Republican News Item.
Published Every Thursday.
Volume 6.
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/ YOUR SAVINGS ARE WEIJ.
S WHEN YOU BUY RELIABLE JEWELERY.Vj
r It wears and gives pleasure for years and isȣ j
X always worth the price paid for it, Our .many X
/ years of business at the same stand with the same 112,
t principles of keeping nothing but reliable jew.elery/ j
r is a testimonial of what our goods stand for.
> We intend that this store shall be first in J
when that buying reliable jewelery ques- J)
\ tion come up. Our prices have reached the?bottom ,
\ scale, they can nowhere be made lower for j
S same grade of goods.
.Always Ready for Repairwork^pi
/ Nothing but the best in repair work leaves our 1
\ hands. To get values come here afteiithem.
C Very respectfully, <r i
? RETTENBURY, ij
PA. THE JEWELER.
HARDWARE
Special Low Prices Now Prevail
Wire fencing for farm, garden, lawn and poultry
netting. Lawn mowers, wheel barrows, tin ware,
woodenware, garden and farm tools, dairy supplies
washing machines, wringers etc, of the latest in
ventions. Paints, oils and varnishes. Mill sup
plies and tools of all descriptions.
bicycle Tires, Lamps, Brakes and Sundries.
Sporting goods, fishing tackle, guns, revolvers and
equipments. Roofing, spouting, plumbing, piping
and fittings. -Bicycle repairing and general job work.
Samuel
The Shopbell Dry Good Co.,
313 Pine Street,
WILLI AM SPORT, PA.
New Spring
«>ur silk department is now fully equipped with all the latest, stylesj'aud newest
ives. In beauty and exclusiveness our showing this season surpasses all for
er efforts, the choicest and best productions can la- seen on our silk counters,
lien in the city come and see the line assortment of
Foulards and Satin Liberties
>r street or borne dress. New styles in unique designs, excellent qualities lor M)
»e, 87c, #1 (>O, $1 75.
New Waist Silks.
We have a very complete line of new fancy silks suitable for street or evening
r in stripes, figures, printed warps, saee stripes, persian effects, the new linen
>rs in plain and stripes.
Spring Dress Goods.
Never have we had such a variety, never have we shown so many deautiful
terials as we are this season. For those who want the tailor made gown we
ve new fabrics for that kind of wear. J'iain thin material will be in great demand
s season- Among the light sheer goods we are showing in new shades are Alba
ss, Crepe de Chine, Kolienne, Bateste, Voile, Etamine, Veiling, etc. When you
• looking for a spring or summer dress come and see our collection.
he Shopbell Dry Good Co.
Williamsport, Pa.
"ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THH PRICE OF LIBERTY.
LAPORTE, PENNA., THURSDAY, MARCH. 21), 1902.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF DUSIIORE, I'ENNA.
CAPITAL - " $50,000.
SURPLUS - - SIO,OOO
DoeeVGeneral Banking Business, gf
B.W. JENNINGS, M. D. BWARTS.
President. Cainte
T J. &F.H. INGHAM,
ATTORMBYS-AT-LAW,
Legal business attended to
in this »nd adjoining counties
_APORXE, PA
£ J. MULLEN,
Attorney-at-Law.
LAL'ORTE, PA.
OFFTCB IN COUNTY BUILDIWO
NKAR COURT HOUSE.
h 17 BRADLEY,
ATTOBMET AT-I.AW,
Office Building, Cor.Main an.l Muncv Sts.
LAPORTE, PA
J H. CRONIN,
ATTORHKV-AT -LAWI
RUTAHY PUBLIC.
OPFII M OR MAIS HTRBBT.
DUSIIORE, PA
COMMERCIAL HOUSE.
(VVID TEMPLE, Prop.
LAI'ORL'FC - A
This large and we 1 ! appointed house if
the m"8l popular hostelry in this seotion
LAPORTE HOTEL.*
p. W. GALLAGHER, Prop.
Newlv erected. Opposite Cotirl
House square. Steam heat, batli rooms,
hot and cold water, reading and pool
room,and barber shop; also good stabling
and* livery,
T J. KEELER.
I ■ Justice-of-the Peace.
Oflice 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.
B. H. GUY, - - - Proprietor.
Newly furnished throughout, special
attention given to the wants ol the travel
ing public. Bar stocked with lirst class
wines, liquors ami cegars. The best beer
on the market always on tap.
Jitttes 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.
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• • 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
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STEP IN AND ASK
ABOUT THEM.
All answered at
Vernon Hull's
Large Store.
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LRU' FOR SOOTH AFRICA
Field Marshal Wolseley Sent to
Scene of Boer War.
BRITISH CABINET IS WORRIED
lld General Says He Is Going For
His Health, But Rumor Asserts He
Will Advise Kitchener—Situation Is
Still Serious.
London, March 15. —The question
vvliich all England is asking today is:
Por what reason did Field Marshal
Lord Wolseley, who recently retired
us commander-in-chief of the British
army, and who was the heio of the
siege of Sebastopol during the Cri
mean war, sail for Cape Town today?
Lord Wolseley declared that his visit
to the scene of the Boer war is to be
made in search of rest and health. In
LOIitJ WOLSKI.KT.
this assertion he is seconded by the
war office. Gossip will have it other
wise, however, and connects the visit
closely with the military situation in
South Africa.
These persons, many of them of au
thority, point out that Lord Wolso
ley's knowledge of South Africa,
gained as a fighter and administrator,
might be highly useful to Lord Kitch
ener ..either at the base. Cape Town,
or at Pretoria. Others declare that his
mission may be in the nature of a
peace commissioner.
Of course there is not the slightest
possibility that Lord Wolseley will su
persede Lord Kitchener in command
of the South African forces. He is too
old for such duty. His departure, how
ever, indicates that the confidence
which the cabinet had in the war's
alleged progress has been much
shaken.
Whatever the true story may be.
Lord Wolseley sailed today on the
Walmer Castle. He was accompanied
by Colonel Thornycroft, who, as com
mander of a force of irregular horse,
did splendid service in the earlier days
of the present campaign. Colonel
Frank Rhodes and Arthur Rhodes,
brothers ot Cecil Rhodes, and Lady
Methuen were passengers on the
same steamer.
That the situation is stiii serious
enough for even Lord Wolseley is
shown by dispatches which state that
in another drive of Boers. Sunday, by
the five columns of British, who are
sweeping the country between Frank
fort and Lindley, Oranse River Col
ony, the Boers, who were under Com
mandant Metz, escaped by stamped
ing a herd of cattle through the Brit
ish lines, and breaking through the
Heilbron-Wolve Hoik blockhouses.
Fifty Boer stragglers and a quantity
of stores were captured.
MAY POSTPONE CORONATION
Belief Tl- ' It May Be Delayed On Ac
count of uth African Casualties.
Sheffield, March 15. —The Telegraph
yesterday said that suggestions and
official representations have been
made in influential circles with a
view to postponing the coronation, not
only because ol Lord Methuen's disas
ter, but also because of the long daily
lists of casualties received from South
Africa. The anxiety and urief that
those cause hundreds of homeless
ones, the paper says, would be in
painful contrast to the rejoicings and
feastings of the coronation.
Millionaire Injured In Wreck.
St. Louis, March 17. —In a wrei kin
the Fast St. Louis yards yesterday,
Mitchell Harrison, of Philadelphia, mil
lionaire and representative of J. 1*
Morgan; Dr. Cornet.t, Mr. Harrison's
physician, and the valet of the mil
lionaire, were injured. After treat
ment at the St. Louis Baptist Hospi
tal they were able to leave the city
last night. Mr. Harrison was on his
way from St. Louis to Atlanta in his
private ear when the accident oc
j curred. The train to which the car
was attached ran into a freight in an
open switch.
Ambassador White to Retire.
Berlin. March 17. —With expressions
of regret the newspapers hero print
a dispatch from Washington to the
effect that Andrew D. White, the
American ambassador to ■ Germany,
will retire next November.
A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED.
Tuesday, March 11.
Count Von Buelow. German Imperial
chnncellor, Is ill with influenza and
confined to his room.
The dispute between Germany and
Venezuela is nearlng a settlement, but
the terms are still a secret.
The postofflce department at Wash
ington received a conscience contri
bution of S7O from a resident of Rich
mond, lnd.
Fire which started In the kitchen of
the home of Arthur Bouchard, at Ma
tane, Quebec, caused the death of
Mrs. Bouchard and nine children.
In an explosion at I£. C. Dupont de
Nemours & Company's powder plant,
at Keokuk, la., two men were killed
outright, a third will die and three
others are seriously injured.
Wednesday, March 12.
The glass works of Gill & Co., of
Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
(Ire last night. The loss is $50,000.
J. K. Oliver, a well-know* business
man of Roanoke, Va.. committed sui
cide in a New York lodging bouse,.
Margaret D. Stark, aged 76, was
killed by a fall from a second-story
window of her home in Philadelphia.
City council of Toronto, Ont., passed
a resolution barring American con
tractors from bidding fw municipal
work.
It was announced at the White
House yesterday that President
Roosevelt would aot visit the Charles
ton Exposition until the second week
in April.
Thursday, March 13.
Southern lime manufacturers will
petition congress to remove the tariff
on lime to Cuba.
Joshua Wilbour, Uuited Stales con
sul at Dublin, Ireland, died at Kuther
ford, N. J., yesterday.
The senate of the New Jersey legis
lature yesterday passed a bill permit
ting the use of voting machines in the
state.
Frost leaving the ground caused a
four-story brick building in Chicago
to collapse. The structure was valued
at $50,000.
Fire caused by an exploding lamp
destroyed the home of Mar!. Rank
son. Ishphcming, Mich., burned to
denth her daughter and badly burned
her three sons.
Friday, March 14.
William J. Bryan visited the na
tional house of representatives yes
terday.
Mrs. Collis P. Huntington has given
Harvard College $250,000 to complete
the endowment of the medical school.
According to the United States cen
sus report the cotton crop of this
country In 1899 was valued at $3«9.-
758,171.
Railroad lines east and west of
Chicago are likely to become involved
in a rate war over the summer tourist
business.
The .transport Sheridan arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with 97
si<-U. six insane. 1.189 short term men
and part of the Twentieth Infantry.
Saturday, March 15.
J. P. Morgan & Co. deny that they
are negotiating a loan of $12,500,000
for the Chilean government.
Dispatches state that 40 lives were
lost in the recent tornado and storms
that swept over Louisiana.
Champion Bicyclist John Lawson
the "Terribly Swede," died In Milwau
kee. last night of pneumonia.
Fire destroyed the barn of the St.
Louis Transit company, together with
70 cars, causing a loss of $125,000.
By her clothing catching Are from
a stove, 16-ysar-old Stella Jarvis. of
Camden, N. J..- was frightfully
burned.
Monday, March 17.
Admiral W. S. Schley will attend the
celebration of Evacuation Day at
Boston.
Dr. William Warren, professor of
music at Columbia University. New
York, died yesterday.
Senor Concha, the new minis'er from
Colombia to the United State*, pre
sented his credentials to the president
today.
Dr. Von Holleben. German ambassa
dor, gave a theatre party Saturday
night, having for his guests President
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Beginning April 1, rural free deliv
ery will lie instituted in Swing town
ship. N. .1. The route is 24 miles long
and will serve 200 farmers.
After living three weeVs with a
broken back. William Ramsey, of Wil
liamsport. died Saturday. He was in
jured by falling through a railroad
bridge.
Big Crowd n't Bull Fight.
El I'aso. Tex., March 17. —Ten thou
sand people, most of them Americans,
witnessed a bloody bull flght at.
Juarez. Mexico, just across the river
from this city, yesterday, in which
two of Spain's noted matadors--Fuen
tes and Mazzantinl —took leading
parts. Six bulls were dispatched by
the sword and five horses were gored
to death. Fuentes and Mazzantini.
who have been touring Mexico, go
from here to Spain for a series of 70
fights.
1.25 P er - Year
VON HOLIEBEN ACCUSED
Emil Witte Charges German Am
bassador With Spying.
OTHER SERIOUS CHARGES MADE
Witte Also Asserts That He Sent
Plans For the Mobilization of Ger
man Forces Here In Case of War.
Accuser Would Not Produce Proof.
New York, March 14. —Emil Witto,
formerly connected with the German
embassy in Washington, who has
made serious charges ralioeting upon
the official characterof Baron Von Hoi
leben, the German ambassador, made
public the full text of his allegations
late yesterday afternoon.
There are seven allegations, among
them that Germany became aware of
the United States' plans for naval de
fenses through Dr. Von Holleben, and
that through his aid there is a perfect
system of spies overrunning the United
States. Witte asserts that on this in
formation Germany has based plans
for a mobilization of her army and
navy in event of war with this coun
try.
Through Baron Von Holleben and
Professor Blumentritt. of Austria,
Witte further declares, connections
have been established between Count
Von Buelow, the German chancellor,
nnd the Filipinos, who are fighting this
government in the Philippines.
His most sensational charges, how
ever, are that Professor Mun»terbarg,
of Harvard University, is, with the
knowledge of Dr. Von Holleben, chief
of a German secret press bureau in
this country, established for the pur
pose of bribing and corrupting the
American press, and that through Dr.
Von Holleben and. Professor Schoen-
Qeld, of the Columbian University at
Washington, and the Ottoman consul
general there, the recent trouble with
Turkey was brought to a head.
Witte,who is about 38 years old,
was found in this oity in a small tint
at 13Si First avenue, where he lives
with his wife and child- He would
not tell what proof he poseenaed of
the charges made by him agei'-t Dr.
Von Holleben, but said that u<» had
documents of various kinds which
were, unfortunately, in the possession
of agents of the secret service, and
that he had made repeated but inef
fectual effi "ts to get them back.
Blackmail, Says Von Holleben.
Washington. March 14.—Ambassa
dor Von Holleben is said to have de
clared to the authorities at the state
department, when the charges were
shown to him. that an attempt was
being made to blackmail him, that he
had done nothing improper, and that
he was prepared to meet any accusa
tion that might be made against him
by a reliable person.
These complaints made against Dr.
Von Holleben deal with the aeeond
Bryan campaign in 1900. It is under
stood In a general way from these
charges that the ambassador, having
failed to make any headway with the
McKinley administration in accom
plishing the desires of his government
regarding coaling stations in the
Caribbean Sea. decided finally that
these coaling stations could best be
obtained under Mr. Bryan. This is
the understanding of the officials as to
the ascribed motives which prompted
the alleged subsequent action of the
ambassador. *
GENERAL METHUEN RELEASED
Kitchener Announces That British
. General Has Been Freed.
i.ondoß. March 14. —The war secre
tary. Mr. Brodrick, announced in the
house of commons yesterday that he
understood that General Methuen,
who was captured, aeverely wounded,
by General Delarey, March 10, has
been released and was expected to ar
rive at Klerksdorp, Southwestern
Transvaal. The general's condi
tion was favorable. Mr. Brodrick
added that the exchange of General
Methuen for Commandant Kritzlnger
had not been contemplated. The trial
of the commandant had been post
poned because consideration of the
evidence to be presented had not been
eompleted.
The following dispatch, dated Pre
toria. March 13. has been received
front I.ord Kitchener: "Methue.i was
brought to Klerksdorp today. He is
doing well. Everything jtossible is
being done for him."
Timothy M. Healy. amid Nationalist
cheers, invited ih» government to
show equal magnanimity and release
Commandant Kritzinger.
Seranton Railway Co. Advances Wages
Seranton. Pa.. March 17. —The
Seranton Railway company yesterday
posted a notice of a general advance
In wages. Formerly the scale was
from 14 to 19 cents an hour. The new
scale Is from 17 1-! to ISt 1-J cents an
i hour, the highest rate to be attained
;by three years' service. The strikers
are demanding 20 cents an hour flat.
It may be that they will choose to re
gard this as a concession to them and
go hack to work.
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