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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
TO BURN COURT RECORDS.

The People in Indian Territory Are
Alarmed-Detectives at Work.
The people of South McAlester, l. T.,
are aroused over what the United States
marshars Office believes to be plot OF
the Indians to circumvent impending leg
islation in Congress by the destruction OF
all court houses and court records of the
United States in the Indian territory. De-
tectives are now shadowing certain In
dams who are suspected of being in the
plot. They are suspected of having set
fire to the United States court house at
Lrdmore, l. T., recently, and it is thought
that the burning of that building was the
prelude of the plot
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30

lection of an enissary to hold out peace
proposals TO the rebels. Ruiz sent let
ter to his friend telling him the nature
of the mission he was about to undertake,
and the young Cuban colonel in his reply
warned the Spaniard that any messenger
from the hated power would be killed. He
further told Ruiz that if he came to him in
that role he would be hanged. Arangu-
ren's father and sister, who are in the
United States, say that they have letters
from the young colonel in which he de-
clares that Spain cannot tempt him.
Whether Aranguren be dead or not. there
seems to be no doubt as to the fate that
overlook his old friend. Col. Ruiz was
admired for his gallantry, and he went to
his death fully aware of the awful risk
hn rnn
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Sparks from the Wires.

Rev. DIR. Henry W. Super, LII. d., re
tired professor of church history and pol
itics in the school Of Ursinus College, at
Collegeville. Pa, Is dead.
Andree wonld be vcry foolish to come
back at this stage of the game. Every
week adds to his drawing power on the
lecture platform.
At Bismarck, \. D., Harry Wyman, a
wood cutter, died from rife shot wound
inflicted by his brother. Three brothers
were ged in wood cutting and had q
suuabble over Il game of cards. One OF
them sought 20 XIII the other two with an
AK and was shot through the hips by the
other,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Hawaiian Sugar Crop.

The total output of sugar from the
Hawaiian Islands for the year just clos
ing, according to the figures of the Ha-
waiian Sugar Planters Association trans
mitted to the State Department at Wash
ington by United States Consul General
Haywood, is 24S,567 tons, as against 24S,-
555 tons last year. The planters have
had more trouble than usual on account of
desertions, especially with the japanese.
japanese gave much more trouble than
Chinese
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Cleveland poolroom Raided.

The police made raid on horse race
pool room in Cleveland, which the man.
ayers said was merely branch of the
Central Telegraph Company of Allegheny,
Pa. They alleged that no bets were made
in Cleveland, but were telegraphed to
Allegheny. A police detective discovered
that the wires supposed to connect with
Allegheny went only as far as the second
story window of the building.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30

Secretary Sherman talked so bravely
n few weeks ago against the growing
power and multiplying evils of trusts
that the people were led TO hope the
subject would receive earnest atten-
ton from the nations chief magistrate
in his first exhaustive state paper. The
Presidents failure, therefore, to take
any notice of this vitality important
matter can be accounted for only on
the hypothesis that he did not choose
to expose his party to the reproaches
and enmity of the beneiiciaries of the
trusts
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Locomotive Runs Away.

A runaway engine on the Toledo and
Ohio Central Railway ran from Shawnee
to Rendville, Ohio, twenty-five miles, at
a rate Of forty-fve miles an hour, passing
through two villages, Darlington and
brakes, but injured no one. and came to
a standstill finally from loss of steam
without any injury to the engine. BY use
of the telegraph the track was kept clear
before the machine.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30

For the present the trusts are in the
saddle. But the peoples turn will
come. They know that Il democratic
form of government will be impossi-
bic when the industries by which they
live are controlled by Il few men,
whose power gives them dominant in
huence in politics. The reckoning is
inevitable.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Recent Republican Reverses.

The Republicans, of course. ascribe
their reverses to the fact that this is
an "off year" That is the usual ex-
cuse, but it is far from being a salts
factory one. There is no general rule
that party shall lose in the elections
Immediately following its advent to
power, and even if there were the rule
should not apply in this case. The Re
publicans have made their campaigns
upon the claim that they have. during
their few months of power, lifted the
country out of the Slough of De
sDond," in which it had been strug-
Cling, and placed it upon the broad
highway of a magnificent prosperity.
If this claim is true, their majorities
should have been increaSed-not dimin-
ished. If the people are rolling in pros
perity they must certainly know it.
The result proves that they do not hold
the Republican party responsible for
the famine in India. the drouth i'll Ar
gentine and the short crops of Europe
which have conspired to raise the
prices of American breadstuffs. Prob
ably the rise of wheat and other GER
eals did mislead some voters, for all
men are not discriminating as TO
causes. If wheat had been 80 cents Il
bushel lower Mr.. Hanna would have
lost every close district in Ohio and
been defeated. Accidental conditions
greatly favored the Republican party.
Still, it lost heavily all along the line.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Her Head Blown Off.

By the explosion of several dynamite
cartridges which were concealed in the
oven of cook stove in the residence OF
Peter Brink at Sawkill, n. T., horrible
accident was caused, several persons be-
ing frightfully injured and Kate Brink,
7-year-old girl, being killed instantly,
her head being blown off by the explosion.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Earthquake in Virginia.

Seismic disturbances were felt at Ash
land, Va. Most of the residents had sat
down for supper when the earthquake
was felt. Lamps swayed to and fro and
some of the small buildings were crack
ed. The movement was from east to
west and lasted for two or three seconds.
The shock was felt in Richmond twenty
minutes later
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
BOSTON FOR QUINCY.
Agaiu Chosen Mayor of the Hub Over
Edwin y. Curtis.

Mayor Josiah Quincy was reelected foi
two years IN the Boston municipal elec-
tion by a plurality of about 1850. 1t
was the closest city election ever held in
Boston, and was marked by quiet yet IN
tense excitement. The total vote was the
largest. ever polled-S9.OG in a total reg
istration of 104 900. or approximately
about 81 per cent.
The Democrats look upon it as signal
victory, in view of the fact that the lie
publicans carried the city on the State
election by 1000, and that Quincy gained
from &C to 400 per cent i'll some of the
strongest Republican precincts.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Wages to Be Reduced. L.

The directors of the Amoskeag Manu-
featuring Company of Manchester, n. H.,
at a meeting held at the Boston Office OF
the company, voted to reduce the wages
of its employees about 10 per cent on Jan.
/. The Amoskeag plant IS one of the
largest engaged in the manufacture of
cotton in the country and employs be-
tween 5000 and 5000 people.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Through an ope n Switch.

Two men were killed and two seriously
injured in a rear-end collision on the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway at
Cayuga, Ind. The dead are: j. S. Hod-
son, Chicago, engineer; L. b. Horton,
Chicago, engineer. Injured: K. Horton,
fireman, legs broken; II. w. Kellog, air
brake inspector, head badly cut. Passen-
ger train No. in charge of Engineer
Bodson, ran into an open switch and
crashed into the rear end of freight
train, which lay on the side track. Hor-
ton was a new engineer learning the road.
Both men were badly crushed. No pas
aeuperS were injured.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Hejress to Vast Wealth,

Mrs. Lars Anderson and her husband
have returned TO San Francisco from
their honeymoon trip to the orient. Mrs.
Anderson, who is not yet 21 years old, is
,aid to be the heiress of S50,000,000.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
LOSS OF TEXAS CATTLE.

eleet ator m More Disas trous Than
Was Expected.
The sleet storm which has prevailed for
the last week in Texas has proved to be
more disastrous in its effects on the stock
interests of the west and northwest por-
tions of the State than was at first ex-
pectcd. Reports from 200 miles west
and north of Fort Worth say that the
death rate among cattle will be unpre-
cedented, the fatality being pronounced
among recent importations from Mexico
and the cattle taken to the big plaiLs
country from Louisiana. In some locali-
ties fully IS per cent. Of the Mexican cat
tie have died already.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Bad News for ninglexites.

1t falls with peculiar sadness upon
the ears of Senator Aldrich of Rhode
Island, who vouched for the peculiar
excellence of the cotton schedule of the
Dingley tariff law, that the wages of
2S,CG0 operatives in Fall River will be
reduced 10 per cent. The cause of the
reduction is the depressed condition of
the cotton market. which does not en-
able prirt cloth, it is asserted, TO be
manufac ,ured for the price now pre-
vailing, Which is the lowest on record.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Sneaker Reed,s Opportunity.

Let the speaker organize effective op-
position to Hannaism. to the whole
trust fostering and public plunderins
schemes of the Mckinley syndicate.
Let him fight the evasion of the rev
enue question in the interest of the tar
iff barons. Let him fight the shameful
patronage deals and plunder bargains
of Hanna. If Speaker Reed organizes
Il fight on this line of campaign he will
rally to his banner a great throng of
Republicans who have been sickened
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Damage Done by a Cartridge.

John Strawman, a Seneca County
Ohio farmer, threw a cartridge into the
fire. 1t went off, filling Mrs. Strawman's
breast with shot and causing her death.
Strawman's right hand was blown off by
the explosion of the percussion cap as he
was taking the shell from the fire.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Cockroaches in Ear,

The cockroaches which were driven out
of the Jail at st. Louis, Mo-, by the fumi-
eating have overrun the houses in that
neighborhood and the residents are com
PEELED to sleep with cotton in their ears.
Mrs. Laura Woodruff and little son were
awakened the other night by terrible
pains in their ears, and upon investiga-
ton cockroaches were found buried in the
anral openinGs.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
COLONEL RUIZ.
The Spanish Peace Envoy Who Was
Assassinated by the CuEans.

Assassinated by the CuEans.
Lieut.. Col. Joaquin Ruiz, the Spanish
peace envoy who was put to death by the
Cubans last week, was well known to
Cubans in New York He was resident
of Havana and had held municipal offices
in that city. among them the chieftain-
ship of the city fire department. He was
promoted from that position to be aid-de-
camp to Captain General Blenco when
that soldier took charge of affairs ill the
Cuban capital. Ruiz knew Col. Aran-
guren. In fact, the two men were warm
personal friends before the rebellion.
Aranguren had been an employe of Ruiz
when the latter occupied the post of man.
ager of the Vento water works. These
things determined Gen. Blanco in his Sc
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30

by the disgraceful course of the Hanna
syndicate and who see nothing but
ruin for the party in the defiant tramp.
ling upon popular righta and interests
that has marked Hanna's bossism. He
will serve his country and gain its re-
spect and confidence-Ex.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
FIRE LOSS OF $I,OoO,OOO.

Hotel and Two Wholesale Houses
Burned at Grand Forks, n. ID.
Fire caused loss of nearly million
dollars at Grand Forks, n. D., the other
morning. The Hotel Dakotah, a large
five-story structure that cost $250,00o,
was completely destroyed, as were the
two large wholesale stores adjoining Of
Nash Bros. and the Grand Forks Mer-
camille Company. Nash Bros. were gro
Gerry and fruit and cigar wholesalers, and
the Mercantile Company dealt in gro
ceries. Both concerns occupied a brick
building about one hundred feet square
and four or FIVE stories high.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Shot as a Traitor.

Minister de LONE at Washington claims
that Col. Aranguren, the dashing Cuban
guerrilla chief, has been slain as traitor
by his followers. Aranguren, it would
seem, had promised safety TO Ruiz. When
Ruiz was condemned Aranguren protest
ed, and the rebels thereupon took up
Aranguren's case and condemned him too.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
China Will Submit.

A special dispatch from Shanghai as
serts that China will acquiesce in Ger
many's retention of Kiao-Chou. Russia
and France are irritated at Germany s
precipitancy in thus prematurely disclos-
ing her plans to England and Japan in a
manner likely, says the dispatch, to de-
feat the objects in view.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
NEBRASKA PRISON SCANDAL
Expert Jewell Says the State Has Lost
S537,S71 by Jobbery.

Expert jewell says tie Stntc Has Loss
S537,S71 by Jobbery.
report as to the Nebraska State pen
itantiary scandal was submitted to Gov.
Holeomb by Expert Accountant Jewell.
1t discloses Irregularities aggregatins
S53T T.S71S7. Mr.. Jewell says that only
S5.525.O4 is recoverable by suit against
bondsmen or the men responsible. The
report scores the contract system former
ly in vogue as against the present State
control, saying that the former resulted
in steal of over 100000. Under the
contract system convicts cost the State
about S13 a month and under State con-
troll fraction over S3. 1t adds that the
profit of the contractors from Oct. j, 1887,
to Aug. ], 1895, was somewhat over $780,
0lD
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Orange Cron Hurt.

San Francisco special: A close esti-
mate has been made and there are still
oranges worth about $4,000, 600 on the
trees. The freezing weather of the last
three nights greatly damaged the fruit.
1t is possible the entire remaining crop is
lost. The cold weather continues and
growers fear the worst.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Arabs in Revolt.

London special: A dispatch from VII
emma says that Arabs along the Persian
Gulf, notably at Basrah, Kurnah and Ell
Kaliff. have revOlted, and that troops are
ON their Way there.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Shot His stepdauphter.

James Griner, proprietor of the Pull
man Hotel at Duryea, Penn, shot and
killed his stepdaughter, Caroline Shafer.
They had quarreled over money matters.
Griner gave himself up. He is an ex-
member of the Legislature.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Leading st. Louis Merchant Kills
H;v,,sa1f.

George ]. Fritch, president of the Fritch
Furniture Company, .one of :hhe leading
business men of st. Louis, committed
suicide by hanging himself in an elevator
shaft. Dependency over business
troubles is the cause.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Washington Hesinp Deaa.

Hon. Washington Hesing, editor of
the Illinois Stats Zeitung, and ex-post-
master of Chicago, died at his home in
that city.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Death Due to y Rays.

In the trial of George A. G. Orme at
Elmira, N. V, for murder in the first de-
gree Dr. John f. Pitkin of Buffalo testi-
fed that in his opinion the unskiiiful use
of the X rays had caused the death OF
james Pune, the man whom Orme is al
legged TO have murdered July 81.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
or;r;ro1 Georpe Harris Died.

Lewis George Clark, S6 years old, the
original George Harris of Harriet Beech
er Stoves famous novel, Uncle Toms
Cabin" died at Lexington. ky.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Guilty at Salt Lake.

James z. Bacon was found guilty Of
making false entries in his reports to the
Comptroller Of the Currency when presi-
dent of the American National Bank of
Salt Lake, Utah.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Mckinley Paying Off Mortgages.


Mckinley Paying Off Mortgages.
We should be glad to entertain S
doubt about the stories coming from
Washington that the President is tax.
ing up political mortgages with which
he became incumbered during the cam
paign, but the neglect on the part OF
the Presidents friends to contradict
them, and the persistence of the Presi
dent in acting as if some of these re
ports are true, make it difficult 10 be-
lieve that he has not surrendered some
part of his prerogative. AT all events.
many Republicans are complaining in
the national capital that patronage
formerly dispensed by the President is
now being given or withheld mt the die
tation of holders of political mort
cages superior to claims of the other
people upon their chief magistrate.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
HOLES IN THE SUN.
Strange Phenomena Visible with q
Smoked Glass.

With the protection of piece of smok-
ed glass great dark spots are now visible
near the center of the suns surface.
They appear as great blotches on the
suns disk, but when viewed with pow
erful telescope they are revealed as great
holes in the suns surface thousands of
miles in area and depth. When the spec
troscope is used these great cavities are
seen to be seething masses OF rosy Hame.
To the eye assisted by smoked glass only
one or two spots are visible. but with the
telescope, in addition to three greae cavi-
ties, several smaller ones come to view.
Each Of these is really an enormous hole
and into the largest our earth could be
tossed without ever touching the edges.
AS is usual when such phenomena as
these are presented, astronomers are
guessing and speculating as to the results
which these strange conditions may por-
tend. To those not posted in the science
of the stars these conjectures and specu-
lations must either be accepted or reject
ed. But whatever may be the folies and
vagaries of astronomers one thing is GER
tain, ard that is that for some time the
surface of the sun has given strong eyi-
dences of great upheaval The culmina-
ton of these evidences can only be de-
termined rs they are developed.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Crazed bv Cigarettes.

Peter S. McMahon of Albany, n. Y,
crazed by smoking cigarettes, committed
suicide at Syracuse, N. Y. McMahon
stood in front Of e mirror and fired bull
let through his heart. He was abont 20
YEARS old
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Twenty Injured. .

Twenty persons were injured, three
perhaps fatally, at grade crossing on
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railway. between Passale and Delaware,
n. J. They were in a stage which was
struck by train.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Land Boom Burst.

London special: A dispatch from Mel
bourne, Australia, says C. IL. James has
failed for $3.50. 900 (S4 2500JO). The cause
OF his troubles is said to be the bursting
of the land boom.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Skaters Drowned.

The ice gave way on Ellicott Creek,
Tonawanda, N. Y, and precipitated a
party of four young people into the water
Three OF them were drowned.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Girl BuIIfphtcrs.

Havana special: At Regla, suburb of
Havana On the opposite side Of the bay,
there was sensational bullfight, in which
girl bullfighters from Spain entered the
ring and killed the bulls like regular pro-
fessionals. They were greatly ap.
niauded
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Tenement House Fire.

During fire in tenement house in
New York, Martin Oakley, fireman, was
suffocated, and Mrs. Frieda Schiltz, a
crippled inmate, was roasted to death.
Many others had narrow escapes.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Missionary Funds hort.

The American Missionary Association,
In its ffty-frst annual report, shows that
during the last few months hundreds OF
students have been turned away from the
schools for want OF fundA.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Five Men Burned to Dea

F1Ve MICH burHeu TO DeHtns
In the destruction by fire of an asphalt
factory at Bacaeea, Spain, five person:
have been burned to death and thlrty-si1
have been injured,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
wi1liam Carr Hanned.

William Carr, the child murderer, was
hanged at the Clay County court house at
Liberty, Mo. Carr killed his 3-year-old
child last October.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Grand Army to Meet Sent. 5

The date for the national encampment
of the Grand Army Of the Republic was
fixed for the week beginning Sept 5, 1898,
at Cincinnati
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Haymaking Time for Republicans.

There can be no hope of bringing the
revenue and appropriations together
by economy for two reasons. The ap-
ready made and the estimates indicate
a deficit approaching S10,000,200. The
appropriations for the next fiscal year
are little likely to be lessened by a
party which see on every hand evi-
dences that its complete control over
the government is shortly to be wrest-
ed from it. The Republicans can be
expected to make hay for themselves
while the sun shines.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30

There is no serious talk of the evacua-
ton of Fort Sheridan, but the high Off
Gals of the War Department and the
army are inclined to recommend such a
thing. They take the ground that 1T is
so near Chicago the men are constantly
exposed to temptations from which they
should be protected, and that it is always
a bad thing to have a military garrison
near q large city.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Treaty of Peace Ratified.

The Sultan and King George have rati-
fed the treaty Of peace between Turkey
and Greece.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30

And thus we see the failure of tn,
most scientific tariff law ever framet
TO produce either revenue, protection
or higher wages.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30
Latest Cattle Census.

The latest cattle census showed that the
bovine population of the country had un-
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-30

The notorious Redden brothers, who for
a numbe, of years have been operating
an illicit distillery in Raleigh County, W..
Va. have been captured by United States
Marshal Dan Cunningham aud their dis
tillery has been confscated.