Republican News Item. THURSDAY, AUG. 10. 189'.». V not aboundto any great extent J 112 in Sullivan County, W 4 So that there # £ is But Lilllc $ £ Scepticism £ about the Value of JtEbe lHc\V5 J j ITtem j 4 As a Profitable # jHbvcttistinj J J flDcMitm. * * * ? Read it, Your neighbor does, r Don't borrow. # County Seat Indices. AND GLANCES AT THE TIMES. Cool days, for August. —School vacation is on tlic last lap. Don't lot the blanket waiulor from your own bedside. —We need money. Von need printing. Let's exchange. Harry A. Karns of Benton, was | calling on friends in town, Saturday. ! —l*. G. Little of Fstolla, was aj liusiness man in town Wednesday. Mrs. C. Wackenhuth and son ('harlie, went to Will'sport on Mon day. Some of our j)eople took in the large excursion to Shawnese Lake on Su Inlay. —Mrs. S. F. Colt and children, of Bufl'alo, are at Laporte for a few weeks' visit. —llarry Aohonbaeh and brother ('ill, of Williamsporl' spent Friday night in town. —I). M. Speary and John llains of Nordmont, transacted business in town on Saturday. —After a vacation of several weeks Miss Jennette Spencer returned to Picture ltocks on Monday. —Mrs. Krwin came up from Wat sontown on Saturday, to visit her daughter Mrs. M.E. Heeder. —Saylor Lawrence has joined the great army of bicycle riders, having traded his pony on a wheel. Hew Frasicr of Millview, dis coursed a very able sermon in the M. K. church at this place Sunday evening. Mrs. M. I'. Gavitt has so far re covered from her illness last week,as to be able to journey to Strawbridgo where she will spend a few weeks. Mr. Mm. Stormont and family, of New York, arrived here on Mon day, where they will spend a sum mer vacation. The freight tratlic on the \V. N. 15. has never been as large as it seems at present. Laboring engines are frequently herd passing here. Mr.and Mrs. Samuel Gregory and son Master Frederick,who have been visiting Mr.and Mrs. J. F. Brewster, have returned to Wash ington, I).C. A close and exciting game of ball was played last Friday between the "lias J Icons" of Laportoand the reg ular club, resulting in a scorw of s to ti in favor of the lias Heens. On the homeward journey from the excursion to Shawnese Lake on Sunday, a young man of Hickotts was killed at that place by jumping from the train before it bad -topped. 1. <). I Might of Towanda, and for many years Supt of the Bernieemin es, is reported dead. lie passed to the great beyond Monday morning. I lis death was sudden, resulting from heart trouble. Sheriff Osier lost one of his val uable steeds Tuesday morning, with ' N colic. The animal was taken sick ! Monday night, but with all that | (•ould be done he passed to the fly less land of everlasting grass, causing a great loss to the Sheriff, as money can hardly replace the faithful beast. —The Warren Watrous house, oc cupied by Wm. Lawrence, has re ceived a coat of paint, greatly en hancing its beauty. (J. H. Funston and Frank Lewis were the artists. There are a number of other build ings in town that greatly needs their labor. I —Dist.Atty.Bradley, is on a husi _ ness trip in the West, including the cities of Cleveland and Chicago. —Mrs. F. J. Grant and Miss Anna Heahen drove to Eagles Mere Tues day afternoon. —Miss Mollie Kceler, who has I been spending a few weeks at this place,has returned to New York- City. —AI is.s Freda Miller of New York, is spending an enjoyable vacation with her father and sister at their pretty villa on Muncy street. —General Alger is getting a great deal more sympathy now than any body thought of tendering to him when he really needed it. —The people of Belleville, N.J.,! tried to carve a pair of captured bur- j glars with a rip-saw the other day, | which is a new one on lynching. -Misses < >llie and Inez Wm din, of Akron, Ohio,and Prof. P.S. Wood in, of Phila.,arc visiting their sister Mrs. Ford,at Mokoma place for sev eral weeks. —Late arrivals at the Mountain House are Miss 11. .V. LaPierre, Camden; Dr. A.T. Smith, Mansfield; Mr. and Mrs. J. Gable, .1. W. Shea, G. C. Arehenbach, 11. D. Archen hacli, Williamsport; Misses Weed, Philadelphia. —Another interesting game of base ball on the Laporte diamond attracted a large and noisy crowd on Saturday. The contesting teams were Laporte vs Lopez. It was not until nearly the end of the game that our boys got interested, when j their playing was remarkable and : sent their score up like a sky-rocket. It was as follows : j Lopez.— 2u<»l2 00 0 | 12 Laporte—o 01000 I:i I !i —( has. H. Lauer, of this place, has entered into partnership with Yal Holcomh in the furniture and undertaking business at Dushore. They have started out in their new enterprise in a thoroughly up to date style with two tine new hearses and a large store room tilled with a care fully selected stock of elegant furni ture. We predict a promising future for this linn as the young men at the head have able business ability I and the necessary push to "get there.' —The Editor has a basket half full of old potatoes in li is cellar that is yielding much better than many that have been planted,in town, and have big tops waiving in the sun shine. The potatoes took to sprout ing early and were set aside unmo lested until the other day when a full basket attracted our attention and was surprised to find that to each old potato was joined several young potatoes of suttieient size to use and large than those dug from the garden. We have no copy right on this story, any of our exchanges may copy .-4 —Get your photographs taken now, while you can see what you are getting before paying for them. I will remain a few days longer and will take negatives until and on the 1:1 inst. All work tinished here. Hespectfullv, W. LaYallo. Sullivan County Sunday School Conven tion. The next convention of the county organization is to be hold at Lopez, August Kith and 17th. Arrangments arc completed fur making this the best convention ever held in the county, some of the best talent in America has been secured to addreas the convention. A very interesting program has been prepared,and evoy indication is apparnet that the most enjoyable and profitable meeting that the county association has ever held is at hand. Ample provision . 's been made at Lopez for the enter tainment of all who may attend. A rich treat is in store for all who may be fortunate cnougn to be there, so say the committee. Shunk. .V very hard shower passed over this place on Saturday, which was voay much needed. J.IL Campbell spent part of last week in Elmira. A social dance was given at the home of Mrs. Ora Kilmer on Thurs day evening. Mossors Pane Shoniaker,Dana Bat-1 I tin, Lee Yoorhces and Lane llickok I wore down the creek tishing, Tliurs- I day night. j A large black bear has been visit-1 I ing around here and has been seen [ by a number of persons,and seems j <|iiitc tame. Delos Iloagland captured a tinej mild turtle while tishing down the; creek, last week. Lee Yoorhces made a trip to La-1 porto on Saturday,he run from shunk 1 to Forksvillo, in "»H minutes. Jack Walters, cntist of Canton, was attending the dental work here last week. Leon Campbell is digging the cel lar for a line new residence. fw n ii. Trolley Party Meets a Fright ful Slaghter in a Runaway Car at Stratford, Conn. | CAR JUMPS HIGH BRIDGE ' Two of the Most Horrifying Acci dents ol the Year Happen to Excursion Parties. i i Thirty Dead Bodies Taken From the Wrecked Car —Many Others Badly Injured—Two Hundred Thrown Into Deep Water by Breaking of a Gang I'lank - Twenty Drowned. i Stratford, C'onu., Aug. B.—Thirty pas sengers were killed ami a tlozeu in jured iieur hero, by a trolley cur plung ing over a trestle llfry feet liigli. The line hud just been opened lor travel, and evidently the car was not under control, as ii approached the trestle at a high rate of speed. The wheels left the tracks immediately and bumped along the ties, then the car plunged over the side, Ihe trestle not being protected by guard rails. In its flight of tit'ty feet to the mud Hats below the car turned completely over. As it struck tin' ground m** huge four-ton motor was torn from its las teniugs ami broke through the floor of the car crushing many passengers to death against the roof, which was im bedded deeply in the mud. Five minutes before that tin' pas sengers on ihe crowded cur. delighted with their tlrsl opportunity of seeing the beauties ol' lli<- llousatonic ltiver on such a lovely day. were luughiug and singing. When found by men who hurried to llieir assistance they were si it ipi v jammed into a human mass bc aeath the great motor. There was only one eyewitness to the sceue. That was a young woman who had noticed the unusual speed of the car. When il toppled over the trestle and the shrieks of Ihe passengers rang in her ears, she could bear no more and fainted. The exact number of passengers on j the ill-fated car is not known. Almost I immediately after the accident, and while men were trying to rescue the i living and extricate Ihe dead, some employe of the read took away the register of passengers and secreted it.i Itroken (iangplunk Drowns Twenty, j Bar Harbor. Me.. Aug. B.—While en-j deavoriug lo crowd upon a ferryboat at Mount 1 leseri more than twenty persons were drowned and live limes that number were pulled from the water in lime lo escape death. The victims were all excursionists, en deavoriug to reach Bar Harbor to get a view of the fleet, which was expected here. The poini of the accident is eight miles from this place and is the ter minus of a division of the Maine Cen tral Railroad, in whose charge the ex cursionists were at Hie time of I lie ac cident. The crowd of L'INI were thrown into Ihe water by the breaking of a gangplank They had little more chance than if they had been thrown into a well, and that the death list is not a hundred in stead of twenty is a miracle to all who saw the accident. Tin* freight lions.- :ii MOIIUI 1 tesert lias been turned into a morgue. Twen ty identified dead arc in it. anil bow many more there are whoso bodies have not IHTII recovered is not known, as there was a strong ebb tide run ning at the time, and many are tie lie v«d to have been carried out to sea. The accident indirectly was the re stilt ol' the over-anxiousness of the ex cursionists to see the tleet. The Maine Central early it.tin- week an'verttsed exeursiotis to Bar llarhor. The Con trnl ruus as I'ar as Mount l»esi|i, and at that point the travelers are sent to Bar llarhor by the ferry. It is an eight-mile sail. The distance from the terminus of the road to the ferry is only a few steps, and it was •u these few feet that I lie score were drowned and some thirty injured. It is thought that of the injured about fifteen will die. and some of the others will tic dis ableil for life. Itiililil Klre (lons For Otis. Washington. Aug. 7. Cenernl "tis has asked for a number of Sims-lutil ley guns. Cat Hug guns ami llotchkiss PJ-ponnders. All are ra|iid-tire guns and are es|ieeiaily adapted to such a warfare as must tie prosecuted in tile Philippines. The Ordnance ltiirc.au has been busy gathering the guns ask ed for by Ceneral Otis, as they have been scattered about the country in different forts and arsenals, but a sutti eieiit number to meet the present «I< timid lias been nrucured and ordered shlpned to Manila. < ii|it. Traill's Daughter Weils. Har llarbor. Me.. Aug. 7. Miss Susie Train, daughter of Capt. Charles.l. t'rain of the lulled States battleship Massachusetts, was married here to August Noble Hand, son of Klfluird K. llnud. of Hll/.abethtown. \. V. The ceremony was at Si. Saviour's Church. Bishop Lawrence officiating. Tlie President Is Invited. I.Hibmiue. la.. Aug. 7.—The Duhiupie Business Men's League has Invited President McKinlev to visit this city during the carnival and Jubilee, the tlrst week of October. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has accepted an In flation to address the Cood Itouds Convention to be l»eld_here this week. Sonestown. I .Miss Cora Myers, of Ijiirdsvillc | is visiting her uncle, Fllis Swank. Mr. and Mrs.Clias. Star spent Sun j flay with Lairdsville friends. Mrs. Caroline (>'ray, of Picture Rocks, visited her parents over Sun" | ( lay. Mrs. L.Sheets, lias returned from ja weeks stay in Willianipsort. j Mrs. D. W. Darling, visited AVill ianisport relatives, last week. Mrs. Andrew Edgar,spent a few hours with relatives in Xordmont on Monday. The Lowe Sunday School will hold a picnic and festival in Floater's grove, on Saturday. A general in vitation is extended. Mrs. Dora Cook and Will Kiess, spent Sunday at Eagles Mere. A number of people from this place attended the circus at Muncy Valley,last week. John Brink, of Fagles Mere, is visiting his grandfather, John llaz zen. The wash hoard factory is now running eleven hours a day. Mrs. Dora Cook and Miss Annie Speary, are again at home since the close of the Laporte Normal School. Miss Anna Ha/.zen i- at Kagles Mere, Miss I Sort ha McC'lintock,of Heaver lake, is visiting in town. Miss Maud Laird, of Xordmont, visited in town on Thursday. J.II. and J.W. Buck, made a trip to Waverly on Thursday. Miss Anna Minsker, of Hlosser ville, is the guest of her sister .Mrs. Win, Miller. Teachers' Examinations. The examination of applicants for teachers' provisional certificates will occur as follows]: Laporte Horo. and I.aportc Twp., at Laporte, August 10. Colley Twp., at Lopez, August Hi. Cherry Twp. and Dushore, at 1 in shore, August 2.'!. Klkland, Forks and llillsgrove, at Forksville, August 21. Fox, at Shunk, August 2."». Davidson, Shrewsbury and Fugles Mere, at Muncy Valley, Aug. 2N. All examinations will begin at !•:;s(> a. m. Teachers should lie pro vided with S\|o tablets and paper! fasteners. Applicants for certificates must lie l examined in the district in which ! they expect to teach or present a 1 written permit from the president ! of the school board allowing; them to , be examined elsewhere. No certificate will be issued to a person of immoral character if the; facts be known to the superinten dent. Directors are requested to j report any such who may apply. The examinations are public and till interested are cordially invited. F. \V. MEYI.KKT, CO. Supt. Laporte, l'a M Aug. 5, ISO!). At'IHTOH'S XOTICK.—The undersignc'il hu\ " ing IR-CU appointed Auditor to asccrtuin and adjust the exist 1 tin liabilities between the Road. Poor and Sehool Districts affacted by the erection i of Eagles Mere Horough from Shrewsbury town i *hip. hereby give notice that he will attend to tin- j duties of his api»oiutment at the Court House at > Laitorte 011 Monday, August 14, 1899. at «.» ! o'clock a. in., when and where all parties inicr j ested should apj>ear. JOHN H. CRONIN. Audi* »r. Du*hore, Pa. July 12th 189i>. ESTATE OF ii. T. DOWNS, deed.' Letters testamentary on the above estate having been granted to undersigned, all persons indebted to the said estate sire requested to mak payment,and those having claims t l '! present the same without delay, t<>{ Mrs. MAUV A.DOWNS, Fxecutrix A.J. lilt A in. KV, Attty. Laporte,Pa., July 10,1899. Trial List, Sept. Term, 1899. Return day. Monday, Sept. is. at 2 p.m. 1 Kugciiia D. Weiner \s 1 orte township [ School district. N0.4«» May term 7. Kjcetment ! Plea, not guiltv. Thompson. | > ten. 2 John E. Kinan to use of ch I'. I'inan vs t Michael (Juiun, No. f>, Sept. term Is. Deft, ap ical, plea. "non assumpsit, with ifcave to give »|iecial matter In evidence. | Mullen. Ralph Malawi (use) vs The Township of ' Laporte, No. 107, Sept. term IHys. Deft, appeal. Plea "lion assumpsit" i»aymciit. payment with ' leave to give sjiecfal matters in evidence. Mill- | leu. j Inghanis. I The Dushore Water Co. vs The Horo of |)n- ! shore. No. 1, Decerning term, 189S. A»utnpsit. | Plea non a>-umpsit, and set ofT.with leave to give special matter in evidedce. Downs. Cronin tV. : lnghams. > Kli/aJ. Robinson vs J.P. it T.ll.Sliorniakcr No. 'S.\ Dec. term lst»s. Feigned issue. (\ (JeorgeW. Robinson vs.l. P. T. 11. shoe maker: No. 24. Dee. term lS!*s. rrigned i»ur. Mullen. I Hill. 7 Thos. I'. Kennedy \> l,a|H.i t. Tw p.l'our DI-. No, S."», Dec. term lsv»N. Deft. apjKtil. IMra, "IIOM assumiisit, payment payment with leave t<« spec ial flatter in evidence. Mullen. highams. s Martha K. Dewaltei> i t al, \> Willii iu Ki:n kle. No. 2 May term ISW. Mjeetment. Pl» a . vuilty. Walsh. Piatt. WM. I.AV. I.! N( I Proil: I'rothy's. ortice, l«a|>onc, Pa. Any • QOI RT I'Rtu I.AMA I H»N. WHF.IIK.\>, HON. K. M. |M NIIA.M. I li*>i.;eui Judge. Honorable* John s. Line and < oiisud Kraus. .ludfie- of the < oun> »»>ei .• l•«i 'leritiiuei and ifeueral J«ii 1 Deliver). *}i• Session* of rlie Peace. <>i phan.*'Court ;,n«l tor, liioii pfo» - 1 In*« oiinty ui Hi van. I»;i \«• i—*>»•<! theii pieeept. lieariuu .title the ::•! da\ ol .lui\ ls'.r«. til me directed, lor boldinu the *o\e -i <•01111* in the lW»ix»UKh <*i l.a|-"iU ,on Moiida> (•)• day of Srpt.l.v/.i, at 2 o'clock p. in. Therefore.not.< t- hereby given to the « oroiier. Justices of the Peace and Constable* williin the county, that they be then and there in their pron erpers«ni at 2 o'clock p. m.of said day. with their rolls, records, inquisitions examination* and other remembcrauces to those things to which their oflices api>crtain to lie done. And to those who are Uniud by their recognizance to prosecute again.-i prisoners who are or shall be in the jail t»f . the said countv of Sullivan, arc hereby notified to be then and there to prosecute tigaiubt them as will be just. 11, W OSLER. Sheriff. Sheriff's Olßee, La]«orte, Pa.,, Aug. H, IS'>.L Campbell, Has a complete line of Summer Of every description. When in need of anything in General Merchandise Call on him. Every department is full of new and I assure you his prices are right. He is agent for the Eureka Mowers, Wiard Plows and Rakes, also Rowkers High Grade Fertilizers. Highest Market Price Paid for Butter and Eggs. Don't Wait a Minute! . The Grandest Opportunity to Save Money ON MEN'S BOYS and CHILDREN'S L/10tnl^g , . A positive clearing sale of well marie, substantial, servise-giviii" Clothing. The kind that I can fully guarantee. All togo for its : < leai ing sale. Cost pushed aside. Prices cut to make immediate sale. I soo pairs of all worsted pants at half price. Too many overcoats, must 1 sell at your own offer. Suits at less than you would think of offering for them. I'nrierwear and < fonts furnishings till must go. vj "W OAROLLi. Block. 0 '"" 0 " Dusiiokk. \> ■ LAPORTE Clothing Store. Our Store Improved! ! our stock of SfRJ.YS ZtQT) iJNS SHOES OF ALL STYLES Ladies' Capes, Skirts, Wrappers, Shirt Waists, Corsets, Etc. I am prepared now to >lm\v von a lint in every department in the store, larjrer than Laporte ever hail in iis history, and we are aide to oiler von jjootls Cheaper Than You Ever Heard of Before. W I'. WILL PAN CAR FAI; K one wnv it yon purchase $5.00 worth of goods. We pay hoth ways it'a £IO.OO purchase i> made, 'lake the advantage, this is the I'est chance von will ever have torn tree trip, JOE COOPER, The Clothier. Try The News Item Job Office Once. Kine Printing MoiStV FAoijjVn rcs. \VO Print To Please. THE REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. IS THE PAPER FOR THE ' ■—W FAMILY. Republican in Principle ! > Independent in Thought * * Indomitable in Action. Wright & Haight, Fur tiit lire . . , , .». b II Jcrtum 113. \\ TWO JSI- * . FINE JjiL Jl|[ A BRANCH CONNECTION AT LAPOBTB, IF.A.. NKXT I M a• it TO \VA«iu\ sipip. Jr R. A. CONKLIN, Mgr. Everything New and Seasonable. FORKSVII I F PA Prices Invariably Lower. Try us. V/III\WTII»LL.| L n.
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