The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-10-13

III is announced at Maurld tnat Admlra
Cervera will be appointed life senator.
The Spanish Government has sanction
ed the sale, to South American republics,
Of the Spanish gunboats lying in Cuban
waters.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
China, says that 1000 lives were lost in
a great fire which partly destroyed the city
of Hankow on last Sunday.
The Russian and English ministers at
Peking have ordered armed guards to pro-
ceed to the Chinese capital, where drunk
en- rioters are assaulting foreigners.
1t is semi officially asserted at Paris that
| NJ. Manau, the procurator general, has
sent a report to the court of cessation
which assures revision of the Dreyfus
case.
A Berlin special to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat declares that the German Gov
ernment will resist the possession of the
Philippines by the United States at all
| costs.
A formal application for the revision of
the Dreyfus case was entered at Paris
| on the docket of the court of cessation
The procedure for reopening the case has,
therefore, definitely commenced.
A dispatch received at Madrid from the
Eisayas Islands says the Tegales have
landed in the Antigua province and have
been completely defeated by the Spanish
column after a sharp fight in which nine
| ty-four of the insurgents were killed.
A collective note Of Great Britain,
France, Italy and Russia, demanding the
withdrawal Of the Turkish troops from
the island of Crete, has been presented to
the Turkish Government. 1t insists that
the Turkish troops must evacuate the
island of Crete within month.
Queen Victoria and her daughter, the
ex-Empress Frederick of Germany, had
a narrow escape from death while driving
at Balmoral, Scotland. The coachman lost
control Of the horses and a serious acci-
dent was only averted by the horses turn
Ing into the woods, where the carriage
stuck between the trees.
The British steamer Hillcraig, Captain
Gibson, from Fernandina, via Norfolk, for
Hamburg, has been in collision with the
Dutch steamer De Reuyter, bound from
Cronstadt for Dordreicht. The collision
occurred near Belvoet The Hillcraig pro-
ceeded and the extent Of damage to her Is
as yet unknown, but De Reuyter was bad
ly damaged.
The latest adyices from Japan bring
news Of the death of Rev. Thaddeus S. *.
Freeman, chaplain Of the United States
steamship Baltimore, at Nagasaki. From
all accounts Freeman committed suicide
While in a condition of mental depression
consequent upon his failing health. He
jumped overheard from the Zealandia and
was drowned before any assistance could
be rendered him.
New pearl fields of great richness have
been discovered off the coast of New Cal
edonia on the west side, according to
United States Consul Wolf at Noumea.
He says that one shell contained the fabu-
lous number of 256 pearls and one little
boat of one and half tons furnished last
year twenty-five pounds of pearls. Up to
this time the water has not been sounded
to a greater depth than six feet seven
inches, but the fisheries are to be further
exploited by French and Austrian syndi-
Gates. Mr.. Wolf says that the quality Of
the pearl shells is remarkably fine and he
urges that Americans profit by the dis
cOyery