Republican News Item.
Published Every Thursday.
Volume 4.
Twenty jYears £
in Dushore.
p The largest and best stock of goods
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I fall anb IXlintcr Urabe £
j The finest line of
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/ Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan N
S BETTENBURY, S
DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER.
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GENERAL
Bardware-- DWA R E
PAINTS, OILS, VARKSHES and GLASS.
SPECIAL inducements given on
CTOVES and RANGES
and all kinds of HEATING STOVES
for Wood orCoa l , suitable for parlors, halls. churches, school houses,
camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight >food 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 iu nedd 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.
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 15, 1909.
Wanted at once for cash
1000 cords
Bass wood
Cut 4 1-2 feet long, sto 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
Pa., Md„ Del., N.J.and N.Y.,One Dollar per dor*
other states $1.25. Your order solicited.
lOHN A. PARSONS * CO. Cttawltta, Pa.
T J. KEELERr.
I • J ustiee-of-the Peace.
Office in room over store, LAPORTE, PA.
Special attention given to collection!*.
All matter* left to the care of this office
will be promptly attended to.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEEI'E, Proprietor.
OUSIIUKK, VA.
One the largest and be.-t equipped
h in tili> section ot the .statu.
Table 01 li e best. KutON 1.00 dollar per day.
L »r*e «§t l»lev.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop.
LAPORTE PA.
This litig and i\e l appointed house is
the uiobi poj uiur hosieiry in this section
" LAPORTE" HOTEL. ~
F. W, OALLAOHEB, Prop.
Newly erected. Opposite Court
house sipiare. heat, bath rooms,
hot and cold water, reading, and pool
room,and barber shop; also good stabling
and livery,
WM P. SHOEMAKER,
Attorney at Law.
Olfice in County Building.
LAPORTE. PA.
Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of
estates ami other legal bnshies* will receive
prompt attention.
£T BRADLEY,
ATTORKBY-AT-LAW,
ornci IN COtJHTT BDILDINS
MBAR COURT BOUIK.
LAPORTE, PA
f-IHST NATIONAL HANK
' OF UI'MIIORE. PEXX.V.
CAPITAL, - - $60,000.
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T.J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTO'IHKYs-AT-LAW,
I.vg.i! I>u« nous attended to
in ■ iti»nU adjoining counties
„A POIiTK. PA.
[ J. MULLEN,
Mtorney-at-Law.
LA POItTK. PA.
I Mice over T. .1. Keeler's store.
J. H. CRONIN,
ATToRHKY-AT -LAW,
9 OTA KYrustic,
Om< K ON MAIM KTItBRT.
DURIIOKK, VA
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IBjL Candles
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I to the charm of the riritwinr T.
• I room or boudoir an the soft ly radf* Lt
• 1 ant light from OOKDOV A UandiCH. H
t LJI Nothing will contribute more tot he P
j UII artistic success of the luncheon, D
tea or dinner. The best deeorat ive fa
T*7 candles for the simplest or the Hi
|Sf moMt elaborate function—for cot- r
UsaA taie or mansion. Made in all colore »>
vmf and the most delicate tinta by g
STANDARD OIL CO. g
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| BUNCOED BY A WOMAN
SHE SWINDLED A RICH MAN OUT
OF COLD CASH.
How Ellen Peck Worked Her Game
—Gave Mortgage on Lots—Once
Beautiful and Accomplished A
Strange and Creckered Career.
William B. Crinkley, a farmer from
Tennessee, has appeared iu court in
New York against Ellen Peck, a no
torious confidence woman, and Joseph
C. Metcalfe, a real estate broker living
in Brooklyn, who he alleges has
j swindled him out of a $20,000 tract
1 of land and $7,000 in cash.
Mr. Crinkley declared he was bank-
I nipt and his family destitute in con
: sequence of these two persons. He
1 told Capt. McClusky, of the detec
• • tlvls, that ho tame from Har: iman,
i Tenn., where he owns 1,600 acres of
land, on which is a magnesia spring,
valued at $20,000. A year ago he ad
! vertised that he would sell the spring,
j Mrs. E. E. Knights, who, Mr. Crinkley
! asserts, was Ellen Peck, who has
lived a checkered sixty-seven years,
answered. She said she had many
valuable building lots in Washington.
She desired to give a lien on four of
her ten lots there and assume the val
uable magnesia spring.
She met him at the Ebbitt House,
Washington. Mr. Crinkley alleges she
was accompanied by Mr. Metcalfe.
The trio viewed ten building lots, val
ued, the complainant thinks, at about
$1,000,000. Mr. Crinkley and Mrs,
Knights journeyed to his home. Mr.
Metcalfe arrived within a few days,
and announced that, according to the
custom in Washington, it was un>
necessary for th«-Registrar of Deeds
to certify to the paper.
Mr. Crinkley said the business look
ed all right, and he transferred to
Mrs. Knights his spring. She gave
him a worthless mortgage upon prop
erty of whicn she did not own a foot,
he claims. She now represented to
Mr. Crinkley that she owned property
in Joplin, Mo., which an English syn
dicate desired to buy for SIOO,OOO.
She said that she would purchase an
adjoining tract and sell the whole to
the syndicate for $150,000. Mr. Crink
ley gave her $7,000, he says, and she
was to supply the necessary $3,000.
Mr. Crinkley discovered he was out
his $20,000 spring and $7,000 in cash.
Ellen Peck has been in the Tombs
some months, charged with swindling
Christopher Gini out of a large
amount of jewelry. She has been sen
tenced to five years' imprisonment.
E. Y. Bell, who defended Mrs. Peck in
the Gini case, went to the Tombs with
Mr. Crinkley and induced her to re
transfer the magnesia spring to Mr.
Crinkley.
Mr. Metcalfe asserts that he was
not a party to the alleged swindling,
and that he was as much deceived as
Mr. Crinkley.
Ex-Supt. of Police Byrnes has said
that Ellen Peck has probably made
$1,000,000 by her swindling, most of
which she has spent. The late Jay
Gould was one of her victims. Her
maiden name was Nellie Crosby, and
she was born in Spencer, N. H., where
as a girl she taught school. She was
beautiful and accomplished. One of
her foster brothers is Rufus A. Sibley,
a Rochester merchant millionaire.
She married Richard W. Peck. One
of her daughters married a minister.
Twenty stockmen und railroad em
ployes were Injured, two probably fa
tally, in a collison March 5 between
two Illinois Central freight trains,
near Broad View, a few miles out of
Chicago. The wreck caught fire, but
the injured were rescued before any
one was burned .
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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Utiat Newa From the Active Bual*
n«M World.
The threatened car strike of St.
Louis motormen has been averted
through arbitration between the men
and the transit company by whom
they were employed.
The New River coal operators in
session at Charleston, West Virginia,
have made an advance of about 25
per cent, per ton in the run of the
mine coal.
A settlement of the machinists'
strike at Columbus, Ohio, now seems
assured.
Settlements are being made daily 'n
some sections of New England be
tween striking granite cutters and
their former employers.
The convention of Amalgamated
Woodworkers of America, at Grand
Rapids, has decided not to admit up
holsterers, varnishers and gilders to
membership in the union.
The grand Trunk Railway of Can
ada has announced an increase ot' 10
cents per day In the wages of section
men on all portions of the system in
Canada, becoming effective April 1.
Over 300 non-union men went to
work March 8 for Chicago building
contractors.
A committee of five members of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
RaSlway Employes has called on the
General Manager of the St. Louis
Transit Company to present demands,
and, If these are not met, 3,000 em
ployes of the company will goon
strike.
Two hundred and thirty men have
been added to the thousands out on
strike In Chicago.
Efforts to settle the machinists'
strike at Columbus, Ohio, have failed,
the Manufacturers' Association refus
ing absolutely to discriminate be
tween union and non-union men.
Plans are being prepared to In
crease the plant of the Boston Gold
Copper Smelting Company iu Colora
do from its present 200 tons per day
to 1,000 per day, making it one of the
largest in the state. This smelter is
independent of the trust.
The Canadian Paper Makers' Asso
ciation has adopted u scalo increas
ing prices of paper from 10 to 15 per
cent.
The Wabash Railroad management
has refused to recognize the ;abor or
ganizations In fixing a wage schedule
for Its employes, but has approved
the increase In the wage scale and the
readjustment of the runs demanded
by the men through the labor leaders.
The American Flint Glass Workers'
Union will establish a co-operative
factory In the Indiana Gas Belt, to
make prescription ware.
A MURDERER'S SUICIDE.
Brought to Bay, He Cut His Own
Throat.
Joseph King, murderer, of Long
Branch, died by his own hand at Al
laire, N. .T., March 8. lie fatally
stabbed William White in front of tin'
St. Rosalie Hotel at Long Branch a
few days ago. The two men, who were
negroes, quarrelled over the stakes in
a game of craps which amounted lo
15 cents.
Inmates of the hotel heard high
words outside and (hen a l'all. An in
vestigation showed White lyiug ou the
sidewalk bleeding to death from a
wound in the neck, while King had
fled. King's description was immedi
ately sent to all nearby towns. A citi
zen of Allenwood saw King walking
along the road near that place and fol
lowed him about a inile to Allaire,
where lving took to the woods.
The man notified Ilart Height. Pe
ter and John Stokey and J. 11. Law
rence, who, arming themselves, pur
sued the negro and caught him iu the
woods. Height covered him with his
gun. The negro, who was about ten
yards from Height, drew a razor and
without it word slashed himself across
the throat, inflicting a gash from ear
to ear. Supporting himself by a tie;',
the negro exclaimed:
"You wanted me, didn't youV 1 was
just after a little wood!"
Then he fell ou his face and lay
trembling and bleeding.
After tive minutes he got ou his
knees and in a dazed manner began
to take off his clothes. Slowly off came
his overcoat, small coat and vest, and
then he rolled suddenly on his back,
stone dead.
Allaire is a small country hamlet,
about sixteen miles from J.ong Branch
and is in dents*' woods. Some cakes
were found In King's pockets. He was
about twenty-six .vears old and a
clialr-hot tomer by tra«" \ He had been
employed by Undertaker Morris, of
Long Branch.
Caleb Powers, the Republican Sec
retary of State of Kentucky, and Cap
tain Davis, of Frankfort, have been ar
rested at Lexington. after a sensation
al flight from the State Capitol. They
are charged with being accessory to
the assassination of Goebei. The civil
officers at Frankfort had attempted to
arrest the men, but were denied ac
cess to the executive building by the
troops, under the order of Governor
Tovlni'
1.25 Per. •
Number 43
MORE BRITISH SUCCESS
LATEST MOVEMENTB IN THE
CAMPAIGN.
A Full Bummary of the Transvaal
War News—Progresa of the Con
flict From Day to Day—The British '
Encouraged.
Lord Roberta reports to the British
War Office that he attacked the Boer
army near Drlefontein, In the Free
State, March 9, and a fierce fight en
sued, in which the burgher forces
were defeated. More than 100 Boer
dead were left on the field, and the
list of British casualties included sev
eral officers of distinction.
The new war loan of $150,000,000.
which the London Stock Exchange
has christened "Khakis," has proved
most popular, and has been already
thrice covered, exclusive of applica
tions from the provinces, the colonics
and the continent. It is understood
that offers have been received from
the United States to take up the
whole issue, which it is expected will
be covered ten to twenty times."
A special despatch from Blocmfou
tein says that President Kruger, ad
dressing a crowd of people, said:
"Although God Is testing our people,
my personal opinion is that the limit
of the test is nearly reached. If th>?
people are sustained by faith in Iho
time of adversity God will soon a«aia
turn the tide in our favor. If we haw
strong faith in God he will surely
deliver us. The Clod of deliverance of
olden times is the same God now."
The speech of the venerable President
brought tears to the eyes of men ami
women alike. The Free State Volklie t
(national anthem) was then sun-.'. 'l'll •
visit of President Kruger lias i-one
much good and lias cheered the Res
pondents. President Kruger more re
cently has been visiting the cotnm <\ •
docs south of lJlocmfonteiu.
Lord Roberts reports that in the
British advance March 7, a Boer can
non was captured.
At a general council of war held in
the Boer camp at Biggarsberg Lou s
Botha was appointed Lieutenant Gen
era 1 for Natal, and several Major Gen
erals were appointed.
A despatch from the Boor camp tit
Llggersberg says that the retreat from
Ladysmith was due to a mistake of a
commandant in ordering his men to
retire from the key of the position
without any reason for the move.
A movement Is said to be in prog
ress among the Cape Dutch to obtain
a settlement of the South African
questions consistent with the main
tenance of the independence of the
republics.
A revised list of General Buller's
casualties shows that the total cost
to the rank and file in the final relief
of Ladysmith was 1,859 men.
General Buller reports Natal a«
now practically clear of the Boors,
and it is thought the main body of
Joubert's army crossed the Drakens
berg Mountains to aid In resisting
Roberts. Fighting on a large scale is
expected shortly.
The Boers have occupied and en
trenched a line of kopjes about five
miles east of Orfonteln. It is paid
the weak spot in the position is that
It can be easily turned.
So far as can be Judged, the situa
tion iu the neighborhood of Modder
River is unchanged, the British camp
being still at Osfonteln, a few miles
southeast of Paardeberg, the Boers
occupying a position extending about
eighteen miles. It may be assumed,
as the Boor left rests on some kopjes
not far from Osfonteln, that their
right is on the river. The army is
roughly estimated at from 4,000 to
5,000, and extends in some sort of a
thin formation as far as Abraham's
Kraal, about 17 miles east qf Koo
doo's Rand. They can hardly have
any serious Intention of disputing
Roberts' advance, for their number
are not sufficient for such a purpose.
Obviously they hope to delay matters,
and give time to Joubert to collect
forces in northern Natal and else
where and make a stand either at
Brandfort or Windburg.
The budget introduced in the Brit
ish House of Commons calls for an ex
penditure of £154,082,000. For the
year just ending an anticipated sur
plus of £5,000,000 has, by the war.
been converted into a deficiency of
£17,770,000.
The total cost of the war !s esti
mated at £60,000,000, in order to
meet which it is proposed to increase
taxes, issue Treasury bills and borrow
money on bond. The House adopted
the proposals.
Martial law has been declared by
Sir Alfred Milner in the portions of
Cape Colony where many British sub
jects have taken up arms.
A Revolt in San Doming*.
The Government has apparently dis
covered that a political movement in
opposition to it is In progress.
General Pepin, the former Governor
of Santiago de Los Caballeros, has re
volted against the Government, and
Government troops have been sent
acainst him.