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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
Franks of the Lightning,

While bathing in the surf near Sea-
breeze, Fla, girl was killed by light
ming.
\ Maine hunter claims to have once
had his pipe lighted 10y Il flash of light
ming.
Lightning knocked child from its
mothers arms during u storm at Ocilla,
Georgia.
\ woman telephone operator was
struck by lightning while at work in the
Berlin exchange.
Although lightning rods are not used
as much as they We're the weather bu-
reau says they are of value.
Lightning struck two trees at Frank
lin. H., and then jumped to wire fence
two feet away, showing that the current
sometimes deviates.
Half of the crew of the Sachem were
disabled by Il lightning stroke that struck
the ship while on its way from Phila-
delphia to Tacoma.
\ bolt of lightning hit Il negro and n
cat in Georgia at the same time. killing
the cat and knocking the man down.
The latter Immediately rose and wanted
to know who had hit him on the dead
Curious wounds were made by light
ming strokes on residents of Berlin. None
of the wounded has extensive burns: the
wounds look as if caused by charge
OF grain shot. The holes reach to the
bone and are surrounded by a web of
blue and brown li>as
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
BOERS DEFY BRITAIN,
Military Is to Rule Johannesburg in
the Case of Hostilities.


Pretoria advices say that the volks-
raad, by vote of Is to ., adopted the
report of the majority of the dynamite
commission continuing the monopoly.
Commandant General Z. J. Joubert is
sued circular to all field cornets eau
tioning them against any act tending to
bring on conflict with another power
He declares that not single stranger
who does not volunteer is to be coerced
into bearing arms.
Commandant Viljoen has given notice
in the volksraad that he will ask the Gov
ernment if in case of war it is prepared
to confscate the property of inhabitants
who take up arms against the Govern
ment. In the course of an interview af-
ter the session Commandant Yiliocn said
that if war broke out military govern
mcnt would be established at Johannes
burg and all British subjects would be
compelled to leave.
The British foreign office at London is
sued Transvaal blue book containing
further correspondence between the sec
retary of state for the colonies, Joseph
Chamberlain, and the British high COM
missioner for South Africa, Sir Alfred
Miner. The principal dispatches deal
with the Transvaal's request for arbitra-
ton and Mr.. Chamberlain's suggestion
for a joint inquiry, which was telegraph
ed to Sir Alfred Miner at Cape Town on
July 81. No information is given, how
ever, as to the views of the Transvaal
Government regarding this proposition.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31

their lives along the North Carolina
coast, and the beach is strewn with
/ spars, masts and other wreckage. The
sailors say that eleven vessels are ashore
on the coast between Hatteras and New
/ River inlet.
At Lake Butler, Fla, Deputy Sheriff
! Kite attempted to arrest n party of il
licit distillers known as the Richards
brothers. After arresting one the other
two brothers began firing on the deputy.
-Four shots took effect in the sheriff $
! back, causing his death.
At a Populist camp meeting near
I Bruceville, Texas, j. Il. O'Brien, editor
of Il Democratic newspaper, made Il
speech in favor of expansion. DIR. j. B.
Harris, chairman of the Populist COM
mittee. took O'Brien To task. A shoot
ing affray resulted, DR.. Harris being
shot in the head and left breast and
O'Brien in the right side. Harris is
dead O'Briens wound is not considered
fatal
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31

ordered to the prison double quick. With
in twenty minutes after the police and
firemen arrived the fire was out.
The chairman of the committee on in
vitation of the @. 4. X. encampment
which co,.venes Sept. 4 at Philadelphia
has received President McKinley's ac.
ceptance of the invitation to review the
parade and attend the banquet Sept !
should nothing prevent his attendance.
Juanita Teressette Terry. aged Il
years, who was killed with her half-sis-
ter and nephew by train at Seabright
\. j., was the only daughter of the late
Juan Pedro Terry, the Cuban million
aire, and would have inherited between
S6,0O0,0O0 and S1,000,000 from his es-
tate.
Caspar Bubert, sculptor known by
his works all over the United States, de-
signer of several of the famous groups
in the decorations of public buildings at
Washington, was found dead in his
studio in New York City, from apopleXy
He had been working on the Dewey arch
at the time of his death.
Carl Trenkhsus, aged 40, and his wife,
while at work in their bakeshop at New
Milford, Conn. were shot by Trenkhaus'
brother Edward. aged 90. Mrs. Trenk-
haus was killed instantly. The murder
er was pursued, and when he was about
to be taken he turned about and sent a
bullet through his own temple.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
EASTERN.

Three persons were killed and three
injured at Seabright, y. j.. while driving
by being run down by train of the New
Jersey Southern Railroad.
The resignation of Thomas b. Reed as
Congressman in the First Maine district
has been received by Gov. Powers. The
resignation is to take effect Sept. 4.
The Supreme Court of New York State
has decided that, according to law, negro
pupils may be excluded from public
schools where white children attend.
Hugh Grosyenor Curran, formerly in
business in Denver as the Berlin Cloak
Company, filed a petition in bankruptcy
in New York. Liabilities S74,352: no
assets.
Fifteen hundred cloalmakers employ
ed by A. Popkin & Co., New York, have
gone on strike because it was said Mr.
Popkin refused to agree to a new wage
schedule.
Mount Lookout breaker ct Wyoming
Pa, operated by the Temple Iron and
Coal Company, was burned. The origin
of the fire is unknown. The loss is about
100000; insured.
Fire caused panic in the Kings Coun-
ty penitentiary, New York. With 25O
prisoners in an uproar the guards were
insufficient and 200 police reserves were
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
FOREIGN.
The Chilean ministry has resigned.

The Chilean ministry has resigned.
| Forty thousand persons are said to
have died from famine on the east coast
of Africa.
The Khedive of Egypt has decided to
take the "cure" ut Graefenbnrg, Silesia,
where he will remain several weeks.
According TO the present outlook. the
hop crop in Alsace and Baden will be a
| partial failure, both as conCer rms yield
and quality.
The Mayor of Dublin and John Red.
mond are said to be coming to this coun,
try to stir up interest in the Parnell
statue fund.
The Shanghai Mercury publishes n
| communication from Pekin to the effect
that the Emperor has developed symp-
toms of insanity.
The Sultan Of Sulu has signed the
treaty presented to him by Gen. Bates,
acknowledging the supremacy of the
United States Government over the en-
tire Sulu archipelago.
The English steamship Nettleton, load
ed with coal, from Norfolk, Va, has been
wrecked on Marica Island, between Rio
and Montevideo. The crew was saved
by the United States warship Montgom-
cry.
Prof. Edward Charles Pickering of the
Harvard observatory is in Jamaica seek
ing a location for the largest telescope in
the world, which is being constructed at
Cambridge, for observing the new planet
which is due to pass close to the earth
eighteen months hence.
A firm of Birmingham. England, has
received an order for II, 900, 600 Mauser
cartridges for urgent delivery to South
Africa. Secrecy is being observed as to
the exact destination of the cartridges,
but it is said that the Beers alone use
Mauser rifles in that territory.
Prince Henry of Prussia, who COM
mands the German squadron in the Pa
citic. will visit San Francisco, according
to the Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail, on board his flagship
after he leaves China. 1t is possible ac-
cording to the same authority, that he
will also go to Washington TO see Presi-
dent Mckinley, who has sent him an in
yitation
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
WILL HOLD The PHILIPPINES
Mckinley Outlines His Policy Regard.
ing the Islands.

ing inc iSianuS-
President Mckinley made an address
at the Methodist stronghold Mt Ocean
Grove, y. j., in which he outlined his
policy regarding Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines The chief interest CEN
tered in his remarks regarding the Phil
ippines, which he declared must after the
establishment of peace be under the con-
troll of the United States. The President
said:
Il believe that there is more love for
our country and that more people love
the flag than ever before. Wherever that
flag is raised it stands not for despotism
and oppression, but for liberty, opportu-
nifty and humanity and what that flag
has done for us we want it to do for all
people and all lands, which by the for
tunes of war have come within its juris-
diction.
That flag does not stand for one thing
in the United States and another in
Porto Rico and the Philippines. There
has been some doubt in some quarters re-
specting the policy of the Government in
the Philippines. | see no harm in stat
ing it in this presence. Peace first, then
with charity for all establish a govern
ment of law and order. protecting life
and property and occupation for the we'll
being of the people who will participate
in it under the Stars and Stripes
The President and Mrs. Mckinley,
with Eice-President and Mrs Hobart.
Garret \. Hobart, Jr., Attorney General
Griggs. DR.. and Mrs. RiXey, Private See
retary Cortelyou and Executive Clerk
u 7 L.
Plattsburg on special train of four
palace cars. President and Mrs. Me
Kinley looked in excellent health and
bowed their Acknowledgements repeated
ly to the great crowd as they were cs-
corted to their carriage by the reception
committee and driven to VicePresident
Hobart's cottage, Normanhurst, at Nor
wood Park.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
SOUTHERN.

Henderson Pierson, living near Daven-
port, Tex, in fit of jealous rage shot
and killed his wife and her mother. The
murderer was arrested by his neighbOrs
and lodged in Jail
Peter Louin and his 15-year-old son,
who were under arrest at Electric. Ala,
charged with shooting Hall Jordan, a re-
spectacle citizen, were ken from Jail by
mob of masked men and killed.
Two negroes were killed outright, two
were painfully burned and shocked, and
eighteen others severely shocked while
engaged in the reconstruction of the st.
Charles avenue electric car line in New
Orleans.
Martha Daniels crossed the river from
Kentucky to Thacker, w. Va, and go
ing in the back door of house. cut Mrs.
Belle Collins to death, and fed back to
Kentucky. The woman was literally cut
to pieces.
Thirty persons are known to have lost
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
1t Made Him Brave.

After one of the battles of the civil
war a group of Confederate soldiers
sat about their camp-fires talking of
how q man feels when he goes into
battle Most of those who confessed 10
any feeling at all admitted that they
felt scared. and at length one of them
told of his first fight, and how little
thing changed his feeling of fear to one
of courageous determination
1t was not great battle, but it was
lively while it lasted, and unfortunate
ly for him it was one of those engage
ments in which it is necessary to wait
for the enemy to begin. He was ten
der then. He had just left home. and
as he lay there waiting he thought of
the little knickknacks his mother and
sisters had made for him-fOr they
thought soldiers lived in camp-and
every time he thought of them he grew
''teary.'
The Confederate troops were lying
on the edge of piece of woods, with
sloping meadow in front, crossed by
stone wall heavily overgrown with
vines. At the other edge of the meadow
was another strip of woods. The enemy
was somewhere in there.
And so they waited. and out of ner-
vousness the young soldier got to feel
ing in his pockets, and pulled out a lit
tie three-cornered pincushiOn.
MY first thought" he said, was
that | wanted TO go home and give
the war up; but then came another
kind of thought. The little girl wouldn't
have given that pincushion TO me if she
hadn't understood that was going off
to fight for the country. So l said to
myself. old fellow, you've got to stand
up to the worst
"And now" he concluded, when
ever we go into battle l always brace
myself up n little by feeling in my
breeches pocket and sort of shaping
out that pincushion- And when l go
back home-if it suits the Yankees that
I ever go back at ALL am going to
give it as a souvenir to the little sister
that made it for me. And I'm going
to tell her that 1t was that pincushiOn.
little three-cornered thing that it is,
that made a man of me that day"
And we may be certain that this in
cident from George Cary Eggleston's
southern Soldier Stories." is not the
only one the inspiration of which might
be traced to some simple, homeiy
source.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
Release of Cuban Prisoners.

Word has been received from the United
States Minister at Madrid, Bellamy Storer,
that four Cuban exiles were released from
The Spanish penal settlement at Burgos on
the Sth and have sailed for Cuba. Their
namas are Rafael Joyer, Antonio Capa-
blanca, Julian Alvarez and Noberto Rojos
Herdandez. These men were political
prisoners, accused during the regime of
Sen. Weyler of disloyalty TO Spain and
sentenced to penal seryitude for life or for
q long term Of years. About twenty other
Cuban prisoners who have been at the is
land of Ceuta or Burgos have been liber-
ated and are now at Gibraltar without
funds to get back TO Cuba.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
Music in the OSpitaI,

A young lady was heard to say, Il
wish | could do something for my
country: l would willingly become a
nurse in a hospital, but have not the
physical strength. What can 1 dO?'
You can sing" a friend replied.
Yes, can sing. but what of that?"
eco TO one of the hospitals, and sing
for the soldiers.
The idea pleased her. She accompa-
MED a friend who was long used to
such visits. and who introduced her by
saving to the patients:
Here is Il young lady who has come
to sing for you.
At the mere announcement, every
face was aglOw with animation. every
eve was riveted upon her with expect
ant pleasure. She sang few songs.
commencing with the glorious "Star
Spangled Banner AS the thrilling
notes of that song rang through the
apartment, one poor man, who had
been given up by the physician as an
almost hopeless case, raised himself on
his cot. leaned his head upon his hand.
and drank in every note like so much
nectar. The effect was electrical.
From that moment he began to amend,
and finally recovered.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $675; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00
to $3.50; wheat, No. . red, re to 73c;
corn, No. 2, Sic to 32c; oats, No. =, 19c
choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh,
12c to 14c; potatoes, choice, 21c to SOC
per bushel.
polis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
$500; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $500;
sheep, common to prime, $3.25 to $4.5O;
wheat, No. 2 red, 6Sc to 70c; corn, No. =
white, Bic to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c
to 24c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, re to 74c; corn, No. =
yellow, Gle TO 33c; oats, No. 2, 2lc to 23c;
rye, No. =, SIC to Soc.
Cincinnati-Cattlc, $3.50 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $4.OO;
wheat, No. 2, tic to 12c; corn, No. ,
mixed, 32c to 33c; oats, No. mixed, 21c
to 23c; rye, No. ,, 51c to 5Sc.
Detroit-Cattle $3.50 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. ., re to 74c; corn. No. 2
yellow, 33c to 3Ic; oats, No. = white, :2.3c
to 25c; rye. 5Sc to 59c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. , mixed. re to
73c; corn, No. = mixed, 33c to 35c; oats,
No. 2 mixed, zoe to pc; rye, No. =, soc
to 56c; clover seed, new, $500 to S4.10.
Milwaukee-Wheat,N No. = spring, &c
to 14c; corn, No. 3, 31c to 33c; oats, No.
white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. ], 54c to 55c;
barley, No. 2, Ale to 43c; pork, mess,
$500 to $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, good shipping steers,
$500 70 5000; hogs, common to choice,
S3.25 to $5.25; sheep, fair to choice weth-
ers, $3.50 to S4.50: lambs, common to
extra, $3.50 to S6.25.
New York-Cattle, So % to S625; hogs,
$500 to $5.25; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2 red, 7Sc to 79c; corn, No. 9,
SOC to 4Oc; oats, No. 2 white, 2Sc to 29c;
butter, creamery, 17c to 22c; eggs, West
ern, 12c to Ice.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
Two Men Hanged.

Silas A. Brown and Matthew Craig were
hanged at Muscogee, L. I. A daughter OF
Craig's victim witnessed the execution and
smiled as the drop fell. They were the first
whites 70 pay the death penalty under the
Federal Governments administration in
Indian Territory. Brown murdered Jas.
Cuthherth, who had befriended him. Craig
shot and killed a United States marshal,
Joseph Hendric.l, last February, after the
latter had arrested him for introducing
whisky near Tallequah.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
Will Enforce the Penalty.

The Treasury Department up to this
time has accepted all compromises offered
by banks for the settlement of fines where
examiners have found them in possession
of unstamped checks and notes. The plea
in almost every instance is inadvertence.
But the violations of the law have not de-
creased as they should and the department
is on the point of adopting rigid policy
of enforcing heavier penalty for every
violation.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
A New Republic.

A dispatch to the New York Herald from
Rio Janeiro says: Information from Para
announces that the inhabitants of Acre,
the territory claimed by Brazil and Bolivia,
proclaimed their independence and con-
stituted a new South American common
wealth. The Acre territory question
aroused many comments because of the
alleged conference of the American Minis
ter Mr. Bryan
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
A Shooting Scrape.

A New Milford, Conn.,, dispatch says:
years, and his wife, were shot by Tren-
kaus' brother, the wife dying instantly.
Trenkaus received one bullet in the breast
and two in the arm, and his death is ex-
pected. The murderer fled, but was pur-
sued, and as he was about to be captured
fired a bullet into his right temple and died
instantly. The shooting took place IN
Trenkaus' bakery.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
Will Not Risk the Relic.

The Navy Department does not look
with favor on the proposition to have the
historic warship Constitution take part in
the Dewey demonstration at New York. II
is stated that the venerable craft is not in a
condition to undergo such service and that
she is far too valuable as relic to subject
her to the risks of trip from Boston.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
FOUND A GOLD FIELD.
Railroad Contractors Make n Discov-
cry That Will Make Them Millions.


Tacoma (Wash.) special: While grad
ting on the Canadian Pacific extension in
British Columbia, Contractors Mckenzie
and Mann have uncovered great ledges of
ore running high in copper, gold and sill
yer. A mining expert who has just come
from British Columbia says that one ledge
alone will make them millionaires. This
edge was found near Cascade, new town
on the Columbia and Western Railroad,
which the Canadian Pacific is building
from Rossland into the boundary creek
district. 1t has not been thoroughly eX
plored, but has been stripped sufficiency TO
show it exceeds fifty feet in width. Assays
from near the surface give values of $40 to
$50 per ton. Mckenzie and Mann have
filed on the property and Will soon begin
its development. They have declined a
large sum for it.
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capped with some bad scratches. They
gave me the particulars of their es-
cape, but / did not dare to tell them
about that lonesome bayonet fight, for
they would not have believed so strange
Il story-Youth's Companion.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
CONSUL EEplOE SUSPENDED.
United States Official at Canton.
China, Relieved.

Consul Edward Bedloe Of Pcnnsylva-
MIA, whose pest is at Canton, China, has
been suspended by the State Department
and granted permission to return to the
United States. Consul Bedloe's suspen-
sion is due, it is stated, TO the fact that
he gave a certificate of American own
ership to the filibustcring steamer Abby,
which was subsequently seized by the
yunboat McCulloch.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31

An engine on the Valley Railroad struck
three cows which were fastened in tres
tie near Mineral Point, Ohio, and the en-
CINE was thrown high in the air. 1t landed
stack down in the mud. The fireman,
Mack Christ, was killed, and the engineer
was injured. -Four men who were on the
tender landed in the mud and suffered
slight INJURIES
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
AROUND A BIG STATE.
INTERESTING ITEMS OF LATE
OHIO NEWS.
What Our NeIghbors Are Doing-Matters
of General and Local Interest Mar
riagcs and Deaths-Accidents and Crimes
Personal Pointers About Ohio People
Statistics of the Board of Charities.

Statistical tables just completed in the
office of the Ohio Board of State Charities
show that in the SO counties of the State
u .665 persons were under arrest during
the year ending June 30. 1899. OF this
number l0,62S were males and 1,037 were
females. Number of married men, 3,141;
single men, 6,l56; females, married, 402;
single, 526.
or the ii, ,665 persons confined in the jailS
1888 were born in Ohio. .2.9i6 in other states
and 1886 were foreign born.
Number charged with felonies. 3,029:
misdemeanOrs, 1869, and 2,456 with viola
ton of ordinances. First Offense, ZIP:
second offense, 1,5S5.
FIGURES ON ILLITERACY.
OF the total number under arrest s, ,932
were able to read and write, and I022 were
unable to read and write.
Number of insane prisoners, 1919: epi-
leptic 81 Held for trial, 1888 Detained
as witnesses, 40. Under 16 years of age
526.
Number of boys sentenced to Boys In
dustrial School at Lancaster, 2l5. Girls
sentenced to Girls Industrial Home at
lDtldN att oo y uliDtl StIltiCtu W otlIO
Penitentiary, 7g7 To Ohio State Reform
atory at Mansfield, 253. To the various
work houses, 7l9. Number sentenced to
Jail, 1,655. This number of prisoners
served 1854 days. Number died during
year, 4. Escaped, 81, of which number IL
were recaptured.
EXPENDITURES NOTED.
The total amount received from the cOun-
ties for maintenance of prisoners for the
year was $l04, ,332. 81. The average price
allowed for keeping prisoners per day was
90 cents. Total amount expended for re-
pairs during the year, s6S6,10
The number of prisoners remaining in
jail on the 30th of June. 1899. was 465, of
which los were serving sentences, 304
awaiting trial, detained as witnesses. IS
United States prisoners, q insane and 5
epileptics.
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Old Time Printer Dead.

William H. Bodwell, a well-known
printer, ex-President of the international
Typographical Union. is dead at White
hall, n. Y, aged 81 years.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
Edmund Rutledge Is Dead.

Edmund Rutledge, head of the we'll
known publishing firm of Rutledge &
Sons, limited, died suddenly in London.
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g Great Loss by Storm.

According to reliable reports received
from Chilli property valued at more than
$l,500,000 has been destroyed during the
severe storms that have swept the country
during the last fortnight.