Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 4. > ""pwenty Years £ in Dushore. i The largest and best stock of goods J We ever had for the \ I jfall anb ZJClintcr ZLrafce £ Q The finest line of Q ?Holidai) floods, Q Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan j \ RET TEN BURY, S C DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. ✓ goles.." * F~ , GENERAL R D W A R E PAINTS, OILS, VARKSHES and GLASS. SPECIAL inducements given on CTOVES and RANGES and all kinds of HEATING STOVES for Wood or Coal,'suitable for parlors, halls, school houses, camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from 53.00 to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from §2.50 up to $35.00. My Special Bargain Sale is open on a line of heaters slightly damaged by water. Good as new, hut they must be sold CHEAP If in 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 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. STOV REPAIRS AND REPAIRING. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES. MILL SUPPLIES. Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. O/l ' : V' ' ■ agjjagW ■ This stove is the very best one made for Cold Weather. (its name ) "Maple Clemont" We keep sizes No. 22 and 24. Wood is putin top Keeps fire over night. Cast iron lining. For prices write us. Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1.1800. Wanted at once for cash Cut 4 1-2 feet long, 5 to 15 inch es diameter. Apply to AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, SONESTOWN, PA. HOTEL MAINE THOS. W. BEAHEN, Prop. I.APORTE, PA. This now hotel lias been recently opened, newly furnished throughout and will lie run fur the sjieciiil accomodation of the traveling public. The I»est stocked bar in.the county. Kates are low. CARROLL HOUSE, I). KEEFE, Proprietor. DUSIIOUK, I'A. One of the turgest and best equipped hotel.** iu this section ol the state. I able ot tiie best. lUtes 1.00 dollar per day. Large St. hies. BLACKSMITH AND WAGON SHOP Just opened at the Laporte Tannery. Custom work solicited. All work guaranteed. O. W. BENNETT, Prop. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LAPORTE I'A. 1 his larg<: and we 1 appointed house is the must popular hostelry iu this section LAPORTE HOTEL. P. W. OALbAQHEB, Prop. Newly erected. opposite Court ilouse square. .""Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and colli water, reading), and; pool room.and barber shop: also'good stabling and livery, WM P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at Law. Ollice in County Building. I.APORTE, I'A. Collection;, conveyancing; the settlement of estates ami other legal business will receive prompt attention. A. J. BRADLEY, ATTORNBT AT-LAW, ornca m COIIHTY nuii.nisu HEAR COURT UODHK. LAPORTE, PA r-IKST NATIOWM, liA.NK ' 111 IX'SIIORK, I'KXXA. CAPITAL. - - $50,000. SOKl'LUfj - . SIO.OOO. I*•» i* rt"U.„. ii Itiinkiuv Ibisiliess. It. W. J KN'N' I \(; s. M. |i. s\\ AKTS. riesinelil. « urhiir J. 1. & F. H. INGHAM, AtTOI»NKT«-AT- LAW, Legal i»us .itten'le.l In in «l»i" nn-l adjoining eon t w W»KTK »'A [ I. MULLEN. Attorn ey-at-Law. I.APORTE. I'A. Ofliee over T. .1. Iveelcr's store. J H. CRONIN, ATTOBNKT*AT -LAW, ROTARY PUBLIC. Orrll'R 0* MAtR STRBBT. DUSIIORK, PA ■ Eureka Harness Oil is the best H ■| preservative of new leather H HI and the best renovator of old ■ leather. It oils, softens, black- H ens and protects. Use ■ I Eureka | ■ Harness Oil | H on your bent harness, roar old bar- H nets, and your carrlsgetop, and they H will not only look batter but wear M longer. Sold everywhere In cans—all ■■ Stses from half pints to Ave gaUons. TT ■ Had. b; STANDARD OIL CO. II A TERRIBLE WRECK SHATTERS A TOWN AND KILLS FIVE PERSONS. Freight Cars of the Jersey Central Get Beyond Control, Dash Wildly Down a Pennsylvania Mountain Side to Ashley, Causing Explosion. Five men were killed and seven in jured, so far as is known, by a wreck and explosion of a car of dynamite Thursday, Jan. 25, in the yards of the New Jersey Central Railroad at Ash ley, Pa. A runaway train dashed down the mountain into the Ashley yards. There a car of dynamite exploded, wrecking the roundhouse and several engines and cars. The dead are: Michael Bird, brakeman; William Buckley, brakeman; Frank McLaugh lin, brakeman; two engine wipers, names unknown. The injured are: William Brown, night foreman; Michael Coyle, flag man: John Rehig, driver; John Rouf ley, driver; Thomas Row, brakeman. Two unknown men, both fatally in jured. An extra fast freight train, with twenty-four cars, was sent out of Munich Chunk about seven o'clock, and at Laurel Run, four miles from Ashley, where the heavy down moun tain grade commences, tho train got beyond control. How this happened cannot be learned. The train gained speed as it rushed down the mountain, and as it neared Ashley was going at a terrific rate. The men in the Ashley yards, startled by the roar of the approaching train, had only time to see tho fire flying along the tracks as tho brakemen jamed down the brakes in a vain en deavor to check the speed of the hurl ing train, but the wheels would not hold on the wet and slippery rails. At the foot of tho mountain, and right at the entrance of the Ashley yards, was engine No. 340, a "helper," which was about to start up the moun tain with a train then being drawn up. Back of this engine, about fifty or six ty yards, was a shifting engine which was waiting for orders. The runaway train, with the speed of a tornado, came down the heavy srade and crashed into engine No. 340. Picking this up as if it had been of feather weight, and so propelled by its own force that contact with the heavy engine even did not hurl it from the track, the onrushlng engine curried the other one with scarcely diminished speed along the track into ♦he shifting engine, and there the wreck piled up. But when the train struck the first engine the noise was a whisper com pared with the roar of the explosion that followed and which wrecked the roundhouse, shattered seven engines near by, tore tip tracks as if they had been a spider's web and hurled masses of iron, rails and ties in all directions. It was the explosion of twenty-five tons of dynamite. All the houses in the town of Ash ley were shaken, and those at Nantl roke, Plymouth, Edwardsville, Glen Lyons. Newtown, Kingston. Forty Fort and Willcesbarre trembled. But in Ashley, which surrounds and hangs over the shops and the railroad yard, the scene was terrifying. Win dows fell crashing out of their frames, houses shivered as in a blast of a cy clone, and people in the streets were shaken by the concussion. The dark ness of the night was lit up by a great flash, and then all was black again. Tho hiss of escaping steam was not too loud to drown the cries of the in jured, and above this now and then there was the crash of some piece of wreck falling. Where the car of dynamite was blown up there was a big hole in the ground, and around it the wreck was strewn, while almost a quarter of a mile away was piled the wreck of the three engines, and on top of them the cars. Part of the roof of the round house was blown off, the big smoke stacks were toppled down like straws, a water tank was shattered and strewn along the track, drenching the crew of an engine lying near, and five en gines on the siding aj>d three la the ruumiiiuußC were wreuKea uy tno iorce of the explosion. The loss is estimated at a million and a half of dollars. The confusion is Still so great that it is not at all certain the list of the dead and in jured is complete. A BRUTAL ATTACK. Two Aged Sisters Struck Down by a Robber. Constables or Frankllnville, near Vineland, N. J., are looking for a rob ber who broke into a house there Jan. 23 and brutally attacked two women. One of his victims, Mrs. Mary Has kell, fifty-nine years old, who ho clubbed over the head with a stick of firewood, may die of her injuries. Her sister, Mrs. Ellen Dennett, in whose house the women were attacked, is al so in a serious condition. The latter escaped from the house, and, clad only in her night clothes, ran half a mile to a neighboring farmhouse for help. When the neighbors reached Mrs. Dennett's house Mrs. Haskell was in sensible upon the floor of the room where the assault was committed. The room showed that the women had fought desperately. Mrs. Haskell is not able to talk, but Mrs. Dennett says that the robber en tered the house through the kitchen window, which was afterward found open. There was no one in the house but the two women. The man made his way in the room where they were sleeping. Mrs. Dennett awoko and saw him standing by their bed. "If you move an inch," he said. "I will kill you." Without considering the conse quences Mrs. Dennett jumped from her bed and grappled with the rob ber. He choked her and threw her on the floor. Her sister went to her rescue and the robber struck her with a heavy stick of wood which he took from the hearth. When Mrs. Dennett recovered hor feet she ran to a neigh bor. Th robber followed Mrs. Dennett, club in hand. She screamed as she ran, and before she reached lier neighbor's door the robber had been frightened off. Dr. Porch, of Clay ton, was called to attend Mrs. Has kell. A suspected man war, arrested, but released when Mrs. Dennett tailed to identify him as lier assailant. TWO BURGLARS KILLED. They Were Shot in an Encounter With Police at Quincy, 111. Quincy, 111., police officers have killed two expert safe blowers, sup posed to be from Chicago, and seri ously wounded another. The men are believed to be the same who recently operated in Galesburg. Freeport and other Illinois cities, making a special ty of cracking safes in building and loan association offices. On January 6 the safe in the offices of the Adams County Building and Loan Association, in Quincy. was blown open at the noon hour and cash and securities amounting to $20,000 taken. Saturday, Jan. 27, three men came to Moecker's Hotel, two of them registering from Kansas City. The proprietor suspected them and warned the police, and when oae of the men went out he was shadowed by Detective George Koch. The offi cer finally asked the suspect togo to the station and explain himself. The man drew a pistol and pointed it at the officer's heart, but as he did so Koch flashed his own pistol and fired four shots. Three took effect and the man fell dead. Meanwhile officers had examined the baggage of the suspected men, and found it included burglars' tools, skeleton keys, dynamite sticks and nitro-glycerine. When the other two men returned to the .\loecker Hotel at 2 o'clock in the morning they found the hotel surrounded by officers. They ran into the hotel saloon and loaded their revolvers. Then issued a run ning fight in the hotel corridor. One man reached the street, pursued by Chief of Police John Ahern. He turn ed to fire, and as he did so Ahern sent a bullet crashing through his skull. He died in a few minutes. The third man was shot on the stairs by Officer Charnhorst and sank to the floor with a broken hi]). He refused to say who his accomplices were. CRIMINAL. August. O. Hyde. ex-Superintendent of Poor, of Calhoun county, Mich., in "whose accounts a special committee ■discovered alleged shortages of $5,- <>oo, has been arrested for embezzle ment. Arthur 10. Laing. aeountant in the private bank of J. P. Lawrason, of St. •Georg. Ontario. Has been arrested, ■charged with stealing between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO from his employer. The jury in the ease of Archie Mull, accused of the murder of Melville Lord, of Nassau, at Troy, New York, have brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. James Pierce and "Pinny" Pierce, brothers, were arrested Jan. 24 in Chester, Pa., and lodged in jail to await a hearing on the charge of mur dering George B. Eyre. Diamonds valued at about SG,OOO were stolen from a safe in the office of Joseph K. Davison & Son, manu facturing jwelers. 71S Sansom street. Philadelphia, Jan. 24. The safe bore no evidence of having been forced opened. A tin box containing S7OO in cash was stoln from a safe In the office of Penrose A. McClain & Co., Philadel phia, Jan. 24. 1.25 Per. Y . Number 44. BRITISH _ANI> BOERS LATEST MOVEMENTS IN THE CAMPAIGN. A Full Summary of the Transvaal War News—Progress of the Con flict From Day to Day—The British Encouraged. Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner at Cape Town, has is sued a proclamation announcing that, the British government will not rec ognize as valid any forfeiture o. en cumbrance upon property iu th- Transvaal or the Free State subse quent to October 10. the date when war was declared. John Churchill, second son of Lodv Randolph Churchill, who accompanied her in the Maine to Cape Town. Iu received from Lord Roberts his com mission in the South African Light Horse. News from South Africa still co:i tinues fragmentary and uncertau.. The following: are leading events of the week: The British War Office has aur prised London by making public a de spatch from Gen. Buller, stating that Gen. Warren had abandoned Splon Kop which he captured in the recen. night attack in Natal Colony, after a sharp fight witli the Boer fure>v. The British casualty list, includiu,; many officers, exceeds 200. Mud; speculation was indulged in in London as to the situation o£ the Tugela rivcv, and apprehension lias been aroused about Buller's army and the fete of beleagured Ladysmith. A despatch to the London Time! from Spearman's Camp says:"The Boers are prepared to tight almosi interminably, having intrenched thei.' ridge, which stretches in an a 1 mo unbroken line from the Drakensbur" many miles eastward. We have not advanced any further, but w»i threw up intrenchments during the night, from behind which the musketry due! continued." At Brussels nearly one hundred thousand signatures have been ap pended to the address promoted l>> M. Lejeune and other members of tho Universal Peace Society, asking Presi dent McKlnley to mediate. A battle has been raging along the Olivier's Hoek road between the Boers and 6,000 British troops. The fighting is iu full swing at Spion* Kop. The Boers under Botha and Cronje have been sent elsewhere. From Vienna comes the statement that the idea of the intervention of European powers is gaining adher ents in influential quarters. The Daily Mail corespondent regards the signs as unmistakable, and mentions espe cially suggestions printed in the Aus tro-Hungary Foreign Office journals. Since the beginning of the war l>> the battle of Colenso the Boers say they have lost 212 killed and 6SJ wounded, 80 of whom have recovered, and 200 prisoners. The recent fighting near Ladysmith was clearly not of a decisive nature. The British gained 1,000 yards, bu: Warren is not likely to give the Boers leisure to prepare vast entrenchments of the pattern constructed at Mager-;- fontein and Colenso. It must be Rre membered also that Buller is attempt ing to carry out a very complex of campaign. Its execution must'nec cssarily be slow, not merely becfttosp of the extent of ground to be 't¥a\ ersed and tho difficulty of trarftffrori and the arduous character of the 1 coun try, but from the fact that it one, but many objects that Bi/lW is simultaneously trying to secure.'' Captain Ilonlev. of the Dublin f v usi leers, fell mortally wounded' ll .. <WiiL leading his men to seize a of vantage in Warren's attack. ' ' t moo DEATH RECORD. io s%s Charles Maltby, who was in business with Abraham Lincoln al Waynesville, Illinois, is dead at' Sun Francisco, aged 8S years. He was born in Vermont, and, during an -ac tive life occupied manv positions. of public trust. ir;t Colonel John Hornby, ptflstttcftvf. of the Fort Worth and Rio (WaruJcßwil road, died suddenly Jan.'tT-'iflt I'Siis home at Fort Worth. Texa*. as re sult of a severe cold. John A. Lingo, Auditor of Delaware died Jan. 26 at Millsboro. aged 5S years. j, v Ex-Congressman Charles W. Wal ton, for thirty-five yeaA a linstieS of the Maine Supreme Court, died Jan uary 24. ut. .ionn E. Davis. Profesnfir of Mathematical Physics in the: Wiscon sin University, and a wßll-knossniisci entist, died Jan. 23 i« fihicago<iia<i Mrs. Mary Wright guished for leadership in j*roinoUng the formation of women's elubk? : . o dliKi at her home in Mount nati, Jan. 24. 11 1;: •■• | >'ooff Ex-Attorney GenefMl JolWi ton died Jan. 21 d^'lhc nge of 74 years. ' \ T Theodore Bacon I ,' a promlneflt. Tftw yer of Western New 'York, whW was an independent cahi(Hdtf<e 'for nor against TheWidfe ift 1898, died in Rochester. dged'M'yiSArs. Dr. Alfred J. Watts, the inVenttnj of crystal gold, which "ifc used In den tistry, Is dead attfis home to'ftrcMrttfyn of old age. ■ fn; i.a Captain JulivMi Friedman, qL t£ .Bau Francisco milllwplre, was founu dead In his bed, at q fcitel. in that clty ( jfpn 21- ..r-'-g . il dd OS ! -j if/ -raw* J -li'.J JJ . 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