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Volume 6.
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DUSHORE, PA.
Preparation for Winter should
include a call here.
jfurnacee.
Nothing like them for house warming. Is your spare
room a winter terror ? Putin our new improved furnace
and live in comfort.
flblumbing*
Have it done now. This is the time for examine
the plumbing. We'll make the best time and do the best
work for you. _
Mavbware.
Special low prices prevail here. No danger of infer
iority. Our hardware line is as good as can be made.
Steam Fittings, Stoves and Ranges, Farm Tools, Etc.
General Job Morh, Bicycle "[Repairing.
SPECIAL OPENING OF
NEW FALL GOODS.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
313 Pine Street,
WILLIAM SPORT, PA.
Dress Goods. September Sale of Blankets.
Advance showing of the very latest ami Chilly nights suggest that the blanket
most fashionable fabrics for tall and win- season is near. We buy ami sell only the
ter wear will be Venetian-', broadcloths, best blankets. Including the t'elebrated
meltons unfinished worsted crape cloths, Muncy Blankets. v All wool blankets at
prunellas and silks. 2.25 to 9.00; part wool and cotton tit 50c
For Waists and Dresses. t0 *-- ()0
This department is larger than ever Hosiery,
before, in connection with the bent ntock
and most exquisite colorings of Fancy That we sell is satisfactory to the pur-
Silks we have ever had we are showing <>)iaser. Special lot of ladies lace ribbed
new lines ot Plain Peau de Soie, Peau de ]j s | e | !1H ( black hose at 25c. Buy the
Seine, Tatl'etas, wash Tatletas, Satin H| a(; k Cat stockings lor boys and girls the
Duchess, Satin Liberties, etc. best and strongest ever made tor the price,
At the Linen Counter. - 3 ( ' enls -
This is Williamsport's greatest Linen
Store; the best assortment, the choicest Underwear,
designs, the greatest values in bleached '
Table Da.nask, Unbleached Table Linen, For men, women and children. We
Napkins, Lunch Clothes and Tray Covers, have prepared for those who want under-
Damask Towels, Bath Towels, etc. wear that is well made and the right
price. Special lot of men s medium
Kid Gloves. weight for fall wear at 50c. Ladies'tleece
We have just received a large import lined at 25c to 50c. Children's under
orderofkid gloves in all the new fall wear at 12£ c to 25c.
shades that we tit to the hand and guaran
tee.
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.
Republican News Item.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY."
LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 10. 1991.
T J. KEELER.
1 • 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 be promptly'attende 1 to.
CARROLL HOUSE,
D. KEBFB, Proprietor.
DUSHORE, PA.
ons of the lurgeat and bast equipped
hotel.- in this section of the stale.
Talde or the boat. lUtea t.#» dollar per day.
Large atnblea.
ULYSSES BIRD
Land Surveyor Engineer and Conveyancer.
Relocating old line#and coiners, and draw
ing iim]w asiiocialfy.
Will usually be found at home on Mondays.
Charges reasonable.
Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa.
HOTEL GUY.
MILDRED, PA.
R. 11. GUY, - - " Proprietor.
Newly furnished throughout, special
attention given to the wants ot the travel
ing public. Bar stocked with first class
wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer
on the market always on tap.
Jiatex Reasonable.
COMMERCIAL HOUSE."
DAVID TEMPLE, Prop.
LAPORTE PA.
This largo and well sppointed house if
the in..st popular hostelry in tliia section
LAPORTE HOTEL.
P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newly erected. Opposite Court
I louse square. Steam heat, bath rooms,
hot and cold water, reading and pool
room,and barber shop; also good stabling
and livery,
J J. BRADLEY,
ATTORNEY AT-I.AW,
l )ihce Building, Cor.Main and Muncy Sts.
LAPOKTK, f' A
FIRST NATIONAL HANK
OK DI'SIIOKE, PICNNA.
CAPITAL - - $50,000.
SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO.
Does'a General Banking Business.
B.W..JENNINGS, M. 1). SVVARTB.
President. Cashiei
J. & F. H. INGHAM,
ATTOUMBYS-AT-LA W,
Lfgal business atton«le»l to
in ihitf »ntl adjoining countiofl
.APOHTE, p A
£ J. MULLEN,
Attorney-at-Law.
LAPORTK, PA.
omci LA coosTr BUILDISO
NEAR COURT HOUSE.
J H. CRONIN,
ATTORNKY FC AT -LAW,
ROTARY PUBLIC.
orrica on MAIM STREET.
UIJSIIORE, PA
BANNER SALVE
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Foley*s Honey and Tar
cures nolds, prevents pneumonia.
ABDUCTEDINBROAD DAY
Philadelphia Woman Says Report
ers Held Her Prisoner.
ROBBED OF JEWELS AND MONEY
At Pistol'* Point Was Compelled to
Sign Checks—Kidnapping Occurred
In Falrmount Park—One of ths Men
Arrested Makes Confession.
Philadelphia, Oct. 7.—Charged with
kidnapping a woman and holding her
a prisoner for four days, robbing her
of Jewels worth more than $2,000. and
compelling her to sign bank checks
for large sums of money, is the story
which the police unfolded here yester
day,when they announced the arrest of
two newspaper men, a stenographer
in another newspaper office and a bar
ber, all of whom are charged with
complicity in the crime.
The nem now locked up at the cen
tral police station are Howard K
Sloan, an unemployed reporter; Henry
Wallace, society editor of one of the
morning newspapers; J. Knight Find
lay, of Wayne, near here, stenogra
pher in the business office of another
morning paper, and Oscar S Duniap.
a barber employed in one of the most
prominent shops in the city.
The victim is Mrs. Mabel Goodrich,
the proprietress of an establishment
on North Tenth street. The four men
were arrested on Saturday night and
will be given a hearing today.
Last Monday Mis Goodrich went to
police headquarters and told a story
of kidnapping and robbery so daring
that the police at first doubted its
truth. She said that for gome time
past a young man. who represented
himself as a resident of Oermantown
had been a frequent visitor at her es
tablishment He was well dressed
and spent money freely. Last Wed
nesday a week, she said, he proposed
a drive through Fairmoutit Park. He
asked her to dress in her best clothes
and for her to wear all her diamonds
and other jewelry, because n the re
turn front the drive he Intended te
take her to the finest dining room in
the city, and he wanted her to "shine"
with the other women in the place.
She accepted, and the next day she
went out with him in a carriage, with
a fine pair of richly caparisoned
horses, and with a coachman on the
box wearing stylish livery. At a lone
ly place in Kairinount Park the car
rlage was stopped by a man whom she
said represented himself as D. Clar
ence Gibboney, the secretary and at
torney of the Law and Order Society
of this city. This man, she went on
to say. told her that he had a warrant
for her arrest on the charge of keep
ing a disorderly house, but that tho
matter could be fixed up. He was in
vited Into the carriage, and the next
moment she was gagged and blind
folded. She was driven somewhere
she did not know, but she noticed
from one corner of the handkerchief
over her eyes that the men paid toll
at two toll gates, and that they took
her into a building where a fire en
gine and a hook and ladder truck were
standing.
She was kept a prisoner from Thurs
day night until Friday night, without
anything to eat or drink, and was
then taken on another long drive,
blindfolded, to a house, where she was
kept from Friday until Monday. In
the latter place the men, who were
masked, stripped her of th«* jewelry,
and at the point of a revolver com
pelled her to sign bank checks for
various sums of money she had de
posited in the Third National Bank.
They made her sign for more than she
possessed, but compelled her to prom
ise she would make up the deficiency
when they released her. The men.
'she said, then took her on another
long drive, and put her out at Tenth
and Poplar streets, about a mile Trom
her house.
With other information the woman
gave them, the detectives began to
work on what they believed to be a
fairy tale. They got several clues,
which led them to a fire house in
North Wayne. 15 miles from this city.
The flre company is a volunteer or
ganization. and the key to the place
was kept in the nearest dwelling. The
nearest houße was occupied by a fam
ily named Findlay, and there the po
lice learned that one of the aons, J
Knight Findlay. had been home but
little during the past two weeks. Get
ting a description of him. the police
returned to the city, and found the
young man, who is only 21 years old.
in the office where he is employed He
was charged with the crime, and broke
down and Implicated three others
Findlay said that he had imper
sonated the coachman; that Sloan, the
unemployed reporter, acted the part
of Attorney Gibboney; that the barber
played the part of the riih German
town resident, and that Wallace, the
society editor, had rented a house in
Oermantown, where Mrs flood; ich
was to have been held a captive. He
told substantially the same story as
that narrated by the woman.
He said they kept her confined in
the fire house, ana then IOOK nor to
the house, where Sloan was arrested
yesterday, at 2556 North Twelfth St.
All the jewelry was recovered, most
of It having been found in the pos
session of Findlav and Sloan who
were wearing some of the rings. Only
one check, for $155. was cashed, and
: most of this money was also recover
! ed. Sloan was to have begun work on
| the same newspaper on which Findlay
' was employed today. Wallace has
been society editor of the paper on
which he was employed for only
i two weeks.
! The penalty for kidnapping In this
state. under act of assembly, as
amended at the last session of the
legislature, is life imprisonment.
PAGEANT HAD 60 BANDS
Thousands of Firemen March to Music
In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Oct. 4. —Marching to
the tuneful music of 60 bands and
drum corps the State Association of
Firemen paraded yesterday afternoon.
When it was all over the spectators
said it was the best they ever saw and
the experts said it was the best ever
held in Philadelphia or In the state
of Pennsylvania. More than 5,000 men
were in line, representing over one
hundred companies.
The Good Will Fire Company No. 3,
of Allentown, received SSO for the fin
est uniformed company in line.
The first prize for the best looking
hose carriage or wagon in line was
given to Vigilant Steam Fire Com
pany, of York. The prize amounted to
$".5 Second money—sls—was award
, ed to the Washington Fire Company,
, Peekskill, N. Y.
Moyamensing Hook and Ladder
| Company, of Cheater, was awarded the
first prize of $35 for the best equip
ment, and the Rescue Hook and Lad
der Company, of Shenandoah, the sec
ond prize of sls.
1 The committee had much difficulty
in awarding the prize of SSO for the
best band in line in point of numbers,
uniform and excellence of the music
The Allentown band was finally uward
i ed the prize.
STUDENT BRUTALLY HAZED
Disrobed of Clothing and Made to
Run the Gauntlet.
, Beloit, Wis., Oct. 7—George F
! Stockwell, a student in the p.epara
[i tury department of Beloit College, was
, enticed from his room at the house
or President Eaton at an early hour
. | yesterday by members of the middle
, preparatory class He was overpow
ered, divested of every article of his
. I clothing and compelled to walk ahead
, | of a score of holwing students, aided
J by the application of switches in the
1 hands of his tormentors His cloth
fng was fastened to 'he top of a fiae
pole, and after he had been sufficient
I ly "disciplined" he was allowed togo
home to plan revenge
Big Fire In Allegheny.
Pittsburg, Oct 7 —Fire yesterday in
, | the Pittsburg Clay Potter works in
I Allegheny damaged the plant to an ex
. | tent of $270,000. injured six men and
. ; enforced an idleness of several months
,1 upon a force of 165 workmen The in
| jured were firemen. None will die.
ANDREWS' OCEAN TRIP
'| Veteran Navigator Sails For Europt
. In Fourteen-foot Boat.
Atlantic City, . I. Oit. 7.—Captain
' I William Andrews, the veterun mari
i nf r left here late yesterday altert.oon
for Europe in his 14-foot boat, the
bark Secret. Accompanying on the
dating trip is his young bride, whom
he wedded a few weeks ago. The
captain is 60 years old, and this Is
said to be his seventh trip a< rosa the
ocean in small boats. He expects to
1 reach the English channel in about 12
■ weeks in the boat were provisions
r for four months
, Honolulu Mourned For McKinley.
Honolulu. Sept. 30. —Ever since the
, news of the death of President Me
, l.inley was received on September 24.
t Honolulu has worn an appsarance of
mourning, and meeting has followed
i meeting in honor of the murdered
. President. The city never before has
shown such unanimity in closing and
> suspending business as it did last Sat
; urday, the day set apart as a day
• of mourning and prayer
O'Grady Can Wear the Purple.
t Trenton, Oct. 7. —Bishop MeFaul has
received advices from Rome of the ap
■J pointment of Dean John A O'Grady.
; of Now Brunswick, of the domestic
pre'nte of the Purple Household. This
j distinction Is an honorary one and car
. riea with it the right to wear the
Purple Dean O'Grady is one of the
leading priests of the Trenton diocese.
?! Washington. Oct. 7.—Post Office In
t spector John P Clum has established
r I the northernmost post office in the
- j world This is at Poin' Barrow,
; where Rev. Dr. H. Richmond Marsh.
I j the missionary of the little settlement.
i was appointed postmaster This place,
3 where the northernmosi newspaper in
s the world is published once a year,
i will receive the mails orne a year by
i| a United States revenue cutter.
1.25 P er - Year
Number 2
RI«» IT HOI
In Third Race the American Boat
Is Again a Winner.
CLOSEST CONTEST OF SERIES
Invincible Defender Is Beater Over
the Finish Line By a Small Margin,
But Becomes the Victor On the
Time Allowance.
New York. Oct. s.—With victory
flags flowing from her towering mast
heads and the ends of her spreaders
In honor of her concluding triumph in
the cup races of 1901, the gallant sloop
Columbia returned to her anchorage
under the escort of the entire excur
sion fleet. She. yesterday, completed
her defense of the honored trophy in
another stirring race with the Sham
rock II over a leeward and windward
race of 30 miles, crossing the finish
line two seconds behind her antago
nist but winning on the time allow
ance by 47 seconds.
For the second time she has now suc
cessfully foiled the attempt of the Irish
knight to wrest from our possession
the cup that means the yachting su
premacy of the world And plucky Sir
Thomas Lipton. standing on the bridge
of the Erin led his guests in three
hearty huzzahs for the successful de
lender. "She is the better boat," he
said, "and she deserves to be cheered "
At one time yesterday Columbia
seemed a mile ahead, when the wind
suddenly allowed Shamrock to point
nearer the mark and a mile from home
the challenger nppeared to be leading
by fully half a mile. The talent began
to feel nervous, but as the yachts ap
proached the finish the Yankee skipper
by some miraculous legerdem: in shov
ed his boat into the light air like a
phantom ship and crossed the line
practically at the same time as the
Shamrock.
Many of Sir Thomas' guests on board
the Erin crowded around to express
their sympathy at his defeat and in
sured him of the high place be had
won in the hearts of all Americans.
"When a man wins a heart he has won
more than a cup," said one of them.
There were tears in the Irish baronet's
eyes when he thanked them for their
kind words. Said he:
"The words you have spoken touch
me far more than my defeat. I tried
to win the cup and I have done my
best But better than all that I have
the good wishes of this country."
RANSOMING MISS STONE
Boston Has Already Raised a Third of
the Necessary Amount.
Boston, Oct. 7.—Just how much
money has been given to fho fund for
the ransom of Miss Ellen M. Stone,
the American board missionary, held
captive by brigands is not known ihis
morning. Those directing the effort,
in her behalf hope that the respone
throughout the country will be very
liberal and that the figure is fully
SIOO,OOO. if not the necessary amount
which is $1(1,000 more.
At the Shawmut Congregational
church, Rev. W. T. McElween said that,
while he did not wish to discourage
the present movement for Miss Stone's
release, yet the whole thing appeared
to him to establish a bad precedent.
He thought there must be some efficacy
in a first class battleship with decks
cleared for action. In his opinion the
brigands were playing a game of bluff
and had no idea of assassinating their
prisoner.
The urgency of the case kept the
American Board in session for two
hours yesterday. Later the committee
issued a statement based upon the
views of President Samuel B. Capen
of the board and the secretary, Rev
Dr. Judson Smith, as the result of thiftyf
visit to Washington.
President Capen says thai the gov
ernment at Washington, both
President and the state department
have done, are doing, and will (-onlinci*
to do all that is in ther power to
procure the release of Miss Stone ;
CONNELL WAS WARNED
Company C's Captain Knew o( w insur
gents' Possible Attack.
Manila, Oct. 7.—Major Morris ('
Foote, of the Ninth United States In
fantry, who has returned here f:om
the island of Samar, was in Raiangiga
the day before the disaster to C"'ii
pany C. He says that Captain Con
nell had been fully warned Informa
tion that a plot was brewing among
the Filipinos came to Major Foote
from a priest, who said that it was
In the plans ot the populace at bo'li
Balanglga and Basey to attack the
garrisons, and that the Raspy garri
son was to be attacked from a cock
pit in the rear of the barracks. Or
ders were immediately given to de
molish the cockpit, and extra guards
were stationed.