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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
BIG FIRE LOSS.

A Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern Elevator at Toledo Destroyed.
One of the most expensive fires that has
visited Toledo, Ohio, in the past two
years was the burning of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railway elevator
"a" As the building is located on the
river 'front.' the fire department could do
nothing but let it burn and endeavor to
save the surrounding property. Ac-
cording to the best figures obtain
able, 2S0,00o bushels of wheat were
stored in the elevator and about sixty car
loads which were unloading, making 1923, =
DOC bushels. The loss on the elevator and
grain will aggregate $S55,0OO The grain
was fully insured, while the elevator was
Insured for rs per cent. of its value.
Spontaneous combustion is given as the
cause of the fire. There are thirty cars
burning on the tracks, making an extra
loss of $50. 600.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
About LYMAN p. Gayc,

The attitude announced by the presi-
dent of the First National Bank of Chi.
cagO. Mr.. Lyman ]. Gage. as to the re-
demption of the grecnbacks. by putting
out great national loan of from two
hundred to six hundred millions of dol
lars, payable, with interest, in gold. has
startled some of those people who voted
for Mckinley and Prosperity in No.
vembcr. 1t is fixed and settled that this
national bank president Gage is to be
the Secretary of the Treasury, and
much curiosity is felt to know exactly
how far he will insist as a member os
McKinley'S Cabinet on this particular
policy. Some of the Mckinley organs,
such as the New York Sun. think it
very unwisc. but others applaud the
idea. or are discreetly silent
There has, however. been sufficient
attention directed to this particular +
bank president by the discussion to
bring forward an objection to his ap-
poiutment as Secretary of the Treas
ury. which is giving some discomfort to
the cutere who have been busted at
Canton in putting together McKinley's
Cabinet. 1t is in this same veXatious
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Now Let Confidence Come.

James Wilson, of Iowa. professor of
agriculture in Il college of that State.
has accepted the portfolio of the Agr
cultural Bureau. With this announce.
ment should come a return of prosper-
ty. Iowa is fertile State, and the
new Premier of the Crops ought to be
fertile in resources. Under his able
administration, we can expect larger
ears of corn, bigger grains of wheat.
fatter pigs, sweeter apples, oleomar-
garine which even science cannot de-
tect from genuine butter, and persim-
mons that will pucker up bad times
and make this Il great and glorious
country.
With prospect that the barns and
granaries shall groan beneath the
weight of bOunteOus harvests, how the
treasury will be run will be of small
importance. We may raise big crops
that will delight the farmer-but, un-
less the people have more money to
buy, he is apt to find abundant harvests
do not mean bOunteOus returns.-Phila-
delDhia Item.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25

daughter of James Corrie, ami is the fatn.
er of one son and seven daughters His
son, f. Stanley Gary, is now junior part
ner in the old firm of James S. Gary Il
Son. Mr.. Gary is G3 years of age.
Col. John J. McCook. New York's mem-
Der of McKinley's cabinet, is the young
est of the famous ''Fighting McCooks' of
Ohio, family which furnished father
Snd eight sons to the Union army. He
'til be - years old in May. He was a
student at Kenyon College. Ohio, when
the war broke out. He enlisted as pri-
vatc in the Sixth Ohio Cavalry. He will
sacrifice profits from his law business said
to amount to $4,000 to $4,000 year,
10 enter the cabinet Col McCook is dis
tinctively a railroad attorney. and was
prominent in the reorganization of the
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad;
He is one of the trustees of Princeton,
and an elder of the New York Fifth Ave.
nue. Presbyterian Church. He was chosen
by the Princeton wing of the Presbytery
to conduct the prosecution of DIR. Briggs.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Bedouin and Egyptians.

X. Talbot Kelly, the English artist.
writes paper for the Century entitled
In the Desert with the BedOuin,' for
tratiOns. Concerning the Arabs, Mr.
Kelly says: Lacking education them.
selves, their respect for superior knowl
edge is great, and they eagerly listen to
and absorb such information as may he
cleaned in their casual intercourse with
the peoples met during their wander
ings However, great as is their respect
for knowledge, they hold horSemanship
in still greater esteem. and l attribute
much of my success in dealing with the
Arabs to the fact that l could ride the
half-wild desert stations. in which my
previous experience of rough riding i'll
Morocco stood me in good stead. In
deed. their contempt for their ncighbors
the Egyptians is completely expressed
in their common reference to them as
''thOse dirty Egyptians who cannot ride
Il horse" / may here remark that in
their habits and persons the Bedouin
are very clean people-a claim the
most ardent admirer of the Egyptians
can hardly maintain in their case: and
| have known of Arabs, who. obliged to
cross the delta, have carried out with
them sufficient desert sand with which
tc cover the ground before they would
deign to pitch their tents or sit upon the
dirty soil of MaSr.' Differing from the
Egyptians in many essential points.
their love for dumb animals is in mark
ed contrast to the cruelty practiSed
upon them by nearly all classes in
Egypt; but perhaps in no way is the
contrast more clearly shown than by
the respect in which the BedOuin hold
their wOmankind. MoslemS of the strict
est type, they seem to practice all that
is good in MOhammedanism. and avail
themselves but little of its license.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
EXPLOSION,

rhe Chicago Chronicle Building Bad
Iy Damaged-Four Persons Seri-
ous1y Injured.
By an explosion of natural gas in the
press room of the Chicago Chronicle six
persons were burned, and about $4,000
damage was done. Two persons, John
Mcmillan, foreman, and Matthew Baine,
mailer, are said to be dangerously in
lured. The explosion was caused by a
leak in the pipes near the press room.
The force of the explosion shook the
building to its foundations, hurting the
workmen to the ground. A moment later
Hames were discovered eating their way
through the woodwork Immediately be-
low the sidewalk on Washington street.
1t required an hour to entirely subdue
the flames. Those painfully but not dam
gerously injured were:
Louis Hargrove, chief engineer.
Charles Dupuis, clerk.
Alfred Steinger.
Benjamin Mcmillan.
Several passers- by were blown off their
feet by the explosion.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Cost of a Cam paign,

That it costs money to run red-hOt
political campaign everyone knows, but
it is possible that not one in 10000 ever
stops to think of the great expense at
tending an exciting election.
Michigan has law which forbidS
candidates to spend money for the re-
freshment or entertainment of the peO-
pie, to hire carriages to bring voters to
the polls, or to offer voters money,
either to vote or to stay away from the
polls. The law also requires all candi-
dates to file sworn statements of the
amount of money actually expended in
Il campaign. The law has penalty at
tached of $1,000 fine or two years I'M
priSonment, or both. but it is so crude
ly framed in many respects that the
date or political committee, as its pro-
visions can easily be evaded, and the
danger of prosecution in the event Of
not observing it is not great. The law
does not seek to limit the amount of
money to be expended, it does not re-
quire an itemized statement of money
expended. nor does it ask for state
ment of the amount expended to secure
the nominate The law, however,
has been very generally observed, and
it may he that it's influence is salutary.
Some one who has made careful
review Of the figures. estimates that the
November election cost Michigan in
the neighbOrhoOd of half million dol
lars. The tabulated expenditures OF
the State committees are placed at
SS4, ,4S1, those of the candidates in the
seven Congressional districts were $19,
O22.44, while the Legisla ture and coun,
ty tickets are placed at over $4,000
The cost to the State for printing bal.
lots and manning the $50 voting pre-.
cincts is figured at $15O.OOO.
These figures do not include the eX-
pense of conventions, nor the big sums
paid out by the National Committee for
speakers. or for the floods of literature
which swept through the State. so
that the estimate of q half million dol.
lars does not seem eXorbitant for the
political fun of last year.
But if Michigan reached half mil.
lion. what must have been expended in
States that have no restriction laws?
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES :

The news that Mr.. McCook and Mr..
Gary had been invited to seats in the
cabinet and had accepted was received,
a Washington correspondent says, by SEN
ators and members of Congress with
many expressions of satisfaction.
James A. Gary is the recognized leader
of the Republican party in Maryland. He
is business man of wealth. manufac-
turer. and he has never hesitated to give
effort and money to the cause of party. He
has been delegate to every national con-
vention of his party since 1872, and from
1850 to 1896 has represented Maryland
upon the Republican national committee.
In the councils of his party he speaks
with authority and his utterances are
heard with respect. In 1856 Mr.. Gary
was married to Miss Lavina w. Corrie,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
News of Minor Note.

Fire damaged a business block on Euclid
avenue, in Cleveland, to the extent of
100000.
BY an explosion of nitroglycerinc in a
warehouse at Bradner. O., William Mini
son. of Toledo, and Edward Dunnisow,
of Rising Sun, We're killed.
Rev. William Prall, D. D., pastor of
st. Johns, the leading Episcopal church
of Detroit, was married to Miss Helen
Ames LothrOp. daughter of George V. n.
Lothrop. ey-minister to Russia. The cere-
mony was performed by Bishop Davies.
News has been received at Painesville.
Ky, of the drowning of Andrew Wilson,
Preston Hall and Harry Brown in Pike
County. The men had been on a spree
for several days and had started across
Big Sandy river on the ice on their horses
There is not n stamp mill working in
Alaska now that is not making big re-
turns on the quartz handled. The num-
Der of mills will be largely increased this
year and their output, together with the
output of the placer mines, is expected to
e.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
MARKET QUOTATIONS

ChicaE aEo-Cattlc. common to prime,
$3.50 to $3.50; hogs. shipping grades.
$500 to S3.15: sheep, fair 10 choice. 500
to S4.25; wheat, No. > red. 13c TO Iic;
corn. No. .. PIE TO 22c; oats. No. >, lie
to Ice; rye, No. ,, soc TO 32c: butter,
choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh,
16c to 1Sc; potoatOes, per bushel, 2Oc to
30c; broom corn. common short to choice
dwarf, $50 to $50 per ton.
Indianapolis shipping. $500 to
S5.25; hogs, choice light, $500 TO S3.15;
sheep, good to choice, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. 9. S3c to Soc; corn, No.
white, 21c TO pc; oats, No. . white, Zoe
to 22c.
ST. Louis-Cattle. $500 to 500; hogs,
$500 to $3.75: sheep. $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. =, SSc TO 90c; corn, No. . yek
low, 19c to 20c: oats, No white, 16c to
lie; rye, No. .. 32c to 34c
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs.
$500 to $4.00; sheep. $3.50 TO S4.5O:
wheat, No. >. SSc to 90c; corn. No.
mixed, pc to 24c; oats. No. mixed, 1Sc
to zoe: rye. No. 2, 35c to Sac.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 TO $500: hogs.
$500 TO S3.15: sheep. $500 20 S4.25:
wheat, No. red: Soc to Sbc: corn. No.
yellow. PIC 10 22c: oats, No. > white. 19c
to PIC; rye. :54c to Soc.
Toledo-Wheat. No. , red S6c TO SSc;
corn, No. 2 mixed, PIC 10 DC: oats. No.
white, lie to 1Sc; rye. No. ., SAC TO SEC;
clover seed. $40 to $3.50.
Observation-Disclosures, No. spring. I3c
to 15c; corn. No. 5. 1Sc TO 20c; oats. No.
white, lie to 20c; barley. No. =. 2Jc to
32c: rye. No. !. 5ic TO 36c; pork, mess,
S7.75 to SS.25.
Buffalo-Cattle. common TO prime ship
ping, $50 to $500; hogs. medium to
best, $500 10 S4.00; sheep. common to
prime natives. $500 to $4.50; lambs, fair
to extra, $500 to $5.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S5.25: hogs
$3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $500 to S4.75;
wheat No. 2 red, Sic to SIC: corn. No 2,
Csc to zoe; oats, No. white, 21c to pc;
butter, creamery, 15c to PIC; eggs, West
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Told in q Few Liuea.


Henry Miller. aged % who founded
Miller. :. D., fifteen years ago, dropped
dead in that city. He was formerly of
Iowa.
Another victim of the Tausch gang in
trigues. Editor Wegner of the Deutsche
Tages Zeitung. was convicted at Berlin of
libeling Secretary of State for Foreign
Relations Marschall. and was sentenced
to two months Imprisonment.
Col. II. II. Mclean. until lately com
mnnder of the Hawaiian army. has arriv-
ed in San Francisco on his way TO New
York. Col. Mclean resigned his COM
mission early in February and will remain
permanently in the United States.
United States Consul Duffie at Winni-
peg, reports to the State Department that
the Dominion Government has appropri-
ated $4,000 for the Improvement of navi-
CATION in the International waters of
Rainy river. at a point named Long Sault
Rapids.
MIS-. Annie Besant, the theosophist,
will remain in this country six months.
during which time she will visit all the
larger cities. Her lectures will be de-
voted to the exposition O1 thcusophy, and
some of her experiences in her journey
through India. from which country she
is now returning. will be told.
The fight in Kansas for resubmissior
of the liquor question is apparently lost in
the State Legislature.
The golden jubilee of Mother Mary
Xavier. head of the Order of Sisters of
Charity of the Catholic Church. was held
in st. Elizabeth's Academy. New York.
There are about 100 sisters i'll the order
Most of them were present.
Ex-AIayor Frank A. Mcgowan of Tren-
ton. n. j.. has been deposed from the
presidency of two of the companies of
which he was the head. Gen. William II.
Skirm was elected to succeed him as pres
ident of the Empire Rubber Company and
George K. Cook was made the head of the
Trenton Oilcloth Company.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
The Presidential Resulf.


By the official count Mckinley is CON
ceded and declared to have received
211 electoral votes and Bryan 1T6 Ac-
quiesccnce in the popular will is the
corner stone of our Government. and,
much as Democrats may dcplore the
temporary delusion or panic of last
November. they submit as good ct.
zcns. though they will try conclusions
again in the year 1900. The beginning
of the nineteenth century brought good
fortune to the Democracy, when
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. our
party leaders. Overcame in 1900 the
Federal party led by Adams and Ham
iltOn, and it may be that the twentieth
century will be ushered in by Il similar
triumph. Won by the intelligence and
progressive spirit of our people.
The election of Mckinley. in spite of
all the agencies that worked for him
the banking power, the newspaper syn
dicates. the coercion of the poor by the
rich. the detection of many of our
chiefs, the hostility of the administra
tion-is by very narrow majority. 1t
is true, it would have required Il change
of forty eight electoral votes to have
elected Bryan. But most of these forty
eight were given TO Mckinley by mar
row pluralities. Kentucky would have
given Bryan thirteen electoral votes
had 80 more Democrats there voted
for him. One thousand more ballots
would have given Bryan nine electors
in California. Another thousand would
have given him Oregon's four electoral
votes. Two thousand more Bryan Dem
ocrats would have carried Delaware's
three electors. And other States were
nearly as close. In fact, change of
10000 votes would have defeated Nc
Kinley and elected William ]. Bryan,
Of Npbra ska
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
BROKE HIS NECK.
A CoIored Boxer Killed in Cincinnn

A COIored Boxer Killed in Cincinna I'll
Friday night occurred the first fatality
for Cincinnati at a boxing match. In
the preliminary contest at the Manhattan
Club room at Riverside, few miles out
from the city, Ben Coleman. aged %,
was knocked down by Joe Rodgers, of
about the same age. Coleman did not
attempt to rise and he was hastily car
ried from the ring. A doctor examined
him and pronounced him dead of broken
neck. 1t is not known whether the fall
or the blow killed him. The body was
taken to the morgue in patrol wagon.
Both boxers were colored. Rodgers dis
appeared in the crowd, but the police are
after him.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
CORN-SURNING STATISTICS
An Official Investigation to BE Made
by a Nebraska State Board.

The Nebraska State Board of Trans
portation has been engaged for several
days in collecting figures showing the
number of farmers of the State who are
now burning corn for fuel. The secre-
tares are also making an estimate of the
quantity of coal which these corn burners
would use if they could get it in exchange
for the corn. These figures are to be
used in an effort To get Il reduced rate for
out shipments OF corn and in shipments of
coal from the railroads. The secretaries
think they can show to the railroads that
the increased business which will be
brought to their lines will pay them to
make reduction in the rates. As it now
is, the farmers cannot afford to ship their
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Solomon Hale Dead.

Solomon T. Hale, assveteran a railroad
man and founder of the Brotherhood of
Railway Engineers, is dead az Hunting
ton, Ind. He was born at Worcester,
Mass, and was 81 years old at the time of
his death. Mr.. Hale as an engineer ran
the first freight train that ever ran into
Chicago. The train was run over the
road from Detroit to Chicago.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Biscuit Companies War.

Chicago special: A war between the
American Biscuit Company and the New
York Biscuit Company, which both sides
agree in saying will be to finish, was
openly inaugurated by the New York Bis
cult Company's announcement of cut
equal to 35 per cent. on the price of the
entire product of the concern. The pres
ent price of the biscuit goods brings the
figures down to actual cost of production.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25

associations have always been with the
best set of Chicago women, women who
entertain handsomely and are esteemed
for their sterling worth as wives, mothers
and home makers. The Gage place in
North State street, Chicago, is richly and
substantially furnished, with nothing
pretty or frivolous TO mar the general
effect of spaciousness as produced by the
wide halls and great rooms.
While Mrs. Cages birth place was Al
bany. \. Y. she went west in her early
childhood and is thoroughly identified
with Chicago and its best enterprises.
Her maiden name was Corneia Lansing.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25

Federal statute of t7S9. which declares
that mo person appointed to the Office
of Secretary of the Treasury shall di-
rcctly or indirectly be concerned in the
purchase of any public securities of the
United States" Now, Gage, being a
bank president, of course is and has
been concerned in the purchase of Gov
ernment bonds, on which the paper
money issued by his bank is based. Has
he a right to act in the office of Secre-
tary of the Treasury, or has Mckinley
a right to appoint him?
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
A FATAL MISTAKE.
Lit the Gasoline Lamp and a Terri.
bic Explosion Followed.


= The family of Jacob Ciclez, Of No. 66s
Canal street, Cleveland, Ohio, was al
most completely wiped out of existence
the other morning by a holocaust of
flames. Eight persons were burned and
five will probably die. Jacob and Mary
Ciclez, husband and wife, were fatally
burned and their four children, who are
all under six years of age, received severe
burns. Albert Jerno and Joseph Jerga,
hnarders, were also badly burned.
Ciclez erose about o'clock to light the
fire and misiook the gasoline lamp for the
kerosene lamp. The result was terrific
explosion when he applied the match.
The greatest difficulty was experienced in
getting the family out of bed and into the
yard. All of them are at the hospital.
The father and mother and three children
are dying,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
A Stag Fishing Party.

President Cleveland and Commodore
E. c. Benedict are going fishing after
March 4. The CommOdore's fine steam
yacht Oneida is to be fitted out for cruise
in Southern waters. The date of sailing
will be about March IS. Florida will be
visited and some Of the West India is
lands may be touched. Pompano, tarpon,
bonitas and Spanish mackerel are to be
the prey. 1t will be a stag party on the
Oneida. During the absence of Mr..
Cleveland his wife and three daughters
Will be the guests of Mrs. Benedict at
Greenwich Conn
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Risked Their Lives.

Frederick Billson was saved frem being
carried over the roaring Passaic Falls,
near Patterson, New York, by the efforts
OF four men, who formed living life
line. Billson is an expert oarsman, but
was rapidly nearing the falls when the
strangers, seing his danger, divest ed
themselves of their clothing and, forming
real span of life, pulled his shell ashore.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Beoueafhed n Million to Yale.

By the death of William Lampson,
banker of Leroy, n. Y, and a nephew of
the late Sir Curtis Lampsen, Bart, of
London. England, the bulk of a large
property, said to be valued at about ST.
100000, has been bequeathed to Yale
University, of which Mr.. Lampson was a
graduate about 1860.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
MRS. LYMAN J. GAGE.

The Wife of Carlisle's Successor Ie
Domestic and Democratic.
In Mrs. Lyman J. Gage, wife of the
coming Secretary of the Treasury, Wash
ington society will find decided acQuisi-
ton. Mrs. Gage is tall, distinguished in
appearance. and of simple and engaging
manners. Her eyes are dark brown, her
hair slightly swept with gray, her voice a
low-pitched contralto, her skin clear and
olive. She may be written society wom-
an in the finest sense of the term. Her
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Dug Their Own Graves.

Memphis special: A report has reached
here of the lynching of two negroes near
Webb City, remote village near Green
vile, Miss, week ago. The negroes at
tackled the house of white man and
burned it to the ground The inmates of
the house escaped the flames and carried
with them trunk containing $500. The
negroes seized the trunk and made way
with it. They were soon afterward cap
tured by posse and ordered to dig their
own graves. After completing the grue-
some work the negroes were lynched.
The matter has been kept very quiet and
details are meager, no names being OBJ
tainable.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Daniel Boone Monument.

The Missouri Senate has passed bill
appropriating Sl,SO0 for the purpose Of
erecting a monument at the grave of Dan
iel Boone and wife, who are buried in
Warren County, that State.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
Cuban ARMY Routed.

A special from Havana, via Key West,
Fla, says: If the official reports are cor
rect, the insurgent army under General
Maxine Gomez has been divided into
small corps and Gomez himself is in full
retreat before the continued advance of
Captain General Weyler
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-25
All Crete Votes for IInion.

All the provinces of Crete have voted
for the union of the island with Greece.
The result of the vote has been commune
cat ed to all the Consuls in the various
towns of the island.