Republican Ntw*> Item CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor. THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1900. "FIRST OF ALL—THE NEWS." The News Item Fights Fair. itjs a:patriotic home newspaper. Published Every Friday Morning. By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Seat of Sullivan County. LAPOBTB, PA. SUBSCRIPTION —$1.25 per annum. If paid in advance SI.OO. Sample copies free. All communications should be ad« dressed to REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM, Laporte Pa., Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, as second-class mail matter. (Special Correspondence.) Harrlsburg, Feb. 20. —There Is a hot contest under way at the Republican primaniry election being held today in Jefferson county. The struggle is im portant because it is practically the first real struggle since the reopen ing of hostilities within the party or ganization. The insurgents under tho leadership of William Flinn are mak ing a bold stand in this city in the matter of the nomination of a candi date for the state senate and the se lection of delegates to the state and national Republican conventions. In this senatorial district, composed of Jefferson and Indiana counties, the candidates for senator are nominated by popular vote in both counties. Jef ferson county has had the senator for eight years in the person of J. G. Mitchell, and by common consent the nomination has been conceded to In diana county. The regular Republi cans are running John S. Fisher, and the insurgents are backing J. W. Mor lOW. Fisher is the close friend of At torney General Elkin, who is backing him in tho fight. Flinn has been in consultation with the disgruntled poli ticians of Jefferson county, and a bountiful campaign fund has been sup plied. Nothing is being left undone by these party wreckers to break into the district. As the contest here is the first fight In the state they are not sparing money or anything else to win. The county is overrun with agents of the Pittsburg boss in support of Morrow. Everything that money can do is being done to defeat the stalwarts. But notwithstanding all this the reg ulars expect to win a complete victory. TJie Republicans of Jefferson county do not believe in guerrilla tactics in politics. They do not like "reformers" of the Flinn stamp. Flinn's connec tion with the campaign has materially hurt the insurgent cause. He may run Pittsburg, but he will fail to mako any impression on the Republicans of Jefferson. Fisher and the whole straightout Republican ticket will win. Senator Mitchell and the friends of the attorney general will send in satisfac tory returns from this county. LANCASTER ANTIS DISCOURAGED. There were several conferences dur ing the week of leading anti-Quay Re publicans of Lancaster county, with a view of making a fight against the stalwarts' legislative slate. The "antis" did not meet with much encourage ment in quarters where they expected it, and the movement has been prac tically abandoned. Senator Milton Eby was willing to allow the use of his name for the legislature, conditional on A. C. Baldwin, a business man and foriper member of the legislature, be coming his running mate. Mr. Bald win declined for business reasons and the proposed opposition to Quay in the southern district fell through. There was no effort made to get out any anti-Quay candidates in the northern or city districts. The slated stalwart legislative ticket is: Senator, Milton Heldclbaugh; rep resentatives, Frank B. McClain, John G. Hornsher, William H. Brosius, Bar ton M. Weaver, H. Burd Cassell and 1). W. Gray. The candidate for recorder has not yet been slated. Indications are that Jonas Huber will be decideu upon. The only other candidate for this office is John H. Bausman, a for mer clerk in the office, but he has no chance of winning. Tho national delegates will not be determined upon until Wednesday. Secretary of the Commonwealth Griest may be one and Isaac W. Slokom the other. Wednesday next at midnight is the last day on which candidates can register to be voted for at the com ing primary elections. FOCHT SURE WINNER. The candidacy of Charles Miller, of Penn township, Snyder county, for state senator cannot bring about the defeat of Benjamin K. Focht, of Union county, for the Republican nomination in that district. County Chairman E. W. Tool says he will not allow Miller to register in Snyder, as the time limit expired on February 10, so Focht will be the only candidate on the ticket for the primaries here. Focht will secure the conferees in both Snyder and I nion, and having six of the nine, it Will not matter much to him if some one else captures the conferees in Northumberland. At the Republican primary elections in Chester county last Saturday, the stalwarts won a sweeping victory. They practically carried the county without opposition. Horace A. Beall, Jr., of Parkesburg, was elected delegate to the national convention, and Joseph J. Morris, of Uwchlan, alternate. The slate delegates chosen are as follows.: Northern district, Aaron Lord, of North Coventry, and Jesse Hall, of Phoenlxville; Southern, Ellis Kirk, of Oxford, and William T. Dance, of Franklin; Easterrf, William Chalfont, Jr., of West Chester; Western. Dr. Thomas Richmond, of East Brandy wine, and Elias Bair, of Sadsbury. The Ktate delegates will support Senator Hardenbergh for auditor general, and present Auditor General McCauley's name to the convention for one of the delegates-at-large to the national con vention. For congressmen-at-large they will support the men desired by Colonel Quay. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ("vents of the Week Told in a Few Words. Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, Secretary of the American Unitarian Association, WHO was recently called to the pastor ate of the South Congregational Church, Boston, as successor ol' Hev. Dr. Everett Hale, lias declined the call. A cold wave is doing considerable damage in the coast country of Texas to truck farming and fruit. Strawber ry farmers have suffered the greatest. After a week of slow improvement E. J. Phelps, who has had a severe attack of pneumonia, is now practical ly out of danger. Two men who were caught in au ice floe at Voukers, N. Y., were rescued off Fort Lee, after being exposed to bitter cold for ten hours. Wedding presents sent to the lion. Lillian Pauncefote, daughter of the British Ambassador, have not been equalled iu Washington since the Cur zon marriage there. During the recent blizzanl a negro was frozen to death at Anuistou, Ala. At a panic in a circus in London. England, two elephants ran amuck and killed a keeper. Michael Davit t, wo resigned his seat iu the British House of Commons as a protest against Great Britain's poli cy towards the Transvaal, starts for South Africa this week for the benefit of his health. Six hundred Finlanders have sailed front Liverpool for Canada, making about 8000 who have emigrated dur ing the past six mouths. Three Massachusetts soldiers, mem bers of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, are reported to have been captured by Fil ipino insurgents, and tortured and murdered in the public square at Bol inag. The annual report of the Maine De partmont of the Grand Army of the Republic shows a loss of 401 mem bers, of whom 234 died. Major Mills, of the Six li Artillery, commanding at Honolulu, reports that the plague situation is ene nirtging, and predicts that if existing condi tions (Feb. 2) continue the quarantine may be raised within the succeeding twenty days. Senator McLaurin of So.ith Caroli na, has been offered by lite President a place on the now Philippine Com mission. The Western Packers' Canned Goods Association and the Atlantic States Packers' Association in l)>t oit decided that the time was not oppor tune for a petition to Congress tore- Vise the tariff on tin plate. As the outcome of a light in the Bel gium Chamber of Deputies, M. Dentit ion, the Socialist Deputy who was re moved by force from the House, will be prosecuted for assault. Duke I)e Medina Sidonia. Spanish Grand Chamberlain and Chief of the Royal Household, is dead. The grippe is still gaining ground in Berlin. The physicians assert that at present there are more titan SO.OOO persons suffering iront the malady, al though relatively few cases prove fa tal. Ambassador White is still ill. Roosevelt ana Piatt may retire Payn Gruber and Davis from the New York Republican State Committee.- Gov. Roosevelt of New York, has been formally pledged a renominattion by the New York Republican County Committee. Kentucky Democrats have a clue to Goebel's assassin in a child's letter. The green goods business still fiour shes. New York police c.iptured a cart load of circulars in charge of five persons, the other day. Andrew Carnegie lias estimated that for the current year the net profits of the steel company \ ill r >ach $40,- 000,000. while Mr. Friek's estimate put tho figure at $42 000.000. These esti mates, experts say. are exceedingly conservative. They declare t!:e prof its will be nearer $50,000,000 than S4O - The floods have apparently concen trated their energies en Montreal. There is scarcely a dry spot any where. The financial damage will reach $150,000, and it will be scvetal days before railroad traffic tan be re cumed in its normal state Great Britain is in the grip of a bliz zard. Trains are snowed in in all di rections and street railroad ines are blocked, and telegraph and telephone lines are down, delaying communica tion in all parts. Ma 1 ' vans and peo ple traveling by loot in country dis tricts are reported missing, and sever ul persons have been found frozen to death in exposed places. New England was vislie.l by the heaviest rain it has known in many years Feb. 13, Hot ding towns in! c t ies along the rivets. Mrs. Langtry's tei concert at Cher ry's, in New York, was a treme dous success, thousands of dollars b -ing raised for the hospital sh p Maine The senior class of the academic de partment of Yale has petitioned t!ie faculty to abolish the sophemote se cret societies. Roland B. Molincaux received a farewell visit from his mo'her and his wife in the Tombs Feb. 13. The bodies of Charles B erne and Martin Loeffler were fouad locked in closet of the uten mted house at No. 108 Edgecomb avenue, New York, Feb. 13. The boys disappeared last August and it is believed met with loul play. The British India Office has re ceived a despatch l'mui Lord Curzon, saying that distress front the famine is increasing, and that those now ill receipt of relief number :?.754,(R)0. Immigrants arriving at Halifax, No va Scotia, mostly Russian Jews, say that some of them were offered 200 roubles at Amsterdam to join the Transvaal forces. It is expected that at a dinner to l.e given at the Hotel Manhattan ear y next mouth John D. Rockefeller will announce a further gilt of $1,.'00,000 to Chicago University, making his to tal contribution to thai institution $8,500,000. A summary shows that from Janu ary 13 to 23 inclusive thoie were 21 cases and 17 deaths of plague at Hon olulu. Front December 12, when the plague was first discovered, there had been recorded 52 cases and 41 deaths William Truesdale, colored, was hanged at Charlotte, North Carolina, feb. 8, for the murder of his sweet ffkrt a year ago. We_HaverioVed Large furniture Stock ffc TO THE CARROLL BLOCK, Next Door to J. W. Carroll's Clothing Store Telephone call, Hotel Obert. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, ©USbOVe, P*. AT. ARMSTRONG, SONESTOWN, PA. DEALER IN Flour Feed anil Groceries 13} pounds of pure Lard for SI.OO Raking molasses. 2.") to 50c. 8 pounds Rolled Oats for 25c. 7 pounds of Corn Starch tor 25c. 7 pounds of Laundry Starch for 25c. 2 jiounds of Rio Coffee lor 25c, 8 bars oi Lenox Soap for 25c. No. 1 mackerel per pound Bc. Best Sugar f'oated Hams (a Ilc per lb. Buckwheat Flour 25 pound sack'4sc. Buckwheat Flour 100 pounds, SI.BO. Yellow Corn per 100 pounds 90c. Ccrn Meal or Cracked Corn 90c. Com. Oat> aiul Barley Chop 90c. Wheat Bran 200 pounds $1.50. Flour middlings. 140 pound sack #1.40. Fine middlings 200 pounds $1.60. Flour per sack SI.OO. Winter Roller per i-nck SI.OO. Good Flour 90c. Rye Flour 25 pounds, 50c. Graham Flour 12-} pounds 30c. Common Fine Salt per barrel #1.20. Ixßk estate of Myron Alfred Pet ers, late of La porte township, Sulli van county, l'a., deed. Letters of administration upon the above nam ed estate having been granted to the undersigned, till persons having claims against the same will present them for payment, duly authenticat ed; and those indebted thereto, will please make immediate payment to T. J. Kkklek, Admr. A.J.Hradlev,Atty. Laporte.l'a. Feb. I*>, 1900. CONDENSED REPORT of the condition or the FIRST NATIONAL HANK of l)ushore, Pa.. At closoof business, Dec. 2,1899. Resources: Loans and Discounts 8136,079 00 U. s. Bonds to Secure Circulation 12,500 00 Premium on United States Honds 1,00000 Stock Securities 15,1 .j0 00 Furniture 1.200 00 line from Banks Approved reserve Agt IJI 570 67 Redemption Fund 0, S. Treasurer 562 50 Specie and Legal Tender Notes 15,899 Si ( 306962,10 Liabilities. Capital 5 50.000 00 Surplu sand Undivided Profits 14.H07 84 Circulation 11,250 00 Dividens Unpaid 72 00 Deposits 230,832 26 t 306,962 10 State of Pennsylvania, County of Sullivan ss: 1, M. I). Swarts, Cashier of the above named bunk, do solemnly swear that the above state ment is true to the best of mv knowledge and be lief. M. D. SWARTS, Cashier. Suliscribed and sworn to before me this 19:h day of Feb. 1900. JOHN H. CRONIN, Notary Public. Correct—Attest: ALPHONSUS WALSH, ) JNO.D.REESEK. > Directors S. D. STURIGER. J * ASK YOUR DEALER £ » ry FOR THC * f(Jreighton I I Shoe Ladies. | jjj ... WARRANTED. ... | I $2.00 | 1 / -3L. $2.50 i $3.00 £ Z PBR j; * PAIR. * $ Perfect Fitting, Best Weiring And jjj 2 SMost Unliable Shoe sold. it* * i For seventeen years our product has beew a tfc m Standard Shoe for Women, and is to-day con- ,|i ill ceded to be one of the most reliable and thor- £ fL oughly honest lines of Ladies' Footwear on W the American market. Sold through our au- ■ 2 thorized Agents. AU styles, sixes and widths. W * * * T. 5 Sold exclusively by # £ Mrs. D. H. LORAH. 3 Jg SONESTOWN, PA. * » M*BI BY Jjr * ; w. i. creightoi k to, $ | (fafPj9f! m None genuine un- V " JklflQF* 5 * less they bear this " r m TRAftE-MARK > i.!!--' 5 * stamped on Sole. * To Care Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. tOe or 150. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund moncv I?? ? ? All answered at VERNON HULL'S STORE, MILLSGROVE New Stock of DRY Goods. Vernon Hull, Hillsgrove. Fa. G. A. Rogers FORK9VILLE, PA. Watches, Jewelery, Silverware, Etc. Gum hoots ami lumberman* flan nol at J. \V r . Rucks. Williamsport & North Branch R.R TIME TABLE. , In Etlect Monday Dec. 11, 1809. Northward. Southward. I>m. p. in. a.m. a,m p.m. p. m 11512 55 It)'2o Halle 94512 00 *4*oo 4isi fioo io :t; Pennsdale 9 nit r>7 fa .v. 127 11010 32 Hughesville 93211 4h 4"> 435 lIS 10 Its Picture Koeks y25 11 42 <: 7 fl 39 fl 21 10 41 Lyon* Mills f922 tt 34 f1 41 fl 24 10 43 Chaniouui 920 11 37 f3 31 f4 48 13210 4* Oleil Mawr 914 11 82 323 M56 112 141 10 54 Straw bridge f9 05 11 29 3 14 1 501 112 145 Beech Glen f9Ol .. 310 505 14911 00 Muncy Valley.... 85811 20 3oc 511 15511 05 Sonestown 85211 15 300 5 26 Nordmont 8 37 5 43 Mokoma 8 21 1 5 45 I-aPorte 8 19 1 f602 Ringdale fBOS 1 0 15; - Satterfleld 755 pm. a in. u. in.:p. m. Connection with Phila.4 Heading[at Halls For Philadelphia, New York and inter mediate stations—l.eaveWilliamsport 7:42 a.m., 10:00 a. in., Arrive Halls 7:59 a.m 10:1V a. in. ForSliamokin and interim-' iate stations—leaves Williamsport 4:30 | in.; arrive llnlls 4.51 p. m. From l'liila., New York and interme*! iaic stations—leave Pliila. 10.21 a. m.ain 11.36 pin; leave New York.via l'liila.7 3( a.m. 9.00 p.m.; leave New York via Tu liioqun. 9 10 a.m.- Arrive Ilalls, 0.34 a.m. and 521 p. m. From Shamokin and intermediate sta tii'iis—leaves Sliamokin 810 a. in. Ar rive Ilalls 9 49 a.m. Connecting with L. V. B R. at Satterfleld. For Towanda and intermediate stations, leave Wilkesbarre 3.05 p. m.; arrive at Satterfleld 6.25 p. m. For Towanda and intermediate stations, leave Bern ice 6.40 a.m.: arrive Sattertield 7.04 a. iii. For Wilkesbarre and intermediate sta tions—leave Towanda 6 45 a.m. and 10 30 a.m.; arrive Sat'field, 7.52 a. in. 1.04 p. m. STAGE LINES Stage leaves Hugliesville post office for Lairdsville, Mengwe and Philipsdaledaily Wilson, Beaver Lake and JFribley on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11.30 Stage leaves Glen Mawr tor Uillsgrove and Forksville at 11 02 a. m. Stage leaves Muncy Yallev for Unitv ville, Nortb Mountain and Lungerville daild at 11 19 a. m. Passengers taking trains at tlag stations can secure train excursion tickets from the conductors. Philadelphia & Heading. Lehigh Valley and New York Central mileage will be tor,through passengers trav eling from Halls to Sattertield or Satter fleld to Halls. The general offices of the company are located at Elugheeviile,.Pa. 1). HAKVEY WELCH. President. Hughsville, Pa. • 8 D. TOWNSEND. Gen. Mgr., Hughesville,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, COFFEE, ioc. FLOUR, B^c. COTTON, Bc. WASHING GAS, sc. BAKING POWDER, ijc. with tumblers or water pitchers. 10 CAKES SOAP, 25c, These are only a few of the many bargains offered each Thursday. Everybody welcomed; our store is cool in warm weather, and warm in cold weather; you will always be made comfortable at Hoffman's Store, JENNINGS BROS. <=# 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 3 and 4 feet long, Hardwood Flooring both Beech, Birch or Maple, HThe same woods in $-8 ceiling. CORRESPONDENCY SOLICITED. FES | In a Pretty 'jy ? | Pickle I is tin' woman who must entertain unexpected company—unless she ' s we 'i supplied witli canned and bottled groceries. If her pantry S ' U '' VeS a, " en ' " IMH * with our ready 4 for any emergency. What s 1 ill we send you to-day ? ON DRY GOODS WEJARE xN THE LEAD WHY ? Because we carry the Largest indJßest line in the]county Will . Because we have only'new an i'attractive patterns to show Because you will [find 110 old gcodsjon our shelves, 4|i Wc have jtnt opened anew lineofjGinghaia? Shirtings, muslins etc., or the spring trade, which we'would be pi ""ised'to have you inspect. E G. Svlvara DUSH ore,ap Removed! ? to my new store in the GAREY BLOK where 1 will be pleased to meet all -f my old pat rons and many new ones. We tit he young and old of all nationalities and color with Boots, Shoes, Rubbers, Fine Assortment at Popular Prices. CA-XiXj cost tts Remember BLOCK, the Place. DUSIIORE ASHORE. J. S. HARRINGTON.
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