LAPOUTE, PA., Apttifi 17th, 1891. LOCAL DEPARTMENT Base ball will soon be in season. LaPorte still has a few street loafers. May term of court convenes on the 25th. The outlook for fruit is said to be excellent. Nearly everybody is complaining of bad roads. The law took its course at La- Porte, on Monday. Granulated sugar is selling at 6J cents a pound at LaPorte. A first class lumber wagon for sa le—inquire at this office. H. C. Reeder, was appointed citj* engineer of Williamsport, recently. A new Auditor's Notice in legal column— Atty. F. H. Ingham audi tor. A large flock of wild ducks, were seen on Lake Mokoma, one day last week. John O. Wilson of Sonestown, was transacting business in town, on Monday. M. M. Marks the one price clothier of Dusbore, has a new ad this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Richart form erly of Dushore, are visiting friends at LaPorte. The metropolis of thp county, was well represented at LaPorte, on Tuesday. The farmers as well as the printers Would like to have a few days of iiunshine. ' Hon. W. C. Rogers of Forksville, v-'as transacting business at the j c ounty seat, on Tuesda}'. The sheriff sale of the personal j iroperty of John Clark, on Tuesday, Was quite largely attended. BORN —To Mr. and Mrs. Win. ) lei in of LaPorte —a big bouncing boy on Tuesday April 7th. Constable Gwinncr of Dushore, ivas transacting business at thu bounty seat, on Tuesday. There are 17 cases put down for trial at May term of court, as will be •loticed in trial list elsewhere. Atty. J. G. Scou'ten of Dushore, attended the sheriff sale of the Clark i property, at LaPorte, on Tuesday. Hon. U. S. Collins and G. E. Donahoe, both of were iloing business at LaPorte, on Tues ■ day. Mrs. J. H. Spencer and her two j little children, Walter and Mable, of La Porte, are visiting friends in j Philadelphia. Miss Winnie Keeler of LaPorte, vlro was five years old on Saturday, a birthday party to her many little friends. LOST :—A gold watch charm ; the finder will confer a favor on the owner by leaving the same at the "lEPUBLirJAX office. A recruiting office has been open ed at Williamsport to receive able ">odied unmarried men into the Jutted States Army. James P. Walsh of LaPorte, dis posed of that spirited team of lorses that caused a panic in Dushore ast week,'on Monday. The weather prognosticator pre icts seven kinds of winter weather for April and May. Thus far he las been quite successful. Monday was a real spring like clay, the first of the season, and it brought about several cases of >ring fever in this vicinity. The trout fishing season Opened v Wednesday the 15th. Who will be the first to catch a mess? We will go two to one on Baker. George Mead of LaPorte town hip is the owner of a pretty good rorse—perhaps the fastest trotter in ;his section of the county. FOK SALE :—A first class lumber wagon. Will sell for cash or note with proper indorsment. For urther information call at the RE UBLICAN office. E. S. Chase of Eagles Mere, ex pressed eight or ten lake trout to senator Cooper and W. F. McCully, ditor of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin , on Thursday last, that ■.veraged 18 inches in length. They vere captured in Lewis' Lake. Miss Anna Sheehan of LaPorte, who has been spending the winter with friends in New York, returned home on Thursday. She reports an excellent time. George Cole of LaPorte, who has been in the employ of James Mc-i Farlane & Co., for some time, moved to Columbia county his form er home, on Monday. With oats retailing at 70c per bushel and chop $2.00 a hundred, we don't wonder that there are so many sheriff sales of stock holders throughout the country. The little pair of shoes and con gratulations, tendered one of our young and unmarried land ladies, the latter part of last week, were not received in the best of humor. Protbonotary Walsh is suffering much pain from the tooth ache. On Tuesday be was compelled to retire to his room. Alphonsus is thinking very seriously of investing in a store set. Now that candidates for President are beginning to loom up, it is be coming very apparent that the peo ple are inclined to grow enthusiastic whenever reference is to Blaine. James Gainer of Cherry Mills and Miss Bridget Farley, of Wilmott Bradford county, were married on Wednesday of last weeK, Rev. Fr. Enright officiating. Congratula tions. The county officials all had a big dayoD Monday. The Prothonotary, the deputy Sheriff and the Justice of the Peace, were all head over heels in business. The excitement was great. Chas. Lauer of LaPorte, pur chased a horse at the sheriff sale, on Tuesday for $15.00 and in less than fifteen minutes after the purchaser exchanged it for $'22.50. Nothing slow about Charley. Mrs. W. T. Watrous will give the social at Mrs. Wm, A. Mason's Fri day evening April IT. All are cordially invited. The \V. C. T. A. will meet at the same place Thurs day April 23rd. Jacob Lorah of Sonestown, who is disposing of his stock of merchan dise at auction, on each Saturday, is meeting with excellent success. For cheap goods goto Sonestown on Saturdays and buy at auction. W. B. Snider of Nordmont, will Expose at public sale several fine work horses 1 umber wagons, one fresh cow, one platform wagon and numerous other articles, on Satur day April 18, 1891. For further infoi mation see hand bill. E S. Chase superintendent of the property owned by the Eagles Mere Land Company, will please accept thanks for a Giie mess of lake trout presented the editor one day last week. They were caught in Lewis Lake and were beauties, measuring 15 and J 6 inches. A. fiuschhauseu and Wm. Zarres, recent employes ot the LaPorte tannery, have resigned their posi tions at said place and will leave for Torpedo, Warren county in the near future where they have ac cepted a position under tleir old superintendent, Richard English. It was thirty years on the 12th, of this month, since the War for secession and slavery fairly opened by the firing on Fort Sumpter. Monuments are strewed over our land in memory of those sad and in teresting days. Many are the widows and orphans who will look upon those monuments with fond recollections, on Memorial Day. Atty. J. H. Cronin of Dushore, who was appointed Auditor by the court to distribute the funds arising from the Sheriff Sale of the Fishing Creek Lumber Company, met those interested in the mctter at the Court House, on Wednesday. There was quite a number of creditors preseirt, of Jamison, and they were frank to let their business known. Mrs. Dunham, mother of E. M. Dunham, of LaPorte, is circulating a subscription paper for the purpose of erecting a side walk from Muncy street to the cemetery. Mrs. Dun ham is the oldest person in town and much credit is due her for the enterprise she is, and has shown in the improvement of Mountain Ash cemetery. It is the request of Mrs. .Dunham that the walk be laid before Memorial Day. We acknowledge receipt of invita ' tion to attend the Reception of the "Whist Club"of Dushore, m Garey's Hall on this Thursday evening, April 16th. The committee, Mrs. Fred Newell and Misa Jackson will please accept thanks for the same. The season of the year has arrived for cleaning up the refuse and garb age in the back alleys and other out-of-the-way places. Each house holder should see that his own prem ises are cleaned up and the cellars thoroughly renovated. By such means disease and doctor's bills may be obviated. It is just about time the English sparrows were exterminated. They are now not only destroj*ing the pear buds, but peach and cherry buds as well. The fact is those having fruit trees on their lots in town, will Gnd the large majority of the fruit buds thereon, destroyed by the sparrows. Of the $4,000,000 of proposed state appropriations for the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893, one-fourth the amount has been voted by var ious legislations. The amount given by Pennsylvania is $150,000. Arkansas and South Dakota legisla" tures refused to make any appro priation. We don't take any stock in goods advertised by posters. This kind of advertising does well enough for parties closing out, but old and es tablished business places of the county should use the press to let people know what they have to dis pose of at a bargan. Our town was flooded with posters Sent in from abroad the early part of this week. The number of Sunday schools in the United States is 108,252; num ber of teachers, 1,1-13,190; scholars, 8,463,225 ; number of schools in the world, 183,390; number of teachers, 1,999,569; number of scholars, 17,- 716,212. Several Bishops of the Methodist church wants to have the name Sunday school changed to "Church Assembly." The Gazette and Review of Du shore, are quarreling about who h:>s the most advertising. Without a good part of the legal advertising no paper will pay very large in Sullivan county, hence, in our mind the Gazette is receiving double the amount of cash received by the lie view. A business man of Dushore and a good advertiser informed us of the price be is paying the Ri view for advertising; at such low rates, we don't wonder he has a few new ads each week. (j. 11. Clark of LaPorte, was ar rested for "conspiricy to defraud creditors'' on Monday and lodged in the county jail on the same date, owing to the absence of parties who would go his bail to the amount of five hundred dollars. The cause of the action was something like this : On Sunday April sth late at night John Clark son of Gk H. Clark lef*. for parts unknown and considerably in debt. Among the creditors ap peared H. J. Shaylor of Towanda. The amount of his debt was $l5O - Shaylor called at LaPorte last week and learned that the old gentle man Mr. Clark had considerable to do with helping his son off, hence the litigation, resulting as above stated. LATTER: —Mr. Clark was bailed out on Tuesday evening. Signs of Spring, If you read these learned maxims and take note ot each small thing, you may come to be a prophet and foretell a gladsomo spring. When trees begin to blossom and the vio lets to bloom ; when the bulifrogß in the meadows warble boom ah-boom ah-booui; when ducks are flying northward and bright butterflies are out, and robins go housekeeping in the broken waterspout; when grasshoppers are hopping, and black bats, come out at night, and venture in your bedroom attracted by the light; when birds fly down the chimney, and liens walk in the door, and beetles hold conventions in the centre of the floor; when the mud is o'er your shoe tops as you cross the new-ploughed land and you may count on it as certain that eweet spring has come. Don't shed your j heavy undershirt until these things 1 have come to pass. William H. Painton of S:nestown, Sullivan County Arrested for Murder. William H. Painton whom we an. nounced in our columns last week as the murderer of Mrs. Elizabeth Stroininger of Lewisberry, Yorkl county, on the night of March 31st 1891, proved to be the Sullivan county Win. Painton who is a resi dent ot Sonestown. He was ar rested at his home in Sonestown on Wednesday evening of last week having come to said place on Tues day the 7th. The arrest was made by two detectives of Harrisburg who were informed of Painton's where abouts by Dan Smith who was ar rested on Monday the 6th and jvho it will be remembered was the per son who planned to rob the old Mr. Stroininger, but was taken ill on the fatal Tuesday night, March 31st, and detailed a brother to do his part of the plunder. Painton, how ever was the one selected to enter the house and make the demand of the old ifid invalid man who, at the time was sulfering from rheumatism and could not more from his chair without assistance. When Painton made the demand for the old man's money he was masked and drew a revolver from his pocket. This frightened the old lady and she started for the door but was caught by Painton, thrown to the floor, tied, hand and foot and gaged witli a large red iiandkerchief, the same being found on Painton's person and is supposed to be the identical one that sutlieated the murdered woman. Painton while in the squabble with the old lady, lost his mask which af forded the old man a chance to look upon his countenance and proved very beneficial to the detec tives. After Painton had finished this job he returned to the old man and demanded in ernest the where abouts of his money, when he was told in a drawer in the adjoining room. Painton made the ransack and secured eight hundred dollars in gold and silver. With this com pleted he returned to the old lady and removed the obsticlesand found that she was either dead or nearly so. lie then in company with Frank' Smith who remained on the outside went to a doctor in the villiage and summoned him togo as quickly as possible to the residence of Mr. Strominger as the Mrs. was in a precarious condition. On the ar rival of the doctor, however she was found to be dead. Detectives were immediately set to work anil a reward of fifteen hun dred dollars offered for the capture of the villain which proved very ef fective. The arrest of Painton in his mother's house at Sonestown proved very interesting as described bv citizens of that town. The officers arrived at Sonestown on the f>:2o p. m. train of the W. & X. 15. drove down to Muncy Valley and secured the assistance of Constable Holier and had their warrant endorsed by Justice of the Peace Thomas S. Sim mons, from thence they went to tile house of Mrs. Painton accompanied by Holler and station agent Mr. liall. On their arrival to the house they spyed their prey through a window sitting by a table reading in a book. The two assistance wen stationed at either door and the of ficers entered, revolvers in hand and commanded him to throw up his arms. Painton showed grit and in stead of obeying the command he sprang for his captors and made a desperate struggle for freedom. He was overpowered, however, and was made i.n easy victim by the use of hand cuffs. The mother of Painton joined in the fight, and it is said made the fur fly for a short time, l'ainton was taken to the Magargle Hotel and placed in a room where he was watched by the detectives and on Thursday morning taken to Harrislmrg and placed in jail, with his companion Dan Smith who identi fied him as the man who murdered ! Mrs. Strominger. Frank Smith, brother of Daniel Smith, was arrest ed on Tuesday, the 7th, and is now in safe keeping in the York county jail. WHO PATNTON 18. William H. Painton the alleged mur derer of Mrs. Strominger, lias re sided in Davidson township Sullivan county a good part of his life. He is 35 years of age and h&b borne a bad reputation for many j'ears. fie has been convicted of larceny on two occasions in Sullivan county and in both instances was sentenced to a term in the Eastern Penitentiary where lie learned the trade of shoe making We also understand that he has served one or two terms from Lycoming county. The out come of this case will be looked for with much interest by Sullivan county people and to afford them tliis opportunity the REPUBLI CAN will give the evidence in full. u SPUING! « ) ( Clothing of onr good Philadelphia make is waiting for 3011! Our MENS, BOYS and LItTLE BOYS SUITS spring' over coats and Trousers will interest you. ARE YOU HARD TO FIT? If so, give us a call and we will fit you out with the finest clothing for the smallest price. DON'T FORGET WE MAKE ALL KINDS OF CLOTHING TO ORDER AND GUARANTEE PERFECT FIT. You must see our NEW HATS, CAPS,. Neckwear. Shirts, Summer Jerseys and Flannells, Boots, Shoes, Trunks, Umbrellas etc., and you will realize how much good value there is to be had for a little money. At The One Price Clothing House. M. M. MARKS & CO. Prop SCOUTEN'S BLOCK. - DUSHORE, Pa. Factory, 18 North 3rd St., Philadelphia, Pa. FURNITURE HR} FURNITURE i We are offering Furniture Cheaper than ever before, and are bound to please in price and quality. Our large and elegant stock of chairs, Fancy, antique and ancient looking, are bound to catch the eye of every purchaser. Cheap Bed steads, Bed room suits of all price and qualit j from $15.00 upwards. Fancy Cabinets, Fancy Mirrors, Foot Rests, Blacking Oases, Card Tables &c. Come everybody, Happy to show Goods, whether you buy or not. We also have constantly on haud, a full and complete assortment df WOOD O&SjZSTS, 3 Coffins, Robes, Trimmings, &c. Also a new line of STOIfE Caskets which are beautiful in design covered with Black Broadcloth. Plush and Satiens and constitue within themselves Miniature Vaults, and are furnished at prices within reach of all. Please call and examine our Model, as we are the only dealers that handle Stone Caskets in Sullivan' county. Lawrence] Brothers. JACKSON S BLOCK. BUSIIORE, PENNA. — KR 0 M = S&XE'S BLOCK BOOT -!• AND *■" SHOE-!- STORE' J. S. HARRINGTON Proprietor Dushore, - - Pa -"t —x xx- -x —x— x It will pay you before purchasing to call and examine my large stock of new and well selected goods. Laige sales enables me to sell forsmal! v profits. Cash customers can save a good percentage by buyinggoods ot inc. Everything new neat and first class. My stock of French Kid hand turned goods are very fine and low in All goods guaranteed in price and in quality to be the best that any market can afford. _ t - -4- -x- -j- -t- —x— —x~ -t- BOOT'S & SHOES mad© to endear If you wantafine sewed boot or shoe try a sample pair. Repairing 1 done on short notice OASH PAID FOR HIDES PELTS, WOOL, TALLOW &c,, AT J. S. HARRINGTONS, DUSHORE, PA. june24,B7 TO raIfPITBIuI©! 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 I am prepared to meet any prices or quotations wiSh a first class and well selected stock of MEN'S, YOUTH'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING lishmentSjfor Custom Work. Perfect fits guaranteed. Call and get prices. Yours Respectfully etc., CKONIN'S NEW BLOCK, The First National Bank ot HUGHESVILLE Offers all the facilities for the transaction of o GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS' Accounts respectfully solicited. DEWITT BODJNE, Presidtnt C. Wm. WODDROP, Vice P-vsident. W. C. FRONTZ, Cashier. t+tt t t t t Ta E best and cheapest coal in the marke* Td'' customers from— , MPORTf JIND VISMrX THK price is reduced at (lie breaker to The State Line & Sullivan R. R Co I. O. BLIGHT, Prpt.
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