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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30
skunk.

Mr.. Lee Porter and Miss Amy
Beach of this place were united In
marriage ut the Ellonton Congrega-
tional Church, ON "Wednesday even
Ing, August ~, MIR. Chas. and
William Beach. brothers of the bride
acted ~ hest men while Miss Minnie
Aianley and S,ran Frye We're brides
maids. The ceremony took place at
1880 y. M. Mrs, Dawson played the
wedding march ~ the bridal party
took their places at the alter. The
groom wore the conventional black
and the bride Wis becomIngly attir-
ed In white. REV. Dice, of Grover,
otiiciated nj the ceremony. The
wedding was largely attended by
residents Of skunk and vicinity.
We welcome Ia our town an old
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-08-30

A MENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION
~ PROPOSED TO THE CITIZENS OF
pRuVAL or REJECTION ny THE GEN
ERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE COMMON
WEALTH OF fENNSlLNANlA. PUBLISH
ED BY ORDER Oh fllk SECRETARY
or THE COMMoNW kALfil N ftksl
ANCk Oh ARTICLE NNlil OF TUE CON
sflrrTioS
A JOINT RESOLUTION
pfolasiug ar amendment Ia the Constitution
oi the commonwealth.
section 1. BE il resolved by the senate and
al rcnnsslyaniu in Gencml Assembly met, That
III. following j. lsFuIssssi a. An snielslmcnl 70
Inc Constitution of the tolnnuliM ealth 81
prnnsy ltania Ia aeforidurs with the ifuA islnils
oi the Eighteenth article thereof
Amendment.
strike out SECTION four ui aFtiee eight ani ln.
spu iu place thsreuf, a. ioliuMs
-.stnn q All lielectons bs the cltlstiis shali
l.. IA l.tllal ~ Is such utllcr llctiai may ~
prs..fiied by aA froyle'isai. That seereel 10
voting ID pTtssrkesi
4 lne COPS af The Jaine Resolution.
wv GRlKST
secretary oi the tonnaiiinealth.
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tion 0f las, The 0wnvr y requested T. sai AMI
~ y" At AgAsrgoNG
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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
Terrible Accident at Plymouth Mine.

A frightful accident occurred al
Plymouth Monday afternoon at No. 3
breaker, of the Delaware and Hudson
Coal Company, in which John Bur
nett, aged 90 years. was suffocated,
and Andrew Conrad, John Melodltz
and Richard Corcoran badly squeezed.
The men were drafting coal from the
pockets beneath the breaker, when
the whole structure gave way, burying
them under tons OF coal. A number
of slate pickers were caught Ill the
rush, but they all managed to scram-
bic TO the top before being suffocated.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
Ministers Are Well Treated.
Congregations as Rule Are Charitable,
Patient, Appreciative and Responsive.

"No man has more reason to be
grateful TO his public than a minister,
for know no servant who is more
kindly treated writes Ian Maclaren
of "Is the Minister an Idlerp" in the
May Ladies' Home Journal "While
there are no doubt, in so large body
as the Christian Church, censorious
hearers and ill-mannered congrega-
tions, just as there are lazy and can
tankerous ministers, yet the average
congregation is charitable in its judg-
ment of its minister, patient under his
fallings, keenly appreciative of any
good work he does, and most respon-
sive to all his good Offices. There are
not many substantial complaints which
minded and good-tempered
minister can bring against the aver
age congregation, but he has some
times grudge against his friends
which he does not express, but which
often rankles in his heart. 1t is not
anything they say nor anything they
do; 1t is the quiet and perhaps uncon-
sclous assumption on their part that
he has not enough work to do, or that
he has a considerable quantity of time
at his disposal"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
Our Growth In Population.
We Have as Many People as Live in Grea.
Britain and France Combined.

There were but 100000 people
in America when this century opened.
France had five times as many people;
Germany, and even Austria, had four
times Americas population; Italy had
three times as many, and SO had
Great Britain. Even Spain had
double our number of people, and
little Portugal was almost our rival in
numbers. We have more people now
than any European nation except
Russia, which alone leads us. We have
as many people as live in all Great
Britain and France combined. We
have one-half more people than Ger
many. We have, practically, 75,ooo,-
900 people in the United States, and
10000, 900 more in our new possess
ions.-May Ladies Home /oVn0L
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
The Richest Woman's Story.

How Hetty Green, the famous fin
ancier, who enjoys the distinction OF
being the richest woman in America,
has made and kept her millions will
be told for the first tirle in the June
Ladies Home /OMnaL In view ol
Mrs. Green's vast weelth, SO great that
she herself cannot exactly compute it,
the story Of her home life will also be
especially interesting, by reason Of its
extreme simplicity, In the article
Mrs. Green cells how she has bought
and sold railroads and towns, and
how she has compelled political man
ayers to do her bidding-showing the
enormous power of money in these
golden days. Her daily life, too, is
interesting, ior early and late she is al
her task of watching her wealth and
eagerly adding to it, being stranger
to almost any other recreation. Sew
eral pictures of the woman with mil
lions, made expressly for the article,
will give it additional interest.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

Admiral Dewey will not make a
statement of his attitude toward i'm
portant public questions, unless he
changes his mind, but will ask the
Kansas City convention to nominate
INN tor President solely on his record.
That shows how guileless, in politi-
cal way, the dear old boy is. Think
of the absurdity of a great party
nominating man for President with
out knowing he stood upon a single
one OF the great issues upon which the
campaign will be fought. Only man
like Dewey could think such thing
possible. Notwithstanding the public
declaration of almost every prominent
democrat in the country that Col.
Bryan's nomination was a certainty,
and the failure of single democratic
state leader to advocate the nomina-
ton of Dewey, the Admiral still be-
lieves that he will be nominated.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

The men who have been slowly
but surely pushing a scheme to loot
the United States Treasury by means
of contracts with the Post Office De-
partment for pneumatic tube service
in the large cities were given a hard
throw down this week when the House
by vote of 81 to so struck out that
portion OF the Post Office approprla-
ton carrying $7ss,ooo to pay for ex-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
Suspected of Many Grimes.
The Two Gallashcrs May Have To Answer In
Three Courts.

If Frank and John Gallagher, the
two young men arrested at New Phil
adelphia last week by Coal and Iron
Policemen Walters and committed to
Jail at Mauch Chunk on a charge of
breaking into and robbing the Jersey
Central station at Lanstord, are as bad
as the Coal and Iron police suspect
them to be, they are not likely to en-
JOY their liberty again until they culti-
vate the acquaintance OF the officials
of Carbon, Columbia and Schuylkill
county prisons.
When the young men were taken
into custody they had in their possess
ion, and were offering for sale, goods
stolen from the Jersey Central station
at Lansford. A subsequent search of
their clothing is also said to have
brought to light articles stolen from
the Pennsylvania station at St. Clair
The fact that they hail from Centralia,
or claim to reside there, suggests the
fact that the Lehigh Valley station at
that place was recently robbed also,
and the officers think they know some
thing about it.
The belief now IS that they are part
of gang of burglars who have COM
mittec the series of robberies of rail-
way stations throughout the region
recently and they hope to collect
evidence enough against them to con-
vict them here and in Columbia
county, after Carbon gets through
with them. Ashland Ad50eate.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

Ex-Representative Lewis, of Wash
ington, sized up the political situation
out his way thusly; "Col. Bryan will
receive the unanimous vote of the
delegation for the state of Washing
ton, at Kansas City, and | am con
fident he will get the electoral votes
of the State. My belief that he will
cary the state, in spite of the existing
strong sentiment tor expansion, is
based on stronger sentiment in opposl-
tion to trusts and the faith the people
have in bimetalism. / believe the
same thing will apply to all the Paclnc
states, except Oregon"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

The drug people want the reve-
nue. stamp duty taken off their pro-
ducts. The bankers are moving to
having it taken off of checks, the
lawyers think it ought to be taken
off legal documents and the insur-
ance people off of policies. The
only classes who don't seem to care
a continental about it are the tele-
graph and express companies, and
they hustled around and bought up
the federal courts and saddled their
share of the war tax on their pat
rons, so they can afford to be indif-
ferent about it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
Last Chance.

The last chance TO get the Farm
/0n,uaI for nearly five years is nearly
ended. We have only six more left
under the present contract. These
will 20 to the first six people who
comply with the terms, namely, Old
subscribers who pay all arrearages to
date, and a year in advance from now;
and new subscribers who pay a year
in advance. If you want 1t, don't
wait another day. tt
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

isting pneumatic tube service and to
extend the same during the coming
fiscal year. That action was brought
about bv the public statement of Rep
reseotative Moody, of Mass, that
these men had been bribing and try
ing to bribe members of Congress
with stock in their company, which
existed solely for what 1t could get
through Congressional legislation.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
A. p. YOUNG,
of Greenwood Twp.

The latest pension scheme said to
be backed by the Grand Army is to
abolish the pension officials and the
soldiers homes and pay every old
soldier uniform pension of ST day
during life. 1t is claimed that such
a plan while greatly to the benefit
of the soldiers, would effect large
saving to the government treasury.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

A hearing was granted by the select
committee of the House which has
charge of the bill to a delegation in
favor of the bill appropratng SIS, 1000,
900 towards the holding of Worlds
Fair at ST. Louis in 1908 to celebrate
the centennial of the Louisiana Pur-
chase. The delegation included gov.
ernors OF the States within the Louisi-
ana Purchase and number of prom
inent citizens of St. Louis.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
Democratic Candidates.

FOR REPRESENTATIVES,,
WILLIAM L. GREASY,
(South Side)
of Catawissa Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,,
(South Slde)
G. Il. SCHLICHER,
of Beaver Twp.
FOR SHERIFF,
DANIEL KNORR,
of Locust Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
North Side)
GEORGE w. STERNER,
of Hemlock Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
X. c.. f. KSHINKA,
North Side)
of Brlarcreek Twp.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,,
FRED. KELLER,
North Side)
of Bloomsbury.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
A. p. YOUNG,
of Greenwood Twp.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

The plum tree will now bear pro.
litically since there is no one to
shake it.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington. April 20. roc

'"ol'ilStoll, Apiu 80, 1900.
There is little doubt of the liability
of Mr.. Mckinley and Secretary Root
to impeachment for their open viola
tlon OF law in paying two salaries to
favored army officers in Cuba. and
they would be likely to get it if Con
gress had democratic majority Sec
retary Roots answer to the Senate
Resolution asking for Information is a
pettifoggying document from start TO
finish. 1t tells only a part of the
truth, which is often much worse than
telling lie, but even then it contains
practical acknowledgement of viola
ton OF law by the executive branch OF
the government, in the citation of acts
of Congress in IS40 and 1858 author
lzlng extra compensation for army of
ficers who performed civil duties in
Mexico and California. This Con.
gress would have done the same for
officers in Cuba, had the necessity for
such acton been brought to its atten-
tion by the War Department; but that
does not excuse the violation of law
on the part of the President and the
Secretary of War. In citing acts OF
Congress as a precedent Mr.. Root
shows that he knows that Congress
alone has the authority which the ex.
ecutive branch Of the government has
in this case usurped. And that isn't
the only ugly thing about Mr.. Root.
answer. His argument that the reg
ular allowance of an annual sum from
the Cuban revenues does not consti
tute second salary for the officer:
| named is farccal, but his failure &c
| name all the officers who are known
to have had an "allowance" is worse
1t is too much to expect anything ap
preaching a thorough investigation o
War Department expenditures II
Cuba, from Republican Congress
but steps will be taken by others tC
get at the truth and make it known tc
the people of the country.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-05-03

Mr.. Mckinley is unquestionably
the man who engineered the plans
which resulted IN the refusal of the
Senate by vote Of 80 to 80 to seat
Mr.. Quay. Mr.. Mckinley has had it
in for Quay for just about four years
and has been patiently awaiting a
chance to get even. In order to
throw Quay and his friends off the
scent, Boss Hanna allowed himself to
be counted as Quay man until the
day of the vote, when it was announc-
ed that he was paired against Quay.
1t would be interesting TO know how
Mr.. Mckinley induced Senators Aid
rich and Beveridge, both Quay men,
to absent themselves without pairs.
Their votes would have seated Quay.
Mr.. Mckinley may, however, find his
triumph dearly bought one. as Mat
Quay is about as relentless an enemy
as any politician could possibly have
following his trail awaiting an oppor-
tunity to strike.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1900-12-20
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-10
WAFER N CROPS.

With April showers in the valleys and
a constantly increasing deposit Of snow
in the mountains. the prospects for an
abundant harvest this year are bright
ening daily, and the outlook on the
range is very different from what it
was two weeks ago.
Last winter was remiss in its duty to
tbs intermOuntain region. The storms
were few and far between. The SHOWS
were unevenly distributed. There were
districts where seed and soil began to
blow away in clouds of dust, and where
farmers had made up their minds to
abandon every idea Of trying to raise
any sort Of a crop this year. We trust
this rainfall will induce them to recon
slider that resolve
March vas unusually fair and warm.
and the little snow that lay in some of
the southern mountains melted away
This storm may replace il. but the chief
value of the precipitation now favoring
Utah is in the soaking the ranges and
valleys are receiving.
1t means fat cattle and plenty of
wheat and, if these foreign wars con-
tinue, the wheat and MEET of the west
ought to bring good prices.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-10
COST OF THE CANAL.

Reader wants to know how much
the Nicaragua canal has cost to date,
how much work has been done and
what lie the lowest estimate on the
canal.
Aside from the expense Of recent ex-
plorations and estimates ordered by
congress fof the purpose of throwing
light on the project and making clear
whether a waterway across the
Isthmus of Panama or via Rio San Juan
and Lake Nicaragua would be the
better and cheaper, a considerable
amount of work has actually been done.
The exact cost is unknown, and the
approximate outlay can only be esti-
mated from the nature of the country
already traversed.
The excavation has been done princi-
pally along the line of the lower level
in the flat country east of the noun
tains and through the GW amps of the
San Juan river.
The heavy work lies in the noun
tain section, where a very deep cut Of
about five miles is to b. made. Part
of the work done so far has been pre-
paratory to this, ae a railroad will
be required in the cut. To complete
the canal Will require 500, 600, 900. The
canal company claims to have ex-
pended several millions but the esti-
mate given is based upon the entire
construction, it is said.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-10

states, whether seaboard or in
terror, get thei- proportion of river and
harDor appropriations, but the arid states
OF the west ger nothing, even while thev
contribute their share TO these expenses.
More than that, these western states
are obliged to contribute to the $780,
100000 a year being expended in trop-
ical Asiatic islands ito D a place
for our surplus population" while
millions of acres Of rich, productive
soil, susceptible to irrigation and capa-
BILE Of a high state of cultivation lie
here and there in tracts as large as
the islands of the Philippine archipela-
go awaiting government attention.
One-tenth Of the amoun required in
clearing off these Oriental islands
would make homes for 10000, 900 Of
people in the arid west, without taking
one penny from the annual expend-
itures for internal Improvements in the
east and south.
Yet there are westerners too partisan
or too blind TO their best interests to
see or to admit that they see this.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-10
POPULATION RATIOS.

A correspondent inquiries concerning
"the relative proportion of male and
female inhabitants in this and in some
Of the larger nations of the earth"
According to the eleventh census, in
1890, there were in this country 32,O67,-
$50 males and 90, $50, $40 females.
In almost every country in Europe.
except France, where the population is
evenly divided between the sexes, there
is a preponderanee OF females. The
ratio, according to the latest statistics,
is rs follows: In Portugal there are
1,OS4 women to 1000 men; in Sweden,
1904; in Norway 1,O49; in Great
Britain. 1,O47; Spain, 1,O45; Switzerland,
1,040; Germany. 1.O39; Austria, 1904;
Russia, 1.O27, and France, 1,OO4.
The ratio varies in the various cities
Of this country. The male population
Of New York in 1890 was 4 1879, the
female 767, 100: in Chicago the numbers
were 56S. 402 males to 531, 44S females; in
Philadelphia 81, 122 males and 535, S42
females; in Boston the figures
were 217. 754 males and 2SO, 1923
females, and in st. Louis 22S, ia males,
22S. $50 females. In Salt Lake City there
are more men than women as there are
throughout the state. The exact pro-
portion Will be discovered within the
next few months. as the taking Of the
twelfth census is to begin in June.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-10
THE RAPIDS.

1t is announced that Judge Jacob
Johnson and his court stenographer,
Attorneys HOutz. Warner and White
cotton of Provo, Judge L. r. Rhodes
and Lawyer Woods of southern Utah,
are on their way to the Grand river
to embark in a large boat for a fish
ing and hunting excursion down to
Moab.
They propose to shoot the rapids"
says the report of their departure, and
it's ten to one that they won't shoot
anything else on the trip. The map
fails to indicate just where t hese
rapids are located. and we have Sc
rious doubts as to whether anything
more rapid than that aggregation of
legal luminaries will be found between
the place they cut loose from their
mornings and where they expect to
leave footprints on the sands of Grand
county.
The sober and industrious popula-
ton of Moab viii doubtless be aston
ished when his boatload OF orators
is seen approaching loaded down with
the rapids they nave shot. Naturally
the first impression Of the populace will
be that the Uncompahgre Utes are off
their reservation egain. in which event
the crew viii be awakened with a
shot across Judge Johnson's bow. 1t
will be necessary then to raise Warner
to the perpendicula1ity of a mast and
to run up Whitecotton as a sign of
peace.
If the Moabites are wise as they
always appear to be. they viii present
a protocol to be signed before the party
is allowed to land. After which court
will convene with the s~tenographer in
his place
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-10
FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM.

The Beers are fighting to preserve
their national integrity and independ-
ence. They are meeting the invader
with as much heroism and intelligence
as did our revolutionary forefathers
and with more unanimity and better
immediate success than distinguished
the rebellion of the American colonies
in 1776.
This would seem to indicate, as the
former assistant secretary OF the in
terror at Washington says that they
are not coerced by Kruger, that they
are far from being the slaves of tyran-
nous task-masters the Anglicized
American press has painted them, but,
on The contrary, are alive to their
rights and imbued with the spirit Of
freedom.
There are reasons 10 believe that they
have inherited their stubborn indie
pendent natures from the source of
that inspiration upon which the New
Englanders drew in the last century,
when they rejected a system Of tax
alton similar to our Porto Rican tariff
' anu iSiOuAlCeu the governing
power at the cost of being called
traitors by the hirelings Of King
George and the Tories who truckled to
his favor.
This is the first time in the history
of this republic when any people fight
ing for their freedom failed to find
inspiration and encouragement in the
sympathy Of the United States gov
eminent.
Yet our Anglomaniac administration
IS silent; worse than dumb, as this ex-
Official, high in the counsels of his
party and eminent in official circles.
says; it is manifestly in sympathy with
the English aggressor. This is the
silence Of Torylsm.