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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
STRUNG Up BY A MOB.
NEGRO lYNCHED BY FRENZiED
PEOPLE OF URBANA, Q.
Mob's First Attempt Was Met by
Deadly yoIIeys of Rifle Builets-Au.
thorities Didn't Interfere with the
Second Attack.
Night of Awful Sensations.


"Glick" Mitchell. the Urbana. o.. negro
brute, has paid the penalty of his foul
crime with his life An outraged people
took the la1 into their own hands and
meted out to him the punishment he so
richly deserved and obeyed the command
and wish of his PROSTATE and. as announc-
ed, dying victim. He was hanged to
tree in the court yard Friday in broad
daylight, after night of horror and ira
gedy.
Recently Mrs. Eliza Gaumer, the widow
Of the late publisher of the Urbana Dem
ocrat, was criminally assaulted by Chas.
Mitchell, alias ''Glick" Mitchell, noto-
rious negro. who was arraigned Wednes-
day, but his victim was too i'll to appear
IN court. The man was taken to her home
for identification. AS he entered the door
she raised herself OH her elbow and ex-
claimed: The brute! Hang him! How
dare you face me. you brutef In de-
fault Of $1,000 bail Mitchell was locked
up in the city prison, but OH account of
the feeling was removed TO the county Jail
the same night for afe keeping.
From the time of his arrest threats of
iynching were made, and Sheriff Mclean
ing from the Governor the services of
two companies of militia. His indictment
by the grand jury, his plea of guilty and
the sentence were all recorded within Iour
hours Thursday evening. His sentence
was to twenty years Imprisonment, and
he was to have been taken from the Ur-
bana Jail Friday to begin the term.
Thursday night the Jail was surrounded
by a threatening mob. News of the in
tended attack on the prisoner reached the
officers of the court in the afternoon, and
they called on the Governor for militia
TO protect Mitchell. The local company
was ordered out. and took up lodgings un-
der arms in the Jail. AT 2:3O o'clock Fri
day morning mob attacked the Jail with
sledge hammers. The militiamen fired
into the crowd, killing and wounding
many of the attacking party and repeiilng
the assault.
AT 1:1O o'clock in the morning COM
pany of militiamen arrived from Spring
field, .. The crowd, already enraged at
the authorities, rallied for another at
tack on the Jail. This time the authorities
made no resistance. None of the men in
charge had the nerve to order another vol
ley turned into the bodies of Is towns
men. The negro was hustled out of his
cell and hanged to the nearest tree in the
presence of bowling mob of 1000 per-
sons. over 500 of whom were women. The
feeling is intense against the sheriff for
allowing the National Guards TO FIRE on
the people. and there is very general
approval of the work of the mob.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10

felt by the people. and enforce economy
until increased revenues by reason of
increased prosperity would give addi.
tiOnal revenues and warrant additional
expenditures. However Congress may
treat public economy as lost art in
our free government the people who
must suffer the severe stringency that
now prevails in lll channels of indus.
try and trade will surely criticise the
tendency to prOfiigacy exhibited at
Washington by studied efforts to in
vent new taxes to be imposed upon the
people. Economy is virtue among the
people in times of business distress and
it must become a virtue IN Il govern
ment that is a government of the peo-
pie. Let rulers at Washington be ad-
mOniShed that however they may re-
gard economy as Il lost art the people
will strongly incline to enforce it even
to the extent of political revolution if
Philadelphia Times.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
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This seems to be an admirable decade
for private Observation-Disclosures Plain
Dealer.
The latest diagnosis is that the Sick
Man of Europe has got the grip.-Boston
Herald.
Perhaps Russell Sage is just working
up good big inheritance tax joke on
somebody.-Cleveand Leader.
Perhaps if the powers would guarantee
the balance, Col. Hamid can be induced to
take Greece on account.-Elmira Tele-
gram.
When the United States decides upon
Cuban policy, there will be no trouble
about maintaining the concert. .'-Colum-
bus Dispatch.
Miners in Pennsylvania are said to have
blown up company store" The COM
pany store should go. but this is not the
way in which to abolish it.-Buffalo Ex-
press.
Emperor William says to his subjects:
Il am the vine; We are the branches"
Down in his heart. however. he believes
that he is the whole vineyard.-CleveIand
Leader.
No consensus has been reached among
those who are explaining McKinley'e Gu
ban policy 1t might be well to let the
President speak for himself.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
If Cuba gains her freedom the song of
the carpet bagger will be heard in the
land.-Louisville Dispatch.
If you listen now intently at the early
blush of dawn you can hear the busy
mower as it shears the grassy lawn. and
if You listen closely you will catch a fire.
auent hint of remarks which may be
forceful. but which don't look well in
print.-Chicago Times Herald.
They are making appropriations at
Washington for the relief of suffering
Americans in Cuba. but what are they do
ing for the relief of suffering Americans
in America? That is what the furnishing
Flannagans of this fair land would Ike
to know.-Louisville Courier-.Iournal.
The Arkansas Legislature has passed a
law to tax airships. That ought to help:
almost anything that is taxed heavily
enough is bound to go up in time.-Chi-
cago Times Herald.
The dispatches say there is a strong
feeling among the European powers in
favor of international control of Greek
finances. They ought to be able to con-
troll a little thing like ethat-Indianapolis
Journal.
The correspondents who were crowded
out of the papers by war news from the
Levant will now undertake to retrieve
their losses by shooting in the widest
aud most improbable yarns concerning
Cuba.-Detroit Journal
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$3.50 to $3.50; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to S3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. 2 red, Csc to 69c;
corn, No. 2, DC to 24c; cats, No. :, lie
to 1Sc; rye. No. 2, 33c to 34c: butter,
choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs, fresh,
&c 10 Sc; potatoes, per bushel, 1oc TO
30c; broom corn, common growth to choice
green hurl, $25 to $40 per ton.
apolis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
S5.25; hogs, choice light, $500 to $3.1o;
sheep, common TO choice. $500 te $3.50;
wheat, No. 2. 76c to 7Sc; corn, No. ?
white, 24c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 2lc
to 23c.
St. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 10 $3.75; sheep, $500 to $4.75;
wheat, No. ., S3c to SIC; corn, No. 2
yellow, 22c to DC; oats, No. 2 white, 16c
to 1Sc; rye, No. 2. Sic to 32c.
Cincinnati-Caltle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
$500 10 S3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.T5:
wheat, No. 2. 79c to Sic; corn, No. z
mixed, Doc to &c; oats, No. mixed, 2Oc
to 21c; rye, No. 2, SAC to 36c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to S525; hogs,
$500 to $3.75; sheep, $500 to S4.15;
yellow, 24c to 26c; oats, No. = white, 23c
10 24c; rye, 34c to 36c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red. TIC to 1Sc;
corn. No. > mixed, 23c to 25c; oats. No.
white, lie TO 19c; rye. No. =, SAC to 36c;
clover seed. s4.20 to $3.50.
Observation-Disclosures. No. spring. zoe
to tic; corn. No. 3, DC to 24c; oats, No.
2 white, 20c to pc; barley, No. ., 2Sc to
B3c: rye. No. 1, 34c to 36c; pork, mess,
$3.50 TO $500.
Buffalo-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $4.15;
wheat, No. ? red, soc to Sic; corn. No. .
yellow, 27c to 2Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 24c
to 26c.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$3.50 TO $3.50; sheep. $500 TO $40;
wheat, No red, T4c to 76c; corn, No. .,
29c to SOC; oats, No white, 21c to 23c;
butter, creamery. lac to 16c; eggs, West
ern, 10c to lie.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
Heavy Duties on Linens.

The following are some of the com
nents of man we'll acquainted with
linens and the linen industry upon the
senate doctored Dingley bill:
The proposed duties OH linen goods
under the amended Dinlgey bill are
heavier than ever, although it has been
claimed that the senate had reduced
rates. These goods laid for many years
35 per cent and yielded steady reve-
nue. to the government The rates now
proposed vary from so to 100 per cent,
and the burden falls heaviest Oh low
and medium goods, which are chiefly
Used III the homes of the poorer people.
A cheap tablecloth now selling at re-
:ail at 20 cents per yard will have to be-
sold at 371a cents to 40 cents if the
quality be kept up.
Medium linen for children's summer
blouses will be assessed 991a per cent,
and the retail price will have to go up
accordingly.
Linen forms the raw material for
many American industries. as Innings
or clothing and other purposes where
trength and durability are required.
.uch goods will be advanced 30 to 80
per cent.
1t is claimed that this advance is nee
,ssary for revenue, but the effect will be
that the people will i'll many cases substi.
sute something cheaper, and thus be de-
orived of this useful fabric. and the reve-
1ue will be correspondingly diminished.
1t is said that linen goods can be made
here, but this has been tried again and
again, and except in the case of few
low crashes has been failure. owing to
The climate and other difficulties, but
even if they could be made here the
rates are unnecessarily oppressive. The
entire cost of weaving linen goods in
Europe is about ~ to 10 per cent the
selling price of the article here, and in
America the cost should not be at the
very outside more than double this per-
,entage. so that. even if Republican
theories be true, a protection of 30 pei
cent should be ample to allow for high
.r wages and extra profits for our man
lfacturers.
1t is possible speculators may start
mills on the strength of these excessive
rates. sell the stock. and then step out,
leaving the unfortunate laborer and
manufacturer to face the difficulties of
the situation as best they can. The la
5orer probably. having been brought
here from Europe (for labor is Oh the
free list), with unreasonable expecta-
lions, will be left to join the army of
disappointment and discomfort. Why
should these exorbitantly high rates be
assessed on an article more or less in |
use in every household in the land, and |
the cost Of living so much increased III
these days of keen competition and |
small profits? Why should the plain peo-
pie be taxed to put more money in the
pockets of the rich? If the wealthy |
want to make expert
ments, let the~ do so at their own cost,
not tax the poor for that purpose
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
CIRCLING THE GLOBE
CONCISE HISTORY OF SEVEN
DAYS DOINGS.
Intelligence by Electric Wire from
Every Quarter of the Civilized
World, Embracing Foreign Affairs
and Home Happenings.
Postmaster Rule Is Changed.


The rule announced shortly after the
administration assumed charge that post
masters would be allowed to serve out
their full terms unless removed for cause
has been modified, and it is expected that
wholesale appointments to postoffices will
be made soon. 1t was officially an
nounced that the President and the POST
master General will consider as having
expired all postoffices which are due to
expire between now and July 8.
1t is understood that the matter was dis
cussed and the decision reached at the
last Cabinet meeting. The reason as
signed for the modification of the an
nounced policy of the administration is
the desire of the Postoffice Department to
fill as many offices as possible before the
expiration of tine fiscal year, July 1, in
order that accounts may be begun with a
new quarter,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10

Turnbull painted the four best his
torical pictures in the Capitol rotunda.
The state, war and navy building was
begun in 1871 and cost S1O,OOO,OOO to
complete.
The hall of the House Of Represen-
tatives is the largest assembly room in
the world.
The Congress of the United States
has met annually in Washington since
Nov. II, 1900.
The Crawford bronze door of the Sen
ate wing weighs 1000 pounds and cost
nearly $4,000.
A marble column surmOunted by a
statue of Lincoln stands in front of the
district courthouse.
The new naval observatory at Wash
ington is one of the finest scientific
plants in the world.
General Winfield Scott fathered the
soldiers home, which was established
by Congress in 1857.
1t costs about 100000 year to run
the White House exclusive of the Presi-
dents salary of $4,000.
The columns of the eastern portico
of the capitol are each solid blocks of
sandstone thirty feet high.
The Rogers bronze doors at the main
entrance of the capitol tell the history
of Columbus and cost S2S,000.
Lincoln's inaugural ball was a very
frosty affair, in spite of the pleasant
weather. Every one felt that a storm
was brewing.
The treasury building was completed
in 1869 at cost of $S.OOO,0OO. 1t is the
largest government department.
The bronze propeller of the famous
flagship, the Hartford, was cast into
the statutes of Admiral Farragut.
Ainsworth r. Spofford has been IL
brarian of Congress since 1864. His
salary is $1,000 year.
The postoffice department building
was erected in 1899 and extended in
1855. at IL cost of over $2,0O0000.
The terraces of the capitol were only
completed in 1891, the total cost of the
building footing up $14,455,OOO.
The capitol rotunda is ninety-five feet
sly inches in diameter, and from floor
to canopy measures 1S3 feet inches.
Seventeenth, Ninth, Fourteenth, f
and G streets are rivaling Pennsyl-
yania avenue as business locations.
The Prince of Wales was entertained
in Washington by President Buchanan
in 1860, and visited Washington's tomb
at Mount Vernon.
Mrs. Hayes practiced prohibition at
the White House, making an exception
only in the case Of the Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
is PATRIOTISM DYING7
Gporting Events Crowd Out Memorial
Services.

Gporting Events Crowd Out Memorial
Services.
Judging from the newspaper reports
and other appearances Decoration Day
has lost it's character and significance in
New York, writes William E. Curtis to
the Chicago Record. when telling of the
observance of last Memorial Day. 1t Is
no longer an event to revive patriotism
and stir the memories, but is almost Who'll
ly given up to athletic exhibitions and
sports The old battle flags are honored,
the Stars and Stripes float from every
public building and from the windows and
roofs of many residences, and the Grand
Army posts still march with limping steps
to the cemeteries, but the great mass of
the people do not give moments thought
to their debt to the dead. There we're
ceremonies at the tomb of Gen. Grant, at
Greenwood, and at other silent camping
grounds, where, as an old veteran remark
ed, his comrades had been put to bed with
spade, but the participants were mostly
the survivors of the war and the widows
and orphans of its dead. The people at
the cemeteries numbered hundreds, while
over 10000 saw Howard Mann win the
IL -I.VOO SOW Il boScOe'h
game between the New York and Pitts
burg teams; a similar crowd witnessed
boat race on the Harlem river, and every
branch of outdoor sport had some special
attraction to celebrate the holiday.
Newspapers are a fair index of public
interest on these subjects. They give
page to sporting intelligence and Il column
to the ceremonies of Decoration Day. In
one paper | counted twenty-four columns
filled with sports and four columns to the
soldiers monuments and cemeteries. 1t
is serious question whether the his
toric significance of the holiday is to be
lost and whether the public mind is be-
coming so absorbed with athletics, games
and turf gambling that it cannot devote
one day in the year to the expression and
cultivation of patriotism.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
ECONOMY II Lost Art.

There is great depression throughout
and conditions are suffering from re-
luced incomes. while many who depend
entirely upon their labor are without
employment and Of necessity without
bread. This condition has enforced
economy among the people and it
should logically enforce economy in the
administration of public affairs.
Instead of enforcing economy in
either State or nation. both Congress
and State Legislatures seem to regard
public economy as one of the lost arts
of the republic. There is large de-
felt in the national revenues, chiefly
because of the increased expenditures
put upon the government by Congress
when prosperity was unknown in any
of our leading channels of industry and
trade. and the present Congress seems
to be interested only in increasing taxa
ton to meet present protligate eXpendi-
lures. and even to increase them in
stead of seeking to reduce public eX
penditureS and enforcing practical
economy in the administration of the
government.
The present revenues would be suf-
ficient for all legitimate government
expenses if administered with reason
able economy, but neither branch of
Congress has exhibited any disposition
to curtail public expenditures even in
the face of the threatened deficit ia
the treasury.
We have had four years of Industrial
and commercial depression with in
creasing severity from the time it be-
gun until now. and yet there has been
40 attempt made by Congress TO en-
force the economy in public rXpendi-
lures that would have been naturally
suggested by the conditions which op-
press the whole people. The govern
ment should be an eXempiar in econ
omy when necessity dictates it, and
especially should Congress avoid i'll
creased taxation ut time when al
business and property interests are
least able to bear such eXactions.
The attitude of Congress is not credit
able 1t is not in accordance with the
spirit of our free institutions. When
the people are suffering and are COM
1e!led to enforce the SeycrcSt economy.
and many even wanting the neces-
saripS of life. both State and nation
sheuld bow to the conditions which are
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
Faure Is Careful.

Paris special: 1t is learned from an
authorized French source that letters of
credence presented to President Faure by
Senator Edward o. Wolcott of Colorado,
and his colleagues, of the United States
monetary commission, designates them as
Ministers Plenipotentiary to France,
Great Britain and Germany, with mis-
sion, in concert with the United States
Ambassadors to those countries, to dis
cuss monetary questions, and to come TO
some agreements for bi-metallism.
President Faure carefully avoided max
ing any statement to them which might
be interpreted as promise to take any
steps in the matter.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
Verdict in the Duey Killing.

Coroner Haerr, at Cincinnati, rendered
a verdict on the death of George A. Duey,
who was shot by Officer Amos Booth on
the night of May q. The Coroner says:
81 find Officer Booth was at the time re-
spending to call for help coming from
the residence of Mrs. Placke, which had
been entered by burglars, and seeing the
deceased coming from the direction of the
residence, commanded him to halt, which
he failed to do, but instead turned and
ran from the officer, who, supposing him
to be one of the burglars, fired fatal
shot. From the evidence L am unable to
connect deceased with the intended burg.
lary"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
A Kentucky Mountain Battle.

A special from Painsville, KY, says:
A pitched battle, in which Tom Lewis,
Preston Lee, Green Charles, j. w.
Charles, Shade Lee and Hemp Lee en-
gagged, occurred near the Virginia. Ken
lucky border, in Virginia. J. w. Charles
was killed outright, and Green Charles,
Hemp Lee and Tom Lewis were mortally
wounded. The particulars are meager,
but the report is that the crowd had been
drinking, and a quarrel ensued after a
discussion, with the above results.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
Extending the Find1ay.

Surveyors have commenced work run
ming the line for the extension of the
Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western Road
eastward from Findlay, Ohio. The OBJ
iective point was not divulged, but it is
supposed the line will extend through
Ohio and make connection near the
Pennsylvania line with the trunk line to
the seaboard. The survey west from
Fort Wayne to the connection with the
Illinois Central at kankakee, ILL.,, has
Just been completed.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
Terrible Death,

Aeronaut Walters met terrible death
at Ccnterville, Iowa, by falling from his
balloon. When about one hundred feet
in the air the ropes TO parachute
below him to which a dog was at
tached caught in telephone wires, tearing
both parachutes loose from the balloon.
Walters was instantly killed. The acci-
dent was witnessed by thousands OF
people. Walters had similar accident
two weeks ago, but was not seriously
hurt that time.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
Turco-Greek Armis tice.

Athens special: The Cabinet has de-
cided to sign an armistice on the fellow
ing conditions:
'The Greek fleet will quit Ottoman
waters. Vessels under Turkish or neu-
tral flags, bound to :or returning from
Turkish ports, snd the vessels north of
the armistice line, will not be examined.
Vessels carrying troops and munitions
for the Turkish army will not be allowed
to enter ports north of the line. The
Turkish fleet must not leave the Darda-
nelles. The dispatch of TT endorsements
to garrison towns in the archipelago is
prOhi bited,"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
Five Children Perish in Burning

Five children were burned to death in
the home of j. II. White, two miles from
Keystone, W. Va. Enemies of the fami-
ly are believed to have fired the house.
Both White and his wife were away on a
visit, and their five children were left
alone in their farmhouse. The children
had retired when the fire was started.
The children who met death were roy
of u years, one of 10, one of 6, one Of 4,
and girl of g. Boodhounds will be
used to trace the perpetrators.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-10
J. A. Watrous, in Chicago Times-Her.
Savings of Grant.

"Let us have peace"
81 propose to fight 1t out on this line
if it takes all summer"
mo terms other than an uncondi
tiOnal and immediate surrender can be
accepted. l propose to move hume
diately upon your works"
II know no method to secure the re-
peal of bad or obnoxious laws so effcc-
tual as their strict enforcement"
LET no guilty man escape if 1t can
be avoided. No personal considera
tions should stand in the way cf per
forming Il duty"
Il have nothing to do with opinions,
and shall deal only with armed rebel
lion and it's aiders and abettors."
81 am ready to do with all my might
whatever you may direct, without criti-
cism."
81 can handle them without gloves"
"The national credit must and shall
be preserved"
mo theory of my own will ever stand
in the way of my executing in good
faith any order 1 may receive from
those in authority over me-
I'VE will peg away and end this mat
ter if our people at home will be true
to themselves
Il know that it is my country that is
honOred through me-"
my army must and shall live. My
troops will not want as long as there jig
corn in your granaries and bacon in
your smoke houses"
'The war is over, the rebels are our
countrymen again, and the best sign of
rejoicing after the victory will be to
abstain from all demonstrations in the
field"
Il shall do right Whoever is elected
shall be seated"
Il request such legislation as shall
effectually secure life, liberty and prop
erty, and the enforcement of law in
all parts of the United States"
Il shall not hesitate to exhaust the
power vested in the Executive, when
ever and wherever it shall become nee
essary to do so for the purpose of Sc
curing to all citizens of the United
States the peaceful enjoyment OF the
rights guaranteed to them by the Con
stitution and the laws
''In regard to foreign policy. would
deal with nations rs equitable law re-
quires individuals to deal with each
ntborr