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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-02-02

(Mass) Republican. and late owner Of the
Union, shot and killed himself. A few
months ago he met with business reverses.
Henry 7. Sloane has begun proceedings
at New York to secure control of his two
children. He has filed afidavits making
sensational charges against his wife, in
which the name of Perry Belmont is men
toned.
A little daughter OF George Edwards
was horribly burned at bonfire ut Vine
land, n. J. Enveloped in flames, the
child ran screaming along the street and
eiuded her pursuers until nearly all of her
clothes dropped in ashes from her body.
A reduction of 6 per cent in wages has
been ordered At the st. Stephen cotton
mills at Caiais, Me. The carders, who
refuse to accept the cut-down, have
struck. The mills, it is said, will be able
to run with one-third the usual number of
carders.
Eire in Johnstown, Pa, caused loss of
100000, with $4,000 insurance. The
heaviest losers are the Herald Printing
Company, John ii. Waters, the Johns
town supply house and the Cambria
County Medical Society. The society lost
1000 books.
While at work on one of the boilers of
the cruiser New York. in dry dock at the
Brooklyn navy yard, six men were scald-
ed through the unexpected turning on of
steam in the boiler. One of the men, Fire
man John Shea, is perhaps fatally injur-
ed. The others are expected to recover.
Jennie Joyce, years old, was killed,
and her brother Thomas, aged years,
was injured in coasting accident at
Scranton, Pa. Their sled ran into troll
ley car. The girls head was crushed be-
yond recognition and her body was horri-
bly, mutilated. One of the boys legs was
broken.
Cornelrs president, DR.. J. G. Sherman,
who is a member of the Philippine COM
mission, delivered farewell address to
the students and the members of the fac
ulty. His leave of absence extends to the
beginning of the next college year. The
commission, he said, will arrive home
from the Philippines next fall.
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Bryan in Denver.

The speech delivered by Hon. W. j.
Bryan in Denver contains the keynote
of true Democracy. Between the anx-
iety to create Il new issue and the con
tinued iteration of the declaration that
silver is dead. the Republican party and
its allies have been between the devil
and the deep sea. The issue will not
down. notwithstanding all their efforts
to close it out from the sight of the
people.
II is with reference to this phase of
the question that Mr.. Bryan spoke in
Denver In that speech he declared
that the silver issue retains all its vi
tality for the reason that "the cause
lives, because it embodies the hopes,
the aspirations and the belief of our
people. People eat because
they need it. not because food has to
be consumed"
This homely illustration is but in
tended to convey the idea that the Dem
ocratic party is the party of the peo-
pies necessities. 1t takes up the cause
in which the welfare of the people is
involved, and carries it through to
success. 1t matters not what the
name of that cause may be from era to
era. but once taken up it remains the
shibboleth, until all opposition van
ishes. 1t is the Democracy of 1896
which now challenges the government
of this country. 1t is that Democracy
which will fipht for thp S,Dremacy no
matter whether the battle be long or
short. and it is that Democracy which
the Republicanism of the country may
expect to find in the field whenever the
opportunity offers.-Atlanta ConStitu-
ton.
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FOREIGN.

The Pope has entirely recovered from
HIS recent attack of influenza.
Gen. Michael Annenkoff, the distin
guished Russian engineer, who construct
ed the transcaspian railway. is dead. He
was born in st. Petersburg in 1888.
Bank notes to the value of f60.610 have
mysteriously disappeared from PARIS
Bank. in Bartholomew lane. London. 1t
is supposed that they have been stolen.
Natives are reported to have murdered
the Spanish governor and a number of
Spanish officers on the Island of Pela-
wan, one of the southwestern Philippines.
The town of Porus. the inland terminus
of the central line of the Jamaican rail
road has been almost destroyed by fire,
involving heavy losses. There were no
fatalities.
Ecuador Government troops have de-
feated the rebels at San Ancaja. The
losses on both sides were $50 killed and
200 wounded. More than 400 insurgents
were captured.
The Madrid ministry of war has decided
to abolish the military marshals. to retire
half of the unattached generals, and to
greatly reduce the number Of officers on
the active list.
The steamer Labuan. which has arrived
Mt Labuan, British Borneo, came from
the island of Balabac. thirty miles south
of Palawan, Philippine Islands. and not
from Palawan, as previously cabled. The
murder of the Spanish officers which she
reported occurred at Balabac. The La
buan brought sixty-five women and chill
dren. They had been robbed Of every
thing. but otherwise had not been i'll
treated. The Sulus assisted the Rala-
bacs in killing the Spanish officers. The
Spaniards have left Palawan, where the
natives were fearful of the Sulus. Stores
had been looted, business was at stand
still, and the natives were armed and
ready for mischief.
The steamer Aorangi from Australasia
brings details of terrible cyclone which
swept the south seas, devastating vii
lagos. wrecking shipping and causing
many deaths. At Samarai, in New Gui-
nea, the gale was terrific. Cocoa palms
went down by hundreds and were carried
TO sea. Torrents of rain fell. Twelve
vessels were wrecked. The ketches Be-
bem and Baidan were lost off Goodenough
Island and Mr.. Kennedy. manager of the
New Guinea Development Company, was
drowned. together with his crew, save one
boy. The cutter Ivy was lost in the Koss
man group and Captain Godel and crew
were drowned. In the Solomons the hur
ricane did most damage. whole villages
being destroyed. Hundreds of cocoa plan.
tations were uprooted and yam patches
leveled. Over five hundred natives are
to have been killed.
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HedSinS on Expansion.

While the Republican administration
is taking every means to bring about
expansion. the remarkable statement
is made by the Chicago Times-Herald
that the annexation of the Philippines
is not contemplated This is the most
startling statement that has vet been
made concerning the policy of the Re-
publican party. In the course of long
double-leaded editOria! on this subject
the Times Herald says:
The Times Herald has no more use for
annexation of the Philippines, no more
sympathy with the incorporation of mill
ions of ignorant islanders into our ma
tional policy, no more liberation of gov
ernment of alien races without their con-
sent than Senator Hoar. Carl Schurz or
any of the men who are kicking against
the Philippine prcks. 1t is opposed to the
annexation of the Sulu archipelago to the
United States just as firmly rs it would
oppose the annexation of portion of the
African continent inhabited by Zulns.
This is what the Democratic papers
have been saying ever since the Phil
ippine question came to the front, and
this is what the Republican papers
have called small and narrow view.
Some lew light must have dawned up
on the Times Herald Doubtless the
danger of a war with the natives of the
Philippines has caused reflection as to
the consequences.
While the American people We're n
unit as to the juStneSs of n war with
Spain. there can be no such unity CON
cerning a war of conquest against the
rightful owners of the Philippines. In
an endeavor to hedge and to play the
game of politics upon the principle of
''heads / win. tails you lose," the
Times Herald shiftily says:
To-day we are forced to make our SOW
ereignty supremely effective in the Phil
ippines in order that we may later deter
mine what we shall do with them. We
are the unwilling trustees of an migrate
full office which we can neither decline
nor instantly abandon. All our tradi
tions. interests and inclinations forbid
the thought of annexation or permanent
occupation. We are not in the business
of colonization or territorial aggarandize-
ment.
But in the Philippines we stay until
we see our way clear to getting rid of
them by transferring our sovereignty to
some power, native or foreign, capable
of its exercise and responsibility.
Thus. after all. it will be seen that
while the Republicans say they don't
want the Philippines. they are going to
hold on to them just the same to the
bitter end
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-02-02
No Sham Ruttles.

In his speech ut Chicago on Jackson
Day, Mr.. Bryan reiterated the warn
ings that have recently appeared re-
garding the efforts of the gold stand
ard advocates to deceive the people and
lead them off into the swamps on a
jack-O lantern fight against trusts,
while the great mother and breeder of
trusts-the gold standard-was allow
ed to go free and continue the propaga
ton of her vile brood. Mr.. Bryan said:
Some who opposed the platform in 1896
have promised to return to the party on
condition that the party will drop the
money question and contine the fight tc
the trusts The offer will not be accept
ed What confidence would the people
have in our sincerity if we should declare
against trusts in general. but enter into n
treaty of peace with the greatest of trusts
the money trust? If we should attempt
to center the fight upon the trusts the
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laid on imports of like materials
Chattanooga Times.
Auuexiup Savapes.


Spain has never been able to conquer
peace in the Philippines. Neither has
the United States ever been able to
conquer peace with the American In
dians. BY anneXing the Philippines
another century of oppression to the
aborigines. another hundred years or
more of death-dealing on both sides
will be inaugurated. Aguinaldo is not
much of power for the United States
to fear. Neither was nor is Geronimo
but they are both savages and neither
will ever become civilized.
Recently Aguinaldo said to an En-
glishman who went to MalolOs to sec
the dictator: We have fought always
for our independence. and we will al
ways fight for it until our last man is
dead" The best students of the com
pick Filipino character are steadily be-
coming more convinced that conflict
with the insurgents is ultimately I'M
avoidable. Under the circumstances, is
the game really worth the candle?-
Chicago Democrat.
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Sparks from the Wires.

The John E. Prescott. the largest
schooner ever built, tas been launched at
Rockland. Nc.
Badger" Moore has been placed in
Sing Sing prison. where ne vii! serve his
19-ycar sentence.
4 New York gi,l has been placed in an
insane asylum. tie victim Of excessive
cigarette smoking.
The Emperor OF Germany appreciates
the '.loftincss Of the Cars peace IDEAS"
but thinks it advisable to strengthen his
own forces.
The United States grand jury at Perry.
Okla, has returned an indictment against
Thomas Green. alias l.. A. Ford. an s.
ar-old boy, on a charge of breaking into
the postoHice there.
The late William Endicott. who died
recently at Beverly, Mass, was 100 years
old. He was direct descendant of John
Endicott. the famous Puritan leader, at
whose old homestead, Orchard Farm in
Danvers. he was born.
\ cargo Of parrots that arrived in Leith,
Scotland, was purchased by firm of
whisky manr facturerS. The birds were
taught to cry. Drink Blanks whisky"
and were then distributed in gilt cages to
Liverpool saloonkecpers.
The report of plans for cleansing Ha-
vana, given out as coming from the late
Col. Waring. were prepared from his
notes by his executors.
Gen. Jose Gomez, of the Cuban commits
sion, says that at least $4,000. 900 should
be appropriated by the United States for
the payment of Cuban soldiers.
\ resolution has been introduced in the
Missouri; House of Representatives re-
oucsting the committee of the House on
education to prepare and report bill
requiring the State of Missouri to print
and furnish to the pupils of the State all
school books necessary to be used in the
public schools of the State free Of
charge"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-02-02
MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $4.25; wheat, No. red, 72c to 13c;
corn, No. ., 3Sc to SOC: oats, No. 2, 2Sc
to 29c; rye, No. 2. 56c to 5Sc; butter,
choice creamery, 17c to 19c; eggs, fresh,
15c to lie; potatoes, choice, 3Oc to 4Oc
per bushel.
Indianapolis-C shipping, $500 to
$5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $500;
sheep, common to choiS, $3.50 to $4.25;
wheat, No. red, 69c to tic; corn, No.
white, 35c to &c; oats, No. white, Soc
to Sic.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to S6.25; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep. $3.50 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, TIC to TIC; corn, No. 2
rye, No. 9, 56c to 5Sc.
Cincinnati Cattle, 50 80 to S5.75; hogs,
$500 to S4.OO; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25:
wheat, No. ?. 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2
mixed, 36c to 3Sc; oats, No. mixed, 23c
to Sic; rye, No. ., 64c to 66c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to S5.7o; hogs,
$3.50 to $500; sheep. $500 to S4.25;
wheat, No. =, Tic to 73c; corn. No. 2
yellow, 37c to SOC; oats, No. 2 white, 32c
to 35c; rye, Soc to Gle.
Toledc-Wheat, No. = mixed, 1Sc to
74c; corn, No. , mixed, 35c to SIC; oats.
No. , white, 2Sc to 30c; rye, No. 2. 54c
to SIC; clover seed, new, S4.25 to S4.35.
MISUNDERSTANDING, No. = saring, 69c
to tic; corn, NJ. 3, SAC to 35c: oats, No.
white, 29c to Sic; rye, No. /, 56c to 5Sc;
barley, Ne. 2. 44c to 53c; pork, mess,
$3.50 to $1a00.
Buffalo-C,ttle, good shipping steers.
$500 to $500 hogs, common to choice,
S325 to S4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth-
ers. $3.50 to S475: lambs. common to
extra, $500 to S5.25.
New YOrk-Cattle. $500 to 5000: hogs,
$500 to S1.75; sheep, $500 to S4.15;
wheat. No red, S3c TO SIC: corn, No.
2, 46c to 41c; oats, No. . white, 35c to BIC;
butter, creamery, 15c TO 20c; eggs, West
erp. 17c to 1Sc.
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EASTERN.

Fire in the ive-story building at 41S and
400 West Broadway, New York, did $780,
900 damage.
Fire destroyed the Osterhout building,
a large four-story brick structure at
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Loss S225,OOO.
The steamer Rhode Island, which went
on the rocks at He'll Gate, New York har-
Dor, was foated and taken to dock near
by. Her rudder was torn off.
Judge E. w. Woodbury., who framed
the first prohibitory liquor law enacted
by the Maine Legislature, is dead at his
home in Bethel, Me-. aged 81 years.
George W. E. Ayres of Philadelphia
shot and killed his wife Mary, seriously
wounded John ]. Wilson, who boarded
with Mrs. Ayres, and then committed sui
eide.
Justice Henry W. Williams of the Su-
preme Court of Pennsylvania died sud
denly in his room at the Continental
Hotel at Philadelphia. Heart disease
was the cause of his death.
A New York alderman proposes to make
street railway companies put two conduc-
tors on each car, one to collect fares and
the other to attend to passengers who
wish to board or leave the car.
Clark w. Bryan, aged "a years, for
merly part owner Of the Springfield
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/ That platform denounced the trusts and
declared them to be a menace: that men
ace is greater to-day than ever before.
That platform warned the people that
conspiracy was on foot to give the nation
al banks monopoly of the issue and sup
ply of paper money; that conspiracy is
now known to every one.
That platform denounced international
bimetallism as delusion and snare; {;
the Democratic party will be unit in
opposing it.
We are told that the Filipinos are not
capable of government: that has
familiar ring. Only two years ago heard
the same argument made against n very
respectable minority of the people of this
! country. The money lenders who coerced
borrowers did it upon that theory; the
employers who cOerced their employees did
it for the same reason. Self-government
increases with participation in govern
ment. The FilipinOs are not far enough
advanced to share in the government of
the people of the United States. but they
are competent to govern themselves. 1t
is not fair to compare them with our own
citizens, because the American people
have been educating themselves in the sci
ence of government for nearly three cen
turies. and while we have much to learn
we have already made great improvement.
The Filipinos will not establish a perfect
government, but they will establish gov
ernment as nearly perfect as they are
competent to enjoy, and the United States
can protect them from molcstation from
without.
Shame upon logic which locks up the
petty offender and enthrones grand lar
ceny. Have the people returned to the
worship of the golden calf? Have they
made unto themselves n new command
ment consistent with the spirit of con
quest and the lust for empire? Is Thou
shalt not steal upon Il small scale. to be
substituted for the law of Moses!
Awake, o ancient law giver. awake.
Break forth from thine unmarked sepul
cher and speed thee back to the cloud
crowned summit of Mount Sinai; COM
mune once more with the God of our faith
ers and proclaim again the words engrav-
on upon the tables of stone-the law that
was. the law that is to-day-the law that
neither individual nor nation can violate
with impunity.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-02-02
IN GENERAL.

Coal operators and miners Of Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and Pennsylvania have
settled their differences over wages, and
there will be no great coal strike this year.
Several sharp shocks of earthquake
were felt in the valley of Mexico. Many
houses were cracked in Mexico City. The
national palace was cracked In eleven
places and in some places the sidewalks
were broken.
Commodore Philip, former captain of
the Texas, now the commandant Of the
New York navy yard, is to be presented
with two jeweled swords. One of these
is to be given by citizens of New York
City. The other will be presented by the
Sunday school children of Texas.
The accounts CT the contributions from
various countries TO the Pope's Peters
pence during 1898 have been made public.
They show that the United States led in
the subscriptions, with S142, 200; Great
Britain and her colonies, $125,0OO;
France. $4,000; Italy, $4,000; Austria,
100000, and Germany, $4,000.
An application for receiver for the
Wabash Valley Gas Company, the Diet
erich syndicate. with $1,150,O00 capital,
was made in the United States Court at
Baltimore by the American Bonding and
Trust Company Of Baltimore. This IS the
syndicate that controls most of the nat
ural gas companies in the Indiana cities
and which was reported recently to have
bought up all the electric light plants in
eastern and southern Indiana and Ohio.
Alaskan mail facilities will be greatly
extended by a contract made by the Gov
crnment with the Pacific Steam Whaling
Company. which provides for postal ser
vice TO the Aleutian Islands. A monthly
mail will leave Sitka for Yakuta. Mitchikt
Orca. Valdes, Zlodovis, Kodiak, Kariuk,
Sand Point, Unga, Belkofsky and Una
laska. In addition the service will be eX
tended by stag routes to inland towns in
Alaska, as well as to the entire Cooks
Inlet country. Mail will leave Seattle.
T. II. Hebb. who is part owner of forty
klondike claims, brings news that Domin-
ion creek has just jumped into promi-
nence as gold producer of the FIRST rank.
excelling Bonanza and equaling Eldorado.
Its claims are not as rich as limited
number on Eldorado, but its length is
greater. Dominion and Eldora together
will produce from 100000 900 to S12, ,OOO,-
600 at the spring cleanup. A conserva-
tive estimate puts the winter output of
the Klondike at $3O. 1000, 900, doubling the
output of last winter
The fact that the United States ar
mored cruiser Brooklyn did not enter port
ut ST. Thomas, d. w. l.. after appearing
off Charlotte Amalie, was Il great disap-
pontment to the people there. The pilot
who informed the Brooklyn that the
health regulations provided that she
would he quarantined for fourteen days,
which is said to have made the warship
return to Cuba, is blamed for his unau-
thorized action. 1t is added that there is
no doubt the Brooklyn would have been
passed by the doctor if she had entered
the harbor.
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Benevolent Aid to FiIipinos.

Instead of setting up as n 'benevo-
lent assimilation society (see Presi-
dents proclamation to Filipinos), let us
set up as a benevolent aid" society.
Instead of anneXing the Filipinos let
us try the experiment of helping them
to stand alone. Such a policy would be
American. 1t would at least tend to
allay the suspicion and bitterness with
which the natives now regard the pro-
posed American occupation of their
country. Many lives and much treas
ure would be saved to the American
peOple.-Springfield (AIass) Repub-
lican.
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A Fortune Divided.

Adam S. Ellis, one OF the wealthiest
citizens OF Greene County, Ohio, died re-
Gently and left will by which he be-
queathed his entire estate of $500 900 to his
nephew, Volcha Weaver. Two of Mr..
Weaver's sisters were cut off entirely by
the will, but, being unwilling to accept
the entire fortune, he has just transferred
them the handsome some of $50, 900, to be
divided equally between them. The final
settlement was made few days ago
when The will was pronounced valid in
the Court of Common Pleas.
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SOUTHERN.

At Springfield, Tenn, an entire block
was destroyed by fire. Loss about S1O,-
600. covered by insurance.
At Danville, KY. William |. Moore was
killed by Louisville and Nashville train
while crossing the track in buggy.
Martin Redoch, confessed embeZzler of
So, 134.05 postofiice funds of Yazoo City,
Miss, was arrested at Birmingham, Ala.
To escape being run over by train.
Mrs. T. Herbert and Mrs. Thomas Wood
ford jumped off a twenty-foot trestle at
Cardiff, Ala. and both were badly hurt.
In the lower house of the Texas Legisla-
ture q sensation was created by Dudley
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Tea the Curse OF Thibet.

The Times Of India declares that tea
drinking is the curse of Thibet. "The
people, it says. have such an insatia-
BILE craving for the beverage that they
will sell their houses. their fiocks, their
very children. to procure it. IL ever an
apostle appears in Thibct lie will have
to preach crusade in favor of whisky
drinking in order to wean the inhab-
itants from the national vice.
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An Island Dieappearing.

News comes from Australia that the
British man-ef- war Penguin has just re-
turned to Sidney, after taking soundings
between the Island of Longi and Auck-
l nd, and that the officers found that
Falson Island, which suddenly came up
out Of the ocean in 1889, is gradually re.
ceding. When relocated by the Penguin's
officers they discovered that the island
was three fathoms under water.
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Petitions from indiana.

Senator Fairbanks presented in the
Senate eighty-six petitions from differ.
ent parties in Indiana, praying for the
passage of the Ellis bill, prohibiting the
sale OF intoxicating liquors In military
caateens, soldiers homes aud public
buildings. Representatives Steel, john
son and Overstreet presented a number
of similar petitions in the House.
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What a Revenue Tariff Would Do.

Free trade England collects from
twenty different imported materials
from SlOO.O0O,00O to $120,000.000 year
ly. We collected about Sl36,000,O00
from nearly 400 different materials inn
ported in the year ended June 30. 1898.
A revenue measure. cast on the lines
of the tariff of 1857, would yield 5000
G00.00O annually and give no encour-
agement to such trusts as the steel wire
combine, the paper combine, the tin
plate combine, the pottery combine and
dozen others, the sole support of
which is the prohibitiye rate of duty