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PAINTS, OILS, VARNSHES 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 §2.50 up to 635.00.
My Special Bargain Sale is open Oil 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.
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PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND SUPPLIES.
MILL SUPPLIES.
Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA.
furniture i" 0 ---
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Our
White Enameled Beds
$4.75, 5.25 and 8.76
HARDWOOD BEDS $2.75, and 6,75. Chamber
Suits S2O. to Solid Golden Oak Double Cup
boards 9.50. Extra High Back Kitchen Chairs
High Back Dining Chairs, Rockers, 1,50 to #8
Ingrain Carpets. 30, 3s, 40c. Brussels Carpet 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
(look Stoves aitb IRangee
RED CROSS MAKE, K—2o Herald with high pipe shelf #23.00
B—2o Ditts $20.00 B—lß withreservoir, B—2o with reservoir, *1 ex
tra. 8—23 Champion Cook Stove #23.00 B—2"> Ditts, #2">.00
Every Stove warranted to give satisfaction.
Jeremiah Kelly,
HUGHESVJLLE.
Republican News Item.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, ' APRIL 12, 1900.
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, Empress paid, to all points in
Pa., Md., Del., N. J. and N.Y., One Dollar per dor.
other states $125. Your order solicited.
10HN A. PARSONS A CO. Cltiwllll, Pa.
TJ. KEELER.
• Justice-of-the Peace.
Office in room over store, LAPORTE, PA.
Special attention given to collections.
All matters left to the care of this office
will be promptly attended to.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEEFE, Proprietor.
DUSHORE, PA.
One of the largest anil besl equipped
hotel* in this section of the state.
Talilo ot the best. Rates 1.00 dollar per day.
Large itnblei.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop.
LAPORTE PA.
This largi: and well uppointed house is
the most popular hostelry ill this section I
~ LAPORTE HOTEL.
P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newly erected. , J Opposite Court
tiouse square. Steam heat, bath rooms,
hot and cold water, reading and pool
room,and barber shop: also'good stabling
and livery,
P. SHOEMAKER,
Attorney at-Law.
Office in County Building.
LAPORTE, PA.
Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of
estates and other legal business will receive
prompt attention.
J. BRADLEY,
ATTORHBY-AT-LA W,
OrriCß IK OOOBTV BUILDING
HKARCOUUT HOUSE.
LAPORTE, PA
PIRST NATIONAL BANK
' . OF DUSHORE, PENNA.
CAPITAL • - $50,000.
SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO.
DoesJaTieneral Banking Business.
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THE BOERS AND ENGLISH
LATEST FROM THE SOUTH AFRI.
CAN BORDER.
A Full Bummary of the Transvaal
War New*—Pro grew of the Con
flict From Day to Day—Tha British
Encouraged.
It is officially announced at Pretoria
that at the Bloeinfouteln water works
the Boers captured 11 officers and 302
men, with 11 guns, 2 ammunition
wagons, other wagons and mules.
Another of President Stern's broth
ers was captured near Karee Siding,
and has arrived at Bloemfonteln.
The prisoners captured by the Brit
ish at Boshof, Orange Free State, in
clude many Frenchmen.
A despatch from Boshof, Orange
Free State, says General de Vlilebois
Mareuil, the famous French strate
gist, was buried with military honors
on Friday last.
Queen Wilhclmina has sent a per
sonal letter of sympathy to General
Joubert's widow.
Cable despatches from South Africa
tell of sharp lighting on Tuesday in
the neighborhood of Mafeking. A sor
tie was made by the besieged garri
son, and Pluiner's cavalry attacked
the Boers; but both attacks were re
pulsed, with considerable British loss
es in killed and captured, the casual
ties including several officers. The
burghers' losses are said to be small.
Detached bodies of Boer horse, num
bering from r>oo to 1,000 eac'., have
appeared MI several places to the
southward and eastward of filoeiufou
tein, threatening the railroad, but
communication is not yet affected.
Although Colonel Plumer is report
ed to have gotten within six miles of
Mafeking, it is evident that the siege
had not been raised on April 1.
A despatch from Ladysmlth to tliu
Daily Chronicle gives serious news of
the outbreak of a deadly lung sicknes.s
among the oxen, which, if it spreads,
is likely to cripple General Bullet's
operations.
Explanations by the British war of
fice as to why Lord Roberts is inac
tive are that there has been a lack of
horses for remounts, but new hor-ii-a
are arriving by train loads hourly.
A cable received In London from
Bioemfontein says the Boers are ad
vancing from the north and east, and
that the British force are retiring un
der orders. It was also reported that
the Boers had declared their inten
tion of "fighting the decisive battle
of the war" in the Orange Free State.
Lord Roberts did not meet his wife
at Cape Town, and she will proceed
to Bioemfontein.
It is announced from Springfontein
that the censorship has again cur
tailed the despatches. Therefore, im
portant developments must be pend
ing.
Mafeking was still besieged on
March 30, and there are rumors that
General Buller Is preparing to ad
vance to its relief.
One British squadron of the Sixth
Dragoons, which entered the recent
Free State fight 140 strong, mustered
at the end only ten mounted men.
The Boers seem to be In great
strength throughout the Bioemfontein
district, and are signalling on all sides.
The British troops, under Lord Rob
erts, are in urgent need of remounts.
General Cronje, Colonel Schlel and
1,000 Boer prisoners have sailed for
St. Helena from Cape Town.
A despatch from Lorenzo Marques,
anounces the arrival there of Capt.
Haldane of the Gordon Highlanders
and Lieut. Le Mesurler of the Dublin
Fusiliers, who escaped from Pretoria,
after perilous adventures.
It appears after Winston Churchill's
escape the sentries were doubled,
electric light was installed, addition
al barricades were constructed, and
the officers were confined in the Mod
el school after 8:30 P. M. Capt. Hal
dane says that after several unsuc
cessful attempts they succeeded In
cutting off the electric light, but even
then the street lamps precluded an
attempt to escape, and they decided to
hide In the space beneath the building
to which a trapdoor had previously
been secretly constructed, as it had
been announced that the officers
would be removed elsewhere in a
few days, when it was hoped the two
men would be able to escape. But the
removal of the prisoners was post
poned, and the two men, in the damp,
subteranean dwelling began to des
pair. and commenced digging in dif
ferent directions, in the hope of find
ing a suitable exit. The work was
most arduous, as they had only a
screwdriver and a skewer with which
to dig the ground, which was as hard
as rock. The Imprisoned officers on
March 15 heard somebody above say
j the officers would be removed the fol-
I lowing day. After passing twenty
days underground, in a cramped po
sition, and subsisting on a little food
[ and water supplied by some of their
fellow-prisoners who were in their
confidence, their delight at the good
news was indescribable.
The following morning they heard
the Boers about leaving, and all day
long the room was filled with curious
visitors looking at the clever carica
tures on the walls drawn by the pris
oners. When evening came the noise
ceased, and Haldrane and Le Mesurler
crept to the trap door. They were so
weak that they could hardly walk.
But, gradually recovering, they made
their way to the courtyard, got over
the railings and reached the street.
FIRE RECORD.
Joseph Home & Co.'s dry goods
store, In Pittsburg, was burned April
8, entailing a loss estimated at $1,250,-
000. The firm carried an insurance
of $1,500,000.
BIG MORTALITY.
Five Residents Die Quickly in Monte
cello, N Y.
Death, so rarely visits Monticello,
N. Y., t£at its people are almost panic
strlqjfdn by' the demise of five resi
dens Jp£twenty-four hours. Never in
Monticello's history did so many
peopled le'in an equal length of time.
The'population is less than a thou
sand. Those who are most frightened
by the number of deaths are calculat
ing that such mortality would wipe
out the village In less than seven
months.
Many more residents are reported
to be seriously ill, and the physicians
and undertakers are busy. The drug
stores aro kept open all night. The
oldest inhabitant of Sullivan county
cannot remember when that happened
before.
Frank Lain who was but twenty
eight years old and who was ill but
n few days died April 7. Early next
morning Jaines Xing, c-ighty-seven
years of age, died, and was soon fol
lowed by Mrs Patrick Reardon, who
was sixty-eight years old. \t noon
Mrs. R. Lindsley, apod 42. breathed lior
last, and at 2 P. M. George Bolsurn.
a hotel-keeper, fortv years old, wast
added to the list.
Monticello, surrounded by hills, lies
far above the sea level, and contains a
surprisingly largo proportion of very
old people.
CASUALTIES. -
Torrential rains in Texas culmin
ated April 7 in disastrous tlooils in the
Colorado, Brazos and other rivers.
The great dam in the Colorado, at
Austin, gave way. letting loose a vast
volume of water which wrecked the
light and power plant, drowned eight
workmen and did a vast amount of
damage to property, it is thought
that between thirty and forty lives in
all were lost as n result of the disaster.
Mrs. Edward O'Donuell was burned
to death at Burlington. N*. J., April 0.
A 4 year old daughter of llarry Op
penduffer, Swedelaud. Pa., was found
dying in her beti room April 5 with a
bullet hole iu her head. It is believed
the child shot herself while playing
with a pistol.
THE PHILIPPINES.
A report from General Otis shows
that in the 124 skirmishes in the Phil
ippines since January 1 the American
loss was 81 killed unci 104 wounded,
while the insurgents and Ludrone loss
was 1,420 killed, 1,453 captured, most
ly wounded. The Americans have al
so captured 3,051 small arms and IGS
cannon. "A number of important in
surgent officers are surrendering,"
General Otis says,"and the situation
is gradually becoming more pacific."
A despatch from Manila says that
General Bates has peacefully occupied
Surigao, Cagayer.. liifcrui and Misa
mls, In the Island of Mindanao, and
captured a number of rifles and can
non. Insurgent atrocities in Cacayan
and Camarines Provinces continue.
CRIMINAL.
The five meu sentenced to death for
murder werf garroted at Ponce,
Puerto Rico, April 7, There was no
disturbance.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
started for Copenhagen April 4, for
the purpose of attending the celebra
tion of King Christian's birthday, aud
while at Brussels an apprentice boy
fired two shots lato the royal railway
carriage, aiming at the Prince, but
missing him. The assailant, was ar
rested. He appears to have been
moved to the net by the British-Boer
war.
At Wintield, Kan., robbers riflod the
Santa Fo'Depot April 2 and shot and
killed D. C. Coates. the night operator.
They secured only a few cents.
Allen Brooks, a negro, aged lit. who
assaulted Mrs. F. W. Hart at Bloom
ingdale, Georgia, April 2, was taken
to the scene of his crime. Identified
and lynched yesterday afternoon..
A Federal Grand Jury, in Savannah,
Ga., has charged that delays in New
York will probably prevent the prose
cution of Gaynor, Greene and others
accused of defrauding the Govern-
I ment out of millions
1.25 Per..
Number 47
MANILA'S DEATH RATE.
ONE OF THE MOST UNHEALTHY
CITIES IN THE WORLD.
Due Largely to Bubonic Plague and
Small Pox, Which Are Quite Com
mon in the Philtirjines—A Fish and
Rice Diet.
The census of Manila, Just com
pleted by tlio Health Department,
gives the city an unpleasant high rank
among the unhealthful cities of tho
world. It establishes a death rate of
more than 40 per cent. Former esti
mates and censuses always had given
Manila 200,000 population. This cen
sus was a careful count of natives
and Chinese living In buildings and
boats In the police district of Manila,
and it gave a total of only 190,714, of
whom 30,000 were Chinamen.
There are to be added the Inhabi
tants of other villages within the city
limits, Americans and Europeans and
1,400 priests in tho monasteries From
reliable Information the officials e«ti
mate their number at between 50,000
and 60,000.
The deaths in Manila during the six
months from July 1 to December 31.
last year, were 0,203. Of these 2,941
were children. Manila now has three
diseases epidemic, which would throw
the average community into a panic—
bubonic plague, beriberi and small
pox. Beri-beri results from a diet of
fish and rice, so that whites do not
fear it.
Smallpox and leprosy the Philip
pines always have and the people
look upon them as a matter of course,
avoiding direct contact, but hardly
giving a second thought to their pres
ence in the neighborhood. Smallpox
flourishes in parts of Luzon constant
ly. Half of the natives in the country
districts are pitted with It and moth
ers try to get their children infected
with it under the belief that it is less
dangerous to the young.
General Bell's famous volunteer
regiment, the Thirty-sixth, is suffering
from an epidemic. Lieutenant Toncray
and Lieutenant Wing, both of whom
were from Tennessee, nnd several
soldiers have died.
The easy-going natives and Span
iards paid eo little attention to lepro
sy that tho PhllipiVifM t'JMt have been
noted for that disease, yet there are
more than a hundred lepers In the
Manila Hospital.
Bubonic plague !s a visitor to which
distance lends terrors. Two months
ago tho first case was discovered in
Manila. Since that time there have
been 200 cases, according to the esti
mates of the health officers and at
least 80 per cent, oI them have result
ed fatally.
OfcAIH RECORD.
Frederic 13. Church, the pointer, in
New York, April 7.
John Wright Dean, of Washington,
D. C., well known throughout the
United Slates as " the Quaker evange
list," at Fawtucket, Khode Island,
aged 70 years.
Colonel George Sheldon Gallupe,
who rendered distinguished serVice
for the Union cause in the Civil War.
aged 08.
W. B. Lowe, a financier and for
many years identified with manufac
turing and building interests in At
lanta, Georgia, at the age of 70. Hin
wife, Rebecca D. Low, is President of
the General Federation of Women's
Clubs.
Thomas Cumming, formerly a lay
Judge of Bergen coanty, at his home
in Hackensack, N. J. He was born
Ireland in 1815.
Hiram Newell, 85 years old, who
was a member of the State Legisla
ture from Erie county, N. Y., in 1860.
Charles Merrick Gay, who was wide
ly known in Boston as the publisher
of Littell's Living Age, from 1866 to
1879. Mr. Gay was 66 years old. As
editor of the Rutland (Vt) Herald
from 1862 to 1866, Mr. Gay won some
reputation as a journalist and paved
his way to the position of a magasine
publisher. He leaves a wife and two
children.
London Waiters Starving.
Waiters in London are bitterly com
plaining of the effects the war is hav
ing on their particular vocation. The
men who. during the London season,
gained n livelihood by waiting at ban
quets, lialls and parties, given by (hi;
elite in the West Knd, have earned
practically nothing lately owiug to the
absence of such festivities. It was re
solved at a recent meeting to ask the
Lord Mayor to open a fund at the
Mansion House for distressed waiters.
The Princess of Monaco, the small
est kingdom In the world, is the first
Jewess to sit on a European throne.
She was a Miss Heine, and was first
married to the Duke of Richelieu.
Cambridge University may lose Its
river, ax a water company proposes
to tap tlie sources of the Cam. The
graduates are getting up a petition to
Parliament against the scheme.
The Republicans were generally suc
cessful on Tuesday in the mwliclpal
elections In Kansaa.