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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
LESS MONEY IN ILLINOIS BANKS.
Outside of Chicago, Loans and Dis
counts HaYe Declined $4,000. GOO.

Outside of Chicago, Loans and Dis
counts Have Declined $6,OO0,OOO.
A remarkable change in the condition
of the POO national banks in Illinois, out
side Chicago, has taken place in the last
twelve months. George NJ. Coffin. acting
Comptroller of the Currency, has made a
statement showing the condition of these
banks Oct g. 1t shows that the individ.
ual deposits have decreased from nearly
S4S000.000 TO S39,5OO,000 in one year
The loans and discounts in the same
period have fallen from about $50, ,OO0, ,0O1
to S44,OOO,000. Oct. 6 these banks held
So, 9S3, ,I0J in specie, against $4,194, ,701
year ago. The Illinois banks now owe
SoOl ,630 to other national banks, against
SI42, 123 due them from such banks, and
they owe State banks 81 ,62S. .107, against
1871 ,043 due from State banks. The re-
serve agents of Illinois banks hold $6,-
63I ,6S5 to their credit. The average re
serve held is now 31.40 per cent, which
is the largest held within n year. the re,
serve having been 2I.94 per cent. Sept,
2S, 1896, 29.S7 per cent. May Z, and 29.Ul
per cent. July IA.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Long Pension Suit Ended,

The LonG-Lochren pension case was
dismissed by the United States Supreme
Court Monday on the ground of abate-
ment by reason of the retirement OF
Judge Lochren from the Office of Com
missioner of Pensions. The case was
brought by Judge Long of the Michigan
Supreme Court TO test veterans rights
Judge Long drew pension of So a
month and the reduction of the rating TO
$50 Il month was stubbornly contested in
the courts of the District of Columbia
and finally carried to the Supreme Court
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05

A Confederate captain tells a good
story of two small boys who. during the
civil war, found their way into Il Lou
isiana regiment to which the captain
belonged. Both were from 10 to II years
of age and were serving as drummers.
At the battle of Shiloh one of these
little fellows threw away his drum
early in the engagement, picked up the
musket of n wounded soldier, and
fought like Il young hero as long as the
battle ragged.
Not long after the battle, while the
boy soldiers Iaurels We're still fresh
upon him. his mother learned where he
was and came after him. The regi-
ment was drilling at the time. and the
boy was with it. The mother rushed
upon the drill ground and seized her
boy.
Run away from home, will you?'
she screamed; why, you are nothing
more than baby. You come right
home with your mother"
AS the boy showed some unwilling
ness. she took him across her knee.
and, in the presence of the whole regi-
ment. gave him sound spanking. Then
She led him away. the boy crying and
boohooing at the top of his voice.
She had to wait some time for
chance to get away. and meantime one
of the soldiers saw the boy. who was
still CRYING. and asked him if he was
CRYING because his mother hurt him.
Mo- he shouted. DO you suppose
a soldier like me would cry because he
was hurt? Didn't l fight just as well
as the best of them at the great battle:'
'Yes. Johnny, but what are you cry
ing about
spanked me before the whole regi-
mentr'
In spite of his protest the boy had to
90 Nome with his mother.
Amenities of the War.
Stuart Lees famous chief of cavalry
the Murat of the Confederacy-wa
ordered to cross the Potomac harass
the rear of McClellan's army, and in
wade Pennsylvania. With five thou
sand troopers, he encircled the whole
Federal army unchecked. and McCleI-
Ian, in dispatch to Halleck, excused
his failure to arrest the march of the
daring raiders around his army (Which
had received eighteen thousand fresh
horses since the battle of Sharpsburg)
by stating: ''The horses of this army
are greatly fatigued. and have sore
tongues" To that dispatch President
Lincoln sent this characteristic answer:
..Will you pardon me for asking what
YOUR horses have done since Antietam
that fatigues anything?' Hut Me
Clellan neve. deigned reply.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
CIRCLING THE GLOBE.
CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVEN
DAYS DOlNGS.
Intelligence BY Electric Wire from Every
Quarter OF the Civilized World, Embracing
Foreign Affairs and Home Happenings of
m Important Nature.
SHE LAY DOWN

Deliberately on the Track in Trains
Path-Tragic Suicide After a Quar-
rel.
Upper Sandusky (Ohio) special: When
the engineer of No. &c, fast freight on
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railway, was approaching Kirby, west of
here, he was Mortified TO see woman
step upon the track and deliberately lie
down. He Immediately reversed, but too
late, and tho woman was struck. The
train was stopped, and the woman, still
living, but fatally injured, was taken TO
Kirby, where j: was found that her name
was Mrs. Mary Fener, wife of we'll
known farmer. 1t seems that quarrel
occurred between her and her husband.
They started TO drive to Kirby, and the
quarrel continued. When near town the
husband said he would return home. lie
did SO, and Mrs. Frener proceeded to Kir-
by on foot, walked TO the railroad track
and committed suicide, dying soon after
ward. She was the mother of eight chill
dren,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
NEW BATTLESHIP ILLINOIS.
It Will BE One of the Finest Vessels
of Its Kind AfiOat.


The battleship Illinois will be worthy
of its name. 1t will be only equaled by
it's sister ships. the Alabama and the
Wisconsin, which will be substantially
constructed on the same lines. The new
Illinois will be as far superior to the
model battleship illinois" exhibited at
the Worlds Fair as that admirably de
signed vessel was superior to the old
cruisers, as they are now termed--the
Charleston, the San Francisco and the
Baltimore-although they in their time
We're heralded as the pioneers of the new
navy. In navy department parlance. TIE
battleship Illinois was known until the
other day as 'Battleship No. Z"
1t vii! have a displacement of 11.523
tons, engines twin screws) of 10000
horse power. a speed of sixteen knots an
hour and a battery calculated TO sink any
ship afloat. The Illinois will carry four
13-inch guns, the most deadly naval
weapon ever yet forged, with Il range of
eight or nine miles. two of them ranged
forward and two aft; she will have
broadsde battery of ten 5-nch guns, five
on each side. and two more of the same
formidable weapons in what are called
superposed turrets. Besides this she will
have two large secondary batteries. con-
sisting of one and six FOUNDER guns, and
number of machine guns. She will
also have military masts, with machine
guns in the tops. The armor plating is to
be of the most approved Iarveyized
plate. The battleship will carry 620 Off
GERS and men and marine guard of six
ty men, double the proportion carried by
the old line battleships.
The Illinois will be built in the New
port News yards, alongside the battle
ships Kearsarge and Kentucky, and her
construction will bring into play some
of the finest modern inventions in the
way of automatic machinery for naval
construction. Nearly every portion of her
frame will be brought into the yard and
almost put in place without being touched
by human hands. When completed the
vessel will represent an expenditure of
fully $5,0OO,OOO.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
TO FIGHT THE COAL TRUST.
Packing Houses in Western Cities
Will Cnt,li,;ne for Profectinr.

Will Combine tor PROTECTION.
The rans-Aississippi Cooperative
Company. Il name given the new soft coal
trust. mas advanced the price of all grades
of soft coal at Omaha GO cents per ton.
The company has gained control of all
the chief mines in Iowa, Missouri, Kan
sas and Indian Territory, and it is ex-
pected it will cover South Dakota, Wyo-
ming, Colorado and Illinois, unless it sus-
tains a backset not now probable. By
the advance in the price the Omaha pack
ing houses will have to pay something
like 81 ,0O0 year in excess of the old
price. The advance will cost Omaha
$J0O,000 year, and of course will reach
TO every city in the States named. One
of the packing houses has not bought Il
pound of coal of the trust since Oct. 1.
when the new rate schedule went into
effect, and the statement is made that all
the packing houses in Omaha and at
Sioux City, Kansas City, st. Louis and
other points will combine in an attack
upon the trust.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
SENATOR MORRILL,.
Aged Vermonter Who Has Reen Re-
turned to the UDpcr HOusr,

Aged NermOnter Who Has Reen Re-
turned to the Upper Housn.
Senator Justin Smith Morrill,. who has
just been reelected Senator from Yer
mont, has spent most of his life in Wash
ingtOn as Congressman or Senator. He
is truly Senator, for Mr.. Morrill, is in
his S1th year. Aged as he is his mind is
still vigorous and he is statesman capa-
bic, in the opinion of the people and the
Legislature of Vermont. of representing
that State among the old and wise men at
Washington. He was born at Strafford,
VT, and that town has been, and is now,
his home. He got his early education in
the common schools and built upon that
foundation at an academy, but never
went to college. He began life as a mer
chant, but preferred agriculture, to which
he devoted some years. He was elected
to the Thirty-fourth Congress and was
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05

which places the aggregate yield at a
shade under 59,00O,0OO barrels for all of
the United States, against GO, 100000 bar
rels in 1895 and 51,000,000 bar
rels two years ago. This authority says
that the crop in New England, New York,
Michigan and parts of a few other States
is phenomenal. New England and New
York have over 16,000,0O0 barrels,
against little more than 100000 a year
ago, while Michigan is harvesting the
greatest crop of fine fruit ever secured in
that State. The report covering the CEN
trail west, however. shows that in many
instances the crop is insufficient to supply
home requirements. The Canada crop
is among the largest on record. Exports
from the Atlantic coast are already
100000 barreis-a third more than all
of last season--and the foreign markets
have a capacity for absorbing further
vast quantities before spring.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
ARIZONA WANTS STATEHOOD.
Governor Franklin Submits His An
nuaI Report to Secretary Francis

Governor Franklin Submits His An
nual Report to Secretary Francis.
The people of Arizona are a unit in
favor of statehood, says Gov. Benjamin
Franklin in his annual report to Secretary
Francis. The report is one of the most
voiuminous and profusely illustrated re-
ceived for years at the department. 1t
shows that the total mining output of the
territory for the year was $13,91S, ,2G3.
OF this amount gold aggregated So.200,-
600 exclusive of about SG00,G0O taken
by the prospectors and placer miners and
the total is a years increase of 100000
The total product of gold, silver and cop
per in Arizona for the twenty years end
ing June 80 last, aggregated S121, ,166.016.
The cattle shipments from the territory
from Jan. l, 1891. to June 80. 1895, reach
ed 59J.373 head. The territorial board
returns shows the value of taxable prop
erty has gained a half million dollars dur
ing the year. and conservative men claim
the actual valuation to be $90.O00,G0O.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Murdered His Wife.

At Norristown, Pa, Chas. o. Kaiser
has been placed under arrest charged
with the murder of his wife. Mr.. and
Mrs. Kaiser were supposed to have been
waylaid by highwaymen. Mrs. Kaiser
was shot dead and Kaiser received a
wound in his arm. Suspicion pointed to
Kaiser. Detectives searched and found
the supposed stolen watches and pocket
books hidden under stone near where
the robbery is supposed TO have been
committed. A thirty-two caliber re-
volver with two empty chambers was
found about sixty yards away. Kaiser
and his wife quarreled only short time
before they took the fatal drive. About
two week ago Kaiser had his wife's life
insured for S., 900.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Sparlss from the Wires.

James w. Sperry, prominently identified
with the business interests of San joaquin
Valley, died at Stockton, Cal
Empress Eugene is said to have left
the bulk of her fortune to her goddaugh-
ter, Princess Beatrice of Battenberg's lit
tie daughter Eugene.
Alexander Mcdonald. of Virginia, Uni
ted States Minister to Persia, who arrived
at Southampton from the United States
on board the American Line steamship
New York, was dangerously i'll with
bronchitis during the voyage, and is now
lying at the Southwestern Hotel under
the care of a physician.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05

returned five times as Representative. In
1867 he was made Senator TO succeed
Luke l.. Poland, Il Union Republican, and
was reelected in 1872, 1873. 1884 and
1890. In 1880 Senator Morrill, was made
a regent of the Smithsonian Institution,
and has held that position ever since. Sell
dom has any State so highly honored
one of her sons as Vermont has Mr.. Nor
rill. For thirty years he has been SEN
ator, and if he completes this new term
he will eclipse all former records for
length of service.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
SEND FLEETS.
British Will Mass Ships on the An; eri-
can COast,

can 0Oast.
Great Britain will have in American
waters by next summer two fleets, form
ing together by far the most powerful
naval force she has ever sent across the
Atlantic. One fleet will guard Newfound-
land and the Atlantic coast of Canada
the other, with headquarters at Bermun-
da, will look after the West Indian pos
session and South America. The division
of the station means two British admrals
on this side of the ocean. One will be Sir
John Fisher. Who will be the other is
not yet known. The Royal Arthur will
be the flagship of the British North Amer
lean division, while the Renown will be
the flagship of the West Indian division.
1t is stated that there will be an ex-
change of ships of the two divisions ev-
cry eighteen months, the ships in Cana
dian waters going TO the West Indies,
and vice versa. The Royal Arthur is a
twin-screw cruiser of the first class, reg
istering 100 tons and carrying 13 guns.
Her engines are $1,000 horsepower I'M
der forced draught. The Renown is a
modern armored battleship of 1850 tons.
carrying IA guns and having $1,000 horse
power engines.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Blew Two Men Into Atoms,

Two men were killed and five persons
injured-three seriously-by an explosion
Of 1.S00 pounds of nitroglycerin at the
Acme Dynamite Company's works. neal
Hutton, Pa. The injured We're all en-
ployes engaged at work in another de.
partment 800 feet away from the scene
of the explosion, which was in the mix.
ing department. The building was COM
pletely demolished and the bodies of the
two men mangled beyond recognition.
The loss was about $1,000. Windows
were shattered and houses shaken for
distance of more than n mile.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Jackson and waIiing May Confess.

A special from CovingtOn, KY, says:
Signs are pointing to a confession by
Jackson and Walling, or at least to a get
ing at the truth of the murder Of Pea |
Bryan. For two weeks Jackson and
Walling have been kept in separate cells
and bitterness is growing up between
them. The other day Wallng id TO
Turnkey Maurer: "Why should e
punished for crime did not commit
did not murder Pearl Bryan. Jackson
is the man who cut her head off," Mau-
rier asked why he had not SO testified, but
Mailing daClinei TO answer.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05

Fifteen-year- Francis Parker, sister
of one of the leading physicians of Toledo,
Ohio, died the other morning from an
overdose of morphine taken with suicidal
intent. She had been chided several
times for refusing to go to Sunday-school,
the teacher of her class being distasteful
to her. This is the cause assigned for tho
rash act. Not long ago her father COM
mitted suicide, and her mother is now in
the Toledo Insane Asylum.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Serious Collision.

The second section OF the day express
on the Pennsylvania railroad, four hours,
late, crashed into The rear end of freight
train at Whitford, Pa, killing one man
and seriously wounding another. The
caboose, in which was John Clark "a drov-
er of Pleasant, Ohio, was smashed into
splinters and Clark was killed. The con-
ductor, brakeman and flagman of the
freight were all seriously injured and
were removed to the hospital at Philadel-
phia. Except damaged locomotive and
badly shaken up lot of passengers, the
passenger train was none the worse for
the collision
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Death in the Storm.

A terrific rainstorm visited Okla homa
Wednesday night, being in many places
a perfect waterspout, and doing a great
amount of damage by washouts, carrying
off crops, etc. Twenty miles east of
Guthrie a cyclone devastated section
of country 100 yards wide and several
miles long. leaving destruction and ruin
in its wake The dead number four
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Menaced by q Dclnce.

At Montreal it has become public that
for some weeks the larger of the two
city reservoirs on the mountain has been
in dangerous condition. 1t holds 49,
100000 gallons of water and experts say
that if break should occur the whole
city would be washed away. The gov
ernors of McGill University have already
notified the city that they will hold it re-
sronsible for 81 100000 damages in case
~ Incident
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
BLAME FOR THE COMPANY.
men Alone ReSronSibIe

The coroner's jury that investigated tho
collision at St Louis Sunday, which re-.
suited in nine deaths. has returned a yer.
dict finding that it was due to the care.
lessness of George Atwood, conductor,
and j. A. Dryden, engineer, in charge Of
the west-bound train, and the failure OF
the st. Louis and San Francisco Rail
road Company in this case to exercise
proper supervision over the movement OF
its trains. Another name-the ninth
must be added TO the list of victims. John
IL. Dressing, a painter, who was in the
wreck and was internally injured, has
Succumbed
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Frishtfu1 Explosion,

Seven hundreds quarts of nitroglycerine
in the Empire magazine near Geneva,
Ind, exploded the other morning. The
conclusion was felt for miles around.
Hundreds of windows were blown out,
walls cracked and chimneys torn down
1t is reported that wagon was unloading
at the magazine, but no trace of wagon,
horses or men can be found. Indeed, the
wreck is absolute. A remarkable fact
that larger quantity of nitrOglycerine
stored in the Hercules magazine not more
than seventy-tive yard away did not en-
plode, though portion of the walls was
blown In.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Again Postponed.

London special: Edward J. Ivory,
alias Edward Bell of New York, the all
legged Irish American dynamite con-
spirator, was once more brought up on
remand at Bow Street Police Court, and
his examination resumed. At the close of
the days testimony the prisoners exami-
nation was again adjourned for a week.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Coal Miners Killed.

A terrible explosion of gas occurred in
No. 8 mine of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company in South Wilkes
barre, Pa, Thursday afternoon. Six men
are known to be dead and two injured.
1t is not yet known how many men We're
in the mine at the time of the explosion,
but twelve are reported missing and it is
believed all of these have perished.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Geor,e Cracker Gets a share.

In addition to the $4,000 of bonds
left in trust for him conditionally upon
his remaining sober for five years, George
Crocker, second son of the deceased San
Francisco millionaire, has just come into
possession of one-eighth interest in his
fathers estate, $4,000,00O.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Schooner Loaf,

Duluth (Minn.) special: The schooner
S. P. Ely is reported 10 have been driven
on the breakwater at Two Harbors in a
gale and sunk. Her crew were clinging
to the rigging and in imminent danger of
being washed eff. The northeaster, which
ragged On Lake Superior the other night,
was the worst in years.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
American Consul i'm Trouble.

Perry Bartholow, the United States
consul at Mayence, Germany, is Being
prosecuted for severely injuring an in
mate of his house by striking him on the
head with a revolver.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Vacation for Fitzhuph Lee.

Gen Fitzhugh Lee, the United States
consul general at Havana, will have a
short vacation at home. Gen. Lee said
that the purpose of his trip was to visit
his family and attend to private business.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Defending Her Boy.

At MarysTille, Mont, Mrs. W. Allen
accidentally shot and killed her 10-year-
old son and fatally shot her husband. He
was whipping the boy and she interfered,
when he turned on her. She took rifle
and shot at him, but killed the child by
accident. She then shot her husband in
the head. He will die.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Broxton Lynchers Acquitted.

The case of the Broxton. S. c., lynch
ers resulted in a verdict of mot guilty."
and the prisoners were discharged. The
accused were white men, charged with
cruelty beating four and lynching two
negroes. because. as alleged, they stole o
Bible from a church.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
rb.x plant More Wheat

The London Times agricultural re-
turns show that 21S,0T6 acres have been
added to the British wheat area this
year. Nevertheless, the area is yet only
1,734. 11S acres, the smallest on record ex-
cont in 1Snn
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05

Throughout the States of chief COM
mercial production. including New En-
gland and New York, the crop of winter
apples is large. according to the special
report in the New England Homestead,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
B-ea,ks Its Export Record.

The exports from New Orleans TO Eu-
rope Wednesday were the largest on
record, including 10000 bales of cotton.
33S.O00 bushels of grain-a and enough mis-
cellaneous freight to fill eight large
e-oa-aprs
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
WITHIN OUR BORDER.
A WEEKS RECORD o. OHIO
HAPPENINGS.

an Inte resting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings OF Our Neighbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths-Cr.mes, Casualties
and General State News Notes.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-11-05
Bull Not Sending Shins.

The London officials on duty at the
admiralty have denied the reports, cabled
from Halifax, of the increase in the
strength of the British fleet i'll American