The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-09-10

to steal watermelons by two companions
and as they were leaving the field thirG
| opened fire on the party with blank cart
| ridges. Crawford ran four miles to his
home, where he was shortly after seizei
with commissions,
At Little Rock Prosecuting Attorney
| Pemberton nolle pressed the cases of tn,
| State against eX-State Treasurer Wood
ruff and the Rev. S. III. Buchanan, ex
treasurer of the insane asylum. Both
were indicted and given several trials fol-
embezzling State funds. Woodruff was
convicted last year and given one year in
the penitentiary, but the Supreme Court
| reversed and remanded the case.
Hosea Brown, of Grants Pass, Ore,
one of the survivors of the war of 1872
is 1O5 years old, and during the past year
his hair, which has been gray fifty years,
has been turning black, until at the pres
ent time there is not a gray hair in his
head. He fought through the war of 1872
and was wounded in an engagement be-
fore Boston. He had two brothers, who
died at the ages of 80 and 93 respectively.
Part of the Equitable Power Company s
plant, four and one-half miles east of
Alton, ILL.,. was blown up shortly before
3 o'clock Tuesday morning. 1t is known
three persons lost their lives. The works
| took fire and the big store house was in
immi.4ent danger for n time. The shock
of the explosion was felt for twenty miles
and East Alton and Upper Alton build
ings were damaged. In Alton many fan
cied that the shock was caused by an
earthquake. A second explosion of less
intensity followed the first.
In recent years it has been thought nee
essary to shorten the length of the grand
parade of the old soldiers, and this year s
parade at st. Paul Wednesday exceeded
two miles by but trifie, and as it was
over smooth streets and easy walking no
i'll effects were anticipated from the
tramp. There is nothing that goes ahead
of this event, and to it many of the 'vets"
looked forward through the entire year,
saving their strength for this return to
the days when as comrades they carried
muskets and touched elbows and found
themselves not so stiff after short march
as now.
William II. and James H. Moore have
agreed to withdraw from the management
of the Diamond Match Company, and
their designations are in the hands of
George NJ. Pullman at Chicago. William
III. Moore is a member of the Board of
Directors, but his brother, while an officer,
is not director. A clear field is left for
installing Messrs. Armour and Pullman in
the reorganized directory. There is every
prospect that the New York Biscuit Com
nj ffoir will ha tod Wit In
difficulty as those of Diamond Match.
designations from the directory of the
Biscuit company are expected to follow
those from the Match directory.
James O'Connell, of Chicago, vice pres
ident of the American Federation of La
Dor. is in Cleveland, Ohio, to confer with
the locked-out men of the Brown Hosting
Company as to a line of action. The ad-
verse decision by Judge Stone in the in
junction proceedings brought to compel
the Brown company to re-employ its old
men has disorganized all their plans.
O'Connell will press upon that organiza-
tion the necessity of aiding the men in
their distress. One of the committee said:
I'VE have not many more than 200 men
now on our books. OF the 500 who were
locked-otit on May 25, about GOO have left
town or secured other situations"
Joseph III. G. Swan, of Wichita, Kan,
widely known for his correct forecast of
the st. Louis cyclone and other meteoro-
logical phenomena, makes the following
prediction: The winter of 1S96-97 will
be very long and cold, with much snow
in all localities where snow is a factor
Blizzards will be numerous, highways and
roi lu-o will la to hn fol
lowed by much rainfall and high water
most of the year. Do not be in haste to
get in spring crops. Plant large and late
varieties of corn. Wet weather will be
your trouble. Provide good shelter for
self and stock and do not forget the suffer-
ing, hungry and poor of our land.
The first accident on the Pixies Peak
Cog-Wheel Railroad since it was opened
hve years ago occurred Sunday, and but
for the safety brakes used on all the ears
of this line trainload of passengers
would have been hurled down the noun
tain to destruction. Coming down the
mountain the sidebars on the driving
wheels on both sides of the engine broke
apart rendering the compressed air brakes
on the engine useless. Conductor Guyman
applied the automatic brakes in the pas
senger coach and soon stopped that. The
engineer and fireman were compelled to
abandon the engine, which was beyond
control, and it went down the twenty-five
per cent. grade at terrific rate of speed
for nearly mile. Then it struck curve,
jumped the track, and shot through the
air for fully $50 feet, going clear over a
bowlder fifteen feet high upon the noun
tain side above the track. 1t plowed i'm
mense holes in the mountain and the ten
der and engine separated just as the en-
gine exploded, hurting iron and steel in all
directions.
China has thrown down the gauntlet
to the big coal miners of the United
States. The American bark Colorado,
which has arrived at San Francisco,
brought mixed sample cargo of anthra
cite and manufactured coal, mined and
made in the TonQuin district. 1t was con-
signed to n San Francisco coal-dealing
firm, which promises to push the Chinese
fuel on the coast market at prices greatly
below those which Pennsylvania and
Welsh coal of the same character is now
bringing. Examining experts have pro-
nounced the Tonquin coal beds almost in
exhaustible. The Chinese article is in the
market to stay, it is said. Tonquin, since
the Tonquin war, has been under the con-
troll of the French, and it is French cap
ital that is now developing the mines,
but the land is still populated by Chinese
as before, and it is the cheap Chinese
labor that is employed in the mines; hence
the extremely low cost of production
which enables the French owners of the
Tonquin mines to undersell the coal pro-
ducers of other countries where labor is
better paid. The coal from the Orient is
said to be of the finest quality. fully equal
to the best Pennsylvania or Welsh coal.
FOREIGN.