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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Spaniards Ambush and Kill Tfiir-
teen Cavalrymen.
FIFTY ARE WOUNDED.
Engagement Results in Victory for the
Invading Troopers.
spanish Force of 1900 Men Is Put to
Rout by 900 of Uncle Sans Sol
diers-Army Is Driven Back Into
the City with Heavy Loss, Fourteen
Being Found Dead by the Victors.

Thirteen Americans were killed in an
engagement Friday morning with "A Span
ish force which ambushcd them. -Four
troops of the First cavalry, four troops
of the Tenth cavalry and eight troops of
Roosevelt's rough riders. less than thou
sand men in all, dismounted and attacked
1000 Spanish soldiers in the thickets
within five miles of Santiago de Cuba
They heard the Spaniards telling trees a
short distance in front. and they were or
dered to advance upon the enemy.
The country therea bouts is covered with
high grass and chaparral. and in this
strong force of the SpnIiards were hiding.
AS the Americans moved forward they
were met by a withering fire. Col. Wood
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
TWO MONTHS OF WAR.
Washington Officials Think They Have
Reason to Be- Satisfied.

Washington Officials Think They Have
Reason to Be- Satisfied.
Two months ago war broke out between
the United States and Spain, according
10 the proclamation of the President and
the declaration of Congress. The end of
that period finds nearly 10000 United
States troops lying off Santiago prepar-
ing to land; it finds cable communication
established between the Government at
Washington and the advance guard of the
expedition in Cuba, and it finds Cuban
territory in the possession of United
States marines, backed by q naval squad
ron, and nearly all of the commercial
ports of Cuba blockaded. This is all,
apart from Dewey's great victory Mt Ma
Mia and from the splendid results achiey-
ed in organizing several armies now in
camps Therefore those in charge assert
that they have right to look back with
pride over what has been accomplished IN
the short space of two months. working
in a large part with raw material in both
the army and the navy.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
HAS APPROPRIATED 1871 100000.
Provisions Made for War Expenses
Up to the Present Time.

Representative Cannon, chairman of the
House Committee on Appropriations. ex-
planned in presenting the S224,OOO,OO0
emergency deficiency bill that with the
S21S, 100000 for expenses carried in that
measure the provisions made for conduct
ing the war, including the appropriations
made for the next fiscal year, had reached
the total of S371 100000. The bill passed
by the House contains all the estimates of
the War and Navy Departments of emer-
gency expenses likely to arise during the
remainder of the calendar year. Should
greater expenditures be required than are
anticipated, and the funds not be made
available by existing law, Congress will
be called in extraordinary session. 1t is
believed, however, that prccaution has
been taken by the two departments to Sc
cure sufficient funds to meet practically
all contingencies, and that the cost of the
war to the first Of next year will not ex-
coed $3.50, 100000.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
OPPOSES RELIEF EXPEDITION.
General Miles Says Military Is Needed
for Other Purposes.

There is decided opposition in the War
Department to an expedition for the re-
lief of the reconcentrados. Gen. Miles
does not lend his support to the proposi-
ton, and he is said to have urged against
the project at White House conference.
II supplies must be sent to the starving
Cubans, it is Gen. Miles recommendation
that steamers be chartered for the trans
portation of material and the work of dis
tribution be intrusted to the foreign con-
suls in Cuba. This is mission, he holds,
which could be discharged in all propriety
by the representatives of neutral govern
ments in the districts where succor is
needed. War Department officials are
united in the opinion that this is not an
opportune period for using the military
in any such humanitarian pursuit.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Torpedo Boat and 130 Men De-
stroyed by Typhoon.

st. Petersburg special: The Novoe
Vremya has received information that in
the recent typhoon at Port Arthur, Chi
nese torpedo boat destroyer lying in the
inner harbor was driven ashore and lSO
of her crew drowned. The Russian
cruiser Vladimir Monomach sailed out of
the har Dor as the typhoon approached, but
the Russian ironclad Sissoi Neliky re-
NAMED and was badly damaged.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
ATTEMPTS BLANCO'S LIFE.
Iavana Volunteer Wounds the Span


Havana Volunteer Wounds the Span
ish Captain General.
Mail advices have been received in
Washington of recent attempt in Ha-
vana to assassinate Captain General
Banco. which was made by Mariana Sal
va. young member of the volunteer
army. The attempted killing of the Span
ish captain general took place rs he was
leaving the palace to accompany some of
icers of his staff on an inspection of the
earthworks on the outskirts of the city.
Saliva sent rifle bullet into the calf of
General Blanco's left leg.
The volunteer is q member of the guard
on duty around the palace. His younger
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Cuban Soldiers in Rags.

The Cubans under Gen. Demetrius Cas-
tello who entered Baiquiri after the
Spaniards had deserted the town, were
clothed in rags, many of them two thirds
naked. Some had no trousers, and only
tatiered shirts, while the majority OF
them were bare e-footed. They we're most
ly negroes, some boys only 10 years old.
The guns they carried were of many
models, ranging from flint-locks TO Maui
sers and Reming' ons. All, however, were
armed with machetes. The officers rode
donk VS. and scrub horses.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Many Dous Desert.

There are about 10000 Spaniards on
tbe Cuban coast between Matanzas and
Cardenas. The Spanish volunteers and
soldiers of late have been deserving in
considerable numbers from the forces
around Matanzas and joining the Cubans.
The Cuban force in this neighborhood
numbers about 1000. They have arps,
hut lack food and ammunition.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
WIND WRECKS A SHOW TENT.
One Man Killed and Many Injured at
Sioux City, Iowa.

Sioux City, Iowa.
At Sioux City. Iowa, Forepaugh x Sells
Bros circus tent was blown down during
the performance Friday night. Adolph
Halverson was killed and twenty or thir-
ty persons injured AS the tent lifted and
the poles began to fall the spectators rush
cd for the entrance. The fall of the can
vas stopped the panic. y stampede of
horses threatened great damage, but was
finally checked. The wild animals were
in their cages ready for shipment and
none ESCAPED. The loss to the circus peo-
pie was heavy.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
PLAN PRISON FOR sPANIARDs.
Those Captured in War Will BE Takcn
tn Fort Mcpherson.

\ serious problem. the solution cf which
has been determined upon by the authori-
ties. is that of the disposition of the vast
number of prisoners which must fall into
American hands whenever Santiago capt.
ulates. This number is variously estimat-
ed all the way from 25,OO0 to 10000 men,
1t has been definitely decided that they
cannot be permitted to remain in Cuba,
and it will, therefore, be necessary to pro-
vide large number of transports to bring
them to this country, where they may be
more readily fed and guarded. This will
require much larger fleet of transports
than that which carried Gen. Shafter' S
army 1t has been decided to make Fort
Mcpherson, Ga, permanent military
prison.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
r,ou.ands Witness a Lynchins.

Double Springs (Tenn.) special: Chas.
Washington, colored, who recently as
saulted Mrs. Ward, near Mine Lick, Put
nam County, was lynched at Mine Lick.
He was captured near Dayton and lodged
in Jail at Cookeville, but was taken from
prison by a mob and hanged. The negro
said he had escaped from the New Jersey
Penitentiary, after serving only short
time. He confessed his guilt. The lynch
ing was witnessed by 5000 people.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
yontiI ton in the Sick Room.

A trained nurse says that in spite of
all teaching the hardest thing she has
to fight against in her work in private
houses is the nonventilation of the sick
room. To shut up an invalid as nearly
air tight as possible seems to be the
shibboleth of the majority of persons;
vet sick people, more than others, need
the strengthening qualities of fresh
air. Draughts, of course, are to be
avoided, but lot of fresh air IS obli-
gatory in every case.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
cor,s.s We're Not INITIATED.

Surgeon General Van Reypen OK the
navy has received full reports from the
surgeon with Admiral SIMPSONS fleet,
who cared for the dead and wounded par
ticipants in the Guantanamo fight. Their
important feature is definite statement
that TIE corpses We're not mutilated, but
that the severe wounds attributed to mu-
tilation were the result of Alauser rifle
IL,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Hatred of Americans.

In Spanish Government circles the more
conservative officials think the war won
by the United States, but are afraid to
make public this fact for fear of civil
strife. The Spanish are very bitter to-
ward the Americans Wherever the word
America appears on any of the public
buildings or hotels the Government has
issued orders TO have it erased.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Ancient Playing Cards.

The ancient Tarot packs were the
earliest playing cards known to our
forefatners. They consisted of seven
ty-two. seventy seven or seventy-eight
cards. These cards are still used in re-
mote parts of Italy, France and Swift
zerland. and are made in Florence, the
designs being handed down from gen
eratiotl to generation.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Gen. BInuco Makes a Threat.

Captain General Blanco cables Madrid
that he sent gunboat from Havana to
inform the commander of the American
boat Maple that the Spanish Government
will not agree to exchange the Merrimac
prisoners and to warn all vessels coming
to parley for their exchange or for any
other purpose not to approach within six
miles of Havana, or they will be fired
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Moron D;sclaims knowledge.

Senior Don Martin Garcia Merou, the
Argentine minister TO this country, denies
all knowledge of the authorship of GER
tain correspondence recently published in
the Nation, leading newspaper of Bue-
nos Ayres, which made gross accusations
and reflections upon the American Gov
ernment.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Maniac shoots a Postmaster.

Robert Glenn, postmaster at Hildreth.
n. D., was shot through the heart by AL
bert Gripskey, an insane bachelor. Death
was instantaneous. The shooting occur
red in the postoffice. There had been no
differences between the men.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
AUGUST GIVES UP.
Notifies Spain He Is Behind Walls of
Manila.

The State Department has received in
formation, which is thought trustworthy,
that soon the Stars and Stripes will be
floating over Manila. Secretary Long is
in possession of information which justi-
fies him in informing the President that
Admiral Dewey would be in control of the
Philippines capital in a few days.
An official dispatch to Madrid from Ma
Mia indicates that the situation there is
worse. August wire that he has retired
within the walls of Manila. If Captain
General August is obliged to take refuge
in the citadel he will be entirely cut off
from communication with the outside.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

men. These forty ships are disposed at
the several large coast and gulf cities,
while 100 miles or more seaward an outer
picket line is maintained by four of the
larger and more effective warships of the
San Francisco class. One of these outer
pickets is maintained as far north as Nova
Scotia. and the southerly picket is off the
eastern coast of northern Georgia.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

brother, also n volunteer, was arrested re-
Gently on n charge of conspirins with the
enemies of Spain against the established
government. The younger Saliva was tried
by court martial. condemned and exc
cuted. Saliva submitted willingly to ar
rest believing he had killed General Blan-
co and avenged the death of his brother.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
BIG ARMY FOR CUBA.
War Council Decides 10000 Men
Will Be Needed.

A third call for $4,000 volunteers will
-esult from the council of war ut the
White House Monday. The operations in
Cuba planned by the President and his
advisers will find use for 100000 men
the number for which Gen. Miles asked.
Havana, with its garrison of $4,000 Span
ish soldiers behind the Notifications, will
require 100000 American besiegers. For
the capture of CienfuegOs, Matanzas, Sa-
qua. Bahia Honda, CardCnas and Mariel
the rest of the troops are needed. The
call may be expected III ten days.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Consul Dent Protests.

Consul Dent has entered protest at
Kingston against Jamaica being used as
a Spanish base of supplies, several vessels
having loaded there with supplies thought
70 be intended for blockaded Cuban ports.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
auyusti Said to Have Quit.

News was received that Captain Cen
oral August of Manila had resigned be-
cause a council of war favored immediate
surrender to Admiral Dewey. He was
succeeded as commander of the army by
Gen. Basillo Davilo. Augustus wife and
daughters have been captured by the in
Srrgents.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Civilian Physicians May Act.

Gen. Miles has issued an order authoriz-
ing recruiting officers in the absence of
commissioned medical officers or contract
surgeons TO employ civilian physicians to
make examinations of recruits at COM
pcnsation of 40 cents for each man exam
iped.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
ARMY NOW IN CUBA.
Our Troops Land and Advance
on Beleagured City.
SIEGE OF SANTIAGO.
iieavy Guns Placed So as TO Force Fall
of Cervera's Stronghold.

American Army of Invasion Arrives
Off Santiago-Marines Show Great
Enthusiasm When the Troopships
Are SiEhted-Aduiral Sampson Con-
fers with Gen. Garcia on Board the
Flagship Attempt to Assassinate
Blauco i'll Havana.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
WILL Warn Elects of Storms.

II has been decided to establish signal
stations at several points in the Carib-
bean sea and on the South American
coast. to warn American fleets in Cuban
waters of the approach of tornadoes dur
ing the coming season. The new service
will be under the management of the
weather bureau.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
blockade Is Maintained,

Admiral Dewey reported to the Navy
Department that he was still maintaining
the blockade at Manila; that the rebels
are making remarkable progress; that the
city is entirely surrounded. He reports
the rebels have taken $500 prisoners and
are treating them humanely.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
yesuvius Practices Again.

The dynamite cruiser Nesuvius Satur-
day night had some more practice with
her Cun-cotton shells. She discharged
three. and the fact that terrific uproar
followed the explosion of the second shell
led to the belief that Il magazine had been
blown up.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
w,;ts Till They Are Free,

President Mckinley will take no ac-
ton on the promotion of Lieut.. Hobson
until he and HE companions are at liberty,
and when the brave men can be consulted.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
DO DUTY AS PICKETS.

Forty Auxiliary Wnrships Are Guard
ing the Coast.
The Navy Department has now COM
pletcd its arrangement of the Atlantic and
gulf coasts patrol, and stretching from
Eatsport. Me-, around to New Orleans.
There are no less than forty auxiliary
naval craft. including swift yachts. recon-
structed single-turret monitors, relics of
the civil war, tugboats. ferryboats, and
not few large and well-armed merchant
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

The allotment by States under the sec
ond call for troops was issued from Wash
ington, based upon the proposition of fill
ing out the regiments now in the field
before other regiments are organized.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
SmnrrIe in SuppIies.

Three large cargoes of supplies are
known to have run the blockade already,
and great quantities of food are smuggled
TO Havana by way of the Isle of Fines,
Cienfuegos and other points on the south
west coast having direct railroad COM
muncation with the capital.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Rurped Spots on Tree Leaves.

Often on the green leaves of trees
Won will notice little black spots which
do not seem TO arise from any disease,
as the plant looks otherwise healthy
enough. AS matter of fact, these are
caused by burning; the rays of the sun
get focused by the drops of morning
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

According to an estimate made by John
wanamaker. the people of the United
States have within the last twenty days
expended over 1900, 900 in the purchase
of national flags, and the demand is still
going on at an increasing rate.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Ohio burglars Escapc,

Harry Platt, alias ii. ii. Dix. indicted
Cor four burglaries, and Ed Pratt. burg
lar, broke Jail at Findlay. Ohio, unlocking
four iron doors with false keys. Flatt,
before his crimes there, escaped from jail
At Racine. Wis.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

A short time ago George Snyder, rich
farmer of Lima, Ohio, sold his property
and converted everything into cash and
then deserted his wife. Now she has com
nitted suicide by taking poison.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Prize Panama Brings S41 900

The Spanish prize steamship Panama
WAS sold at auction at New York for
S41 900. She was bought by the Gov
ernment and will be used as transport.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
II mboO Lighthouse.

4 lighthouse of bamboo has been
built in Japan. 1t is said TO have great
power of resisting the waves and does
not rot like ordinary wood.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Site for a Monastery.

The Sultan of Turkey, according to the
Frankfort Zeitung, has purchased 5000
SQUARE yards of land near Jerusalem,
which he will present TO Emperor Will
Iam as a site for German monastery.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

The latest whim for the owners of
do.ss is TO make them wear shoes in the
house for the purpose of protecting the
uoIished floors. They are made of
cbomois. with leather SoleS.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Yo.nu Hush,ud,s ouadrupIe Crime.

At Fulton, n. Y, William Cooper,
aged 30 years, shot and killed bis father
in-law, Cornelius Smedlcy, seriously
wounded his mother in-law, fred two
shots at his wife, and then committed
suinide
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

The feat of the eight American seamen
who ran the collier Merrimac into the
channel of the harbor of Santiago de Cuba
ond stoid ON the vessel until it had been
blown up and sunk by an Internal torpedo
will rank as one of the most daring deeds
of the present war,--Cleveland Leader.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
REPUBLICANSO OF OHIO
STATE CONVENTION is HELD AT
COLUMBUS

War Measures Conn
mended by the Question
of ACQUIRED Land Left to the Presi-
ent-Nominations by Acclamation.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Republican Candidates.

Secretary of State-Charles Kinney.
Supreme Judge-W. I. Spear.
Clerk of Supreme Conrt-Josiah II. Allen
Food and Dairy Commissioner-Joseph IL.
Blackburn.
Member of the Board of Public Works
W. g. johnson.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30
Il C Elephants Ear.

Although the flap of skin which COW
ers an elephants ear is of considerable
size. the ear itself is very small in pro
norton.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

1t was practically decided at confer
ence in Washington to send tying
SQUADRON to the coast of Spain.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

John Thomascheutz was hanged in the
ST. Louis city Jail for shooting his sweet
heart, Annie Rausch, aged is, on April .,
1897.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

Admiral Sampson has authority from
the President to deal with Admiral Ger
vera regarding Lieut.. Hobson and other
prisoners. The Spanish Government may
refuse to exchange HobSon and his men,
but Admiral Ccrvcra must be held respon-
sible for their slfc-keeping, and Admlral
Sampson will hold him responsible.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

1t is safe to say that you don't know
the names of half the people you
know.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-06-30

Reconcentrados Dying by Hundreds.
Messages from Havana say that the
condition of the pacihcOS about Havana
is wrrtched. Hundreds have died of late.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-16
A SAMPLE MISREPRESENTATION.

There is a studied effort being made
TO weaken the disposition of the white
people of the West to rid the East of ne
groism by telling them that when the no.
torious Peg Leg Williams sought to carry
off the negro laborers of the East it was
resisted by the whites of that section.
Those circulating this argument fail to
disclose the real facts. This man Viii
liams and some Others were employing
and carrying off none but the most able
bodied men and leaving behind the wo-
men and children to be supported by the
farmers of the East, already burdened
to their utmost and this too at a time
when they could not supply the place of
these labCrers.
The legislation was against these agen-
cics and not against the negroes volun-
tarily leaving with their families.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-16
IS COOKERY FOR SILVER =?

O. III. Dockery. Sr. is canvassing the
sixth district. pretending to be fer silver
to populists and winking the other eye
AZ the Republicans. Is Dockery for 81
yer. Here is what Russell said about
him in 1896:
And the old hnmbug was fool enough
tn think somebody would believe hir,
when he declared for silver. Before the
Republican convention he WAS pretc!l3-
ing to be for Allison, an anti-lrce silver
man, for President. But after he got
licked in his rascally plans TO capture
The Republican convention by mean
whiskey and ribald fraud-then he was
so strong for silver that he could not
support Mckinley. Nobody ever heard
of his being for silver till Butler picked
him up out of the manure pile and
chunked him at the Republican party"
When the Populists nominated Dock
cry for Congress, b. +. Keith, VIII
mington Populist, openly declared that
McKinley's ofhce-holders had controlled
the populist convention and named their
candidate
The pie-Populists will vote for Dock
cry The free silver Populists will not
follow where Mckinley holders
lead