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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-03-03
ALL SORTS.

We learn something even by our fall
ures.
If the counsel be good, what matters
who gave it?
He must be thorough fool who can
learn nothing from his own folly.
There are more dialects spoken IN
China than in all Europe.
Hush-money-The kind acquired Dy
the manufacturer Of soothing syrup.
Egotist-A man who talks about him.
.o1f wban YOU want to talk about your
self.
Moderation is the silken string run
ming through the chain of all the VIZ
tues.
We talk of creative minds. That is
hut n figure of speech-we can create
nothing.
The total area of the Sandwich OF
Hawaiian Islands is about the saUe as
New Jersey.
Good manners are part OF goou nio'-
ais: and it is as much your duty as your
interest to practice botn.
About the time woman begins 10
quit lying about her age she begins 10
lie about her daughters.
The Pacific ocean covers ISOOV.~u
.ouare miles, the Atlantic 2o,OoorOO,
,he mediterranean 100000.
Some people will never learn any
thing. for this reason-that they un-
derstand everything too soon.
The moment anything assumes the
shape Of duty some persons feel them
selves incapable Of discharging 1t.
1t rains on an average POS days in tha
year in Ireland, about $50 in England,
at Kezan about 80 days, and in Siberia
! only 60 days.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-03-03
For a Monument to Victims.

Representative Cummings of New York
introduced the following resolution in the
National House of Representatives:
Resolved, That the sum of $1,000 be
and the same is hereby appropriated out
of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, to be expended under
the direction of the Secretary of the Navy
for the erection of monument at Fort
Lafayette New York harbor, in honor of
the officers, sailors ana marines of the
United States war vessel Maine who lost
their lives in the harbor of Havana or the
night of Tuesday, Feb. 10. 1898.
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mire destroyed the Maine. If these re-
ports are not contradicted promptly and
officially Congress will surely respond
with declaration Of war. which is clearly
within its powers, and which the Presi-
dent will he forced to obey. The people
demand that if ships and men are to be
lost it shall be in open warfare, and not
in so-called peaceful harbors. Any police
magistrate would hold the Spaniards un-
der the evidence now at hand on suspi-
cion and require them to prove their in
nocence. This is exactly the position TAX
en- by nine-tenths of the members Of Con-
gress. This opinion, declares the corre-
spondent, represents clearly the private
sentiment of Senators and Representa-
tives. They all say that the time has gone
by for any questions of belligerency and
that the only point at issue now is whether
the United States shall seize Havana
harbor, root up its submarine mines and
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make it free and safe to the navies of the

make it free and safe to the navies of the
world. The administration fully recog-
nizes the dangerous situation and is max
ing preparations for war. War may not
come, but the Government will be pre-
pared il it does come.
The suspicion that the Maine was blown
up by a torpedo or submarine mine has
grown almost to a conviction. No one in
Washington, says this correspondent, can
explain why such an act should have been
committed, and many hope that it may be
proven that it was not committed by any
Spanish official; but there are few who
any longer hold to the theory of an acci-
dental explosion in one of the magazines
! or have any assurance that conflict with
Spain will not follow the development Of
the fact that the Maine was destroyed by
an act of treachery.
1t is admitted that Consul General Lee
has warned Americans who are in Ha-
yana on pleasure to leave because they
are not safe. Cabinet members are talk
ing guardedly about indemnity. Naval
officials admit that warships are moving
toward Key West and that work is being
pushed with all possible speed on ships
now in the various navy yards. Army
officials admit that Notifications are to
be manned at once and that other prepar-
ations are making to place our military
arm in the best possible condition.
Activity Is Significant.
All these things are explained as only
in keeping with the plans formulated
months or weeks ago, and that they have
no especial or immediate significance at
this time. But they are in keeping with
the suspicion now almost a conviction,
that the Maine was destroyed by hostile
act of some one connected with the Span
| ish army.
1t is not however, the preparations in
the Navy or War Department or the
warnings of Gen. Lee for Americans to
leave Havana that point to crisis as
much as it is the feeling that the Maine
was destroyed by treachery. The most
conservative men in Congress fail to find
any possible plan for righting this great
wrong. 1t has been suggested to the Pres
| ident that an indemnity of S10,OOO,OOO
might be demanded from Spain If the
board of inquiry reports that the battle
ship was blown up by torpedo or sub
marine mine. Some members of the cab,
met are reported to favor such demand
but it is not favorably considered by men
in Congress with wider range of expert
ence in such affairs. Should it be estab
lished clearly that the Maine was blown
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OHIO LEGISLATURE.

The following bills passed the Senate
Thursday: Allowing roads to be i'm
proved with steel rails as well as maca-
dam and other ordinary road material;
creating a park board for Springfield, the
members to be named by the Tax Com
mission; compelling nOn-resldents OF
Ohio to contest wills within two years OF
probating, as Ohio residents must.
Representative Bossard's bill to reduce
legal advertising was killed in the House
by Indefinite postpcnement upon motion
of Mr.. IIazlett of Crawford.
The House passed Representative
Heyd's bill reducing from 81, ,0Go to 5000
the maximum amount of private con-
tract which may be made by County
Commissioners.
Under Representative Bossard's bill,
passed by the House, the salary OF the
Dayton City Solicitor may be increased
| to So 900 a year, and he will be paid
monthly instead of quarterly.
The House passed Representative Hins-
dale's bill, providing that if land owners
do not cut weeds along highways the road
supervisors shall cut them at the land
| owners expense.
Senator Cromley's bill, redistricting the
| State for insane hospital purposes, was
enacted into law by the House.
The House. Friday, adopted Mr.. Me-
! Cormick's resolution instructing the COM
| mittee on County Affairs to prepare
| bill. general in provisions, which shall
afford means for relief OF all cOun les
whose county or general fund is over
| drawn or impaired. 1t is hoped by this
means to obviate the necessity of the
transfer of funds legislation, which now
| occupies much of the General Assembiy's
time.
| Under bill by Mr. Cox, which became
a law in the Senate, the sureties of Geo.
| w. Smith, ex-Treasurer of Green Town
ship, Hooking County, are released from
the payment of $500 of public funds, which
were stolen from him while in Office.
Mr.. Finck introduced bill in the Sem
ate vesting cemetery trustees in villages
with power 10 purchase real estate, the
same as do similar organizations in cities.
Both Houses adjourned until Wednes-
day.
After an all-day session, Wednesday,
the Senate, by vote Of II to IA T. three
fifths vote being necessary, refused TO
endorse the Woman's Suffrage movement
The argument which prevented the adop-
tion of the Finck resolution, providing
for the submission of this constitutional
amendment, was the repeated declaration
on the floor that the majority OF Ohio
women do not want suffrage.
News of the death oil ex-senator David
H. Gaumer of Muskingum County, was
received in Columbus, and resolutions Of
respect to his memory were adopted IN
both the House and Senate. In the Sen :
ate Messrs. Finck, Miller, CrOmley, Car
penter and Luiz were appointed COM
mttee to attend the funeral.
Almost the whole day was taken up in
the House by debate Of Mr.. BOlln's
amendment to the Workman school law.
The amendment provides that in sub
school districts two subdirectors may
with one director act in the matter OF ap-
pointing teachers and fixing their salaries.
The amendment passed.
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Vultures' Food.

A large quantity of clothing taken
from the wreck of the Main after 1t has
been disinfected, will be given to the re-
concentrates. Thus far the sharks have
given no trouble, but the vultures have
left scarcely anything but the skeletons
of the three men who were entangled IN
the debris near the surface OF the water.
The bod les were not noticed by any one
until the foul birds had completed their
ghastly work. Chaplain Chadwick says
the number of missing is S5 or Sc, and
that five have died in the hospital.
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is responsible for the men who control
the guns in her forts and on her big cruis-
ers Governments do not have such Sc
cret agencies open to the access of fa-
natics, and if they do they must be held
responsible for their acts.
The work of the board of inquiry will
therefore end when they have examined
the ship and found the evidences of foul
play. There will then be left no alterna-
tive for this Government but war, unless
Spain sues for peace and asks for con-
ditions of Dcace
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NEW SPANISH MINISTER.
Senior Polo dc Bernabe, Who Succeeds
De LONE In Washington.


Senior Polo de Bernabe, the new Spanish
minister to Washington, is the son of
Admiral Polo of the Spanish navy, who
was minister to the United States during
President Grants administration and who
was chiefly instrumental in staving off
belligerency recognition in the last Cuban
rebellion Senior Polo, as he is called, is
by no means the brusque democrat his
father was. He is colorless young man
of almost no force of character at all, and
has been carried along in the diplomatic
offices of Spain by administration after
administration for the sake of his father
and his family. He has done little of note
during his official life, although he is a
man of much learning. He speaks Eng
lish fuently, and has wide acquaint-
ance with commercial history, on which
subject he has written n number of val
liable treatises. His wife, Sonora Men
dez de Vigo. the daughter of the present
Spanish ambassador to Germany. is an
accomplished woman not unknown in
Washington society. The new minister
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Will Not Help Spain.

Mr.. Hanotaux, the French minister of
foreign affairs, denied the report that, in
the event of war between Spain and the
United States, France would aid Spain
He said: THE French Government has
not contemplated the probability of wal
between Spain and the United States
The statement that France will take the
field against America is absurd. | prefer
to think that the memories of Columbus
Washington and Lafayette are sufficient
Iy entwined to make the three nations set
tie any differences upon an intellectual
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had been done. And yet this magn cent
vessel, at anchor in the harbor of a friend
ly nation, was destroyed with greater loss
of life than would have followed an en-
gagement with the whole Spanish fleet in
Cuban waters. Had the Spanish cruis-
ers and torpedo boats attacked the Maine,
and sent her to the bottom with the loss
of go lives, the calamity would have been
hard to bear But to have the Maine de-
stroyed as she was destroyed is calamity
unbearable. 1t was useless TO cry pa
tience when there was no patience. 1t
was useless TO ask for suspension of judg-
ment when judgment had been given.
That judgment was against Spain, and if
reversed it would be only on the testi-
mony of witnesses who had standing in
the court of public opinion.
No foreign country can appreciate the
full depth of American patriotism. writes
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News of Minor Note.

Artificially spotted tobacco raised ir
Connecticut is said to be on the market
A bill has been introduced in the Ken
t,cky Legislature which fixes daily rates
in first-class hotels in the State at $1.5O
boarding houses. soc. and restaurant
meals, 25c.
The handsome farm house of Alvin
Feagans, near Knobnoster, No., was de-
stroyed by fire, and an infant child was
rescued from the burning building after
its clothing had caught fire.
Hearing the cries of an angry moi
outside the Jail in which he was confined
at Richmond. Ark, Alexander Johnson.
a negro boy, charged with grand larceny,
drew a razor and cut his throat.
The melon growers of Rocky Ford,
Colo, an irrigated valley, famous for its
delicious melons, have organized an as
sociation for the purpose of testing the
matter of cold storage, in order to better
control sales and profits resulting from
the overstocking of the market when the
melons ripen.
John Bachman, convict, made dar-
ing attempt TO escape from Sing Sing
prison. Bachmann worked in the clothing
department.. and managed to stow him
self away in a 6-foot packing case billed
to St. Louis The keeper, however, dis
covered him and took him back to prison
He is serving life sentence for mur
der committed in 1895.
Concerning the exclusion of American
fruit from Germany, high English Off
cial is reported to have said that, while
admiring the industry of German officials
it has been found that specious scientific
reasons are always Forthcoming when th'
German Government desires to exclude
American products
The steamer Veendam, which struck 6
submerged wreck last week and sank il
mid-ocean, after her crew and passenger
had been rescued by the steamer st
Louis, was formerly the Baltic, of tn
White Star line, and in her day was on
of the fleet ocean palaces plying betweel
New York and Queenstown and Liver
pOOl
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Simply Appallin g.

Miss Clara Barton visited the village oil
Jaruco, fifty miles distant from Havana,
and found 1000 starving persons. With
out outside assistance this condition must
grow worse day by day, the native ofn-
cials confessing themselves at the end oil
their resources. This is particularly true
of the towns and villages outside OF Ha-
yana. 1t is suggested that shipload oil
provisions be sent from the United States
to Mantanzas, where Consul Brice de-
scribes the conditions as simply appall-
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I'D by torpedo or mine placed in Ha-
vana harbor for defense, it is not proba-
BILE that this Government will present any
claim for damages. 1t will be regarded
as n hostile act-as the beginning of a
war in the most barbarous and treacher-
Gus manner.
Had one Of the guns at the fortress
opened on the Maine as she entered Ha-
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The Vizcaya Sails.

New York special: The Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya after spending a week in
this port on friendly visit to the United
States, got up anchor at LAO Saturday
afternoon and started to sea. No cere-
monies or incidents of any kind were con-
nected with the vessels departure. The
naval tug Nina and the police boat Pa
troll, accompanied the ship as far as Fort
WadswOrih. When the vessel left her
anchorage her flags were at half mast for
the Maine. Once well outside the hook,
and more than a marine league from
shore, her flags were hoisted for home.
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Lost His Life.

Boston (Nlass.) special: First Mate
Cook, of the wrecked ship Asia, which
went to pieces in the storm off Nantucket,
and Of whose company of twenty persons
only three sailors were saved, was hero.
Had he not stood by the Captains little
daughter Lena he might have saved his
life. The saved sailors tried to get him 10
Join them on the extemporized raft, which
saved them. But rather than leave the
helpless little girl to Perish he refused,
and remained with her to the end.
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TERRIBLE AFFAIR.
Seven Human Lives Sacrificed to the
Fiery Fiend.

Seven lives were lost in fearful fire
which ragged for short while on Church
street, Charleston, S. c. A policeman on
duty noticed small sparks flying from the
tenement house at 100 Church street, and
he promptly sent in the alarm from the
nearest box. The officer found that a
blaze was issuing from one of the win
dows on the first floor. The doors were
broken open and the family on the first
floor rushed out without any danger.
Somebody yelled that family of women
were sleeping on the third floor. The po-
lice rushed upstairs, and when they
reached the top story the life-savng
work was stopped by the flames, which
seemed to be playing over the entire
building. Screams from dying women
were heard, and Officer Bagby rushed in
and pulled out three charred bodies. The
quick work of the fire department checked
the fire, and it was soon under control,
but not until seven lives on the third floor
were lost.
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A Track Horror.

A bus filled with eight pleasure seekers
was struck by Grand Trunk passenger
train at the Western avenue cross ing,
south of Blue Island, Chicago. Six We're
killed and one badly hurt. The train
was bound towards Chicago. 1t was be-
hind time and was going at high rate
OF speed. The bus rounded cnrve in
the road as the train was seen approach
ing. A slight down grade prevented the
driver stopping the vehicle, and just as
the frightened horses leaped across the
railway tracks the heavy locomotive
struck the omnibus IN the middle.
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acceptable, and the independence of Cuba
would be one of these conditions. The
diplomats see no other way to prevent
war if it should be established that the
Maine was blown up by torpedo or mine
They brush aside the suggestion that it
could have been the act of fanatic OF
either faction in Cuba. No mere enthu-
siast or fanatic could have access to the
secret keyboard which communicated
with the torpedoes laid in the harbor un-
der Government supervision. Spain must
stand responsible for the men who could
gain access TO that keyboard. just as she
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Since the terrible destruction Of the
battieship Maine in Havana hrbor the
United States has been facing the gravest
crisis of the last thirty years OF its his
tory. The people have been stirred by
the disaster as they have not been since
the close of the war for the Union. From
the South, from the North, and from the
far West have come magnificent outbursts
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MINE UNDER THE MAINE
Destruction Said to Be Beyond the Power
of a Torpedo.
DISASTER DUE TO DESIGN
American People Believe the Span.
iards Are Guilty.

The Most Reliable AdviCes, Pending
Official Reports, Are to the Effect
that the Il1-Fated Ship Met with
Foul PIay-Scnators and Representa-
tivcs at Washington Become Aroused
Governors of Many States Offer
Troops-Crisis in Our National His
tory.
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SPAIN is LIABLE.
Dons Arc Pecuniarily Responsible for
Loss of the Maine.

Loss of the Maine.
Good authorities on international law
say that if it is proved that there were
mines in the harbor of Havana. Spain is
liable for the disaster to the Maine,
whether those mines exploded by accident
or through the criminal act of an indi-
vidual Spaniard, whether an official or
not They believe that if Spain had laid
submarine mines in the Havana harbor it
was her duty to warn the officers of the
Maine of the danger they incurred in an
choring there. They cite precedents,
whereby nations have recovered damages
in instances very similar to the one in
point. to prove Span's liability, not only
for the loss of the ship, but for indemni-
ties for the sailors whose lives were lost
in the explosion.
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The Damn ties. OFF for Cuba.

The Dauntless has left kingsland, Ga,
with another Cuban expedition. The car
90 went down to New Smyrna during the
Maine excitement. The Cubans have
been very busy and have successfully
shipped away thousands of guns and
large quantities of medical supplies and
food. The last expedition landed within
tell miles of Havana, almost. under MORO
Castles gins.
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EIGHT Persons Killed at Kalamazoo.

Fire broke out in the drug house Of
Hall Bros, at Kalamazoo, Mich. Passers
by saw smoke issuing from an upper win-
dow and rushed into the burning building.
A crowd followed into the building, and
in another second terrific explosion oc-
Cured. AS result eight persons are
dead and fifteen more are seriously in
jured and some of them may die.
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Columbus, O.-The Ohio militia is pre-
pairing to respond to the Presidents call
for troops in the event war is declared
between the United States and Spain.
At Charleston, S. c., work on the Gov
ernment Notifications is being rapidly
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HALF the Chinese Loan Written.

London special: Half the Chinese loan,
amounting to eS,0O00OO, has just teen
fully underwrltten. Some of the applica-
tions had to be rejected. The issue price
is 90 and and the interest from the loan is
~ per cent. 1t will be offered publicly
one week hence.
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A 60 OOO.OOO Fire

The warehouse of the National Tobac-
90 Company was totally destroyed at
Louisville, Ky., entailing loss of at
least s., 900, 900. This is the most serious
fire which has occurred there i'm years.
The loss may affect the tobacco market
temporarily. Seven wOrkmen in the
burning hu.lding were painfully hurt by
falling walls, but there have been No fa-
talities recorded.
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is not the Polo who was attache and third
secretary of the Spanish legation here
from 1873 to 1881. That official was q
brother of De Lome's successor and is
now dead. The dead brothers career
was exceptionally brilliant. He rose to
an Importance almost equal to his faith
er's
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eighty-six, and five have died in the hos
pital. OF the missing many doubtless
were blown to atoms, no portions of their
bodies being recoverable.
Cubans claim that there are mine gal
leres under the harbor leading from SUBJ
terranean passages known to have exist
ed for years between Fort Cabanas and
Moro Castle and Havana.
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Mrs, Whitney ParaIyzed.

The condition of Mrs. William c. Whit
ney remains very critical. The severe
blow she received on her head when she
fell from her horse in a fox hunt, near
Aiken, S. c., paralyzed her body, and
spinal trouble in the cervical region has
caused loss of use of all her limbs.
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Disastrnus Forest Fires.

Raleigh IN. c. special: State For
ester Ashe has returned TO Raleigh
from tour through the vast pine district
swept by fire recently, and reports the
damage to be over s1,0OO,OO0, and that
fourteen lives we're lost.
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carn is to touch an electric button if She

caya is to touch an electric button if she
tries to pass out through the narrows.
Key West, Fla.-The preparation for
war can be seen on every hand, and from
the naval station stores are being sent
to the battleships at Tortugas. Every
night the battleships New York and Iowa
clear decks for action, and everything
suspicious is stopped and spoken. Sol
diers can be seen everywhere. Troops
that would enlist from this city are accli-
mated to yellow fever, and could be sent
to the interior of Cuba without fear of
taking that dreaded disease.