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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
AROUND THE WORLD.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE GLOBE.
News from Foreign Shores-Domestic Hap
penings Pointers-Labor Notes
Political Occurrences-Fires, Accidents,
Crimes. Etc.
WIDESPREAD
Destruction ot Life aud Property by
Cloudbust at San Marcus, lex.

Destruction ot Life aud Property by
Cloudbust at San Marcus, lex.
San Antonio (Tex.) special: A cloud
burst struck the city of San Marcos, fifty
miles north of here, and almost destroyed
The lower portion of the town. All the
bridges over the San Marcus River, which
runs through the c.iy, were washed away,
and scores of houses are in ruins. The
tracks of the NJ. h. & I. and & G. N.
Railroads were washed out for three
quarters of mile. Many people were in
jured by falling buildings, and it is be-
lieved that many have been drowned.
Three families living in the lower por-
tion of the city, close TO the banks of the
river, have not been heard from, and it is
feared have drowned. The rush of water
was so great that it swept every thing
before it, and the damage 10 property will
exceed 100000. While the loss of life
will be heavy, all telegraph and telephone
wires are down, and the only information
that has reached the outside world was
sent by messenger to Kyle, Texas, 10
miles distant, and telephOned to this city.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
WHEAT ON THE JUMP.
Prices Have Advanced Steadily and
Speculation Is Reviving.


Speculation Is Reviving.
Within fifteen days the price of wheat
in Chicago has advanced 10 cents, and
there is more buying as prices work
higher. For five consecutive days there
has been an advance above the Closing
figures of the previous day, and last
week the advance was rs cents. This
has brought about a more confident feel
ing in everything in the way of grain and
provisions, and the respondent feeling
that has prevailed for two months is fast
disappearing. Speculation is broadening,
and the farmer is receiving the benefit.
The market Friday was a daisy. The
wise traders, who thought 90 cents for
December was high-water mark, and sold
out their long wheat at fair profit, as
well as the short seller, who has been
feeling for the top to get out line
thought they had cinch, and played for
a break They got it, as December sold
from 6514 cents to 641a cents. Then the
situation changed, and the early sellers
suddenly wanted their wheat back. II
was an ordinary market up to midday,
but in the last hour the price advanced
steadily. After the close sales We're made
at 6Ia4 cents. Fifteen days ago, at oIIs
cents, it had no friends. Now it has en-
abundance of them.
The feature of the advance is that price:
all over the world are moving up as fast
as they do in Chicago, :.nd the cash wheat
is being taken by millers and exporters
faster than at any time i'll years. There
is no manipulation, but simply a supply
and demand market
A coterie of big traders are arrayed on
the bull side, who have great confidence
in the future of values. They are John
Cudahy, w. II. Linn and w. Il. Baker.
They bought wheat because hey believed
It cheap, and w. T. Baker ,locs not hesi-
tate to say that he believes il will sell at
81 before another crop is raised. Supplies
are well adjusted to requirements. and
America for once holds the Key 10 Inc
situation, and can dictate prices to for
.ignerS
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Ii Pleased with America.

United States Commercial Agent Peter
son, at Vancouver, 3. c., sends the fol-
lowing 10 Washington: "At az inter-
view given the COnsuls of this city on
board The steamship Empress of China,
just previous to her departure for Hong
Kong, his EXcellency Lii Hung Chang.
VlcerOy of China, requested me to be-
come the bearer of the following message
to my Government: Il was greatly inn
pressed by the courtesy and kindness ex-
tended to me by the Government of your
country, which regard as the model gov
ernment of Western civilization. l shall
ever retain the most pleasant memories of
my visit to the United States, and l desire
you TO make my greetings to your country
most cordial, as l now take leave of
America ~
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
MISS MARGARET CRAVEN.

secret long after the death of Senator
Fair. Mrs. Craven now claims to be the
lawfully welded wife of the millionaire,
and thus far the evidence she presents in
support of the assertion has withstood all
assaults. In addition to the deeds for a
vast amount of property which she holds,
though counsel for other heirs claim they
are illegal, she asks for her widows share
in the estate of the bonanza king. While
Miss Margaret would inherit nothing di-
rectly from her alleged stepfather, yet as
her mothers heir, she would take front
rank among American actresses. She is
not pretty, but bright, attractive young
woman.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
No Police Force.

At Bellefontaine, Ohio, all city prisoners
have been released for want of money to
pay the Sheriff for the keeping. The en-
tire police force was discharged for the
same reason, and the city is now left
without any protection whatever save that
of the Mayor and City Marshal. The city
has been without saloon nine years, but
the other day the City Council voted TO
leave the question of their return TO vote
of the people. The action of the Alder
men has created much Indignation.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Brother Killed Brother.

Andrew Watt, a plumber, and his
brother, Robert, railroad fireman,
quarreled at Rochester, New York, over
money matters. Andrew left the saloon
in which the quarrel arose, but stopped
outside to talk with two friends. In a
few minutes Robert also left the saloon,
and, seeing Andrew, attacked him. The
two clinched and fell. Before they were
separated Robert stabbed Andrew, infict-
ing wound that caused death an hour
later. The fratricide escaped. He is "a
years of age, while Andrew was rs.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01

Brigade, Second Division, Second Corps.
Army of the Potomac" The cost of the
monument was $4,000, and rises on the
turnpike, 200 yards from the old historic
Dunkard Church, around which the bri-
gade fought So valiantly, losing 545 men
in one days battle.
The orators of the occasion were Gen.
o. o. Howard, Gen. Isaac j. Wistar. Gen.
James w. Latta. Gen. III. II. Bingham,
Col. Thomas }. Stuart. Capt. John e.
Reilly. and CANT. VI. ". Kcrr
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
IN A HEAP
The Bodies of Slaughtered Span:ards
Were Found,

Advices from Havana per steamer Mas
cote state that 81 Spanish troops started
for Calabazar, eight miles from Havana.
Five of the 81 returned to Havana and re-
ported that their companions had been
killed by insurgents. Shortly before
reaching Calabazar the Spaniards said
they were surrounded by about two hun
dred insurgents, who poured in one yolley,
and then charged with the macheie. The
five who returned were badly wounded,
and were left fur dead by the Cubans. On
hearing the story a Spanish regiment was
sent tC the scene, and the bodies of the 81
Spaniards were found in heap. The
wounds made by The machete were fright
full. several of the Spanards having been
behcaded. The Captain was killed in
this manner. Captain General Weyler
has issued orders to newspapers not TO
publish word about the tragedy.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Sparks from the Wires.

a member of the crew of the United
States cruiser Boston died of cholera at
Shanghai.
The noted outlaw and murderer, Bart
Thrasher, and his pal, Doc Panther, last
of the successors of Rube Burrows, were
killed near Horse Creek, Walker County.
Ala, by Deputy Sherilfs Cole and Ball.
of Birmingham.
The marriage of Miss Olive Bagley,
fourth daughter of the late eX-Gov John
]. Bagley, to Stedman Buttrick young
banker and broker of Boston, whose home
is in Concord, Mass. was solemnized at
the home of the brides mother in Detroit.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Told in a Few Lines.

James Mcmillan cut his wife's throa
at Bedford, Ohio, and then escaped to the
woods.
Fire destroyed the MonctOn, ~ B., su-
gar refinery. The loss will exceed the
amount of insurance $4,000.
DR.. Edward Coe Seymour, A. NJ, Phi.
D., principal Of the account department
of tile Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,
died from heart failure at his home in
Brooklyn.
Miss Betsy NJ. Stevens, only sister of
the late Gen. B. F. Butler, is critically
i'll at her home in Nottingham, N II. She
is in her S9th year, but until recently has
retained remarkable health and vigor.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Johu r. Gentry Ia King

John r. Gentry at Rigby Park, Port
land. Me-, paced the fastest mile ever
made in harness and placed the worlds
record at 2:G01a. The day was cold and
light northwesterly winds were blowing
up the stretch when John II. Gentry, with
S. w. And ews upon the sulky, came out
to go against the record of 2:0115, made
on September 3, this year, at Glens Falls,
n. Y, in the second heat of race. He
made the first quarter in 29114, the half in
591z, the three-quarters in l:SO4, and the
mile in 2:001a. This was whole second
less than his former record, which has
never been surpassed by any horse and
Gnly eaualled by Robert j. (2:0I1s) in
1895 ct Ierre Haute
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Exp1osion in a Mine.

By an explosion of gas in the Philadel-
phia and Reading Company's Middle
Creek Colliery, near fremont, Pa, five
men were burned and otherwise hurt.
Two OF them, Jasper Newton, and his
son-in-law, John Sogrove, died few
hours later. Charles S. IIoffstall and
James Norton are also fatally hurt. Ed.
ward Dunmoyer of fremont, has a frac-
tured arm and collar bone.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Brakeman Uses a Pistol.

Charles Sullivan, tramp machinist
from Pittsburgh, was fatally shot by E. e.
Wilson, a Norfolk and Western brakeman
at Portsmouth, Ohio. Sullivan and four
companions had taken possession of a
freight car in the local yards. Wilson
attempted to drive them away and was
assaulted by the gang, when he fired.
Wilson has been arrested. He says he
shot in self-defence.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Tomb for Tippecanoe.

Ex-President Harrison and wife left
New York for Cincinnati, where he goes
to arrange for repairs to the tomb of his
grandfather, President William Henry
Harrison, at North Bend, .. For years
the grave of the General has been in
semi-dilapidated condition, and the grand
son now proposes 10 place suitable stone
over the vault,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Kills Himself, Wife and Child.

indianapolis special: Charles Pfeiffer,
a telegraph operator employed by the In
dianapolis belt road, was found hanging
dead to his doorway Wednesday morning
at his home in BrIghtwOOd. In the house
his wife and child were found dead.
Pfeiffer had cut their throats and then
hanged himself
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Customs officers Dismissed.

The civil service commission is in.
formed by the Treasury Department that
1t has discontinued the services of Will.
lam Springer and John t. Erney, deputy
collectors of customs at Port Huron,
Mich, who were charged by the civil
service commission with having received
political contributions.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Negro Used an AK.

New Orleans special: A dispatch re-
ceived from Tickfaw, La, reports that
three members of the Cotton family, liv-
ing near that place, were murdered by a
negro and another member of the family
was seriously wounded. The negro used
an AK. The Sheriff and posse are in pur-
suit of the muI derer.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
YaIc Student Suicides.

Eugene'C. Gregory, a Yale student, was
found dead at his family's residence IN
New York, ha@ing committed suicide by
nhaltpg Illuminating gas.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
KILLED Wife and Self.

Peter Kama killed his wife with the
blow of hatchet. Then Kama cut his
own throat and died at the feet of the
slain woman. The double tragedy Oo-
CURED at the home of Mrs. Kama's
mother at Buffalo, N. Y, husband and
wife having been separated for several
months.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Ate Poisoned Bread.

At Muncie, Ind, while he was visiting
a aneighbor lady, Mrs. George Rlchmond's
2-year- old son found and ate piece of
bread and butter prepared for mice with
strichnme, and died two hours later. Mr..
Richmond resides four miles south of
Muncie.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Modest Hero Crushed to Death.

Squirting furiously after a pair of rr:i.
away horses at New York Wednesday
afternoon, Mounted Policeman Thomas
r. Mcintyre saved J. z. Robinson and his
wife from serious injury, and as they
hailed him for the hero he was his own
horse threw him, fell on him and crushed
him fatally
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
suicide of Wealthy Man.

John Daniels, the wealthiest man in
Guthrie, o. T., committed suicide, shoot
Ing himself through the heart in the pres
ence of his wife. He is supposed to have
lost his reason through worry over the
serious illness of members of his family.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Mills Burned.

The Cascade Lumber Company's mill
and large portion of the cOmpany's
lumber yards at Burlington, Iowa,
burned. The loss is $4,000 on mills and
probably $4,000 on lumber. Insurance,
about $50. 900,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
To Take the Places of strikers,

About 100 Yiners from the Southern
Kansas and Joplin, Mo-, districts have
left Fort Scott, Kan, in special cars for
Leadville, Colo, TO take the places of the
striking miners there. They 60 under
contract and are piloted by a represents
tive of the mine owners.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Two New comets Discovered.

DR.. Lewis Swift, astronomer of Mount
Lowe Observatory, Pasadena, Cal, has
discovered two new comets quite close
together and only about one degree from
the sun DR.. Swift sighted the first Sun
day, while the second he saw Monday
niuht
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
Bonn ndary Line Between Nicaragua
and Costa Rica Settled.

A cablegram from Manague, Nicaragua,
Just received by the Costa Rica Minister,
Mr.. Calvo, at Washington, conveys the
news of the ratification by the Congress
Of Nicaragua of the convention for the
final settlement Of the long pending
boundary question between these two
~xnuntrioc
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
1000 Armenians Slain.

Constantinople special: ItnOw appears
that 1000 Armenians were killed during
the recent massacres in Egin, in the Khar-
put district. Its reported that 100 Arme-
mans were killed at Divrig, in the same
yicinity
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
CLAIMS FAIRS MILLIONS.
Actress Will Be Rich If Her Mother
Suit Ia SuSfniued


If the fight now being made in the Cali
fornia courts by Mrs. Nettie Craven for
widows share of the estate of the late
multi-millionaire, James G. Fair, is sue
cessful the result will be attended by some
interesting developments. One of these
will be the transformation of Miss Mar
garet Craven, an actress in one of the
Frohman companies, dependent upon a
small salary. into one of the great heir
esses of America. Though keeping it a
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
HONOR FOR ANTIETAM'S DEAD.
Fine Monument on the Battlefield Re-
Gently Dedicated.

The monument to the dead soldiers of
the battle of Antietam, erected by the
Philadelphia Brigade Association, was
recently dedicated with impressive cere-
monies on the old battlefield. The mon
ument is built of Vermont granite, is ii
feet in height. IA feet wide at the base.
with die 6 feet square and 61a feet high.
\ shaft 80 feet in height rises from the
base. The inscription is this: Second
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01

Thomas G. Nillard, aged Al, bricklay-
er, and Miss Mary Litner. aged "A, both
Of Aetnaville, Ohio, were drowned few
days ago. Nillard rocked the boat.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01
uRy Hook or by Crook"

This proverb is said to be as old as the
English invasion of Ireland. Hook and
Crook are well-known historic places
in the port of Waterford; and the pilots
of the invading fleet are said to have
declared that they would safely land
the invading forces by Hook or by
Crook
The Emperor of Austria likes spaet
zle. kind of macaroni, and apple
wine. while the food of the Empress
consists of cold meats, fruits, the juice
of raw beefsteak and tea. She is very
careful of her diet. as she is solicitor.
20 preserve her figure.
Canada proposes TO erect suitable
monument to John and Sebastian Ca
bot at Bristol, En<land, in commemo
ration o. the voyage they took in 1897
starting from that port and ending II
the discovery of the Canadian coast.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-01

III 10 jttoUHI lOT lut Iull III
price Of property, Mr.. SchurZ selects wheat
as an Illustration. and he attempts to show
that there has been Il great Increase in the
annual production Of wheat; that we have
not only opened the whole Northwest. which
is producing wheat. but that our farmers
have to compete with the wheat of India,
Argentine republic and of Russia, and he
assumes that therefore the price of wheat
had to fall.
There are three things to be said in an
swer to this. First. increase in production
does not produce fall in price. provided
there is equal increase in consumption.
This is self-evident, and Mr.. Giffen. the sta
tistician Of the British Board of Trade, has,
different occasions. pointed out that for
more than fifteen years prior to 1873 the
increase in the production of nearly all
commodities in the world has been greater on
the average. year by year. than the increase
has been in any year since 1873, and yet. as
he SAYS, during all of those years prior to
1S1:; prices kept constantly rising. notwith-
standing the enormously increased produc-
ton while since 1873 prices have been stead
lily falling. Notwithstanding the fact she in
crease was not as great as it formerly was.
1.-The second observation is that wheat has
not fallen in price any more than all other
commodities; has fallen fo more than wages
1t is not contended that Russia, India and
the Argentine republic have entered into
competition In the production of all other
products which our people put upon the
market.
.'These two poinis show that Mr.. Schurz
Is entirely wrong ia his theories. The third
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-07

In this issue will be found q
very full synopsis of statistics of
the work of the Queens Hospital
for the year 1895. 1t would seem
that the institution is fairly real
izing the main object of its royal
founder, Queen Emma, in the
number of Hawaiians availing
themselves of its benefits, that
to them alone are free. The
entire number of natives treated
was 736, or about two for every
day in the year. An interesting
feature of the figures is the large
number of japanese having re-
course to the hospital. The Bull
LETIN wishes to keep the hospital
prominently before the public
eye, partly for the purpose of pro-
noting the object of having it
made free to the poor Of alma
tionalities. Under the control of
some of our best citizens as the
Queens Hospital is, it would be
better no doubt to make it the
foundation of great general hos
pital. both from economical and
sanatory points of view, than to
establish a new institution.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-07
BY AUTHORITY.
By Tie PRESIDENT Of he Republic Of Hawaii
D PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the Constitution requires that
the first regular Session Of the Legislature
of the Republic Of Hawaii shall be held on
the THIRD WEDNESDAY OF FEBRU.
AIRY, 1895;
Now THEREFORE,, l, SANFORD B. DOLE,
President of the Republic of Hawaii, here
by give notice that such Session will con-
vene at the Executive Building in Homo
lulu, at 10 O'Clock noon, ON WEDNESDAY,,
THE 10TH DAY OF THE PRESENT
MONTH OF FEBRUARY
Written at the Executive Building in Ho.
nolulu, this 18th day of February, A. d.
1896.
[Signedl
SANFORD b. DOLE,
[sEALl
By the President:
j. A. King,
Minister of the Interior,
22l-u.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-07
TOO PREVIOUS.

Kate Field approached Chief
Justice Judd last Monday with an
earnest appeal for the manuscript
of his lecture on the earlier con-
situations of Hawaii, full report
of which was published in the
EVENING BULLETIN of that date.
Her argument to the Chief Jus
tice was that the Honolulu papers
would only garble it, whereas she
would be able to handle it without
error in the printing. However,
the BULLETIN didn't make mess
of it, but got the speech, which, by
the way, is most valuable docu-
ment, into its columns without
error. Miss Field must not ina
CINE that because we are away
off here in the middle of the
Pacific, it should follow that we
are totally ignorant.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-07

ments to the Land Act, so as
to better promote the settling
of public lands, and various
schemes of public improvement
and private enterprise will doubt
less materialize. 1t will be one of
the busiest sessions of a Legisla.
ture ever held in Hawaii, and it
is to be hoped one of the most
useful for the country. Honolulu
may have a system of sewerage,
also an electric street railway, out
of the session. Sanitation has
become one of the leading subjects
here since the visitation of
cholera last autumn. Our volca-
no has lately resumed activity,
the news of which having gone
abroad, by previous mails, will
probably soon bring us many
strangers to entertain. Nearly
every steamer now brings one or
more men who come to look into
our rising coffee industry. 1t is
only matter of time when coffee
will be a vigorous rival of sugar
for the commercial king-ship of
Hawaii.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-02-07

A farm laborer died recently in
Lyminster, near Arundel, Eng
land, whose wages while he could
work were $500 a week, as he
never rose above working bailiff
and cowman. He was able to
work until he was 70, when he
had saved no less than $1,000. On
this he managed to live for twelve
years longer, with a little help
from his former employer. Then,
as he outlived his savings, he had
to be relieved by the poor law
officials, dying a pauper at 81.