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PIRTLE.
DUSHOKE ITEMS.

Carpenters are at work on the
new Lutheran church.
Dan Bahr. of Fall Brook, Tioga
county, is visiting relatives in town.
w. d. Wagner, of Williamsport
spent Sunday with his folks at this
place.
There were heavy frosts on Sun
day and Monday nights and we fear
the early fruit has been damaged.
There is some talk of organizing
fire company in Dushore. Hope
it will not terminate in mere talk.
Box party and ice cream festival
in Carey hall for the benefit of the
Lutheran church ON Friday uight of
this week.
Tuesday was "circus day" and
the small boy was in the height of
his glory. Mr.. Lee did not get rich
in Dushore, however.
Simon Wenrich has gone to Will.
transport where he has accepted
position in the business office of
Frank Wanek's bottling establish
ment.
Mrs. Thos. Lavev, of Cherry died
on Wednesday of last week, aged
about 33 years. The remains were
entered in the Catholic cemetery at
this place.
The saw mill of t'inan Brothers
between Dushore and Laddsburg
was totally destroyed by fire on
Saturday night, together with lot
OF lumber There was no insurance
and the loss is estimated at more
than five thousand dollars.
There was a general meeting of
the Patrons of Industry in Garey's
hall i'll view of uniting the several
branches of the order in this county
into one organization on Saturday
which was very successfully ac-
com plished There are about half
a dozen branches in the county all
of which were we'll represented.
Che Patrons of Industry is an order
in the interests Of The farmers aud
it is their main object to induce
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SIiERIFF'S SALE. by virtue of a writ OF
1OFi. Fa. issued out of he Court of Common
Plsas of Sullivan county and to me directed
and delivered there will be exposed to public
sale at the Court House in the Borough of La
Porte, on Saturday May 10Th, 1891 at oclocll
p. 10. tue following real estate viz:
All that piece parcel or lot of land situate 4
in the Tow nship OF Laporte County of Sullivan
and State of Penna bounded and described as
follows viz:
Beginning at corner of land formerly OF NJ
Trough thence by said lot North 34l degrees
East 5S perches TO LaPorte and Davidson road,
thence along said road North 65l degrees West
IL perehes, thence hy same North II degrees
West, IL peIchas thence by same 35 del rees
West perches theece North So degrees West
32 perelies thence North rs degrees West IL
perches theree North 444 degrees West and
i've tenth perehs to line OF Warner lot; thence
along same 80 degrees West 81 pelches to
corner of the lot formerly of Joseph Carey, and
thence by tie same South 81 degrees East s4}
perches to the pace of beginning: Contain n Q
thirty two and one half t32l) acres be the
same more or less and being part of larger
tract of land in the name of Wm Parker and
being part of the same land which E. Nj.
Dunham ami wife conveyed to Emma Gansel
who is the grantor hereof by deed dated March
10th A. ID. 1881. And having thereon erected
a two story plank house and other outbuildin gs.
About acres under cultivation aud we'll
watered
Seized taken in execution and to be sold as
the property of .. Jonolhan Thomas, at the suit
of I. j. Keeler.
JOHN UTZ. High Sheriff.
sheritf's Office, LaPorte, Pa, April 20, 1891.
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LEGAL.
C0URT PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, Hon. ]. A. SITTsER, President
Judge, Honorables Robert Taylor Jr and e.
A Strong Associate Judges of the Courts of,
Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Deliverer
Quarter Sessions of the Peace. Orohans
Court and Common Pleas for the County of
sullivan, have issued their precept to me di-
rected. bearing date Feb. 2S, A. b., 1890, for
holding the severa! courts in the Borough of
Laporte, on MONDAY, the 18th day ofMay
A. d. 1891, at o'clock P. Nj.
Therefore, notice is hereby given to the Cor>
oner, Justices of the Peace and Cons.ables
within the county, that they be then and
there in their proper person at O'Clock p. IN.
OF said day, with their rolls, records, inouisi-
tions, examinations and other remembrances
to those things which to their offices appertain
to be done. And to those who are bound by
their recognizances to prosecute against prison
ers who are or shall be in the Jail of the said
county of fSullivan, are hereby notified to be
then and there to prosecute against them as
will bejust.
JOHN UTZ, Sheriff
sherif's Office, Laporte Pa, April II, 1891.
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w ny we are
Doing this

X X X
To make room for our large stock
Spring and Summer Goods that we
are about to receive-Consisting of
Mems Boys and Children's Summer
Clothing, Hats and Caps, Straw
Goods, Prints. Gingham, Ladies and
Gents furnishing Goods and every
thing kept in + irst Glass General
Store. Our stock of Groceries and
Provisions Tobacco and Cigars are
always complete. We are also
agent for the celebrated Steel
King Spring loot Harrow, Ajax
Cnltivator and Hille Dowkers and
Williams & Clarks Fe lizers for all
crops.
J. H. CAMPBELL son.
Feb. 1851.
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SULLIVAN COUNTY OFFICIAL
DIRECTORY.

Hen. JOHN A. SITTSER, President judge
p 0. address, Tunkhanncck, Pa
HON. RoBT. TAYLOR. ji., r A. STRONG
Associate Judges ?. o. address TAYLOR,
Muncy Valey-STRoNG.- -Dushore, Pa.
X j. THOMSON, District Attorney, z. o. ad
dres --Dusbore. Pa.
A WALSH. prothonotary Register q Recor.
der P. o addess Laporte, Pa.
JOHN UTZ Sheriff P. o. address s-Dushore
Hon Russell KARNS, Representative, P. 0,
address s-LaPorte, Pa.
M. r. BLACK, County Superintendent, P. O.
aid. ess-Fork-ville, Pa.
WILLIAM MURRAY, County Treasurer, p
O. address LAHORE, Pa
r. M. STORMoNr Commissioners Clerk, P.
O. aadrrss-LaP Porte, Pa.
w. B. ItTLL, Coroner, P. 0. addiess-laPorte
CHAS. HAAS, THoS. FARRELL, Jury Com.
missiouers, p. o. address, HAAS-HillsGrove,
FARR LL-pushore, Pa
@ Q. WRIGHT; U. BIRD, j. II. SPENCER
Auditors.
NATHAN PERsT-N, County Surveyor, P
address--Dushore, Pa.
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HILLSGROY re ITENs.

MIR. EpIIoR-I will endeavor to
give you few points to set on.
! Mr.. Edward Ives and wife of
Muncy are visiting friends at this
place.
Bark peelers are wanted in large
number at the bark camps at and
near this place.
G. w. Sadler said he was going to
sell what few chickens he has and
go TO Alaska. Good bye Claudy.
Mr.. ]. P. McCanel expects to
finish hsssawing the stock. of logs at
the Hoyt Bros. lumber yard, this
week.
Mr.. Aaron Lewis bought very
cheap horse some time since, but he
paid good big price for it, just the
same.
1t is funny that our two hotel
proprietors should make such u
struggle over 3 or 4 cords of fire
wood this warm weather.
G. r. Sadler goes out fishing quite
often, but has very poor luck. The
reason Charley assigns for this, is,
the town don't furnish the right
kind of bait
Two young men of our town sang
Annie Roney for the boys the other
evening. but they didn't even hum
it the next day-they say calves
are cheap now.
Mr. John Morne of this place died
on May 2. Funeral took place at
Montoursville Tuesday. Deceased
leaves wife and eight children
His sickness was less than week.
The Fl. G. band was up town
Wednesday evening of last week
and gave some very choice music
Come again boys Paddy said he is
all right so long as the heads will
hold.
Some of our young people were
out to break down the other even
ing. The break was coming home,
however, one of the party is black
smith and can repair the wagon
cheap.
In regard to the telephone, if it is
a give away as it is now, what would
ii be if it was run by the female sex
The young man that sent the mes.
sage from Forksville said he full
filed his appointment all the same,
and didn't kill his horse either.
In regard to the HillsGrove band
we are ready to receive gifts from
all, even the Editor of the REP. to
buy furniture. If he can't sit on
20 inch plank we will get him the
side of barn. Seems he is getting
big since last Fall.
MIR. VIM. Hull lost a watch last
week while out fishing that cost him
over $4,000. 1t seems strange
that a temperance advocate like MIR.
II. should loose his watch while on
an expedition of this kind, but we
hope he may find it again.
The county bridge at this place is
being repaired under the supervis-
ion of j. G.. Plotts and the job when
completed will be well done and
credit to the present beard of
County Commissioners. The re-
pairing will be done as soon as pos
sIble.
PIRTLE.
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There is not another town in the
state where more quarrelling is in
dulged i'll by the newspapers, than
Williamsport. Well, perhaps they
are unable to find news enough to
"fill up" with, which will account
for their numerous battles on paper.
Milton Record.
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A man who has tried it says, that
two or three dandelion leaves chew
ed before going to bed, will always
induce sleep, no matter how nervous
or worried a man may be. And
they cause no weariness or headache
such as follows the use of chloral or
morphine.
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fellows never 90. we iouhQ hulhai
blood.
THE ARREST OF ''FRENCHY no. 2. "
"About 5 o'clock Sunday morn
ling we arrested "Frenchy No. 2
aud found that the night OF the
murder he had been working at 9
place about four and one half miles
from the East River hotel, so we lei
him go. 'F'renchy No. l. has lied
IN everything he has told us. He
claimed that he did not sleep at the
hotel that night, but that he was in
BROOKLYN He was finally made to
admit that he lied. He then said
that he came to New York the Wed
nesday previous to the murder from
Jamaica, L. l., where he had been
working about hotel. Sunday
morning | sent him over there in
charge of two detectives, but he
could not find the place.
owe learned, however, that he
had been discharged from the
Queens county penitentiary April
ID, where he had been sent for
vagrancy. He denied all knowl
edge of the witnesses we have in
custody, but they positively identi-
fed him. Mary Mlniter has also
lied from beginning to end, and
still insists that she Jet Shakespeare
in with blond man.
"The prisoner gave several lying
explanations of how he got the blood
on his clothing. We have not been
able to trace the knife, and we cam
not fasten it on 'Frenchy' yet. It's
such knife as is used on banana
ships, or may have been picked ous
of the gutter We are working now
to find the owner of it. You know
as much about the case as | do now,
and ifyou can't draw your own con-
clusions / can't help you further.
Understand, ! don't say that
'Frenchy' did it; L simply give you
the facts as have them.
NOT THE LONDON RIPPER.
No, do not consider this fell
low 'Frenchy' to be connected in
any way with the Wbitechapel mur-
ders in London. In every instance
there the murderer showed some
knowledge of anatomy, and he dis
embowled his victims evidently for
the purpose of securing a certain
portion of the body. In this case
the slashing seems to have been
done simply from brutality and no
part of the body was removed. At
any rate, the knife used was not
such as would have been carried by
a person who premeditated such u
brutality"
LITTLE ABOVE MONKEY IN IN
TELLECT.
Frank Sherlock (Frenchy) was
taken from the Oak street station TO
the general sessions court, and then
removed to cell at police head
quarters. He is an Algerian, about
forty years old. He is about 6 feet
tall and very slim, weighing not
more than $50 pounds. His COM
plexion is swarthy and his hair and
mustache-not very heavy-are
very black. His cheek bones are
very prominent and his cheeks
sunken, his nose is long and rather
pointed, and his eyes have a wild
hunted look. His whole appear
ance bore out the statement of DR..
Edison, who made an examination
into his sanity, that he is half
idiot, little above the monkey in in
tellec..
Dir. Edison is analyzing the blood
stains and verifies all the inspector
has said. The body of the murder
ed woman was forwarded from the
Grand Central station yesterday to
her relatives in Salem.
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AUDITORS NOTICE.

The undersigned auditor appointed by the
Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan county,
TO dis rbuts the funds arising FROM the Sheriff's
sale the property of Conrad Neatlauer at
tie suit of \. N. Belts, Cashier will attend to
the duties Of his appointment at his office in
Laporue, OF Friiay May 18th. 1891, at 10
o'clock a. IN. when all parties having claims
on said funds must present them duly authenti-
Gated or be forever debarred from coming ia on
said funds
F. II. INGHAM, Auditor.
LaPorte. Pa, April 9th 1891.
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The grand jury investigating the
New Orleans mob, did not find a
true bill against any of the partici-
pants. They say they would not
ne justified in doing SO. Good for
the New Orleans Jury.
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FACARAcUs.

1t is poor man, indeed who bor-.
rows his neighbor's REPUBLICAN
when he can get it q whole year for
only Sl25 in advance.
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merchants to sell their goods at ten
per cent above cost for cash to men,
bers OF the otder.. They have made
|spch arrangements with some merch-
ants in neighboring towns and will
probably accomplish what is de-
sired in this place.
II
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Frank ShDrlick, Is Very Strong
ON His CIothine.
New YORK, May 1.-The detect-
ives who have been engaged in the
search for the murderer of Carrie
Brown at the East River hotel on
the night of April "a. believe they
have secured the Ripper in the per-
son of Frank Shellick, alias
"Frenchy," alias Bulkley. "Frenchy''
has been under arrest since last FRI
day night. Inspector Byrnes has
given the facts cleaned by the police
in thir Investigations. "The night
before the murder" he said,
'Frenchy' occupied a room in the
East River hotel with woman, and
during Thursday and Thursday
night was seen at several places in
that locality with Shakespeare He
was drinking.
"About IL o'clock on the night of
the murder shakespeare entered
the hotel in company with a man
whose identity is not known.
'Frenchy' had frequently occupied q
room there, and had many times
beaten and bitten women, taken
their money away and created such
a disturbance that the proprietor
was obliged to throw him out. Men
unaccompanied by women were not
allowed on the top floor of the hotel,
and especially stringent was this
rule so far as 'Frenchy' was con-
cerned.
HE GOT ROOM THIRTY-THREE.
"The women were usually left
alone In their rooms at an early
hour, and this man was in the habit
of robbirg them. On the night of
the murder Eddie Fitzgerald, who
was in charge of the Water street
door, did not know of this regula-
tion
''Shortly after midnight 'Frenchy'
came in and said he wanted a room,
giving the boy twenty-five pennies,
and being assigned to room 33, just
across the hall from where Shake
speare' was. Later in night the
boy turned the pennies over to Sam
Shine, who was at the desk. When
Shine learned that 'Frenchy' was up
stairs there was some talk about
putting him out, but they finally
concluded to let him remain owing
TO the lateness of the hour. About
5 in the morning the fellow was
seen to leave.
TELLTALE BLOOD STAINS.
"He turned his head from Fitz-
gerald as he passed, but the boy
recognized him and so reported to
the clerk. 'Frenchy' wore no under
clothes. He had on a course me-
Tino shirt, trousers and socks On
the lower front edge of the shirt we
found human blood.
con the left shoulder of the shirt
there was blood, as if the woman in
her struggle had grabbed him there.
There was a large blood stain on
one Of his wristbands. that he had
tried to wash out, and there was al
so blood stains on his stockings.
There was bloody marks on the
door of room 33, which we cut out.
The inside Of the door also had
blood on it, which probably came
from the mans fingers in closing
the door. A chair in room SO had
blood on it, as did the mattress on
which 'Flenchy' slept, and the
b nkets had clots of blood on it.
W. procured nail knife and clean
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PENSION FOR ALL.
THE OLD RELIAB r AGENCY.

THE OLD RELIAB f AGENCY.
WE NEVER FAIL OF SUCCESS.
! Recent acts of Congress extend the benefits
OF the pension laws to ALL DISABLED SOL
DIERS, no matter whether their disabilities
were incurred in the army or since discharge.
Every soldiers widow, VINO has to work for a
living, and his min r children. and the parents
of all unmarried volunteers who died in the
service, if now in need, can get pensions. Ad-
dress, with stamp for return postage.
G. L. EBERHART. Attv-at-Law,
Beaver Falls. Beaver Co., Pa.
Nov 10. '90
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NO. 10 Is rHE FEEND.

The Circumssantial Evidence Against
the Prisoner, Whose Real Name Is
Frank Shorlick, Is Very Strong
There Were Numerous Blood stains
on His ClOthine.
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ell his nails, as it is something these
fellows never do We found human
1Ioa1
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the matter, and cannot bear to think
that my appearance ha anything to
do with it, although sfterward real
lied that "plebe" with q plug" hat
was looked upon as a sort of freak in
military circles.
The commandment gave me the liberty
of West Point until the following morn
ing at nine o'clock, when was to re-
port to the medical examiners. l re-
paired to Cozzen's hotel, obtained a
sentry box on the top floor, and went
to bed.
At nine o'clock the next morning /
reported to the medical examiners.
There were three of them and they
were in full uniform. BY their direc-
tions stripped off my clothes. They
then held up cards of different hues
and compelled me to guess their colors.
Then they exhibited cards printed in
differentiated letters and was in
structed to read the print at different
distances.
Then was compelled to hop around
the room like frog, first on one foot
and then on the other. Then / had to
swing my arms around in different di-
rections until / resembled a wind
mill working on full time. When l
imagined that they were about through
with me one of them placed his ear
against my spinal column, supposedly
for the purpose of ascertaining what
was going on inside.
Another tapped me on the chest and
then listened, evidently with desire to
ascertain if he would be invited to
spend the day. While they were thus
amusing themselves with me the third
was taking measurements of my
height, breadth, depth and style OF
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LARGE STAKES.
A Game Of Poker Played On . Elyina
stock Train.

a Game Of Poker Played On . Flying
stock Train.
"The game began at Texarkana, y
said Pittsburgher who occasionally
drops into poker, 1.-THE oldest and one
of the biggest poker games ever played.
1t was early in the fall last year when
four big ranchmen, who own between
them thousands Of acres and tens Of
thousands of cattle in Tx Is. met at the
terminus of tho Iron Mountain road.
They were bound Tor Chicago, where
they intended to seil their cattle, and
as the wealthiest eattlemen of the great
southwest often do, they preferred "a
make the journey in the caboose of Z
stock train-the atmosphere was more
congenial and the chance to indulge in
the national game was tempting. The
game was not peculiar in itself; 1t wa
carried ON in the free and easy bui
business-like way that obtains in the
west, but the value Of the chips wa
stated in unusual terms, white stand
ing for one steer, . red chip for 1--WE
steers, and blue chip for ten steers,
A tolerably large herd of cattle wa
upon the dry goods box, which served
for . table, at every DEAL and one jack
pot contained no less that three hun.
dred head Of cattle. From Texarlans
to St Louis the players' luck was about
even, although hundreds Of hands were
played in that time. But when they
struck the Alton and entered the home.
stretch for Chicago the contest grew
8epoer and n about every third hand
the betting ran high Luck turned IN
one Of the players favor-the man who
had least rocks. by the way-and when
the multiplying nehts on the prairie
showed that the train was nearing
Chicago the game ended The otheI
three men had lost every chip they had
had borrowed again and again with the
same result. And when the winner
counted mp he found he had won a, 00o
head Of cattle, belonging to the other
three men IN the game, or IN dollars
eloae upon eatQ, ooa - Pittsburgh DIE
patch.
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"rLAYINe HoRsEY. /"

long after midnight. startled by rap
on the door and standing in their night
clothes Tin the first position of sol
der" In these festivities my new hat
came in for its share of the fun. and it
finally became of so much trouble to
me that traded with one of the boot
blacks for an old cap.
The mental examination" consisted
of questions in the rudiments of arith-
metic, geography, grammar, history,
etc. To do work in arithmetic through
decimal fractions, to bound states and
locate their capitals, and tell how to
travel from one point to another. to
name the presidents of the United
States and to have a fair knowledge of
ancient and modern history; to be able
to parse sentences and to read, write
and spell correctly was all that was
required of us.
Those who passed their examinations
had their choice of roommates so far as
was possible, and cadet life began with
two in each room. Those found fail
ing to pass examination were dismissed.
The examination always begins in
June and the cadets go into camp on
the parade ground and have all the
hard work and fun combined that they
want l remained there three months.
Then Solored cadet got hit with .
dipper. A dozen of us came to New
York that hight and the country was
deprived OF the valuable services of
that number of possible Indian fight
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some time or another or who is not
now cogitating whether he would be an
ornament to the army and could not
distinguish himself as an Indian fighter.
Perhaps he would like to know some
thing of the way boys are received at
the academy.
In the year 1872, in the early summer,
received an appointment to n cadet
ship at West Point through the kind
ness Tor unlfindness) of Hon. John G..
Schumacher, then congressman, and
now a prominent lawyer. l thought
it was kindness then. After /
had been week at West Point be-
gan to realize that it was a deeply
planned scheme on the part of my
father to lessen his responsibilities and
to have me killed.
With my credentials in my grip and
with light heart boarded Hudson
river train and started on my career as
u soldier. Everybody must have real
lied the fact that was born warrior
as passed through the street on my
way to the station. My shoulders were
thrown back, my chest was thrown
forward, my chin was depressed, and /
kept perfect step to the martial airs
produced by the organ grinders on the
route.
the only thing that detracted from
the suggestiveness of soldier was my
hat, which was of the kind known as
plug That plug hat cost me many
weary thought after arrived at the
point.
At Garrison's took boat across the
river to the government reservation.
1t was just in the early evening, and as
! landed a gun doomed out it's greeting.
] wondered II they treated every new
cadet in that way, but afterward ascer-
tanned that it was the formal notifica-
ton to the sun that they. were through
with him for the day.
Climbing the hill, ct once repoi ted,
as had been instructed to do, to the
commandment Gen. MacMahon was
the commandment Of the post at Mat
time. He afterward committed suicide
BY throwing himself from = Hudson
river boat I hold myself Ruiltleas n
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