Republican News Item CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY, Al'O. 24,189'.'. "FIRST OF_ALL— THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. IT IS A PATRIOTIC HOME NEWSPAPER. Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County.! LAPOBTE, PA. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte," an second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.25 per annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should he ad dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Rochester. N. Y.. Aug. 21.—Friends of .loslah Sullivan, :i lawyer, who dis appeared from Rochester Inst mouth and was supposed to lmvo committed suicide by .lumping from a Fall River I tout, believe the severed body found n few days ago off <ireenport. L. 1., is tlull of the missing man. Paris. Aug. 21. The Figaro says that the Government has resolved to take no action of any sort against the anti- Semites barricaded in the house in the Rue de Chabrol. The police and mili tary watching the house will be with drawn and M. Guerln and his friends will be left free to come out or stay In. just as they please. Albany. Aug. 21.—The South field Beach Railroad Company, to he either operated steam or electricity, about two miles in lengih. has been incor porated with the Secretary of State. Its termini are South Reach, in the Fonrtli Ward of the borough of Rich mond, and Midland Reach, near TJn coln aveuue. In the same borough. New York City. Loudon, Aug. 21.—The Ronrd of Trade bankruptcy report for 1898 shows an increase of 25(5 in the number of failures. Commenting upon the Ilooley failure, the report says: "Reck less and extravagant methods of pro motion converted a profit of 15.000,- HIMI into a loss of £89,,'100. Investors are warned to distrust ornamental di rectorates." New York. Aug. 21. Prices for ajl meats for the consumers were raised with a jump at a mass meeting of the Retail Butchers' Association of this city in Nos. 01.1-017 Eighth avenue. These advanced prices take effect at once, and must be paid equally by the owner of a Fifth avenue home, who sends butler or chef to market, and by the meek and lowly Hat dweller, who receives his supply by way of the dumbwaiter. Loureuzo Marques, Delagoa Bay, Aug. 22. The Government of the South African Republic is making strenuous efforts to persuade the local Portuguese authorities to permit the passing of ammunition. Presdent l'aul Kroner personally has wired a request to that effect, stating that a modus vivendl with Great Britain is assured. Two thousand cases of atyns are due to arrive here today on the German steamer Kotiig. from Hamburg. New York. Aug. 22. The Ward Line steamship Vigilancla. which left the f(tot of Wall street last Wednesday afternoon with about fifty passengers, bound for Havana, is forty-eight hours overdue. No anxiety i* expressed at her agents' office in this city, tliey say ing that she undoubtedly encountered some storm which has detained her. New York. Aug. 22.- Joe Bernstein of New York won almost as he pleased from Solly Smith of California In their tight in the Broadway Athletic Club. Bernstein beat his adversary down tn unconsciousness In the thirteenth round. All that was exciting and dra matic came In the twelfth and thir teenth rounds, and when John White, the referee, counted off the ten sec onds the ring was surrounded by a crowd that howled itself hoarse. Bern stein showed himself the better man throughout the entire light. New York Markets. Grain. Wheat. Xo. 2 red was quot ed at 77c. elevator and 70c. 112. o. b. afloat: .No. I Northern Duluth, Mtyic. 112. o. b. afloat. No 2 corn closed 39c. Cii vator. :to'os. delivered, and lie. 112. 0 b. afloat. Oats. No. 2 oats closed 2G 1 .'a27c.: •No. 2tlc.: No. 2 white. 28«,<JC.:~ No. 3 white, 27c.: track mixed, 20a28c.; track white. 2Ha:t4c.: No. 2 white clips, 29c. Rye. No. I Western. I'IOVJC. 112 o. b. n'loat: No. 2 Western. 00c., spot: State rye, c. i. 112. New York car lots. Barley. Feeding. S7 , .{jaSfi<'.: c i. 112.. Buffalo: malting. IHa.l,V\. delivered. N< w York. Flour. Spring patents. s:Vßf>a4.lo: winter straights. $3.K5a3.4.1: winter straights. $3.3T>a3.45; winter patents, $ :,ttoa.'l.oo; spring clears, $;! 0"a3.20: extra No. 1 winter $2.05a2.80. I rovisions Pork: mess. $8 7 = -io.r>o: family. !?11al2: short clear $:0,25 a 1 '.7.-. Beef steady: mess, $0: family. S<».soal 1: packet. $0.2.1 a 10: extra India r>esss. sl4a 15.50. Beef hams quiet. Si.7. Dressed hogs steady: bacons. Isti lbs.. (Pjc.: ion lbs, plus. 7 7 v. Butter. —Creamery, western evtr-is, ffr lb., 21c.: do., llrsis 20c.: no., 'birds to seconds, 17a10c.: State, extras 20'.j a"lc.; do., firsts. 10'oa20c.: do. thirds to seconds, 17a19e. Cheese.- State, full cream, large, colored or white, fancy, per lt>. '>% c.! co.. good to prime. do. com mon to fair. SaOc.: do., small, colored, fancy, inc.: do., white, fancy. !tf-tc. Kggs.—Jersey and nearby, fancy, v. Lite. 20c.: do., average prime lines. !7a 18c.: Western, firsts, loss off. lfi'^c. Potatoes. East end I.ong Island fancy, per bbl.. $1.90: do.. 112 i : r to prime, $ 1.50 a 1.7.1: do.. South I rsey, frney, per bbl., $1.62a1.7!>: <lo , up r'ver and Jersey, average lots, 51.2.1 a i.f>U. ffippni | A Summarv of Happenings at Home and Abroad- THE NEWS CONDENSED. A Review of What Has Transpired of Public Interest. Havana, Aug. J!).—A republican party is forming that proposes to make General Gomez President of the Cuban republic as soon as the American authority is withdrawn. London. Aug. 19.—8y an explosion in the Llest colliery in Glamorganshire. Wales. eighteen persons were killed and sixty others are still in danger. Chicago. Aug. 19. A despatch to the "Tribune" from Belleville. 111., says: "The condition of Jehu Baker lias changed little. His fever lias abated somewhat, but he is weak anil his heart's action is faint. With the ex ception of one or two old frleniis, cal lers are not permitted to see him. Shiloh. Me., Aug. 19. More than 5.000 people assembled in Durham, on the Androscoggin Hirer, to dedicate the temple erected by Rev. !•'. W. San ford and his adherents, as the head quarters of believers in the Church of the Living <iod. Work on this struc ture. which is one .if the largest In the state, was begun in March, and Mr. Sanford and his followers hold that it has been completed through a miracle, claiming that unless the 200 builders who have worked night and day for the past twenty days, had been in spired with strength not their own. they never could have tinislied the work. Greenville. S. P.. Aug. 19. —For being In the bedroom of a white girl. Tom Keith, a negro, was hanged to a tree and shot to pieces by a mob of infuri ated citizens. Keith was found in the bedroom of the thirteen-year-old daughter of T. H. Hawkins, Jr.. a farmer who lives about eight miles from here. Keith was an old and trusted farm hand, and when he pro tested that he was drunk and had wandered In there accidently Hawkins let him go. The occurrence was soon noised around the neighborhood and a mob quickly organized. The negro was caught, and liis body, after the lynching, was weighted with stones and thrown into the Saluda River. Warsaw. X. Y.. Aug. 21.—Yesterday was a great holiday for the farmers of Western New York. Whole towns were almost depopulated by flic ex cursion trains to Silver Lake. where the twenty-seventh annual picnic of tlie Wyoming Co. Pioneers was held. <Sov. Koosevelt gave two aiforcsses. one at tlie Pioneer ground and one at the auditorium. lie was surrounded on the platform by all the leading politicians and editors of this section. He arrived by special train. Xyuck. X. Y.. Aug. 21. -William W. Rlackwell. the negro prisoner who es caped from the ltockland County jail, at New City, lias not yet been caught. Cape Town. Aug. 21. Miliary con tingents are daily leaving here and other cities for the Transvaal frontier, and recruiting is actively proceeding. ltockville. Md.. Aug. 21. Amistcnd Taylor anil John Alfred Brown were hanged here for the murder of Louis Hosenstein and his wife on May 13 last. Albany. X. VW Governor Roosevelt says that lie will under no circumstances accept u nomination for vice-president. He save oil his friends are for Ilobart. Madrid, Aug. 21.—Drs. Mendoza and Vlncente, who were sent officially to study the plague at Oporto. Portugal, telegraph that the cases observed by them are "very characteristically bu bonic." Washington. Aug. 21. The Navy De partment expects that Kear-Admiral Howison, with the llagship Chicago, will not arrive at New York in time to participate in the welcome to Ad miral Dewey. Wiltolf. Conn.. Aug. 21.—The wire mill of the Gilbert. & Bennett Manu facturing Company, in Georgetown, was totnlly destroyed by tire. The loss Is estimated at nbout ,s4o,nne»: partially covered by insurance. Leghorn. Aug. 21.—Admiral Dewey has completely recovered from his re cent illness and received visits from Mr. James A. Smith, the I'nited Slates Consul here, and members of the American colony. Mr. Smith gave a luncheon in the Admiral's honor. Albany, Aug. 21. The Syracuse Rochester and I.ake Ontario Telephone Company, to operate in Syracuse, Rochester. Oswego. Auburn. Geneva and Intermediate places, has been in corporated with the Secretary of State. The capitalization is $1,900,000. Chicago, Aug. I.—Lynching will be j made a capital offence if the will of the National Afro-American conference shall prevail. The conference passed a resolution here calling for tlie en actment of a national law to tliat cf j feet. Booker T. Washington is a prominent mover In the matter. Plattsburir. X. Y.. Aug. 21. The day I was pleasant and warm and the Presi dent and Mrs. McKinley went driving' as usual The only caller of import ance was lion. Smith M. Weed, of j Plattsliurg. The President reviewed the Twenty-sixth Infantry at Platts- i burg Barracks, and Mrs. McKinley presented the regiment with a hand- ! some sill, Hag. Gainesville. Ga.. Aug. 21. Taylor it. Hamilton, a member of the moll that lynched Silas Smith n few days ago, has made a confession before the] grand jury. Implicating a number of! prominent merchants of this county. Hamilton acted the part of a pretended prisoner in the hands of the mob which thus got the sheriff to open the Jail. Williamsport & North Branch Railroad TIIMIIEL! 'IT-A.IBIIL.IE. IN EFFECT MOXDA V. J I N K 18<M>. x< >kti i ward. soitiiwaim). P. M. P. M. I'. M. 11.I 1 . M. A. M. A M. STATIONS. A. M. A. M. F. M. I\ M. F. M. I*. M. 10 21 ■"» 25 120 2 1"> 10 2:1 SOO Halls T o 15 12 00 IU! I -I". lu I*. FlO 28 f r > :'«0 11 2)1 f2 Is flO 2S IS Oil Fennsdalc !'7 15 fit 10 11 .V> IV, 5s I I 41 ilo 10 10 .» 10 1 :v2■ 220 10 10 s2O u 7 :v» y 2 11 11 is 4 :i2 «,5y »ls 410 2 :iti 10 is s *JS Picture Hocks «» 25 11 :W» :S 40 121 «»f»0 ' 15 ;.l 444 i2 ::«» flO 52 is ;;i Lyons Mill 1«> 22 11 f:i :i5 fl 22 f»»4o! f5 54 fl 40' I*2 42 I*lo 55 fK IUS ('huiilolilii 20 11 2S f:{ :»2 II 20 f«»4". (i 02 I 2|S 1101 sas Mien Mawr <ji:i 1122 25 111 «»:i7 ft# 11 t""» 01 *2 fun fs 4«*» straw-bridge fy 05 111:: i*i ft 07 f<j 2s It# 1") *5 00 *:i 00 fl I It; fs ..0 lieech (ilcii f«♦ 01 11 00 11 H OK f«»24 <; iy .">lO 07 1121 sss Miuiev Valley s f*B not. 07 101 «»21 <; 25 5 it; :: 1 • 11 :;o ylO Nmcvtowti .s :#2 11 00 ik> :i 55 y 1;. 5 ill 11 10 Nordmont s :;7 2 44 5 is 12 0> I,ll* Forte S2l 225 5 '«0 12 11 La poile Tannery.... S 10 2 22 ft; 07 i*l2 :J0 Kingdaic fs 05 f2 07 ■tilt; *l2 II Hi nil Creek *7 5s *1 <i 20 12 I • Sattertield 7 55 1 55 F. M. F. M. A. M. F. M. Connections with the Fhiladelphia Heading at Halls, for all points north and south, and the , it. lIAUVKY WKLCII. Fall Brook and Ueeeh Creek railroads. At Salter. President, Ilughsvillc, Fa. Held for all points on the Lehigh Valley railroad. S. 1». TOWN^KMI, At Sonestow n with dairies Mere railroad. (Jen. Mgr. ilnghsville. Fa. t Daily except Sunday. 1 flag station.-. ho not stop'. CAJ'T.AVII.I.IAM ASTUK ('IIIIXI.UK, Con gresstnan from New Yorji.is the president ol'Tiie Xdv Yoik Star. which is away a t'orsy dollar bicycle daily, as ollered hy teeir advertisement in another cobumn. lion. Amos Cuinmings.M.t' ,('ol. Asa Bird Gardner, District Attorney of New York. e.\-<ioverner Ilogg,ol 'l'cxas.and Col.Fred. Feigl. of New York, are among the well known names in their Board of Directors mi'KNKI.I, I'M VKHSITY, John I Inward Harris, President. College nji" to dej*r» -cs in Arts, Philosophy and Sciknce, Acadniey, a preparatory school lor young' men and hoys. Institute, a rcliiK'd hoarding school for young ladies. School of Music, with graduating courses, For catalogue, address tin l Registrar. \V.m. ('. (Jui:TZiN(ii:it, Lewisburg, I'a. ■ Knreka Harness Oil Is the t>est H preservative of new leather H unit tlie best renovator of old ■ leather. It oils, softens, hluek ■ ens anil protects. I'se I Eureka A 1 Harness Oil I H on your trot harnem, your old bar ucss. and your carriage top, and thej' H will not only look better but wear \M longer. Sold everywhere in cann—all H5 Hi tizes from half pints to tiveKallons. |f ® Madv by HTAMUKU OIL CO. K\ A. T. ARMSTRONG, JONESTOWN, PA. DEALER IN Flour Feed anil Groceries 13! pounds ot pure hard for SI.OO Baking molasses, 25 to 50c. S pounds Rolled < 'ats for 2f>c. 7 pounds of Corn Starch lor 2. r >c. 7 pounds of Laundry Starch for 2">c. 2 pounds of Uio Cod'ee for 2- r >c. 8 bars ot Lenox Soap lor '2sc. No. I mackerel per pound .V. Best Sugar Coated Hams (<i llc per 11>. Buckw heat Flour 2"> poiitu! sack l.»c. Btickwheat Flour KH) pounds. SI.SO. Yellow Corn per 100 pounds '.Me. Corn Meal or Cracked Corn We. Corn, Oats and Barley Chop'JOc. Wheat Bran 200 pounds ifl.T/O. Flour middlings. 140 pound sack #l.lO. Fine middlings 2(H) pounds $1.1)0. Flour per sack SI.OO. Winter Holler per sack si. oo. Good Flour <IOc. live Flour 2"> pounds, .lOc. (iraiiam Flour 12! pounds .'JOc. Common Fine Salt per barrel #1.20. New lot of muslins, ginghams and calicoes at .1. \Y. Ruck's Sonestown. For shovels, hoes, grub-hoes, picks axes, manure forks, garden rakes,etc. goto John \V. Ruck, Sonestown. G. A. Rogers 1-OUKSVII.LE, PA. (.Successor to 1».. Fiiwcetl.) 5 ' Watches, Jewelery, Silverware, Etc. Bicycle repairing. Bicycle sundries. Fishing tackle, at lowest possible Price. For Sale. Twenty-live acres of hard wood timber land adjoining the Boro. ot Laporle. also shop in the borough ol La porte, suitable lor a wagon shop which could be easily converted into a resilience, one double-seated spring wagon. For terms impure of Mrs. .lohn T. Brewster. La porte. To Cure l'on<4li|>»tion I urever. Take I'asearets Camiy Cathartic. KH* orUso. If ('. C. C. fail lo cure. ilruKKlsls refund motii'v No-To-Hae for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure. inuUes weak men strong, biooU pure, ftuc.Ol. All Urunmsts llenuty IN Itlonft Clean Mood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Coseart ts, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, I>> stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body, liegin today to bullish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious completion by taking Casearets, - beauty lor ten cents. Alldiut;- gi.i' : itisfaetion guai nteed, 10c, 23c,00e. CON 1 HCN'SKI) KKPOKT of the condition of the I riKST NATIONAL BANK of Dushore. Pa., A i close of business, April lsw. Kksouhcks: lioansaixl Discounts Sl2S,ii4UW> s. Hon ds to Secure Circulation 12,f>00 ix.t Premium on I'niled States Itonds Loojoo Stock Securities K»,r»o ix> rurniture 1.200UU Due from Hanks Approved reserve Ajjt Itri.llJ'J ;J7 Redemption Fund I, S. Treasurer ."H'rJ .">0 SjK'cic and Lcjral Tender Notes U.tfil s> Liauilitiks. Capital § *»0.000 0() Surplu sand I'ndivided Profits I l.uil :C'» Circulation ll.'JTiO Ou Dividens Unpaid 1 ,*»U) 00 Dejiosits 11)8,782 »d $ HI State of Pennsylvania, County of Sullivan ss: I. M. I). Swarts, Cashier of tin- above named bank, do solemnly swear that the aljove .state ment is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. M. I>. SW A UTS. cashier. Sul>scribed ami sworn to before me this "»th dav of .lulv 1 s\)\). ' JOHN 11. CfIONIN. Notary Public. Correct—Attest: ALPJIOXSrS WALSII, ) P. cONNOIt. I Directors I*l SI I KK WELLKS. j The Best Place in Sullivan County to Buy Your HARDWARE is at James JACKS( »N BLOCK, DUSHORE. PA. 1 keep tlu- best line of Hardware in the County at prices to suit you. I give von butter goods lor your money than you can buy elsew here. I can furnish handmade tinware none better nude in the I' S. at prices that will pleas you. Three graiies, cheap, medium and the best al ways in stock front which to make your choice, (iiveme a trial on thesegoods. A Car Load of Barb Wire and nails just received and will be sold at prices lower than can be bought at the factory. If you are going to paint your house or barn w rite me tin- prices on paint. A full line of garden tools and seeds on hand. We can repair your tinware.pump etc. put up your cave trough and spout ing, put on your tin and iron roofing, in stall for you Hot Air, Hot Water and Steam Heaters. Will give you estimates on the cost of same if you think of buy ing a range call and look niv stock over. I have some ol the tinest ranges made. A complete stock of Building Hardware and iron work for wagons and buggies also on hand. My stock ol pumps con sists ol every thing from 1.2.1 up. Double ami single acting, lilt and force pumps tin' ilaep or shallow wells. For the butter makers I have butter ladles and bowls all size* and six different kinds ot churns. Chicken wire 'J feet to ti feet at CUNNINGHAM'S HARDWARE STORE. DUSHORE. Strawberry and vanilla cream at Hitter's Ice ('ream Parlor, Laporte. One new mowing machine, one new hayrack, screen doors and win dows,poultry netting tit J.W. Hacks. .Sonestown Pa. 'VV V V • • • • All answered at VERNON STORE, MILLSGROVE. New Stock of Spring and Summer Goods. Vernon Hull, Hillsgrove, Pa. Cbursday Bargain Day! AT HOFFMAN'S Muncy Valley. The last Thursday Bargain Day was everything that could be expected. The day was perfect and a goodly number of strange faces were seen in our Store taking advantage of the low prices, on the following bar gains that will be offered each Thursday: POTTERS OIL CLOTH, 12c SUGAR, sc. COFFEE, 1 oc. FLOUR, Bjc. COTTON, Bc. WASHING GAS, sc. BAKING POWDER, 15c. with tumblers or water pitchers. 10 CAKES SOAP, _>c;c, I hese are only a few of the many bargains offered each rhursday. Everybody welcomed; our store is cool in warm weather, and warm in cold weather; you will always bo made comfortable at Hoffman's Store* JENNINGS BROS. I! cSt We keep in stock at our mills a complete line of dressed lumber in hemlock and hardwood. MANUFACTURERS OF Gang Sawed and Trimmed Lumber. LOPEZ. PA. SPECIALTIES Hemlock Novelty or German Siding, Hemlock Ceiling 7-8 or 3-8 stick, Hemlock Flooring any width desired, Hemlock Lath both $ and 4 feet long, Hardwood Flooring both Beech, Birch or Maple, The same woods in 3-8 ceiling. CORRESPONDENCY SOLICITED. I IP S 1 ' n a Pretty " M m ' Pick,e f' .flUi /;"*%£■,' ' s woman who mtisl entertain miexpectetl company unless she shelves arc nicely lined with our lamou brands of pickles, soups, I , I. kWr f5 vegetables, canned meats and lisli ami crackers she is completely ready J'or any emergency. What shall we send you to-day'.' ON DRY GOODS WE ARE IN THE LEAD WHY ? Because we carry the Largest and Best; line in the county TT M I • Because we have only new and attractive patterns to show Because you will lind 110 old goods 011 our shelves, We have jast opened anew line of Ginghams, Shirtings, muslins etc., or the spring trade, which we would he pleased to have you inspect. ' Sylvara Removed ! to my new store in the GAREY BLOK where I will be pleased to meet all of my old pat rons and many new ones. We lit the young and old of all nationalities and color with Ooots, Shoes, Rubbers, Fine Assortment at Popular Prices. CALL OZtsT TTS Remember <3--A_:R,:Kr¥~'S BLOCK, the Place, DUSHORE. DUSHORE. J. S. HARRINGTON.
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