Republican News Item. Published Every Thursday. Volume 6.. ) Worth the Price! / / YOUR SAVINGS ARE WELL \ WHEN YOU BUY F EL! ABLF/i JEWELERY. \ rlt wears and gives pleasure for years and is.£ \ always worth the price paid for it. Our marry V / years of business at the same stand with the same 112 t principles of keeping noth : ng but reliable jewelery / Q is a testimonial of what our goods stand for. } S We intend that this store shall be first in'your C thoughts when that buying reliable jewelery ques- \ tion come up. Our prices have reached thejbottom C \ scale, they can nowhere be made lower •■for the J 5 same grade of goods. \ ? Always Ready for Rcpairwork.', j / Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our j \ hands. To get values come here after; them. ( Very respectfully, r } RETTEhBURY, ' ] PA. THE jeweler. <£ Dl-JSHORE, PA. ' * Preparation for Winter should include a call here. Nothing like them for house warming. Is your spare room a winter terror ? Putin our new improved furnace and live in-comfort. flMumbmg. * ' 1 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. -* Marfcware. 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 Work, Bicycle IRepatring. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. MID-WINTER CLEARANCE SALE. This means a saving on a good many articles that you have either a present or future need for. SILKS. TAILOR-MADE SUITS. One lot of Fancy Silk for Waists, in A lew Lulies' Tailor Made Suits in stripes and corded etlect, all good colors, good colors witli full llotinced skirts md for 50c, the regular price has been 75c to neat .jackets at one-third and one-hall'ofl 87c. the regular price. One lot Fancy Waist Silk, large part FLANNEL WAISTS oI them this season's styles, worth 90c to assorted lot of Ladies' French $1.25, sale price 75c. these are only a Fljnuiel Waists all new this season, in few ol the silks reduced. navy, old rose, reseda, cardinal, etc. DRESS GOODS. Your choice at one hall the market price. S u!u,&, M ™' s . HOUSEHOLD LINEN . ' 9 4r ' i i * s >* l>i'Ces Mail nleacneu lank* Linen. 2 pieces 45-incn all wool (irey oerge 1 . nr .. t , OA 7 and 2 pieces 50-inch Suiting, have ben bl'eaclml AH-Linen, good IOC now .c. P . patterns. 50c iiualitv, for this sale 40c. One lot of plain and mixed rrencli 1 .. . , , . . , . , i. j • * i i„„ (»4-inch I lib eached lalile I.men,which Dress Goods in brown, navy, greens, blue . . . . , ■ ' fn /' . , we have considered a bargain at 50c, greys and fancies. 42 to 48 inches wide. |)OW Hiese have been 75c to $1.25 all go now 70 incii Unbleached, extra heavy, very at 50c. neat patterns, our 00c quality for 50c. FURS. 70-inch Half Bleached Damask, was A leading furrier has consigned to us 75c now 07c. to be closed out, a large line of medium T tMTMnT)TimAD and fine Marten and Fox Neck Scarfs UNDfijivWJliAxv. and Boas, which we can oiler you at p ul) K| e ece<l Shirts and Draw manufacturer's prices. We mention one er() __| ar( , e „j zeß only—the shirts are item—a Marten Scarl with a cluster of double breasted, drawers re-enforced,were 8 tails, for $8.50, worth at least one-half Holll ilfl lt ) ett< | er f or 50c, now 39c to close more than that, rox Scarfs 44, 60 ami out. Lar*rt» men come ami see them. 80 inches long, rur .Jackets to close out ~ 4 .. r . . ~ , nj ... fln . at $12.50, worth S2O. 1T A . lo < ol Me ", J' a,,le . 8 nn,l ,^ ll, r ™ ' Underwear in broken sizes, will be closed COATS. out at a great reduction, Ladies' and Children's Cloth Coals, entire stock of Men's, Ladies' and Jackets, etc., will be closed out at a Children s All-Wool 1 nderwear per great sacrifice. cent ott l,le regular price. The Shopbell Dry Good Co. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY." LAPORTE. PENNA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 11)02. First national bank OF DUSIIORE, I'ENNA. CAPITAL - - $60,000. SUHPIiUB - - SIO.OOO. Poes'a'General Banking Business. B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. SWAKTS. President. Cashier J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOIIKEYB-AT-LAW, Legal business iitteniieii to in tiiis ami adjoining counties _A POKTE, p A £ J. MULLEN, Attorn e y-a t-La w. LAPORTE, PA. OFFICE IJ» TOITFTY BUILDING NKAKOOUBT BOUBE. £ J. BRADLEY, ATTOHNBY AT-LAW, Oflice Building, Cor.Main and Muncy Sts. LAPOKTE, PA J H. CRONIN, ATTORKKT-AT LAW, NOTAIIY PUBLIC. orrica oh main htkikt. DUSIIORE, PA COMMERCIAL HOUSE A.VID TEMPLE, Prop. LAPORI'K - A. This largo and we l l appointed hou.-e is the must popular hostelry in this section LAPORTE HOTEL. F. W. GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court Ilotise square. Steam heat, hath rooms, hot and colli water, reading and pool room,and barber nlioj>; also good stabling and livery, J J. KEE LEU. • ■ Justiee-of-the Peace. Office in room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care ol this office will be promptly attended to. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. R. 11. 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 alwavson tap. Hates Reasonable. 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. j»n? ? ? ? » * 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 Igr^moNj ?????? ? ? ? STEP IN AND ASK ABOUT THEM. All answered at Vernon Hull's Large Store. HiUagrove, Pa. I SCHLEY WANTSNO OFFICE I Would Not Jeopardize Love of the People For Politics. INTENTION EXPRESSED THRICE Declaration Calculated to Set at Rest the Political Ambitions Entertained For Him By His Admirers —The Admiral Is Kept Busy. Chicago, 111., Jan. 27. —Rear Ad miral W. S. Schley Saturday thrice declared that he had no intention of entering politics. His remarks were calculated to set at rest for all time the political ambitions which some of his admirers have entertained for him. He said that no office, however high, would tempt him to jeopardize the love which the people of this country have expressed for him. The day for the admiral was a round of recep tions. at each of which he expressed his gratitude for tokens of esteem and approbation. The demonstrations reached their climax in the banquet given in his honor by the Hamilton Club. Visitors were not permitted to see Admiral Schley yesterday, and he was given ample time to rest after Satur day's arduous program. After break fast in their apartments at the Audi torium, the Admiral and Mrs. Schley, with Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Munger, at tended services at the Trinity Episco pal Church at 11 o'clock. As their place of worship had not been made public only the usual congregation was present. When the service ended the congregation stood in line at tho door, and as Admiral Schley passed out he shook hands with them right and left. The admiral was kept busy today from early morning. At 9.30 a. M.he visited the Wlnfield Scott Schley School, where he delivered a short address. At 11 a. M.he was presented with resolutions from the German so cieties of Chicago. The presentation took place in Memorial Hall. At 3 o'clock this afternoon a groat public reception at the Auditorium, to which all Chicago was Invited, was held. Will Visit Louisville. Louisville. Ky., Jan. 27. —Admiral and Mrs. Schley, who will leave Chi cago for Louisville tomorrow morn ing, will be met at Salem. Ind., by an escort representing the board of trade and the Knight Templars of Louis ville. An elaborate program of enter tainment has been arranged, in which will be included a banquet by the board of trade on Wednesday evening and a ball tendered by the Knight Templars on Thursday evening. BOT .-'ISONERS ESCAPED Burghers Made a Desperate Fight to Recapture Comrades. Pretoria, Jan. 27. —Colonel Wilson captured 20 Boers near Frankfort, in Orange River Colony, last Saturday. He was preparing at dawn the next day to move away with his captives, when a superior force qj' Boers made a desperate effort to recapture the prisoners. A hot fight ensued, in which all but three of the prisoners escaped, and in which a few men were killed or wounded on both sides. London, Jan. 27. —A report sent by Lord Kitchener from Johannesburg tells of the important capture of Gen eral Viljoen, in tbfe neighborhood of Lydenburg, Transvaal Colony, as well as the captures of small parties of Boers elsewhere. The capture of Gen eral Viljoen, who was General Botha's most able lieutentant and who has given the British a deal of trouble, has created lively satisfaction in London. Jumped In Front of Train. Camden, N. J., Jan. 27. —Joseph Olds, aged 24 years, of this city, jump ed in front of a south-hound train on the Atlantic City railroad at Ferry avenue and Jackson street Saturday night, and was literally ground to pieces. Coroner Litchfield held a view and gave a death certificate. Olds had been in poor health for a long time. He left his father's house, where he resided, and after he had been gone some time a note was found stating that he would never be Been alive again. Search was immediately made, but it was too late. Killed His Guest By Accident. Greenbackville, Va„ Jan. 27.—How ard Holt, of Chase, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Mr. Farson, in whose home ho was visiting as a guest. The gun, belonging to Mr. Holt, who had been hunting, was standing against the wall. Mr. Farson started to ex amine it, with tho barrel pointing to his guest, who was sitting in the door way. It is supposed the hammer, at half-cock, caught in Mr. Parson's clothing. The unfortunate victim died instantly, and at the inquest a verdict of accidental killing was rendered. Paul Krotier, formerly a draughts man in the engineering department of the U. S. army, committed suicide by hanging at Omaha. Neb. AGAINST EXCLUSION ACT ;t«nlla Chamber of Commerce Wants Chinamen In Islands. Manila. Jan. 27. —The American Chamber of Commerce here has for mulated an appeal to congress, In which it earnestly appeals for the en actment of laws allowing Chinamen to enter the Philippine Island?, under such restrictions as the United States Philippine commission may enact. The present restrictive law concerning im migration, continues this appeal, is of no benefit to the Filipinos. China men, if admitted, would not enter into competition with local labor, and their entry Into the islands is imperatively needed, as the tobacco, hemp and S'tgar lands of the archipelago are only partially cultivated. Without this legislation the country cannot be prop erly developed. Building in Manila has been badly retarded because of this lack of labor, and for these rea sons the American Chamber of Com merce, composed entirely of American citizens representing the commercial interests, respectfully prays for imme diate action in this matter. Colonel Charles W. Miner, of the Bixth United States Infantry, reports the conditions on the island of Ne gros to be unsatisfactory, and that 400 bolomen and 40 men armed with rifles, under the command of the fa natical bandit leader. Papa Isio, are terrorizing the people. PHILIPPINE FACTS NOT HIDDEN Governor Taft Says Government Of ficials Are Concealing Nothing. Chicago. Jan. 27. —William H. Taft, civil governor of the Philippine Islands, arrived in Chicago yesterday atternoon from San Francisco. "The only answer I have to make to the ideas of individual observers is to de clare that the conditions in the Phil ippines are not being concealed. The government is concealing nothing." This was the reply Governor Taft made to a statement published by Stephen Bonsai, declaring that des perate opposition was still being en countered in the field and that the na tives are irreconcilable and better or ganized than before the capture of Aguinaldo. "As a matter of fact," he added, "the embers of distrust are being kept alive by sensationalists, who seize on every petty point and seek to twist it into some horrible barbarity of our government In the Islands. Take, for instance, the talk about concentration camps. Although I am not sufficiently well acquainted with the full military plans to speak with absolute author ity, I can say that the whole subject is much misunderstood by our peo ple. As a matter of fact, there has never been any thought of establish ing 'concentration camps' in the ordi nary acceptation of the term. All that has been proposed Is an insurgent cordon, the establishment of a dead lino into which will gradually be drawn all the remnants of insurrec tion that exist." BUSINESS HOUSES BURNED Montciair, N. J., Was Visited By a Very Destructive Fire. New York, Jan. 27.—Fire at Mont ciair, N. J., yesterday, destroyed sev eral buildings in the business s ction. Oth»r buildings were badly damaged. The loss is estimated at from $90,000 to JIOO.OOO. The lire started in W. M. Glover's dry goods store, burned this and also the stores of F. Piaeet & company, jewelers; Alfred Wrensch's toy and notion store, the office cf the Essex and Hudson lias company, and the hardware store of 1. Seymour Crane. On the floors above the stores were the offices of the board of health, the Montciair Building and Loan Associa tion. the rooms of the Montciair Cam era Club, the exchange of the Mont ciair and Bloomiield Telephone com pany, several lodge rooms and the offices of various lawyers, nrchitects end other business men. Little was saved from any of the buildings owing to the rapid spread of the fire. Tberj w, re several minor accidents to fire men and others caused by the con tact of broken telephone wires with trolley wires. r.ocesvelt Accepted Mason's Invitation Philadelphia. Jan. 27. —Announce- ment has beeen made by the commit tee which had the matter in charge that President Roosevelt has accepted the Invitation of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Free and Accepted Ma sons, to be its guest on Tuesday, No vember 4 next, at the eel' biation of the 150 th anniversary of the initiation of George Washington into the Ma sonic order. President Roosevelt be came a Mason two years ago, joining the lodge at Oyster Bay, L. I. Ge.irge Washington was initiated at Freder icksburg, Md., on November 4, 1752. Shot Son For Burglar. Middletown. N. Y., Jan. 27. —Frank Flerring, son of Wilber Fleming, of Verna Centre, was shot by his father. Frank, who recently returned from the west, thought to give his parents a surprise on his arrival home, and was entering a window, when his father, mistaking him for a burglar, fired, wounding him In the leg 1.25 Year temctfrpw Named by New Jersey Republicans For United States Senator. WON ON NINETEENTH BALLOT On the Last Ballot the Griggs Sup porters Broke Away and Mr. Dry den Secured the Necessary Thirty two Votes. Trenton, N. J., Jan. 24.—The Re publican caucus to select a candidate for United States senator to be sup ported during the present session of the legislature to succeed the late General Sewell, selected on the ]9th ballot John F. Dryden, president of the Prudential Insurance company. Mr. Dryden on the 19th ballot received exactly the necessary 32 votes. His principal rivals in the contest were State Senator Stokes, of Cumberland county, and former Attorney General John W. Griggs. Congressman Gard ner, ex-Sheriff David Baird. of Cam den, and Barker Gummere, of Mercer, were also in the field, and while they received a fair amount of support in the early balloting, it was at no time doubted that the contest was between Messrs. Dryden. Stokes and Griggs. On the tirst ballot Mr. Dryden re ceived 19 votes, Mr. Griggs 15. Mr. Stokes 11, Mr. Gardner 5, and Mr. Gummere 7. During the first dozen ballots the votes of Messrs. Gardner, Baird and Guinmere fluctuated a good deal, while the vote of Mr. Griggs remained stationary and that of Mr. Dryden increased to 24, and the vote of Mr. Stolces went up and down as the supporters of the other three South Jersey candidates vote.i either for him or their own particular favorite. The balloting continued In this way until the close of the 17th ballot, when the South Jersey members held a conference and all decided togo to Stokes. The ISth bo. lot resulted In Mr. Dryden getting 24 votes, Mr. Stokes 24 and Mr. Griggs 15. On tha 19th ballot the Griggs forces broke up and only two stood by their standard bearer. Of the 13 who broke away from Mr. Grigga five went to Mr. Stokes. The eight others joined the Dryden forces. As the roll call for the 19th ballot was concluded the to tal stood: Dryden. 31; Stokeß, 29, and Griggs, 3. Senator Cross, of Union, one of the three Griggs men. changed his vote and gave Mr. Dryden the necessary 32d vote. The caucus was held In the assem bly chamber, and aftir an extended debate the legislative reporters were permitted to occupy seats In the gal lery. All others were excluded from the chamber. The caucus was in ses sion about two hours. Senator Mc- Carter, of Essex presided, and Secre tary Edge, of the senate, and Kirk Parker, of the house, acted as clerks of the caucus. LONG CALLS ON PRESIDENT Visit Presumably in Regard to Schley'g Appeal From Court Findings. Washington, Jan. 27.—Secretary Long was in conference with the president for over an hour last night, presumably in regard to the appeal of Rear Admiral Schley from the find ings of the court of injulry, which was referred by the executive to the navy department for "comment." The sec retary was accompanied by Judgf: Ad vocate Lemly and Solicitor Hanna, who conducted the case before tho court. The meeting with the presi dent followed a gathering of the three gentlemen at Secretary Long's apart ments, and when they dopartad for the White House they had with them bundles of papers which had the ap pearance of legal documents. Secre tary Long declined to say anything foi publication regarding the conference. A Daring Robbery. Thomaston, Conn., Jan. 27. —Edward Miller, a Hebrew traveling peddler, was robbed by an unknown man while driving on the outskirts of this town about noon yesterday. He received a bullet wound in the head, from wnic:i he may die. Miller was known to carry a considerable sum of money with him. The robber made his escape with Miller's horse and team. General H. C. Hobart Dead. Milwaukee, Jan. 27. —General Harri son C. Hobart, the last survivor of the Wisconsin constitutional convention, and one of, If not the last survivor, oi' the original five who planned and made the famouß Ross tunnel anJ by It escaped from Llbby prison, died of old age at the hospital at the Soldiers' Home yesterday morning. Killed Without Warning. Cumberland, Md., Jan. 27. —C. n. Johnson, of Cincinnati, foreman cf a gang digging a railroad tunnel near Elklns, W. Va., was fatally shot yes terday by Dud Knight, a negro. John son ordered Knight to work, and tne latter, without warning, shot him in the head. A mob threatens to storm the Jail and lynch Knight. Number!!?
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