Published Every Thursday. Volume 5. S THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE. C Yes, Paramount issues are plentiful this year.Q Swe have two. First, we are prepared to sell you 7 112 everything usually found in tirst-class jewelry *s j store at very reasonable prices. If we have not I \ the article you want we will get it for you at 112 shortest possible notice if it can be found. V \ Second, we cire prepared to do your C in a workmanlike manner, also at very } prices. If we are called upon to do work over that S I has been spoiled by others, we shall want \of time to do it in and full price for doing it. ✓ i Very respectfully, J I RETTENBURY, \ DUSHORE, PA. THE JEW ELELL. HAROVVARn^ Done * n ca . s ® or( ier and as Material and prices right. Will sell- sou the Best BICYCLE MADE for Jk/V THE COLUMBIA Line of chain wheels always leads the race, from $25 00, $35.00, and $50.00. The Columbia Chainless on exhibition now with coaster brake. Call and see my line, if you contemplate sending for ajwheel. 1 will giNe you an much for your money as you will get elsewhere. GENERAL LINE OF HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLIES. STOVES and RANGES, FIIDMAPFQ Plumbing and general job work. T U rUN /AOC-O. Estimates given. Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. Shopbell, Gamble & Co., 313 Pine street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA., We are ready in every department for the fall and winter buyers, of Dress Goods, Silks, Jackets, Tailor made Suits, Capes, Wrappers, Skirts, Petticoats, Waists Underware, Hosiery, Gloves, I\otions, Laces, Furs, Domestic Flannels, Blankets, Comforts etc. No more complete stock can be found. All the new est coloring and weaves are here. Everything up to date. Samples sent on application, but state just what is wanted. SILKS. OUR CLOAK DEPARTMENT. We carry the rargest line of silks for Thin depaitment is specially attrnc- Dresses, Waists and Trimmings; all the live this season; all the newest styles are latest novelties are here. here tor your picking. The length vary TMj-niQc rionnc to suit your taste. Our Tailor made suits DRESS vxOvJiJO. fl || new Up to (late in style anil mutcri This collection covers every new col- als (Prices Right, too). Fur Jackets, oring, anil weave; you will flml the hest Capes, Scarfs and Collaretts are herein assortment here, Our black Dress goods endless variety. You will not go wrong are a leading feature and sure to please. here. Every department filled with the latest. Try us. Shopbell Gamble & Co. Republican News Item. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY.' LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3. IDOL TJ. KEELER. • Justice-of-tlie Peace. Office ill room over store, LAUOKTIC, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care of this ortice will be promptly attended to. CARROLL HOUSE, D. KEEFE, Proprietor. DUSHORE, PA. One of the largest and best oquipped hotels in this section of the state. Table ol the best. Itutea I.OU dollar per day. Large stablea. (JLYSSES BIRD Land Surveyor Engineer and Conveyancer. Relocating old lines und coiners, and draw ing ma]* uspeclalty. Will usually be found at home on Mondays. Charges reasonable. Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. R. H. GUY, - - - Proprietor. Newly furnished throughout, special attention given to the wants of the travel ing public. Bar stocked with first class wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer on the market always on tap. Hates lieasonable. COMMERCIAL HOUSE! THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop. LA PORTE PA. This large and well appointed houpo is the most popular hoHtciiy in tl«is section HOTEL P. W, GALLAGHEIt, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court Mouse square. Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room.aiui barber shop; also good stabling and livery, yyM P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at-Law. Otliee in County Building. LA POUTK, PA. Collections, conveyancing; the settlement of estates and other legal business will receive prompt attention. £ J. BRADLEY, ATTOIINBY IT-LAV, orricK is eousTV iu' ldino KKAII UOCUT lIOUSI£. LA PORTE, PA rIKST NATIONAL BANK ' OF DUSHORE, I'ENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. SURPLUS - . SIO,OOO. Does'a General Hanking Business. BAV. JHNNINOB, M. P. BWARTS. President. Cashier f7. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOIIN K YS-AT-LA W, Legal us incus attended to in tbiu and adjoining counties -A PORTE, PA. J. MULLEN, Attorney-at- Law. LA PORTE, PA. Office over T. J. Keeler's store. J # H. CRONIN, ATTORNRY*AT -LAW, HOTAKY PUBLIC. orrii B on main stkbkt. DUSIIORE, • PA CHAS.L. PETTIS & CO. CacliliiiyersSoiiiiti'yl'i'odui'e, Drowsed Poultry, Game. Purs, Eggs and BUTTEB. 204 Duane St. New York. w rite for our present paying prices. jiErj-WEXi DA XI ELS A CO., Hunkers,<i Wall St. All ( buiuierciut Ai/eneies, Er/wssCit's Dealers in l'rotlure in I'. 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To quit tobacco easily and forever, be niait lietlc, full of life, nerve and vigor, tako No 'IV llac. the wonder-worker, that main s weak men strong. All druggista, 60e or >l. Cure guaran teed Booklet and aaiiiplo free Address blurting Remedy Co , Chicago or New York. KITCHENERHOPEFCL; Believes the Cape Colony In- vasion Checked. ! FEELING SOT SHARED IN LOSDSS | l>e Wet'n Haiti Tliouulit tn lie n XVi'll I'lniiiicil iiikl Serious Vl'- fnir—Com mimical t ion V. ;i li Illociiitoiitcin Cut Of*'. T.OXI M ).\, I Kv. IM. - 1,0 I'd Kt dispute-lies, breathing a confidence iiard.y j justified by their contents. are almost | tile only available news from the seat ot j hostilities in South Africa, but telegrams , from Capo Tmvn depict the situation in anvtliihi; lint roseate views. Without believing the assertion of tin Transvaal agency in Brussels that ti.OiMl ; Boers liave invaded Cape Colony, il i quite evident that the invasion was a se rious and well planned affair. The Cape Colony cabinet had an im portant sitting yesterday. It appeal's thai the Hoots have destroyed a railway bridge IM) feet long about l'J miles south of I)c Aar and tliat no Cape mails have arrived at Bloemfontein for three days. luii'tlier anxiety has been caused in Cape Town by the discovery thai the last two months public bodies in out of the way places have requisitioned sup j plies of dynamite. The colonial govern- i incnt is now endeavoring to recover p 's | session of these explosives and is remov ing nil stores of anus and nmiminkiou 1 from suspected depots. Other advices from Cape Town repre sent the I Hitch element in Cape Colony i as greatly ehi ted over the southward ' progress of the liners and as boasting j that the whole district of Victoria West i will join the raiders. It is suspected in i Cape Town that the force traveling from Zoiitpan's drift is not a body of i'.oers, j but one of colonials hastening to join the J invaders. The l'icterniarirzburg correspond, lit of I The lUtily Mail says: "The Boers are active between Julian- j uesbuig and Pretoria, exchanging shots with the British outpnsts, and it is re ported that parties of Boers are hovering ! a round Johannesburg." The war office has received the fiU'ow- j ing dispati h from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, I>ce. 111!: "So far as it is possible for me to form i nn opinion from the reports of officers oil the spot, 1 think the Boer movement into Cape Colony has been checked. Of the | two forces that entered the colony, the eastern is still north of the Zoutpansherg j range, while the one that entered west . appears to have been turned in the diree- | tion of lSritstown and l'ricska. Our! troops are getting around both bodies. ; nnd a special column is also being or ganized which will be dispatched imnic- i diately when I know where its service are most wanted. "The Boers here have not received , much assistance in Cape Colony, so fu ns my information goes. We have armed j some of the colonists, who are assist ng our forces. Railway and telegraph <om- j niunication has been much interrupted by the very bad weather. "He Wet is in the neighborhood of Senekal. (Seucriil French, in coujiinctien with (ieneral Clements, attacked a force under Meyers south of the Magaliesbcrg. The Boers broke away in a southwester ly direction toward l'otehefstroom and were followed by (ieneral Oordon with a column of French's force. "Yesterday evening about ."> o'clock j Clements' force was engaged south of , Oliphant's nek, but 1 do not yet know j the result." A later dispatch from Lord Kitchen:-!', ! dated Pretoria. Dee. 22. says: "The western column of Boers occu pied Britstown and cut the railway south j of He Aar Junction. The enemy is be ing followed up." MlllM-llfNtl'l* < I 111 III' Dl'llt. CINCINNATI. Dee. '_*4. The Duke of Manchester's debts in his native laud have been paid. I lis three castles and j his 27,01 NI acres of unproductive laud are no longer weighted with 1 O 1 in- j cunibrnnces. These facts arc practically ! admitted by Kugeiio Zimmerman, f:ttlie • ' in-law of the duke. In all l.'lo.tMio good American dollars were deposited in Lou- i don hlsl Friday to cover and liquidate ' the indebtedness of the bankrupt duke, i His grace at the early age of -3 can now | begin life anew. A- to just when- the money eauie from Mr. Zimmerman is not so free in expressing himself. Hut in his reluctance there afipears to be more of the natural coyness of a father-in-law iu touching upon the personal affairs of a prized son-in-law than anything else. A ItiH-lu-iiter lieu Knitted. UOCIJKSTKU. Dec. 24. Late Satur day night a "Tivoli" raid was made on i the Kinpiie Music ball by the local po- j lice. Aliout 21M) women and men were j present. After taking their names they j were let go. William Abbott, manager : of the hail, was taken to police head quartets, charged with running a music hall without a license. The "vaudeville" entertainers, live in number, were also j arrested. After giving bail in s?iO each they were released. A « hiirKnlile Mayor. SALF.M. .Mass., Dee. 21. Mayor Fleet John F. Hurley of Ibis city, pawnbroker and real estate dealer, has planned # m give his salary of #2.•"<•<) a year, which lie is to receive beginning Jail, I.for ad lilluisteriiig Ihe affairs III' I lie witch city to the poor, lie will not hand over the money to u charitable institution, but will disburse the amount himself its fast its lie -arus it. I'liliiitutloii of llcrlln, lU'.HLIN, Dee. 21. The population of lierlin. Including tin- suburbs. Is 2.H10,- j (iili, us conipaicd with 2,u7it,tilt! in IbU.i. j ROGER WOLCOTT'S DEATH. lliiMMneliiiNcttft' Former liuvrrnnr I'iisncm Aivny, BOSTON", Dec. —Former (Jovernoi linger Woleott died ut Itis residence on ' 'oininonweiilth nveiine lute yesterday ilfteriioon. lie heeanie ill with typhoid fever several weeks ago. The disease was prolinlily eontrneted either while on shipboard or soon aftei he landed in New York after his ICtiro penn visit. When seized, lie was almost in pet-feet physical conditio!), said ids at tending physician, lie was possessed ol a stalwart constitution, hut all the re sources of medical science were exhaust ed in the endeavor to save his life. Hoger Woleott was horn in Boston July 13. U-i-17. the son of.l. Huntington and Cornelia Krothinnhnni Woleott. lie is a descendant of tile Uoger Woleott who was second in command in the expedition of Sir William IVpperoll against Cape Breton iu 174.". which resulted in the capture of l.ouisluirtr. Another ancestor was Oliver Woleott, one of the sifrners of the Declaration of Independence. Both of these Wolcotts were governors of <'oniiectic-ut. One of his ancestors, oil his mother's side, was active and prominent during the Uevolu tionary period us a uieniher of the Charlestown committee of safety, nnd an other took part in the Boston tea party. ltoger Woh-ott was educated in H, s:on private schools and al Harvard univer sity, l'roin which lie graduated iu the KOGKU WOLC'OTT. class of IS7O. In college lie rnnkrd high and was the choice of his classmates for orator, lie was graduated from Harvard Law school iu 1574 and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in the siiine year. 11c practiced l>ut little, "however, his time having been largely occupied by his du ties as trustee of various estates and in the management of financial matters. (Jovernoi- Wolgutt's public career be gan in 1K77 as a member of the Boston common council, in which he served three years. Then he was elected to the lower house of the legislature, where lie served from ISS2 to ISS4. taking a position among the leaders and winning distinc tion as a hard and trustworthy worker. He was elected lieutenant governor in lN'.t.'t. 1 S<>4 and lMt>.-| and upon the death of (inventor (Ireeiihalge became acting governor in ISiMt. In the fall of ISIMI he was chosen governor, and in IN!>7 and 1 SDN lie was re-elected. Shortly after the resignation of lieu oral William I". Draper as embassador to Italy iu I'.WM) President McKinley ten dered the post to Mr. \\'olcott. The offer was declined on account of the p.essure of private business affairs. lln Sept. 1574. Mr. Woleott was married to Miss I'.ditli l'rescolt. griltid ilniighter of William 11. Presentt. the his torian. and great-granddaughter of <'ol >- nel William Prescott. who commanded the provincials at the battle of Bunker Dill. They have four sons and one daughter now living. 'l'lie \elirnaliii Seiint<ir»hl|ia. I.INCOI.N. Neb.. Dec. -4. Assistant Secietary of War (ieorge D. Meikh-jnlin has arrived iu Lincoln to assiitnc persounl management of his canvass for a seal in the l'nited State- senate. The Nebraska legislature, which conveneH on the first of the new year, will have two senators to elect, a successor to John M. Tlnirs ti-li and one to til! the vacancy caused by the death of M.1.. Hayward. which is being tilled at pieseut by William \ . Al len by :i)ip<ilitt nit-lit of the governor, llolli houses of tic legislature are Ucpiiblicau, but the majority is small iu both brunch es. There are a dozen candidates for the vacant seats, the more prominent aside from Mr. Meiklejoltu being I-Mward Itosewatcr and Congressman Mercer of Omaha, former Congressman lliiiner of Aurora. 1.. I*. Kichards of l-'tenuiiil. K. 11. HinsliaM of rairlniry aiul former (iovernor I.oi-cnzo Crotinse of l-ort Cnl liotin. liiuiself a meuibei of the state sen ate. l-'ri-ii&M Itntea to Hi* Itcdiieeat. PITTSItI'IKi, Dec. Si. Kailroii.l otli cials announce that the freight trntlie lean.-rgcrs id' the initial roads leading out of Pittsburg have decided lo reduce the rate on coke from the Connellsvilli- region 30 cents a ton to Philadelphia and Haiti- ; mote and proportionately to other points j on the eastern seaboard. It Is stated j that the rates west to Pittaliurg and Chi cago will not be touched for the present. About one-fourth of the entire output of : the Conuellsvllle legion goes out east. ) The redm'tion w ill menu much to the , ('oimt llsville opcl-atols and eastern buy- j ers. The operators have demanded re- ! duetioiis for some time, bill tlu.v were partii ulailj interested In the rate to Pittsburg and the west, LONDON. Dec. -J.Y Lord William Leslie de la Poor Bores ford i> ill. He is Hiiltering from periioiiiti-. llis condition ' is reported as sliglitlv improvcl. In ,-on- i sciplellee of Lord Hci'csf'oii! - illni*ss tilt* Christinas festivities al Deepdene, his scat at Dorking, have been nbnudoned. | 1.25 p er. . Number \ AN AUTONOMY PARTY Loyal Filipinos at Manila Adopt a Platform. FORMER INSURGENT AT THE HEAD Neit simper Man XHIIIIMI to Itulf Ben. Ifciiet —'I'll Irt > -Mill c Prleicta Have I'l-ulferpil S II InnIMKIOII tu A liter icilll Itlllp, MANILA, I>»■<-. 124. —Tin- recently or ganized Autonomy parly was launched at a m "'tint; attended liv all tht loyal 'lipino leaders in Manila. The deeliu i of principles was read and afters discussion, ailopted by a vot< of 1 >. Ii than half a duisen declining to votiC t-AJI signed an indorsement ot the plirt'r'ui. including Senor Patcrno one of pu. '-ist iiiHiicniinl of the formoi insurgefii whose real attitude to ward Ajr Jjjl authority has been much question) . ijf" The m'lu. discussion was with ref erence to the organization of the govern ment party. A council of 2."> ineiu hers was elected, together with an exec utive eoimnittee. including Senor Caye tano Arellano, chief justice of the stt preme court; Mr. Frank 11. Hon rue, Senor Armiosa Frores, a former insur gent geucial; Seuor Florentino Tories, attorney general for the Philippines; Senor Jose Near, prosecuting attorney, and Senor Toma* del liosario. The smallest number of votes received by any candidate was 80. Advices brought yesterday by steamer from southern Luzon say that a lieuten ant and (Mi men of the Ninth l.'uitcd States cavalry attacked a large body of insurgents last Wednesday near Guiuo batan, province of Allmy. After the bat tle 4.") dead insurgents were counted, to gether with many wounded. The only American casualty was the wounding of a sergeant, who was cornered by several rebels and struck in the leg by a bold. The rebel loss was the heaviest recorded among recent encounters. The cutting of the wires has delayed the otiicial re port of the engagement. The Philippine commission has ap pointed 11. Phelps Whitmarsh governor and Otto Seherer secretary of the prov ince of IScnguet. Thirty-nine priests, 17 of them belong ing in the province of Hulacan. the stron gest of the Tagal provinces, have signed and forwarded to the Philippine commis sion a paper proffering their submission and loyalty to its authority, adding that tile promise is made voluntarily and with out mental reservation. Judge Taft has replied, welcoming their assistance in the pacification of a people "over whom you will have -o • rent an influence." A detachment of the Sixteenth infan try l;tis captured Hautista, the head of the K: ipitc.iii society, in northwestern Luzon. A detachment of the Forty-ninth in fantry recently attacked a barrio on tlv I'agayau river, in Isabella province, drove out the insurgents, killing several of them, and captured a thousand rounds of ammunition. The Americans also burned the insurgent quarters. The latest reports from Iloilo say that the islands of I'anay and Cehu since the rainy reason set in are being rapidly cleared of the enemy and that in a feu weeks the only opposition encountered will be that offered by scattering la dioncs. The Twenty-sixth infantry in I'anay and the Forty-fourth in t'ebu are conducting an actively aggressive cam paign. The American casualties have recently been slight. Governor Tanner I'nrdonn rurlonc. CHICAGO, 1 »ec. 24.—Former Police man Patrick Furlong, who in February, UMHi, killed Kdward Leach, a brother of ficer.and was sentenced to the peniten tiary for 14 years, has been pardoned by Governor Tanner and will take bis Christmas dinner with his family in Chi cago. Furlong, who is of Irish parentage, and Leach, an Kuglishmau. became in volved in an argument about the Boor war. Leach's declaration that Kug'latid could whip any country on earth led to blows, ami both men drew revolvers. Furlong shot first, with fatal effect. I rnr.f >lnn fhiiotn Two. NKW YOHK. Dec. 24.-John Galte tus. a Brooklyn mechanic who has re cently shown evidences of insanity, be cauie violent in his home nud. taking a revolver, ran out of his house. At the time Nathan 14 tit li. !) years old. and Law rente Ivelley, a man. were passiug. Gul letus without warning tired at Itoth of them. Ituth was shot under the rig.it eye and Kelley in the breast. The boy may die. but the man is not seriously in jured. lierinnny Wttnlta Her fur I'lral. CONSTAXTINOPLK, l»cc. 21. The expected imperial irade authorizing the signature of the contract for the con struct ion of a cruiser for the Ottoman navy by the Cramp Shipbuilding coin puiiy. together with the initial ib |H»it of 111Ml.iKMI. has not yet lieen issued. It ap pears that the German embassy has pro tested to the porle against the payment to the Cramps U forc the amount owing to llerr Krupp for naval guns has Itccu pa itl. Iltill«\n> Wreck In Teina. I> A 1.1.A5, Doc. 24. Texas and Pa cific i nd St. Louis and Southwestern |ias sengi r trains collided at the ciossiug of the two roatls nine miles west of Tc\- nrkai.il. Firemaii lOdwitl'd Cottersou was killed ami Knginccr James Hubbard fit tally injured. The mail niitl express car* weic demolished. Mllil In Mlnekliulni, STOCKHOLM, Dec. 24. The weather In Stockholm i> the mildest tlufl lias been known here for mauy years at the ChriM' mas Kcanou.
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