Published Every Thursday. Volume 4. Y"'A/ Va/ V/ V nA /v VA/ v ! Twenty Years in Dushore. The largest and best stock of We ever had for the \ jfall ai * Minter XCrafce S The finest line of r Kolidai) Goods, / Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan N County " S RETT EN BURY, J USHORE, PA THE JEWELER. ) U* lVv ♦ ♦ ♦FOR A wT-a GENERAL naru^NARDWARE m r \RKSHES and GLASS. PAINTS, OILS, V. g|Yop Q^J SPECIAL inducement 4 PANGES wiuvts anu *1 EATING STOVES and all kinds of » 'irehes, school houses, for Wood or Coal, suitable for parlors, halls, ch, wood heaters from camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight S.'i.OO to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from 82.50 up to 530... My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of heaters sliglitlj damaged by water. Good ;is new, but they must be sold (IIKAI Tf in need of a cheap heater, call early. My "Dockash" Ranges are without a question the linest in the market, made up of the bebt material and designed to l>e a handsome Range. Furnaces always the best on the market. In fact we are ready to heat the universe either in h>t water, steam or air. Iry us, we guarantee satisfaction. STOV REPAIRS ANDRE PA I 111 NG. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES. MILL SUPPLIES. Goles Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. HPgJ ■. »S. •- tJLdS" - This stove is the very best one mame for Cold Weather. (its name ) "Maple Clemont" We keep sizes No. 11 and 24. Wood is putin top Keeps fire over night. Cast iron lining. For prices write us. Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. Republican News Item. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 190(1. Wanted at once for cash —.IOOO cords Bass wood Cut 4 1-2 feet long, sto 15 inch es diameter. Apply to AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, SONESTOWN, PA. 'HOTEL MAINE THOB. W. BEAIIEN, Prop. LAPORTE, PA. This new hotel lias been recently o|>plU'<l, newly furninlH.il throughout and will Ih- run fur tlit: stieiinl Accomodation of the traveling public, i The Inst stocked bar in,the county. Kates lire low. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEPE, Proprietor. DIJSIIORK, JM. One (.f (he lurgcfli an«l bt*>f (»{uij»|K'd hotel." in tbi* feotiou oft.be ftate. TaMu or the best. Ri.te? 1.00 dollar per day. Large f»t lilep. BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP Just opened at the Import^ Tannery. Cuaiooi work solicited. All work guaranteed. O. W. BENNETT, Prop. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. , LAPORTE l'A. This largt and ve I np|>oinre the most popular hostel a hoU(JO \ 9 r y j n Feeti on "ORT P L4K HOTEL. P. W, OALJLiAOHEH, Prop. Newly erected. >? Opposite Court llouse si|uare.y.Steam beat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, readinjf*,aml~pool room.and barber'shop: also'jiood stabling and livery, YYM P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at Law. • Office in County Building. LAPORTK, PA. Collections, conveyancing: the settlement of estates and other legal business will receive prompt attention. 1 J. BRADLEY, ATTORHBY-AT-I.AW, orrica is coiihtv building NEAR COURT DODBR. LAPORTE, I'A First; national bank OK DITSIIORK, PKXNA. CAPITAL - $50.000. BUKPLUS - - #IO.OOO. I I)oh« a (ieiteral IWnking liusineHH. B.W ;.l 1-..N N INIIS. M. I). SWARTS. President. (ashler J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTiJIINKVs AT-'I.A W, lrfgul bus'nusd iiltenilml In in lids and ndjimdng no' ut ec _APoRTK. ''A F J. MULLEN, Attorney-»t-Law. LAPORTE. PA. Office over T.M. Keeler's store. J > H. CRON'IN, NOTARY PUBLIC. orrica on maiw stiibbt. DIISIIORK, ''A Cash prices FOR HORSESHOEING No 2 Shoes 65c No 3 Shoes 75c No 4 Shoes 85c No 5 Shoes 1.00 C. T. FULLER, i ESTELLA, PA. t ' A STUPENDOUS WORK OPENING OF THE THIRTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLAR CANAL. Lake Michigan to Shake Hands With the Gulf of Mexico—A Great Tri umph for Scientific Engineering— Its Primary Object. The 935,000,000 canal ut Chicago, at present used for sewage disposal, but ultimately to be a ship canal also, is in use to-day, after seven years of hard work by the Sanitary District, which is the name of a corporation includ ing the larger part of the city of Chi cago and many of its suburbs. At least the Chicago end of it is in use. Probably never before has the com pletion of a public work of such mag nitude been marked with such abso lute lack of ceremony. There were no speeches, no exercises, no cheering. There was a grand rush of water, to be followed by the cheers o' <<ner" " —• , , L a* lutfii iuuccu, vut opoiiuig ot the canal resembled more the tiny stream of water that flowed over the Holland until it swept a great hole in the wall Dyke, and grew larger and larger, of the earth. This is the way the great canal was opened. This method was used to avoid the danger of a great rush of water, but it robbed the open ing of all impressiveness. What is called the Collateral Chan nel has been completed for some time from a branch of the Chicago River in the southewestern part of the city to within fifteen feet of the canal. The canal has been built to carry 300,000 cubic feet a minute, but only about 50,000 feet will be admitted until the channel is full. If the Chicago River had been turned into the empty canal at the rate of 300,000 ieet a min ute the engineers would have feared for the safety of th« numerous bridge piers in the canal channel and for the controlling works at Loekport and the city of Joilet. There would have been also great daiger in the Chicago River from a sudden fall of water and consequent inrushing from Luke MicV.- igan. These are the reasons the water is being admitted gradually. Wednesday, Jan. 3, at noon, the water reached Loekport. There it falls into the Desplaine uiver. and then into the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, and so finally Lake Michigan will shake hands with the Gulf of Mex ico. Chicago people are already eager ly watching the effect on the Chicago River of the opening of the canal. This stream, which is so objectionable in its present condition, is expected to he comparati 'ely pure, and certainly to lose all its features objectionable from a sanitary point of view when the I present stagnation gives way to a full, ! strong current from Lake Michigan. CRIMINAL. Adolphus W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer of the Army, was badly injured Sunday in a scuffle with a drunken man who tried to force an entrance to the Greely homo, an old-fashioned house in a most respectable but not a modern part of the city, under the impression that it was a questionable resort. Gen. Greely was thrown down a flight of stone steps and received a severe scalp wound, from which he lost a great deal of biood. He was stunned iy the fall and remained un consioits ror nearly an hour. A physi cian dressed the wound and applied restoratives. He found no fracture of the skull and It is not believed that the injury will prove dangerous. The assailant is in the hands of the police. Joel G. Tyler, late teller of the Safe ty National Rank of Ftchburg". Massa chusetts, has ben sentenced to serve live years in jail for embezzling funds of the bank. At Pineville, Oregon, as the result of a quarrel in a Piute Indian camp, Matthew Wewa killed his wife, fatal ly wounded his brother. Charley, and two squaws and killed himself. Charles Wilson and "Zack" Single ton. negro murderers, were banged at Charleston, South Carolina, Jan. 5. The trial of Julia Morrison James, the actress, for the murder of Prank Leidenheimer, stage manager of the ' company in which she was playing, has been begun in Chattanoogn. CONGRES3. ! ; What Is Going On at the National Capital. The Senate Committee on Priv ileges and Elections has taken favor able action upon Senator Chandler's resolution prohibiting the appoint ment. of Senators, Representatives and United States Judges to perform executive functions. It has also de cided. by a vote of 4 to 3, to make an adverse report on the resolution to I seat ex-Senator quay. It has likewise j began its investigation of the charges of bribery made in connection with ! the election of Senator Clark, of Mon | tana. 'lh. da . t>r of flic bubonic plague J readmit; 13■ <• »l»v:\s of the United I States from the < irient on the Pacific j side of the ec: <i ut is T>renounced to i be even lor-:-. :V..m on the Atlantic i side by the .Mi:n no Hospital Service | officials. They have studied the ap ! pearance and progress of the plague ' from the start, and declare that it can | be stamped out as easily as scarlet [ fever or similar contagious diseases, j The alarm at present is not so much for the United as for the Philippines. Our transports have been stopping at Hong Kong all the past summer and fall without any danger of contact with the plague districts. For all the years the Civil Service Commission has been doing business, it has followed the desultory course of maintaining no list of special or technical eligibles for vacancies that may occur. The result has been that when some technical expert drops out of his place by death or resignation, the commission, after several inter views with the department or bureau head who is interested in getting the best man possible in the vacancy, ad vertise that examination will be held, and circulars are sent all over the : country giving the qualifications re- , quired, the nature of the examination and much other data. To do this takes ! time, and it is often months before the ' eligible and suitable man is found. At the opening of the Senate Jan. 3 i a large number of important bills were | introduced and a definite foundation laid for proceeding with the Financial , bill. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, ob jected to the summary disposition of I resolutions asking for information about the conduct of the Philippine j war, and indicated- a purpose to de mand consideration for such mean- | ures, even at the expense of the Finan cial bill. The House was in session Wedne.s- i ' " about fifteen minutes, and during i'hot t\ me ' uu ' il little Hurry o, or an at tempt of Mi. ?" lzer ; York to secure consideratioi. , , asking information conci n ' ms l f lc re lations of the Treasury department with the National City Flank 1,1 , M York. The resolution was rofe. r . et < | to the Committee on Ways and M(?J! 8 - Every twelfth man who enlisted iiJ the recent war with Spain, according to official statements, has applied for a pension. Already there are 25.000 applications on file in the Pension Bu reau. and there will necesarily be a considerable addition to this. These 25,000 applications, strange as it may seem, have been made through Wash ington attorneys. As there were 342,- 000 enlistments and 40,000 re-enlist ments, it is easy to estimate the pro portion of men who were disabled in the short campaign in Cuba. The testimony in the case of Mr. Roberts, of Utah, is about closed, and it is probable the report ol' the com mittee will be presented to the house soon after the reassembling of Con gress. It is proposed to call as a wit ness Marshal Letcher, of Salt Lake City, and with Letcher's testimony the case against Roberts is likely to close. It Is expected to prove by the Marshal that the third Mrs. Roberts was married prior to the issuance of the amnesty pioclaniation under which Roberts claims immunity from prosecution. Mr. Taylor says he is satisfied that l ho report will be unani mous. DEATH RECORD. The Rev. Or. Edward McGlynn died Sunday afternoon at Newburgh, New York, of heart failure. Rev. Vivtor L. Conrad. 1). I)., Ph. D., editor emeritus of the Lutheran Ob server, is dead, in his 76th year. Rev. William DOrvllle Doty, aged 65, rector of Christ Church, Buffalo, New York, died Jan. 5. He had just finished his twenty-third year as rec tor of the church. Brigadier General W. A, Hammond, retired, formerly \ urge o General of the Army, is dead! Robert Breck • l'foprietor of "Brigham's" a wr xnown hotel and restaurant at Boston, is dead, at the age of seventy-three years. He left an estate valued at $3,000,000. Advices from Itioi de .Tanorio, Bra zil, announces the death of Dr. Domin go Freire, an eminent experimenter with yellow fever serum. Dr. Friere was born in Rio 50 years ago. James D. Kelly, of Garbuttsville, N. Y., died Jan. 'J. He was the inventor of the modern headlight used ou loco motives. and it was tlie boast of his life that he had illuminated the whole railroad world. The Rev. Frederick J. Masters, for j fourteen years superintendent of the I Pacific Methodist Chinese Mission, ' died at San Francisco Jan. 2. Jacob C. Rogt.a prominent bank er, and for many ye. -s the represents tive of J. P. Morgan & Co., of New- York, died suddenly at his homo in Boston Jan. 2, aged 72 years. William Buchanan, aged 83 years, father of State Librarian Henry C. Buchanan, is dead at Trenton, N. J. 1.25 Per. Yr Number | THE TRANSVAAL WAH | BRITISH SEEM TO HAVE BETTER FORTUNE. A Full Summary of the Transvaal War News—Progress of the Con flict From Day to Day—The British Encouraged. Gen. French reports that four com panies of the First Suffolk Regiment, attacked a Boer position in Cape Col ony. Lieut.-Col. Watson, in command, was wounded, and a retreat was or dered. Three-fourths of the British forces reached the camp, but seventy were compelled to surrender, includ ing seven officers. There are rumors in London that Gen. Buller has already begun his ad vance toward the relief of Ladysmith. Preliminary skirmishing is going on along the 'i ugela River, and the great battle there will probably soon be fought if it has not alreadv'practically begun. I here have been military successes scored by the British forces under Generals Gatacre and French in Cape Colony, although the town of Douglas which had been captured, has been evacuated. Moltena, which the Boers occupied, was abandoned after a hot skirmish, and the outlook is reported brighter for the British arms. General Buller s advance, near Colenso, has been replying warmly to the Boer at tack on l.adysmith, but the opposing forces have not yet engaged in a reg ular battle. A vigorous- shelling of the Boer trenches on the plain, near Krere Camp in Xatnl, forced the burgher; to shift their position after their horses had stampeded. Since Boer Commandant General Jonbert a return to the front the can nonade of Ladysmith by the Boer.s lias been much livelier. Between De cember IS and December 29 four shells killed one officer and thirteen men and wounded thirteen officers and eleven men. It is reported that the British enroll ing agent has been arrested at Kor betha, Prussia. I he total British casualties about Colesberg, Cape Colony, in two days were six men killed and twentv wound ed. A despatch from Pretoria says the Boers consider it a great compliment to the Transvaal that Lord Roberts should have been selected to the su preme command of tV British forces The British War Office reports a successful raid by Colonel Pilchers troops in Cape Colony on a large force of Boers, which were routed and forty made prisoners. The casuallties were not heavy on either side. A move has been made at Brussels to induce the United States to offer mediation in the British-Boer war. CASUALTIES. At Ottawa. Ontario, Julien Schink and Joseph Lai.'ria, while crossing the Canada AtlahV Railroad in a carriage, were structt u- a train and killed. Four workmen were ki.->d Jan. .") by an explosion of dynam,-. near Pock wood, Tennessee. Alderman Thomas F. tiyan, sup intendent of the Evanston, Illinois, Gas Works, died on Tuesday night of asphyxiation, the result of an unex plained accident at the plant. His as sistant, William Miller, is at the point of death. Three persons were killed and three badly burned by an explosion of gun powder at the home of C. M. Patter son, in Lowndes county, Alabama, on Monday. Ellen Labash was shot and instantly killed Monday at Passaic, N. J., by Michael Schwartz, it is claimed, acci dentally. Hildretii Pierce. 15 years old, was ; drowned in East Lake. Bridgeton. N. 1 J., Jan. 1. William iillis, wife and two child ren, were burned to death in their home near Barbonrsvllle, West Vir ginia, Monday. A despatch from Wantago. Eng land, says that Richard Croker. who lias been staying at a country house near there, slipped while mounting a horse, owing to the animal swerving, and broke ins leg. The young Indiana pugiist. known to ring patrons as "Kid" McCoy, but whose real name is Norman Selby. surprised a crowd of C.OOO spectators at the Coney Island Sporting Club Monday by knocking out Peter Maher, of Ireland, in the fifth round. There was never a period when Maher classed with his opponent in scientific methods. McCoy showed a vast im provement over his previous form, lie was wonderfully clever both in landing blows and in defensive tac tics, and at every stage of the battle tie showed that his brain had mapped out the affair before he enterei the ring. Ho kenw that Maher was a terrific puncher, but he figured that if he could avoid the Irishman long enough he would lie able to beat him with that sharp, clan powerful blow that has beaten other men before. The knockout came at an unexpected moment. It was atf.er Maher bad been indulging in a fierce attack, and had shown increasing strength ail through the fourth round and tli«- he ginning of the fifth. But a couple of quick smashes stopped the Irishman's ons"aught and then came an opening for McCoy's left, which took the money. McCoy furnished an adUi tional surprise by outpunching Maher in several mixups. but that was be cause he was more accurate with His blows, while Peter ..ntny.
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