Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 6. HOLIDAYS! HOLIDAYS! ChJistmas comes but once a year Let us greet it with good cheer. We are all ready to help you with a good stock of STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS suitable for Holiday Presents. Come as early as you can and make your selections and get first choice. Very rt^pectfully, ItETTENBUJU \ >' DUSHORK, PA. THB JKVELKR. > €oks hardware DUSHORE, PA. 112 | Preparation for Winter should include a call here. jfurnaces. Nothing like them for house warming. Is your spare room a winter terror ? Putin our new improved furnace and live in comfort. flMumbing. < Have it done now. This is the time for examining the plumbing. We'll make the best time and do the be»t work for you. fci ... Hardware. 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 Mork, Bicycle IRcpamng. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAM SPORT, PA. Black Silk Comforters Bl.<* J« Sob i, one ihe IM A" 1 ' 1 "" "X filkfi tor making lull gowns huvmg the comlorler we ba*e sonie eiy nneone in i.i « ,■ | ,| . ,» (.•.n.iairii lloral effect* nateon or silkoline some one .soft luster of a satin and the aiisantaire . , , . . , ~ 4?l . lll . rtJ i ar i, M ft of both sides finished alike so either side I' 1""' oilier hoth sides hg.ired at I.UU can be used. We have pood qualities at to 75c, Si.OO, $1.25 and $1 50. Taffetas Blankets If von are interested in hlack tnll'etas vou should seethe good ijiialities we have "fall descriptions white, grey, seariet; j,, 22 24 27 —36 inches wide at 50c. to either cotton, part wool or strictly all #1 50. We have some new fancv silks wool. We can sell yon blankets Iroin lot' waists or dresses at 500, 75c,and SI.OO 50c a pair up to s<».f>o lor the tinesl Cali fornia wool Idankets. \\ e keep a lull —I~ • • I ■ _ assortment ofthe CELKBKATKI> Ml N I aDle Linen <• Y BLANKETS in colored and white, 04 and 60 inch unbleached and 70 inch wide special bleached linen in good pat- ■ > . e found at homo on Mondays, charges reasonable. Estella, Sullivan Co., Pa. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. H. H. ouy, - - - 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 klwavson tap. Hate# Iteuxonabte. COMMERCIAL HOUSE. A.VID TEMPLE, Prop. LAPORI'K . A This large and we l l appointed house if the most popular hostelry in this section LAPORTE HOTEL. P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court IIOUHC square. Steam heat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and (HWI room,and barber shop; also good stabling and livery, J J. BRADLEY, ATTORN ST -AT- LAW, Office Building, Cor.Main and Muiicy Sts. LAPOKTE, FA FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DUSHOKE, I'ENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. SURPLUS - - #IO.OOO. Does'a General Banking Business. B.W. JKNNINGB, M. I). SWARTS. President. (ashler J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOR!I»TS-AT-LAW, Legal business attended to in this and adjoining counties _ A PORTE, p A £ J. MULLEN, Atto rn ey-at-La w . LAPORTK. PA. orrics is CODRTT BCILDIHO a BAR COURT HOOSS. J H. CRONIN, ROTARY PUBLIC. OPPICI OR MAIR BTRRBT. DUSHOKE. PA BANNER LVI ' the most healing salve In the world. L* 112 IT'S WORTH ••a 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 |gjTjoN) ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's I. Large Store. HiUagrove» Pa. | Foley*s Honey and Tar tor children,sate,sure. No opiates. STORM VASJSNERAtj Much Damage Done by Wind and Flood Yesterday. LOSB IN COAL REGIONS GREAT Rivera In Some Places Have Risen 1B Feet Above Their Level, and Inun- 1 dated Lowlands —Bridges Are Gone and Traffic Suspended. j Philadelphia, Dec. 16. —A storin, which for severity and destructiveness has not been equalled In this section for 25 years, visited eastern and ceu- | trai Pennsylvania on Saturday night, 1 causing almost unprecedented dam age. The havoc in the coal regions 1B enormous and the loss to railroads and mining companies will amount to mllillons of dollars. The Schuylkill. Lehigh, Susquehanna and Juniata riv ers have.riscn as high as 15 feet above their level, and all of their tributaries have overflowed, inundating the sur rounding country In more than a dozeu counties. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Dec. 16. —The heavy rains of Saturday night caused the Susquehanna river to rise rapidly. At 9 o'clock last night it was 29 feet above low water mark and still rising. All the lowlands on the west side at the river opposite Wilkesbarre are covered with water from two to five feet deep. The town of Westmore Is ■ entirely surrounded by water, and many of the Inhabitants are leaving tholr homes In boats, fearing that if the river should continue to rise dur ing the night the city dwellings may be Bwept away. All railroad traffic east and west is suspended. A big washout occurred on the Lehigh Valley railroad at Vos hurg tunnel, and the water is running over the tracks a depth of several feet. A bridge for crossing the creek, in close proximity to the Susquehanna river, in the northern part of this city, was greatly weakened by the flood and no attempt will be made to run trains over It until It Is putin condition. A washout occurred on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at White Haven, which completely crippled that road. In the rural districts the wind blew down small buildings and fences and uprooted trees. After the wind ceased early Saturday night the rain came down in torrents and continued until yesterday morning. Yesterday there was a sudden change In the weather, the temperature falling rapidly, and last night the residents of the Wyom ing valley were experiencing a touch of the western blizzard. Pottsvllle, Pa., Dec. 16. —The great est flood Schuylkill county has ex perienced in 25 years occurred on Saturday night, resulting from a con tinuous rain of several days, which caused the Schuylkill river to over flow Its banks. The total loss Is esti mated at over a million of dollars. Forty-eight collieries of the Philadel phia and Heading Coal and Iron com pany and other corporations are flood ed and will be Idle for at least a week. In the Bast colliery, at Ash land, 30 mules were drowned. A score of township anl railroad bridges were washed away, Including three In New castle township belonging to the Pennsylvania Railroad company. Sev eral destructive landslides occurred along the Pennsylvania railroad and the Philadelphia and Reading railway. Traffic north of Pottsvllle is at a standstill. At Schuylkill Haven the water reached the second stories of residences. Allentown. Pa., Dec. 16. —The most destructive flood In the Lehigh valley since 1862 started yesterday morning at 3 o'clock, following a two-days' drenching rain, which melted the snow In the mountains, causing the Lehigh river to become a raging torrent. The traction company's power houses were flooded with seven feet of water, which drowned theflres under the boil ers. The Adclaids silk mill sustained a loss of over $40,000 by the flood. Eight feet of muddy water is on the first floor, completely covering the warping and winding machines and ruining all the silk on the machines. No through trains are running north of Allentown, and communication by wire is completely cut off. Hazleton. Pa., Dec. 16. —Oreat havoc, was wrought In the Lehigh ragion by the storm. John Burns, a miner, of Oneida, near here, was washed from a bridge and drowned. Over lyO mine mules were drowned In the various collieries In this vicinity, and the ma jority of the mines are flooded. The damage in this section Is estimated at $200,000. Both tracks of the Lehigh Valley railroad between Weathnrly and Black creek, east of this city, were washed away, and the Pennsylvania railroad lines south of here were se verely damaged. Not a train arrived here yesterday. Bethlehem, Pa., Dec. 16.—1n six hours the Lehigh river overflowed the canal and the adjoining railroad tracks on both sides. Not since 1841 has the back water from the river wrought such serious damage. The canal banK bosses say the damage to the canal will reach $19,00.0, while 200 private | residences iu the flooded district suf fer to the extent of nearly $50,000. Both the electric and gas companies were without power, and the churches were compelled to suspend services last night. Harrlsburg, Pa., Dec. 16. —The Sus quehanna river has been rising at the rate of nine Inches an hour since yes ! tcrday morning, with indications that it will continue to rise a'l night. There were two feet of water In the engine | room of the Harrlsburg water works 1 last evening. The freshet was caused by the heavy rainfall In the Juniata valley and along the west branch of the Susquehanna river. ' Bedford, Pa., Deo. 16. —One of the heaviest wind and rain storms In Its history visited Bedford. The rain fell in torrents and a fierce gale shook the buildings. The Raystown creek over flowed the railroad tracks, flooded one or two houses In the western end of town and rushed through the power house of the Bedford Electric Light, Heat and Power company, doing con siderable damage. Lancaster, Pa., Dec. ?. —A rain and wind storm of great fuiy raged here during the early hours of yesterday morning. Many houses were unroofed, including Fulton's opera house, Hotel Lincoln, the Stevens House and St. Mary's Catholic Church. Throughout the county the storm was not so se vere, though at Columbia roofs were blown from a number of houses. Easton, Pa., Dec. 16. —The freshet In the Delaware and Lehigh rivers has done serious damage all through this section. Railroad traffic is suspended and the water has risen to Front street In this city. Telegraph and telephone communication is interrupted. Thou sands of dollars damage has already been done to the big industries at West Easton. Susquehanna, I'a.. Dec. 16. —Owing to the heavy rains and wind business yesterday was at a standstill in the Erie railroad. A mile of track no&r Owego, on ihe Susquehanna division, and several hundred feet at switch, on the Delaware division, are submerged. At Atlantic City. Atlantic City, N. J., Dec. IG.—The severe storm which set in yesterday morning did considerable damage along the coast. Two .arge vessels are ashore, and a row of boat houses near the inlet In this city v—r* top pled over, entailing a loss ot * >O. The schooner Mark Gray, bound from Boston to Georgia, in command of Captain Leech, and having a crew of seven men, was driven hard ashore 12 miles above Barnegat. The govern ment telegraph wires having been blown down it is not possible to get definite particulars. The English bark Sinrtia, with a crew of 33 men besides the officers, went ashore off Ocean City yesterday morning, and the crew stuck to her until daylight, when sig nals of distress were blown and an swered by the life saving crew. After considerable hard work the crew was landed. The vessel is lying on her side, with 14 feet of water in her hold, and fears are entertained that she may prove a loss. TRAIN WRECK CAUSED BY STORM Train Falls Throuch Bridge and Three Men Are Killed. Williamsport. Pa., Dec. !t> -A fr.ngiit train on the Philadelphia and Eiie division of the Pennsylvania railroad went throus'.i the bridge spanning in coming creek between this city and Newberry yesterday morning. Three lives were lost. The dead are: John Mart/,, engineer, of Snnbury, married; Frederick Glass, fireman, of Sunbury, married; George Harley, brakeman, of Sunbury, single. The train was known as fast freight No. 83. and was running three hours late owing to the disarrangement of the schedule growing cut of the storm. The bridge spanning the creek was a two span iron structure the first span of which gave way beneath the train. The engine and nine cars were engulfed In the Icy waters. The creek VIIH greatly swollen as a result of the heavy rains, and it is presumed that the middle pier had been weakened. No efTorts could be made to reach the bodies on account of the height of the water. Accidentally Killed Friend. New York, Dec. 16.--Michael Flynn was accidentally shot and killed yes terday by his friend, James Hayus, o! Jersey City, while they were snipe shooting on the meadows near that city. Hayes tripped and fell, his gun was discharged, and the load of shot struck Flynn in the breast. Hayes was arrested, pending official invest'ga tlon. Rural Delivery In Maryland. Klkton. Md„ Dec. 16. —The second rural free delivery route in this coun try will shortly be started, commenc ing at Port Deposit and covering about 18 miles. The starting of this route will result in the discontinuing of the post offices at Woodland and West Nottingham. i.25 P er - Y MIS Mil MPT® Jury Deliberated on Verdict For Nearly' Five Hours. ATTENDANCE IN COURT LIMITED Verdict Was Expected, as the Impres sion Prevailed That Prosecution Failed to Prove Its Case —She Is Set at Liberty. Washington. Dec. 14. —The Jury in the case of Mrs. Lola Ida Hemry Bo nine, charged with the murder of James Seymour Ayres. Jr.. In the Ken more Hotel, in this city, on the night of May 16th, was set at liberty. Such a conclusion of the trial was generally expected, the popular impr.-ssion hero being that from the evidence submit ter the prosecution had faiied to prove Its case against Mrs. Bonine. The Jury WBR out less than five hours, re tiring a few minutes after 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and reporting their verdict shortly before 0 o'clock In the evening. The attendance in the courtroom when the jury returned was limited to the members of the bar. representatives of the press and the employes of . the court There was aorae little attempt at a demonstration of approval, but this was quickly sup pressed by Ju'dge Anderson, who pre viously had warned the spectators agnlnst manifestation of any char acter. Mrs. Bonine was in court at the time, and with her were her hus band and her two boys and several of her relatives, all of whom have shown their sympathy for her by their con stant attendance during the long trial. The Jury was discharged, and Mrs. Bonine and her lriends left the court house by a back door. FILIPINO CONCENTRATION CAMP General C-! I:3 D:terr.'..'fied to Stamp Out the Insurgents. Manila. Dec. 16.—General J. Frank lin Bell has been exceedingly active in Batangas province, where he in tends by every means available to stamp out the insurgents. Lieutenant Hennessy, of the Eighth Infantry, to gether with one American scout and six Filipinos, captured an insurgent major, with 4" men, 22 rifles and 880 rounds of ammunition, without the loss of a man. A number of captured documents and papers, now m the hands of General Bell, Implicate In the Insurrfction the presidente and other prominent natives of Lion. Ba tangas province. General Bell hns notified the natives in Batongas that on December 28 he proposes to concentrate the - ' in the neighborhood of the towns. He wi-11 move their "vc stock, rice, etc., tc within the limits of concentration. After that date everything outside ol these limits will he confiscated. The roads from Batangas and l.agiina provinces are lined with a continuous stream of native men, women and children, in carryalls, carts and mount ed on carabos, seeking safety from the horrors of war. FORTY-SIX HOUSE6 BURNED Fire at Salem, W. Va., Does *1,200,000 Carnage. Pari erslitu : - , \V. V.v, D« c. 10. —A fire which started on Saturday night at Salem, 70 mU-:s east of here o:\ the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, dps.royed practically tl»e entire business part of that city. Fifty-elx 1 o ises, store? and' other buildings were destroyed. The loss is estimated at more than $1.200,0 >O, with little ineu ance. The city has a water supply, bu. the water was secured with difficulty, owing tc the extremely cold weather, and be fore it was turned onto the fire the flames had spread until they were be yond control. The file origina e I in a newspaper office, but the cause is unknown. Pennsylvania War Clnirr.s. Harrisburg. Pa., Dec. 14. —Governor Stone has returned to the war depart ment the warrant for |lf«2. ! ot» r> eeived by him in part peyaicu ol Spanish-American war claims of the state of Pennsylvania again»t the u »■ eral government. The reason tor the return is stated to be that the gov ernment refused to pay porti »r.s of the claims, and the state insis.s that every claim is Just. If the $106,000 Is ac cepted now it will be regarded as a tacit consent of the state tra. the turning down of some of the claims was warranted. Mrs. McKinley's Condition. Akron. 0., Dec. 14.—Inlorniat.cn re ceived by friends here of Mrs. McKin ley, the widow of the late president, shows that her condtion is much more serious than is admitted in he;' home city. Mrs. McKinley will tßik of noth ing but her grief, and even when guests are present sits for hours at a time wrapped in her sorrow and speaking to no one. It is'realized that if she Is not aroused she may not sur vive the winter. She i6 bordering on mental and physical collapse. Nomber'2