REPUBLICAN NEWS ITEM. \ CHABLES L WING, Editor. Published BverylThuraday Afternoon By The Sullivan Publishing Co. At the County Best of Sullivan County. IiAPOBTB. PA. Entered at the Post Office at Laporte, aa second-clasp mail matter. First national bank OF DUBHOUE, PKNNA. CAPITAL - - $50,000. BURPIIUB - - SIO,OOO. Does a General Ranking Business. I).W..JENNINGS, M. D. SWAKTB. President. Cashier J J. & F. H. INGHAM, ATTOMIITS-AT-LAW, Irfgal business attended to in tills and adjoining counties _ A PORTE, £ J. MULLEN, Attorney-at-Law. lapokte. pa. orrica ID COUMTY iOILDim If KAR COURT BODS*. h 7. BRADLEY. " ATTOKNBT AT-I.AW, 1 mice Building, Cor.Main and Miinov Sis. LAPORTE, PA J H. CRONIN, , ATTORKRT«A» -I.AW, HOtAHT PUILIC. orrioa o» maim ntniir. HI) SIIOHE, pA COMMERCIAL HOUSE~ AVID TBHPI.K, Prop. LAPORI'K - A. This large and weVi appointed house is the most popular hostelry in this lection LAPORTE HOTEL. P. W. GALLAGHER, Prop. Newly erected. Opposite Court Mouse square. Steam lieat, hatli rooms, hot mid cold water, reading and |K>OI room,and barbershop; also good stabling and livery, "T J. KEELEH. I • Justicc-of-the IVaec. Olticeiu room over store, LAPORTE, PA. Special attention given to collections. All matters left to the care ol this office will lie promptly attended to. HOTEL GUY. MILDRED, PA. It. H. GUV, - Proprietor. Newly furnished throughout, special attention given to tlie wants ol' the travel ing public. Bar stocked with first class wines, liquors and cegars. The best beer 011 the market alwayson tap. J tut ex llettsoHuble. Carpets: Need new carpets for Spring and Summer? We have quite an assort ment of samples,from which you may choose, and we'll do matching and sewing for you at moderate cost, if you wish. Kvery thing needed tit house cleaning time IS HKIIK. lion Ami scouring soap, cleans a window a minute, WKIIAVK IT. Poultry net ting, wire,garden tools, and FJiKSII SKKDS at Buschhausen's, LAPORTE, PA. M. Brink's New Albany, Pa. 140 111. sacks, flour middlings, SI.OO 200 " coarse brans; 2.30 100 " Buckeye feed, 1.25 100 " Corn meal, 1.40 100 " Cracked corn, 1.40 too " Corn,oats,A barley chop 1.40 125 " Gluten feed, 1.81 Lump rock salt per 100 His. .75 KM) Ihs. cotton seed meal, 1.00 100 His. linseed meal, 1.85 KM) lhs. sacks Oyster shells, .50 100 lhs. meat meal, 2.50 Oats per bushel .00 140 lbs sack dairy salt, .55 Granulated sugar per lb .05 100 lbs. " 5.00 Best Mammoth or medium clover seed per bushel 5 85 N. Y. State largej clover, grower's guarantee 0 85 Timothy seed per bushel :t.25t0 4.(Ml Japanese Millet jier bushel 1,00 Schumacher's best Hour 1.15 Jlageriiian's " 1.05 "Our Own" a leader, 1.05 Golden vale 1.05 25 lbs sacks, Buckwheat, .05 Graham I2J lbs. ..'lO Bye Hour, 25 lbs. .50 Send money order and have .your goods coineon tirst freight, or come to our store and get them. M. BRINK. Circulation over 1600. fCovnty Seat 1 Local and Personal Events I Tersely Told. J Mr. and Mrs. F. M," Crossley spent Sunday with friends in Ben ton. Miss Ella Tripp visited with friends at Sonestown the early part of this week. M. P. Gavitt is assisting Proth'y Thos. K. Kennedy with his official recording this week. John Koskey, a foreigner senten ced to the county jail lias received his discharge l»y the sheriff. Mr. Win J. Gallagher, who has been visiting his brother. F. W. Gallagher, left on Monday for his home in San Antone, Texas. James Caven has started a livery business in town. As a starter, he expects to have three good "turn outs" in service next Sunday. Dr. Kandall and son, of Dushore made brief calls, on Laporte friends Monday, while 011 his way to Fagls Mere to look after his real estate interests there. Harry Zax is steadily improving from his attack of appendicitis. Mr. /ax's many friends will lie glad to soon see him out upon the street. Misses Bessie, Mollie and Jessie NVrede spent Wednesday of last week in Williamsport. Mr. and Mrs. John Kostenhader of Glen Mawr, speut Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Ktiter. Mrs. F. I*. Ingham, Mrs. F. B. Barrows, Mrs. F. L. Barrows and Miss Alma Laner spent Monday at Dushore. We are in receipt of an anonymous communication from Sonestown. Experience has taught publisher never to depart from the rule to lay such articles aside until the writer is known. Children's Services were held in the M. E. church Sunday evening where an excellent program was rendered. Standing room was at a premium and many enjoyed the exercises from the out side. The Treasurer's land sale held at Laporte Monday was well attended. Few sales were made as postpone ments were requested in nearly all the tracts. The sale was adjourn ed to August Jerome Reed aecidently fell from a log while building brush fence one day last week and fractured a rib or two which has placed Jerry on the retired list for several days to come. Sheriff < 'ott tells his remedy when I the hay crop threatens to lie a fail ure. which if followed by all the farmers a feed famine can lie avert ed. He says, turn the meadows under and sow three peeks of millet to the acre. This can lie done as late as the lirst of July. It is a crop that seldom fails and grow s more abundantly than hay and much richer for feed. Mr. Fllery P. Ingham is having a coat of paint applied to the ex terior of his residence, which great ly enhances the grandure of the brick mansion erected by the late Michael Meylcrt at a cost of SBO,OOO. 1 The body color is terracotta trim -1 med in white with green shutters. 1 The yards and fences are all under going repairs and the place general [ ly lieautitied. It will be the liand -1 houiest residence in this section of | the state when thoroughly polished. 1 Misses Maggie Gauglin and Liz -1 zie Jourdan met with a painful ae- J cident while out driving with Mr. David Temple's trotter Sunday ' afternoon. They were returning ■ to the stable and in making the 1 turn from the road to the alley ' leading to the rear of the barn, did not check the animal's speed ami ; over turned the carriage, throwing 1 the girls violently in the ditch and j badly damaging the wagon. They > | were assisted to the hotel and Dr. Kandall summoned. They sustain e ed some very fainful bruises but no bones were broken. LARGE EAGLE KILLED NEAR THE COUNTY SEAT. B. F. Hess Has a Thrillinj Experience | With an Eagle. Ernest Kicss Was j Furiously Attacked by the Kin* of Birds. While inspecting the track of the W. & N. B. R. R. between Karge'a Point and Ringtlale early Monday morning, B. F. Hess was suddenly attacked by a large bird which he thought to be a monstrous hawk. He was followed for nearly a mile and had ten or twelve l»attles with his feathery enemy, but fighting as he did with a heavy spike sledge was unable to deal effective blows over his head. When nearly at the end of the section which he was inspecting the bird turned back. This gave Mr. Hess an opportunity to provide himself with a suitable weapon in the shape of a hand sized club. When returning and at the place first attacked, the huge bird again came down upon him,knock ing his hat to the ground and stag gering him with the force of the swoop. It then turned and came down, nearly touching the ground in front of Mr> Hess, and made a raise for his face. Taking good aim he brought his weapon down with such force that it broke in three pieces as it struck his assail ant, rendering it dazed and crip pled. which gave Mr. Hess the top fighting ad vantages and soon had his victim lifeless. A day or two before this occur ance Ernest Kiess, a Loy thirteen years old, was 011 his way to Ring dale alone, when at the same place he was also attacked in the same manner. The l»oy fought bravely for a distance of two miles and had he not used a great ileal of strat egy would without doubt have been overpowered. His face and neck was cut and clothes torn by the bird's talons. He succeeded in es caping much punishment by quick ly dodging and stooping when swooped upon. Whenever it miss- j ed its mark it would soar to a tree j and take another plnng for its prey j and so continue the conflict. Mr. Hess brought the dead bird I to the Laporte station where it wiw ! curiously examined by many and! pronounced to Ih.* an eagle. It had st grey breast, blue over the back and measured three feet and eight incited across the pinions in natural spread. It was taken |to Hughes ville by the passenger train crew and will likely be sent to a taxider mist. Another eagle has since been seen near the place where this one was killed. t'. D. Kveritt of Eldredsville, was a business mail in town Fri day. Miss Emma Hitter spent Friday of last week with her brother at Muney Valley, Tony Nardine and Harry Lan don, who spent last week with their parents at this place, have returned to school at Willia'uisport. Clias. Coleman has moved from the Buschausen residence to the house at Reeder's switch, where he is employed. Morris J. Latter and family of Jolliett, 111, are expected to arrive in town this evening for a few weeks visit with Mrs. M. C. Latter and family. Jos. (iallagher, the 15 year old son of Martin Gallagher, was tak en dangerously ill Monday morn ing with uremic couvulsions induc ed by acute blights disease. He has laid in an unconscious ami most critical condition since Mon day, Thursday morning some hopes were entertained that he might recover, as at times he be came semi-conscious and rested easier. Dennis Palmatier, proprietor of the Canada Hotel at Muncy Val ley, has a large foundation com pleted and will add another wing to his popular hostelry. When completed it will lie the only three story building in the village. Harry Zax who at present is un able to attend to his clothing store, wishes to announce that he has good-attendants at the store who will try to please their customers. I His large stock of clothing and shoes will l>e sold at lowest possi ble prices to please his patrons and thanks them in advance for calling to see his stock. NEWS ITEM SCRIBES | Experience the Hysteric Joys 0! a Travel: Through Shrewsbury Jvst to Verily j the Rumors. Since my last letter I have Ween ! lost in the dense primeval forests of j Shrewsbury township. 1 became so j much interested in the discoveries of] the Herald that I could no longer re sist the determination to investigate. Securing a young man for a guide and protector, it would have been out of the question togo without the young man, we provided ourselves with a supply of provisions includ ing Lady Fingers, Marsh mallows. Chocolates and all such substantial things and a coffee pot of course, as the young man thought we would need some coffee and fried eggs and perhaps some bread, we boldly start ed for Ticklish Rock and the Cav erns that exceed the forty miles of underground roads of the Mammoth Cave. We could not Hud it but we thought we heard the roarings of those dreadful animals the "Stolag niiles" and the "Stolactitites" that must be kept shut up down there. From all the information we could get, we were forced to the conclusion that the entrance to the cave must be under the Herald office and that it Is into this place where the editor goes every once in a while when he is missing. We heard that lie uses this place to dispose of his subscrib ers who do not pay up, and we have settled for our paper and decided to quit for fear that we might forget to remit promptly. Where the other end of the more that forty miles goes to we were unable to learn, probably it ends where the story does, in a future issue. We were impressed with the singular appropriateness of providing "The Devil's Chapel" for the office force. As the Herald writer has been there we would be gratified to know the condition of things. We never could understand quite what became of those remarkable streams, Hock Itun and Kettle Creek or rather the water in them, but now we know that they generously go all over the country, watering the regions for the health and comfort of thousands of people. It is remark able to us that the silver and copper bulging out along these hills should be left out of doors over night. We moralized 011 the subject until we concluded that the ]>eople are so wealthy that they would not look at anything less than nuggets of gold. It is so easy to live there. The Beef Trust has 110 show. In the morning we went to Mellons Lake with a wagon and a scoop shovel, ami ina few minutes we had cattish enought to supply the whole settle ment for a week. Here we got 011 to the whole story. The Standard Oil Co., the Steel Trust, the Beef Trust and the Leath er Trust have learned of the immense wealth in attractiveness and natural resources in Shrewsbury township, and they sent a special agent to in vestigate. The Herald with its us ual enterprise secured this man and so got the "scoop" 011 the whole thing, very much to the disgust of the other Sullivan County papers und the New York Journal which were all left in the "soup". The scheme is immense! The Township is to be bought by the Trusts and it will be enclosed by a barbed wire fence sixteen feet high. At first gates will be provided at the public roads and at the Eagles Mere R. R. but to protect the sights and treasures armed guards will accom pany all passers ami the railroad trains. Ultimately some other plan will be adopted, probably trestles constructed overhead. Of course a charge will lie made for admittance, hotels will be built, elevators will carry tourists to the summits of the highest }»oints overlooking the whole United States, each guest will be provided with a chunk of copper and of silver as a souvenir, the im mense sawmills will be removed ex cept that the Leather Trust insists on peeling the millions 011 millions of hemlock lumber but that will be needed for buildings for the thous ands of people who will come here front all over the world, and at any rate young trees will lie planted so as to keep up the forests. All this and more too, is official and we wired Plerpont Morgan and asked him for particulars and re quested that he would cable us the fullest details regardless of cost, but be careful to mark the special pre paid as it might reach us after bank ing hours in Shrewsbury township. We nearly omitted to say that foot paths are to be laid all through the woods of the celebrated flag stones of which hundreds of car loads have already beey shipped bat it is ; signed to reserve enough for local ' consumption. By special telegram we learn that | the Williamsport & North Branch R. R. is to be double tracked this , spring, or later on, and if necesary a {third and fourth track will be laid to ' otrry the people and supplies that j will pour into this wonderful Re gion. Nothing is lieyond the plans of this magnifieient railroad, i We shall try to keep track of the correspondent so that the Item read ers may be on the look out for still more marvelous results. Sprfctg has come at last At (CAMPBELLS, SHUNK, PA., He is showing the finest line of Spring and Sum £ mer Goods to be found in Western Sullivan, con j£r sisting of everything usually kept in a first class i General Store. Call and inspect his large line before I purchasing elsewhere. Ha will be pleased to show you and will make you a price that is right. Highest Market Price Paid for Butter and Eggs. Ajpcy: For Bowker's Fertilizers, Deering Reapers. Binders, Mowers and Rakes. Davison and Perry Harrows, Wiard Plows and Rakes. A Steel Lined 19 T Perry Harrow, only $8.50; A Bargain. Call and see it. A. E. CAMPBELL, Shunk, Pa. A Beautiful Show of Men's, Boys' and Children's SPRING SUITS. Childrens two, three, and four piece suits SI.OO to $5.00. Boys single and double breasted suits in all the new patterns and weaves s£.oo to #12.00 Men's one, three and four button sack suits, the latest materials and make $8 to S2O. Men's cutaways, nobby things, sl2 to S3O. Also :tn elegant assortment of men's and young men's trousers Childrens knee pants, hats, caps, neckwear, underwear, shirts, trunks, suit cases, traveling bags and umbrellas. I. W. Carroll, DUSHORE, PA. HOTE' CARROLL BLOCK. Beat the Beef Trust! By buying one ol Holcombe & Lauer's REFRIGERA TORS and keep what meat you do buy from spoiling. We Keep the Kind that Keeps the Meat, don't buy the others they are dear at any price. Pay a trifle more for your Refrigerator and you will more than save it]| the first season, in ice. Good baby carriages cheap, and cheap ones that are good. PORCH Rockers and Settees. HOLCOMBE & LAUER, Undertaking, 3 ©USbOfe, t>S. SAXE BLOCKS. LAPORTE CLOTHING [We can please you better than ever. 1 ; Because we offer a larger and much finer stock to select from, and because we will continue our policy of handling only the VERY BEST GOODS. Stvlialt, mens Rochester made Cl.' M'H I NO, Black and llliie serges, plain tand litnev. Cheviot, plain an I tancv undressed worsteds, made in nil the latest shaken YoiTIIS" St*ITS, Cli 11.1>1ress Pants at $2.00. .'I tjO and up to*"> 00 per pair, 'i We have given the greatest attention to our SHOE UEI'AKI MEN I.the fWiest and l.est (| iialities. largest slock, latest styles, alright prices. We handle the W I . LMtl'O I.AS SHOE at #3, 3 ;"iO, too, and $5 00 per pair. Laities are invited to examine our Spring Stock • »•' tailor made jacket suits, rainy day «klr|s', |»;lj coat- Wrapper* ladles'vest, tine dress skirts. We handle a full line <>f ladies corsets, ladies- kid gloves, tine unbrellas. trunks unit valises. A full line of ladies and Keats «>xtords. asv.itwNit »112 Iwtent leather and velown call', A complete line of toys and childrens shoi>. , i, .nilt . shoes from SI.OOtoKiUU Our line ot Rents furnishing Roods embrace all tin' latest st > le>. \\. naivuii the Monarch Shirt. See our latest hats, neckwear, hose. caps, gloves. at U>t ; iom I'lic.-s Now is vour best chance to buy your Spring and summer nothing. All we ;i-k is i<>r yoifcio rit rot? und