the place. The general belief is that these men are a part of a gang whose members killed Operator Clendenin at Jersey Shore and on the same night at tacked Operator Hafer at Allen wood. Operators aud railroad men are 111 constant fear of assault aud grave danger. Men whose work calls them near the lines at night have armed themselves for protec tion. John Dalton was making his rounds at Girardville and had absolutely no warniug when a re volver was shoved into his face and he found himself confronted by four men. All four men were arm ed and masks covered their faces. His hrst attempts at resistance were met with violeuce, and after being handled 111 a way that show' ed the determination and despera tion of his assailants, he was forced to give up the struggle and sur render to the robbers. The four men then led him forcibly to the rear of the station and thrust him into a room. Bind ing him hand aud foot, they turned the key in the lock and left him a prisoner while, they entered the front of the building and began to loot the the cash drawer of the ticket offiice and the messenger's department of the United States Express Company. Dalton's nerve returned to him as he heard the footpads in the room above him and knew that he was aloue. He began to work at THE COLUMBIAN, Ins bonds and soon had one hand free. The rest was easy. He knew that the robbers would be too intent upon their work to pay any attention to him, and so, work ing carefully at the window, he opened it and slipped out. lie dropped to the ground and started at full speed along the tracks to ward the town of Girardville, but the noise of Ins fall had been heard by the men in the station, and they started in pursuit. Dalton, however, was too fleet for them. Finding that their victim was escaping, one of the men stopped, and, drawing his re volver, fired two shots at the fugi' live. One of the bullets passed through Dalton's hat ; the other went through his sleeve, grazing Ins skin. It took only a few minutes for the watchman to reach the town, aud only a few minutes more for a posse to collect and return with him to the station, but the robbers were gone and 110 trace of them could be found. They had secured $15 from the cash drawer and three packages from the express room. A man named Patrick Brcunan was arrested on Saturday, and is held in the Pottsvule jail. The police propose to leave 110 stone unturned in this case for they believe that, in solving the mystery of Girardville, they will unearth the murder of Operator Clendeniu at Jersey Shore, and the assailaut of Operator Hafcr, at Allenwood. They unhesitatiugly express the opinion that these robberies are the work of a gang and that the plans of the desperados are leading them into this section as a field for their terior of the office was wrecked. AGENT AT ALLENWOOD ATTACKED. A masked man at 1 o'clock last Friday morning entered the Read ing station at Allenwood, greeted the operator with the stern com maud: Uet up; mand: "Get up; open all the keys," and enforced his demand at revolver's point. A threat of death caused Operator Murrell J. Hafer, who lives at Milton, to open the money drawer, a blow felled Hafer and chloroform placed him out of the way and likewise Benja min Jamison, who was asleep in the waiting room, thus giving the brutal desperado opportunity to escape. Hafer had received over the wire the startling message of Clendenin's tragic death and the iuformation that the murderer was speeding away from the scene of the bloody crime on a freight traiu, having left the New York Central at New berry Junction and boarded a traiu south. At 10 o'clock the Mont gomery operator wired Hafer of a man failing to leave a freight at Montgomery because the train was going too rapidly. When the train, No. 58, reached Allenwood the operator saw the man jump down and vanish in the darkness. Think ing perhaps the fellow was Clen denin s slayer and that He was bound for the Pennsylvania tracks. Hafer notified the proper authori ties, then resumed work. The young operator (Hafer is 23 years old) paid no attention to foot falls he heard at about 1 o'clock uutil he looked up into the coldly gleaming barrel of a deadly weapon aimed at him. The robber thrust the revolver into his face and ordered him instantly to go to the money drawer. From it the mask ed man took $21.89. Then with out warning he grasped Hafer by the throat, felled him with a power ful blow, gagged him, and chloro formed him, having first, however, drugged the sleeping lounger in the waiting room. Unable to "raise" Allenwood operators north and south dispatch ed the engines of freight No. 90, south bound, and No. 108 1, north bound, to the station. No. 90 got there first and the engine men found the operator and the lounger both unconscious on the floor. The gag removed, the unconscious operator was slowly brought to consciousness and to a remembrance of the terrible ordeal he had ex perienced. Detectives found $6.59 in nickles and pennies that the robber had dropped near a fence a short dis tance from the station. The direc tion taiceu Dy mm wnen lie lied is unknown, but a search was insti tuted near Catawissa when it was reported that a man of h's descrip' tion was seen there. A sioucn nat covered the upper part of the ruihau s face; a hand' kerchief the lower portion, so Ha fer could not describe his assail ant's features. The operator says, nowever, 1 u a 1 me robber was about 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighed about 150 pounds and was wearing a dark overcoat and light trousers. BLOOMSBURG, PA. HUE OUT ON BAIL. The Court Fixes the Amount at Flfteon Hundred Dollars. MRS. KREBS OUT OF DANGER On the strength ol the statements of Drs. Renn and Shmdel tha Mrs. Krebs was out of danger and would recover, Judge Savidge, this after noon, directed that Jacob Hite, the alleged perpetrator of the crime, be released from the county jail 011 bail tor his appearance for court. Attorneys Schaffer and Clement for the prisoner, made application to the court Monday morning to have their client released on bail under the act of Assembly passed in 1870. District Attorney Cum mings and his associate, Walter Shipman, objected. A petition for writ of habeas corpus was then presented and made returnable by the cowt immediately. Dr. P. H. Renn testified that he had seen Mrs. Krebs at the hospital at 11:30 o'clock at which tune he found her pulse to be 76, tempera ture normal and general condition very good, with no indications of constitutional disturbances. He stated that she was able to be up and walk around nnd that he con sidered her Out of danger. Dr. Will L. Shindel testified that he had just left the patient and that she was able to sit up and that her condition was such that he considered her entirely out of danger and that she would recover. In view of these statements At torney Shipman made no objections to the acceptance of bail, and the amount was fixed by the court at $1500, in addition to the $500 furuished on the other two charges. Geo. M. Conrad, Chris. A. Conrad and W. A. Riland were accepted as bail. Sunbury Daily, Nov. 23. THE MEW "XORK WORLD. Thrico-A-Weck Edition Read Wherever the English Language is Spolcon. The Thtice-a-Week World long ago established itself in public favor, and it is now recognized as the strongest publication of its kind in the United States. Advertisers and publishers seeking clubbing combinations and they know best universally testify to this. It is widely circulated in every Staie and Territory of the Union, and even in remote South Africa and on the eold fields in the deserts of Australia. These are the things that tell. Next year we have the Presi dential campaign, in which all Americans are deeply interested. Already the issues' are being dis cussed and the two great parties are preparing for the first moves. ou will not want to miss any deteils, and if you subscribe now vour year's subscription will cover the campaign from beginning to end. The Thnce-a-Week World is absolutely fair in its political news. Partisan bias is never allowed to affect is news columns, aud Demo crat and Republican alike can ob tain in its pages truthful accounts of all the great political contests. In addition to all the news, the Thrice-a-Week World furnishes the best serial fiction, elaborate market reports and other features of in terest. The Thrice-a-Wee World's re gular subscription price is only $1.00 per year, and this pays for 156 papers, we otter this un equalled newspaper and The Col umbian together one year for $1.60. The regular subscription price of the two papers is $2.00. tf. The Pabst Brewing Company, it is said, will erect a monster brew ery near Wilkes-Barre at a cost of 55,000,000. Over 3,000 meu will be employed. STORK OFJAL-CURA. Discovered by Dr. David Kennedy Only Kidney Remedy Sold Undor Guarantee. Dr. David Kennedy was born in New York City, but at an early age bis family moved toltoxbury, N.Y. lfu was graduated in 1860 f rom the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, lie at once volunteered as a surgeon uiul was twHigncd to the United States Army General Hospital in West Phil adelphia, and soon became President of the Examining liourd nnd Consulting Burgeon. After the war, Dr. Kennedy settled in lion dout, City of Kingston, N. Y., where fur number of yean he enjoyed a larye prac tice a uu operative aurg on. lie was one of the Presidential Electors of New York State, Mayor of Kingston for four yeurs, and held many other professional, business and political offices. The latest achievement of IiIh life was the discovery of Cal-oura Solvent, a positive cure for all diseases of the kidneys and blad der. Iu speaking of this remurkable remedy, lie said: "Cul-eura Solvent is the crowning achievement of my life. It will not dis appoint." Your druggist will return your money if Cal-cura fails to cure, and The Cul-eura Company, of Rondont, N. Y., will pay the druggixt. Cal-cura Solvent cures 88 of all cases of Kidney, Bladder and Liver dis. orders, fl.00 a buttle. Only one size. , Holiday Season Opens. We invite you most cordially to come here and see our store in holiday array. It is a sight you should not miss. Come this week, while the stocks are all new and fresh. The selections are so much better, the goods so much nicer. Make your selections, we will keep them safe for you until you want them. R. E. HARTHAN. xxxxxxxoooo Every Wide-Awake Farmer who Is Interested In the news of his town nnd eourty should subscribe for rt Good Local Weekly Newspaper to keep him in toueh with the do ing of hi neighbors, the home markets, and all items of interest to himself and family. 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