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.
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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
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To Care Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. tOe or 150.
If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund moncv
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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.
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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.