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Volume !i.
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S ing is for sale. Hi .; t ; ' j.»b>,sirnp!e jobs, hard^
jobs everything i:i <mii ii;«** \vv ire ready to do andC
jdo better than y<>*i n " 'n lifl » 1 e before. We'ye
A made a special study i»t >1 ipvrii >iiiy. We excell
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g RETTENiiUKY S
DUSHORE, PA lIL L J EYV ELER. \
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pOLBS HARDWARE^
' ™ E FINEST LlNß *°^
JJ ° a n G THE rS OOUNTY.
BiCYLEC REPAIRING
Done in first lcass order and as
Quickly as possible, using good
y Material and prices right.
Wfll sell you the Best A-*ck
BICYCLE MADE for V^D«
THE COLUMBIA**
Line of chain wheels always leads the race, from
$25.00, $35-00, and $50.00.
The Columbia Chainlcss on exhibition now with coaster brake. Call
and seejmyjine, if you contemplate sending for a wheel. I will give you
as much tor your money as you will [jet elsewhere.
GENERAL LINE OF HARDWARE, MILL SUPPLIES.
STOVES and RANGES,
FURNACES. |St"v=n generali ° b work '
Coles Hardware,
DUSHORE, PA.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
313 Pine street,
WILLIAMSPORT, PA.,
This leading Dry Goodc, 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.
Everything in table linens, napkins,
towels," towling, craslis, linen sheeting,
everything in the linen line.
Domestic Department.
Muslius, sheetings, pillow caBir>gs,out
ing, tickings, shirtings, cretons, silkolinee,
prints, percals, flannels blankets,comforts,
skirting, etc.,this department i# complete,
nothing wanting.
Dr*>ss Goods and Silks.
This department has taken more room
to display the stock; it's larger than ever.
All the new things you'll tind here.
Notions and Fancy Goods.
This department would make a large
sized store in itself. Here you will tind
small wears, laces,purses.dres9 trimming,
gimps,braids veilings, netts. toilet articles
soaps, stamped linens and fancy goods.
To the out of 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.
Hosiery and Gloves.
Kid gloves, knit gloves, fabric gloves,
hosiery of all kiiiilh lor men, women and
children. Everything in the hosiery line
can he found here.
Muslin and Knit Underwear.
Muslin underwear occupies a large
space, a* thi« department ha.njgrown larg
er each vear* You get the style, the At,
the material, the making tor the- price ©f
muslin. Why not buy. ready made. Knit
undenvure, all grades at all prices.
Corsets.
25 difterent kinds found here. We are
sure to please you; price, 50c to $2.50, all
the new shnpes.
Cloak and Suit Department.
This department is larger than ever.
Here you tind Tailor Made Suits, Skirts,
Waist's, Jackets, Capes, Wrappers, Petti
coats, and Children Dresses.
The newest styles lor Spring and Sum
mer now ready. Don't fail to visit the
lieady to Wear Department when in town.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 5, 1901.
T J. KEELER.
I . Justice-of-the Peace.
Office in room over store, LAPORTE, PA.
Special attention given to collections.
All matters left to the care of this office
will l>e promptlyfcat tended to.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEEPE, Proprietor.
DUSHORE, PA.
One of the largest and best equipped
hotels in this seetion ot tlie state.
Table of the beat. Hivtes 1.011 dollar per day..
Large stiiblea.
ULYSSES BIRD
Land Surveyor Engineer and Conveyancer.
Relocating old lines and coiners, anil draw
ing null® asi*fcialty.
Will usually l>e found at home on Mondays.
Charges reasonable.
Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa.
"HOTEL GUY.
MILDRED, PA.
R. H. OUV, - Proprietor.
Newly'furnished throughout, special
attention given to the wants ot t lie travel
ing public. Bar stocked with lirst class
wines, liquors and cegars. I lie best beer
on the market always on tap.
Hates Reasonable.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
DAVID TEMPLE, Prop.
LAPORTE FA.
Tliia large and well appointed houpe if
the muit popular hostel ry i*» ti»ia seetion
LAPORTE HOTEL.
V. W, OALIiAOHER, Prop.
Newly erected. Opposite Court
House square. Steam heat, bath rooms,
hot and cobl water, reading and pool
room,and barbershop; also good stabling
and livery,
H J." BRADLEY,
A TTOHN KY AT-LAW,
Office Building, Cor.Main and Muncy Sts.
LAPOKTE, rA
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF DUSHORE, PENNA.
CAPITAL. - - $50,000.
SURPLUS - - #IO.OOO.
Banking Business.
B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. SWA UTS.
President. fasliler
J # J. & F. H. INGHAM,
attorkkts-AT-LAW,
Legal business attsmleil to
in cliis anJ adjoining counties
_A PORTE, p A
£ J. MULLEN,
Attorney-st-L»w.
LAPOKTE, PA.
orrics i* ponnTv buh-dika
MAR COURT HOUSE.
J # H. CRONIN,
ATTORNET-AT -LAW,
NOTARY PDBLIC.
OrPirl ON MAIN HTRIKT.
DIISTIORR, PA
BANNER SALVE
' the most healing salve In the world.
» • 112 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
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STEP IN AND ASK
| ABOUT THEM.
All answered at
Vernon Hull's
Large Store.
Hillurrove< Pa.
| "
I Foley's Honey and Tar
cures colds, prevents pneumonia.
RAIN FLOOJJS CLEVELAND
Terrific Storm Overflows City's
Finest Residence Portion.
DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO A MILLION
Houses Undermined As Though Made
of Straw —Graves Washed Out and
Corpses Whirled Through the
Streets—No Loss of Life Reported.
Cleveland, 0., Sept. 2.—With the
breaking of dawn yesterday morning
the citizens of Cleveland awoke to
look upon a scene ot unparalleled dev
astation and destruction caused by a
raging flood. While the entire city
was more or less affected, the great
volume of raging water vented its
anger over miles of the eastern por
tion of the city, and caused an amount
of damage approximated at $1,000.-
000. The appalling overflow was cnused
by a terrific rain that commenced to
fall shortly after 2 o'clock, which
turned into a perfect cloudburst be
tween the hours of 3 and 5, and then
continued with groat force until near
ly 10 o'clock. The storm, according
to the weather officials, was the heav
iest that ever swept over Cleveland
since the establishment of the gov
ernment bureau in this city over 40
years ago. That no lives were lost is
nothing short of a miracle, as the
stories of thrilling escapes from the
water on several of the principal resi
dent streets of the city are told.
Great volumes of water poured over
from Doan and Giddlngs brooks down
Quincy street, swamped Vienna street,
rushed over Cedar avenue back over
on East Prospect street, rushed like a
mill race down Lincoln avenue to Eu
clid avenue, and then onto Glen Park
place where houses were undermined
as though built of straw und almost
incredible damage done to streets and
property.
Over a large share of this exclusive
residence territory the water rushed
with terrific force varying in depth
from Ito 6 feet. Culverts, trestles and
bridges were torn down and for hours
nothing seemed capable of stemming
the tide of destruction.
Hundreds of residents who were im
prisoned in their beautiful homes tike
stranded islanders were almost panic
stricken, expecting to be called upon
to wade out into the swirling water
at almost every minute, ranger sig
nals were flashed about the city as
speedily as the disabled telephone sys
tem would allow und the work of res
cue commenced. Row bonts piled back
and forth assisting whole families
from perilous positions but those prov
ed pitifully inadequate and it was soon
found necessary togo to the extra
ordinary precaution of calling on the
life saving crew from the river, a uis
tance of seven miles. The life boats
were quickly loaded on wagons and
hurried to the scene of destruction.
The torrent surged with awful forco
for hours in Deering street, from Fair
mount to the boulevard and over a
dozen families were penned in like rata
in a trap with water 5 and t! feet deep
surrounding their homes. At this point
the life saving crew worked valiantly
and assisted by squads of flremen and
policemen Anally succeeded in landing
the terror-stricken people in places of
safety. The fear was greatly enhanced
by the momentary expectation that
great Shaker Heights dam would break
loose and belch forth destruction.
Shortly bofore noon the torrent suc
ceeded in undermining a score of
graves in the St, Joseph cemetery at
the corner of Hast Madison and Wood
land, and the bodies were soon being
tossed about in the waters. Fully a
dozen of the corpses were washed into
gutters and had not been recovered
early this morning.
The train service on all roads was
blocked from two to six hours by the
fearful effect of the storm and flood.
Every road entering the city was ter
ribly handicapped by sand and dirt,
which was swept over the tracks. Sev
eral washouts occurred, the worst be
ing on the Lake Shore near Gordon
Park where the trestle was buffeted
about by the force of the water until
rendered almost worthless. The dam
age to the railwuys cannot be even
estimated now. The mail service from
the east was completely tied up from
10 o'clock in the morning until s
o'clock last night when a train got
through on the Shore. Hut the
vast amount of damage falls upon the
householders in the flooded district.
The great sea of water reached a
depth of 1 foot on the first floors of
scores of the east end homes, boiling
up from the sewers and pouring in off
from the streets carrying everything
that came in its path along with it.
In many cases the fear-stricken resi
dents battered down cellar walls in
order to give the torrent an outlet and
prevent the swuinping of their entire
homes.
A remarkable feature of the storm
which caused such terrific destruction
is that up until ti o'clock yesterday
morning hardly a drop of rain fell west
of Willson «fenue while during the
morning hours the east end was being
fairly swamped in a perfect deluge of
rain. Another remarkable thing is
that no thunder and lightning accom
panied the record-breaking downfall
While thousands of citizens in the most
aristocratic section of the city were
aroused, seeing thousands upon thou
sands of dollars worth of their prop
erty being crushed and destroyed, an
other and greater portion of the city
was wrapped in slumber totally ob
livious to the danger surrounding their
fellow citizens.
Residents along East Prespect
•treet, near Lincoln avenue, on Lin
coln avenue and Glen Park place,
wore aroused between 4 and 5 o'clock
in the morning by the sound of the
booming waters. The water continued
to steadily rise until it was eight feet
deep. By fi o'clock the residents along
Lincoln avenue commenced to move
furniture and valuable to the second
story, as the rushing torrest reached
the level of front porches, and in a
number of houses swept into the first
floors.
The waters rushed back from Lin
coln avenue until the big space just
east of the avenue and between East
Prospect street and Euclid avenue was
one great mass of angry water from
4to 10 feet in depth. Hams and huge
pieces of lumber were swirled about
like light corks and banged into many
Lincoln avenue homes, threatening
their destruction.
The residents along the north side
of East Prespect street, from Lincoln
avenue to within a few feet of Hill
ings avenue, were penned into their
homes like stranded islanders. The
water came up to the porch steps, and
within a few feet of the porches it was
from 4 to 5 feet in depth.
ANOTHER STEEL PLANT.
Big Mill to Be Erected in Pennsylva
nia By New Combine.
New York, Aug. 31. —It is officially
stated here that the big Bethiohem-
Vickers-Maxim combination will go
through, and that the details of the
new company have already been
agreed upon. It is said that it is the
Intention of this combination to build
another large st«U plant in the min
ing regions of Pennsylvania. It will
bo usetl chiefly for the .Manufacture of
riifrior plate' ft)r warships, which will
be the specialty of the new company.
Exactly where the plant is to be lo
cated is not known at the present
time.
This information regarding the deal
was brought to light while searching
for particulars about the filing of a
mortgage for $7,500,000 by the Heth
lehein Steel company with the regis
ter of Hudson county, N. J., stating
that securities deposited there in
cluded 5,555 acres of land on the
Hackensack meadows. By the tiling
of this mortgage also is furnished for
the first time a correct clew to the
capitalists who are to develop tho
meadows, on an enormous scale, by
the establishment of a shipbuilding
plant, immense docks and possibly a
belt line railroad, which will conveni
ently connect with all the trunk lines
now entering Jersey City and Ho
boken.
PRINCE CHUN OBJECTS
Doesn't Fancy Prostrating Himself Be
fore Emperor William.
Berlin, Sept. 2.—lt is now very
doubtful, according to a dispatch to
The Lokal Anzeiger from Basel, Swit
zerland. whether Prince Chun will
come to Berlin to make lormal apology
for the murder ot' Baron Von Ketteler.
Members of the expiatory mission
£_.y: "l T ndor present conditions we
(an never go to Berlin. We would
rather die than accept them." It ap
pears that they object particularly to
Prince Chun's attendants prostrating
themselves before Emperor William,
in as much as this is a special honor
reserved for the emperor of China,
a I vi;;ld involve a recognition of the
K. iscr's equality.
The following information is given
regarding Prince Chun's speech to the
Kii'-'-r- Prince Chun intended to say,
"The Chinese government regrets that
Baron Von Ketteler was killed," but
the Berlin government dictated the
following form: "The Chinese govern
ment begs pardon for th? murder of
the German minister, Baron Von Ket
teler.'
Claiton Anxious To Tell of Brooklyn's
Work At Santiago.
New York, Aug. .it. —Gustaf E. Clae
son, who was at the helm of the bat
tleship Texas on the day of the battle
of Santiago, and for whom the judge
advocate of the navy has been search
ing, lives in Brooklyn.
In an interview last night, referring
to the movements of the vessels on
July 3. he said: "Commodore Schley
hoisted the signal "The enemy is es
caping.' All the ships directed their
course toward the enemy. The Texas.
lowa and Gloucester were the llrst to
get down to business." He also said
that he had been anxious for threo
years to tell all he knew about the
battle and the work of the Brooklyn,
and that he would be glad to have tho
I opportunity.
1.25 Per. Year
Number 17
nmm urn®
This Thp Police Estimate Of City
of Trenton Explosion.
EXPLOSION'S CAUSE UNKNOWN
Many Passengers Maintain That the
Boat Was Racing—Assistant Engi
neer Chew's Statement Bears This
Out—lnvestigators at Work.
Philadelphia. Sept. 2.—lt is now rea
sonably certain that at least 28 per
sons perished as a result of the ex
plosion of one of the boilers of the
steamer City of Trenton n the Dela
ware river above this cuy on Wednes
day afternoon. This conclusion is
reached by the police authorities
through the fact that four more bodies
wore recovered yesti rd y making a
total ot 25 in all Four r raons are
still missing, and six lie at the morgue
awaiting identification, but it is more
than probable that one of those re
ported missing is among thai number.
The city and federal im p. ct.jr.i a
rigidly pursuing their investigation,
but they cannot accomplish much until
the exploded boiler, which was llovvn
clean out of the vessel into the middle
of the river, lias bet a recovered. The
owners of the steamer have consented
to raise and place it at the disposal
of the authorities. The theory that
water was let into I lie boiler after it
had become dry and ;is a result ihe
crown sheet blew out is gaining ground
among experts. This the engineers
claim could happen only through neg
ligence of the engineer.
Many of the passengers, who escaped
injury, maintain that the City of Tren
ton, which was late when she left her
wharf in this city Wednesday, was
racing at her topmost speed, and that
if this harl not been the case the a< '< i
dent would not have happened. This
is partly borne out by a statement said
to have been made by Assistant Engi
neer John D. Chew. Chew told his
wife that he expected to be killed by
an explosion on the steamer ass the
company made the engineers keep t.p
too high a pressure of steam.
The City of Trenton makes da.iy
between Philadelphia and Tren
ton. stopping at Partington, N. J.;
Bristol. Pa., and other points on the
way. She left the company's wharf
at 1.45 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, 15
minutes behind her schedule lime. Her
passenger list was lighter than usual,
and she carried very little freight. The
vessel was in charge of Captain W. A.
Worrell.
Nothing of moment occurred until
the boat reached Torresdale. At a
point opposite what is known as the
Harrison mansion, a spacious buil.llng
fronting the Delaware river at this
suburban resort, the steam pipe con
necting with the port boiler burst with
a loud report. The forward portion of
the uppper deck was well filled with
passengers, while many others were in
the cabin. Before any of the pas
sengers or employes had an oppor
tunity of seeking places of safety an
other explosion occurred, and this time
the port boiler was rent in wain.
Scalding steam and water poured into
the cabin, and sections of the wood
work of the boat were torn away by
the force of the explosion. Those of
the passengers who were not seamed
and scarred by the scalding steam and
boiling water were struck by the liv
ing portions of the splintered cabin.
Legs and arms were broken and laces
and bodies were parboiled. The
screams of the inured could be ln unl
on shore, and the cries of those who
leaped and were blown into the river
were heartrending. So great was th .>
force of the explosion that a piano in
the upper drawing room of the boat
was hurled many feet away fr :m the
boat into the river. This p-oved a
fortunate circumstance for many of
the injured passengers. Thrown into
the water, scalded and othe wise n
jured, so that they were ron.leml
helpless, they clung to the piano,
which had fallen into shallow wae.,
until rescued.
Big Week in Texas Oil FielJ.
Beaumont, Tex., Sept. 2.--i trie.-;
the week just closed nine j.'.ir hen
were brought in. This is < eeiiiedlv
the biggest week in the history t.e
fields. During the month 1i) .spjutuiij
wells were completed.
Malvar's Capture Means Pf^cf.
Manila. Sept. 2. Everything poim t
to the early capture or sun n.lcr o
Miguel Malvar, the Insurgent ieader.
When either event occults eve-vthin ?
will be favorable to the establishment
of permanent peace.
M'&nagua, Nicaragua. Sept. 2. The
Nicaraguan congress yesterday ap
proved the Merry-Sancon commerci.,l
treaty with the United States and so
journed. It will probably reassemble
in the latter part of January next.
Italian Cruisers Attend the Czar.
Paris, Sept. 2. —The Eclair says it is
not unlikely that a couple of Italian
warships will goto Dunkirk during
the visit of the Czar.