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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-08-11
TOWN COUNCIL.

The Town Council held its regular
monthly meeting in the council
chamber Thursday evening of last
week. The President and all the
members but one were present.
The meeting was called to order by
President Holmes at eight o'clock.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read by the Secretary and approved.
Complaint had been made as to
the condition of the alley between the
Farmers National Bank and the
Court House. 1t was talked over at
length, and orders given that it be
put in proper condition.
A petition asking for a crossing
over Second street at Railroad street,
was referred to the Street Committee.
Josiah Giger was present and
stated to council that if the Town
would furnish the oil, he would erect
and take care of a street lamp near
his residence. On motion of Hart
man seconded by Demaree it was
agreed that the Town furnish the oil.
The President appointed w. L.
Demaree, w. S. Rishton, G.. M.
Lockard, F. B. Hartman and J. S.
Blue, as a committee to examine and
report on the matter of building new
quarters for the Rescue Hose Com
pany.
The bad condition of the pavement
in front of James Wilson's property on
Market Street was again reported to
Council. The Secretary is directed
to notify the property owner to put
down new pavement within twenty
days, or the Town will do the work,
with the usual twenty per cent penalty.
The crossing on Iron Street be-
tween Fourth and Fifth was ordered
to be repaired.
Orders were issued for the follow
ing bills:
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HOODS PILLS cure Liver Tile, Bii-
Iousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy TO take, easy to operate. 25c.
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Legal advertisements on page 2.
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"The Red Cross Society is our
army's efficient ally in Cuba. But
for it the suffering and death among
the troops would he far greater than
they are. The Red Cross receives
no aid from the Government, and has
nothing to do with politics."
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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURY, FA.
THURSDAY, AUGUST II, 1903.

Entered at the Post OHice at Bloomsbury, Pa
as second class matter, March i, 1888.
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Tie Sua6n,y Daily says: Reports
from the Klondike are discouraging
to the Sunburians who left this city
last winter for that region, VIM. P.
Hilbish is said to have had very
severe illness after arriving at Daw-
son City. At last reports he was still
very low. 1t is also reported that
Samuel Byerly and j. Batman lost
their boat en- route from Seattle to
Sitka. The boat was in tow Of a
steamer.
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Try Me COLUKBLANa a ysay.
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The corner stone of the new
Capitol building of Pennsylvania
was laid at Harrisburg. The %
semblage was a distinguished one
including Judges of the Supreme
and Superior Courts, all the State
officials, common pleas judges
and other prominent people. Col.
A. K. Mcclure of Philadelphia was
the orator of the day.
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69c. Shirt Waists, were $1.oo, $r.as
and $3.50.
soc. Shirt Waists, were 75c. and SOC
3oc. Shirt Waists, were soc.
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stating that he was unable to provide money
Ter hlS wife, board, but hoped to do so in
a short time. Her inability to meet this
account worried Mrs. Gray very much. al
though she was kindly assured by the land
lady that there was no occasion to trouble
herself on that score.
To DR.. Loyewel, Mrs Gray talked quite
freely about her troubles. Mrs. GRAY was
a woman of great mental strength, and ia
said to have been the source of most of her
husbands success. She had exceptional
pcrceptive faculties, and could readily see
opportunities for conducting successful ex-
positions, which the average person would
not readily appreciate. She was such an
aid to her husband in this respect. and in
the details Of the work, that he finally con.
serted to her becoming an equal partner IN
the profits, Mrs. Gray said to some of her
friends that she thought her husbands =
abllty was failing in his line Of work. and
this seemed to be source Of worry to her.
Mrs. Gray apparently did not look to her
husband alone for financial aid. She com.
municated with an attorney in Chicago.
with whom she had ntrustod $4,000 for in,
vestment. She explained her condition. and
asked that he realize on this holding. The
woman had parted with an elegant seal.
skin cloak Tor less than fifth of its value.
and was becoming desperate. In the early
part of November she received word from
the Chicago attorney that he could supply
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subsidized as quickly as it began. The coupl,
drifted out to California and led a chccleret
career, which eliminated with the bursting
up of a farce comedy with the insane title o.
''Pantin' 'Er Red" De Garmo hustled t.
no avail, even his inspired device Of arres,
for daubing the Lolita fountain with bright
hued vermillion failing to catch the atten
tion of Indifferent San Francisco.
| Separation and divorce followed between
'the long and the short of it" as the couple
were professionally known. The peerless
Alma drifted back to London, where she
formed more aristocratic connections, and
after many vicissitudes has loomed into
commanding prominence. The little hustler,
who has changed his name to Colonel
Charles de Garmo Gray, is managing an ex-
position to be given this month in Oakland,
across the bay from San Francisco.
HIS LAST VISIT HERE
Last July Charles de Garmo Gray bobbed
up serenely in this city once more, having
conducted several successful eNpositions in
the east and the Mechanics Fair in San
Francisco since his last visit here. Gray had
also returned to the theatrical business, and
last winter was managing Harry Corson
Clarke's tour in What Happened to
Jones" The somewhat erratic comedian
and his manager had serious disagreement
and parted. Harry Corson was very irate
with Gray, and telegraphed to a friend on
the staff of The Herald asking him what
Gray's record in Los Angeles had been, and
il there was not an unpleasant story about
him from Buffalo. The answer was that
Gray's record here had been entirely salts
e.. -, Mrrono,t, apl Aop,,f,,
turers' association, which had employed
him.
When Gray returned here last July the
war excitement was at its height and he was
ready to launch scheme for Red Cross
fair The war board was then in power
and Major Gray was summoned before
that august assembage. He told the board
that he and his wife would want so per
cent of the proceeds and the board replied
that they would not give him a cent, as
all services for entertainments under their
auspices must be absolutely gratis. Nothing
daunted. Gray tried to get up an excursion
to see the Seventh regiment in camp at San
Francisco, but this, too, failed, and he
packed up his traps, leaving his wife here.
lie soon found job in the north exploiting
the Oakland Home Produces exposition,
which closed short time ago. Mrs. Gray
was left here at her own request to rest
Three weeks ago Gray whote to her telling
her to get ready to go to Honolulu. While
here Gray made himself thoroughly at home
in the rooms of the Merchants and Manufac-
turers' association, of which he had been
made an honorary member lie was accus-
toned to dictate his private correspondence
to the associations stenographer, until the
secretary objected. Mr.. Gray was also made
much of by many business men. given boxes
at the theaters, and other exceptional priv
leges.
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ter to the landlady. expressing regret for
causing her annoyance. Mrs. Gray also
requested that her mother, Mrs. Julia Gil
man OF 209 Fulton street. Rochester, New
! ork, be notified of the suicide, and ex-
pressed the desire to have her body buried
hy the side of her grandfather at Church
ville n. Y.
Cheated of her former desire by the fail
ure OF the drugs to do their work, Mrs
Gray determined that her fourth attempt
at death should be successful. Unlike most
OF the women who take their lives. she
chose a revolver as the means to accom-
plish her end. The fatal shot was not fired
until very late Monday night, or during
the early hours of Tuesday morning for
no one, not even the person who occupied
the next room to Mrs. Gray, heard the
report of the pistol. The woman dis
played unusual nerve in her choice of means
tor suicide, and she sustained this nerve
throughout. She placed the m,izzlc of the
weapon against her right temple and pulled
the trigger. death resulting almost instant
ly, as the ball crashed through the skull
into her brain. She must have stood in
front of an arm chair when she fired the
shot, and then sank back into the chair
for pools of clotted blood were found both
in front and at the side of the chair. So
desperate and intense had been her desire
to infiict u fatal wound that the pistol
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widow was found dead by her own hand, sh.
solutely penniless.
Destitute i' al strange city, deserted by
her husband, whom she had raised to sue
cess, estranged from her family and dis
eased, both in mind and body. Mrs Jessie
E. Gray ended her misery Monday night by
shooting herself in the. head with a pistol
The body was not discovered until yester
day morning. The dead woman was of al
most worldwide reputation, Cor through
her husband, Charles de Garmo Gray, the
well known promoter Of exhibitions -he had
Travelled extensively on both hemi>pheres,
and was well known to the hundred, Of busi-
ness men with whom her husband had oc-
caslon to meet.
Gray and his wife came to this city
during the latter part of 1896. They re
mained for some months being engaged in
working up the Home Products exhibition
for the Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation. After that exhibition closed the
couple went away and engaged in similar
projects III other places, but returned to Los
Angeles last July. Gray did not appear
tllNh " NC NNAN NCll IlbN i4ti Will lullN.
and he tried unsuccC ,.fuliy to interest the
commercial organizations in various schemes,
but none Of his propositions, were accepted.
He again went away. but Mrs Gray re-
NAMED. il was given ont at that time
that she desired to take rest. a. her health
had been poor, but subsequent dcyelopments
seem to Indicate that the woman was de
serted by her husband. Certain il Is. he
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ence, and lack of funds to meet her living
expenses Is believed to have been the
strongest cause for her taking her life Mrs
Gray boarded on South Main street She
seemed 10 be satisfied with her surround.
ings, and those in the house thought she
was happy. Letters from De Garmo ar
rived quite regularly for a while after his
departure. but the other boarders noticed
gradually that the communications from
Gray began to be less and the fact that the
woman seldom, il ever, mentioned hs name
caused the impression to become general
that they were estrangod Mrs Gray,
however was very reticent. and in her con-
versaton, with those about her. She ap-
pel:cd happy, and to be entirely contented
That she felt the contrary j. new evident.
FINANCIAL STRAITS
About four months ago Mrs. GRAY began
taking electric treatment from DR.. Lovewell
for an incurable blood disease Her poor
health was caused through no fault Of her
own, and she thought the treatment would
benefit her 1t did, but the woman ceased
taking it some time ago, probably for the
reason that she had no money to pay the
bill, and was too proud to continue in the
doctors debt The poor woman pawned
her jewelry and some Of her clothes to tide
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her along in the hopes that she would Sc
cure money. She wrote to Gray, asking FOL
aid, but either because of his own financia
straits. or some other reason, he failed
to respond. Mrs. Gray finally became in
arrears for her board. and at the time of her
death was about three months behind. Two
months ago Gray wrote to the landladv.
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Jessie de Garmo Gray is dead.
The sleek little promoter hourishes.
She was the brainfl of the firm.
He was its fnancier,
Two years ago, mainly by her industry
the Grays III four months cleared $500 in
this city.
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DE- GARMO GRAY'S WIVES
A Deserted Woman Wrecked
By His Neglect
SHE WAS 1.-THE BRAINS OF THE FIRM''|
The Narrowing Matrimonial Experiences Of the Dashing
Exposition Promoter-A Faithful
Little Wonlans End
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very commit this deed your hope
you the which it will you
days. Please telegraph mother Julia Gilman,
s Rochester,
! money body mbalmed
& grandfa Churhvlle
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The herald., 1898-12-21
JESSIE E. GRAY

Yesterday Charles de Garmo Gray's lates It
widow was found dead by her own hand, sh.
solutely penniess.
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month sustaining the Commissioners
appears to have brought matters to a
head and the counsel for the Commits
sloner and the counsel for the company
have come to an agreement which has
been ratified by the Superior court.
BY this agreement the company con-
cedes much of that which was claimed
by the Commissioner. 1t will transfer
from the stock to the mutual depart
ment cash to the amount of S3lI7O1,
and reserve assets not less than $1,000
600, and will pay the costs of the suit
amounting to $4,000 paid by the Com
missioner.
Thus is the course of Commissioner
Belts in bringing the suit amply vim
dictated, and policy holders and others
interested in the prosperity of the great
company relieved of further strain on
account of the long-continued litiga-
ton. The settlement has already added
much to the price of the stock of the
company, and all concerned are feeling
better.
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BE ClLM.

Some of the good people of New Ha-
ven are much agitated by the war and
the war extras, and, to put it just as it
Is, they are running around like hen
with her head cut off. 1t will do such
people good to go to war if they can
and help right matters. If age, bust
ness, family relations, health, etc., etc.,
ETC., will not allow them to sacrifice
themselves for their country in this
way, they can at least do something for
it by restraining themselves and re-
framing from adding to senseless and
useless agitation. The war is on. 1t is
in the hands of the best military talent
we have. 1t will probably be conducted
as well as those who are so agitated
could conduct it. Nothing has happen
ed yet to warrant the weak excitement
so prevalent. Nothing will happen to
!. warrant it. 1t is harmful to those pos
sessed by it and to the public. The
best thing for all to do is to be calm,
be prepared for gloomy days, and be
ready to stand by the government in
every way possible.
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Owe WHo oUGHr no BIZ our.

There are several men out of Jail who
ought to be in, and there is at least one
man in who ought to be out. He is
Captain J. D. Hart of Philadelphia.
ship owner and filibuster, who for his
violation of the neutrality laws in
giving aid to the Cubans was con-
victed and punished. We agree with
the New York Times that executive
clemency might be well extended to
him. There is no question as to Cap
tain Harris technical guilt, but it is
statutory, not moral guilt, and he has
already suffered financial losses great
enough to impress on himself and
others the wisdom of observing the
neutrality laws. There was nothing
disgraceful about his offense. He sent
arms and ammunition to the Cuban
patriots at time when they were still
merely rebels, and he sent men along
with the guns and the cartridges in
order to make sure that they were not
lost on the way or wasted after arrival
Now that things have taken the turn
they have 1t would be good idea to
let Captain Hart out and give him a
chance to do legally that which he did
illegally.
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CONSISTENT.

"And you will buckle on the sword?"
The new woman's eyes mashed,
"Buckle?" she repeated. "Pin!"
That was to say, there was no time
to lose.-Detroit Journal.
Consolation.---Be (crying)-Oh, if
Harry has to go to the war, I'm sure he
will die of the fever! Her Father--Oh,
pshaw! Why, there's an even chance
that he will die by a bullet.-Philadel-
phia North American.
Miss Penstock-What became of the
clergyman who preached such grand
sermon on The Sin of Covetousness?"
Miss Hammand (of Chicago)-He went
to another church that offered him a
larger salary.-Judge.
Dealer--I am sure, madam, you could
look the city through and not find a
handsomer carriage than this.
Mrs. D'Avnoo-Oh, it's handsome
enough but it looks too comfortable to
be stylish.-New York Weekly.
Bearing the .-Wibbles-See
here, Wobbles, what are you doing on
the street with a linen buster and fan
this time of year? Wobbles-I am
going to order some coal, and I donet
want the dealer to slap up prices on
me.-New York Weekly.
sin the interest of TRUTH says the
Plunkville Bugle, 1--WE wish to say that
we meant to say that the burlesque
show at the opera house was given by
lot of women with long pasts,' in
stead of pants, as the erratic types
got t."-Indianapolis Journal.
True to Nature.-IIis Mother (pro-
foundly shocked)-Johnny, Johnny!
You will break my hearti That is the
most dreadful language I ever heard
little boy use! Johnny-Were play
ing street cars, mamma. I'm the mo-
torman an Den's drivin' a coal wagon
an won't get out of my way.-Chicago
Tribune.
Patient Ito Christian Science doctor)
I just dropped in to say I'm well. 1
kept thinking I didn't have pain, and
didn't, Will you please receipt this
bill?
C. S. D.-Where's the money?
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mean 500 right out When the price
came down to $50 more women still did
the same thing. But still $50 is lot
of money for one rig, and many wo-
men would rather have change" for
the same outlay.
Now. however, many tailors are go
ing in for more simple work. Some of
the very best will handle your own
material, bringing their price for max
ing fairly close to the charge of a good
dressmaker, while for the cotton dress
es that the usual dressmaker will not
touch, the simple, COOL shirt-waist-
and-plain-skirt-ri their price is away
below the dressmaker's. For from $12
to SIS you can have one of these rigs,
material and all. 1t is possible to get
tailor shirt waists, which means guar
antee Of style and fit, at no more than
is charged by some stores for the
ready made article that they will not
guarantee "shrunk." AT rates that
menace the dressmaker the same thing
will be made in silk, the style always
severe, of course. So though "Felice"
may be dear thing" take a look
through the tailors.
Women have been doing just this in
the past two or three seasons, as is
shown by the increase Of tailor gowns,
and even as it Is now, with DEGREES
in force for simple finish, there is much
variety in them. Here is one of navy
blue serge whose skirt was trimmed
with broad galoon, and whose bodice
was of a novel sort. 1t had double
fronts and a vest decorated with fluff
fly lace jabot. The upper front was a
bolero with black velvet edging and the
other extended around the hips and
back in a much rippled basque.
FLORETTE.
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GERMAN MILLIONAIRES.

The differences in the unit of money
in different countries make a consider
able difference in the practical mean
ing of the word millionaire" Web
ter's Dictionary defines millionaire
as zone whose wealth Is counted by
millions" In popular use one who
has a million is regarded as a million
aire, In the United States it would be
$1.00O,OoO. In England it would be G1,-
100000 But as the pound sterling is
worth $4,S6 and fraction of our mon
ey, the Englishman would require
nearly five times asmuch actual capital
as the American before the English
man could take rank in the noble army
of martyrs known eS "milionaires."
In Germany where the unit Of value
is the mark, which Is worth 23
cents and fraction in our money,
much less actual capital is required to
make man a millionaire than in the
United States. / had this fact i'm
pressed upon me by reading in Ger
man newspaper that, according to the
Statistical Year Book Of Berlin, that
city of over 100000 Inhabitants con-
tains 2,092 millionaires-"each person
who has an income of more than thir-
ty-six thousand marks being reckoned
as millionaire" Thirty-six thousand
| marks is less than nine thousand dol
lars-and nine thousand dollars year
seemed to me to be a rather small
millionaire income. l found, howev-
err, by rapid computation that thirty
six thousand marks is a little more
than three and one-half per centum on
100000 marks (about $240, 000)-and
there you have your millionaire ac-
cording to the German unit value.
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The Biological society of Paris has
witnessed experiments by DIR. Luis,
which are held by him to indicate a
certain luminosity of the human body.
An account of the experiment says: In
a dark room various subjects placed
their fingers, for about twenty minutes,
in an ordinary Photographic plate ly-
ing in bath containing the usual So
luton of hydroquinone, after this ex-
posture the negative being developed in
the usual way, The result of this was
that not only We're the fingers and the
lines of the hand reproduced, but their
pores as well, with the peculiar addi-
tional fact that around the fingers
there appeared a sort of zone or halo
a third of an inch wide. This is re-
garded as proof that man lives in a
luminous field which is sufficiently de-
fined to enable a Photographic print to
be made of itself and the fingers, as if
under the influence of ordinary light.
But the same experiment tried on pa
TENTS whose hands We're paralyzed, be-
numbed or insensible to touch was in
no case successful, no image appearing
on the plate.
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sPAIN's SITUATION,

Twenty thousand Republicans In
Spain signed a congratulatory note to
Senior CASTELAR, with the evident inten-
ton of causing him to proclaim a RE
public and thus add to SPANS difficult
ties. CASTELAR, is not a. revolutionist
just now, but the fact that so many
Spanish Republicans are willing to de-
clare themselves indicates what may
happen by and by when Spain gets
what is preparing for her in this coun-
try. When that time comes the Re-
publicans will come to the front with
is now a patriot, may feel that patriot
ism demands that he be called on to
save his country. Butcher" Weyler
has ambition and he may be heard
from, too.
Contrast the condition of Spain with
that of this country. Spain is practice
ally bankrupt. This country has much
money and unlimited credit. Spain is
on the verge of several revolutions.
This country is united as never before.
East, West, North and South are ablaze
with patriotism and sternly solid in
determination. Spain says she is fight
ing for her honor. If the spectacle of
the starving reconcentrados were not
continually before the eyes of the
world Spain's talk about fighting for
her honor against such odds might be
somewhat impressive.
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GOOD SETTLEMENT.

The settlement of the suit of Insur-
ance Commissioner Belts against the
Aetna Life Insurance company of
Hartford is a good thing all around.
The suit was begun about two years
ago, and has been carried on by the
Commissioner with great energy and
persistence. The insurance company
has also been energetic and persistent
and many have thought that the litiga-
ton was likely to extend over many
more years. But the decision of Judge
Shumway in the early part of last