Published Every Thursday. Volume I Business Cards. SONESTOWN FLAGGING Company. D h ": Eor B .h! amboz ' Agents. SONESTOWN PA. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DDBHORE, PENNA. CAPITAL - " tinnnn BURPIiUS - - SIO,OOO. Does ft General Banking Business. B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. BWARTB. President. ('ashler. LAPORTE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT, LAPOBTE, PA. F. W. GALLAGHER, Prop. Warm meals and lunches at all liours. OYSTERS and game in season. Bar supplied with choicest liquors, wine nnrt cigara. GOOD STABLE room provided. LAPORTE LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES. Connected with the Commercial Hotel. First-class Horses and Carriages. Rates reasonable. T.E.KENNEDY Prop. HOTEL MAINE THOS.|W. BEAHEN, Prop. LAPORTE, PA. Thta new hotel has been recently opened, newly furnished throughout and will .be run for the spe<'ial accomodation of the traveling public. •HIE best stocked bar in the county. Kates are low . COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LAPORTE PA. This large and well appoiuted house if ] the most popular hostelry in this section j HOTEL PORTER. CantontStreet, PA. AY. E. PORTER, Prop'r. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEI'E, Proprietor. DUSHORE, PA. One of the largest and beat equipped hotels in this section of the state. Table of the best. lUtes 1.00 dollar per day. Largo stnbles. Professional Cards. J # J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOBHKTS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining counties LAPORTE, PA £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-«t-L«w. LAPORTE, PA. Oflice over T. J. Keeler's store. J7~H. CRONIN, ATTOBHKT-AT -LAW, HOTART PUBLIC, orrica OB MAIN BTRBBT. DUSHORE, PA yyM P. SHOEMAKER, Attorn eyatLaw. Office in County Building. LAPORTE, PA. Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of estates and other legal business will receive prompt attention. J J. BRADLEY, ATTORBBT-AT-LAW, OrriCß IB COUBTY BUILDINS MBAB COURT BODSB. LAPORTE, PA Hilary P. Ingham. Harvey K. Newitt. |NGHAM & NEWITT, ATIORNBTB^A'-LAW, OFFICES 714-17 FRANELIN BUILDING. 133 So. 12th Street Philadelphia, Having retired from the office of United States Attorney and Assistant United States Attorney, wiil continue the general practice of law in UN united States courts, and all the courts of the City and County of Philadelphia, HENRY T. DOWNS, OPTICS IB COURT BODSB LAPORTE, PA. BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP Just opened at the Laporte Tannery. Custom work solicited. All work guaranteed. o. W. BENNETT, Prop. To Cur* Constipation Korevnr. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. K C. C. C. fall to cure, druggiKta refund money Educate Your Bowels With Caaearata. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. Me,**. It C.C.C. fail, drunrista refund money. Republican News Item. jWe have been y ) gleaning House For some time, but we are through at last. Wev J are all fixed up in apple pie order for the / ftrabe £ j C V with the largest and best stock of goods we/ < have ever had. V £ Somethingfor Everybody, Wo tliink wo can please the most critical buyer in Sullivan^ \ county. 1 \ Respectfully Vours, £ > RETT EN BURY, P r DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. / Coles.. m fiardwarc L,s » ERAL " W HARDWARE PAINTS, OILS, VARN SHES and GLASS. SPECIAL inducements given on STOVES and RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES for Wood or Coal, suitable for pa fs, halls, churches, school houses, camps, etc. Attention to a line. Cheap wood heaters from S:?.00 to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from 82.50 up to $35.00. My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of "heaters slightly damaged by water. Good as new, but they must be sold CHEAP Ifin need of a cheap heater, call early. My "Dockash" Ranges are without a question the linest in the market, made up of the best material and designed to be a handsome Range. Furnaces always the liesfc on the market. In fact we are ready to heat the universe either in hot water, steam or air. Try us. we guarantee satisfaction. STOV REPAIRS AND REPAIRING. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES. MILL SUPPLIES. Sofes 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, 25 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 Seed potatoes* Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1899. RHJBi. The Question of Permitting I Privateers to Prey Upon Commerce Comes Up. ENVOYS ARE DIVIDED. American Delegates in Favor of Pro hibiting Privateering But Other Nations Opposed to Action. Baron lie Staal Placed 11clore tli® Con ference the Czar's Proposed Permanent International Arbitration Tribunal dug getting That Members He Nominated For Three or Five Years. The Hague, May 22.—The quest ion of permitting privateers to prey upon commerce during war was informally discussed yesterday l>y the delegate's to the Peace Conference. The sentiment was strongly against allowing the subject to come up at the sessions. The American delegates were iu fav or of prohibiting privateering, but most of the other nations, led by Italy, were opposed to any action. Haron de Staal placed before the Conference the Czar's proposed perma nent international arbitration tribunal, suggesting that members be nomina ted for three or live years. Ma roil von Stengel's declaration that lie regrets having written his much cit ed and attacked I rochurc defending warfare is being ridely discussed, lie says it was taken down by a sten ographer from a lecture which he de livered iu private before he was select ed as a delegate to the Conference. He , claii>*s that the pamphlet was only di ! reeled against the Ctoplau vagaries of I the numerous peace societies of Kurope and America. Hrltons Challenge Yankee* Loudon, May 23.—The American Line steamer Paris, which sailed for .New York takes a challenge from Oxford and •'ambridge t'uiverslties to the uni , versifies of Yale and Harvard for an j athletic contest to take place ou the i grounds of the Queen's Club, London. ! during the last week iu July. The programme consists of the fol- I lowing events: 100-yard dash. 120-yard I hurdle-race, quarter-mile run. halt a mile run, three-mile run. h.innncr : throwing, high jump, long jump. This is the regular Oxford and Cani -1 bridge programme, with a half-mile I run substituted for putting the weight, I to the new rules of which event the ! ICnglish university men are not yet ac i customed. The challenge rigidly that every American oppour it must, like the Kugllshman, lie a' lately a stu dent and absolutely a ateur ath lete. From the communic already ; exchanged between the . >utatlves |of oxford ami Cambridge a. parties j in America there is little doubt that I the challenge will be accepted. The meeting will be a great attrac ; lien at the close of the London season, more especially if the presence of the • Prince of Wales, the T'nited States . Ambassador, Joseph Il.Choate, and Lord Itosebery is secured, as is already | stab d to be the case, i The university men here who have ' the matter chiefly at heart, including I members of both teams are most anx ! ions for the match. They feel that the j proposal sent to the I'nited States is a \cr> sportsmanlike offer and they are | eonlident it will be welcome. The Knglishineu point out that so far ! as the Americans are concerned they know their own strength and the strength of their rivals, as shown by the Oxford and Cambridge sports in March, but they (the challengers) are ignorant of what their opponents may have succeeded iu accomplishing in intercollegiate sports. This, they say. bodes nothing but good, and a most , genuine match, with the most genuine desire that the best side may win. 'lll* Ohio I'tider Way. ! San Francisco, May 22.—The eon- I struction of the battleship Ohio has j been fairly started, the lirst rivet hav- I ing been driven at the Cnlon Iron j Works. The performance was attend ed with considerable ceremony, the cn- Itire Government force being present. Washington. May 22.—Charles 11. , Cramp, of the Philadelphia Shipbuild ing Company, called at the Navy De partment to urge speedy action with regard i<> furnishing armor plate for the battleships Alabama and Maine, now building iu Philadelphia, ami which soon will be ready for their armor. Mr. Cramp said that if the i plans for the construction of the bat | ileships and cruisers were ready, his eompau.v would be prepared to bid up- | mi them, and that u recent extension I made to the Cramp Works would en- I able them to construct a considerable ! number of the twelve ships provided jfor. and complete them within the | time that would be stipulated. Professor I'. 1.. O. Wadsworth. late j if the Yerkes Observatory. Chicago, j lias been appointed director of the Al letihenv Observatory. Pittsburg. Iill«*»>l lilvrn W.%0.000. Xcw York. May 2(l.—ltusMell Sage's •heck for .s."s I.l**l has lieen added to ,11m' fund of the Woman's Hospital to lie used in erecting a new building at , Forty ninth street and Lexington i a venue. The new building is to cost ' -{-I:Mi.tn M i i if this amount ssoo.r*vi has been subscribed. NICARAGUAN CANAL. Admiral Walker Eillumlh Expanditur* for the Project at aiSff,ooo,ooo. Washington, Slay 23.—Admiral Jolm Walker, the president of th<; Nica ragua Canal Commission, called at tin State Department and had a long tali, with Secretary Hay respecting the work of the commission and tho course to bo pursued by the now Isthiuiai. Canal CommWsion, which is to be up pointed to carry forward Hie work ol the present Nlcaraguan Canal Com mission. Admiral Walker was able tr announce tlie completion of tho worl, of the present commission aud promts ed to have the Una I report ready l'oi submission lo the l'resldent by next Monday. Ho intimated that the esti mate of cost of Hie projected can a was $12&,000,0>4», tiio mean betweec the estimates of the individual mem bers. As soon as he receives the report 01 the present Commission the l'resldent will announce the names of the new Commissioners, who are to be appoint oil under the act or tho last Congress to canvass all of the Isthmian routes suitable for canals. He has already practically selected the personnel, and it may be stated positively that (la nucleus of the now Isthmian Commis sion will in- l'ouned by Admiral Wal kor, Colonel, Mains and I'rofessot llalipt I lit; throe members of lbe c.\- piring Nicaragua!! Canal Commission. Several members will lie added, main ly engineers of high toehnleal acquire ments, and among tlioni will bo Majui Simons, of tho Uultcd States lOtiglneoi Corps. 111 NttVvN NH|||l>. Philadelphia. Pa., May 2:l. —Two men who are alleged to have swindled many leading mauiifacturiut: concerns and i.'ontraclors here as well as in New York and Brooklyn are under arrest hole. They are John 11. Klein and William A. Barclay, both o!' lirooklyn. Their scheme is supposed to have net ted them upward of S2(»,<HM». Tho men represented themselves to be working for the lienelit of the League Island Belief Association, and. it is alleged, obtained many paid sub script ions for a book to lie issued for the navy yard men. A similar scheme is alleged to have boon worked in the name of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. No Trmiftvriii! War. London, May 20. in tin- House of Commons the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, guve tin! names and the identity of the men arrested at Johannesburg. All of them, excepting Tromlou and Fries, were former uou-eonimlsslone.l officers in the British Army. He add ed that I'rcsidonl Kritger had inform ed the British Agent at Pretoria that there was no proof that the prisoners were British officers and that in any case the incident would not bo allowed to disturb the friendly relations e\ist liiir. (Cheer*.) »l?r»ey Murdar Victim Kuouit. Ituthcrford. N. J.. May it).—The body of tho man supposed to have been beaten into insensibility and laid on the trolley tracks near here, to hide the crime, lias been identified. Tho victim was Daniel Bicker, id" Mountain View, near Singae. on the Croon wood Lake ltallroad. The cause ol' his death, however, si ill remains a mys tery. Omaha. Nob.. May 2u. Admiral and Mrs. Schley arrived from the Kasi and wore received by nn enormous crowd of enthusiastic admirers at Hie depot. They crowded around the Admiral's car and cheered for a half hour in spite of a pouring rain. Oeueral Mauderson ami a committee escorted the visitors to the Mauderson homo. ri'ilice of Sugui' I'iuiiter* head New Orleans, May "J". I.eon <!od chaux. the richest sugar planter in the United States, is dead, aged seventy live. He could mil read, and only of late was able io sign his name. Born in Ilerbvillers. France, lie oanio out hero from Bavaria with a pack on his back, a poor Jewish peddler. From clothing lie went into sugar and dies easily worth "v|P'- .hillrr Kuo.wille. Teuti.. May "2.—Samuel Hughes. I.ec Wot i liingtou, Balaam Davis and Janus Lewis. Morgan coun ty prisoners at Worl burg last nlglit hypnotized the negro Jail keeper, tore out i lie side ot the Jail and escaped. r it •••»!» M»»n Wliippfil, Wilmington, I tel.. May 22.—Fifteen men were publicly whipped in the Newcastle jail yard ami two of the number also stood one hour in the pil lory. This is the greatest number of whippings in tine day for many years. About out hundred spectators were present, including officials of Pennsyl vania penal institutions and numerous women, attracted out ol' curiosity. The culprits whipped stood at tho posts with bare backs, while Sheriff Taylor plied the i.at-'n nine tails. It took just twenty-eight minutes to do- all. Tho prisoner's backs were streaked with wells where the rawhide thongs struck. No blood was drawn. I'r r fn Decatur. lud.. M»y 22. City Mar shall Wagner and Patrolman Weath ers attempted to arrest Ben Middleton for drunkenness. Middleton broke loose, ran io the river, and. wadinir in to his armpits, defied the officers. They •xot into a slUff. but ran ashore when Middleton threatened tn upset their ernfi. Finally Wagner, with a las«io. forced Mithlieion beyond his depUi. compelling liiui to nwiin. nd he wu captured, sober. He stood for three hours In the water, while hundred* of ueople watched the performance from ihe bank. 1.25 Per. Year. \anbtr i. ■ DM SOU Alger Cabled Directions to Proceed With Distribution of the $3,(300.000. | GIVE ARMS TO MAYORS. Weapons to Be Kept in United Stare< Armories and Under the Care of Cuban Armorers. I llban4 IIIIIM Will lluve u J*i <»|iriol:ir> Interest iu Weapon* umt l,» Trusted With Their Keeping Arrangements fur Sur render and Future C'aie Already Pro vided for By llrunk**. Washington. May 2:1.-President Mo Kinley lias had a conference with St.- rotary Alger, Ilu- result of which \v»- tliut the Secretary cabled <liii><-tioii>s to Major-Cen. P.rooke at Havana IK pro coed immediately witli the distrihuiion of the furnished by tin; Unit t><l Stall's for the payment <>r ttic <'n ban ui'inj on condition tliiii ii surtvnd or its arms and disband. This mark the oUd ol iho embarrassment arising from ihe negotiation* between Con Hrooko and Con. Maximo Come/, which llirealoned at one (line lo prow serious. The ael ion of Hie President ami the Seeivtary of War was made possible I»y more uoeurate knowledge of the plan of Cell. Muonko for dispos ing of ihe arms to tie surrendered In the < uhan soldiers Although ilie ilgreemont between i leu. Hrooke and Con. i oniie/ is a iiioiliti<*atlon of that outlined in iln- original ilislruetious ol President .MeKlnley. ii is of sueli a character thai ihe President and Se rotary Alger had no hesitation in ap proving it.and the directions to Con. Brooke were sent accordingly. The arms are to bo surrendered lo ihe Alcaldes ill the presence of I'nltod Stales ottii-ers 11« ri :i I «•« 1 by Ceil. Hrooke. and noi illreolly to these orti oers. as originally diroeted by the Pres ident. The Alealdes are then lo turn over ilie arms to the American ropro sentntives and representatives of ihe Cuban army, and they nre to no shipped tinder guard to Havana and Santiago. where they are to be placed in l ; tilled states armories. Ai the armories iliey will be under flu- imuie diate care of nriiiorers appointed b\ Cell, Coiuoz. and are to lie exhibited as relics of the Cuban insurrection and Spanish-American war. In this way tile Cubans will have a proprietary in terest in ilie weapons and will be charged with their preservation, while ihe American authorities will ho in practical possession of them. After belli;; made aci|uainied with these eir eilinstauccs iho President and Sec re tar.v Alger decided lo approve Ceneral Brooke's agreement with <ien. Come,:. The arrangoinen. for the surrender and future care of the arms was set forth in an order issued by General Hrooko. which he has sent lo the War Department for iis information. The order provides for the distribution to the Fourth. I'lflli and Sixth Corps of the Cuban Army of their portion of the S::.tMHi.iMm allotted hy the I'nittd States, it is similar to other orders dealing with the remaining corps, in this order Con. Brooke names the Commissioners who are to have charge of the distribution. A South Dakota (iold Find. J >o;i<i u oo<i, S. I>., Ma v 'J'J.—A win of ore carrying: ten tliousaud dollars in free gold has been discovered oil a ranch near Custer Oily. The vein is fourteen inches wide and has lieeu un covered lor a distance of thirty-live feet, but no sinking lias been done yet. It is the llrst i|tiart/. that has been found in that vicinity, altliough rich placers have licon worked. The linil has created an excitement in Custer which amounts almost to a stampede.• All the surrounding country is being staked oil and located. To Sto|t Siberian Horror St. Petersburg, May UO.—A confer ence with the object of the abolitiou of transportation of criminals <o Siberia was held under the presidency of the Czar, who views the present system as a serious obstacle in the way of the development of Siberia. As a result of the conference the Czar will order the assembling of a commission under the presidency of the Minister of Justice to consider the question of substituting another penal ty for that of transportation to Siberia. 'I UII Killed lit lex** Kiot Dallas. Tex.. May ::i».—Koports from Columbus, Colorado County, state that a renewal of old factional hostilities of a year ago has occurred there. idchard Cram, a desperate negro, and lTichard Iteese. a white deputy sheriff, are dead and a number of pet sons are wounded. Uooso was a brother of Sheriff Keese. who was killed two mouths Hgo iii another street light. Coventor Sayer's has sent a force of Stale Hun gers to Columbus. .%*iltsiiil»ly Minneapolis. May '2O. —There a little breeze at the meeting of tile Presbyterian Ceneral Assembly over the report of the Committee on a Hu man Catholic Chapel at West Point. The report was read by Chairman Wallace liailellll'e. The cotninilioe was appointed especially to influence the President against siguiug the bill passed by Congress allowing the erec tion of the chapel, but failed in its ef forts. ami so reported.
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