Republican News Item.
Published Every Thursday.
Volume I).
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jS ing is for sale. Big job;, iittie jobs,simple jobs, hardp
jobs everything in our iino we are ready to do and«C
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made a special study of superiority. We excell
112 charging but moderately tor it. J
Very respectfully J
\ RETTENBURY . \
Y DUSHORE, PA. THE JEWELER. \
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'ffltollßtL BICYLEC N REPAIRfNT
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Quickly as possible, using good
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BICYCLE MADE for CQ>|K
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 a wheel. I will givo you
as much for your money as you will get elsewhere.
GENERAL LINE OF HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLIES.
STOVES and RANGES,
Plumbing and general job work,
r UniNftOtQ. Estimates given.
: Soles Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA.
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The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
313 Pine street,
WILLI AM SPORT, PA.,
The leading Dry Goods, Notion, Cloak and
Suit House in Williamsport.
Preparation have been going on for months gathering
merchandise, new and up to date, for the different depart
ments. We can assure you tl ere is no better selected
stocks to be found elsewhere.
A LIST OF DEPARTMENTS.
Linen Department. Hosiery and Gloves.
Everything in table linens, napkins, Kid gloves, knit gloves, fabric gloves,
towels, towling, crashs, linen sheeting, hosiery of all kinds for men, women and
Domestic Department. Muslin and Knit Underwear.
Muslins, sheetings, pillow casings,out- Muslin underwear occupies a large
ing, tickings, shirtings, cretons, silkolines, space, as this department hasjgrown larg
prints, percals, flannels blankets, com forts, er each year* You get the style, tke ttt,
skirting, etc.,this department is complete, the material, the making for the price af
nothing wanting. muslin. Why not buy, ready made. Knit
_ underwnre, all grades at all prices.
Dress Goods and Silks. Corsets.
This department has taken more room 25 dillerent kinds found here. We are
to display the stock; it's larger than ever. BUre to please you; price, 50c to $2.50, all
All the new things you'll tind here. the new shapes.
Notions and Fancy Goods. Cloak and Suit Department.
. ~ , i this department is larger than ever.
This department would make a large H ere von find Tailor Made Suits, Skirts,
sized store in itself. Here you will find Waists, Jackets, Capes, Wrappers, Petti
small wears, lac«»,purses,dress trimming, coft ftm , c , liuiren *bresscs.
gim|>s,braids veilings, netts, toilet articles The newcgl )e8 (or sand Sum .
soaps, stamped linens and fancy goods. mer Ilow ready. Don'l fail to visit the
Ready to Wear Department when in town.
To the out o'( town customers, samples sent on applica
tion, state kind of goods wanted. Ready to wear goods
sentC. O. D. with privilege to examine.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, AUGUST, 8, 1901.
T J. KEEIJER.
I . J ustiee-of-the Peace.
Office in room over store, LAI'ORTE, PA.
Special attention given to collections.
All matters left to the care of this oflice
will be prom tended to.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEEFB, Proprietor.
DUBIIORK, PA.
0n« of the largest and best equipped
hotel h in this section of the state.
Table of the best. lUtes 1.00 dollar per day.
Large stukles.
ULYSSES BIRD
Land Surveyor Engineer and Conveyancer.
Relocating old lines aiul coiners, ami draw
ing 111111* a«i«H-ialty.
Will usually l>e found at home ou Moudays.
Charges reasonable.
Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa.
HOTEL GUY.
MILDRED, PA.
R. H. GUY, - Proprietor.
Newly 'furnished throughout, special
attention given to the wants ol the travel
ing public. Kar stocked with first class
wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer
on the market always 011 tap.
llute* Reasonable.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE
THOS. E. KENNEDY, Prop.
LAPORTK PA.
This large and well appointed house is
the most popular hostelry in this section
TAPORTE" HOTEL.
P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newly erected. Opposite Court
House square. Steam heat, bath rooms,
hot and cold water, reading and pool
room,and barbershop; also .good stabling
and livery,
FT J. BRADLEY,
ATTORMBT-AT-LAW,
Office Building, Cor.Main and Muncy Sts.
LAPORTE, TA
FIKST NATIONAL BANK
OK nr.SllOllE, PENNA.
CAPITAL - - $50,000.
SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO.
Does'a'General Hanking Business.
H.W. JENNINGS, M. D. BWAKTH.
President. Cashier
J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTORHBTH-AT-LAW,
Legal husin«Bß attended to
in thin and adjoining counties
„A PORTE, PA.
£ J. MULLEN,
Attomey-at-l '
.l(, PA.
on. - I* COUKTY BUILDina
NEAR COURT 80011.
\ m H. CRONIN,
HOTART PUBLIC.
OPPICB OH MAIM STRIBT.
DUSIIORE, PA
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• # 112 IT'S WORTH
WHILE
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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
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STEP IN AND ASK
ABOUT THEM.
All answered at
Vernon Hull's
Large Store.
HiUsffrove* Pa.
Everybody Bay* So.
Cascareta Candy Cathartic, the moat won
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to tne taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a bo*
of C. C. C. to-day; 10, 35, Mi cents. Hold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
ROM HAT Willi
Whole Families Trying to Exist
on Child's Rations.
ELIZABETHGRAD SUFFERS MOST
People of That District Become Blind
As Sun Goes Down—Many Dying of
Starvation At Result of Hunger
Typhus.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 5.—A traveler
chancing Into the district of Eliza
bethgrad, province of Kherson, South
Russia, would find men and women
who, endowed with serviceable visual
powers as long as the sun is visible,
become totally blind the moment twi
light sets in and must be led home.
This Is one of the queerest diseases
known to medical science, and is one
of the camp followers of the famine
which is not officially admitted to exist
in this district.
In correspondence from here men
tion has been made from time to time
of the dearth which has visited many,
though not very large, districts of
Russia and of the efforts made by the
government to alleviate suffering re
sulting from it. The ministry of the
interior repeatedly declared the fam
ine had been conquered, food had
been distributed and seed corn provid
ed for the current year. Newsyape s
here received during the last few
months occasional letters depicting
the situation in anything else than the
rosy colors which the government or
gans used. The government answered
by a communique recapitulating what
had been done, and repeating former
assertions that all was well as could
be expected, and then the newspapers
received a secrot circular forbidding
further mention of the subject.
The existence of famine was an in
convenient fact at a time when nego
tiations were ponding for foreign
loans. Access to the famine districts
was made difficult for non-rosidents of
them, and the charity workers who
were not directly under the control of
the state were sent back to their
homes, and the agencies they had
created were placed under the Red
Cross, r which Is as much a brunch of
the government as any ministry. These
measures did not still the natural
curiosity to ascertain the truth about
the matter, and certain people with
Influential connections which could not
be ignored sent a trustworthy young
man to Elizabethgrad to investigate
for himself. He has just returned.
Without going into details, he reports
the following facts:
The city and districts of Elizabeth
grad, with a population of 600,000, are
suffering now from famine and disease
incident upon famine. The investigat
or found:
1. General destitution.
2. Many cases of acute destitution.
3. Some people dying of starvation.
4. "Spotted" or hunger typhus prev
alent.
Hunger typhus is an unfailing indi
cation that poverty has sharpened into
want.
Whole families are attempting to ex
ist on rations allowed for a single
child. The government is still making
an unavailing effort to alleviate the
suffering.
St. Petersburg has been planning to
celebrate the two hundredth anniver
sary of her foundation by an exposi
tion in 1903. Minister De Wltte has,
however, decided that the time Is too
short for such a grand undertaking,
and it will be deferred until 1913,
which will be 200 years after the cap
ital was removed here.
Actress Shot At Rehearsal.
Omaha. Neb., Aug. 5. —Mrs. Millie
Lighthawk. an actress, known on the
stage as Millie Allen, was fatully shot
here yesterday by Thad Brookie, who
afterward turned his revolver on him
self, sending a bullet through his
heart. Mrs. Lighthawk Is dying in the
Clarkson Hosplital, with no chance for
recovery. Jealousy is said to have
been the motive for the deed. The
tragedy occurred at a rehearsal of
"The Arizona Female Bandit," of
which the dying womafli was the
author.
Escaped Convict Recap., .d.
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. s.—Of the three
convicts who escaped from the peni
tentiary on Friday morning, one,
Adaire, was captured by the sheriff
of Hall county near Grand Island yes
terday. Posses are pursuing the other
two with bloodhounds from Lincoln.
Adair had discarded his prison garb
and was in his underclothing, supple
mented with a long coat which some
one had given him.
Dumont, Aeronuat, Fails Again.
Paris, Aug. 5. —M. Santos-Dumont,
the Brazilian aeronaut, made another
unsuccessful attempt yesterday after
coon to win the prize of 100,000 francs
offered by M. Deutsch, of the Aero
I Club, for a dirigible balloon. He only
j succeeded in covering about half the
I distance to the Eiffel Tower.
DETECTIVE WAS CRUEL.
Life Saving Men Attribute Brutality
To Pennsylvania Rnilroaa Official.
Trenton, N. J.. Aug. s.—Leon Uray,
John Welsh and William Welsh, who
claimed to be members of the United
State Life Saving Service, charge Con
stable Dennis Frawley with cruelty
and unjust arrest. Frawley is a Penn
sylvania railroad detective and met
the men at the coal shute just outside
of Trenton. Bray and the two Welshs
were among 64 men whom Frawley
arrested last week on the charge of
trespassing on the railroad company's
tracks. The men were taken before
Justice of the Peace Humphreys, who
sentenced them to the county work
house for 30 days.
Bray and his two companions in
listed that they were not on the tracks
and Frawley Is charged with having
kept some of the men chained to tele
graph poles for several hours before
taking them to the justice for a hear
ing.
TOWN SPRINGS UP IN A NIGHT.
Lawton, Oklahoma, Already Ha* 10,-
000 Population.
Fort Siil, O. T., Aug. 3. —A town of
10,000 people, to be known as Lawton,
hits grown up Just outside the Fort
limits, almost within a night. Follow
ing the ciose of the land lottery at El
Reno, thousands of homeseekers, who
drew blanks, started for the throe
points picked out by the Federal gov
ernment for town sites in the new
country, namely, Anardarko, Hobart
and Lawton. A majority of the people
favored Lawton, which is 25 miles in
land, and last night thousands are
camped in about the proposed town
site awaiting the sale of lots on Aug
ust 6.
Already Lawton has 400 temporary
business houses, including a grocery
firm and a newspaper, and three streets
have been laid out. A national bank
has been projected. Every form of
gambling known on the frontier is be
ing run wide open, side by side with
fake shows of various descriptions. To
add to the picturesqueness of the scene,
a thousand Comanche Indians have
pitched their tents nearby.
JAPANESE STRUCK7TOO.
Oriental Feature Added to San Fran
cisco's Big Strike.
San Francisco, Aug. 3. —Conferences
were held yesterday with a view of
bringing the local strikes to a close.
While no appreciable result has been
reached, Mayor Phelan, who is labor
ing to bring about an adjustment, ex
presses confidence that the controver
sy will end with the week. The new
features of the day involved Oriental
labor. The Japanese labor union vol
untarily called upon Japanese em
ployed upon the water front to stand
with the strikers, and the Chinese
crew of the steamer Coptic was pro
hibited from working ashore by the
Federal authorities, In pursuance of
the exclusion act.
STRICKEN IN HIS PULPIT.
Asbury Park Pastor Meets Death At
Morning Service.
New York, Aug. 5. —The Rev. Geo.
E. Hancock, pastor of the West Park
M. E. Church, of Asbury Park, N. J.,
was stricken with paralysis at the
morning service yesterday. He was
carried into the rectory and died at
2.30 o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr. Hancock complained of not feel
in;; well before he went into the pul
pit, but attempted to deliver the ser
mon. He had not spoken more than
five minutes when the fatal stroke
came. The funeral will be held on
Tuesday evening at the church, the
Rev. George L. Dobbins, presiding
elder of the Camden district, officiat
ing.
Mount Assinibolne Still Unconquered.
Banff, N. W. T., Aug. 5. —Mount As
sinibolne, the Matterhorn of the Cana
dian Rockies, after seven attempts in
as many seasons is still unconquered.
Waiter D. Wilcox, of Washington, D.
C., and Henry G. Bryant, ex-president
of the Geographical Society of Phila
delphia, accompanied by two Canadian
Pacific Swiss guides, were defeated in
an attempt to reach its summit, al
though an altitude of 11,125 feet was
attained.
Pekin Populace Becomes Unfriendly.
Pekin. Aug. 5. —American and Euro
pean residents assert that the de
meanor of the Pekin populace is con
stantly becoming more unfriendly, and
that as the allied troops depart the
Chinese resume their old habits of
Jostling and cursing foreigners in the
streets.
London, Aug. s.—The Renter Tele
gram company has received the fol
lowing dispatch, dated Aug. 4, from
Curacao: "Advices from Caracas say
that 6,000 revolutionists were defeat
ed after 30 hours of fighting on July
29 and 30, with a loss of 800 men, the
government loss being 300."
British Torpedo Destroyer Wrecked.
London. Aug. s.—The British tor
pedo boat destroyed Viper struck a
rock off the Island of Alderney, in th®
English Channel, and is a total wrack.
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Number l;j
WMIMTIM
Within a Week ShafTe" ".7ill Call
Out All Union Men,
NO COMPROMISE WILL BE ASKED
Every Mill of the Steel Corporation
Will Be Closed, It Is Said—Amal
gamation Said To Have Many Sur
priees Ready.
Pittsburg, Aug. 5. —"Within a week
every union man and every union man
at heart in the employ of the United
States Steel Corporation will be asked
to join in the strike now in ing waged
by the Amalgamated Association. We
must settle whether unionism is to
stand or fall.
"There will be no more conferences
with the United States Steel Corpora
tion unless the meeting is asked for
by the officials of that corporation.
The Amalgamated Association will not
request a peace meeting."
These and several other significant
statements were made last night by
Theodore J. Shaffer, president of the
Amalgamated Association ol' Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, upon his re
turn from the fruitless conference
with J. Pierpont Morgan and others in
New York.
It is now a fight to the bi.ter f.n's-i
between the great billion dolkir steel
trust and organized labor. Mr. Shaifer
says that he is ready to employ every
peaceable means within the power of
man to win a victory. No quarter is
to be given and none will be requested.
The entire management of the battle
has been placed in the hands of Presi
dent Shaffer He has absolute power
to call out every man who is connected
with the organization, and he intends
to do it. He is satisfied with the pro
gress of the fight to date. He finds
that none of his battle lines have been
broken.
Mr. Shaffer was asked this question:
"Do you think you will be able to
close all of the mills of the Steel Cor
poration?"
"I am of the opinion that every one
of them can be closed. We have some
great surprises in store for the trust.
The men have been organized in some
of their mills that they never dreamed
could be touched. We have the sym
pathy of the workmen, and they will
throw any straws in the way of
our victory."
"Don'f t,l«jme Mr. Morgan for all
this," said Mr. Snuffer, as he went on.
"Mr. Morgan knows v al/sp 1 uto 1 y nothing
about the true conditions of the mills
except as he is told by oth»!« He has
their word and is guided by it Btot'rolv.
1 believe that Mr. Morgan is a fa
minded man and is only acting on his
judgment based on information of
others whom he looks to."
Mr. Shaffer said that the stories that
Mr. Morgan had been ugly during the
conference on Saturday were untrue.
He said the gentleman had been cour
teous and business like throughout th:;
entire meeting, and if he had lost his
temper it was after the adjournment
of the gathering.
"Are you afraid of southern negroes
being brought into break the strike?"
"Not In the least. The negroes of
the south are thoroughly organized.
We have not been overlooking that
detail. They make the best kind of
union men. The 300 colored men
brought from the south to as.-ist in
starting # the plant of the Latrobe S:> 1
company, in Chicago, were all ini'iu
bers of the union. When they d ; -
covered what was wanted of th m
they returned to their homes."
COULD NOT ACCEPT THE TERMS.
It Would Have Meant Association's
Death Blow, Says Rees.
Pittsburg, Aug. B. —Vice Precid.
David Rees said this moinii:.,:
"As anxious as the members of the
executive board of the Amalo.mpt >d
Association are to settle the s-trik' ,
their refusal to accept the terms of
Mr. Morgan was the only alternative
left them at the last moment. Fr m
the association side to have a;reed to
the proposition that would have d -
elared all of the hoop combine m!U.:
now idle as non-union would have
meant the desertion of the thousand,
of workmen who were employed in
them and who organized and cam ;• out
on a strike since the trouble began.
To have deserted these men jio-.v
would have been the death blow o:
the organization and it would have
died in dishonor. To fight the trust ir.
an honorable battle, with a good
chance to win, means at least a chaniv
for life, but if beaten a demise ol
the Amalgamated Association with
honor."
Rain Maker a Dead Failure.
Lincoln, Neb , Aug. 3. —Without pro
ducing the desired result of a fall ol
rain, W. N. Wright yesterday aban
doned his bombardment of the sky
temporarily. Mr Wright said ne was
convinced his mortars were too small
and the powder charges too litht.