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.