Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 6. P YOUR SAVINGS ARE WEL'/. INVESTED? \ WHEN YOU BUY RELIABLE JEWELERY. X rlt wears and gives pleasure for years and is £ V always worth the price paid for it. Our many N 112 years of business at the same stand with the same 112 t principles of keeping nothing but reliable jewelery/ is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. j 112 We intend that this store shall be first in yourC when that buying reliable jewelery ques- \ tion come up. Our prices have reached the bottom C \ scale, they can nowhere be made lower for the s S same grade of goods. \ Always Ready for Repairwork. S / Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our ? X hands. To get values come here after them, 112 Very respectfully, c } KETTEMBURY, i J DUSHORE, PA. THE jewelsr. g 0 | ff j. gj. -.r DUSHORE, PA. Preparation for Winter should include a call here. jfurnaccs. Nothing like them for house warming. Is your spare room a winter terror ? Putin our new improved furnace and live in comfort. flMumbirtG*, Have it done now. Thi6 is the time for examine the plumbing. We'll make the best time and do the beet work for you. ** 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. :ie lot of plain and mixed French Dress (ioods in brown, navy, greens, blue greys and fancies. 42 to 48 inches wide. These have been 75c to $1.25 all go now at 50c. FURS. A leading furrier has consigned to us to be closed out, a large line of medium and tine Marten and Fox Neck Scarfs and Moas, which we can offer you at manufacturer's prices. We mention one item —a Marten Scarf with a cluster ot 8 tails, for $8.50, worth at least one-half more than that. Fox Scarls 44, 60 and 80 inches long. Fur Jackets to close out al $ 12.50, worth S2O. COATS. Ladies' and Children's Cloth Coats Jackets, etc., will be closed out at a great sacrifice. The Shopbell Dry Good Co. TAILOR-MADE SUITS. A few Indies' Tailor Made Suits in good colors witli full flounced skirts and neat Jackets at one-third and one-halfot! the regular price. FLANNEL WAISTS. An assorted lot of Ladies' French Fhinnel Waists all new this season, in navy, old rose, reseda, cardinal, etc. Your choice at one half the market price. HOUSEHOLD LINEN. Six pi c,es Half Bleached Table Linen, our regular 25c <|iiality, lor 20. One lot Full Bleached All-Linen, good patterns, 50c quality, for this sale 40c. ()4 inch I'nhleached Table Linen.which we have considered a bargain at 50c, now 45c. 70 inch I'nhleached. extra hetjvv, very neat patterns, our COc quality for 50c. 70 inch Half Bleached Damask, was 75c now 07c. UNDERWEAR. Men's Full Fleeced Shirts and Draw ers —large sizes only—the shirts are double breasted, drawers re-en forced, were sold as u leader lor 50c, now 3flc to close out. Large men come anil see them. A lot of Men's, Ladies' and Childrens' Underwear in broken sizes, w ill be closed out at a great reduction, (>ur entire stock of Men's, Ladies'and Children's All-Wool Underwear 10 per cent off" the regular price. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE. PENNA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1902. First national bank OF DUBHORE, I'ENNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO. Does'a General Banking Business. B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. SWARTS. President. Cashier J. J. & F. H. INGHAM, attoi:hets-at-law, Legal business nttemloil to in this and adjoining oor.ntien _ A PORTE, p A £ J- MULLEN, Attorn ey-at- La w. LAI'ORTE. PA. OrPICR Ilf COUWTT BDILDIHB HKAnCOI'HT HOUSB. J. BRADLEY, ▲TTORNBY AT-I.AW, Office Building, Cor.Main and Muncy Sis. LAI'OKTR, P A H. CRONIN, ATTORN LAW, BOTAKY PUBLIC. orrii a on main sthbkt. DUSHORE, p A COMMERCIAL HOUSE?" A.VID TEMPLE, Prop. LAPORiIi - A This largo and appointed house i? the uioßt popular hostelry in thie section LA PORTE HOTEL. P. W, GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court House square. Steam lieat, bath rooms, hot and cold water, reading and pool room,and barber shop; also good stabling and livery, T J. KEELEIt. I • Ju.stice-of-the Peace. Office in room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given lo collections. All matters left to the care'ot this office will lie promptly attended to. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. R. H. GUV, - Proprietor. Xewlv '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 always on tap. ltates lledsonaltfe. LIME At the OLD OPP KILNS Located near Hughesville. This is the purest lime on the ridge. We will compete with any dealer on car load lots delivered on the W. &N. B. R. R. with our own cars, giving purchaser ample time to unload. All correspondency will receive prompt attention. Address, A. T. ARMSTRONG, SONESTOWN, PA. fpj? ? ? ? • • 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. Price Reduction on Closing out Goods now on ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. Hlllagrove» Pa. 60 KILLED BY EXPLOSION | Working People in Spanish Spin ning Mill Buried in Ruins. ONE HUNDRED WERE INJURED Explosion Took Place In the Even ing, When the People Were Eating Supper In the Mill—lnjured Were Carried Five Miles to a Hospital. Barcelona, Jan. 20. —The explosion of the boiler of a spinning mill near Manresa, Saturday, destroyed half of (he village of Puente de Vilumara. The hospital at Manresa is filled with the injured. Sixteen mutilated bodies of working people buried in the debris have been recovered. These include the manager of the spinning mill and his two sisters. Of the persons in jured fifty are not expected to re cover. Tbe dead include many chil dren. The queen regent has wired her condolences. The boiler exploded in the evening, when the mill hands, many of whom were accompanied by their wives and children, were eating supper before commencing their night's work. The buildings of the mill collapsed entire ly and the debris was hurled In all directions, destroying other buildings and killing aud injuring the people in the vicinity. Owing to the darkness the work of extricating the victims proceeded with great difficulty. During the work of rescue there were heard the groans of the victims whose mu tilated limbs were pinned down by the ruins. A long line of carts and carriages was engaged In conveying the injured to the Manresa hospital, five miles dis tant. Sunday morning the inhabitants went among the ruins, seeking the re mains of friends and relatives, while the priests in the open air adminis tered the last rites of the church to the dying. It is now estimated that 60 persons were killed and 100 Injured. The search at the scene of the explosion was continued during the day by members of the Red Cross So ciety and officials. Heads, arms and legs, separated from the bodies, and unrecognizable, blackened corpses were found. The village of Puente de Vilumara Is desolated. FEMALE INSURGENT CAPTURED For Six Years Bhe Commanded Eight Hundred Filipino Troops. Manila. Jan. 20. —A report has been received here that a dug-out canoe, in which 11 men of Company I, of the Second Infantry, were traveling, is missing and is probably lost. It Is be lieved that the men either perished or were captured. General Wade has cabled from Cebtt that 3G5 Insurgents surrendered on the island of Bnhol last Friday. The au thorities here say that this statement is astonishing if accurate, as the se cret service had failed to learn of the existence of any such body of in surgents on Bohol. An important capture was made in l.aguna province, Luzon, when eight men of the Eighth Infantry captured a woman insurgent named Aqueda Kahabagan. She recently commanded an Insurgent force of 800 men, 300 of whom carried rifles, while 500 were armed with bolos. For six years past she has been leading insurgent bauds against the Spaniards and the Ameri cans. General J. Franklin Bell is still active in Batangas province, Luzon. A recent engagement in this province. In which the insurgents were defeat ed with severe loss, resulted in the wounding of one American officer and the killing of one private. Brakeman Burned to a Crisp. Johnstown, Pa., Jan. 20. —One brake man was killed and his body burned to a crisp and another slightly in jured in a freight run-in yesterday morning on the Pennsylvania railroad at Portage, this county. The dead man is John McFarland, of Mahaffey, Clearfield county, and the injured brakeman is Harry McClain, of Cone mau»fc.- McFarland's body was found In the wreckage of the cabin of his train, burned to an unrecognizable mass. It is supposed the dead man's lantern set fire to the debris. Admiral Schley Shot a Deer. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 20—Admiral Schley's hunting party returned yes terday afternoon from St. Catherine's Island. The party secured a large bag of game. Admiral Schley is credited with having brought down one deer. It was his first deer, and a member of the party said the admi ral was more excited when he pulled the trigger than when off Santiago. The weather during the hunt was su perb. Admiral and Mrs. Schley left this city for Washington this after noon. Baltimore, Jan. 18.—James Richard Bon, colored, aged 52 years, was found frozen to death yesterday in the base inent of his home in Waters court. There were no traces of food or Are having been there recently. LINEMAN'S AWFUL DEATH Hit Burning Body Hung From Splk* On the Pole. Philadelphia, Jan. 20. —With smoke and flames issuing from his body, Oeorge Clarke, a Bell Telephone line man, hung suspended Saturday after noon, from an iron spike near the top of a tall pole, while a crowd stood on the pavement watching his death agony. An electric current of 3,500 volts had passed through the doomed man. Clarke was making a telephone con nection at the top of the pole at Wil ton avenue and Jefferson street, West Philadelphia, when his elbow came in contact with the heavily charged wire. The explosion-like sound was heard several squares away, but death was not instantaneous. Clarke's body writhed in agony for a moment, and then he fell from the top of the pole to a point about 12 feet below, where his belt caught in one of the iron spikes of the pole, and there he hung suspended, with smoke and flames issuing from his body. Thomas Attwood, another lineman, and J. P. Fern wood, a helper, got the body down with ropes, and when it reached the pavement there were still some signs of life. A woman who was passing said she was a physician, and was asked to take the case in hand. "He is just dead," she said, as she concluded her examination. The body was removed to the morgue. "1 was standing outside my door, two blocks from the telephone pole, when the accident occurred," sasid Mr. Wilson. "I heard a report which I thought was an explosion. I saw the man hanging on the pole and helped to get him down. I can't ac count for the sound of the explosion. It was a most peculiar sound and sent a chill through me." Thomas L. Uoettlgler, a grocer, said: "The explo sion, or whatever it was, startled everyone in the neighborhood. My mother-in-law, who was In my house, fainted with the fright." PRINCE HENRY PLEASED Says There Is a Sailor's Friendship Between Admiral Evans and He. Berlin, Jan. 20.—Prince Henry of Prussia, in talking over his plans of travel with United States Ambassador White at the dinner given on Satur day night by Baron Von Richte hofen, the German minister of foreign affairs, said he was especially pleased with President Roosevelt's selection of Rear Admiral Robley L>. Evans to receive him in the United States, as there was an old sailors' friendship between them. Prince Henry, who is considerably taller than Emperor William, will be surrounded on Ills trip to the United States by very large and tall men. Admiral Von Tirpitz, the German secretary of the navy, who will ac company the prince, gives the impres sion of being more than six feet tall, while General Von Plessen. a mc-mber of the emperor's military household, is equally tall. Vice Admiral Von Seckendorff, who will also be of the I party, is six feet two inches tall and very large of form. NEWS FROM MISS STONE Reliable Reports Say Brigands' Cap- Are Well. Constantinople, Jan. 20. —Reliable news has been received here that Miss Ellen M. Stone, the captive American missionary; Madame Tail ka, her companion, and the latter's baby are well. Negotiations, which it is expected will result in the early aud sale return of the captives, are in progress. John G. A. Leishman. the American minister here, is now directing the negotiations. He de clines to say anything for publlcr.ilon, but admits there is ground for the above report. Korea's King Will Pay Prince'* Debta. Washington. Jan. 20. —Prince Eui wha. the second son of the king of Korea, against whom a suit has been filed by Wolf Brothers & Co., of New Yorl and Philadelphia, to recover 130,000 claimed to be due on a prom issory note, through an Interpreter said no defense would be put in. He said 'he money had been borrowed and spent. The interpreter said the king had been Informed of the mat ter and no doubt, would send the money to pay the debt. Old Soldier Frozen to Death. Path, .\*. Y., Jan. 20. —The lifeless body of Dennis Donovan, aged 74 years, an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, was found yesterday under an j old store house a short distance from I the Erie depot. He had apparently j been dead for several days, and the \ body was frozen stiff. He went to Rochester on January 8 for examina tion by the pension board, and was probably returning to his home when he crawled uuder the shed and was frozen to death. . -.ttsDurg, Jan. 20.—The Pittsburg committee of the McKlnley Memorial Association has raised $30,000 for the fund, and Vice President William Mc- j Conway thinks this amount will be doubled before Jan. 29. the last day , contributions will b« received. The | largest check received from any one neraun waa 13 OOt 1.25 P er - Year i'M(niv.WKii.mo Terrible Fatality Attended Shock in Mexican Town. MANY HOUSES ARE IN RUINS Stone Roof of Parish Church at Chlt pancingo Fell In, Killing Several. People Are Camping Under Tree# Around the Town. Mexico City, Jan. 18. —One of the most terrible catastrophes ever re corded in the state of Guerrero in re ported to have occurred late Thursday afternoon, when an extremely violent earthquake shock was felt at Chilpan eingo, causing a groat loss of life and injuring many persons. Details from the stricken district are very meagre, but reports received here indicate that probaoly 300 persons were killed and as many more injured. It is known that the state capitol, the par ish church and many business houses and residences are in ruins, and there is much suffering as a result of the awful seismic disturbance. One of the edifices that suffered most was tne Federal Telegraph office, which explains the scarcity of news that, has reached this city. The number of deaths was greater in the parish church than in any single place, as a crowd of worshippers were gathered there for the afternoon service. The solid masonry-walled roof came toppling down on the wor shippers. as if it had been wrenched from its bearings by a thousand strong hands. Several people were killed there. The war department has ordered the troops in the neighborhood to co operate in the work of rescue. Until this work is completed it will be im possible to learn accurately the num ber of victims. It is believed, how ever. that this i3 one of the most de structive shocks that has occurred in Mexico. The greater part of the peo ple of Chilpancingo are now camping out under trees around the town, which is five days' journey from the national capital. Earthquake shocks were felt in i many other cities and towns, ,'n Mex ico City the earthquake took place at 3.15 Thursday afternoon and was of such violence as to shake the most substantial buildings. The Pan- American conference was in session at the time and many of the delegates were greatly alarmed. The first movement was very sharp. It was followed by an easier movement, north-northeast to southwest. The duration was 55 seconds. The dam age in the city war, only slight. The state of Guerrero has always been the focus of earthquakes. Re ports received here state that the shock was very severe at Chilapa. No casualties are so far r' ported from there. FATAL CRASH ON B. AND O. Two Dead and Two Injured In Head- End Collision. Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 20.—Two freight trains met in a head-en.l colli sion on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, six miles north of here, yes terday, killing the engineer and fire man of one train and injuring the brakemen on each train. Ten cars were piled up, and both engines were almost demolished. The dead are: Engineer William Sorrel, of Parkers burg: Fireman Oscar Shiiik, of Vin ton, O. The injured are: J. \V. Woods, brakeman, of Newark, W. Va., and S. V. Shelburne, brakeman. of Rad ford, Va. Sorrel had orders to pass at Vienna Siding, but he was relieving his fire man. who was new and exhausted, and passed the siding without knowing it. Gold Discovered In Indiana. Columbus, Ind., Jan. 20. —Evidence of gold, silver and coal was discovered recently at Waymansville. and sam ples were sent to Professor J. F. Stan ton, principal of the miners assay office at Denver, Colo. A c. rti3ca.e from him .shows an assay of 2.f>o ounces of gold and GOof silver, whit li will yield $54.10 to the ton. On the strength of this assay a company has been organized to develop t, e dis covery. President Commuted Sentence. Washington, Jan. 18.—The president commuted the sentence of William N. Boggs, formerly teller of the First Na tional Bank of Dover. Del. In 189S Boggs was sentenced to prison for * term of five years for embezzlement, but was kept in jail one year Itefore sentence was pronounced. The presi dent commutes Boggs' sentence to ex pire April 25, of this year, thus giving him the benefit of the time spent in jail. Received Poisoned Candy By Mail. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Jan. 20. —Fred 3. H. Grant, of this city, received a box of candy by mail. The odor excited his suspicion. He took the candy to a physician, who said it had been sat urated with belladonna and digitalis. Grant has had some domestic troubles, but he has no idea who sent him the poisoned candy. Mer3li