The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-03-17
News of Minor Note.


owes her creditors S193, ,525, 900.
Gen. w. b. Taliaferro, who was COM
manler of the Virginia troops during John
Browns raid. is dead.
Four hundred patients have died of
starvation in one Havana hospital dur
ing the past two months.
William Warren jumped into shallow
Turkish bath at New York and was killed
by striking upon his head.
Mayor Good of Springfield. o.. has been
ousted 10y the Circuit Court for violations
of the Garfield corrupt practice law.
The fftieth anniversary of California's
statehood will be celebrated in 1901 by
another midwinter fair at San Francisco.
The proceeds of the mining fair at San
Francisco will be devoted to the relief of
the families of the victims of the Maine.
There will be no war between Chill and
Argentine Republic. as arbitration by the
British Government has been agreed upon.
The body of ex-Commissioner Leonard
X. Wells of Brooklyn has been found in
the woods near Plainhed, \. j., with
horrible cash in his throat.
Miss Frances l.. Willard bequeathed
her estate to the Temple fund, after the
life interests of her secretary and her sis
ter-in-law have expired.
Half the party organized by Miss Mary
NJ. Board at New Brunswick, n. j.. to
found temperance colony in Alaska
started for their destination.
The report that Spanish naval officer
some time ago sold to the Washington
authorities a map of Havana harbor,
showing submarine mines. is not credited
A T-foot granite monument in the Up
per Hartz. Germany, has an iron tablet
inscribed: Here in the year 1S47 the first
trials were made with the cultivation Of
the potato"
Only little flag marks the grave of the
late Gov. John a. Martin, in Atcbison,
Kun, and efforts are being made TO So
cure the erection of fitting monument to
his memory.
4 cablcgram to London from Shanghai
China. says the United States Asiatic
squadron is concentrated at Hong Kong.
with a view to active operations against
Manila. Philippine Islands, in the event
of war with Spain.
A Paris newspaper expresses a hone
that "a European statesman will be found
| to intervene, with a view of the mainte-
nance of peace between the United States
and Spain"
The navies of the world are now rated
| as follows: Great Britain, 1; France. 9:
Russia. 8: Italy, 4; United States, 3; Ger
many, 6; Spain. q; Japan, s; Austria, 8,
and Netherlands. 10.
The smokestack of the Government as
say Office in Wall street, New York, has
| lately been cleaned. and the sweepings
smelted and refined. yielding 30 standard
ounces of gold and $50 ounces of silver.
A sale of American prize horses took
place in London. Twenty-Five magnifi-
| cent animals. which took prizes at recent
| horse shows in Chicago and New York.
| were sold at auction at an average price
| of about S294. striking illustration of
| foreign prejudice against American pro-
| duets.
Another phase of the cigarette smoking
| evil is attracting the attention of Cincin-
| natl physicians in the case of Joseph Saw
| age. 10 years old. in one of the city hos
| pitals. Through smoking forty cigarettes
| day he contracted an ulcer which de-
! stroyed the membrane behind the palate
| in his throat. and he now exhales smoke
| from his ears as we'll as from his nostrils.
Arrandono. the young man who recently
assassinated President Borda of Uru-
quay, is still in Jail at Colon. and the pco-
| pie seem to he largely in his favor. The
women decorate his cell with flowers and
| give him expensive food and many deli
| cacies.
A London dispatch, commenting on the
enormous increase in the number of wom-
Ell smokers in England. quotes from the
London Telegraph rs follows: The great
middle class is smoking as unconstrained-
| ~ as the aristocracy. and the working
| woman is fast following One we'll
| known lady of title is sometimes seen driv-
ing in the Ripley road with briarwood
] pipe in her mouth"