Republican News Item. Published Every: Thursday. Volume 5. <> Twenty jYears in p The largest and best stock of goods d We ever had for the V £ Shimmer TLrafce£ 7 The finest line of r Tifiic-Kcc|icrs, / 112 Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan \ RETTENBUBY, P \ DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. ✓ COLES^RDWAREJ^ Done in first class order and as Material and right. Will sell you the Best J»>»a BICYCLE MADE for Jfo/Q Cflol). THE VWV "* Line of chain wheels always leads the race, from $25.00, $35.00, and $50.00. The Columbia Chainless 011 exhibition now with coaster brake. Call and see my line, if you contemplate sending for a wheel. I will give you as much for your money as you will get elsewhere. GENERAL LINE OP HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLIES. STOVES and RANGES, FURNACES. plumbin g and general job work. Estimates given. Gofes Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. Hot Weather Prices. Woven Wire Hammocks, $2.50. Fine Mexican Hammocks, 50c to 1.25. Croquett Setts, SI.OO. Jelly tumblers, 2c each: Mason fruit jars, 45, 55 and 70 cents per dozen; Tin fruit cans 90c doz.; Screen doors complete with hinges etc., Window screens very best 30c: Balls grain cradles, $5.25, Grain rakes Iron tire 1 3-4 cents lb, Mattresses, #s.uo. Woven wire bed springs, Kitchen chairs per set, 100 piece Decorated Dinner Sets, $6.85. Oil Stoves, 50c to $10.50. Jeremiah Kelly, HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, JULY 26 1900. Democrats and Republicans! In fact it matters not with what political party you are affiliated, you should be a Protectionist in one re spect. That is to say you should protect yourselves against loss by the destruction of your property by I fire; and what is still more essential, I protect your families against the loss |of their support by the death of the person who produces that support— the husband the father. This latter protection can be obtained practical ly without expense, since it is pos sible, and in fact compulsory, for the life insurance company to safely in vest the funds paid into their hands, and, after a term of years, return same with profits to policy holders, if living, on demand. This matter should command your seri ous attention. Delay is dangerous and expensive. You will therefore do well to consult the agent in regard to the merits of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Phila delphia, which is justly reputed to be the most conservative and the most economical as well as the most liberal and equitable in its dealings with policy holders. It is 110 experiment or adventure but by all odds the safest and best investment you can make, besides furnishing protection to your family. The Penn Mutual is already over "iM years old and has over 200,000,000 of insurance in force, several hun dred thousand dollars of which is in Sullivan county. You may obtain all desired infor mation by addressing M. A. Si'l'KK.M a\, Special Agent, Dushore, I'a. T J. KKIM,KII. I • Justiee-of-the Peace. Oilier in room over store, LAI'OKTK, 1" A. Special attention given to collection.-. All matters left to the care ol this office will lie promptly attended to. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEPE, Proprietor. DUSHOKE, PA. One of the largest mid bent equipped hotel.-* in this section of the state. Talile of the best. Khtea 1.00 dollar per day. Large itnlilei. [JLYSSES BIRD Land Surveyor Engineer and Conveyancer. Relocating oM lines ami coiners, ami draw ing mui*» asj>ecittlty. Will usually be found at home on Mondays. Charges reasonable. Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LAFORTE PA. This large and well appointed house i? the most popular hostelry in this section LAPORTE HOTEL. P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court liouse square. Steam lieat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barbershop; ulso'good stabling and livery, W« P. SHOEMAKER, Attornay-at-Law. Office in County Building. LAPOKTK, l'A. Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of estates and other will receive prompt attention. J J. BRADLEY, ATTORNir-AT-LAW, ovrica im couNTr building HIABCOUKT OODIB. LAPORTE, PA riRST NATIONAL BANK ■ OK DlisilOKK, PENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. SURPLUS - - #IO.OOO. Doesja/leneral Hanking Business. B. \V .JENNINGS, SI. U. SWA UTS. President. Cusliier J.J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTORNKYB-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and Adjoining counties _APORTE, PA. £ J. MULLEN, Attornay-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA. Office over T. J. Keeler'sjstore. J # H. CRONIN, ATTORHBT-AT -LAW, ROTARY POBIiIO. orrica on hairbtrbbt. DUSnORE, PA POSSIBLE MEDIATION President McKinley Answers China's Appeal. WILL ACCEPT UNDER CONDITIONS. United State* Still Proceeding on the SuppoMltlon That Recent He portM of tlie Safety of Lefga tioiiM Are Accnrnte. WASHINGTON, July 24.—The presi dent has listened to the appeal of the Chinese government as transmitted by Minister Wu and has signified his will ingness to mediate between the imperial government and the powers, but only up on conditions which first must be met by the Chinese government. The exact nature of the terms propos ed by the stute department cannot be stated now. It is expected that pub lication will be made today of the text of the Chinese appeal and of the presi dent's answer. It is known, however, that the answer is entirely consistent with the statement of principles laid down by Secretary Hay in his note to the powers, and moreover it ac cepts as truthful the Chinese statements relative to the safety of the foreign ministers at Peking. • It would not of course be possible to take even the initial steps toward media tion were either party to the negotia tions to entertain openly distrust of the accuracy of the statements of the other. There must be confidence between them. The United Stntes' answer does not go to the length of the French answer to a similar appeal in laying down conditions which the Chinese government could not meet, even If so disposed, if it actually is struggling for its own existence. It does, however, look to the Immediate re lief of the foreign ministers in Peking and moreover to the protection of all foreigners, missionaries and trailers in China and to the restoration of order. With that much accomplished the state department feels that it can properly ap proach the powers with the Chinese propositions for a settlement for what has occurred. The Chinese appeal came to Secretary Hay Sunday through Mr. Wu. The secretary promptly telegraph ed it to the president at Canton, and aft er taking a full day for its consideration the president's answer came yesterday afternoon to the state department. It was putin the proper diplomatic form and u copy delivered to Minister Wu, who was to forward it to bis own gov ernment. Appeal and answer will be made public here today. The imperial edict made public at the state department shows thnt the im perial government already has taken the first steps toward doing what the Unit ed States requires as the principal condi tion for the exercise of its good offices in enjoining the viceroys, magistrates and leading men to stop the disorders and protect foreigners. Our government will await the result of this before pro ceeding further. It is expected that adverse criticism upon the action of the state department in this matter will be heard from Europe, where the governments are acting upon the belief that all of the foreign ministers in Peking have perished, but our govern ment nevertheless regards its course as the correct one. All of the European governments have taken the stand above indicated. The Inst of the answers to Secretary Hay's note reciting the Conger message have come, and all of them in terms polite and diplomatic express ut ter incredibility in the authenticity of the Conger message. Consul General Goodnow himself, a man of good judg ment, also cabled a warning to (Secretary Hay against the acceptance of the mes sage without confirmation. Hut the state department has fully considered the mes sage in all of its aspects, lias carefully weighed the numerous objections and suspicions put forth here and in Europe and, without guaranteeing the authentici ty of the message, feels it to be a matter of prime duty to act upon the theory that it is genuine. CONFLICTING REPORTS. Levatium Said to Be Hotli Snfe and Killed. LONDON, July 24. —The Chinese min ister, Sir Chili Chen Lo Feng Lull, has commuuicated to the press the following dispute!) from Sheng, director general of Chinese railways and telegraphs and taotui of Shanghai, dated Shanghai, July 23: "Information from l'eking, dated July 18, says that the tsung-li-yamen deputed Won Jui, an undersecretary of the de partment, to nee the foreign ministers, and he found every one welt, without any missing, the German minister excepted. "General Yung Lu is going to memo rialise the throne to send them all under escort to Tieu-tsin in the hope that the military operations will then be stopped." Sir Halliday Macartney, counselor and English secretary to the Chinese legation in London, asserted last evening that the Peking legations were safe and about to proceed to Tien-tsln. The Shanghai correspondent of The Daily Mail, telegraphing July 22. says: "A letter from a Chinese official in Shangtung has been received by a na tive functionary here containing the fol lowing passage: " 'At the beginning of the month the foreign missionaries (?) made several at tempts to send messages out of Peking, but, thanks to the strict watch kept on the city, the bearers were all caught and executed. On the 4th inst. only 400 foreigners, much exhausted, were left alive in Peking, and one uight, when the big guns were incessantly tired, it was known that all the legations and the foreigners were finished, although pre tended telegrams contradict these facta.' " There is nothing further this morning that throws any light upon the myste rious situation. Two urgent dispatches were addressed yesterday tiy the Cnlnese minister to the Peking government and to the director of telegraph administra tion strongly advocating the necessity of restoring telegraphic communication with a view of enabling the powers to obtain proof of the safety of the foreign minis ters. Until such proofs are secured no one here is inclined to alter the opinion that the Chinese are merely juggling to gain time. Germany Still IJoulit*. BERLIN, July 24.—The German gov ernment and press continue to disbelieve the assurances of the Chinese authorities that the Peking legations are safe. The foreign office surmises th "i the Conger dispatch was either sent about simul taneously with the dispatches of Dr. vou Bergen, secretary of the German lega tion, and Sir Robert Hart, but suppress ed, or was captured from the messenger to whom it was intrusted and is now produced to create the desired effect in Washington, or, on the other hand, that the whole dispatch was concocted for purposes of deception with the aid of a cipher key somehow obtained. United States Embassador White said that the latter theory was quite plausi ble, for if the American legation had been captured and the records there seiz ed the cipher key would likewise he se cured, and then it would lie an easy mat ter for auybody to do the rest. At all eveuts the German foreign ollice will continue to regard the report that the legations still exist as a myth until the communication, now cut off nearly a month, shall have been re-established in the most indubitable fashion. WORD FROM CONGER. Allefted Kenutiie )Icssbki' From Oui Minister In l'eklnit, WASHINGTON, July 21. -Like a flash of sunlight out of the dark sky came the intelligence yesterday that I'nited States Minister Conger had sent a ciphei cable dispatch from IYking to the state department at Washington making known that two days ago he was alive and that the foreigners were fighting for their safety. The minister. Mr. Wii Tung Fang, received the message. With in an hour the welcome intelligence that Conger bad been heard from after weeks of silence and evil report was Hashed throughout the country and indeed throughout the world, dispelling the gloom which had prevailed everywhere and bringing to officials and to the pub lic generally a sense of profound relief. The dispatch was in reply to Secretary Hay's cable inquiry to Minister Conger on July 11, and as both messages were in the American eipln code they were regarded by the ottic '!# ;i.- above the sus picion of having been tampered with ill the course of transmission through Chi nese channels. Mr. Wu promptly com municated the -dispatch to the state de partment, where the translation was made from the cipher figures, and soon all Washington was astir with the in telligence. The message was signed "Conger" and rend as follows: "Iu British legation under continued shot and shell from Chinese troops. Quick relief ouly can prevent general massa cre." The government accepted the message as authebtic, and Secretary llay trans mitted it to all our embassadors and min isters abroad" with instructions to lay it before the respective governments to which they are accredited and to urge upon them the necessity of co-operation for the immediate relief of the foreign ers at Peking. Clißtfee n Major General. WASHINGTON, July 20.—The presi dent has appointed Brigadier General A. It. Chaffee, U. S. V„ who is to command the American military forces in China, a major general of volunteers in order that his rank should lie commensurate with his command. This action was received with great satisfaction at the war de partment and in ollicial circles generally, where General Chaffee is held iu the highest esteem. All MinUterH Safe. PARIS, July ter of foreign affairs, lias received a tele gram from the French consul at Chefu, dated July 21, saying: "The governor in forms me that, according to reliable news from Peking, all the foreign minis ters are safe, and the government is tak ing all necessary steps to deliver and protect thein." BASEBALL SCORES. IteNnlta »»f Yeatertln>'k tinmen In the National LeßKnr. At ISrooklyn— Brooklyn 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 a 0 — 't Chlcag 11 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 — 7 Hits--, oklyn. 12; Chicago. 10. Errors —BroolA , :j; Chicago. 4. flatteries—Mc- Uinlty ik . Farrell; Callahan and Chance. Game « ,lled on account of darkness. At Philadelphia- Philadelphia. 0 O 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0— 4 Cincinnati... 2 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 2 0 o—4 Hits—Philadelphia, 7; Cincinnati, S. Er rors—Philadelphia, li; Cincinnati, U. Bat teries—Donahue and MeKarland; Newton ami Kahoe. Came called oil account of darkness. At Hoston— Boston 0 I 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1— 5 St. Louis 0 10 3 0 U (t 0 0 0— 4 Hits—Hoston. 13; St. Louis, 7. Errors- Boston. 5; St. Louis. 3. Batteries—Dlneen and Sullivan: Voutm ami Koblnaon. Tnl»le of IVreentiiKea. W. L. P.C. Brooklyn 47 2li .644 Philadelphia 40 34 ,fi4l Pittsburg 40 3(1 .526 Chicago 3S 36 .514 Cincinnati 36 3fl .4K<l Boston 34 39 .466 St. Louis 32 3!< .451 New York 26 44 . 371 Year's Trade Over Two Illlllonw. WASHINGTON. July 21.—The tota foreign commerce of the I'nited Statei during the fiscal year lIMMI exceeds bj 10 2-3 per cent that of any preceding year, beiug $320,000,000 greater thai that of IHMit, the heaviest one on recorc preceding the one which has just ended The total commerce of the year, as showi by the figures of the treasury bureau o' statistics, is |2,244,193,500. 1.25 P er - • Number II OVER SIXTEEN TO ONE Two Hundred Filipinos and Twelve Americans Slain. SIGNAL CORPS TWICE AMBUSHED. Amueiity Itenolntlona Sent to Agnl ■■uldo by IIIN Mother—Filipinos Will Celelirute tlie l'renlileiit's Order With u llunqnet. MANILA, July UH. —It is officially an nounced tlitit hist week 200 insurgents were killed and l.'! 0 surrendered or were captured. One hundred rifles were taken. Twelve Americans were killed and 11 wounded. This includes the casualties of Colonel William 10. Birkhimer's en gagement with it force of the Twenty eighth volunteer infantry, who attacked 200 insurgents intrenched two miles east of Taul, killing 38. A detachment of the signal corps while repairing wires was twice ambushed. Captain Charles I>. Roberts of tin Thirty-fifth volunteer infantry, who was captured by the Filipinos last May. bus arrived here on parole. He will not re turn to captivity. Senor Buencamino last Thursday sent to Aguinaldo by means of Aguinalilo's mother the amnesty resolutions adopted by the meeting of representative Fili pinos here on June 21. together with General Mac-Arthur's answer to them and other documents bearing upon the restoration of pence. It is understood that Aguinaldo will summon his advisers and that a reply may be expected within u month. Filipinos here will give a banquet next Saturday in celebration of President lie- Kinley's order of amnesty. Island Transferred to \nval Control WASHINGTON. July 24,-The island of Basilan, department of Mindanao and Jolo, lias been transferred from the control of the military to control of tin naval commander on the Asiatic station, and all the United States troop stations nn that island have been transferred to other garrisons. The establishment o; civil government mi the island will In. conducted by the naval authorities. THE KUMASSI RELIEF. Colonel WllloiH'kN ItetnriiN With the UarriHon Inn I'Ull'nl Condition. FUMSU, July 24. —The Kutnassi relief column has just arrived here from Ku massi, which it left July 17, bringing the old garrison, al« .it 20 fairly tit men, 7< broken down ii 'ids ami some women and children in tr pitiful condition. The success of Colonel Will cocks wa> due to his choice of a route not suspect ed by the Ashantis, who had concentrat ed in thousands along the eastern route, but in much smaller numbers along tin western route via I'ecei, which Colonel Willcocks adopted Even as it was the Ashantis were ac tive and the roads knee deep in mud. Colonel Willcocks took a couple of vil lages by bayonet charge. Beyond Ek wundn he found the tribesmen in a strong position behind stockades. It wa il large war camp with the chief com mander of the Ashanti army, estimated at 4,000 men. After a heavy fire on both sides foi nearly nil hour Colonel Willcocks order ed a bayonet charge, and the troops rush ed tin- thick bush, cheering vigorously. The Ashantis (lid not wait for the bay onet, but tied in confusion. The casualties of Colonel Willcocks were two officers wounded, two natives killed and 17 wounded. On finding Knniassi in such a terribh condition Colonel Willcocks, after cut ting bush and burning the bodies, placed the whole force upon half rations, an ai rangement cheerfully borne. No oppo sition was met on the return journey. Ilorrihle Sight In IVIIIIIIINKI. LONDON, July 24.—Advices just re eeived here say that Colonel Willcocks, the commander of the relief column in Ashanti, describes his entrance into Ku massi July 15 as presenting a scene ot horror and desolation, burned houses and putrid bodies being visible on all sides, lie adds that the native soldiers were tot weak to stand and that the British otll eers thanked God for the relief, us a few more days, they declared, would have seen the end. Colonel Willcocks left tin garrison well supplied with food and am munition. Typewriter Telenraphy. CniCAGO, July 23.—Telegraphy by the use of typewriters in place of the ordinary clicking keys and receivers fa miliar in telegraph offices has been made possible by two Chicago men, Zalmon G. Scholes and Alfred C. Gilmore. Tliej have devised a mechanism by which t message written with ordinary spelling on a machine that has a keyboard ex actly like the keyboard of the ordinary typewriter will be printed if transmit ted over a telegraph wire by anothei typewriter iu the office to which it is sen* hundreds of miles away. The instru ments have been tested over a circuit ot 265 miles of wire belonging to the Cen tral Union Telephone company, connect ing Bloomington, Springfield and Peoria Fifty MiNHionarleN Safe. NASHVILLE, July 20.—A eublegran has been received from Shanghai by tin mission board of the Southern Presbyte riau church announcing the safety of st. of its sti missionaries. They are at Shanghai and in Japan. The six' still a 1 their stations are ltev. J. L. Stuart ami wife, who have been in China for 3C years at Kudin: ltev. George W. Pnintei and Miss E. B. French ot Hangchow ltev. ,1. B. Pear and wife at Cbinkiaug. Held Ufll<>e Cnder Lincoln, BURLINGTON, Vt.. July 23.-Hon L. E. Chittenden, register of the treas ury under the Lincoln administration died here yesterday. He was 77 year old.
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