The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-01-04
Odds and Ends.

John Fagin killed Joe Elkins, Picker
ing, La.
Sydney, n. S. W., was recently visited
by hot wave.
Almost 100000 persons are receiving
famine relief in India.
The prospects for the Australian wheat
crop are most favorable.
A great avalanche has done considera-
ble damage at Glacier, b. G.
Great Britain estimates that the war
will cost at least $500, 100000.
A bloody civil war is raging among the
natives of Kerewani, New Guinea.
An attempt was made to assassinate
all the missionaries in the New Hebrides.
Smallpox has broken out among the
indians of the Colville reservation, Wash
ington.
Four hundred farmer boys are on the
the world.
The Liberty Alliance, a pro-Boer or
ganization, has been formed in Chicago
with 500 members.
Prussian public teachers have been for
hidden to go hunting, on the ground that
It is immoral pastime.
Nearly 2,S00 residents of Minnesota
shared in 1899 in the tree-planting boun-
ty, receiving S240 an acre.
Inmates of the House of Correction in
Chicago are to be put to work cultivat
ing flowers for the market.
A twenty-two-story building, to cost
81, 900, 900, is to be erected at Nos. 25-3j
Broad street, New York.
In Texas locomotive was recently
decorated with 100 incandescent lights
for use as ar excursion engine.
Cracksmen's tools, found on the scene.
of recent Paris burglaries, indicate the
work Of slick American crooks.
While playing near fire in lockwood,
Tenn, little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cen
nor of Chicago burned to death.
The London papers say that the health
of Florence Nightingale is so enfeebled
that she cannot live much longer.
The plague was reported to be raging
in New Caledonia. The governments Of
Australia have taken elaborate precau-
tions.
Charlton L. Lewis of New York, who
has investigated the prisons Of Cuba,
says they are in deplorably disgrace
full condition.
Under a liberal Interpretation of the
peace treaty we will transport to Spain
all Spanish soldiers and their families in
the Philippines.
The two great material conquests
which mark the nineteenth century are
the building of the Pacific railroads and
the digging of the Suez canal.
Lord Bennet, evangelist, who married
Miss LeOnora van Marter, Of Tacoma,
Wash, succeeds to the title and estate
of the late British Earl of Tankerville.
John d. Sargent who was at one time
suspected of killing Robert Ray Hamil-
ton in Wyoming, and who has since been
charged with wife murder, is insane.
Experiments recently made in Europe
with forty-ninc different kinds of Ger
man, French and Austrian sugar beet
seeds show that German seed is by far
the best.
The discovery of the operations of a
band of counterfeits in Cuba is leading
government officials to consider the ad-
visibility of applying the United States
laws against counterfeiting TO the isl
and.
Michael Buczny, of New York, who is
charged with the murder Of Miss Regina
Klein, was proved to have no control
over his body-a strange form of .insan-
ity.
The old Longfellow mansion, Portland.
Me-, was burned. The place was bul!t
by Alexander Longfellow, brother of the
poet, and the latter passed many sum-
mers there.
When the Beers modified their forces
it is said that they only called out the
first levy, of men between IS and 81, |
some $4,000 in all. The second levy
would consist of those between 80 and |
so. The third levy would sweep in ev-
erybody else capable of bearing arms.
Italians have added to their system of |
coast defense batteries of mortars sim |
liar to those used at Sandy Hook. Only |
three, instead of four, mortars are placed |
in a pit. The indirect plunging fire of |
the mortars is considered to be of great |
value I'D the defense OF fixed points |
against an attack by sea.
Attorney General Campbell is of the |
opinion that the State of Colorado, |
through Gov. Thomas, as trustee for the |
people, ought TO begin working some of |
the supposed gold mines that exist on |
the mineral lands that have come into
The possession Of the State land board,
to be used for~the benefit Of the school |
fund.