' OL. IX. NO. 6. (Tliis Is the Place C To Buy You J Jewelry A Nothing in Town to Compare WitliN ( the Quality that We are Giving / You for the Low Price Asked. \ V Quality and moderate prices makes a force that J>irreskt-bly draws into our store the best patronage r t of this section. Many years here in business, always 3 Swith a full line of goods above suspicion; chosen C ( with a care and judgment commensurate with its t \ desirability and adaptability to refine taste, makes \ ( our store a sale place to invest. C P Repair work done on short notice and guaran-r v teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. X RETTENBURY, > < DUSHORE, FA. The Jeweler. $ COLE. HARDWARE^ No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES,, COAL OB WOOD HE A T 1 ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House Furnishing Goods, Tools- of Every 1 Description, Guns and Ammunition, ; Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing. Roofing and Spouting. j $p -justsssl ool^Eusfior^fa. The ShopbeH Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AM SPORT, PA. Wasn Goods. White Goods for Dresses. I'lie latest arrival at the \\:ts,i Oiols We have a heaatil'ul line ofdaintv lah counter is < Ivile t loth a new Wash lab 111 at are the mot a|i|>rove<l material rir lor Shirt Waist Suits. I licy come in tor Summer I tresses. We're eonliiient coloreil anil black stripes and figures on || lfl | wo can please vou in the matter ol white ground. We will not. show a better f.|, r j c as well as price from these I'ml. rie tlinn these regular ll!Ac material* French lawns, Plain Swiss, lo.' Persian Lawns, I'otted Swiss. IOC Itidia I.inon, Silk Mull. Infants' Dresses and Wearables for Babies. W'e have just opened some Infants long Infant# ami Childrens Hand Crocheted Dresses with lots of taste and babylike Sac,ues in plain while or pink and blue heauly in them. Some plain, others with trimmings, Joe to si.all, lace and tucks. Prices start at 25c and baby and Children's While Mull Caps, go up to 5J.7."). 111 '° Short dresses tor the older hahies. All Infants line White Cashmere Skirls, at daintv and well made from the <'ambrir —to $1 ~>o or Naincook, at 25c and up. Infants Cashmere Hands, at 25c and Itifauta* and Children's lonir or short Shirts on waisf at ~>o to Nh\ 1 11 la»• 1« Wool or < <>tl l* 11 Ilnso in while, pink, lilno, tan and last Mack, t'\l»a <jna-1 lilies for Joe and Openwork Hose for Summer Knit Women. Underwear. They're much in .lemand this season. I'>u liav* thin Kn>« I7u.l.two®t to Jlere are two qualities thai are special, buy seeonr l.ne of Udi.ta'low neck and Ladies Fast Mack L ice stripe Hose with sleeveless nl.hed \ esls at 10c 12ie, 15c. high spliced heels and doul.le soles, for L< " ,K ' S nl,l,( " 1 S "' lf ' B al 25 to r,o < lin< ' , K Merceri/.ed and Silk Vest at st'c to #l. ~ Ladier Fast lilack Lace Listle Thread < I.iMriM. s- Summer I'nderwere in most Iloso of excellent ~nality, either striped H " 'l""iites you could ask lor. or boot patterns at Mse. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLiVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1904. BERNICE. The L.ykens mini's operated liy W. B. < iunion litis phut down for three inonllis and lias thrown <]tiite it number of men and hoys out. of employment. A large harn belonging to Fran cis Sick was burned to the ground at an earl)' hour Monday morning. Mow it got on lire is a mystery. At: I I o'clock on Sunday night as the last thing that Mr. Sick done before returning for the night was to see thateveVy thing was all right. He saved all the live stock but there were over 100 bushels of oats, three tons of hay, cutters, sleds and har ness burned up. Loss about SI2OO. No insurance carried. Mrs. K. I). Snttifit was visiting friends at Noxen on Saturday and Sunday. Mi s. 1 >. Schoonover is visiting her daughter Mrs. 11. 15. Brown at Dor ancetown this week. .Joltn Lang of Mildred left on Saturday for EdwardvillePa..where he has employment and will move his family in the near future if .ill goes well. The following Mildred people were at Dushore last Sunday, Land lord .Jackson and wife Squire Ilerst, Edward and Patrick White and James Spenee Sr. The Bernice Base Ball nine play ed Dushore at this place on Monday scores 1") to 7 in favor of Bern ice < Revenge is Sweet. ESTELLA. Jlr. and Mrs. W. T. More went to Troy, PH., to visit Mrs. More's sister { -in-law who i- dangerously ill at that place. , Miss Lillie Wlieatly is visiting ( friends at Say re. I The CI urch ol Christ Sunday , School will have a picnic at this | place on the Ith of July. I Miss Harriet Kaye is visiting her ( sister, Mrs. Emily Harding, at To wanda. | The tirst message was sent over . the telephone from Estella to Forks ville on Monday. Miss Olie l'lotts and her cousin Miss Kit l'lotts of Maryland, visited ( Miss Mable Boyles Monday. F. A. lioyles is the crack flslier nian of Estella. He caught fifty fine trout on Friday and fifty again on Monday. Miss Lottie liailv is not improved at this writing. (ieorge Wheat-ley caught a trout that measured over 14 inches on " SONESTGWN. Mrs. Maud ltosencrans, Mrs. Al bert Conklin and daughter Mollie of Laporte were the guests of.l. \V. Buck and family on Friday last. j M. I'. (iavitf came home last week I to attend the caucus. Miss Mable Pennington has re turned to Nordiiiont. Ilarry (irove cut his leg <|uite I badly just above the knee. l)r. Voorhees dressed the wound. Miss Jennie Hasten has returned i from Eagles Mere where she spent a ] few weeks. Mrs. Allen Arms after a five days | visit with Picture Hocks friends is j home again. Mr. and Mrs. P». (I. Welch went to Hughesville Tuesday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Joseph Welch. Mrs. A. T. Armstrong is confined to her bed by temporary illness. The clothes-pin factory is shut down for the week. Misses Anna Johnson, Hutli Mil ler and Bailie bobbins of Muncy Valley were the guests of Miss Myr tle Edgar on Sunday. Announcement is made fhat the Evangelical church will hold its Childrens Bay services one week from Sunday evening. llev. J. <). Biggs and family arej visiting out of town. Kllorv Horn who for many weeks ' has worked at Laquin, has returned home. Much damage was done by the re ■ cent severe storm. The gardens that are located on the hillsides had their ( seeds washed out, and buried again too far and deep to ever come up. James Jorden's freshly planted Ileitis were washed out and much damage done in general to crops that were above ground. Win. Armstrong has started for I the St. Louis Exposition. He ex pects togo to Oklahoma and Texas before returning. REPUBLICANS ASSEMBLETN CONVENTION! AND NOMINATE A STRONG TICKET. Conservative Men Act Wisely I in Discharge of Duty. For Member of Assembly Br. M. E. Hermann. For Sheriff, Frank Buck. The Standing < 'oiuniitteee suitlior-! ized to till tiny vacancy on the conn-j ty ticket. Never did the Republicans of Sullivan county have a more inter i esting and peaceful convention than that which assembled here Thursday afternoon. The adjourned convention was called to order by Vice Pres. R. ('. R. Kishinka, as President J. W. Rogers was absent. The convention chose J. 11. Rolin to till the chair of President. In the absence of Br. Davics, Secretary, Atty. A. F. lleess was selected to till the vacancy. The name of lion. A. L. Dyer was pi need before the convention for Member of Assembly. The motion was seconded with great applause. Mr. Dyer arose and thanked the del egates for tin' honor, but asked fo have his name withdrawn. The name of Dr. M. E. Hermann was then placed in nomination and was carried by acclamation. Frank Buck of Dushore was nomi nated for Sheriff without a dissent ing vote. F. 11. Ingham ottered the follow ing resolution which was adopted: Resolved, that the County Chair man with the advice and i'ssistiince of the candidates this day nominated be auth* rized to appoint an execu tive eoi imittee whose duty it shall be to assist thechairnian and commit tees iu the conduct and management of the present campagn. Mr. Samuel Messersmith offered the following resolution which was j adopted and reads: Resolved, that the Standing Com mittee is hereby authorized to till any vacancies that now exist or may exist on the county ticket. Attorney \Y. P. Shoemaker was re-elected Chairman and F. 11. Ing-i ham, Secretary of the Standing Com mittee. Business being over a call for Her man was started anil taken up by many voices. A motion was made to appoint a committee to bring the distinguished nominee before the j convention, at that moment the doctor stepped into the room, and blushing like a June bride, asked what all the commotion was about, | as his presence brought a fusillade ol 1 | applause. The president informed j i him w hat had transpired, and in J I accepting the honor confered upon j him the doctor thanked the convcn i tion heartily for their kindness, and i pledged the citizens of Sullivan conn-1 ty a clean, honest and economical : I administration of the affairs of Rep- j I resentative in (Scncrnl Assembly of Pennsylvania, should the people j j elect him. | The convention then adjourned. COM Ml r IK KM KN : Bernice—John Fitzgerald. Cherry Joseph Sick. Colley —L. L. Ross. Davidson James ('. Dcininger. i Dushore—Jacab 11. Bolin. Eagles Mere—Fred W. Peale. Elkland Harry Hess. Fox —Samuel Leonard. Forks —Joseph 11. Bird Forksville —John Randall. Hilligrove—Samuel F. (Salough. Jamison City—lra B. Dunn. Laporte Boro. —C. R. Funston. Laporte Twp.—William J. Low. | Lopez—Samuel C. Messersmith. Mt. Vernon —Geo. Lawrenson. Hinsdale —Jacob Sitzer. T • i Rieketts —Howard Rienharf. Shrewrlturg—Christopher Little, tj run i>Et.K(i.VTKs: 1 j Bernice —John Fitzgerald, 11. W. ' Osier, E. M. Struble. (!- L. Hat ton, James C. MoDennott. Cherry— Wi'liam htilY. Lewis Zaner, R. C. R. Kshinka, H. (J. ; i 'ontiimi'it mi i tiiei-. MORTALLY WOUNDED i iIN A FIGIiT WITH ELMER TINKLE i PAUGK. WEAPON USED IN SELF DEFENCE. CORWIN PORTER SHOT. | Bullet Entered (he Yovng Mun's. Ncek. Death Sadly Deplored. Corwin Porter, son of Harvey Por-! Iter, was mortally wounded while | ! engaged in fighting with Elmer j Tiiiklepaugh. The fatal affray occtircd at Sliunk I early Saturday morning while the! men were returning home from a I dance held in the Sliunk 11 al 1. Mr. Tiiiklepaugh is a youn: man about thirty-five years of age and j single, and has been engaged in conducting a barber shop and con-1 feetionery store at Sliunk- Porter I was aged twenty two years, and j with other companions of bis own age took pleasure in tormenting Tiiiklepaugh in va.iious ways and for mine reason, it is said, held grudges against him. Considerable hard ci der was drank by the men at the dance, and when Tiiiklepaugh start ed for home he met several men looking for trouble and wanting to tight. Being somewhat frightened ! lie started to run and was pursued by the angry men. At the bridge entrance he fired a shot from his re-1 volver, pointing toward the stream j where no harm could bedone. This! he di<l with the intention of frighten ing them so they would stop in their chase after hi to. lie then paused to I see if he was still being followed, and \ Wiis instantly struck and felled to j the ground. One of the number fell upon him, driving blow after j blow into his face. It was then j when he tired the fatal shot, which j penetrated his assailant's neck. Por-' ter exclaimed, "I'm shot," when j one of the men pulled him olf Tink paugli who scrambled 1" his f«_vt and ran home, not knowing whom he j had shot. Porter was taken to his home and medical assistance was summoned, but he was wounded heyotiiul hu man aid, and passed away at six o'clock Saturday evening. The hullit entered above the col lar bone and taking an upward course entered the neck and injuring the brain. II is right side was para lyzed and he never regained con sciousness. Tiiiklepaugh was arrested and brought to the county jail to await trial. 11 is fact: bears evidence of severe punishment and he is re- j jeeiving treatment for hi- bruises, j Ile litis secured A. J. Bradley and 1 jE. J. Mullen as his attorneys in ad justing his conduct with the laws of the Commonwealth. He admits committing the terrible deed and j his plea is that of self defence. LOPEZ NEWS ITEMS. Mrs. John Cogsdcll visited rela tives in lialston last week. Miss Kafliryn Ltiudy of Philadel phia is visiting her parents at this j piace. Mrs. M. Finan and daughter i Ruth are visiting friends in Cherry. Miss Nellie Smith is visiting rela i | tives in Williamsport. Harry .McLaughlin of Bernice was I in town Sunday. Miss Emilia llilenian spent Sun day in IHishore. Miss Maine Smith spent Sunday in town. Miss Anna Met iraw of \Vilkes bar re is visiting her sister, Mrs. .John Kinsly. Mrs. Mary Brewer spent last week | with her si-ter in Laquin. Serious Damsge to Highways and Crops. I I The severe rain storm of Saturday | evening did much damage to roads iin this section. It is estimated that ! sl.L'ou will not cover the expense of repairing the roads in Davidson ; township alone. But one bridge re } mains between Laporte and Sones ! town, and report comes that in vari ous other sections of the county trav ; cling i- rendered dangerous by the many small bridges having been carried out by the high water. 75 TS. PER YEAR DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION NAME A FULL TICKET. One of the Wealthiest Men in Svllivan County Nominated for President Judge. The Democrats of Sullivan Coun ty held a convention Tuesday after noon at tlie Court House to select nominees for the county ticket. John (». Scouten, chairman, called the meeting to order and an nounced the temporary organiza tion as follows: President Patrick Ilan non of Bern ice; \ ice President Jacob Snyder of Forksville; and 1. S. Laird oi Xordniont: Secre taries ( has. Jacks<>n of Bernice, and I< rank Lush of Dushore. Ihe president at the, suggestion of John Scouten appointed James White. Esquire Heist and I). AV. Pealar committee on resolution (which had been previously pre pared by Scouten). At the earnest solicitation of 'Squire White the committee reparcd to the grand jury room aud signed the resolution which were read bvsecretarv Lush. I'. h. Davis was then nominated lor congress and .John Scouten for President Judge. M. J. Phillips for Member of Assembly, George llartzig for Sheriff and Thomas 10. Kennedy for Prothonotarv. County Chairman Scouten found it necessary several times to correct the delegates in their manner of voting telling them that they wore not voting according to their instr uctions. If there were no manipu lation of the credentials by the county chairina . the vote stood as follows; For Representative, Phillips .'J7 Kichlin 15. For Sheriff, Martzig i' 7. Bender 25. After the nominations were made a brief speech was offered by each candidates. \\ hilt* the comm ittee on resolutions were signing the document, Chairman Scouten. nom inee forjudge, stated to the delega tes that he had money to settle all their bills, while in town and any they might have contracted in reach iug the convention hall; '-break downs" included. Loud applause and Hurrah was unintentionally omitted. The general rumor around the town was that in some districts which Scouten caried the result was only reached by throwing out some jof Mullen's tickets which had not beeu printed at Scouten's oflice, al though the tickets were identical with the tickets printed by Scouten. It seems chairman Scouten, when learning that Mr. Mullen had had other tickets printed instructed the vigilance committee not to count any tickets which were not printed by him. Some of Mr. Mullen's friends claim that in close districts Scouten so distributed his tickets, as to make the printing of other tickets necessary of Mr. Mullen's friends were to have any tickets to distribute. \s a matter of natural consequence it was Scouten's con vention. The power of money is great in a delegate election. Mr. Scouten is undoubtedly one of the richest men in Sullivan County. SOUTH BROOK. Miss (iettu Farr of Forksti.il is vis iting at Mary Donegan's. Misses Nellie Hunsinger and Mil lie Kunkle of Lopez visite.l at this place several days last week. Charles Spencer who lias been away for some time has returned ! again. Walter Welsh of Lopez is visiting his nunt, Mrs. M. (Jilfoyle. Mrs. Fred Sehultz and children of Lopez visited at It. B. Herd's sever days last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Trowbridge are visiting at Jenningsville for a icw da\>
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