Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-10

The Sullivan Publishing Com
pany stockholders met at the offie
of the secretary, II. j. Ingham, on
Monday, and reelected the officers
of the previous year. a dividend
of five per cent was declared for
the stockholders.
On Tuesday the state treasury
passed into the hands of Colonel p.
Barnett, who succeeds J. j. Beacon
The balance in the general fund at
the time of the transfer was $500
600.
The intimation that q team with
loaded wagon going down the
Ingham hill got fast in one of those
water crossings and was unable to
extricate the load, is probably q
mistake-in the direction the team
was going.
Orator Puff, who speaks from
the smokestacks of manufacturing
and commerce, will make speeches
night and day all over the country
in the coming campaign. For full
particulars address his advance agent
VIM. Mckinley, Washington.
The saw mill of E. F. Ives, located
near Eagles Mere. was totally de-
stroyed by fire about 2 O'Clock Sun
day morning, entailing a loss OF
about $4,000. 1t is said that no in
surance was carried. Forest fires is
likely the cause of origion.
Miss Julia O'Donovan complet-
ed her term in the second grade of
the Borough school on Thursday.
Owing to loss of time the other grades
will continue for several days longer.
Master Herman Yeager left on
Monday for Freeburg, Pa, where
he will attend the spring term at
the musical college, devoting his
time to the piano.
The Ladies Society of the Bap-
tist church, will serve ice cream in
the Baptist Church parlors every
Saturday evening during the sum-
mer, commencing Saturday evening
May -,
All the big States that have recent
ly been holding Republican conven-
ton are out strong for eXpasion.
They want to extend the markets
for American farm and factory
products.
Exports of American manufactures
will pass the S4OO, 100000 mark for
the fiscal year ending with next
month. In 1895 they only amounted
to 1888, ,595,743. And yet, there are
a few people who still opposing pro-
lection and commercial expansion.
1t was in 1895 that Senator Hoar
delivered speech in which he said,
speaking of the tree planted by the
first American settlers: 'Its boughs
hang over the Pacific; and in time
in good time-it will send its roots
beneath the waves and receive un-
der it's vast canopy the islands of the
sea-" Why, this must be that good
time. I
Europe affords the best market
for American farm products and
manufactures, buying from us almost
to the extent of a billion dollars a
year. Why not keep on terms of
friendship with our best customers.
A Kansas editor has referred to
the Honorable Champ Clark as "a
diamond pin in the shirt front of
freedom. Those who have witness
ed the manner in which the gentle
man from Missouri hops about from
issue to issue are disposed to regard
him as a sort of lynch pin in the
shirt front of fieedom.
What Lincoln was to his
country in his day, Mckinley is
to the country to-day; and the
nation which expressed its endorse
ment of Lincoln by re-electing
him to the presidency, will set
similar mark of appreciation ON
the latest of his distinguished
successors.
The trust problem will soon be
solved even if Congress does not
adopt any law on the subject. The
individual states are rapidly passing
laws controlling the operations of
trusts Incorporated in other states
and practically confining them to