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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28
RAILWAY DISASTER.
A Paris Express Runs Into a
Swiss Excursion Train.
Fourteen Persons Killed and
Many More Injured.

The people of Switzerland have hardly re
covered from the railroad scare caused by
the disaster at Moenchenstein in June, by
which more than 100 persons on an excur-
sion train lost their lives and about 300 were
injured. when they have been again
startled by another wholesale loss
dent. This last disaster has occurred on the
Jura-Simplon Railroad lines near the village
of Zollikofen, not far from Berne and re-
suited in the death Of fourteen parsons and
the serious injury Of twenty-four others.
The victims were all Swiss peasants.
special train, carrying large number
Of pleasure seekers from the country, was on
its way to Berne, the passengers intending
to take part in the fetes in progress there
and elsewhere throughout Switzerland
The train was stopped at Zollikofen in
order to enable it to be shunted into a
siding, so as to let the Paris express pass
it. By some gross negligence. apparently,
upon the part OF the railroad officials, the
Paris train, loaded with foreign trav-
elers, was not warned to look out
for the excursion train while passing Zoili-
kofen, and the result was that the express
dashed into the special train. Luckily, the
engineer of the express had caught sight
of the excursion train in time to put down
the brakes. SO the damage done and the loss
OF life were not so great as they
engine Of the express almost entirely de-
mol1shed the empty guards van at the rear
OF the excursion train and then crashed into
the rear passenger car, wrecking it and
causing considerable loss of life.
The recent holiday traffic has thrown I'M
usually heavy burdens upon all the railroads
centering in Berne. The excursion train
was partly composed of baggage vans, tenn
porarily converted into passenger
carriages. The line was blocked by
other excursion trains in advance and an
press. curve in the line prevented the
engineer of the express from seeing the
danger ahead, but the passengers of the ex-
cursiOn train heard the express approaching
and many jumped out, all the occupants Of
the open goods wagons escaping in this way
almost unhurt.
A special train carrying wrecking appli-
ances, doctors and nurses from the hospi-
tails together with detachment Of engineers,
Surgical operations resulting in the loss
of limbs were necessary to save
the lives of most of the twenty-four persons
seriously injured. Thirty other passengers
received more or less severe wounds or
bruises. All the passengers on the Paris ex-
press escaped with only slight bruises.
The bodies of the dead were carried to the
waiting-room of the railroad station at FOL
likofen, and were there laid in rows while
were so terribly mutilated as to be practi-
cally beyond recognition.
The injured were attended to by the relief
corps sent to the scene from Berne. Those
Of the injured vino were in a condition to
be removed have been taken to the hospitals
in Berne; others are being nursed near the
scene Of the disaster.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28
South and West.

MISS CLYDE RAGLAND, daughter of Squire
j. P. Ragland a wealthy farmer of Louis
vile, KY, was thrown from a horse, and,
her feet catching in the stirrup, she was
kicked to death.
Two men were instantly killed, third
was fatally injured and two others were
badly hurt by an explosion in powder fac
tory at Kellogg, w. Va.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN R. GAMBLE of South
Dakota, is dead. He was born in Alabama,
n. Y. IN 1876.
THE price of December wheat rose eight
cents a buShel, amid much excitement, on
the Chicago Board of Trade Rye also adj
vanced eight cents and corn three cents
bushel
j. L. BAY has been arrested at Little
Rock, Ark, on a warrant sworn out bv
State Treasurer Morrill,, charging him with
the larceny OF 100000 State scrip.
MANY cattle were killed during a heavy
storm in the vicinity of Sumner. III.
AFTER the recent rise in the price of grain
in the Chicago markets there came a big
break, and the gain was more than lost.
WHILE bathing in the Red River near
GRAND Forks, n. D., the Rev. William T,
Currle, rector of st. Paups Episcopal
Church, Miss Ruth Currie, his daughter,
aged thirteen, and Mrs. Dora Van Kirk,
were all drowned.
MICHAEL AHERN OF murray, Iowa, shot his
fourteen year-old daughter for interfering
in quarrel between father and mother.
FARMERS have established a shotgun
quarantine over the blue Bottoms Dis
trict, near independence, Mo-, where there
are twenty-five cases of smallpox.
A FIRE at Waco, Texas, destroyed dry
goods and a house furnishing establishment,
causing total loss of $250,O00
THREE young lady artists were drowned
by the upsetting Of boat in the Ohio
River opposite Cincinnati
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28
THE NEWS EPIToMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

THE price of rye has advanced heavily In
the New York Produce Exchange.
EIGHTEEN persons were hurt, several
seriously, by collision bet seeu an express
and freight train at Egg Harbor City, n j.
MANY notable people attended the funeral
OF James Russell Lowell at Harvard Col
lege, Boston. The city bells were tolled as
the body was borne 60 Mt. Auburn Gene
terry.
The Centennial of Vermont's admission TO
the Union was celebrated by the dedication
of the monument in COMMUNICATION O. the
revolutionary battle Of Bennington The
city of that name was complete mass or
bun ting and flags, and President Harrison
and many other prominent people tooI part
in the exercises.
WHEAT jumped up thirteen cents bushel
in two days in the New York market. caus-
ing great excitement the Produce Ex-
change.
Mr.. J. BRIGGS, a farmer at Danbury,
Conn, was riding u JOn nowing-macnlne,
when one wheel of the machine struck
stone and he was thrown off. The horses
ran away and he was drawn into the knives
and fatally mutilate1, both arms being cut
off below the elbow.
LEONARD WEAVER, forty-two years old,
ana John Shuster. thirty-sevea years old,
were drowned in deep cesS-pool at Pltts-
burg.
The upward turn in the price of wheat on
the New YORK Prolu Exchange was fol-
lowed by quite fall in quotations. More
than II. OOU, 600 bushels were bought and sold
in one day.
JESSE PoMERoY, the notorious boy MUIR
derer, was discovered at work on the oars of
his cell with case knife which had been
uotched so as to make very good saw.
Pomeroy is serving a solitary life sentence i'll
MaSsa cnuSettS.
PRESIDENT HARRISON on his way from
Cape May to attend the centennial exercises
at Bennington, VT. made short addresses at
Kingston, Newburg, and Albany, N. Y.
CHARLES LAWRENCE, ex-Assistant Cash
Ter of the broken Keystone Bank, of Phila-
delphia, found guilty Of conspiracy and max
ing false entries, has been sent to prison for
seven years
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28

HAILsroRMs in the Mosel and Sarre Val.
eys OF Germany have CAUSED damage to the
Tops TO the extent Of $3.50 600.
OWING to the alarming extent to which
he midland provinces of Italy are being de-
populated by emigration. the Italian Minis
;er of the Interior win introduce a bill in the
emigration.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28
AMERICAS CHANCE.

She May Control the Grain Market
if Europe Has Bad Weather.
A London dispatch says that rye has risen
eight shillings in Amsterdam, and both there
and in Berlin it is decidedly Gearer than
wheat. On an average Germany import
8, SOC, 600 quarters from Russia; Holland, l.
600, 900 quarters; Italy, 500 600 quarters. and
Norway and Sweden, 800, 900 quarters. No
country can supply tbs loss. America is
able to supply only 100000 quarters.
therefore the loss must be replaced by
wheat.
Much now depends upon the next fort
nights weather in Europe, and America
may be in a position to control the mar
ket.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28

A TREE near Manistee, Mich, thirty-six
feet in circumference, twelve feet in diane
ter and IT'S feet high, will be blasted with
dynamite, as there is no saw that will cut Ii
and no mill that can cut it into boards.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-28

THE largest ship yard in the world is at
Christlania, in Norway. Forty ships can
load at its docks at the same Cime
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
The Medical Profession.

The attitude of the medical profes
sion toward what is known as "patent
medicines is not at all unreasonable.
Thousands of these nostrums are offer
ed to the public every year. Some of
them are dangerous, and most of them
are futile. Swift's Specific Is. S. 81,
we are all glad to say, is not classed
among these nostrums. 1t has over
come the wholesome prejudices of
physicians in all parts of the country,
and some of the strongest testimonials
in It's behalf come from medical men
who have used it in their practice, and
who do not hesitate to endorse its
wonderful results. This is extremely
gratifying, but by no means astonish-
ing, for every claim that is put forward
in behalf of S s. S. is based on a series
of actual experiments extended ever a
long period of time.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
RULE AND NOTICE.
ELIJAH HESS

ELIJAH HESS ! In the Court OF Common
vs. > Pleas OF Columhia Cnuntv
THEo M. HoUsER.) No. ia Feby. Term, 1891
EJectment for purchase money for certain
premises, whereof the following is a description:
situate In the township OF Sugarloaf in Colum-
Dla county, Pa and on the north side OF the
public road leading up the West branch OF Fish
lngcreek, and beginning at a post in the edge
OF said public road and line OF land OF ]. IL.
Perry, thence bv the same north six degrees
nve minutes east, one hundred and seventy
three and twO-tenth feet 10 a post and thence
north twenty-six degrees thirty minutes west
eight and hve-tenths feet TO a post, thence
north seventy degrees west fourteen and
elght-tenths feet TO an apple tree, thence south
ten degrees west, one hundred and seventy and
two-tenths feet 10 post In the edge OF the pub-
llc road aforesaid, along land OF the said Elijah
Hess, thence by the said public road south sixty
SIX degrees five minutes east, thirty-two and
slx-tenths feet TO the post, the place OF begin.
nlng, containing fifteen and eight-tenths
perches or land. And the Sheriff having return
ed that neither the vendee, the defendant above
named, nor any person claiming under him was
IN possession or occupancy OF the premises
Ihereupon on the 14th day OF February, 1891,
on motlon OF Mr.. Freeze, attorney for the plain
TIN, Tor an order OF publication and a Rule
on defendant to appear and plead to the action
by the first day Of May Term 1891, as per Act OF
Assembly In such case made and provided.
order made and Rule granted as per motion.
BY THE COURT.
Certified from the Records this 18th day
lsEALl OF February A. ID. 1891. G. NJ. QUICK,
FREEZE, Atty, Prothy.
2-2-2ln.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27

Gratis for the purpose of breaking
quorum Failing to get the error cor
rected Mr.. Crisp said that he wished
to call the attention of the country to
the manner in which his presiding of
hCer made up and falsiied the record.
This arraignment brought a storm of
applause from the democratic side and
the galleries. Is it any wonder that
democrats in the House fllibuster2
The story published here purporting
to state by authority that Mr.. Cleve-
land would under no circumstances be
a candidate next year was undoubted-
ly concocted by an enemy of Mr..
Cleveland, and it did not require that
gcntleman's denial to refute it. His
position is we'll understood here. OF
course everybody knows that he isn't
candidate, that is to say that he isn't
seeking the nomination 80 he was, the
anti-silver letter would never have
been written. That he would refuse
the nomination if rendered, no one for
moment believes, unless he thought
his acceptance would jeopardze the
success of the party.
To-day is legal holiday and the
departments are all closed: Tuesday
and Thursday Of last week they were
closed on account Of the funerals Of
Admirable Porter and General Sher-
man. No people anywhere get as
many holidays as the department
clerks here.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27

The Burdick bill is not likely to
pass at this session Of the legislature.
There is general protest against it
all through the oil country, most of
the individual producers being opposed
to it. AS it is supposed to be in their
interests, and they do not want it, it
is hard to see why it should be forced
upon them. The text of the bill is
not before us, but its purport is to fix
the limit at which the Standard Pipe
line shall carry oil to the sea board, at
lower rate than is now charged.
This would reduce the profit of the
Standard Oil Company only to put the
profit in some body else's pocket. The
price of oil to the consumer would
not change.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
REAL ESTATE
-FoR SALE IN
BLOOMSBURY.

Main Street.-Deslrable building lot 5Oxeii,
price siNO.
Ftnb Streei-House and lot, house rents for sc
per month, room to build several more houses
10 feet front on Fifth street, price siO5O.
FIRST Sireet-Frame house, G rooms, lot 5Ox214,
price slO5o
FO'oW Street-Large frame house, rooms lot
100 feet front on street. price s225O.
Firth Street-Large frame dwelling house, Z
rooms, out-kitchen, barn, fine fruit, &C., lot 7px
900, price $500
Main Street-Large store building, with dwall-
Ing house on same lot corner lot fronting on
two streets, price $1,000.
mira STeet-Larges room house, lot 6ix2Ya.
Price sg7OO.
front. Price $500.
Second STeet-Fine large residence, II rooms
exclusive OF bath room. StCam gas sewer,
water and all modern improvements.
Tenant houses and n number OF vacant lots in
other parts OF the town, all of which are for sale
on easy terms For further particulars inquire
Sirth Street, Nor1h Stde--Neat New two story
frame house, - rooms, veranda in front and side.
Price $780,
Strth Street. Nrth Side-New two story frame
house, rooms, Veranda. Prices11OO
Sirth Street, North Side-House and lot with
03 feet front on Street. Price 5000.
Strth Street, North Sice-New two story frame
house, rooms, Veranda. Price sllOO.
Fine Brick Residence In Espy Pa, Lot 92 feet
'front.' 10 room house, everything In good repair.
recently papered and painted, well at door, els
tern, good stable and outbuildings, fruit of all
kinds. Price $1,000.
OF W1NTERsTEES & BECKLEY,
First National Bank Building,
VI. Bloomsbury. Pa.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
FARMER, STUDY PROTECTION.

THE Messenger Of February IL,
1891, a religious newspaper, quotes
from the Forum for Nov. 1850, the
question, "Who owns the United
States?" And reasons were given for
the belief that "one-half of the national
wealth is owned by 10000 families
and that three-fourths of it is in the
possession of fewer than 100000 fam
lies" If the above is correct, of
which the further statement quoted
from admits of no doubt, only one
fourth of the national wealth is owned
by about 1000, 900 families, represent
ing 63, 900, 900 inhabitants. Now in
view of these facts, we ask with all
Candor how protection benefits the
1900, 900 families, representing 63,-
ooo,ooo inhabitants owning only one
fourth Of the national wealth.
AS there is no direct tax for the sup
port of the general government, in
cluding the vast appropriations made
and as the revenues are wholly de-
pendent upon duties (tax or tariff) on
imports and necessaries Of life with
special protection on manufactured
products, all OF which the millions are
obliged to purchase. TO our mind,
1t is as evident as day that the whole
revenue with the slight exception of
the purchases Of the ''fewer than AGO.
900 families" is drawn from one-fourth
of the national wealth, representing
g., looo, 900 of inhabitants. In
ether words, tax is levied for the sup
port of the general government upon
only one fourth of the national wealth,
while three-fourths of the national
wealth is exempt from national taxa
tion-a thing as inconsistent as a
policy of highway robbery which is
protected from punishment by law.
But what else is it3 The support of
the general government in relation to
ability and wealth is lroportioned pre-
cisely like the support (re> enues) of
the states and local governments - the
poor pay it all. If we are wrong,
will some one be kind enough to point
out how and wherein protection bene-
flts the farmer. According to the law
OF gravitation the larger body attracts
the smaller with the greater force, and
herein is the power of adhesion
through the force Of protection which
developes a process, not chemical, but
logical and legislative, that concen
trates and consoidates wealth with
power of cohesion that cannot be
sundered with brickbats. FARMER.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
No Matter How Hard

any druggist tries to sell you his own
cough medicine, remember he does it
because he makes more money on it.
Insist on having Kemp's Balsam for
the throat or lungs, for there is no
cough remedy so pure and none so
quick to break up a cold. For in
fiuenza. soreness of the throat and
tickling irritation with constant cough,
Kemp's Balsam is an immediate cure
Large bottles soc and 81. At all
ruggists.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27

A recent decision of the Supreme
Court holds that it is unlawful Tor bar
Der shops to open on Sunday for busi-
ness. Judge Elwell decided that
question more than ten years ago, in a
Berwick case.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
MINE DISASTERS.

Within few weeks past a number
of horrible mine disasters have occur,
red. AT the Jeansville mine near
Hazleton five men were rescued after
being entombed eighteen days,
Ihlrteenof their companions perished.
The Spring Hill disaster in Canada
resulted in the loss of IIo lives, 1t
was caused by an explosion in the
mines, last Saturday.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
BE Your Own Doctors |

1t won't cost you one half as much.
10 not delay. Send three two-cent
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Estate or R1sdnnd R,tngan, late OF Benton t,rp,
Columbia county, deceased.
Notice Is hereYy given that letters OF adminis-
tratlon on the estate OF Rosanna Runyan, late
OF benton township, Columbia Co., Pa, deceas-
ed nave been granted to II. +. Berlin, OF Fair
mount springs, Luz. TO-, Pa, to whom all per-
SONS indebted 10 said estate are requested to
make payments, and those having claims or de-
inands VIII make known the same without de-
lay to W.
II. F. BERLIN,
s-6-6t. Paramount Springs, Luz. 60. Pa
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27

Female Weakness Positive Cure. Free.
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY y. 1891.

The Supreme Court has decided
that shooting pigeons from a trap is
not unlawful.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
AUDITORS NOTICE.

Estate or Harmon FJhrfn0er ....-..d
The undersigned Auditor appointed by the
Orphans Court OF columbia county, Pa, to dis
tribute balance IN the hands OF the Executor OF
the estate or Harmon Fahringer, decd, win
meet the parties interested at the of1ice OF Grant
Herring, FS1., In the town OF BloOmsburg on
saturday, March y, 1891, at ten o'clock, a. M,
when and where all parties Interested viii at
tend or be forever debarred from any share OF
said fund
W. II. RHAWN.
Auditor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
PUBLIC SALE
-OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE.

The heirs OF Reuben II. Davis, late OF Benton
township, deceased, Will sell at public sale on
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27
Frame Dwelling House,

barn, well of good water, good orchard, and
Is all cleared land in good state of cultivation,
except two acres OF good timber land.
TERMS OF SALE.-One third of purchase
money to be secured by mortgage on the prem
iseS, the interest on which is TO be paid annual
ly 10 Lucinda Davis during her life, and at her
death the principal TO be paid to the heirs OF
said r. II. Davis. Ten per cent. OF 4 of the re-
naming 2-3 OF purchase money TO be paid at
striking down OF the property, the one-fourth
less the ten per cent. on the first day OF April a.
D., 1884, when possession viii be given and the
remaining part ofsald 2-8 OF purchase money on
the first day OF April 1892 with interest," when
deed Will be delivered, Purchaser to pay for
drawing deed. For further information apply
to
or RoBT BUCKINGHAM, s. L. DAVIS,
Bloomsbury, Pa. Atty. in fact for heirs.
L. o, BENTON,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1891-02-27

1UUTS VTUIy,
DR.. ] B. MARCHlSl, Utica, n. Y
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-06

condition. Many horsemen are here from
Washington. Idaho Montana and Cali:or-
mia, and the fashionable turnouts from
Portland gave the park the appear
ance OF an Eastern race course. II
was the largest first day attendance
ever seen in Portland. In the 2:29 trotting
race Tom Sawyer, who drove Z. S. Roths-
child's ]. /. c., ran into asulky driven by
Vet Tryon, and both sulkies upset. Sawyer
being tangled up in the lines would
have been killed had not his horse
stopped. Sid Benton, of Colfax, owner
of Almont Medium, was very much
disgruntled because his $40, 900 horse was
started off on slow pace in the first heat of
the 2;29 class, resulting in his being dis
tanced. The sensation of the day was the
victory of Win Chapman's horse. Demo
crat, in the 2:29 trottng race. Dem
ocrat sold in the field. and as
Byron Holly, of Sacramento. bought
nearly ali the auction pools on
this horse, he made large winning. c.,
F. Ciancey's black mare Rosie c.. made
quite spread in the special trotting and
pacing race by running out Turk Frank
lin. Rosie G. was by many thought to be
out of the race altogether, and her pace
created quite a surprise The summaries:
Running, mile and sixteenth, purse $500
Nevada won, Mystery second. Misty Morn third.
Time, l:50.
Half-mile and repeat purse s5OO-Oregon
Eclipse won, Jim K. second, Eddie r. third.
Time, 40
Trotting, 2:2e class, purse sIO0l-Denocrat
won, Challenge Chief second, Ceur d'Alene
third. Best time, 2;2S-
Free-for-all pace, purse s1,o00-Rosie C. aud
Turk franklin each won q heat, when the race
was postponed on account of darkness