THE REPUBLICAN.^ FHIDAY, JUNE. 18. Potato bugs are numerous. Sunday was a pleasant day. The hoop skirt agitation has ond ed. The ice cream freezers are putin use. Fourih of July is coming on apace. Bark peels good—so say the jobbers. Canned goods will soon be side tracked. The bumble-bee lias commenced to bumble. The printer will soon have a week's vacation. The Dushore post office is hang ing on a rusty nail. The mosquito is sharpening his bill for the summer campaign. Mist in may and heat iu Junc makes the harvest come right soon. Indications are that the railroads will soon begin to cut on Chicago tickets. E. J. Flynn of Jamison City, was doing business at the county scat Tuesday. Why don't the town council en force their ordinance and have the side walks repaired ? Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Stormont of Laporte, were calling on friends at Dushore, Sunday. D. J. Sheehan contemplates going to Jamison City, as clerk in the Jamison City hotel. The attornies complain and say that this is the dull season of tho year for their business, Michael Foley wife and family of Cherry Flats, were calling on friends at the county seat, Sunday. It is announced that the railroad track from Satterfield to Laporte, will be laid by the Ist of July. Tho supervisor of Shrewsbury township with a gang of men, arc doing some much needed work on the 'Mere road leading to Laporte. Mr. and Mrs. Alplionsus Walsh are boarding at Fairview Cottage, on Cherry street. They will commence house keeping at Laporte this fall. Jim Hilton is hanging wall paper at the Laporte Hotel. If you have any work of this kind to be done, give him a call. Jim makes a specialty of putting on ceiling paper. The telephone instrument of the W. & N. 8., over Mr. Spencer's store, which was damaged by a bolb of lightning, on Saturday, was repaired i>y a young man of Hughesville, on Monday. John Boyd, jr., presented R. M. Stormont with a raccoon on Mon day and now the officials at the courthouse have lots of amusement watching the maneuvers of the curious animal. The Baptist church at the 'Mere, which was made a total wreck by the June cyclone of last year, is to be re-built. Steps in that direction are now being taken. Subscription papers are afloat. Hon. E. M. Tewksberry, of Colum bia county, who has been conlined to his bed at his boarding house in Ilarrisburg, the past three weeks, suffering from pneumonia, is slowly improving and will soon be out again. While Atty. H. T. Downs of La porte was at work removing some stones in his lot, on Thursday last, a stitch caught him in the back that caused him excruciating pain for several days. At present he is much improved, however. Governor McKinley was again named as the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio on Thursday and he will be again elected this fall. The champion of protection will keep right on until he occupies the place of honor at Washington. It is fair to presume that the Govern ment will have to pay several hundred thousand dollars damages for the loss of life in the collapse of Ford's Theatre building, ou Friday last. The building had been condemned and reported unsafe for occupancy, hence the Government is holding for damages. During a thunder shower on Saturday afternoon lightning struck a telephone pole on the Lake Mokoma line near lloiol Kennedy's barn and splintered it quite badly. The copper wires at the main ofllce over Mr. Spencer's store were dam aged considerably. Two young boys were standing near the tele phone pole at the time of the shock and both eay they dodged the bolt of electricity. The Ncliool Hoard and tlie Prtncl pal oi'our Urn<l«d Seliool in Trouble- Quite an interesting case was heard before Ilobt. Stormont, Justice of the Peace in tho Grand Jury room of the courthouse, ou I< riday afternoon last, and was listened to by several spectators. The gist of the case was like this: Miss Annie Et linger principal of the La porte graded school with the as sistance of her scholars gave an en tertainment about the Ist of Janu ary '93, the proceeds of which were togo toward purchasing a musical instrument for use in the school room. The net proceeds of this en tertainment was about $32. which was placed in Miss Ettiuger's keep ing. At the close of school on May 26th the school board withheld oue month's pay of £45. due Miss Et tinger and suggested to her that they deduct the entertainment money therefrom. This Miss Et— linger refused to have done and then putin a bill of $15.75 for days that she had not taught, hence the school board served a summons on her to recover the >32. in her pos session. The Justice reserved his decision until Thursday the 15th of June when he rendered the same in favor of Miss Ettingeri n the sum of $11.40. The attornies in the case were : E. M. Dunham for the plaintiffs and J. G. Scoutcn for the defendant. AFTK It E LEV EM YEARS. Master's l»eeision iu (lie Sullivan County Coal Case. C. 0. flersheimer, master in the case of M. C. Mercur vs. State Line & Sullivan 11. R. Co., filed liis de cision in the case Tuesday. In 188J the proceedings were com menced. The case is No. 1, Feb. Term, 18S2, Common Picas of Sulli van county. A bill in equity was Died to enjoin the S. L. A S. from mining on the property called the Jackson tract, and Judge Ingham appointed Jas. McFarlano receiver, and ordered the company to pay him ten cents a ton for all coal mined on the tract ; the case was taken to the supreme court by Jackson's executors, but the appeal was quashed. The company accounted to the receiver for 104,404 tons; the lieirs alleged that more coal had been mined, and that it was of great, er value than ten cent?. H. N. Williams was appointed master and took a large amount of testimony ; on his death two years ago C. O. Uershcimer was appointed to sue ceed him. Dershcimcr's report gives tlir amount of coal mined as set forth by the company, hut places the royalty value at twelve cents a ton. requiring the additional payment of $3,209.28. Exceptions have been taken to the Master's report, return able before Judge Sittser July 25th. The State Line is a one-third owner of the tract. A separate re port also decrees as to whom of the Jackson heirs the money is payable to.—Towauda Review. Fleeing From Hie Cholera. Reports from several cities of Asiatic Turkey say that the cholera has appeared in many districts and is spreading rapidly. Along the lower Tigris and the Shat El-Arab River people arc dying by thousands. Whole villages have been deserted by those fleeing frgm the pest. The panic has become so great that few families wait to bury their dead or even to nurse their sick, but flee to the next towns to escape the in fection. The fugitives from stricken towns are spreading the epidemic with appalling rapidity. Letters from Bassora city say that 70,000 persons have fled from Bassora province alone. Destroying the Corn Crop. A new species of worm is doing incalculable damage to the corn crop throughout Berks county. The worm eats oil the corn stalk near the ground and thousands of acres have been ruined. The worm belongs to the caterpillar variety and spins a regular cocoon near the roots of the stalk. Local scientists say that the only thing that will save the corn crop is a warm rain which would turn the worm into a butterfly. The attornies in the Lizzie Borden murder trial, say that the ca9C has just begun and will continue for at least ten days from this date, hence we shall not give any evidence in the case. As the evidence appears, the prosecution has a very weak case and Lizzie and her friends are very hopeful of acquittal. The boom of city guests at the 'Mere so far, has not caused any alarm that cholera is raging in Philadelphia. Reduced fares to the World's Fair are assured, say a number of railway officials. The fight over the Dushore post office, is waxing warm. A DEATH-IP COM AT am, D. D. FOKI>*S 01.1) THEATRE 111 ILO ING, OCrtH'IKII HY GOVERN MENT Ori'H IALN TUMIII.KS l)OWN, IMPERILING THE LIVEN OF 500 GOVERN MENT EMPLOYEE*). Twenty-One Men Killed and Twice That Number Seri ously Ilurt. At a little before 10 o'clock on Vriday morning June the 9th, a crash, mingled with the cries of peo ple and the ripping and splintering of timbers, a smothered rumbling, a volume of dust and the quivering earth, startled the pedestrains on E and F streets in Washington. For a moment the eyes of a passing throng turned towards the direction of the unusual sounds. The old Ford's Theatre, the scene of Presi dent Lincoln's assassination on April 14th 18<!5, was cnvelovcd in a volume of dust. In a moment those who were not buried or imprisoned in the fallen wooden timbers and iron girders were seen on the roof, at the windows 'or escaping torn ind bruised, from the obstructed doorways and wiudows of the ground lloor. The floor on the 3d story gave awa}' the heft of which breaking down the 2d and Ist floors to the basement of the building. People were engaged on all of these floors and were smashed and driven to the bottom bv the heft of the fallen timbers, plastering and debris. A rescuing party were quickly at hand and in the debris wore found the dead bodies of twenty-one peo ple and fifty more suffering intense injuries. The cries of those wedged iu the debrise was most heart render ing. As the dead bodies were taken lo the Morgue, they were identified by wives, fathers, mothers, sous and daughters who fainted and screamed in agony as they looked upon their beloved member of the family covered with his own blood and crushed almost beyond rec ognition. THE UCILDIXO CONSIDERED UNSAFE. The evidence as found in official records appears conclusivo that as long ago as 1885 this building, which the government purchased after the assassination and used as an army museum, was officially pro claimed by Congress an unsafe de pository for even the inanimate skeletons, mummies and books of the army medical museum, for which a safer place of storage was provided by act of Congress. But notwithstanding the fact that in the public press and in Congress also continued attention was called to the bulging walls of the building and its darkness and general unsuit ability and insecurity, it continued to be used for the office of govern ment clerks of the pension record division of the War Office. With a refinement of discrimina tion, howe\er, between what could be replaced and what could not be so easily supplied, while the clerks were trusted in the unsafe building the original records were retained in the substantial lire-proof War De partment building proper. So the comforting official assurance is given that while thirty clerks inny have been killed the pension records are all saved and uninjured. The collapse of this okl and so often condemned building will no doubt attract the thoughts of our people to the condition of our Court House. We are pursuing exactly the same course and rut as those in charge of Ford's Theatre building did upon whom rests a fear ful criminal responsibility for the loss of lives in this catastrophe. Our Court House has been condemned by two grand juries, the President Judge of the court and by a compe tent architect. Now, who would be the responsible parties should this structure collapse and cause the loss of life of one single or more in dividuals ? Why the county com missioners in a degree, of course, in whose charge this building is placed by the people. Do you consider it economy to continue using this building in the condition it is now in ? We think not. Do j'ou think it right to place the sheriff of our county and his family in a building of this kind ? Suppose the building should collapse during court week and while court was in session. What awful results would follow. The loss of life would be incalculable. Then imagine the damages our county would have to pay. Again, is it economy to use the old death trap ? We are told that regardless of whether the present board of com - missioners commence the erection of a new building or not, they will be compelled by law to provide a 6afe building for the holding of courts, in tbe future. For this purpose the commissioners have in view the new school house or the Presbyterian church, neither has been secured, however. In reflerence to the argument used by the Dushore papers, that the county seat can, and should be moved to Dushore we think out oi place. For proof of this assertion we quote below that part of the Consti tution relative to the question, taken from pages G6 and 88 of Sinull's Hand Book, viz: SEC. 7. The general assembly fhall not pass any local or special luw authorizing the creation, extension, or impairing of liens; regulating the affairs of counties, cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or school districts ; changing the names of persons or places ; changing the venue in civil or criminal cases; authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, or maintain ing roads, highways, streets, or alleys; re lating to ferries or bridges or iucorpor aliug ferry or bridge companies, except for the erection of bridges crossing streams which form boundaries between this aud any other state; vacating roads, town plats, streets or alleys ; relating to ceme teries, grave-yards, or public ground not of the state ; authorlaing the adoption or legitimation of children ; locating orchaug ing county seats, etc., etc. Nor shall the general assembly indirectly enact such special or local law by the partial repeal of a general law; but laws repealing local or special acts may be passed ; nor shall any laws be passed granting powers or privileges in any case where the grant ing of such powers and privileges shall have been provided for by general law, nor where the courts have jurisdiction to giant the same or give the relief asked for. SEC. 1. No new county shall be estab lished which shall reduce auy county to less than four hundred square uiiles, or to less than twenty thousand inhabitants, nor shall any county be formed of less area, or containing a less population ; nor shall any line thereof pass within ten miles of tbe county seat of auy county proposed to be divided, "We are told that Pushore is with in 4 miles of the Bradford county line, hence how can they expect the county seat under the above ruling. A Dushore citizen was in town Satur day and said that the better versed people of that viltago did not con template a change of the county seat. The coroner of Washington is en gaged in holding an inquest over the dead who met their death in Ford's Theatre building. The scene at the inquest is most exciting. The friends of the dead people arc in dignent and say that Colonel Ains worth who had charge of the build ing was to blame, and should be convictod of murder. Tho clerks held an indignation meeting on Monday immediately after the ad journment of the inquest. A com mittee of five were appointed to wait upon the President aud protest against the proposed secret session of the inquest and to urge the sus pension of Colonel Aingwoith pend ing the investigation as he, they claim intimidates the witness. The wit nesses so far, say that the building was unsafe for occupancy and many of the clerks often remarked that their graves were dug in the base ment of tho building. Mrs. Miles Vargason of Colley, drove to Dushore, on Thursday last and tied her horse in Welles & Co's. shed back of the store building and entered the store to do some trading. While she was thus engaged a young man of Scranton and who called himself Edward Kelley took posses sion of the horse and rig and drove to Laporte. He was followed by Mr. lleuben Brewer who secured the services of Sheriff Mahaffey at Laporte and arrested Mr. Kelley near Ballard's blacksmith shop on West Main street. Kelley wasjug ed for the night aud on Friday morning was taken to Dushore and the affair amicably settled. The prisoner claimed to be drunk and did not know what he was doing when he took the horse and buggy. Here is a straight truth that car ries with it some good advice : The community in which each individual citizen has public spirit enough to keep his own surrounding neat and clean, and whose officials prevent the accumulation of debris on the streets, is likely to escape an epidemic of cholera during the coming months. In other words, sweep before your own door, cloan up your own premises, don't WOIT3- about your neighbor's premises, the chances are that lie will see what yoti arc doing and will follow your good example. If a few of the wretches who make a practice cf using explosives and chemicals in the trout streams were made an example of, all true sports men would rejoice. On Tuesday, the 6th instant, three men are known to have used dynamite for the pur pose of killing fish on the Loyal sock below Ilillsgrove. The per sons are known, and a repetition of their former doings may result In them being taught a lesson that will 9how them tho legal penalty of their distardly conduct. Hon. H. O. McCormlok, president, Mr. Satterfield, vice president and B. G. Welch, general superintendent of the W illiamsport and North Branch Railroad, were at Laporte on Thursday. They drove over the grade of the railroad from this place to Ringvillc and we under stand were very much pleased with the work. lluMineNN Local*. " T Tomlinson ba9 just placed on his 112 near Sonestown, 80 head of -<ws aud mules. There lottery in buying stock of Tonillnuun, considering the number of head he disposes of each month. Screen doors, at Cole's Hardware for #IOO. Window screens 25 cents and up wards. Hammocks 75 cents and upwards. White Mountain ice cream freezers. Second hand cook stoves cheap at Cole's Hardware. An elegant line of axes, handles etc., at Cole's Hardware, Dushore, Pa. T. J. Keeler has just received a new stock of shoe wear. Call and take a look at them. They are neat and durable and cheap in price. Pon SALE.—A lumber wagon, com paratively new, medium weight and a three seated covered platform wagon. For further particulars inquire of, C. F. CHENEY, Eagles Mere. T. J. KEELER has just received a new stock of ready made clothing latest styles aud patterns. Call and see them if in need of a suit. Insure your life in the Great Fenn .Mutuiil Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, F. H. TOMLINSON, agent for Sullivan County. The latest Spring styles of soft and stiff hats at T. J. KEEPER'S at bottom prices. HORSES 1 MULES! Buy your stock of F. 11. TOMLINSON, Sonestown, Pa. All stock guaranteed as represented. J. W. Knllard the LaPorte blacksmith has in stock the "Never-slip" horse shoe. Give them a trial. They are the best. Notice ! The partnership, heretofore existing be tween the undersigned, under the name of James McFarlane & Co., having ex pired by limitation, auy one of the under signed is authorized to sign in liquidation, JAMES MCFAULANE, JONATHAN THOBNR, WILLIAM THOIINK. Laporte, June Ist NOTlCE.—Notice is hereby given that in application will be made to the Gover nor of Pennsylvania on Monday, July 17, 1803, by Alexander Heedc, Frank O. Emery, William E, Rausom, Anson D. Knapp aud Jolin 11. Price jr. under the act of assembly entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations " approved April 29, 1874, aud the supplements thereto, for the charter of an intended corporation to be called the Loyslsock Logging Company, the character and object of which is the construction of dams, the driving and floating of saw logs, timber and lumber on thirty five miles of Loyalsock Creek from its souree or head downward, in the couu ties of Sullivan and Wyoming, with the right to purchase dams and erect new dams on the said thirty-live miles of said stream, and clear out, straighten, deepen, crib and widen the same, and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of said act of assembly and the several supplements thereto. 11. C. it S. T- McCormick. Solicitors. Williamsport, Pa., June 12, 1893. Sheriff's Sale. 15y virtue of a writ of FR. FA. issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County and to me directed and delivered, there will be exposed to public sale at the Hotel Carroll in Dushore, Pa , on SATURDAY, July Bth, 181)3, at 2 o'clock p. in., the following described property, viz: All that lot, piece or parcel of land lying and beingin Cherry township, Sulli van County, Penna., bounded as follows : Beginning at a corner in the Laporte road, being a corner between Mathew Foren, Thomas Berry and Ed. Donegan, thence south 57 degrees cast, along said Berry, 148 perches to stump corner in line of John McGee : thence north 33 desrroes east, 07 perches to post and stone corner; thence north 57 degrees west, 145 perches to corner ; thence south 83 degrees west, 67 perches to the place of beginning ; con taining GO acres. Aud having thereon erected a two storied frame house, frame barn and other outbuildings; a good orchard, a stoue quarry and a spring of water thereon ; about 40 acres improved. Seized, taken into execution aud to be sold as the property of Edward Donegan at the suia of D. E. Carroll. THOMAS MAHAFFEY, Sheriff. Sheriff's offloe, 1-aportf}, Pa., June 13, '93. OYESI OYESI Take notice, that JOHN V. FINKLE lias just received from the East, a lot of the finest aud cheapest shoes ever brought to the "Mountain City." WOMENB, MISSES, MENS' and BOYS, at prices which will please all. even the most parsimonious. Among the brauds are the Raber tfe Sebert, equal to the cele lirated "Best" and at half the cost. The Douglass, Lester & Co. Solid Itock, as solid as their name. The Lottie Slipper black tan and patent-leather ; these are unique in style and finish ; Humphrey Bros. «fc Co's. celebrated make, none bet ter. The "Boys in Blue" their wives and daughters, arc "especially invited to call. All will be politely received and honestly dealt with. Corner of Muncy aud Cherry streets, Laporte, Pa. June 9, 1893. Political Aniionao«B«iti. The voters of Sullivan county are here by notified that I am a candidate for the oiflce of County Commissioner, subject to the decisiou of the Republican County Convention. J. J. WEBSTEH. Estella, Pa., May 2. 1893. The voters of Sullivan County are here by notified that I am a candidate for the office of County Commissioner, subject to the decision of the Republican County Convention. II W OSLER Lincoln Falls, Pa., May 1, 1893. The voters of Sullivan County are here by notified that I am a candidate for the office of County Commissioner, subject to the decision of the Republican County Convention. 11. D. BROWN, Shrewsbury, Pa., May 11, 1883. Citizens ot Western Sullivan, LOOK TO YOUR INTEREST, J. H. CAMPBELL & SON, GENERAL MERCHANTS OF SLIUNK, PA., Respectfully ask you to call ond inspect the large stook of SPRING and BUUHIR ] . goods, that have just ariivod. Consisting of dry goods, notion*. Lai: ; aid : Cents ; Furniabisg : Qoola, Groceries, hats, caps and STRAW GOODS. Botls, shoe?, drugs and patent medioinei and everything usually kept in a first class GENKRAL STORE. AH goods marked is plain figures and as low as the lowest DON'T FORGET that for cash we giv« you • TEN - PER - CENT - DISCOUNT on these goods, sl. worth for 90c, to. worth for $4 50. Give us a trial and we will provt to you that we can save 3'ou money. Remember that we are agents for the oelebraUd ERREKA MOWER'S the best on earth Thanking you for your patronag* li the past, wo hope to merit it in the future. YOURS VERY RESPECTFULLY, J. H. CAMPBELL SON. FOR A Big Bargain, Come and see us, J. W. CARROLL & CoT Dushore, Penn. We have on hand an excellent line of Gents furnishing goods of all klndi, Includ ing suits, Overcoats, Ilats, Caps, Uodeiware. Boots and Shoes, Rubber goods, Felt# and etc., at prices that defy competition. CUSTOM WORK' PROMPTLY AND Correctly done at our head quarters in HOTEL CARROLL BLOCK at Dushore, We respectfully invite VOL' tocall and see us and examine goods and prlcea be fore purchasing elsewhere, J, W. Carroll Co. 11. W. HARRISON, Manager. Bps Wake Up!—'Ti: He String 0! '93 Tho opening; month* of the season we shall make you all remember afl OUR REVELATION IN FINE GOODS AND FAIR PRICES. We are going to do business with you because we have just exactly what you want, aid Ottf prices are simply irresistible. OUR SPRING AND SUJVJIfER ATTRACTIONS WILL CAUSE A TURN-OUT Such ijUftitwtioß of new stylus a« we show in all departments tenre nothiwg &It tfBMI Ml flfc quality and variety, our fresh now line is srictly first class in erery detail. Wt have the (llspnHiti )U, the ability an l tho tlegant goods to please every buyer who is so.'king bargain* in the line of BOOTS AND BHOESB Slippers, Rubbers, Overshoes, Etc, Our complete assortment iusuro* perfect eatisfart' n in tho selection of goods to satisfy indi vidual tastes. You will find our large ttotk made up entirely of goods that are trurt.voitliy, serviceable and the test ot their class. EVERYTHING GOES AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. Come in and sec how FAIR wo will treat you, ho.v well wo will PLEASE you, and how much wf >AVE for yon. . S. HARRINGTON, M STREET, - - DUSHORE, PA. -m G. SYLYAIIA,*- DUSHORE, PA. DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, BOOTS, AND SHOES . CROCKERY AND GLASS WARE. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OP THE PRODUCE BUSINESS AND AT ALL TIAfES PAY THIS HIGHEST PRICE IN CASH FOR WOOL, BUTTER AND EGGS. E. G.Bl'L VJIRJI. fOTHEPTOMCr o- o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o I am prepared Ij meet any prices or quotations with a first class and well selected stock ot Jl/EN'S, YOUTU'S, BOYS'. AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING HATS, CAPS, AND GENTS FURNISHING GOODS TRUNKS, HAGS AND UMBRELLAS. I also have full lines of Samples from two Merchant Tailoring Estabt liehinents,for Custom Work. Perfect fits guaranteed. Call and get prices* Yours Respectfully etc., i\ P VINCENT. CRONIN'S NEW BLOCK, LOYAL SOCK COAL. Loyal Sock Coal, for sale at the Breaker of the State Line It SttlliYM Railroad Co. at Bcrnice— s3.oQ?Ss The State Line k Sullivan R. R. Co. I. 0. fiLfffitj Sopty.
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