The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-04-14
Told in a Few Lines.

The deaths from the black plague in
Bombay, India, now average ], ,1OO week
ly.
A People's-Democratic Republi-
ran fusion State ticket has been made in
Ohio.
Spain is negotiating with Austria for
the purchase of vessel of the Austrian
navy.
Fred Pruitt. of Forrest City. Ark. WAS
fatally injured at Wynne. Ark, by being
thrown from buggy.
The Russian Government is construct
ing an ice crusher, said to be capable of
reaching the north pole.
Steps are to be taken at Chicago to or
Canize a national association of horse
breeders and horse dealers.
A bill prohibiting a saloon to be opened
within 800 feet Of any church has been
enacted by the New Jersey Legislature.
E. X. Woodbury., SO years old. was
killed at Port Chester. n. y. while try
ing to rescue his bicycle from under a
train.
John Clark of Mount Vernon, n. Y,
has asked for divorce on the ground that
he has found out that his wife is a ne
gress.
An absent-minded man in New York
entered neighbor's house by mistake,
was taken for burglar, shot and in
stantly killed.
A bald head was the principal means of
establishing the innocence of Michael Ma
zaro in New York. after he had been ar
rested through mistake.
San Diego. Cal, will soon be safe from
attack. Forty thousand pounds of ammu-
| milton have arrived there for the big guns
being mounted on the Notifications.
John Fuller of Sherman, Tex. was shot
and instantly killed by the accidental dis
charge of target rifle in the hands of a
6-vear-old boy. Fuller leaves a wife and
child.
II is reported that Great Britain will no
longer resist the dismemberment and par
tition Of China, but will make the best OF
the situation and endeavor to get hel
share of the spoils.
A dispatch from the Island of Perrin
in the Indian ocean, states that the pas
sengers, mail. specie, etc, on the steamer
| Cnlna, WHICH Is dSHOEe pI tue lsidHu, udNt
been landed The ship will be total loss
The Italian Foreign Minister says that
outside of Austria. which morally sup
ports Spain because of relationship be
tween the royal families of those coun
tries. no European power is inclined Il
show practical sympathy for Spain.
Two auarrelsome residents of Baltimor,
went to police station together recently
preferred counter charges of assault ant
battery, swore out warrants for each 9th
sr's arrest, were given hearing and wer
bundled into a police van and were sen
TO Jail. where they now are awaiting trial
| The whole operation. from the time o
their appearance at the police station t
the time of Se disappearance of the van
occupied just six minutes.
Ex-Commander-in- Chief Clarkson OF tn
G.. A. Il. has written to Gov. Holcomb o
Nebraska. offering his services and t
raise regiment in the event of war.
The Confederate Soldiers Home at Al
lanta, Ca. is advertised for sale becaus
there is no money Forthcoming for its sur
mort and the State has refused to provid
for it. The home was built largely throug
the efforts of the late Henry w. Grady.
Owing to the drouth in California, an
the threatened starvation of cattle, th
Secretary of Agriculture has changed tn
cattle quarantine lines so as to include th
entire State of California. This will pc
nit shipments of cattle to more fuvorab
| localities.