Republican News Item. Published Every Thurssday. Volume 5. S THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE. C S Yes, Paramount issues are plentiful this SWe have too. First, we are prepared to sell you ? 112 everything usually found in first-class jewelry 1 store at very reasonable prices. If we have not I V the article you want we will get it for you at the J C shortest possible notice if it can be found. v S Second, we are prepared to do your repairing ✓ C in a workmanlike manner, also at very reasonableN 5 prices. If we are called upon to do work over l has been spoiled by others, we shall want Sof time to do it in and full price for doing it. / Very respectfully, J i RETTEINBURY, S J DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. QOLES HARDWARE fe Will sell you the Best' BICYCLE MADE for V<Wl/. THE COLUMBIA Line of chain wheels always leads the race, from $25.00, $35.00, and $50.00. The Columbia Chainless on exhibition now you and see my line, if you contemplate sending for a whet 1. as much for your money as you will get elsewhere. TVQ GENERAL LINE OF HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLL B. STOVES and RANGES, FURNACES. a g wen sener J W ° r ' ootes Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. Our 5 pecial 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, HUGHESVILLE. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1900. To the Voters of FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM M'KINLEY, of Ohio. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. THEODORE ROSEVELT, ol New York. CONG RESSM AN-AT- L ARG E, ROBERT 11. FOEDERER, Philadelphia. GALUSIIA A. GROW, Susquehanna Co. AUDITOR GENERAL, EDMUND B.HARDENBERGH,Wayne. MEMBER OF C< INGRESS. C. F. IIUTH, Shainokin. REPRESENTATIVE, J. L. CHRISTIAN, of Lopez. ASSOCIATE JUDGE. W. C, ROGERS, of Forkeville. DISTRICT ATTORNEY, W. P. SHOEMAKER, of Laporte, .JURY COMMISSIONER, T.S.SIMMONS, of Mutiny Valley. CORONER, P. G. BIDDLE, of Dushore. VOTETHE REPUBLICAN TICKET TERRIBLEDISASTER. Flames and Explosives De stroy Life and Property. DOWN TOWN NEW YORK SHAKEN. Fire In Tarrant** Wholesale Draft Store Hetielie» i lienilcuU, C'uufl liik Terrific 12x|)1on1»ii—tn kiiowu Number Killed. NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Not since the disaster of the fulling building in Park place has there been such a horror of tire, explosion, falling walls ami loss of life us that which occurred yesterday along Warren street between Greenwich and Washington streets, with the new seven story brick building of Tarrant & Co., druggist and chemists, us the start ing point of destruction and the fear some center of interest. In less than 15 minutes, from 12 o'clock to the quarter after. Warren street between Washing ton and Greenwich was a mass of high pilod debris. The blocks bounded to the north and south by Chambers aud Mur ray streets were ablaze. All the north side of Warren street was down, swept clean by the rear wall of the Tarrant building as it was blown out by a ter rific explosion. Half the buildings on the south side of Warren street were down, crushed iu the same way. The big coffee roasting plant of the Eppen, Smith & Wiemann company iu the mid dle of the block was afire from top to bottom aud its front caved in. What grewsome story of death was hidden un der the heaps of stone, brick, beams and heavy machinery could only be guess ed at. Estimates put the loss of life at from BO to 100 and more. The injured, who oame from every store and office along the street, struck by flying stones and rafters and shattered glass, probably Counted over 100. Ambulances by the doten stood in nearby streets, aud the surgeons had their hands full of work. How the fire sturted none could be found who knew or guessed. It broke out in the Tarrant building at IU o'clock, when smoke was seen curling thinly out of a third floor window on the Warren street side. The place was stocked with chemiculs, and these caused the frightful feature of the disaster, the explosions following fast on the heels of tin- alarm of fire. The whole lower part of the city felt the shock, and streets for blocks leading to Jhe scene were paved with glass from windows and doors, whose empty fmines told of the force of the quakes. It was not until 3 o'clock that the fire men, under Chief (broker's personal di rection, had the flames under control. At one time they threatened two whole blocks. * A dull low reverberating explosion, a quick volcanic swirl of smoke and dust aud lire, and a whole block of husiuess buildings reaehiug from Greenwich street to Washington on Warren had lifted, cracked like a crushed eggshell and crumbled into dust. Within five min utes the juinbled, tangled pile was roar ing like a furnace, the rows of tall build ings across the street hud caught like set pieces of fireworks,, and the crowds who fled white faced from the terror behiud them seemed to be pursued by the crash ing shower of glass aud the line of leap ing fire. What hud happened was this: A tire had started in Tarrant & Co.'s drug wurehuuse on the northwest corner of Greenwich and Warren streets. It hail burned long enough for the alarm to be sent in, for the firemen to arrive und get their pipe lines plu.viug on it and for an insurance patrol, who, it was supposed, : lost their lives, to get inside u building • before it fell. Suddenly out from the midst of the tire there flushed a struugc pink tlaiue. The men in the coffee ware house across the street saw that llauie and yelled: I "Ruu for your lives! She's golug to Wow up!" Almost instantaneously with that, be fore the people mi the noiith side of War reu street could more than turn iu their tracks, there cuute the heart clutching ; earthquake roar and the whole north side of Warren street crashed into rulus. The 1 lire Iu the drughouse reached the e*plu j sire chemicals- Just what uo one knew at the time sud the dogyu or so build Sullivan County. Stand by the Flag wherever it is. Washington made it the Flag of Freedom; Lincoln made it the Flag 112 Liberty, and 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 HOW as it was in 1886. American goods should be car ried in American ships. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6, W tags and storehouses, with the people in them nnd the firemen working beneath, were hurled down in as chaotic a mass ns though the basement of the whole blook had been tilled with dynamite. Every window for a half dozen blocks ia each direction crashed to the pavement as the puff of air struck against the sides of the buildings. From the burning build ings to the river and in the other direc tion up to Broadway there were streams of white faced people fleeing as though from a burning city. Some of tlieiu had handkerchiefs twisted around their Wrists, some had hands pressed to their faces, where the chunks of broken glass had gashed them as they fell. Here and there all through the tangled streets horses stood with one leg up, while blood ran down their fetlocks and over their hoofs. Within a half dozen minutes the streets were jammed with a crowd running from the tire. At the time the explosion took place Broadway was thronged. The full force of the explosion appeared to sweep up Warren street and Park place. Simulta neously with the shaking of the earth came three distinct blasts of hot air and the smell of drugs. The hot air blasts caused people to throw their hands I efore th£lr eyes. At the corner of Broadway and Park place an elderly lady was thrown heavily to the sidewalk. When lifted to her feet, she began to cry hysterically. Scores of women rush eil to the east side of Broadway. Men with blunched faces turned into Broad way front Warren street, declaring that hundreds of people hail been killed and that the danger was not yet over. To add to the excitement horses attached to heavy trucks reared when they felt the earth tremble beneath them. The panic was over in a few minutes, and then the people turned to watch the debris which had been carried up into the air by the explosion. It was exactly five minutes from the time of the three loud explosions before any of the debris fell into the street. A piece of tin three feet square slowly sank to the pavement on Broadway in front of The Mail tind Kxpress building. For sev eral minutes the air was tilled with bits of tiu, pieces of paper and fragments of charred wood. So far as can now lie estimated about $1,000,000 worth of property was de stroyed. Tried to Brruk t |i Uepen-'s Meeting. COBLEBKILI* X. Y., Oct. .'SO —FivV hundred men undertook to break up Sen ator Depew's meeting here yesterday afternoon and partially succeeded. The town committee undertook to restore or der and failed. Mr. Bryan had spoken here in the morning at the fair grounds. The town was full of people from the surrounding country. When Senator De pew arrived, he was conducted to « plat form in the main street and faced 0,000 people. \evv York Markets. - FLOUR—State and western steadier and a trifle more active; Minnesota patents, ft 04.35; winter straights. IS.«j|X56; winter extras. W BSWH; winter patent*, $3.70fg4. WHEAT—Developed a good deal of strength on heavy covering duo to ad verse Argentina crop news, selling up a cent a bushel; Steady ; state, '63 c., c. I. 112.. New York; No. 2 western, 0 112. o. b., atloat. CORN—Fairly aotl- with a steady average, helped by w. December, 41*1 ®42c.; May. 11 S-IMMlfcc. OATS—B v and hurely steady; track, white, HtM 27>,»itt33c.; track, white, west ern, PORK—Bt, adler; menu, $12.304J13.50; fam ily. *tii.so<&l7. I.ARD— Firm; prime western steam, MUTTER—Steady; state dairy, l.Vtfglc.; creamery. 16W2tVii. CMIKKSK -Steady; large white, lW«c.; small white, lie. liUUH—Steady; state ami Pennsylvania, -1 22c.; western, loss off. Sic. SIJOAH—Haw quiet ; fair retlnliig. 4V»c.; centrifugal, M test. 4%c.; refliud quiet; crushed, H. 15.-.; powdered. 5.N5c TURPENTINE—Quiet, but tlrm, at 44'* 'n Ise. MiII.ASSIVS- Steady; New Orleans, lilt HK'R —Htosidj ; domestic. l'*Otl'4o.; Ja pan. 4'Mifs-. TAI.I.OW Ijulet; ell > . 4> a i' . country, 4V, «; I V HAY uuli I . Shipping, IU'II77HI good to choice, hi'ailW.vc. tiiirrtcii to tsrrr. WANIIINUTO.V <ht. 2.'!.- It is au thoritatively Stated that the United States government views with distinct favor the principles enunciated in the Auglo-iiciiuaii agreement relating to I'hi ua aud that a formal response to that ef fect will lie made at on cully date to the invitation extended to thi- government to accept the principles of the agreement. THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION President McKlnley Names Thurs day, Nov. SO. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.— The state department has issued the following: By the President of the United States of America—A Proclamation. it has pleased Almighty Ood to brine our nation In safety and honor through another year. The works of religion and charity have everywhere been manifest. Our country through all its extent has bfen blessed with abundant harvests. La bor and the great industries of the people have prospered beyond all precedent. Our commerce has spread over the world. Our power and influence In the cause of free dom and •enlightenment have extended over distant seas and lands. The lives of •Ur etflolal representatives and many of our people In China have been marvelous ly preserved. We have been generally ex empt from pestilence and other great ca lamities, and even the tragic visitation which overwhelmed the city of Galveston mad* evident,the sentiments of sympathy and Christian charity by virtue of which we are one united people. NotV, therefore, 1, William McKlnley, president Of the united States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th of November next, to be observed by all the people of the United States at home or abroad as a day of thanksgiving and praise to him who he# a the nations in the hollow of his hand. I recommend that they gather In their several places of Worship and devoutly give him thanks for the prosperity wherewith he has endowed us, for Sefd time and harvest, for the valor, devotion and humanity of our ar mies and navies and for all his benefits to us as individuals and as a nation, and that they humbly pray for the continu ance for his divine favor, for concord and amity with other nations and for right eousness and peace in all our ways. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Unit ed States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 2Uth day of October, In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and tweh ty-fifth. WILLIAM M'KINLEY. SHARP FIGHTS WITH BOERS. They Have m> Army of IK,OOU Men and Are Active. LONDON, Oct. 2f). —According to u dis patch from Cape Town to The Daily Mail a force of Boers attacked und sur rounded a patrol of Cape police with a convoy near lloopstud. Orange Iliver Colony, Inst Wednesday, aud a sharp tight ensued. "The police," says the correspondent, "were compelled to übandou two Maxims. Ultimately re-enforced by the yeomanry, they succeeded in getting away with the convoy, but they lost 7 killed, 11 wound ed aud l."> captured. The coloniuls were outnumbered teu to one, and the engage ment lasted for two hours. "The Boers have 15,000 men iu the field, nearly half of whom are lu Orauge River Colony. These are divided into commandoes of some 300 each, but are capable of combination r<u large opera tions." The war office has received the follow ing dispatch from Lord Roberts: "Burton's losses Thursday uml addi tional casualties were a captain aud 12 men killed and 3 officers and men wounded. The Boers hud 24 killed and 1!) wounded. Three Boers who held up their hauds iu token of surrender and then tired on our men were captured and tried by court martial. 1 hare confirmed the death sentence imposed on them. "Methuen has dispersed the Boers near Zeerust. They had sis casualties, and we took 28 prisoners. Our casualties were six wounded. MINERS STILL OUT. Several Thousand In I.aeka wanna Valley Refuse to Work. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 30— Over 5,000 mine employees in the Lackawunnu val ley refused to return to work because the companies for which they hud mined coal failed to comply with the terms of the Scranton miners' convention. The com panies affected are the Ontario and West ern Railroad company's ten mines, em ploying 4,000 men; the Forest Mining company at Archbuld, employing 800 men. who huve been on strike since last January; the Green Ridge Coal company, employing 400 men, und the Clark Tun nel Coal company, employing 100 ineu. At all the other mines there was a complete resumption, even at those of Jeriuyn & Co., in Old Forge, where it was believed the men would not go back until they were assured that the griev ances because of which they struck last March would lie adjusted. Varsity Football. NEW YORK. Oct. 29.—A1l of the big varsity football elevens, except the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, were scored against Saturday. Columbia mad* Tale hustle to win. 12 to 5, lu a sensational game in this city. Harvard had to pity hard football to conquer the famous Car lisle Indians by u score of 17 to 5 |l Cambridge, the red men thereby break ing the hitherto cleau record of the Crim son. Princeton beat Brown, 17 to flPtha Providence eleven making • goal (rati the field. The University of munfl' nla played a remarkable game apanat the Chicago unlvereity eleven, the figures being 41 to 0. Cornell dlapo ed || Dartmouth. 28 to •!, and Annapolis out played the strong Lehigh eleven. Hays to Be President. NEW YORK. Oct. 27— Charles H. Tweed of the Southern Pacific railroad confirms the report that Charles M. Hays has been selected for the presidency Of the company, made vacant b.v the death of C. P. Huntiugiou. lie said that Mr. Hays would assume the new office a boat Jan. 1 aud that he would have head quarters in Sau Francisco. Mr. Tweed added that the other officers of the Soutn ern Pacific would probably retaiu their present positions. Alvord Arrested. BOSTON. Oct. ."to Cornelius L. Al vord, Jr., the absconding note teller t>f the First National Imuk in New York city who is charged with stealing $700,- fMMi from the bank, was arrested her* yes terday afternoon by Chief Inspector Wil liam 11. Watts or this city and DetMlir* Armstrong of New York lu aa ordinary lodging house at the corner of Vfaat t.ewtoii str-et and Huutlugtoa aveau*. i.as Per* • Number l\ FIGHTINGJCONTINUES Americana Have Several Sharp Encounters With Filipinos. ENEMY ACTIVE IS YOUNG'S DISTRICT. The Philippine Commliiiloa Revising Cnlonii Tariff—lnnurgrnt Captain Charsvd With inlininan Crimea la Senteuced to Death. MANILA,Oct. 20.—While scouting near Looc a detachment of the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth regimentH under Captain Beigler was attacked by 400 insurgents armed with rifles under the command of a white man whose nationality is not known to the Americans. The insurgents for the most part were intrenched. After a heroic tight Captain Beigler drove off the enemy, killing more than 75. The fight lasted for two hours. Cap tain Beigler and three privates were slightly wounded, and two of the Ameri cans were killed. An engagement took place Oct. 24 be tween detachments of the Third cavalry and the Thirty-third volunteer infantry, numbering (!0, and a force of insurgents including 400 riflemen and 1,000 bolomcn. The fighting was desperate. Finally, under pressure of overwhelming num bers, the Americans were compelled to retire on Narvieau. Lieutenant George L. Febigor and four privates were killed, nine were wounded and four are missing. Twenty-niue horses are missing. A uuni ber of teamsters were captured by the insurgents, but were subsequently re leased. The enemy's loss is estimated at 150. A civilian launch towing a barge load ed with merchandise near Ara.vat was attacked by a force of 100 insurgents un der David Fagin. a deserter from the Twenty-fourth infantry. The American troops, on hearing firing, turned out in force before the boat could be looted and recaptured it. Fagin, who holds the rank of general among the insurgents, has sworn special enmity toward his former company. Of the 20 men he captured a month ago seven have returned. One was killed in a tight, his body being horribly mutilated. Fagin s£nds messages to his former com rades threatening them with violence if they become his prisoners. It was Fa gin's men who captured Lieutennnt Fred erick W. Alstaetter, who is still a pris oner. General Hall's expedition, with a force of nearly 800 nieu, through the moun tains to Binangouan, province of Infauta, iu pursuit of the insurgent general Cailles, although it discovered no trace of the enemy, encountered great hard ships on the inarch. Twenty Chinese porters died, and 40 men were sent into hospital. After stationing a garrison of 250 men iu Binangouan and visiting Po lillo island, off the coast of Infanta prov ince, General Hall and the rest of his force embarked there on the transport Jarrouue. Heports from General Young's district show a daily increase of insurgents there owing to the fact that recruits are going thither from the towns. While a detail of the Thirty-third vol unteer infantry was returning from Ban gum! on rafts it was fired upon by insur gents. Sergeant Berdstailcr being killed and two privates wounded. The Philippine commission has decided to compile the revised Philippines cus toms tariff from its own investigations, assisted by the report of the army board. Over Twenty Millions of (iuld, SEATTLE. Wash., Oct. 29.—A total of $20,100,087 worth of gold dust and bill lion has been received at the Seattle as say office during the present year. Fol lowing are official figures showing the amount of gold dust and bullion received between .lan. 1 and Oct. 4, 1000: Num ber of deposits, <i,028; ounces of gold and bullion, 1,243.103; from Cape Nome. $2.- 710,427; other Alaskan points, $402.80.'!: total from Alaska. $3, 173,320; from Brit ish Columbia (Atlin), $403,110; Yukon district (Klondike), $10,874,488; Wash ington, Oregon, Idaho and foreign gold coin, $125,762. Since Oct. 24 the office has received an additional $150,000 from Nome and $50,000 from other points. The probabilities are that before the sea sou closes Nome will have furnished $5. 000,000. A Cave Dlaeovered. SYRACUSE, Oct. 29.-P. M. Heifer Bad E. A. Holmes, Syracuse university •tndonts, discovered a cave pear James rjlle, this county, Friday. They crawled Ukto it, and, finding a paMagc leading downward, they entjred that ulso and soon were in a second cave. Another ffessage leading downward was entered, and the bovs found themselves in a third cavern. They had only a few matches and whfn they to retrace their stepa.conld not locate the opening. Aft er searching for mdre than two hour* tbty'found a ataall bole in the roof of the civ*. By alternately standing upou each other's shoulders they mauaged to dig •Way the rock and crawl up into the cave by which they eutered. finally reach iug the open air. Au exploring e*|edi tion will soou be organised. Heath at Hrlnee Vtetor. LONDON, Oct. 30.—A dispatch receiv ed here from Pretoria announce* the death from enteric fever of Prince Chris tian Victor of Sleswick Holsteln, eldest sou of the Princess Helena of Knglaud and a graudson of Queen Victoria. He was liorn it) 1807 ami was a major In the King'* ltoyal rlflps. A Itteh Klad af Hold. SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 20. Advicaa fro* Dawson City state that a big strike has been Bade on Goring creek, Id tulles above tbe mouth of Hunker creek. The whole creek has been slaked.
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