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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09

include the expenses of the Sergeant-at-
arms of the convention, various printing
accounts, the cleaning of the hall, its
lighting. fees for police and fire protec-
ton, big postage bills, and thousand
other things. Take 5000 men as repre-
senting delegates, alternates and their
following, add the assistant sergeants-at-
arms, the dOorkeepers and the messen-
gers, in all about thousand, and the
newspaper correspondents and reporters,
and the total shows 1000. If each one OF
these men spends 500 in addition to his
railroad fare-and this is Il very small
average-the total reaches $4O0.O In
clude the expenses borne by the telegraph
companies and the big press associations
in getting ready to spread the news, the
total expenses of the Business Mems
League and those directly interested will
not be a cent less than Il round half mill
ion of dollars.
Allowing 100000 as a fair estimate OF
the number of strangers thronging to the
convention city. and railroad tickets alone
for such crowd mean something like
$750,0O0, and $3O0,00 day follows fol
board and lodging. The cost Of main
tanning headquarters, music, decorations
and literature cannot come under $780,.
600. This is not all, however, for neither
the expense of sending the news from st
Louis to the thousands of daily papers in
the various States nor the cost Of the
thousands Of private telegrams-a small.
er, but still a considerable sum-has beer
counted in. 1t is not easy to estimate
either of these sums, but it is not going
too far, perhaps, to assume that all the
expenditures due to the convention used
up almost $4,O00.00O.
If the S4,OO0,0O0 were to be paid out ir
dollar bills, and these bills were to be
made into a carpet, it would be 1000 fee!
long and $50 feet wide, covering an area
of about fifteen acres, and the capitol al
Washington, if placed in the middle Of the
carpet, would appear like toy house SCI
on a big rug. -Four million dollars in golG
piled in pyramid four feet each way al
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
Thousands of Men Idle.

The annual depression in manufactur-
ing circles has arrived. AT McKeeesport,
Pa, with the exception of two mills in
the butt-weld department, the entire
plant of the National Tube Works Gem
pany. the National rolling mills and the
w. Devices wood, iron and steel mills
are shut down, and $1,000 men are tenn
porarily out Of employment. The tube
works will resume operations next week.
but the rolling mills and the wood plants
will be closed for six or seven weeks.
The Braddock wireworks, the largest Of
the plants of the Consolidated Steel and
Wire Company. followed the ruling of the
wire nail trust and shut down. Both of
the Braddock wire mills are now shut
down, also the Beaver Falls mill. The
suspension a these mills affects 500 men.
who will bS idle until August
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09

Officials of the Chicago and Alton Rail-
road have just discovered that gang of
employees, among whom are passenger
train conductors and station agents,
working with Pullman car porters, have
robbed the railway company of $4,000.
The steal was accomplished through CO.
operation of n station agent with pas
senger conductors on railroad tickets
from Springfield, ILL.,, 10 Chicago. On
an average, SO far rs can be estimated
by Auditor Kelsey's reports, $40 day
was stolen, and the larceny was in prog
ress fully year-probabiy little longer
In a nutshell the scheme Of robbery was
for the conductor of the train which
leaves Springfield for ohicago at noon
TO take up but not punch the tickets sold
at the Springfield office on the noon train.
The tickets would then be sent back that
day to be sold over again.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
THE MARKETS.

ChicagO-Cattle, common to prime,
$3.50 to S4.75: hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50
to S4.00: wheat, No. 2 red, 54c to SOC;
corn, No. ., 2Gc to 27c; oats, No. ., 15c
to 16c; rye, Mol 2, 29c to 31c; butter,
choice creamery, lac to 13c; eggs, fresh,
10c to 12c; new potatoes, per hushel, 25c
to 40c; broom corn, common to choice,
S25 to $50 per ton.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500 to
$4.75; hogs, choice light, $500 to $3.75;
sheep, common to prime, $500 to $4.OO
wheat, No. =, 53c to SOC; corn, No. ]
white, 26c to 2Sc; oats, No. . white, 19C
to Zoe.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to S3.75; wheat, No. red, 59c to
Gle; corn, No. . yellow. 24c to 26c; oats
No. 2 white, 15c to 1Gc; rye, No. 9, &c
to 29c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to $500; sheep. $50 to $4.00
wheat, No. =, 5Sc to 60c; corn No.
mixed, 2Sc to SOC; oats, No. = mixed, lie
to 19c; rye, No. ., 33c to 35c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs
$500 to $3.75j; sheep, $500 to $50
wheat, No. 2 red. 5Sc to 59c; corn, No.
yellow, 2Gc to 2Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 1Sc
to 2Oc: rye, pc to 31c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. red. 5Sc to G0c
corn, No. yellow, PC to 2Sc; oats. No
. white, 15c to lie; rye. No. 9, 29c to 81
clover seed, $40 to $4.3O.
Milwaukee-N heat. No. . spring, 54C
to DOC; corn. No. 3, 26c to 2Sc; oats, No
white, lie to 19c; barley. No. 2, 29c tc
31c: rye, No. l, pc to Bic; pork, mess
$6.T5 to S7.25.
Buffalo-Cattle, $50 to $4.75: hogs
$500 to S3.75; sheep, 1925 to $500
wheat, No. . red. &c to Csc; corn, No
yellow. SIC TO 33c; oats, No. 2 white
2lc to 22c.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs
$500 to S4.25; sheep. $500 to $500
wheat, No. 2 red, 65c to &c; corn, No. =
33c to Sac; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c
butter. creamery, 12c to 16c; eggs, West
ern, 1Oc to 1Sc.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
Bought a Gold Brick.

E. B. Walters, livery stable keeper Of
Shelby, Ohio, went to Akron with S.,
600 gold brick, which he had purchased
from a stranger for $100. He took it to a
goldsmith, who Immediately pronounced
it brass, covered with q thin wash of gold.
The stranger who sold the brick repre-
sented himself as mine-owner of Arizo-
ma, who bad fed because he had killed a
man. Together they had bored hole in
the brick, and filings supposed to come
from the center were tested and they
proved to be gold.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
DYNAMITE FOR ToRNADoES.
How a Government Scientist Would
Destroy Death Dealing Clouds.

Destroy Death DcaiInE IIOu0S.
''Fifty years hence not big town in
the Southwest will be without tornado
trap" said I.of. III. A. Hazen, Of the
weather bureau, the other day. 1.-THE time
has arrived when serious attention must
be given to finding means Of defense
against these whirling storms. As the So
called cyclone belt becomes more thickly
populated, disasters from this cause will
grow more frequent. My belief is that
any town in that region would be rem
dered safe against tornadoes by a series
of lookout stations extended in line from
north to south, SO as to interpose barrier
on the danger side. e., the west side,
from which the revolving storm invariably
comes. This barrier would be made ef-
fective by means of a system Of dynamite
bombs connected with the stations by
wires. 1t would not be necessary to keep
guard all the time, but the men appointed
for the purpose would only go on duty
when warning was received from the
weather bureau that conditions were fav-
orable for cyclones On seeing funnel
cloud approaching the operator would
simply wait until it got near enough and
tOuCu Oll luc liiuSC WhiNh "OuAo
blow it to smithereens.
"What reason is there for doubling that
ouch a method would be successful? Do
we not know that waterspouts mt sea are
sometimes dissipated and reduced to
harmlessness by the firing Of ,:guDs frnz..
threatened ships? A waterspout is moth
ing more nor less than marine tornado.
occasionally they have been seen to run
upon the land and transform themselves
into cyclones If the tornado were not
destroyed by the dynamite explosions, it
would be likely to be deprived of so much
of its energy as to be rendered incapable
of doing harm. The cost of maintaining
fuch systems of defense throughout the
cyclone belt would not amount in 500
years to the S1O.OOO,O00 which the recent
calamity is said to have cost st. Louis.
Money ought to be appropriated by
Congress for studying this strange and
little understood phenomenon. 1t is most
important that we should learn about the
mechanism of the tOrnadO-a meteorologi-
mi disturbance capable of destroying $1O,-
roc, 900 worth of property in ten minutes.
All we know at present is that the energy
pf the cyclone must be electrical. In no
ether way could the destruction caused
by it be accounted for. 1t is always ac-
rompanicd by a severe thunder storm.
The weather bureau report says that dur
ing the St. Louis tornado the electric dis
play was exceeding brilliant, the whole
west and northwest sky being an almost
continuous blaze of light. Intensely vivid
flashes of forked lightning were outlined
In green, blue and bright yellow against
the duller background of never-ceasing
iheet lightning Evidently, then, it is
Necessary that we should find some means
If dissipating the electricity with which
The destructive funnel cloud is charged.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
REPUsLICANISM REBUKED

The Democracy is the party of the
people. Its purpose has ever been to
advance their interests. 1t may have
had its errors of procrastination and its
sins of omission. But the sins of COM
mission against the people of this coun-
try have ever rested with the Republi
can party and with its ancestors of the
Know Nothing, Whig and Federalist
parties. During the ninety-six years
in the government of this country. since
party lines have prevailed, Democracy
has been in control sixty years. They
perity. Business depression has come
liz rare intervals and then from natural
and not from the government causes.
The depression that now prevails, how
ever, flows from the efforts of the Nc
Kinleyites, partly successful, for max
ing the rich richer and the poor poorer
through the successful demands for a
tariff that could benefit corporations
and the manufacturers only.
1t is now sought to place at the head
of this nation the tool of the coal bar
ons, and of the iron kings, who dictated
the tariff of 1890 for their own personal
advantage and for the subjuSation of
labor In this brazen endeavor it is in
the logic Of Republican consistency and
of supreme selishness that for cap
tain in the Mckinley campaign such an
unscrupulOI:s leader should be select
ed as shall De under the complete DOM
ination of the iron interests-Mark
Hanna. of Cleveland.
Are the l.s2Yle ready for such sur
render? We can understand the feel
ing of unrest that prevails from causes
having their origin with the very lead
ers that are Low rushing Mckinley to
the front. BIt the people will revolt
against the recurrence of the Mckinley,
the Carnegie, the Cameron, the Quay,
the Foraker, the Elkins, and the Platt
dictation that is intrenched behind the
movement to PUT another Ohio time
server in the Presidential chair.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
HUNDRED SHOTS EXCHANGED.
Serious Conflict at eerea, Ohio. .eetweer
Strikers and Officers.

Serious Conflict at serea, Ohio. Between
Strikers and Officers.
Over one hundred shots were ex-
changed by deputy sheriffs and strikers at
the Berea stone Quarries, near West
View. Ohio. No one was killed so far as
known. One striker had his leg broken
in two places and many have sore heads
us the result Of hand-to-hand conflict.
The strikers approached the quarry
through woods with the avowed inten-
ton of driving out the non-union men at
work. They were met by the sheriff and
forty deputies, who commanded them to
stop. For an answer the strikers began
firing and the fight soon became general.
In a few moments the strikers were re-
pulsed and fell back to the woods. The
men in the quarries are quitting through
fear and because OF the opportunities Of
their wives
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
Chickens Coming Home to Roost.


1t is the irony of fate. The RepubE-
cans made Utah State for the eX-
press purpose Of having it give them
two Senators, one Representative and
three electoral votes. Yet in the very
first Republican convention in which
Utah ever participated as a Stare one
of her Senators, her single Representa-
tive and half her delegation have
abandoned the party, repudiated its
platform and Joined in Il bolt.-New
York World.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
FIFTEEN ACRES IN DOLLAR BILLS.

the base would be five feet high. Foul
million silver dollars would make pyra
mid ten feet square at the base and fif
teen feet high. The cigars smoked by the
crowds, allowing five cigars day, which
is not too many, for each man woult
make pile of 10000 boxes of cigars, ant
this pile would be about two and one-hal1
miles high Arranged in a tier of five
boxes, side by side. the pile would bt
about 2G2 feet high, or within twenty
feet as high as the top on the Liberty
statue that stands on the top of the cap
itOl's dome. Placed end to end, $4,000
cigars would reach 24S miles-or almos
as far as from ST. Louis to Chicago. A
an average of 8 Is cents, three for {
quarter, these cigars would cost $G.,91 ,66ti
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
- HIGH TAXES IN CUBA.
eudget Estimates Expenditures at Ioo.-
600, 900 Pesos.

eudget Estimates Expenditures at Ioo.-
600, 900 Pesos.
The new Cuban budget has been pre-
sented to the Cortes at Madrid. 1t gives
the probable expenditure Of the fiscal
year as 2S.5S3, ,132 pesos. not including
extraordinary war and navy items, which
are expected 70 exceed 74,OO0,OO0 pesos.
The internal revenues of the island are
increased more than II pa 800 pesos so
rs to offset the shrinkagc of custom house
receipts. The land taxes are raised to Is
per cent. License taxes will be increased
Is per cent. The income tax is proper
tionately increased, and the stamp taxes
are increased 80 per cent. Manufactured
tobacco for home consumption is to pay
2 per cent. ad valorem as a special tax.
The budget is subject to notifications in
the event that the reform bill of 1898
should be declared in effect. Where plan
tations have been burned the Captain
General is especially authorized to reduce
or remit the tax thereon.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
FAGOU5 WOMAN DEAD.
Celebrated Author of "uncie Toms Cabin"
Peacefully Sinks to Rest.


Peacefully Sinks to Rest.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. the gifted aT-
thoress of Uncle Toms Cabin" and
other works of worldwide reputation,
died Mt her home in Hartford, Conn,
Wednesday, without regaining conscious
ness. She passed peacefully away as
though into deep sleep. BY her bedside
at the time were her son, Rev. Charles
Edward Stowe of Simsbury; her two
daughters. Eliza and Harriet; her sister,
Isabella Beecher- Hooker; John Hooker;
Dr. Edward b. Hooker. her nephew. who
was also her medical attendant, and 9TH
er relatives. Mrs. Stowe began to fail
in 1883. The first alarming symptoms
Of the breaking up of her faculties. mental
and physical. showed itself at Sag Har-
Dor, l.. l., in September, 1883. Her init
mate friends and family knew where the
trouble lay. but Mrs. Stoves condition
was such that it was thought advisable
to keep it secret, and it was not until
the following year that the truth was
told in the public press, and was then
not denied by the family.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
A Woman Murdered,

Mrs. William Brader, wife of garden
er, was found at her home in Covedale, a
suburb of Cincinnati, with her throat cut.
The house had been robbed and set on fire.
A party of berry, pickers in the neighbor-
hood extinguIshed the blaze and gave the
alarm. There was evidence of fierce
struggle. Mr.. Brader had left home for the
city with wagon load of produce, leav-
ing the hired man at home. The latter
cannot be found.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
News of Minor Note.

James Romkey, aged A, shot and killed
his wife and then committed suicide at
New London. Conn. Unfaithfulness on
the part of the wife was given as the
cause.
Ii. 6. Thurston's homing pigeon Rex
has arrived at Fall River, Mass, from
Amherst, Va. a distance of 500 miles,
the average fight being lbs yards q
minute.
The persons who were drowned by the
collapse of a wharf at Boston were
James j. Washburn, II years old; John
F. Cole, years old; John A. Leary; aged
13; Lawrence Mcdowell, 10 years.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
eank Burglars In LIMBO.

John McGinnes and John O'Brien, both
snen with many aliases and both noto-
rious bank robbers, were captured in
Vancouver and are now safely housed in
sajl. A man giving his name is Fred
Martin, who was with the pair, was also
arrested.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
FORTY.FIVE STARS
Now Dot the Blue Field on the
United States Flag.

Washington special: For the first time
the United States flag will float with for
ty-fye stars on its blue field, indicating
the admisssNn Of Utah to the sisterhood OF
states. General orders issued by the War
and Navy Departments have repaired the
way for the change and for some time
past the flag makers have been busy in
placingta new star on, the flags in stock.
From economical considerations the old
army flags will not be retired at once, but
will be replaced only as they are worn
out in the service by the new ensigns. In
the case of the naval flags the change was
more easily made, for all OF these flags
are made at the New York and Mare Is
land navy yards, while those OH hand on
shipboard may be readily altered by the
expert sail makers.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09

Miss Frances Z. Willard states that the
Worlds w. G L. u, of which she is
president, will meet i Montreal, Canada,
either next spring OF next autumn. The
following have been appointed frnterual
delegates to the convention from Great
Britain: Lady Henry Somerset, Miss
Agnes Slack, Mrs. Hannah Pearsall
Smith. Miss Agnes Weston, Mrs. Ward
Ford. Miss Mary Phillips and Mrs.
HUGHES
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
POLICE CRACK THE HEADS OF RIOTERS
Two Thousand Strikers at Cleveland Are
Charged and Completely Routed.

Two Thousand Strikers at Cleveland Aee
Charged and Completely Routed.
A pitched battle occurred Tuesday be-
tween eighty Cleveland, Ohio, policemen
and large force Of strikers from the
Brown Hosting and Conveying Machine
Company. The trouble started when the
non-union employees of the company were
dismissed for the day. The Ill new em-
ployes marched 10 the street cars within
a hollow square of policemen. The strik-
crs persuaded the street car employees
not to stop for the new men, and stone
was thrown by some one in the crowd Of
1000 strikers. sympathizers and specta-
tors. The police were ordered TO charge.
They made eight sallies on the crowd.
One of the patrolmen named kadel was
struck on the head with a stone, and so
badly disabled that he is now lying at
hospital. When the police saw that one
of their number had been injured they
started in to kill. As result four of the
strikers are in Jail and 100 others are
suffering with wounds inflicted by the
clubs of the policemen.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
LiIlian's Decd.

Miss Lillian Ashley of Boston, whose
case against E. j. lucky Baldwin, the
prominent capitalist and horseman, for
seduction under promise Of marriage, has
been on trial in the Superior Court in San
Francisco for several weeks, created a
sensation in the court room by walking
over to Baldwin, drawing a revolver and
firing at his head. A bystander knocked
tlse weapon aside in time to save Bald
wins lire, and the only injury was slight
grazing of the scalp. The woman was re-
moved TO the CO. prison and it is believed
her mind is unbalanced.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09

will be greater than at any time since the
plague of 1861. Reports from Illinois,
Missouri and Indiana tell of terrible de-
struction wrought. The grasshopper is a
great lover of mint, and from Michigan,
where the great peppermint farms are,
there come narrowing tales of the damage
done. All efforts to combat the army
worm have proven futile. Its mode of
disappearance is as inexplicable as its
mode of existence. After ravaging a sec
ton for months it suddenly disappears
about Sept. l.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
HEAVY DAMAGES RECOVERED.
Manhattan Company Must Pay Youni
Woman $l6. 900.


Woman $4,000
Miss Ann Eliza Thompson. of New
York. recovered verdict Of SIS, 900 from
the Manhattan Elevated Railway Com
pany of New York in the Supreme Court.
The case was on trial almost two days
and attracted considerable interest on ac-
count of the novel defense that was set
up by the railroad company. Miss Thomp-
son was in one of the cars Of the company
on March IA. 1895, and the train smash
ed into the bumper Her assertion was
that her spine was injured so that it
has assumed a permanent curvature, and
that her left leg was made shorter than
the other one. The assertion Of the COM
pany was that she imagined injuries
which did not exist. 1t was also asserted
that she had been in measure an in
valid for some time previous to the acci-
dent, and that the smashing of the train
into the bumper was not in any way
responsible for her condition.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
DIE WHILE SEEKING PLEASURE.
Four Children Killed and Many injured at

Four Children Killed and Many injured at
Boston Picnic.
Four boys were drowned and thirteen
persons were hurt Monday by the col
lapse Of Shcldon's wharf at Castle Island
landing, South Boston. The citizens were
celebrating "Farragut day" and a large
crowd was on the wharf, attracted by the
offer of free passage to the island. The
boat Ella was about to make fast at the
wharf when the 100 or more on the small
landing surged at the outer side. Imme
diately that side went down into eight
feet of water and completely turned over,
throwing seventy-five or eighty persons
into the bay. Many of the crowd were
women and children.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
Compact Sealed at Canton.

Standing on the vine-shrouded porch Of
his home at Canton, o., William McKin-
ley, at 1910 Monday afternoon, listened
to the formal notification of the fact that
he had been nominated for the presidency
by the Republican national convention
of st. Louis. The actual ceremony con-
sumed only about half an hour, and con-
sisted in the speech Of notification by Sen
ator Thurston, chairman Of the conven-
ton, and n response by Gov. Mckinley.
Then followed the presentation Of the
Abraham Lincoln gavel by Harry Smith,
and following this lunch served in q
large tent behind the house.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09

A statue to Lii Hung Chang was un-
yelled at the Villa Huegal in Germany
belonging TO Herr Krupp, who made a
speech dwelling upon the cordial relations
existing between Germany and China.
Ii Hung Chang afterwards inspected the
great gun factory and other buildings of
the famous Essen works.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-09
Great Honor for eostonians.

1t has been decided that review of
troops will be held at Aldershot camp.
London, in honor of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Massa-
chusetts, now on its way to England
The date of this military turnout has
not been fixed, hut it is known that the
matter was arranged at the suggestion Of
the Prince of Wales.