Republican News Item. Published Every: Thursday. Volume 4, /Years J \ in Dushore. S The largest and best stock of goods p We ever Had for the \ j jpall anb Winter Zvabe S The finest line of ? 7 112 Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan j } County \ RETTENBURY, > DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. / Coles.. ZI * ~—l GENERAL M^W^HA'rdware 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, lialls, 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 $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 wo 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. furniture i ho kllpers and CARPEST.' T^led Will do well to see Our White Enameled Beds $4.75, 5.25 and 8.76 • HARDWOOD BEDS $2.75, and Chamber Suits #2O. to 25.00. Solid Golden Oak Double Cup boards 9.50. Extra High Back Kitchen Chairs $.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 anfc IRangee ltEI) CROSS MAKE, K —2O Herald with high pipe shelf #2:1.(t0 B—2o Ditts $2(5.00 B—lß with reservoir, S—2o with reservoir, $1 ex fra. h—23 Champion Cook Stove s2.'i.(K) 8—2.1 Ditts, *2">.00 Every Stove warranted to give satisfaction. / Jeremiah Kelly, j HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE. PENNA., THURSDAY, APRIL ID, 1900. Thil 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, K*pre»« paid, to all points in Pa., Md„ Del., N.J. and N.Y.,One Dollar per doz. other states |1.25. Your order solicited. IOHN A. PARSONS ft CO. Cittwlm, Pa. T J. KEELEK. I • Justioo-of-tlio Peace. Otllcciu room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Sjiecial attention given to collections. All matters left to the care of this oflicc will l>e promptly attended to. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEFE, Proprietor. DUSIIORE, PA. One of the largest an.l be*t equipped hotel* in this section of the state. 'fable of the best. Kfctefl 1.00 dollar per day. Large itiibles. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LAPORTE PA. This large and well appointed house is the most popular hostelry in this section LAPORTE HOTEL. P. W, QAXiIiAGHEH, Prop. Newly creeled. Opposite Court house square. "'Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading nnd pool room,and liar her shop; also'good stabling and livery, » yyM P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at-Law. Oil ice in County Building. LAPORTE, PA. Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of estates ami other legal .business will receive prompt attention. J J. BRADLEY, ATTORIf BY AT-LiW, orrica in coosrr builixmq N KA ft CO II RT OOUSK. LAPOKTB, I'A FJRHT NATIONAL BANK OF DtTSHORE, I'ENNA. CAPITAL - - $60,000. SURPLUS - - 810.000. DoesJaXleneral Banking Business. B.W.MKNNINtiS, M. D. S WARTS. President. Caahier J, J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTORKKVS-AT-1. AW, Legal business attended to in ibis and adjoining counties „ A PORTE, fA. £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA. Otlice over T. J. Heeler's sforc. H. CRONIN, ATTORNRY*>AT LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFPICK ON MAIN «TU«KT. DUSIIOHR, PA Cure Consti pation and you cure its consequences. These are some of the consequences of constipation: Biliousness, loss of appetite, pimples, sour stomach, depression, coated tongue, night mare, palpitation, cold feet, debility, diz ziness, weakness, backache, vomiting, jaundice, piles, pallor, stitch, irritability, nervousness, headache, torpid liver, heart- I burn, foul breath, sleeplessness, drowsi | ness, hot skin, cramps, throbbing head. Ayer's JSa 4M * AIM ohm for Oonmtlpatlon Dr. J. C. Ayer's Pills are a specific for all diseases of the liver, stomach, and bowels. " I suffered from constipation which as sumod such an obstinata form that I feared it would cause a stoppage of the bowels. After vainly trying varioua remedies, I be gan to take Ayer's Pills. Two boxes effected • complete cure." D. BURKE, Saco, lie. "For eight years I was afflicted with constipation, which became so bad that the doctors could do no more for me. Then I began to take Ayer's Pills, and soon the bowels recovered their natural action." WM. H. DkLAUCETT, Dorset, Ont THE PILL THAT WILL. No-Xo-llac lor Fifty Cuun. I Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak I men Htroni'. blood wire. AOc. ai. All drnsrists IV f|« II4VJTIWTEIT Bm 4 Matt MMH Subscriptions to The Patent Record »UW per aaauw. THE BOERS WIN AGAIN. THIRD OFFEAT OF BRITISH WITH IN A WEEK. A Full Bummary of tho Transvaal War News—Progress of tha . Con* fllct From Day to Day—Tha British Encouraged. Winston Churchill, the London newspaper correspondent, predicts that the war will prove a costly one to England and that 250,000 troops will be necessary in South Africa to ensure a triumph for Lord Roberts. Lord Roberts has protested to Pres ident Kruger against the treatment of prisoners, sick and wounded, in the hands of the Boers, and has for mally demanded the observance of the Geneva convention. It is officially reported that the Brit ish losses at Wedener in four days' fighting were 18 men killed and 132 wounded. The Boer Peace Commissioners in Europe have gone to The Hague, Dr. Leyds, the diplomatic agent of the Transvaal, accompanying them from Milan to Brussels. The Committee of the American Woman's Hospital Ship Fund at Lon don has received a cablegram from Lady Randolph Churchill announcing that the Maine has arrived at Ma derla, and will reach Southampton on April 23. The steamship Saraha has sailed for Cape Town from New Orleans with 1000 mules for the British army. So great has been the rush of vis itors to South Africa recently, espec ially ladies, that Cape Town is over crowded. and the cost of living ma terially increased. Public Interest in London centres upon the personality of the now com manders in Africa and in the suppo sitions as to whom the next General will be to be sent home. Nothing definite has been learned in Loudon regarding the rumor of Colonel Baden-Powell's death. Twenty-five out of seventy arrivals at Delagoa Bay on a German steamer have been refused passports to tin; Transvaal, at the instance of the Brit ish Consul, owing to the fact that am munition wns found in their posses sion. tfulier's line ot communications is threatened now. Gen. Sir William F. Gatacre has been ordered home. A Pretoria despatch reports that Col. Baden-Powell, the defender of Mafeking, is dead. The British losses In the war to date, including the sick and wounded in hospital, foot up more than 23,000. The Boer Government has notified Portugal that they regard her permit ting British troops to cross her ter ritory an act of war. Cable despatches from South Af rica state that the Boers under Gen eral De Wet fought a great battle in the Free State on Saturday last, in flicting the third defeat of the British within a week, killing or wounding ♦>oo and capturing 900 prisoners. The Boer loss is said to have been trifling. Remounts are continually arriving at Bloemfontein, but competent au thorities estimate that the wastage of horses monthly by the British forces in South Africa is not less than 5000. The British War Office proposes to laud at Cape Town before the end of May 20,000 horses, which will be con veyed there in steamers from New Orleans, Buenos Ayres and Australian ports. The Transvaal Volksraad has been summoned to meet in ordinary session on May 7. Lord Roberts's army in and around Bloemfontein is unable to move for lack of horses and supplies, and that the garrison is seriously menaced by the Boers, who are massed only eigh teen miles away, where they still con trol the water works. The Bloemfontein correspondent of the London Times says: "Two cap tured Boers agree that only fifty men remained unwounded out of the whole British column captured at Redders burg." Fifty-two Boer prisoners, who were captured at Boshof, have arrived at Kimberley. Only three are Dutchmen, the others being Frenchmen, Ger mans. and Russians. Joseph Zlramer, or Paterson, charged with the murder of George Marion, at Wallington, has been ar rested. The live men sentenced to death for murder were garrott d it Ponce, Puerto llico, April 7. e was no disturbance. , ill.- American Plate Mirror Com p:iu.\ lias been chartered at Harris bin g. l'a.. with a capital of $50,000,- OOti. This company is composed of well-known plate glass men, who are identilled with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, the Peun Plate Glass Company, the Standard Plate Glass Company and the Ford Plate (Jlass Company. The new combine is looked upon as the beginning of a determined move ou the purl of tile American plate glass iiici-. to wrest the trade ill this country for plate mirrors from foreigu manufacturers. CROWDB At PARIS PAIR. Provincial* and Foreigners Promen ade Before Empty Buildings. Glorious weather favored the open ing ot the exposition to the general public Sunday, and immense crowds, numbering 250,000 persons flocked into the grounds. The area of the exhibition, however, is so great that nowhere was there any crush. The visitors were mainly composed of pro vincials and foreigners. Compara tively few Parisians were to be seen. Aware of the great backwardness of the preparations, they remained away for the most part. The management demanded two en trance tickets for morning admission, one for afternoon admission, and two during the evening, when the Eiffel Tower and the palaces, on the Champ de Mars were illuminated. But there were absolutely no attractions pro vided, not even a band of music, and the people promenaded in front of the empty, and in many cases, uniinished buildings, and along roads where only in the case of the main avenues had the work of paving been completed. Visitors had left the central arteries from their pathway filled with pitfalls and heaped with debris, some thor oughfares resembling mere bridle paths. The crowd, however, was per fectly good natured and took the mat ter philosophically. Hardly a murmur was heard anywhere in the way of criticism. The moving sidewalk, access to which cost 50c., proved a great suc cess and was crammed throughout the day. The American National Pavilion re mained closed. So, also, did most of the other pavilions, for the excellent reason that their interiors are still unfinished. MRS. PERLEY'S FINISH. How a Lecturer Wound Up Her Talk To Women. Mrs. Annie Lawrence lVrle.v deliv ered a series of lectures in Maywood. near Chicago, under the auspices of the Twentieth Century Club, an ex clusive feminine organization. She finished the series the other night, anil tills is what site said: "Take your fourteen dollars. It's every cent I could make out of an en ure lecture course in your littl«* old town, aud you can do any tiling you like with it." Flinging two live dollar bills and four silver dollars on the table in front of her. Mrs. lVrle.v looked at the women of May wood and waited for them to speak. Then, as all be gan to speak at once, she ordered the janitor to put them in the street. Mrs. Annie Lawrence Perie.v hired a hall and met the women of Ma.v wood. Charged with failing to turn over lo the public schools of May wood $25 of the proceeds of her lec ture course, which it was alleged she had promised. Mrs. Perie.v took tins method of public defense. " Yon spiteful women." she shouted, "you are liars of the worst kind; you are sneaks of the lowest nature; you are not tit to live in a civilized com munity." Now there is talk of libel suits on both sides. FOR WIFE'S SAKE. • A Man Fretd From Criminal Charge After Many Years. Alter resting under a murder stig ma for sixteen years. Conall.v Fields, of Richmond. Ya., lias been proveu in nocent. lie has remained silent to protect his wife, who was guilty of the crime charged against him. In 1884 Fields was a well-to-do far mer in Scott county. His wife had a brother, W. A. Scott, with whom the the couple did not get along well. Scott was forbidden to cross their farm. He made the attempt, and a fight followed, in which Fields was worsted. Mrs. Fields hurried to iter husband and stabbed her brother in the heart with a pair of scissors. Fields tied to a Western State, and the murder was laid at his door. Some years later Mrs. Fields sliol aud killed a woman. She was sent to prison for life, but was pardoned after serving seven years. She died recently, and then the truth came to light. '(Sov. Tyler says Fields is now free to return to Virginia. CRIMINAL. Oliver J. Bailey, a patent solicitor, of Cincinnati, whose third trial on the charge of misuse of the malls was about to begin in the United States Court, went privately to Judge Thomp son and entered a plea of guilty. Two sisters, Kate and Joanna Sul livan, living near Toledo. Ohio, were attacked at their homes by two masked men the other night and rob bed of S2OO. Both women were club bed. and one of them died from lier injuries. Charles R. French, alias Harry H. Hefth, has ben declared guilty In Bal timore by a jury in the United States District Court of having in his pos session $650 worth of postage stamps, knowing them to have been stolen. Charles Ingersoll, the defaulting Treasurer of Tompkins county. New York under bonds of SIO,OOO to appear in court has fled Ills bond was sur rendered as soon as his flight became known and strenuous efforts are being made to recapture hint. 1.25 Per.. Number 48 LATEST FROM THE FLOOD HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE IN AUSTIN, TEXAB. No Chance for Warning—Great Fall of Water Broke the Big Dam—Many Families Destitute—Relief Needed Immediately. Flood news from Texas continues to grow worse. Reports coming In from the country tributary to the Col orado River % are rapidly swelling the list of drowned. Thirty-four deaths have been reported up to to-night, and It is feared the list will go higher. The entire community along the Colorado River was caught unawares by the breaking of the dam, and tho solid wall of water, twenty feet high, which charged down the river with the speed of the winds, carried death and destruction to every section. It was thought yesterday that the tele graphic warning sent out liad given all parties notice in time to make their escape, it did in the cases of city residents living along the river, but the country people had no noti fication. Reports from Bastrop county are that he full force of the flood was felt there yesterday and last night, and residents were forced to flee from their homes, Many narrowly escaped death, but others were not successful, and the list of fatalities there this morn ing showed six Mexicans and nine negroes drowned.. In the lower part of Austiu, which was inundated on Saturday by tlie breaking of the dam. eighteen persons are missing, and the supposition is that all of them were drowned. The list includes a white man named Har vey, a family of six named Sperro and two families of negroes named Dtnson and Howard. From Horshy Bend, ten miles down the river comes the report that Thorn as Heley, white, and Joseph Burns colored, were drowned, and Henry Hoverd and James Pries, two young white boys, are missing. The loss of cattle In Concho county has been vary large. Counties south of here have suffered similar losses Additional rises are reported from above, and warnings bate been sent down the river to look out. The local situation is not much ini proved. Something like one hundred poor families living in destitute cir cumstances. Austin is well able to for th