Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume ii. \ K Xpert ? S Repairing. £ /A\\ our knowledge: :i!l <"ir loner experience; all our V for line w itch ;ind jewelry repair- Q j j ing is for sale. l>i", 1 il lie* jobs,simple jobs, hard^ jobs everything in our line we are ready to do and^^ ,112 do better th in you ever !i iI it done before. We'ye I \ made a special study of superiority. We excell 112 charging but moderately for it. Very respectfully J }7 RETT EN BURY . S QOLES HARDWARE jj| GOOD^ 9 ™ E FINEST i^ E,oF BICYLEC N REF^IPING rY ' Done in first lcass orde and as Quickly as possible, us) \ good ' Material and prices right. Will,sell you the Best Aaa a4^U BICYCLE MADE for J2v VuMn THE COLUMBIA " 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, ( all and seejmy.line, if you contemplate sending for a wheel. 1 will give you as much for your money as you will get elsewhere. GENERAL LINE OF HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLIES. STOVES and RANGES, FURNACES. Sn b i!'esg?ven eneraljob W ° rk ' ; Gofes Hardware, DUSHORE, PA. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine street, WILLI AMSPORT, PA., The leading Dry Goods, Notion, Cloak and Suit House in Williamsport. Preparation have been going on for ..nering merchandise, new and up to date. „ . newrHt Blv i efj !or Spring and Sum goape, stamped linens and lancy goods. mpr |IQW rcft( j y j, 01l ' t f a ji t0 visit the Ready to Wear Department when in town. To the out of town customers, samples sent on applica tion, state kind of goods wanted. Ready to wear goods sent C. O. D. with privilege to examine. The Shopbell Dry Good Co. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, JULY. 18. 1901. T J. KEELER. I . Justice-of-the Peace. Offleeln room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters lell to the care of this office will lie promptlyjattended to. CARROLL HOUSE, D.KBEFB, Proprietor. DUSHORE, PA. One of the largest and best equipped hotel!! in this section ot the state. Talile of the best. lUtes I 0U dollar per day. Large stnblcs. [JLYSSES Blßti Land Surveyor Engineer and Conveyancer. Relocating old " ueii and coiners, anil draw ing maps .specialty. Will usually be found at home on Mondays. Charges reasonable. Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. B. H. OU V, - Proprietor. Newly furnished throughout, special attention given to the wants of the travel ing public. Bar stocked with llrst class wines, liquors and cegare. Ihe lient beer on the market alwayson tap. lUttc* Iteusonali/«. COMMERCIAL HOUSET" THOB. hi. KENNEDY, Prop. LAPORTE PA. This larg. and well appointed house 1» the must popular hostelry iuthis section LAPORTE HOTEL. F. W. GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court House square. Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber shop; also good stabling and livery, P. SHOEMAKER, Attorney at Law. Office in County Building. LAPORTE, PA. Collections, conveyancing: the settlement of estates and otlin legal business will receive prompt attention. 4 J. BRADLEY, ATTORNBY IT-LAW, Office Building. Cor.Main and Muncy Sis. LAPORTE, PA FIRST NATIONAL BANK OK DUSHORE, PKNNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. suHPLua - - ato.ooo. DoesTa'Oeneral Banking Business. B.W.JENNINGS, M. D. SWARTS. President. cashier J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining oounti.i _A PORTE, p A. [T J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. LAPORTE, PA. orrica M COUNTY IUILDINS NICAR COURT 800.8. J # H. CRONIN, ATTOKWIT'AT -LAW, NOTARY PUBLIC. orrica ON MAM STRBET. DUSHORE, PA | • | IT'S WORTH WHILE to step in and absorb a little General Knowledge that is to be found in a really down to date General Store. The new things for Spring and Summer are now on IEXHIBITIONI ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. HlUagrovei Pa. BIG STEEUME ON. Acting on President Shaffer's Ord ers, Thousands Quit Work. WORKERS SANGUINE OF SUCCESS Fifty Thousand Miners Near Pittsburg May Assist the Amalgamated Asso ciation, It is Said —The Situation In the Smoky City. Pittsburg, July 16. —President Shaff er's strike order Issues Saturday night to me Amalgamated Association mem bers in the employ of the American Steel Hoop company, the American Sheet Steel company and the American Tin Plate Company was generally obeyed this morning and the great struggle between the Amalgamated As sociation and the steel companies Is on in earnest. "The strike was not of our seeking." said President Shaffer today. "It was forced upon us. We were not con tending for wages, but for principle— for self preservation. We have our forces thoroughly organized and there will be some surprises In store. Orders will be promptly obeyed by all our men. But there will be no trouble. Labor organizations have changed. The Amalgamated Association is not the association it was 20 years ago, not even live years ago. The men arc more readily controlled; In fact we have our men under control." Pittsburg will be a pretty lively strike center. The most Interest at taches to the Painter's mill on the south side and to that of Lindsay and McCutcheon in Allegheny. Doth mills are controlled by the American Sheet Hoop company and have hitherto been aggressively non-union, and much de pended upon the action taken by the men in these plants. The Painter mill Is to be made the fight of the strike. The mill is not only an im portant one, but the steel hoop com pany has for years succeded in thwart ing the efforts made to unionize it. It is said that 50,000 miners em ployed In the many mines of the Pitts burg district are willing to lay down their picks, walk out of the mines and assist the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers In their fight against the steel trust. Patrick Dolan, district president of the United Mine Workers. Is authority for this statement, and If necessary the miners will Immediately quit work. President Dolan said the members of the miners' organization In the Pittsburg district were in favor of the strike and enthusiastically declared that If the occasion demanded every member of the union in the United States would contribute to support the steel and Iron workers and that the men In this district would quit work upon request to help the strikers in their fight. "I deplore this steel strike." he said, "for It will be the greatest in the his tory of the country, perhaps causing hardship for thousands. Hut the men are standing up for their rights, and the officials of the steel trust know this better than anyone else." BRYANISM IN OHIO. Still Democrats in that State Who Were Not at Columbus. Cleveland. July 15. —On July 31 Ohio Democrats who believe in Hryan, the issues which he represents and that the recent Democratic convention ig nored, will assemble in Columbus and make up a state ticket. Ten men met yesterday morning In a down town of fice building in this city and decided that a bolt should be made. The at tendance at the conference was larger and represented a greater area in the state than was expected by those whq called the meeting. A formal statement of principles was submitted to the conference and was adopted. This will be printed and sent throughout the state to those who are known to be faithful to the Ne braskan. A convention was decided upon to be held at the Great Southern hotel on the last day of July. To this convention may come all those who sign their names to the declaration of principles. EIGHT HOURS LAWFUL. Court Sustains Comptroller for Refufr Ing to Pay Delinquent Contractor. New York, July 12.—The court of appeals has decided that the eight-hour provision in the labor law Is consti tutional. This decision was handed' down in the case of Eugene Lentllhou, who has the contract for the removal of the Bryant Park reservoir, the fu ture site of the public library. The facts in the case were that Con troller Coler refused to audit or pay Lentllthou $16,919.81, the amount earn ed under the contract for the removal of the reservoir, on the ground that he failed to comply with the labor law in two respects—that he compelled or allowed his employes to labor more than eight hours a day and that he did not pay his mechanics working men and laborers the prevailing rate Df wages as required by the labor law, CHILI'S PRESIDENT DEAD. I Ser.or Federl Errazurls Succumbs Te Feeble Health. | Buenos Ayres, July 13. —Senor Fed erl Errazurls, president of Chill, who LATE PRESIDENT had been in feeble health for more j than a year, is dead. The late Senor Errazurls was elect | ed president of Chili, June 25, 1896, ; for a term of five years, which began j September 18, 1896. EPWORTH LEAGUERS STRANDED ! Pickpockets Rob Twenty of Money and Tickets in Colorado. Glen wood Springs, Colo., July 15. I The thoroughly organized gang of pickpockets operating at Colorado Springs is responsible for a party ot about twenty Epworth Leaguers be coming stranded here. Men and women alike have been robbed, not only of every cent they had with them, but of railroad tickets as well, and unless ! the railroads will issue tickets back • home on their proof of having pur chased and paid for rides to San Fran cisco and back, they will be compelled to ask aid from the county authorities. Among those robbed are Dr. J. H. Wilson, wife and daughter, and Mrs. H. It. Hailngton, of Dover, Del.; Dr. Wilson's wallet containing tickets for the party, drafts on San Francisco hanks and baggage checks being stolen In the crush at the rtepo in Colorado Springs. Major S. K. Hooper, general passenger agent of the Denver and Itlo Grande railroad, authorized the ; Glenwood Springs agent to furnish passes to Ogden to stranded passen gers. who desire to continue their jour ney west. I SIX PICNICKERS DROWNED Tragic End to Day'. Outing of Hebrew Gamahl Haad. Savannah, Ga.. July 15. —The He brew Gamahl Haad held its annual picnic at Daufuskle Beach yesterday. Between 3 ami 4 o'clock in the after noon a number of the picnickers went Into the ocean for a surf bath. A strong southeast wind was blowing and the tide was at flood. Fifty yards off shore is a shoal. Between the shoal and the shore is a sluice. The party was bathing on the shoal. Finding the tide getting rather high, the bathers concluded togo nearer shore. Almost at once they found themselves in the sluice, over their heads, with moun tainous waves pounding and a sweep ing current running. Out of twelve ; who started across six were drowned. The dead; Mrs. Abe Dickstein. aged 23; Annie Kronstadt, aged 10; Ida Kronstadt, aged 16; Leah Silverstein, aged 17; Annie Horowitz, aged IS: Isaac Zacht, aged 22. The bodies of the unfortunates were swept out to sea. Mrs. Diokstein's .corpse was found floating in the surf an hour after the tragedy, but nono of the others has been discovered. But One Admission Fee. Trenton, July H. —Vice Chancellor Reed yesterday filed an opinion per manently enjoining the owners of the steel pier and Young's pier at Atlantic City from charging any fees or admis sion charges except a single admission at the entrance from the boardwalk to those piers. The decision was given in consequence of suits instituted by the municipal authorities of Atlantic City who elaimed that under an agree ment the pier companies had obligated themselves not to charge more than a single admission to any or all parts of the piers, June Bugs Darken Zanesvllle. Zanesvllle, 0., July 15. —Zanesvllle was almost entirely In darkness last night as a result of the visitation ot June bugs In countless numbers. Elec tric light globes are filled and the lights were completely smothered by the ashes of the burned bugs. The hotel offices were infested with auch swarms that it was necessary to close the doors notwithstanding the intense heat. In several instance, church serv ices were interfered with. The rlvor bridges were almost Impassable to pedestrians. The atmosphere about the lights was filled with clouds of live Insects and floors were covered to a depth of several inches by dead ones. 1.25 P er * Year Number 10 «ROUGHT_NOT BROKER Hot Wave Still Beats Meroilesalj Over Western Corn Belt. KANSAS CROPS MAY BE LOST. Unless Rain Falls Shortly the Loaa Will Be Terrible—Element of Flra Adds Danger—Texaa Saved by a Heavy Storm. Washington, July 15. —Reports to the Weather bureau show that the hot weather continued yesterday in 19 states and territories of the great corn belt, the Ohio valley and various por tions of the south. There seems to be no immediate evidence of abatement except in the south and southwest where local thunderstoms may oause some moderation. The states affected include Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou isiana, Arkansas, Oklahomo, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota. North Da kota, Colorado, and Michigan. From Kansas City come the news that yesterday was a repltition of the past two weeks, with reports frone many places in western Missouri, Kan sas, and the territories of temperatures over the 100 mark. At most placea the sun shone mercilessly with not a cloud nor a breeze to break its rays. With no relief in Bight fears for the Kansas crops are fast b«comlng reali ties, and scarcity of water and gener ally dry conditions make the element of fire a most serious one. What the real damage to corn, the crop most affected, will be, Is problematical, but It is probably safe to say that hall the crop will be lost. The supply ol water is short in almost every direc tion and the shipment of cattle and hogs to the market to save them must continue. St. Joseph, Mo., dispatches state that the entire corn and oat crops In that section are ruined. No amount of rain will now be of any benefit to those cereals. The fruit and vegetable crops are also complete failures and the pastures have dried up ao that the farmers are paying enormous prices for hay and feed. Reports that reached Lincoln, Neb., last night indicated that rain fall® within two days will save the corn crc.p, although injury to the plant began yesterday, and another day of heat and drouth will work considerable damage to the crop. Reports from Indian Territory show that cotton is being injured by the drouth that has prevailed in Chick asaw Nation for the past five weeks. Unless rain falls within the next few days crops will be cut short. About 60 per cent, of the corn crop has al ready been ruined. There will be no marketable corn. The crop of other grains Is a total failure. Professor W. M. Hayes, of the Min nesota state agricultural experimental farm, reports that the hot weather is doing a great deal of damage to wheat In southern Minnesota, and that chinch bugs are very numerous and are con tributing to the destruction. He be lieves that but a small crop will be harvested In that section. Iron Mountain, Mich., caps the cli max with the statement that yesterday was the hottest day of the year there, the thermometer registering 110 in the shade at 1 o'clock at Qulnesce. Jules Noels was sunstruck, and at Floodwood an Indian died from the elTects of the heat. The only encouraging feature from the southwest was the news that the drought In Texas, where at Denlson ensued a terrific rainfall of over two hours' duration, the volume of rain being almost equal to a cloudburst. The storm was accompanied by a wind of almost tornado force. Reports Indi cate that the rain is general in that vicinity. It came just in ,lme to save tho cotton crop. It will benefit the fruit crop and furnish stock water, which had entirely failed, causing much distress. It will also benefit lowland corn. The Southern Method ist Episcopal Church at Denlson. re cently erected at a cost of $15,000, was partially demolished, and a num ber of small houses in the northern portion of that city were blown over and wrecked. Shade trees and window glass all over the city were demol ished. A tornado Is also reported to have passed over the Chickasaw Na tion. Kittridge Succeeds Kyle. Pierre, S. D.. July 12. —Governor Herrled yesterday appointed A. B. Kittridge to All the unexpired term fo the late United States Senator Kyle. Kittridge is a native of New Hampshire. He removed to Dakota in 1885. For a long time he was former Senator Pettlgrew's trusted lieutenant. In 1896 the two parted company on the money question. Kittridge was the Republican National committeeman from this state In 1892 and 1896.