Republican News Item. Published EveryfThursday. Volume 5. I in Dushore. r r The largest and best stock of goods > 1 We ever had for the \ I Summer TLrabe 5 ✓ The finest line of C 7 Time-Keepers, ? Ever seen in a Jewelry Store in Sullivan / j County y S RETTENBURY, ' i P DUSHORK, PA. THE JEWELER. £OLES HARDWARE Will'sell you the Best BICYCLE MADE for >2O V<IW» THE COLUMBIA « Line of chain wheels always leads the race, from $25.00, $35-00, and $50.00. , . .... The Columbia Chainless on exhibition now ™fVm-'ive V ou and see my line, if you contemplate sending for a wheel. " * as much for your money as you will get elsewhere. . TT'C GENERAL LINE OF HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLI >S. STOVES and RANGES, FURNACES. |' s * s ftST* J W ° r ' ootes Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. Our Special Prices on Hardware will attract all buyers, because the goods are right and prices like the farmer's fence bars-all down when they should be up. 100 piece Decoreted Dinner Sets, $6.85. Oil Stoves, 50c to $10.50. Jeremiah Kelly, HUQHBSVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1900. To the Voters of FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM M'KINLEY, of Ohio. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. THEODORE ROSEVELT, of New York. CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE, ROBERT 11. FOEDERER, Philadelphia. fIALUSIIA A. GROW. Susquehanna Co. AUDITOR GENERAL, EDMUND B.IIARDENBERGH,Wayne. MEMBER OF CONGRESS. C. F. IIUTH, Shainokiii. REPRESENTATIVE, J. L. CHRISTIAN, of Lopez. ASSOCIATE JUDGE. W. C. ROGERS, of Forksville. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, W. P. SHOEMAKER, of Laporte. JURY COMMISSIONER, T. X. SIMMONS, of Munev Valley. CORONER, P. G. BIDDLE, of Dusliore. VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET CONVENTION CALLED President Mitchell Appoints a V Meeting at Scranton. r~' __ , PROBABLE OUTCOME A SETTLEMENT. Quietness I'revnii* In tlie Anthracite Coal Ileirlon*—Miner* I'lrancil at the Prospect of an Ktirly A«i- Jiistnient of iHHerences. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. President Mitchell issued his cull yesterday for tho much talked of miners' convention to con sider the operators' offer of a lt> per cent increase in wages. The convention will he held at Scran ton and will open on Friday next. Itep rcsciitatiou in the convention will he on the basis of one delegate with one vote for each 1()0 persons on strike. It is the general expectation that the decision of the convention will he to ac cept tho increase and return to work. Quietness prevails throughout the an thracite region, the call for the conven tion beiuft generally accepted as a signal for cessatioii of hostilities all around. There are many expressions of satisfac tion by miners and operators and by merchants and others in the mining sec tion over the prospects of an early set tlement of the troubles. Yesterday completed the third week since the strike officially went into ef fect. The miners will have parades and muss meetings at Shainokin today and at Scranton on Wednesday. President Mitchell will be in attendance and is ex pected to apeak at both places. ADVANCE WILL BE ACCEPTED. It Is Considered Likely That Miners Will Not Hold Oat Longer, HAZLETON, Pa., Oct. o.—Tho issuing of the call by President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America for a joint convention of the anthracite miners to be held at Scranton beginning next Friday for the purpose of deciding whether to uccept or to reject the 10 per cent net increase in wages offered by the operators is u long step in the direction of bringing the great coal miners' strike to a close. Genuine satisfaction is ex pressed by both miners and persons not directly connected with the coal industry that the contest is approaching an end. Busiuoss throughout the entire anthracite coal field is practically at a standstill, uud it will take some time before normal conditions will again prevail. It is believed the convention will not be a long one, us it is expected the strikers will almost unanimously accept the ad vance in wages. There is, however, a possibility that by the introduction of a proposition to abolish tlje sliding scale aod auother to have the operators agree to a yearly wage contract the termina tion of the strike might be somewhat de layed. Dflsnsre Bad Hudson Yields. WILKRSBA RUE. Pa., Oct. !».—No tlce* arc posted at all the Delaware and Hu4son collieries offering an increase of 10' per cent net to the company's uien. The notices are the same as those issued by the other companies. This tunkes the prospect of a speedy settlement of the strike Biuch brighter. The Pennsylvania is now the only coal carrying road whose coul company, the Susquehanna, has not agreed to advauee the wages of the men, but surh action is expected in a day or two. Few of the individual operators aru holding out, the Pennsylvania t'ual company, with S.msi employees, being the largest and the Kingston, with 3,000, and the ParrUli. with ti.OOO, beinu next lu site. fsslktr Creek Mlues Huuuiim, LANMI-'OltD. I'm CM. U. All the mines of the Lehigh I'oal ami Naviga tion company went to work us u-uul yes terday morning, and the H.OOll uiiucrt showed no evidence of weakeuiug. Col lieries K and 11 ui t'onldalc are short handed. Ike loadei» la-log ou strike. This is tlu- llrst break in the ranks. Many la bor leaders are In the Pauther ('reck val ley trying to orgauin- the niiuers. .tkrss Ntutors ludleteit. AKRON, 0., Oct. U. The special grand Jury called to investigate the riot ing on lite uight of Aug. ha> corn pie t sd its sessions ftftm raillMMM sittings i for live we«k» Hut) sis true bills t»«rr 1 found and indietim'Uts returned, a Sullivan County. Stand by the Flag wherever it is. Washington made it the Flag of Freedom; Lincoln made it the Flag of Liberty, and McKinley made it the Flag of Man's Human ity toman. The Republican ticket inspires confidence, arouses enthusiasm, and stands for all that is wise, safe, sure and strong in leadership. Every. American dollar is a gold dollar or its assured equivalent, and American credit stands higher than that of any other nation. The Republican Party's supre macy is as necessary for Honest wages and Business confidence now as it was in 185)6. American goods should be car ried in American ships. TUESDAY NOVEMBER (i, M number being indicted on two or three counts. The crimes charged are rioting, arson, dynamiting, burglary und shoot ing with intent to wound and illegal use of firenrms. The majority of those against whom indictments were found are mere boys or dissolute characters of the town. Zionist Dowle In London. LONDON, Oct. 8. Zionist Dowie opened his campaign in Kngland Inst night nt Holhorn town hall. He told his hearers that he had come to give London u spanking and intended to wage relent less war against the Church of Kngland. He denounced the archbishop of Canter bury as an incompetent and snid liis place might to he tilled by somebody who could manage it. Some of the listeners quizzed Dowie, and he lost his temper. lie said he would not tolerate interruptions, and ' ne questioner was ejected. Skeletons I'neartbed. BOSTON, Oct. 0. —Workmen employed iu digging a trench between two of the timber sheds at the lower end of the Charlestown navy yard unearthed sev eral human skeletons. The remains were found beneath n large tree only a short distance froni the old timber dock. The officers of the navy yard nre wondering wh#e the skeletons came *roni. One theory is that the skeletons are those of British soldiers who were killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. The Wisconsin Is Fast. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. ti.-A record breaking trip was made by the new bat tleship Wisconsin from Seattle to this i-ity. She ran from Seattle to Point lio nita light. 806 miles.,in 59 hours. The Hteamer Queen, which has the reputation of being the fastest boat on the coast, arrived from Seattle the night before, having made the voyage in 65 hours. The Wisconsin's average speed for the run was 14 knots. A New World's Trottlnic Record. CLEVELAND, Oct. B.—At the Glen ville track Saturday afternoon Cresceus made a new world's record for trotting stallions by going a mile in 2:04, which beats his own previous record by three quarters of a second. Cresceus did the mile without a slip, his time by quarters being 0:31V 4I 1:01%, 1:33, 2:04. To Spend Thirty Millions. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. o.— The exec utive officers of the Pennsylvania Bail road company have about completed plans for the expenditure of $30,000,000 ill Improvements and extension of the Long Island railroad. New York Markets. FLOUR—State und western quiet and a little easier in tone, but not quotably low er; Minnesota. patents. 14 200160; winter straights. 13.554W-63; winter extras. s2..Oft 3; winter patents. M-70&4. WHEAT—Quiet and weaker under liqui dation inspired by lower cables, clear weather In tho northwest and heavy world's shipments; Decembor, 82 7-164iMc ; March, NoHfFMc. RYE—Dull; state, c. I. 112., New York: No. 2 western, !>9»ic., 112, o. b., afloat. CORN—Fairly active and rtrmsr in lyra pathy with the west, stronger provision market and renewed spot demand; De cember, 42 T-lftStlHc.; May. 41 T-l««41Ho OATB—SIow, but firmly held; track, white, (tate. am® Sic.; truck, white, west ern, 2MMI44c. l'OßK—Strong; mess, |l4frU; family, ,l OT —Firmer, prime western steam j Bt^TKß—Quiet; state dairy, U'tfiOc.; creamery, ltJfflWv CI IE titfE—-Weak; large white, lie.; small white. nuaiiHe. EUQB —Vlrm; state und l'ennsylvanlu. axfljlc. ; western, loss i>ff. *lc. TURPENTINE— Steady at 40< a fc41c. TAI.I«oW —Steady; city. 4\c.; country, HAY Uulct. shipping. good to choice. K3> v 4itlStV«C. MIDDLETOWN, N. v.. Oct. !).—IU*. Charles Beattie, D. D.. has just complet ed 30 years of his pastorate of Ihe &k.-- oml Presbyterian church here. During ihis time he has delivered 3,000 ser inoiis and made 3,000 other addresses i uud 20,000 pastoral calls. This church 1 U Dr. Beattie's lirst aud only pastorate. [ Mine lold to KuMllalintoß. It A K Kit CITY. Or.. Oct. H.-A dis patch from London -tales that the Bed Itoy mine, near this city, ban been sold to an KuulUh syndicate. It is said the pur i hu»v price is in em-ess of S'J,OOO,OOO. Kootball flayer nisManred. MIDDLETOWN. V V.. Oct |». n in-111-ved that Frank Yucuui of ihit cily, ; who was iujurud iu a football game at West Point Saturday while playing right tackle for Pennsylvania State college, u ill hi- disfigured for life. Ills cheek luiie was crushed, uud lie was otherwise bruised. NOTED SOUTHERNER DEAD. Captain Kell of the famous Confed erate Ship Alabama. SUNNYSIDE, Ga., Oct. o.— Captain John Mcintosh Kell, adjutant general of Georgia and one of the most noted men in the south, died at his home near this place last eveniug at 0:30 o'clock. He had been in bad health for a long time. He was 77 years of age. At the uge of 10 Kell was appointed a midshipman in the navy. He served with distinction in the Mexican war and was present nt Mount Airy, Cal., when the United States flag was hoisted over the terri tory. He was later au officer in Com modore Perry's expedition to Japan. In October, 1850, he married Misß Ju lia Blanche Monroe of Macon. A brief service at Norfolk and IS months at Pensacola constituted his only duties on shore while a member of the United States navy. Upon the secession of Geor gia Jie tendered his services to his na tive state and in May, 1801, reported for duty to Captain Raphael Semmes at New Orleans, where he served with the Sumter. Later he was with Captuin Semmes as executive officer of the Ala bama, the famous Confederate cruiser. LORD ROBERTS TO RETURN. Will Leave South Africa Soon—He treat of the Boers Reported. LONDON, Oct. 8. —Lord Roberts, The Daily News announces, will leave South Africa during the last week of October. The authorities have decided to limit the number of colonial troops who are to be the queen's guests in London to 500. It is estimated, according to the l'ieter maritsiburg correspondent of The Daily Mail, that from 4,tH)O to 5,000 Boers have retreated from Pilgrim's Best, northeast of I.ydenburg, with four Long Toms and L' 2 other guns. The corre spondent understands that their Long Tom ammunition is almost exhausted. TrylnK to Surround Boers. CAPE TOWN, Oct. it.—'The Boers now occupy Wepener, as well as ltoux ville and Fickshurg. in Orange River Colony, and the British are attempting to surround them. The Cape house of assembly has passed to a second reading a bill to raise a loan of £."i00,000 to insure the immediate payment of half the losses sustained by private persons through the war. Floods In Meaieo. TAMPICO, Mexico, Oct. B.—The Pa uuco and Tames rivers, which empty into the gulf at this place, are on one of the biggest rises in their history, and great damage has been wrought by the Hoods in the populous and cultivated • nlleys above here. At one point ueai -Lbila station, ou the line of the Mexican Cen tral railroad, the Tames river is over 50 miles wide oud has swept to destruction hundreds of houses occupied by Mexican farmers and laborers. Many cases of drowning are reported. All the tribu taries of these rivers in the south and eastern parts of the state of Sau Luis Potosi are out of their banks and have washed away whole villages and ruined thousands of acres of growing crops. To Rebuild the Main. NEW YOKK, Oct. 0.-The North Ger man Lloyd steamship Main is to be re built by the Newport News Shipbuilding company and wilt be towed to thut place from the Erie basin. The rebuilding wili cost over $1(00,000. Two of the super structure decks have been removed, and the vessel floats very high in the water. She will carry with her the shells of 80 or 40 metallic lifeboats that were de stroyed in the fire. These will be dump ed overboard as soon as the ship gets outside. All the anchors, ventilators, pulleys and other material of vajue have been taken from the burned ship aud seut back to Germany on the Bremen. Iron Workers Submit. DANV..LE. Pa., Oct. 8.-The em ployees of the Danville rolling mill held a meeting Saturday night and decided to accept the 25 per cent cut in their wages against which they struck last week. The puddlers will now be paid $3 a ton for their work instead of $4, the price for merly paid, aud a proportionate cut in wages will be made in the other depart ments. The reduction ufTc ts several hundred men. The fires were >. rted and work resumed today. Delaware's Population. WASHINGTON, Oct. o.—Tho consul bureau announces that the population of Delaware iu 1900 is 184.73.1 us against 108,498 iu 18!M>, representing uu increase since 18JH) of 10,242. or U.O per <*ot. The population of Delaware iu 1700 was 50,000, from which it appears that the population iu 1000 is u little mora than three timea the population reported in 1700. Uue Time Slave Dlea. Aged IOC. NEW YORK. Oct. 5. The death is announced of Benjamin Prine, 100 year* old, of Port Richmond. S. I. Prine was born u slave in ltichmond. S. 1.. In th« family of David Van Pelt, ile was twice married and is survived by fout children and seven grandchildren. Mark Twain t'salas Hum*. LONDON. Oct. i>. Samuel 1,. Clem eiis (Mark Twnliu. who, with his family, leaves for the United States today, told a representative of The Daily Mail yester day that it was more than likely that he would revisit Kngluinl next summer. Poller Mast lisp Colonisation. NEW YORK, tici » Chief Devery has issued uu order to |Nilice coiuinaud ers "to take prompt uud thorough action with regard to au> complaint that may lie made to you of colonisation, illegal 11 gist ration uud voting." The chief calls | attention to the letter written to him by Htutc Hti|terilili-iidcut of Khi'tioUs McCul lagli and orders Investigation of its cksrees 1.25 Per* • Number l\ MIBICANSDECLINE. Will Not Join Expedition to Pao-ting-fu. CITY READ! TO YIELD TO ALLIES. Kjialana Abandon Railroad Joint Construction and Operation Fa vored by I'haAre—Trlada De feat Imperial Troop*. LONDON, Oct. !>.—A dispatch from Peking says: "The American troops will not partici pate in the expedition to Pao-tiug-fu. General Chaffee has the assurance of l.i Hung Chang that if the allies desire I'ao ting-fu the Chinese will readily surrender that city. Li Hung Chang has given the woe assurance to the other generals. "The Americans believe that revenge and military display are the only objects of the expedition, and they hold that it will retard the restoration of peace. "The Russians are understood to have pructically abandoned the railroad and to have stopped its reconstruction. Gen eral Chaffee favors the return of the rail road to its owners and its reconstruction aad operation on a joint international basis. "The first re-enforcements of German troops have arrived here." The Shanghai correspondent of The Times, wiring Oct. 7, says: "It is reported that French troops hold Lu-ko-chiao, 011 the Lu-hau railway. The Russians and Germans hold the I'ei-tang forts and have also taken Tong-shan and the Kai-ping mines, thus monopolizing the coal supply in north China. "It was expected that Count von Wal dersee would maintain an even balance between the powers, whereas the actual result of the operations places all the strategic positions in the hands of other nations. A strong feeling prevails that the situation is daily becoming more gloomy." "Five thousand Triads," says a dis patch to The Daily Telegraph from Can ton, dated Oct. 7, "have defeated the im perial troops and occupied several places between Mirs bay and Deep bay. They are now moving southward. The viceroy today dispatched Admiral Ho and Gen eral Tong to jp|K>sc them." The Times publishes u report that Em peror Nicholas recently decided to recall the Russian troops from Manchuria aft er Mukden had been occupied. By an imperial decree issued at Tai yuen-fu, capital of the province of Sh.in si, dated Sept. 2K, Emperor Kwang Sll denounces the Boxer movement and des ignates for punishment nine ringleaders. He acknowledges his own fault and re bukes himself, but he places the chief blame upon the princes and nobles who participated in the movement and pro tected it. Prince Tuan, Prince Chung, Prince Tsai Lira, Prince Tsai Ying, Duke San Ivang, Yung Nieu. president of the cen- Mrate. and Chao Shu Chiao have been named to negotiate with the powers. According to the Shaughai correspond ent of The Times, wiring Oct. ">, it is announced that Huai Tapu, nephew of the empress dowager, who was dismiss ed by Emperor Kwang Su in 181)8, lias succeeded Prince Tuan in the tsung-li yauien and has also been appointed gen eralissimo of the Chinese forces, replac ing General Yung Lu. Where the Troop* Will Winter. PEKING, Oct. it.—General Yauiuguchi will retain 10,000 Japanese troops, 2.OtH» of them at Peking and the others at Ta ku and along the liue of communications. Eight thousand Germans will pass the winter in Peking and 1.500 Russians. The number of British troops who will be retained has not yet been decided. Sir Alfred Gaselee will probably keep a bri gade. The allies are storirrf supplies for six months. Count von \V .Idersee's head quarters will be the It/.dings in the im perial pleasure ground., outside the Pur ple City. Dynamite Mr nine Rsplodea. EVELETH. ! n.. Oct. B.—Seven* thousand live ho. -red pounds of dyna mite in the powder magazine of the Spruce mine, about liulf a mile from town, blew lip. A hole 100 feet square and i!f> feel deep marks the spot where the magazine stood. The force of the ex plosion was so great that there is not a piece of glass over a foot square within u radius of two miles of the mine. Prac tically every window and mirror in Eve leth was broken. The loss in the town is estimated at #.'lo.l*lo. The explosion % was plainly felt 12 utiles away. The Windward Falls to Hetarn. ST. JOHN'S. N. F„ Oct. H.-The fail ure of the Peary exploriug steamer Windward to return from the north leads local observers to believe that the ex plorer will not attempt to get hnck this fall. Probably the season just passed was an ope* one in the far north. Should that have been the case l.ieutenuut Pear.v is Ukely to have taken the Windward into some high latitude, hoping to use her in a further expedition next season. This would mean thai lie has uiude 110 special record during Ihe present year. Tarnado Kills a Family. ST. PAI'L. Gel. 8. The tornado which killed two pcrsous Saturday night at Hi wabik wiped out a family of six two utiles north of that town. The family consisted of the husband slid wife and four children. William Marowits, the husband, was found dead half a mile away. William Uillatrum, one of the in jured, has since died, making nine death* thus far reported. 1.l DtCNHI KU. Get. m General Mill ler's force has been pursuing the lloer* through Pilgrim's Itesi and Krugwrspost Re is now near Ohrigstadt and Is slid inarching northward. Ttic Hoer* now here have wade • stand.
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