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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
SOUTHERN.

Eight frame buildings, comprising the
principal business portion of Coal Creek,
Tenn, We're burned Wednesday. 1nsur.
| ance small.
Gov. Elerbe of South Carolina an
nounces that he will appoint Congress-
man John l.. McLaurin to succeed the late
United Suites Senator Earle
The Curd X Siut"n Manufacturins
Company. Louisville. KY, wholesale
dealers in harness. saddlery, etc. one of
the largest mercantile establishments in
the city. assigned. 1t is thought the liza
bilities will reach 100000, or about S1SO,-
600 in each case.
The case of II. Il. Armour, formerly
postmaster at Memphis, Tenn, charged
with cmbezzlement of Government funds.
haa been nolle pressed by the United
States District Attorney, for the reason
that the entire shortage, amounting to
several thousand dollars, had been made
good.
The levee at FL Paso. Texas. early
Wednesday morning broke and the flood
waters of the Rio Grande rushed through
the city. The Texas and Pacific Railway.
realizing that hundreds of families Were
being flooded from their homes. backed
in large number of empty freight ears
for the accommodation of the homeless.
Not fewer than 40 homes We're swept
away. The crash of the walls of houses
as they crumbled and fell was mingled
with the cries of frightened women and
children who were driven from their
homes. People residing in the lower part
of the city moved to the foothills of Mount
Franklin. Several hundred families are
now housed in the freight cars standing
in the sea of water.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
FOREIGN.

Henry Milhac. the playwright, is dan
gerously i'll at Paris with congestion of
the brain.
France, four persons We're killed, and a
score of people were injured by the explo-
sion of bomb.
Consul General Lee cabled the State
Department from Havana that the
amount of supplies he has now on hand
there for the relief of American citizens
in distress is abundant and will last for
some time.
Monday was the seventy-eighth ami
versary of the birth of Queen Victoria,
and the occasion was celebrated through
out the United Kingdom and the colonies
with the ringing of church bells and the
firing of salutes.
In shooting display at Berlin by the
expert, Kruger, while he was firing back
ward and with the aid of n mirror at
tempting the William Tell shot, he sent
the bullet through the head of his sister,
who was assisting him.
Lord Radstock, secretary of the Society
for the Christian SuccOr of India at Lon
don, has received letter from Rev. J. o.
Denning, an American clergyman at Mar
singhpur, relative to the dishonesty and
incompetency of the natives who are ad-
ministering the famine fund. Mr.. Den
ming says that, owing to the action of the
Hindoo members of the local district COM
mittee, not a single half-penny has reach
ed the poor Hindoos. He adds that the
members of this committee opposed all re-
lief of children on the ground that the
only orphanage is Christian and that to
help the children would be helping the
Christians.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
WASHINGTON,

President Mckinley has offered the post
of minister to Spain to Representative
Hit of Illinois. Mr.. Hit took the mat
ter under consideration.
Washington dispatch: The Interstate
Commerce Commission has nothing to
fear from Congress in the way of legis-
lation tying its hands or stripping it of
power to enforce regulations. The Su-
preme Court has taken from the commits
sion about the last vestige of vitality left
it by previous decisions. The court holds
specifically that Congress has the author
ity TO vest in the Interstate Commerce
Commission the right to fix and enforce
transportation rates, but that in the law
as it now stands no such authority is con-
ferred, and that Congress must do as
many State Legislatures have done in this
respect. and bluntly specify precisely
what the commission can do and what If
must do. The commissioners are blue
and disconsolate lot to-day. They feel
that they will from this time become OBJ
jects of ridicule to the railroads, and that
they really have little excuse for being on
earth, officially.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
Free Pictures, Cheap Coats.

Under the Wilson act the works Of
art are free Dingley proposes to make
them pay duty of % per cent. Boston
art students den0unce the Dingley
proposition, because they say it would
produce no revenue. being, in fact, pro-
hibitory; that it would be inefficient
for the purpose of protection, as it
would not enable the American artist
TO receive more for his paintings and
art work. not being affected by the or
binary laws of commerce, and they
deplore the proposition because they
think it would be restriction OH edu-
cation.
All of which may be sound enough
and was duly considered when the
Wilson bill was passed, but when we
consider the enormity of the Dingley
bill in its proposition that it shall tax
heavily the coat on a mans back. the
shoes on his feet, the blanket on his
bed, we may postpone all questions as
to fine art, which, after all. never touch
the mass Of the people in this republic,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
IN GENERAL.

Obituary: At Owensboro, KY, DR.. F.
]. kimbley. late surgeon general of Ken
tucky.-At Mobile. Ala, Mrs. jamie Gra-
ham Rossell.-At London, Baron Monk
Breton, z.
Civil Engineer r. E. Peary has been de-
tached from duty at the New York navy
yards and granted five years leave of alb
sence. This action has been taken by
Secretary Long to enable the officer to
prosecute his arctic explorations.
DR.. John Gentles, prominent dentist
of Montreal. was drowned in the Cedar
Rapids of the River Rouge while on a
fishing expedition. DR.. Gentles' COM
panion, whose name is unknown, and a
guide named Fred Epps also perished.
w. .. Ii. Dodds, cashier of the Montreal
Life Insurance Company, was the only
one Of the party who escaped.
Five wrecks occurred on the coast of
st. Pierre Island last week, according to
advices received at Halifax, n. s. The
most important was the loss of the French
ship Sepot, bound to st. Pierre with gen.
eral merchandise from France. The 9TH
er vessels were four large fishing schoon-
ers. Stormy, thick weather caused the
disasters. In all cases the crews were
saved
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
EASTERN.

The highest priced of all the important
.ailroad stocks of this country, New York
md Harlem, sold Wednesday on the New
York Stock Exchange at the highest price
IN record. Seventy-siX shares of the rare
security changed hands at 1924 a share,
IN advance of S24 a share since the last
recorded sale at $500 on March II.
The big Rosena furnace in Newcastle,
Pa, owned by Senator Mark Hanna and
Ex-senator Cameron, collapsed Monday
morning and heavy volume of coke, iron
ire and coal came crashing through the
,oof of the casting house, burying
thirty men under the debris. None were
Tiled, but Manager Refs was taken out
With the skin hanging in shreds from his
lands and arms, and his legs were terri
Wy burned and bruised. Another deadly
accident occurred there twenty minutes
ater. 1t was a cave-in at the big seven
W-foot cut of the Newcastle Traction
Company, which is engaged in making a
rack to the new Cascade Park. Michael
kurdy was buried under seventy-fve feet
If sand, gravel, clay and rocks and was
lead when taken out. Peter Herinsky
Fas terribly crushed about the shoulders
,nd hips, but viii probably recover.
At the dinner given at Philadelphia in
lonor of the former ambassador to Italy,
Wayne Macyeagh, ex-senator George F.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
Tho New Sugar Scandal.

Is the country to be afflicted with a
second sugar scandal? Are the Senators
from Havemeyer" ex-officio members Of
the finance committee, and are they to
be permitted to dictate the important
sugar Chicago Evening Posi-
Und. Rep).
The senate committees bill, whether
designed to do so or not, will give the
trust great advantage should it be-
come law. For that reason the country
is bitterly opposed to the senate sugar
schedule, and if the senate will heed
the voice of the people that schedule
will not be embraced in the new tariff.
indianapolis Journal (Rep.).
The storm over the sugar schedule is
steadily increasing. All the examina-
tions which have been made since its
report, instead Of clearing it up, only
make it look the blacker. 1t has appar-
emily been made of very complicated
character to battle analysis and to dis
guise a job, but, intricate as it is, it
does not conceal the fact that it en-
braces very large differential for the
benefit of the trust. This conviction is
universal, and it is aggravated by the
stories of personal profit i'll connection
with it.--Philadelphia Press (Rep.).
The specific charge by responsible
newspaper in Chicago that three men,
bers of the senate speculated in the Sc
crets of the committee room after the
sugar schedule on the senate tariff bill
had been framed, and profited $50, 900
by the transaction, is altogether too seri
Gus to be treated by the senate with
contempt or Indifference.
The peculiar influence which the
magnates Of the Sugar trust have exerted
in the framing of the new sugar sched-
ule has already created suspicious as to
the integrity of the trainers of the bill.
If the charge against the alleged specu-
lators shall not be investigated, it will
serve to strengthen, if not confirm,
this suspicion. n.-Philadelphia Bulletin
{Rep, \
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago-Cattle, common TO prime,
$3.50 to $3.50; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. 2 red, Tic to 72c;
corn. No. 2, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2, lie
to 1Sc; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c; butter,
choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh,
Sc 10 1Oc: potatoes, per bushei, zoe TO
30c; broom corn, common growth to choice
green hurl, S25 to $40 per ton.
1ndianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
$5.25; hogs, choice light, $500 to $4.00;
sheep, common to choice, $500 TO $3.50;
white. PC to 2Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 21c
TO 23c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $3.75; sheep, $500 to $475;
wheat, No. ., soc TO Ole; corn, No. 2
yellow, DC TO 23c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c
to 20c; rye, No. 2, 33c to 35c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 to S4.OO; sheep, $3.50 TO $4.75;
wheat, No. 2, SIC TO Soc; corn, No. 2
mixed, 26c to 27c; oats, No. mixed, 21c
TO 22c; rye, No. 2, 36c to 3Sc.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.25: hogs.
$500 to $4.OO; sheep, $500 to S4.75;
wheat, No. 2 red, SAC to S5c; corn, NJ. 2
yellow, 25c to &c; oats, Ne. . white, 23c
TO 25c; rye, 36c to 31c.
Toledo-Wheat No. red, SIC to S5c;
corn. No mixed, 24c to &c; oats, No.
white, 1Sc 10 zoe; rye, No. ., 33ec TO SIC;
clover seed, $4.2O to S4.30.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 spring, 73c
TO 74c: corn. No. 5, 23c to 25c; oats, No.
. white, 20c to 23c; barley, No. 2. 2Sc to
;I3c; rye, No l, 35c to Bic; pork, mess,
ST75 to SS.25.
Buffalo-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 % S425: sheep. $500 to S4.75:
wheat, No 2 red, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 2
yellow. 2Sc to 29c; oats, No. white, 24c
to 26c.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$3.50 to $3.50: sheep, $500 to S4.Io;
wheat. No. . red, SOC TO Sic; corn, No. 2,
29c to 3Oc; oats, No. 2 white, 2lc to 23c;
butter. creamery, lie to 1Sc; eggs, West
orr 10c 10 12c.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
News of Minor Note.

The plumbers strike at Chicago has
been settled by an arbitration committee.
Almost daily new wells are being open
ed in the newly discovered Indiana oil
fields.
The sugar industry in Argentine is
threatened with Il severe crisis, owing to
over-production.
DIR. John P Atwater, the last surviv-
ing member of the class of 1884 of Yale
College. died at his home in Porgh-
keepsIe. y. Y.
The present of the Sultan of Turkey
TO Emperor William, large collection of
costly. ancient Turkish weapons. has
been placed on view in the royal arsenal
of Berlin.
Lightning struck a high school at Den
yer. A number of pupils were shocked
and panic resulted. but no one was seri-.
ously iniu-el. Damage to the building
was slight.
The capital stock of the Bell Telephone
Company of Missouri is to be increased
from 100000 to S2.000.00O. or five times
the present figure. A special meeting of
the stockholders of the company has been
called for this purpose. 4
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Why not place heavy tariff duty on
pink teas?-Chicago Times-Herald.
1t will be very discourteous to Gen
Miles if Europe will not get up war for
his Observation-Disclosures Times.
There appears to be grave doubt as to
what game the powers are really playing
and who is ''it."-Chicago Tribune.
The Senate committee having taken the
hide off the Dingley bill has erened things
up by putting hides on.-Portland Eastern
Argus.
Mayor Harrison is modifying Chicago's
civil service regulations. The modifica-
ton is executed with an ax.-Washing-
ton Post.
The railroads which have been forced
to accept bicycles as baggage are getting
even by treating them like baggage
San Francisco Chronicle.
Chicago prides itself on its originality.
For instance, who ever heard before of
the best club in the League being at the
tail end?-Chicago Record.
1t is something of pity that the orig
inators of Arbor Day didn't have the
plain American common sense to call it
At last we have caught the Chinese
mapping. They haven't yet claimed that
they used the airship 1900 years ago.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The sudden closing up of the Greco
Turkish war was hardly courteous TO Gen.
Miles, who was on his way to give the
eombatants some points.-Buffalo Com
mercial.
1t is to be hoped that the prospective
increase of the tax on beer will not re-
suit in any such rush to load up as has
been seen in other directions.-Houston
Daily Post.
1t is easy to explain why we haven't
had rainbow for long time. The mil
liners haven't left any color for the heav-
enly arches to come out with.-Chicago
Journal.
1t is said to have cost Kentucky $780,
900 to elect Deboe to the Senate, and
perhaps after all he would have been will
ing to take the office for half the money.
San Francisco Call.
Since the wrecking of that Chicago bank
and the calling of an extra session of the
New Jersey Legislature there is no tell
ing just what the typewriters will do
uext.-New York Journal.
TAe Nyo Iowa men who imbibed EN-
balming fluid under the impression that it
was whisky have at least the satisfaction
of knowing that they got ''stiff'' drink
for their pans.-St. Louis Republic.
The talk about sending food supplies to
Americans in Cuba is interesting, but it
will strike most people that when it is
necessary to take such step the time has
come for that war to stop.-Springtield
Republican.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
Political Notes.

The new Senator from Ketnucky
the tariff question. Well. the sugar
trust can teach him all he needs to
learn about it in half an hour.-Mem.
phis Commercial-Appeal.
The worlds agriculture occupies the
attention of :2S0,000, 600 men, represents
capital of $2I.00O 100000. and has an
annual product of so, GOO, 100000 In the
construction of the Dingley bill the in.
terestS included in these figures have
been almost totally disregarded.-kan
sas City Times.
1t makes difference whose OK is
gored. The partisan papers which
could not restrain their indignation
when President Cleveland sent Com.
missioner Blount TO Hawaii to learn
the exact situation have nothing to say
regarding the presence of Mr.. Calhoun
in Cuba, as President Mckinley's per.
sonal representative.-Des Moines
Leader.
Russia wants more armor plate from
the Carnegie trust, and will probably
be able to get it at the old price of SOD!
per ton. The Car has most favored
nation treaty with the trust. and has
made money by it. AS a buyer of
American armor plate it would he cash
in Uncle Sans pocket to go to Europe
and be naturaliZed.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Why waste time on tariffs and rev.
enue, currency, commerce and such
like trifles. when the galleries can be
stirred by speeches about Cuba? Con.
gress has not done one thing for the
United States. but it has passed some
ineffective resolutions on foreign af.
fairs. and if that will not bring prosper
ity. why prosperity will have to wait
Philadelphia Times.
Unlike Rienzi, Mason has come here
TO falkland mighty breezy and re
freshing talk he gives us every now and
then. He doesn't seem to care con
tinental about the dignity or the
length of service. or the proprietary
claims of his seniors. He is just plain
unassuming, free-and-easy Billy Ma
son. with lots TO say for himself and a
great facility for saying it.-Washing
ton Post.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
LONDON'S BIG BILL,
Its Municipal Expenditures Yearly
Aggregate $SO.O0O,OOO.

Aggregate $SO.O0O,OOO.
The municipal expenditures of London.
the largest city in the world, amount to
about SSO,0OOO00 yearly. thus divided,
roughly, among the various items: Water
service, $10,O00.000; police department.
S1O,000,OOO: public charities, S12. 500 900;
schools, S1O,000,000; health department,
$500, 600; fire department. $1,000, goo;
department of streets, $10,0O0,OOO: gas.
s3.000.000; interest on municipal debt,
S5,000,OG0, and miscellaneous expenses,
the balance. $15.000.000.
Paris, with about one-half the total
population of the city of London, spends
In year S75,000,OOO, or considerably
more per capita. The question has been
asked how the expenses of the Greater
New York are likely to compare with those
of London and Paris. The present popu-
lation of London is, roughly, $500, 200,
and the population of the Greater New
York is, roughly, 3,3O0,0C0, the relation of
the two cities to each other in respect to
population being as five to three. The
population of Paris is 100000.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
SAYS 1T WILL HELP FARMERS.
New York Man Has an Original FL
uauciaI Plan,

Mr. John r. Dos Passos of New York
will ask Congress to give its sanction to a
plan which, he thinks, will put an end to
the discomfort in the agricultural regions
of the South and West. He intends to
secure the introduction of bill charter
ing the Loan and Mortgage Company Of
the United States. modelled after the
Credit Foncier of France and similar in
stitutions which have been tried with sue
cess in other European countries. Mr.. Dos
Passos, after three months of work, has
just completed the measure containing the
charter
Mr.. Dos Passos explained that the pur-
pose of the company was to enable farm
ers to borrow money at low rates of in
terest. 1t is proposed to establish the
company under q special capital of $780,,
100000, in shares of $40 each. Ii possi-
bic, the whole amount will be sold in such
manner that no one person shall hold
more than $1,000. The Government
shall have thS right to appoint its presi-
dent and two directors and an auditor,
who shall make monthly reports.
The company will be authorized TO make
loans on improved real estate and agri-
cultural staples, not exceeding fifty per
cent of the value, determined by apprais-
ers. for terms not exceeding fifteen years,
repayable In full at the end of that time, or
for periods of from fifteen to seventy-fve
years. repayable in quarterly payments,
including principal and interest. The
rate of interest on long term loans will
be $50 per cent, which will wipe out the
debt at maturity in the case of seventy
FIVE year loans. The actual interest pay
ment is 4.65 per cent.
The company shall have power to issue
$4,000, 100000 in 3.65 per cent bonds, in
denominations as low as $40. These may
be issued to borrowers in lieu of money.
and are expected to circulate as freely as
money. A reserve fund of S25,0OO,0OO
shall be retained. The company shall
have power to do a general banking and
trust business,-to own and operate ware
houses and grain elevators. Mr.. Dos Pas
SOS thinks that the effect of these powers
would be to supply needed currency, en-
hance and fix values and encourage thrift.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
Six and FaIf ii Dozen.

If the whole truth, and not Il part of
it merely. were to be brought to light
the fact would be disclosed that on the
average the civil service has improved
at least 10 per cent. in economy and ef-
ficiency under the reform rules. 1t
would be proved also that the evasiOns,
the false pretenses, the open or secret
violations, partisan removals under the
pretensc of the good of the service
but really in obedience to the cry,
"Turn the rascals out" have been just
about the same in proportion under one
administration and another, and with
no difference worth mentioning in that
respect between Republican and Dem
ocrat.-BoSton Advertiser.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
The Blight of protect;or;sm.

There could be no finer object lesson
for the iniquities of protection than the
results it produces. In armOr-plate
making protection leads to the proposi!
ton for cOnfiscatton. In ship-buildinS
it is driving our vessels from the seas.
In other lines of industries the protec-
tionists are fighting tooth and nail to
preserve their business interests from
Mr.. Dingley's blighting protectionist
measure to encourage the industries
of the United States Utica Observer.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03

This cartoon is from the New York
Press, one Of the most partisan of Re-
publican newspapers, which always ad-
vocates protection to any and every in
dustry. Like hundreds of other Repub-
lican papers, its disgust at the action Of
Aldrich in writing the sugar schedule
at the dictation of the trust is so great
that it is daily denouncing the sugar
schedule and the senate committees s
method of doing business.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
Sailing Under False Colors.

Every citizen knows that the general
government must have sufficient rev.
enue to administer the affairs of gov
ernment economically, and all citizens
would agree to the passage of a rev
enue tariff bill. But citizens are fast
finding out that under the guise of bill
ley and Mr.. Dingley are trying to foist
upon the people measure reducing
trade and increasing taxes.-Nashville
American.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
Anarchy Bred nv CorruDtiou.

There is no condition more conducive
to disorder and revolution than that in
which crime triumphs through the cor
secure immunity from merited punish
ment or privilege under the laws, the
plain people are made to feel that JUS
tice is impossible. There is more anar-
chism in the exhibition of the power of
money to purchase immunity from pun
ishment under the law and to buy spe-
cial privileges in legislation than in all
the mOuthings of anarchistic cranks.-
st. Louis Republic
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
w,x Reed 1s Able to PLAY Gar

Speaker Reed we'll knows that until
he appoints the committees his power
is practically absolute, and his control
over legislation is in fact absolute.
That is why he does not appoint the
committees. and that is why, like crav-
ems, the members of the House acqui.
esce in despOtism which is disgrace
full to themselves. and which brings
scandal upon republican institutions
st. Louis POst-Dispatch
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03

Herman Levi, the eminent conductor
of the Royal Opera House, in Munich,
who has been seriously i'll for a consid-
cradle time, finally has resigned his
post, and the Prince Regent Luitpold
has made him an honorary member of
the royal court orchestra. Levi has
been one of the most distinguished and
authoritative interpreters of Wagner's
works, having studied them under the
masters influence and direction ut
Munich, where he has been conductor
since 1872. He will be succeeded by
Richard Strauss and Prof. Erdmans-
dorfer,