$159 mmEm LAPORTE, I*A. JULY, 20th, 1889. L33AL DEPARTMENT We are now on the down grade of | 1889. Lopez is the metropolis of the county. Working men are very scarce in La Porte. City guests arc arriving at La- Porte, daily. The weather last week was favor able for hay making. The latest: "three minutes in a j mile,"from the Mail. Last Sunday was a good day for the liverymen of Laporte. E. J. Flynn, outside boss at the LaPorte tannery, is on the sick list. I Geo. W. Fox of Ilughesville, was I in town doing business o' l Tuesday.; Miss Minnie Crossley of Denton, j Columbia coutity, is visiting friends | in town. I Chas. Humphety of Towanda, was registered at the LaPorte Hotel on Tuesday. Candidates for the fall election j are commencing to blossom in all , quarters. A reasonable man will accept a J poor situation until he can get a ; better one. Mrs. F. M. Crossley of LaPorte, j is visiting friends in Benton, Col-j umbia county. S.F.Colt, Jr., was transacting I business in Philadelphia, the early ; part of this week. County Commissioners of Penn sylvania will meet in Allentown on ■ Sept. ?itl 25th and 2Gth. It has been moved and seconded that the nominations for Sheriff ot Sullivan county be closed. James 11. Gansel of LaPorte i township, was transacting business in Towanda, on Tuesday last. Sealed bids for the building ol the new school house at LaPorte " ill be received until August 7tb, 'B9. Thos. Kennedy and John Boyd both of this place, were visiting friends in Dushoro, on Sunday last. Cherry street opposite Fairvicw Cottage has been repaired and now | presents a very creditable appear ance. A new maxim maker asserts that a fly in the hand is worth two in the soup. A sound philosopher has arrisen. J. E. Lacey of llillsgrove, a pro fessional horse doctor, was register ed at the Li Porte Hotel on Satur day last. Those of our delinquent subscribers who have received bills from this office, will save cost by promptly paying the samr,. Department Commander Thos. J. Stewart, of Philadelphia, says that ho will encamp 50,000 Grand Army men at Getty shiny in September. We will be pleased to receive from every locality in the county, items of news and communications that will be of interest to our readers. Stewart Chase purchased the hay on Maple Park and cut the same on Wednesday. The Park now pre sents a very creditable appearance. Miss Mattie B. Sinclair of La- Porte township, left for Muney last week, where she will attend the Muncy Normal School oi that place. The busy bees do not surpass the busy farmers at the present time. Storing away grain and hay is going on at as lively a gait as storing away honey. Mr. C. J. Coon and Miss Kattie Kennedy and Mr. John Tait and Miss Lizzie Downs, all of LaPorte, took a pleasure ride to Eagles Mere, on Sunday last. The Hotel Raymond four seat- d hack, of Eagles Mere, was conspic uous upon our streets Tuesday, heavily loaded with guests of that popular boarding house. Mr. Sherwood of Jamison City while skidding logs at that place was instantly killed by a fellan tree, on Friday last. The tree was decayed and it is supposed that the jar of the logs which Mr. Sherwood was haul ing caused it to fall striking him on the head and shoulders causing im mediate death. The Lake Mokonia Land Com pany are making preparations to riprap the Lake Mokoma dam. They will build the dam several feet higher and also widen the roadway several feet. I>r. J. C. Reifsnyder of Blooms burg who is spending a few weeks of the heated season at the 'Mere, made LaPorte a visit on Tuesday. The Doc lias many friends in La- Porto who were pleased to see him. The ladies of the M. E. Church of LaPorte, will hold a festival r the rooms under the Odd Fellows Hall, Saturday afternoon and evening, July 27. Supper served from <5 to 8 o'clock. Proceeds to be applied to the payment of Pastor's salary. Brother Newell you are condemn ed by brother J. !S. Ilamaker, of the Wyalusing llockct for deliberately j clipping from that paper matters of news without giving the same due credit. Are you guilty or not guilty ? Just out—"Robin's Farewell," Caprice for Piano, by Fisher. Brilliant, not difficult, and easy to commit to metnory. A capital piece for young progressive pianists. Mailed on receipt of 50 cts. in 2-et. postage stamps by any music dealer, or Ign. Fischer, the publisher, j Toledo, O. Chas. R. Funston wife and daugt- j er of Shamokin formerly of LaPorte,. meet with quite a serious accident on Sunday July the 14th, but fortun-1 ately escaped without prions in-1 juries. We give full account ot the misshrp, elsewhere in this issue clip ped from the Shamokin Tlerukl. The furniture wagon of Lawrence Bros., of Dushore driven by Eugene 1 Derail, visited our town on several occasions last week, heavily loaded with furniture. The Lawrence Bros, sell goods cheap and are patronised by a large percentage ol the Sullivan ; county people. j The Dushore Review says it is dull in Dushore—once the metropo lis of the county. It is said that Lopez lias 1-y fair and persevering J industries taken this title to itsself ; within the past year. Won/ler b\ what renown title the village of Dushore will be known in the future, 1 Come you editors should this important matter a thought. I John Utz of Dushore, so we are | told, will make his announcement as a candi iatt for Sheriff in the Gazette this week. We imagine t'ifl his local notice in the columns of that paper will be flattering in the extreme. The • her lin >o frys in the Democratic party who are seeking the nomination of Sheriff, will be called upon to take a back seat, by that journal. Will they heed the invitation? John Aunmiller of Eagles Mere was awarded the painting of tho ■ Presbyterian church at this place ! lor the sum of SIO.OO. Mr. Aun miller is said to be an A. No. 1 painter and the people of LaPorte jmay expect a good job at his hands. ;He will commence the. work next ! week, aud will finish the same be fore the expiration of the time set by the committee for doing the work, August tftth 811. Eugene Tripp of Laporte who is j engaged at Jamison City was home l on Saturday and Sunday and reports I business booming at the City. He says:—The foundation for the large [tannery which we have all heard so much about, has been commenced and the work of frameing the build ing is under headway. The engine formerly used 111 Col. CorcoranV Paw mill near Shun! will furnish powei to run the wheels in the new enterprise. Montrose, it is expected, will soon have an outlet to I'inghamton. Tin proposed extension of the narrow garge railrord is in a fair way of ac complishment. Engineers are at wolk seeking the best route. The glT.de is lbuiid to be good averag ing over the line already traversed less than ten feet per mile. There are short distances where ninety feet per mile is the highest grade. The cost of construe tion will not be heavy. \n effort will be made to interest capital iu the project, and it is thought t hat work will be com menced at HO early day. The ad vantages to shippers and to farmers will be great. The road will add to the chances of New Mi I ford becom ing the county seat of the projected new county to be cut from Susque hanna and Wayne. # NOTICE. Millinery goods reduced below cost. Miland straws 50c, each, formely SIOO. Canton straws 25c, formerly 75c. Sun hats 2525 c, Misses 19c. At the millinery store of Miss Ida J. Keeler, LaPorte Pa. A strolling Italian musician has an improvement on the monkey. It is a parrot which sings operatic music in a soprano voice that is heard for squares, and then collects coins from high window s. The bird can fly where the monkey would fail to reach. From the Montgomery Mirror : Tlie Mirror has it from n. reliable source that the Pennsylvania rail-j road will build a line on the east side from the bridge to W illism?- sport via Muncy and Montoursville. | It will be built, within the next eight- ■ ecn months and will be what might j be termed an emergency road, and j the through ti a flic for Elmira will ■ pass over that line, A STttANC.E VISITOR. Captuied on the premises of Mrs.' C. E. Grim in LaPorte borough, by j Larry Millmore, a genuine blue racer with a white ring around his neck. This second cousin of the lion family was four feet three inches j long. A s serpents of this kind are i not indigenous to this locality, it must have emigranted from the low lands of Muncy Creek below Sones— town, where they are comparatively plenty. No fear need be entertain ed of snakes of this character, their bite is not poisonous and they will not attack man cr beast. * Democratic papers are in great trouble about Pension Commissioner Tanner, and call loudly for his re moval, because he puts too liberal a construction on applications for pen sions and hurries them through. It is sing.'tar that these organs arc so distressed about elisions being paid. In the meantime the Commissioner goes steadily along recognizing the claims of veterans without paying any attention to his bitter enemies. KOI ICE. Sealed proposals will be reeeivt 1 until August 7th 'Si' at 2 o'clock p. m., by the School Directors of La porte borough for the building of a School House ins 'id Boro , accord ; ing to plans and specifications which i may be seen at the otlice of James j McFarlane Co. The proposals •diould be directed to James McFar lane, President of the Board. By order of the S. Lool Directors. July, 18, 'B9. W. C. MASON. Secretary. Streby of the Dushoro Gazette published sometime since a state ment to the cll.'Ot that John I'tz of Dushore was not a candidate l'or the otlice of Sheritl this fall. We of course, coming from the source it did, supposed the statement to be otlicial and so informed our readers. Notwithstanding this, however, the assertion has proven false. It is now positively known that Mr. Utz will be in the field for Sheritl' and will make a desperate struggle for the nomination of the DEMOCRATIC party. It is quite essential that the name of tho party from which he seeks his nomination be given as the gentle man has been a good worker in see-- eral of the 1 • ding parties of the county and on one occasion came out as an independent candidate for Sheriff and was successful in his elec tion. Eighty-five fresh air childr. u at the age of from 7 to 10 years, of N. V. city, were brought to Dushore on Saturday evening last. They were accompanied by two ladies who acted as their Guardians in finding them homes in ttie country A large per centage of the children were taken by good reliable farmers of Cherry township and .vill be furnished a home for a period of two weeks when they will take their departure. On their arrival at Dushore they formed a procession at the depot and n arched down Railroad avenue to Main street and down Main street to Carroll's Hotel where they made their headquarters until arrange ments were made for their disposal as above stated. Quite an amusing incident happened shortly after their ariival. One of the children became homesick and ran like a wild girl through the streets saying that she wanted togo to Washington street, her home. She was followed by several persons and was finely caught and taken care of by her Guardians who took her back to the city on Monday morning. 2GM75 O. F. Mingoi a Merchant of Monroe ton Drowned in Kipp's Mill Dam. A fearful accident happened at Kipp's dam a few miles above Lope/. <>n Thur day of last week. The facts are as follows : Four gentlemen were standing on the dam known as tin-. Kipp splash dam during which time a splash was being let off. Among the number was O.F. Mingos, a highl\ respected citizen and a well to do merchant of Monroeton. They were standing near by the gate arnuseing themselves watching the logs pass through when that part of the dam on which they were stand ing gave away and they were all, with the exception of ouc who barely escaped, washed down with the tide- Two of the unfortunate were rescued ja few rods below the dam and vere I badly bruised by logs. Mr. O. F. : Mingos was drowned and when his J remains were found on the following I j day between the hours of:s and ;"i p. j j in., was flight fully mangled by logs and debris. His remains were taken to his home in Monroeton on Friday | eve., where interment took place on I Sunday. Mr. Mingos had many friends re siding in LaPorte, among the nuni ; ber Judge Mason and family who i sympathize with the bereaved .".unly. i The following is written by an eye witness of the sad accident at Kipp's S Splash dam on Thursday .July 18th. It was received after the above was in type. ED. BV AN EYE WITNESS. . Special to the P.< jublicnn. On Wednesday of last week 0. F. I Mingos and I). M Hinmun of Mon roeton friends of G \V. Kipp made a visit to Mr. Kipp's place of busi l) ss, abciit four miles above Lopes to enjoy a nnef vacation and see the log drive. On Thursday pin., Clias Swepenizer, Mr. Kipp's book-keeper. O. 1 . Mingoes, Isaac Kipp and ('has Burrus, all ot whom bad been giving a helping hand—finding that the splash dam was full and over-flowing , left some men working on a jam of ilogs about 25 rods above 'he dam I and repaired to the dam to raise the i gates. Mingos and Burrus taking the right hand lever and Kipp and ; Swepenizer the left. The levers were raised and brought down once, then there came a map, a crash and the gate and timbers raised and at the same time sent forward with great foice for about ten feet, when men and all took a horrible leap of fully ten feet, some of the timbcis going end over end, all in the mad rushing I waters together. Just as the snap wa heard Kipp. who very thought fully planned an avenue of escape, should an accident occur, made a quick spring, and fort unately struck upon some planks leading to tic: shore, and was safe. In a moment after the mad leap of timbers and men, all came to the surface again. Burrus in the midst of the timbers, to tho right and Swepenizer and Mingoes to the left. Then came the struggle for life. Burrus, however, seemed to be in luck. In a moment the timbers separated and he was carried with great force toward the shore, and finely made a landing on the right bank 40 rods below the dam. Swepenizer and Mingo- were ! carried with the main current, the latter being siren for the last about ! eight rods below the dam, when his bodv disappeared. C. F. Ileverly who had been on the dam about live minutes before the accident and feel ing the dam give, had communi cated this fact to the others when they went onto raise, the gates. Mr. H. was a spectator to this horrible j scene and at once put down the stream in search ot the unfortunate men. About 40 rods below on the right bank he found Burrus, who I was veiv fortunate, only receiving, two or three slight bruises. About 80 rods below the dam on the left ! hand side he found Swepenizer com j pletelv worn out in bis terrible fight' for life. !!<■ was badly bruised and jcui.but not serious. Swepenizei 'said he could have stood it only a few minutes longer. In his strug ; gle logs had passed over him and he . as under water for the greater par 'of the distance he was carried. Ilis j escape certainly was a meriele. Only j for a projecting tree that he came in [contact with and caught onto, he I would have been drowned. The Leandi was continued to the mill, a 'mile below the splash dam. and Min i-goes' body not found. It was evi- I dent that he had been killed wien | lie went down with the timbers. Men •gathered in large' numbers, sear.'h | ing for hi - body tint i! dai k, and w I resumed again on Friday morning. | Finally |o v .* in the dam at t ue iuiTHW(Jjly was found badly cut and bruised, at 4 p. m., (Friday). The body was at once taken to M inroeton. Mr. Mingos was about years of age and a prominent businessman. Ilebaves- Ja wife and Iw-isous lo mourn his untimely death. * FURNITURE / UNDERTAKING. JACKSON'S BLOCK : : Dushore, Pa. LAWKEKOE BBOS. offer new furni-ture of all kinds, at price which will astonish the purchaser. HAKDWQOD SUITS as cheap as soitwood suits, could formerly be bought at Dushore. Everything manufactured from the best material by skilled workmen. IN UNDERTAKING if A full line of caskets and coffins constantly in stock. Embalming when required Elegant hearse (the finest in Sullivan county) for attend • dance at funerals. We request a share of the patronage. L. —Lawrence Bros. To the People of LaPorte, [FROM] CUNNINGHAM :S:SOU. have recently removed our stock of hardware to T*in ftiriiSx©, _ . - .. known as "Riddle" Block." We have increased our stock immensely and have reduced our price to bottom figures, and cordially in vite our LaPorte friends to call when in need of any thing in our line.