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
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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.
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DUSIIOHR, PA
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all diseases of the liver, stomach, and
bowels.
" I suffered from constipation which as
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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."
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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<W
persous. Governor Sayera to-day gatfe
the city SSOO out of a balance left in .
his hands last year from the Brazos
river flood fund, and if more is needed
he has it at his disposal..
Railroad traffic in the southern half
of Texas has been practically aban
doned, and all outlets to California
are closed because of the washouts on
the Western divisions of the Texas
and Pacific Railroad.
THE PARIS FAIR.
America's Exhibition.Only Will Clete
on Sundays.
United States Commissioner Fer
dinand W. Peck has consulted with
the authorities- at Washington re
specting the question of Sunday opeu
iug at the Paris Exposition, and has
received a cablegram saying that
President McKlnley desired that the
American section should be closed
on Sunday, as far as allowed by the
French regulations.
Mr. Peck thereupon saw the French
authorities, and was shown a by-law.
which compels the opening of all ex
hibits on the seven days of the week,
and even gives the French authorities
power to remove any covering placed
over an exhibit case during unauthor
ized hours.
The same rule applies to machinery,
and the by-law makes no exception in
the case of the najtional pavilions.
At Mr. Peck's Instance, however, the
Director General of the Exposition
has given the American Commission
er special permission to close the
American pavilion on Sundays.
SPREAD CONTAGION.
Flowers From the Casket of a Diph
therla Patient.
Flowers employed at the funeral
services for Lucy Schreiber, a little
girl, who died of diphtheria in Chi
cago February 27, are said to have
conveyed the infection and caused
the death of Anna Sewelke and the ill
ness of May Provnick. The Health
Department authorities are investigat
ing the matter, and promise to prose
cute the undertaker if the allegations
are found to be true.
It is alleged that the blossoms were
placed on the casket of the girl, and
afterward putin the hearse, which
then proceeded on its way tortile
cemetery. There, instead of buvflag
the flowers with the casket, it is aald
they were given to relatives, who took
them home to their children. The
children after playing with them tore
them to pieces, and the petals lay
scattered about the house for some
time.
Shortly afterward one child was
taken ill with diphtheria, aad died,
while another became infected later
!.m1 Is verv slclr.