Republican News Item.
Published Evdry: Thursday.
Volume 4.
£ Years J
in Dushore.
The largest and best stock of goods
We ever had for the V
I jfall anb Winter Zvabc £
112 The finest line of £
112 Time%Kespsrs> /
Q Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan
S RETTE IN BURY, ?
DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELEII. ✓
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TT GENERAL
l)ardwar^- DWA 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, churches, school houses,
camps, etc. Attention to a line of Cheap air-tight wood heaters from
$3.00 to SIO.OO. Also a line of coal heaters from 82.50 up to 835.00.
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.
Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA.
Turniiurc i HO -i-s
and CARPEST.' "Id*
Will do well to see
Our
White Enameled Beds
$4.75 t 5.25 and 8.76
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HARDWOOD BEDS $2.75, 4.75" and Chamber
Suits S2O. to 25.00. Solid Golden Oak Double Cup
boards 9.50. Extra High Back Kitchen Chairs 3.95.
High Back Dining Chairs, 8.50. Rockers, 1,50 to $8
Ingrain Carpets, 30, 35, 40c. Brussels Carpet 75 to
85c. Rag Carpets, 30c to 50c. Matting, 12 to 30c.
Childs Cradles, 1.00 and 1.50. Cribs with springs,
2. 75 and 3.00
Cook Stoves ant> IRanges
RED CROSS MAKE, B—2o Herald with high pipe shelf *2:!.00
B—2o Ditts $20.00 • B—lß withreservoir, K—2o with reservoir, $4 ex
tra. g—23 Champion Cook Stove §23.00 8—25 Ditts, $25.00
Every Stove warranted to give satisfaction.
Jeremiah Kelly,
HUGHESVILLE,
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1900.
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
tunded. The price, Express paid, to all point! in
Pa.. Md., Del., N.J. and N.Y.,One Dollar per dot.
other states $1.25. Your order solicited.
lOHN A. PARSONS A CO. Cstswllts, Fa.
T J. KEELER.
I • Justice-of-the Peace.
Oitk'o in room over store, LAI'OKTK, l'A.
Special attention given to collections.
All matters left to the care of this otlice
will be promptly attended to.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEEi'E, Proprietor.
DUSHOUK, PA.
Ono of ihe largest .in.l best <M|ui|>|-ed
U > in this section of the xtittu.
Table ot ti e bust. Ra.te« 1.0t» dollar pur day.
L;ir)je at. liles.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
THO3. E. KENNEDY, Prop.
LAI'OKTK l'A.
This largo and well appointed isl i sl
the most popular hostelry in this section
" LAPORTE HOTEL. ~
P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newly erected. . * "Opposite Court
house square. 'Steam heat, bath rooms,
liot and cold water, reading and pool
room,and barber shop: also good stabling
and livery,
P. SHOEMAKER,
Attomey-at-Law.
Otlice in County Building.
LAI'OKTK, PA.
Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of
estates and other legal business wilt receive
prompt attention.
J. BRADLEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
orrict IH COUNTY BUILDING
NEAHCOUUT BOUSE.
LAI'OKTK. PA
PIKST NATIONAL BANK
■ OF DUSIIORE, I'ENNA.
CAPITAL - - $50,000.
SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO.
Does'a General Banking Business.
B.W.JENNINGS, M. I). SWAKTS.
President. Cashier
T # J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Legal business attended to
in this and adjoining counties
_ A PORTE, PA.
£ J. MULLEN,
i Attorn ey-at-Lavw.
I.APORTE, PA.
Office over T. J. Keeler's store.
J # H. CRONIN,
ATTORNEY*AT -LAW,
NOTARY PUBLIC.
orrici on MAIN STRICT.
DUSIIORE, PA
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wjL Candles
I Hothfng elae adds BO much ju
1: I to the charmof the drawing r
h I room or boudoir at* the soft Ij r;idf- '
h 1 ant light from CORDOVA CaudieM.
ii. A Nothing will contribute mor« to the
JfTJT/ art tat ic success of the tynchfois J
tea or dinner. Th« bent decusa\»Te jj
yjgy candles for the or th«
¥Sr? most elaborate function—to* cot
) ta*e or macwon. Blade im ell colors •
TSf and the wost delicate ttete by
Ul STANDARD All CO. J
Jfl eixAeold everywhere. 4
ANOTHER BOER AMBUSH.
THE BRITISH LOSE GUNS, WHICH
ARE RECAPTURED.
A Full Bummary of the Transvaal,
War News—Progress of the Con
flict From Day to Day—Tha British
Encouraged.
The extraordinary run of success
which has attended Roberts' opera
tions so long has been broken by a
British force walking blindly into a
Boer ambush. It was captured, with
six guns. Colonel Broadwood is in
command of the Tenth Hussars, the
Household Cavalry and two batteries
of a force of mounted Infantry, under
Colonel Pilcher, garrisoning Thaban
chu, due east of Bloemfontein, and
about half way between It and the
Basuto border.
Late-.—The British have recap
tured the guns which were iost with
Col. Broadwood In the ambush.
President Kruger says that the last
expressed desire of the late Command
ant General Joubert was that he
should be succeeded as Commandant
General by Louis Botha, who has been
chosen in his place.
There is as yet no confirmation of
(he death of Gen. Joubert, but the re
port is generally credited in Europe.
The London Times publishes a de
spatch from its L'oemfontein corre
spondent, stating his belief that 150,-
000 foreign treops have been landed
to aid the Boer Republics.
The report that General French and
liis force of cavalry have returned to
Bloemfontein, and that a small Brit
ish column had hurriedly retreated
from Ladybrand before superior Boer
forces, indicates that the Burghers
have made good their retreat from
the south of tlie Free State, thus elud
ing the British columns.
A despatch from Ladysmitii says
20.0U0 Boers are guarding the nine
passes of the Drakensberg ICange, led
by Commandant De Beer. This force
consists of Free Staters.
Messrs. Wolmarans, Fischer and
Wesels, the peace envoys from the
Boer forces, after visiting two or three
European capitals, will goto New
York, by way of Antwerp. It is un
derstood at The Hague that they are
invested with large powers, and are
prepared to agree to anything looking
to intervention.
The Boers are entrenching at
Kroonstadt, where they may make a
stand against the advance of Roberts'
forces, which comprise some 35,000
cavalry anl Infantry.
A despatch from Bloemfontein says
General French has returned from
Thaba Nchu, having failed to engage
the Boers, who are trekking north
ward.
Lord Roberts's infantry have now
been quiet for fourteen days, and
news of an advance is hourly expect
ed at the British War Office.
The Times points a statement from
Cape Town that the Boers, after de
ducting heavy losses, are probably
unable now to put more than 30,000
men on the fighting line.
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PECULIAR LAWSUIT.
Result of a Chat, Late Travel and
Appendicitis.
Miss E. L. Delacroix and S. Scoville,
jr., of Stamford, Con., have begun ac
tion for SI,OOO damages against the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Uailroad Company which is unique.
Late travel, brakemen the clearness of
whose voices is impugned, pedestrian-
Ism, appendicitis and the law of the
State of Connecticut are all mixed u|»
in the suit. None but a jury of Nut
meg citizens could ever hope to "calc'-
late" accurately enough to settle the
rights of the matter. .
Air. Scovilie and Miss Delacroix
came out from New York on the late
train a few weeks ago. They were
happy in each other's society; so hap
py that they didn't notice the brake
man calling out Harlem, Mount Ver
non, Pelhamville, New Eochelle, Rye,
Harrison, Mamaroneck, Cos Cob
Greenwich or any other of the way
stations on their blissful journey.
"Stamford! Stamford! All out for
Stamford!"
Mr. Scovilie and Miss Delacroix
thought the men yelled this. The
brakemen say they did not. Mr. Sco
vilie and Miss Delacroix ran to the
door and jumped to the station plat
form as the train was starting.
They saw the vaishing red tail-lights
of the train and the station signboard,
"Sound Beach," at the same moment.
"Five miles from home," sighed
Miss Delacroix. Mr. Scovilie took off
his hat and murmured a few words in
to it.
They had to walk home. Mr. Sco
vilie wants damages because he
caught cold. Miss Delacroix deposes
and says that she had only recently re
covered from an operation for apendi
citis, and that the long walk injured
her to a considerable degree.
The railroad company insists that
the brakemen really called out "Sound
Beach" in clear tenor voices.
CASUALTIES.
By the burning of the High School
building at Owosso, Michigan, April
1, two firemen were killed by falling
walls and four other persons injured.
The Columbus and Wheeling ex
press train on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad crashed into a freight train
at Whiting, Indiana,
death in a fire which destroyed the
farm house of John Brassill, in East
Providence, R. 1., March 29. The
mother succeeded In rescuing one, an
Infant, from cradle, but
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Events of the Week Told in a Few
Words.
The recent heavy floods ia Uruguay
have caused great destruction of cat
tle and wheat. Two bridges on the
Central Railway have been swept
away, with a loss of $50,000.
The first electric tram car ever
operated in Santiago do Chile went
over the lines April L
The Committee of Senators which
visited Cuba has returned to Wash
ington well satisfied with their visit.
All classes of people on the island
are declared to be anxious for inde
pendence, the only difference of opin
ion being as to the haste with which
it should come.
It is reported in Lima, Peru, that
Colonel Parra, on his return from an
expedition to the interior, will take
the Portfolio of War and Marine, in
succession to Senor Carillo.
The body of Ed Hembrick, the trap
per boy, has been recovered from the
Red Ash mine, in West Virginia,
where there was a disastrous explo
sion on March C. This is the last body
of the fifty victims.
The University of Chicago is richer
by nearly $5,000,000 than it has ever
been before. John D. Rockefeller has
confirmed his gift of $2,000,000 to the
university, and President Harper,
Secretary Goodspeed and the trustees
supplemented it with the announce
ment of gifts in cash and land re
ceived aggregating in value more than
$2,000,000.
The Maroons are again threatening
disturbance in Jamaica. Armed police
have been sent to quiet them, and the
military authorities have been noti
fied to hold troops in readiness.
Jacob Kopplc, a miser, who was
' found dead in a dilapidated house on
his farm in Lewistown, Pa., where he
lived alone, has been buried at Middle
port. He lived in squalor, but rela
tives found in the house bonds and
securities worth $30,000. It was also
found that he owned property at Jer
sey Cltv»worth 112
BUILT ON SAND.
Hotel Wollaston. in Boston, to Be
Taken Down.
Because it was built on sand, and
shifting sand at that, the Hotel Wol
laston. one of the handsomest new
apartrr.ent houses on the Beacon
Street Boulevard, must be taken
down. The cost of the structure was
$200,000, and It w.is c ompleted about
two years ago. Soon after it was
occupied tilt' walls both inside and out
side, began to open, and so rapidly tlid
the cracks widen that the attention
of the authorities was called to the
structure, and it was ordered vacated.
As a consequence, one of the most
handsomely linlshed apartment hotels
in the city—ir lien Just over the Brook
line boundary—has lain idle for a full
rear, with its: vacant rooms growing
Cardinal VatnUlo Mazella. Bishop of
Palestrina and Prefect of the Congre
gation of Sacred Rites, is dead at
Home at the age of 67. His loss is a
serious one to the Jesuit order," of
which society ho was a member
1.25 Per.
Number 46
WELL PLANNED ROBBERY
A NEW YORK REBTAURANT LOOT
ED OF $3,100.
The Scheme Involved the Changing of
a SIOO Bill and a "Make-Up" That
Deceived Employee—They Sent the
Waiters Away.
One of the most skilfully planned
and daringly executed robberies
the police of New York have been
called upon to run down was carried
out March 20 by five men who took
from a safe in Healy's fashionable res
taurant, at the northeast corner of
Columbus avenue and Sixty-sixth
street, $3,100 in cash and checks.
Three of the thieves sipped their
coffee while the fourth entertainingly
engaged Cashier Casey, and No. 5
looted the cash drawer in the safe,
an arm's length away from the em
ploye. The stolen checks, amounting
to $273 were later returned by maii
to Thomas Healey, the proprietor.
Two well-dressed men alighted from
a cab in front of the restaurant short
ly before 9 o'clock, and entered by the
Sixty-sixth street entrance. They
took a table in the rear of the cash
ier's desk. Soon after two others en
tered and walked quickly to a table
opposite the cashier's desk. A fifth
man, stout of figure and wearini; a
black mustache, bustled in and seated
himself at an adjoining table.
The portly man who had entered
last finished his breakfast tirst. He
called the waiter to the table and
handed him a SIOO bill in payment for
a check of sl. The waiter took the
bill and walked slowly toward the
cashier's desk. Before he reached
it the man got up from the table,
called the waiter, and said lie was in
a hurry and would give the bill to the
cashier himself. He gave the wniter
25 cents as u tip. Then lie went to
the cashier and presented the SIOO
bill.
Iu the small safe drawer, in which
were the receipts for four days, Casey
placed the bill. He closed the drawer
but did not lock the safe. Then lie
stepped to the cigar counter, and
while giving the man his change con
tinued to answer innumerable ques
tions concerning a proposed dinner.
While this was going on one of the
two men who sat behind the cashier
got up and went ostensibly to the cash
ier to pay his bill. The waiter had
meantime been sent back for an order.
The man crawled under the brass
railing unnoticed by the cashier and
quickly reached the safe. He opened
the drawer, which Casey had failed to
lock, and quickly looted it of its con
tents. Then he crawled back, ad
vanced to the cashier with his check
and put down the exact amount of
change and left the restaurant.
The stout man had kept up his in
cessant questioning, which had dis
tracted Casey's attentions and pre
vented any sounds of the robbery be
ing heard. During this time the three
confederates had remained uncon
cerned at their tables, apparently en
joying their breakfast.
The stout man finally said he would
call later in the day, and, going over
to the two men still eating, greeted
them pleasantly and went out.
Five minutes after the man had left
the bartender called on Casey for
some change for the day's business.
Then it was that the cashier went to
the drawer in the safe and discovered
the robbery.
FAMILY FEUD.
The DePeyster Trouble Involves a
Whole Village.
The family feud which ha« been
raging in the DePeyster family has
involved the whole village of Tivoli,
N. Y., in a bitter political strife.
Chafges of bribery and the import
ing of voters from Saugerties. and
other places in the Interests of the
factions in the recent village election
are being freely made.
The success of Colonel John Living
ston De Peyster in getting elected
t President of the village is said to have
so enraged .the father that the son
will find his administration of village
affairs thwarted in every way in
which his father's great wealth and
influence can thwart it.
The aged General has long sought
to control the politics of Tivoli, and
when it was announced last week that
Colonel De Peyster had been elected
Village President the followers of the
elder De Peyster began to cry "fraud."
"Money was somewhere," said a
devoted follower of General De Pey
ster.
"Was bribery practiced in the vil
lage election?" was asked..
"Yes, there was bribery," he an
swered. "General De Peyster w»snot
on the ground at all, and we were
beaten by 59. I will not say that
enough votes were bought to defeat
the General's followers, but that votes
were bought there can be no doubt."
Robert Baldwin Davidson, oldest
member of the Philadelphia Stock
Exchange, oldest graduate of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and last sur
viving clerk of the old Bask of th*
United States, is dead.