Republican News Item.
Published Every Thursday.
Volume 4.
Years
in Dushore.
The largest and best stock of goods
We ever had for the \
I jfall anb TOinter ftrabe £
| The finest line of
r Time-Keeners, ?
/ Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan N
S RETTENBURY, 5
DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. /
Coles... *.
GENERAL
ARD WA R E
PAINTS, OILS, VARNSHES and GLASS.
SPECIAL inducements given on
CTOVES and RANGES
and all kinds of HEATINQ STOVES
for Wood or Coal, suitable for parlors, balls, churches, school houses,
camps, etc. Attention to a lino of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from
$3.00 to 810.00. 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, but they must be sold CHEAP
If in need of a cheap heater, call early.
My "Dockash" Ranges are without a question the finest 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.
Qofes Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA.
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, MARCH I. 1900.
Wanted at once for cash
Basswood
Cut 4 1-2 feet long, 5 to 15 inch
es diameter.
Apply to
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION,
SONESTOWN, PA.
This strip is manufactured under a U. S. patent
and is the neatest, strongest and most durable
window shade holder on the market, and we
guarantee it to be as represented or money re
funded. The price, Express paid, to all points in
I'a.,Md.,l)el, N.J.and N.Y.,One Dollar per doz.
other states $1.25, Your order solicited.
lOHN «. PARSONS • CO. CaUwltia, Pi.
HOTEL MAINE
THOB. W.BEAHEN, Prop.
LAPORTE, PA.
This new hotel lias been recently opened, newly
furnished throughout and will In; run for the
slH'cial accomodation of the traveling public.
The liest stocked bar injthe comity. Rates are low.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEEPE, Proprietor.
DUSUOKK, PA.
One of the largest and bent equipped
ho H in this section ot the state.
Table ot the best. Rutes 1.00 dollar per day.
Large st.'liles.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop.
LAI'ORTE PA.
This large and well appointed house is
the most popular hostelry in this section
~ LAPORTE" HOTEL.
P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newly creeled. Opposite Court
House square."'.Steam lieal, bath rooms,
liot and cold water, j*>ol
room,and barber,shop: ulso'jrood stabling
i and livery,
P. SHOEMAKER,
Attorney-at-Law.
Oflice in County Building.
LAPORTE, PA.
Collections, conveyancing: the settlement of
I estates and other will receive
j prompt attention.
J. BRADLEY,
ATTORHBY-AT-LAW,
!
OFFICE IN COUNTY BUILDIHO
NEAR COURT HOUSE.
LAPORTE, PA
FIRST NATIONAL HANK
OK Hi SIIOlll-. I'KNNA.
CAPITAL - - *50.000.
SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO.
President. i ushicr
J # J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTO> SKY-i-AT-I.A W,
Leg »I I'll-' !ittendi*«l to
in M.i- iiml fi.ljoiiiintf cori.lieK
_APORTK "A
£" J. MULLEN,
Attorney-at- Law.
LAPORTE, l'A.
Oflice over T. .1. Heeler's slorc.
J # H. CRONIN,
ATTORNEYvAT -LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
OPFICB 09 MAIN STREET.
DUSIIORE, * PA
Eureka Harness Otl is the best
preservative of new leather
■ and the best renovator of old
leather. It oils, softens, black
■ en* and protects. Use H
I Eureka 1
■ Harness Oill
■ on your best harness, your oM bar
new, and your carrlacetop, and they
will not only look better but wear
longer. Sold everywhere In cana—all
sixes from half pints to live gallons. 1V
I ■ am bj ITUDIID OIL CO. 11
PRICK—CARNEGIE.
Both Sides Preparing to Fight to the
End.
President C. M. Schwab, of the Car
negie Steel Company, has arrived in
Pittsburg from New York, and was at
Ins office Feb. 2.'!, receiving but few
callers. He declined to express any
views on the equity suit brought
against the company by H. C. Prick
to recover $10,000,000, and the result
of his conference with Andrew Carne
gie in New York remains a matter of
conjecture.
it was expected that some important
meetings will he held on both sides
of the c-as*, and developments are
eagerly awaited. Mr. Carnegie has suc
cinctly outlined all the details concern
ing the policy to be pursued in the
suit, and the answer will probably be
filed without further instructions from
the steel magnate.
One of the most interesting features
at present is the ontemplnf ?d
suit Involving the coke contract, and
there is a well-grounded opinion
among those more or less directly con
cerned that the papers will be filed
at once. Prick will hold aloof from
this action for a time.
Little credence is placed in the re
port that negotiations are pending to
have the coke suit dropped. No over
tures have been made in this direc
tion. and it is thought the minority
stockholders of the Prick Coke Com
pany will be a unit in favor of prose
cuting the case.
The expectations of those who an
ticipated Mr. Carnegie's early arrival
in Pittsburg received a severe setback
when Mr. Schwab came along, and it
is now considered probable that sev
eral weeks may elapse before Mr.
Carnegie returns and takes personal
charge of his forces.
ALL AT ODDS.
Porto Rico Offers a Perplexing Prob
lem to the Government.
The President and his party repre
i sentatlves in the House are at odds
for the first time. He has affirmed that
| ii is "our plain duty" to give Puerto
Itlco free trade. The Ways and Means
Committee propose a '!'•> per cent, re
duction from the Dingley tariff. The
Democratic contention appeal- to be
that annexation of Puerto itico- made
the island an integral part of the Unit
• •ii States, and that under the Consti
tution free trade is guaranteed it. To
lie logical, the IU-publieans must eon
code that Congress lias a right to im
pose a tariff on the products of Alaska,
for example, and even Arizona. New
Mexico and Oklahoma. If the Consti
tution is only for the states, and not
for the territories or colonies, we must
hark back to theories that were ex
ploited and exploded in the early his
tory of the nation. The jingo thinks
that the American flag must l>e hoist
ed wherever we have the power to fly
it. irrespective of its effect upon the
"old" I'niteil States, the people of
which have to count the cost and pay
the bills. Washington's farewell ad
dross contains many passages which
must bring a blush to the face of the
imperialists of 1900.
Perished in the Snow.
P. L. McCarthy, a farmer living
near New Brunswick. N. J., while re
turning to his home late on tho night
of Pel). 17. was overcome while walk
ing through the big snow drifts and
tell. He lay in the place where ho
fell until Sunday morning, when ho
was found dead. James Applegate,
of Millstone, near New Brunswick,
was also overcome on his way home
the same night. His legs were badly
frozen, lie was found and sent to a
hospital, where both legs were am
putated. He died.
Mrs. Mary Chester, a young wom
an. wife of a mill hand of Passaic, N.
J., was found dead Monday under a
heap of snow in front of her home.
During the storm she went to a store
nearby to purchase a few articles of
food. Returning home she evidently
fell exhausted in a snowdrift. Search
was made all over town for her, but
while her two brothers were shovel
ing snow from in front of the house
they discovered the body.
BRITISH TIDE TURNS
LATEST MOVEMENTS IN THE
CAMPAIGN.
A Full Summary of the Transvaal
War News—Progresa of the Con.
fllct From Day to Day—The Britiah
Encouraged.
A despatch to the London Morning
Post from Kimberley says "General
Cronje is reported to have plenty of
provisions, but to be running short of
ammunition."
The London Times publishes the
following from Paardeberg: "Gen
eral Cronje's force have a good cover
from the British artillery fire, and
have considerable stores of pro
visions."
Cable advices from South Africa
state that about 40,000 British troops,
led by Lord Kitchener, are in pursuit
of Cronje's scattered forces. The lat
ter, it is said, have been strongly re
inforced, and when they decide to
make a stand against Lord Robert's
advancing columns a battle of great
magnitude will probably be fought.
The campaign in the east is being
energetically waged by Gen. Buller,
and Hart's division has captured Co
lenso, in Natal, after some fighting.
London awaits with eager interest the
latest developments in the conflict.
The British forces, under Lords Kit
chener and Roberts, are pressing
Cronje's army closely in the Free
State fight, and despatches indicate
that the Boers' situation is hopeless.
Lord Roberts refused to grant Cronje
an armistice of twenty-four hours, and
the latter, having refused to surren
der, Siiid he would fight to the death.
At Leicester, England, ail attempt
to hold a "stop the war" meeting re
cently was a fiasco. The proceedings
broke up in disorder.
A London despatch says: "With
the casualties just reported, the Brit
ish losses in killed, wounded and cap
tured now aggregate 11.102.
According to a despatch from Ren
nes, France, a factory there lias re
ceived an order from the Transvaal
government for 150,000 artillery shells.
The British House of Commons re
jected a motion to reopen the inquiry
into the Jamieson raid in the Trans
vaal by a vote of 286 to 132.
A despatch from Chieveley says:
The Boers' line of fortresses in Natal
is broken, and the British have
achieved a decided success in raptur
ing the enemy's position <>. % onto
Cristo. The Boers, however, effec
tively executed a retreat removing
their guns and convoy wagons.
Lord Roberts' generalship was con
ducted with such secrecy that oven
the senior officers who took the Sixth
Division through the preliminaries of
the operation did not know what they
would finally have to do.
An army order issued.in London in
vites the reservists to rejoin the colors
for a year, for home defence, and of
fers sllO bounty for those who do so.
MANILA NEWS.
A special from Hong Kong. British
China, to the Evening World, says:
"United States Consul Wildman has
Information that three members of the
Filipino junta. Luban. Ponce and
Agoncillo. brother of the envoy, left
recently for Japan to meet Agulnaldo.
'] his gives credence to the story that
Aguinaldo escaped from the Island of
Luzon to Formosa, when hunted by
General Lawton's expedition through
the northern part of the island.
A Military Commission at Calami),i
is trving a Filipino member of the
guerilla band which attacked a squad
of Americans Feb. 2. killing a cor
poral. The charges are murder and
assault, with intent to kill. The case
is important as foreshadowing the
policy of treating guerrillas as bandits.
It is supposed that one reason which
has hitherto deterred the American
authorities from adopting Uiis policy
Is that the insurgents haw more than
fifty American prisoners and may re
taliate, although a few of them were
raptured while fighting.
MOLINEUX AT SING SING.
Not a More Contented Man There
Than He Is.
Friday, Feb. Ifi. Roland B. Molineux
was sentenced to be executed In the
manner prescribed by the law in the
Week beginning Monday. March 2ii.
Molineux maue a speech to ueeorder
Goff just before sen tone \ protesting
his innocence.
The -wife and mother of Roland 15.
Molineux have moved to Sing Sing
to be with the prisoner. They visit
the prison, but neither is permitted to
even grasp him by the hand. Both
women are in good spirits, which
pleases Molineux very much, as it an
noys him greatly to have his wife or
mother weep when in his presence.
They tell him of the work being insti
tuted by his counsel for a new trial,
and of thi> kind expressions on all
sides manifested in his behulf. This
Is the kind of talk that pleases Mol
ineux, and he in return cheers them
up by his positive belief that a new
trial will be granted and his inno
cence established.
In speaking of Molineux Mr. Con
naughton said: "There is not a hap
pier or more contented man in this
prison to-day than Molineux. He likes
liis quarters here better than the
Tombs, because the light is so much
better. In New York they allow men
candles to read by, while here they
have two electric lights. Molineux
misses his cigarettes more than any
thing else. Cigarette smoking is not
permitted in Sing Sing Prison, but
pipes are, so he has taken to a corn
cob pipe as cheerfully as possible."
i.as Per.
Number 41.
WILL INVESTIGATE.
CONSUL MACRUM'S BTORY NOW
BELIEVED.
Congressman Wheeler Bays His Mail
Was Opened By English Officials
and Closed By Stickers Bearing
British Coat of Arms.
Secretary of State Hay will be giv
en an opportunity to make an official
statement in reply to the charges con
tained in the statement given out. by
former Consul Macrum.
Without a dissenting voice the
House of Representatives has passerl
the resolution introduced by Repre
sentative Wheeler, of Kentucky, call
ing on the Secretary for information,
and Mr. Hay will give the State De
partment side of the controversy
without delay.
Mr. Macrum lias arrived in Wash
ington. lie called on Mr. Wheeler and
thanked him for having introduced
the resolution.
After Mr. Macrum had left Mv.
Wheeler said that the former Consul
bad told him his whole story in con
fidence, and had shown him the en
velopes which he said had beet)
opened by the ilritish censor, and
closed again with stickers bearing the
coat of arms of Great Britain and the
initials "V. K."
Mr. Wheeler said he was convinced
that the Ilritish government had been
guilty of espionage, and that Secre
tary Hny had made a mistake in not
hearing what Mucrum had had to s-'ay.
He said that the envelopes Mr. Mac
nun showed him bore the official seal
of the State Department, and riiev
could not have been inadvertently
opened bv lhe censor.
QUAY'S CA3E.
Prospects of His Being Seated as
Senator.
Present indications i>oint to the
failure of Mr. Quay's opponents to pre
vent consideration of his case., al
though they still have it in their
power to delay a llnal vote for tome
time.
Senator Fr.ve, president pro tern of
the Senate, will, it is understood, hold
that a motion involving the right of a
Senator to his seat is a question of the
highest privilege, and will, therefore,
be entertained at any time, if Sen
ators Penrose and Chandler carry out
their purpose of pressing the case for
consideration during the morning
hour, it is probable that ill the
speeches which have been slated for
and against Mr. Quay can be made
during the next fortnight without in
terfering with the Hawaiian and Puer
to Itican bills, which are to be the
regular order until disposed of.
For the present it is not the inten
tion of Mr. Penrose to antagonize the.
Hawaiian bill, but by insisting upon
consideration of.he Quay case ouch
morning lie hope:-, to induce Senator
Aldrieh to agree ro an arrangement
for voting on some day in the near
future. There is il'.tlc doubt now that
such an arrangement will soon lie
fected and that .Mr. Quay will be. seat
ed. Fifty Senators are pledged to vot.u
for him.
Even Republicans who are leading
in the movement to delay action in
his case are known to have pledged
themselves to vote for him.
Mr. Penrose had intended to call up
the Quay resolution Feb. 22, but yield
ed to the desire of the Senators to ad
journ after the reading of Washing
ton's farewell address.
A COLOSSAi. ALLIANCE.
To Try to Dictati? the World's Steel
and Tin Prices.
Preliminaries h..-e been completed
in Pittsburg in a move for the forma
tion of line of the largest steel S!l 1
iron combinations yet affected. '!'!»<»
united capital will he about $l"0 iKt-\
000.
The meeting ti affect the alliaie-o
took place in N w York Feb. rl.
Representatives four of the l.trg
est steel combines were present.
These companies ure the American
Steel and Hoop (V-mpany, capital $19.-
000,000; American Tin Plate Company,
capital $30,0u0,000; National Steel
Company, $32,000,000. and the Sheet
Mill Combine that is now being organ
ized with a capital of $52,000,000.
Among those counted onto carry
out the project are C. W. Guthrie, of
the American Steel Hoop Company;
1.. G. Reed, President of the American
Tin Plate Company, and W. E. Keis
President of the National Steel Com
pany.
Should the combination materialize,
it will control the steel and tin plate
manufactured in this country and will
dictate the market price and product
for the world, it is claimed that
those who refuse to enter the sheet
steel trust recently will go into fiie
new organization. The latter are the
Apollo Iron and Steel Company, '/ug
& Co., W. Dewc- 4 Woo ? Come,any
and the Whittni. •• Iron and Steel
Company, of Wlic. . .ag.
FIRE RECORD.
Fire at (Hen Haiste. an oil town, in
Elk county. Pa.. Feb. 22, caused a
property loss of $35,000.
Fire at Decatur. Alabama, Feb. 20,
destroyed six business places, causing
a loss of SIOO,OOO.
The heading factory of Henry
Wrape, at Parugould, Arkansas, the
largest concern oi its kind in the
South burned Feb. 20. Loss, $60,000.
Governor Koosovolt, having drawn
himself out of the competition for the
Vice-Presidential nomination, is dis
posed to help along I.ieutenant-Gov
ernor Woodruff's boom as much as he
can