The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-05-06

| from st. Jozl's, n. F., April IA. The
| Valiant was bound for st. Pierre and
| had on board large number of fisher
men to assist in the summers cod6shing
off the Newfoundland coast. Seven men
escaped from the sinking vessel in dory.
| They were without food or water. The
second day two of them succumbed to
their miseries. The next day third per-
ished, and the four miserable survivors
resorted to cannibalism to save their lives.
They were picked up by another French
vessel that same evening and arrived at
st. Pierre Tuesday night, where they
were taken to hospital. Their condition
is terrible, and they will be MANNED and
afflicted for life. All four are terribly
frost-bitten, feet, arms and ears being
affected
An engagement the Spanish had with
Gen. Rodriguez in the Purgatori Hills,
which was reported as a decisive victory,
turns out to have been the reverse. The
Spanish columns encountered the insur-
gents and attacked sharply, relying on
their superior force. The rebels retreat
ed toward their camp and succeeded in
playing their old trick of drawing the
Spanish into an ambuscade. Gen. Cas-
tillo arrived with re-enforcements while
Rodriguez was engaging the Spanish and
fell on their flank. The fighting lasted
FIVE hours, and in killed, wounded and
prisoners the Spanish lost $50 men. News
comes from Santiago to Cuba that 200
volunteers, headed by priest and prom
inent physician, have Joined the insur-
gents because they were dissatisfied with
tho onnlr,nf Of tha ;c, onfbor;fias
and believed that Garcia would succeed
in maintaining his supremacy in the east
ern province.
The canard concerning alleged ship
ments from Chicago to Europe of horse
meat disguised as sated beef is still cir
culating harmfully in Europe. United
States Consul Boyesen, at Gothenberg,
has just furnished the State Department
at Washington with a copy of circular
issued by the Swedish Government Off
cially calling attention to the report and
requiring medical inspection of import
ed meats. He adds that he informed the
custom house officials that meat imported
from the United States under the stamp
of the Department of Agriculture was
sound and free from disease. The French
olive-oil producers, finding themselves un-
able to meet the competition of the cheap
er cotton-seed oils from America, have
begun an agitation to have the tariff in
creased from 3l1a cents a gallon to Z or y
cents. America sent to Marselles last
year 112,627 barrels of this oil, or nine.
tenths of the entire amount imported.
London dispatch: The Daily Nails Rer-
In correspondent telegraphs that some
what serious news of the threatened Eu-
ropean combination against England is
there. Emperor William is re-
ported to have a detailed plan by which
the interests of Germany, France and
Belgium in the Transvaal are to be pro-
tected against English intrigue and arms.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Tageblatt affirms that France has agreed
TO the Emperor scheme, and 1t is further
said that Russian court circles are ex-
tremely embittered against England. This
is attributed to the dowager czarina hav-
ing accused England of being the cause
Of Greece going to war. The German
naval department has ordered that all |
work in the dockyards be expedited, and
IN some yards work is being carried on
lay and night. One cruiser will be ready |
IN few weeks and three other vessels by |
autumn. Altogether there are nineteen |
low in course of construction