Published Every Thursday. Volume 4, Business Cards. SONESTOWN FLAGGING Company. D h H:Ebr ß^l* mbo!i ' Agents. SONESTOWN PA FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUSHORE, I'KSNA. CA.PITA.I* - ■ $50,000. ■UBFLUB - - *IO.OOO. Does a General Banking Business. B W. JENNINGS, M. D. SWARTS. President. Cashier. LAPORTE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, LAPOHTE, PA. F. W. GALLAGHER, Prop. Warm meal* and lunches at all hours. Oysters and game in season. with T.APORTE LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES. Connected with the Commercial Hotel. First-class Horses and Carriages. Rates reasonable. T.E.KENNEDY Prop. HOTEL MAINE THOS IW. BEAHEN, Prop. LAPORTE, PA. This new hotel has bpen rcreiitly op<;iH'>l. »t« l >; furnished throughout and run for the COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LAPORTE PA. This largo and well appointed bouse is the most popular hostelry in this section HOTEL PORTER. CantonlStreet, %'SHUNK, PA. W. E. PORTER, Prop'r. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEy*!, Proprietor. DUSHORE, PA. One of the largest and best equipped hotels in this section of the state. Table of the best. Rates 1.00 dollar per .lay. Large stiibles. - Professional Cards. J. & F.H. INGHAM, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining counties LAPORTE, PA ' £ J. MULLEN, Attomey-at-L«w. LAPORTE, PA. Office over T. J. Keeler's J H. CRONIN, ATTORN KT'-AT -LAW, SOTART PUBIIC. OFFICE OR HAIR STR»*T. DUSHORE, L>A ; P. SHOEMAKER, Attorn oy-»t- Law. Office in County Building. LAPORTE, PA. Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of estates and other legal business will receive prompt attention. h J. BRADLEY, ATTOBBBT-AT-LAW, OFFICa IN COnaTY BUILDING NIAR COURT HOUSE. LAPORTE, lA Hilary P. Ingham. Harvey K. Newitt. JNGHAM & NEWITT, ATTORNBYB«AT«LAW, OFFICES 714-17 FRANKLIN BUILDING. 133 So. 12th Street Philadelphia, Having retired from the office ol United States Attorney and Assistant Unite*! STATES Attoiiicj, will continue the general practice of law IN the United States courts, and all the court* of tin City and County of Philadelphia, ||ENRY T. DOWNS, ATTORN KY"»AT«*LAW: OFFICE IN COURT HOUBB LAPORTE, PA BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP J list opened at the Laporte Tannery. Custom work solicited. All work guaranteed. O. W. BENNETT, Prop. To Core Constipation Corem, Take Caxuerets Candv Cathartic. 10c or 25c If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund monoy. Educate Tour Bowel* With CitacareU. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. lOu, Sc. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money. Republican News Item. I oWe have been 3 | leaning House For some time, but we are through at last. Wev V are all fixed up in apple pie order for the / i Spring j ■ C V with the largest and best stock of goods we/ < have ever had. V £ Somethingfor Everybody, ;Xe a " vor / We think we can please the most critical buyer in Sullivan % county. 3 V Respect fully Yours, > RETT EN BURY, P <* dushore, PA THE JEWELER. / £oks .. ♦*» a * KarHlieuM GENERAL pflffl C {4A RD W A R E PAINTS, OILS, VARN SHES and GLASS. SPECIAL inducements given on CTOVES and RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES for Coal, suitable for parlors, balls, cburchep. school houses, camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from So.oo to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from S'i.fiO up to 835.00. My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of heaters slightly damaged by water. Good as new, but they must be sold CHEAP If in need of a cheap heater, call early. My "Dockash" Ranges are without a question the iinest in the market, made up of the best material and designed to l>e a handsome Uange. Furnaces always the best on the market. In fact we are ready to heat the universe either in hot water, steam or air. Try us, we guarantee satisfaction. STOY REPAIRS AND REPAIRING. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES. MILL SUPPLIES. Gofes Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. Wall Papering and CARPETING NOW IS IN KEEPING and no where will you be better served. Over 5000 Rolls in Stock to select from, patters of CARPET to select from 1000 Window Shades, 1000 yards of Oil Cloth. Barbed Wire, Wire Nails here by the Car Load. Landeth's Garden Seeds are the most Reliable. |Earliest Sesd potatoes* , Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. I "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LMITS, POM, THURSDAY, N« I, J». mil 11 n Concentrated Filipino Forces Met and Driven Back After a Sharp Conflict. WAS A GREAT VICTORY! Advance Guard of Our Army Now Within a Few Miles of the Enemy's Capital. General Hale Reaches Marllan—HU ISrlg ade Has Hot Fighting While Advanc ing on Polo—Filipinos Suffered Severe Losses In Killed and Wounded—Our (Inn losses Very I.lglit, Washington, March US.—The latest information received by the War De partment from lien, (Mis was con tained in the following message: Manila, March 27. !». A. M. Adjutant-General, Washington "Mai-Arthur holds Marilns: severe lighting to-day aud our cusualtic.s about forty. The enemy had destroyed bridges, which impeded progress of train and artillery. Our troops met the concentrated forces on northern line to-day commanded by Aguiualdn j in person, and drove them, with consi- . derabie slaughter. They left nearly j I'Mi dead on lield, aud many prisoners ■ and small arms were captured. The : column will press on in the morning. ' • Mis." | MANILA Xll |ft ray SCKN'I-: OF Tin; IIATTLI:. Speaking of the despatches. Gen. Uorbiu said: "Things are improving i materially and tlie situation tiiis morn- J ing is most excellent. 1 am glad that ihe American troops are pressing down ' iiard on tlie Filipinos in tile mountains, lighting them hand to hand, for when ' I hey are through they will know it. J'he fact that the Filipinos are lighting j so valiantly and stubbornly is a gua- I rantee that when they surrender it ' will mean a linai settlement. "1 do not know how soon a surrender , will take place, nor that it will be to- | day. Km if lIn" plans of Ge'i. (Mis are 1 '»riled out, as I think they will be. the i Jay's proceedings will go far toward ; bringing about an end of the contest." The receipt of the morning message from Gen. Otis, announcing liiai Mac- Arthur's brigade had met Aguiualdo's under the command of that individual himself and had driven them back several miles, with much loss,complete ly ehauged the atmosphere around the War Office. In a few minutes ■very one was wearing an air of satis faction if not of triumph, and the gen ■fill feeling was expressed by Gen. Sorbin in the interview quoted above— that tlie condition of tilings had great y improved and that the situation was most satisfactory. Kvcry om went ibout his work feeling that the end. it' not in sight to-day, at least was not far off. and that the end would be a j triumphant success for the American forces. Fighting Sunday Taper*. London, March 27. - Considerable op losition is developing agaius' tlie up- ! •reaching Sunday editions of the '< >aily Telegraph and Daily Mail. The j Jovernuient was questioned on the •subject in the House of Commons, a nember asking whether it was intend- i •d to legislate against such news- i >apers. The Government leader, A. ,112. Ualfrtitr. replied thai Iter Majesty's internment liad no intention of inter eriug in the matter. Colonel Duncan Vernon I'irie, Liberal, lias announced lis intention to introduce a bill to pre sent se yen-day papers, on labor rrounds. Other opponents of such tapers arc ngit.iting against tlieni on lie ground that they will be deseera ion of Sunday. rHtiilit' Uoti<U >lay I nit*. Sacramento. March 27. Tlie Gover :mr lias signed the so called Santa Fe •onsolidatioii bill. This is the measure in rod need sit the instance of the Santa l-'e iiiiiuageuietir for the purpose of per milting 111 at road to operat > its sys tem as a whole instead of being com pelled to do so through the medium of three or four different corporations. The bill was opposed on the ground that it would permit the consolidation of tlie ConK.":l and Southern Pacific railroads. I liiartf* Itablai. riiinese babies are fed on rice and nothing else after they are a few mouths old. Cow's milk is never giv en to Ilieni. Chinese houses are never heated. If the baby is eoltl he is giv eii a sun bath. TO MALOLOS SEVEN MILES MaJ. tien'l Mac Arthur'* Advance Cuard Now at istilacaa. New Yolk, March 28.—A cablegram from Manila dated yesterday morning says: Late yesterday afternoon Gen. Wheaton's brigade bivouacked as Mal inta. Gen. llale's brigade coming from the right of the line advanced northward on l'olo. meeting with strong opposition from tlie enemy. One after anotLjgj; nf the insurgent trenches MAJ.-t!EN". AltTHt'li MAI' AK'I'HCH IX COMMAND OK flKl.ll OHF.RATIOXS. was taken with extensive losses on both sides, until darkness ended the light. The insurgents buried the •Creator part of (lie town and retreated in the direction of Malolos. Our troops idvanced with till haste and reached Marilao. "in licit, l.awton's section to the south of Manila the enemy shows in n-cased activity. Hawthorn's battery -helled the trenches opposite I'assay. "(Jen. McArthur's advance guard ex amined the town of Kula -nil. They found the place partly burned but the fire had been confined to the lower por tions. the best houses remaining intact. I'he enemy showed only i small force." ltuiacan. the town which Gen. Me Arthur's brigade has reached am found partly burned, is about sevel miles from Malolos. the * insurgen headquarters. It is the capital of tilt province and has a population of l.'i.tKH It is twenty-two miles northwest o: Manila aud about seven miles beyoui l'olo. Mtirialo is eastwaril and a i.ttle soutl of Kulacan and is another road to Ma lolos. Gen. llale's brigade i- at thit point. UK iuck>:7> DOWN. GERMAN CONSUL AND PRES'T RAFFEL APOLIGIZED TO BRITISH OFFICIAL. Rlatuufa Fnr<;ed In How, T<M» —llnirllHli War illl|>* Hirt»t«n«il Atlm-K if "King" lltd l»id Not f(||>l'f«l llegrel (*» tlie (liief .1 utiles. Vancouver. 1!. ('.. March 211.—The steamer Warrintoo has ain'i\ed liere from Sydney and Honolulu on her last rip from New Zealand, ilereaflcr she will call at Krisbune. (Queensland. She brings Samoa ti news daled Apia. February 7. The German Consul lias backed iown and Mataafa lias apolog'/.eil. (Mi February 4 lite liciti^h I'oiiitsttl. iiav ug received no reply to his d"ii ainl for an apology from tlie Mataafa chiefs, le seut another letter, informing tlieni I hit I if no repl.t were received I>y '.I ,'clock on the morning of '.tie t'.lli he Wiiiiiii hand tlie case over to the Krlt sh iitival commander, to be 11• :ilr with is lie deemed best. 'I lie iiexl day I 'resident Uaflel lor wai'th'd an answer, lie apologised for ill the acts which had befti ■ •rnimitled bv the Malttala police and people tl jainst Kritisb men-of-war and against while Kriiish subjects, fie endeavored to excuse the actions of Mataafa by blaming the Chief Justice of Samoa. Pills excuse was considered unsatis factory aud Mataafa was required to ipologi'/.e lo the Chief Justice. Mataafa and tlie chiefs running the ifovince provisional at Maniluuu have sent a further letter of apology to the Kriiish Counsui. tiiis lime written by themselves. Mataafa also issued no lice to all Samoans that foreigners must be respected. It has been ascer tained that all preparations hail been iliuiie on the Krifish warships to al ack Mataafa had lie not made an apoi igy in time l>r. Itrigi** In He Ordained. New York. March 2!'- Prof Charles Vllgustus llrlggs. D. I>.. of the faculty if the I'IIIOII Tiieologieal Scotinary in N'e« York will speedily lie ordained to he priesthood in llie I'roiesianr Kpls •opiil Church, of which lie - a recent •ecruil by liishop I'otter It was shortly lietofc Fas tel. 18!»S hat Dr. I'.riggs was received ;is a com lumiicaui into the Fpiscop.ii Church, liaV'mg left the Fi-esby'terian Ciuirell, ito which lie hail previously belonged slid in which lie hml been for inany vears a distinguished preacher an tlieo- Oflllll. I.tiuilmi Trunsll. There are 2"H» railway stations with in a six-mile*radius of Si. Paul's Cath edral. London, while within a twelve mile radius there arc nearly four IJUU dred. 1.25 P er - Year. Number ]. ■MM. Two Men, Reputed Murderers, and a Woman, Barricade a House and Shoot,*] MILITIA TO STORM FORT Four Hundred Infuriated Citizens Try to Burn Outlaws' Castle But Fail in the Attempt. Troops ami Arm* on the Way Tiuitl»l« Mtii'ted from tin: ol" ol" a Law yer Wlio Waft Coii<lu«-f iug a hi < onrt -At;wllist Two AllPtfffl II urdciciv Huslmell Onlct-H Out .Vilifla. Toledo. onto. March -JT. A Tier kill i11u" 10. 11. Weshavcr. one nt tin- li.'>:- Kliowii lawyers Hl' Wood < omity. in Hoytville Saturday, .Itiliu aial i'aul Zeltner, lu-iillicr-. ilt'il in tlic'" home. in lln.vi's Corners. Iwo and JI half miles away. where they. Willi l In• ;!~si-;t;i not* of John /I-IIIH I 'S wil'i . held LW\ A crowd Hi' ion persons. IWII III' wlujin al reaily have been killed. I lio Toledo i.igln (i uai'il iiii' Uloui dale Kill.-, a ail i in- militia , o piny •, t' North Kalfimorc were oldeiel mil. Tin' troops were needed -is iaui-li t• > prevent a ly/11• 11ii.;j. as to subdue tli<- Zei letters, Tin- in ol lift's liavo rilles anil plenty o: alantitnitioit and have bnrriended their Imnse. They kept tin l erowil ii hay .ill ■il'lei noon ami eveiiiuv. Mrs.Zeltner Ns si-;ing villi the rille>. Severn! rushes it tile hntise Here ina'le hy tie i-rowii. hut eai-li iinif in vain. Kl'forts to lire the hiitisf a!sii railed. Mr. We-Ilaive.■ had heen eonusel for the /.el tin 'i's in a >n it which had been serried I. tn el' lie demanded fee. and the Zelltiers t'efus -ii In pay lie brought suit . and the trial was be -ail ill llo.vtvdlc llli'lil'e SnUtl'e liur ionll. At reeess I'aul Zeltner demanded 'ii ain papers u|' Mr. Westhavcr. A sclitile followed Mr. West haver's re fusal tu give up tiie papers, and I'aul icgan shooting. one hullel hit Mr. West haver in the head and .mother in the arm. lie died in ten minutes. Practically tin- whole town witnes <ed tile shootiltg. and in the excitement in' Zeltucrs uni away. They mounted their horses, whieh were tied near hy. imi rode lor their lives. A short dis tance away from the town they were •seen to stop ami again load their re volvers. alter vvliieh they set out as fast u> their horses could carry tliem The crowd was soon at he Zeltner lioine. hut tlioy found tic brothers with rilles siietyng from the cellar win lows. Ai ihe lirst rush Clarence Wit 'etimyer and Charles Koeschler were dlled and I'eputy Sheriff farmer and In others slightly wounded. Mr Witteiihiycr's hotly lies in a ditch were lie tell. \n uiie dares lo get hi.- body Columbus. Ohio. March 'JT.— The re mit of the riot at Hoy i's Corners readied here in the shape of a lele • ram in Ad.iutant-Ceneral kiugsley. The telegram was delivered tu Capt. K. Slough, eliief clerk of t'.ie Adju :anr (ieneral's Department. who inittie liatejy iiotilieii Coventor I'ushiirll and Adjutant (ictieral Kingsley it Cleve land. Word was sent to Cnliuii I Kuert in Kenliiti. eiinimamler ol' Hi > Second •egimeiit. and to Captain Daniel 11 James III" the Toledo Volunteers to hold their troops in readiness. Company 11. which lias lie en ordered jilt, is coininaiideil by Captal'l A. M t-'asig. Colonel I'reenian or this eity. upon 'he order of i leiieral Kingsl-;'. left here with :!i>,<Mm» rounds of ammunition and 100 stands of arms for th • soldiers teeueii at Hoy I's Corners. Later The Zeltner brothers at last ire locked safely in jail at ltowling r.reen, having surrendered :■> Sheriff Biggs under guarantee of protection from the mob. The Sheriff and his assistants, under »sc»rt and guard of the H'oomdale Rides and the North Haltiinore Cadets, tnaelied six miles through mud and slush 1o Cuslar. where they took the train to Tontoganay, there changing igain and landing in Bowling tlreeu. where they were met hy a crowd of nearly 'J.ooo. The men were hurried ni« jail and all is quiet. Serious Strike in Cl«%'«lauti. Cleveland .Mar. —A strike which may tie up every street railway in Cleveland is threatened. The em iiloyes of the big consolidated company declare that unnecessarily severe rules ire being harshly enforced upon them, imd the employes of the otlcr cotupau !es, while having no complaints of heir own. say they will stand by their 'ellow workmen. \V. P. Mahoue of Detroit, international Secretary of the Street Railway Men's Cnion is in this fity, and is holding meeting A liirgre jnion heiug formed and will l e organ zed au Monday night, after which the future course of action will bo decided ipon. The Vtr»l Spmulftli War Fsmalon. nttfl'alo. Mareh L'T.—The first certlfi ■ate for a pension for disabilities incur •ed in the war with Spain ha < heen re •cived at the local pension office. The lensiotier is I'redcriek E. Karle. who s a musician in Company IJ. Tliir eolith I'niteU States Infantry, at Fort I'orter. He was disabled by rheunia isie and resulting disease of the heart, lb" will receive a pension of S3O per nonth. to date from Dec. 11, 1898.
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