The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-01-31
Odda and Enda

Liner Cymric crashed into the British
steamer Carib Prince, near London.
Prince was damaged in her upper works.
London News wants separate compart-
nlents in English trains abolished in view
of the ease with which murders are COM
mitted in them.
Martin Reich. aged g.. living alone
near Shamokin. Pa. was tortured with
hot pokers and brutally kicked by five
masked robbers, who secured $133.6O.
\ shortage of $4,000, due to specula-
ton, has been found in the accounts of
Luther A. Porter, cashier Of the Warren
Deposit Bank Of Bowling Green. Ky.
Alleghenia is the name beftowed on
one of the planets recently discovered in
the solar system by Berlin astronomer.
The great Photographic lens used was
made in Allegheny. Pa.
The annual loss in France caused by
the ravases Of hail sArms is said 10
amount to about SS.OOOOOO francs. From
1871: to 1895 the figures varied from 4O-
100000 to 134.O0O.OOO francs.
\ Stockton QKan) man purchased a
vacant building that had been used for
storage of corn. When he came to re-
pair it. he found ninety-six bushels of
good corn under the floor, which had been
carried there by rats for a rainy dav.
\ passenger on an elevated road in
Brooklyn had the slack of his trousers
leg caught in Il closing door as he was
standing with his back to it. The side
doors are only opened from the outside.
with keys Kept at the Brooklyn bridge.
The passenger was therefore Obliged TO
go way beyond his station until u bridge
man and Il key could be found.
John W. Grisgs. Attorney General of
the United States. has been elected a
director of the Trust Company Of Amer
lea of New York. to fill a vacancy in the
board.
William Pearson was shot dead and
robbed. and Mrs. Rhoda King wounded
in compartment Of a train in England
by an American robber. The man WAS
caught.
At d meeting of the Southern Hosiery
Yarn Spinners' Association at Charlotte.
y. C.. an order for curtailment Of pro-
duction was passed. This means an cr
TIRE SIODpiSt VI WOfk.
\ petrified forest. covering an area of
100 square miles, has existed for CEN
turtles in Arizona. Thousands and tbou-
sands of petrified logs strew the :.ronnd.
and represent beautiful shades of pink.
purple. red. gray. blue and yellow. One
of the stone trees spans Il gulf forty feet
wide
\ French engineer named VerlIer pro-
poses to bore tunnel under the Medit-
erranean. According to his SURVEYS the
length of the tunnel from Caqueros Bay.
in Spain. TO Tangier. in Morocco. would
be only twenty-five miles. as the ,iepth
OF the sea in that vicinity is only LOO
feet His estimate of its cost is so3 I29.-
600.
New Jerseys tree-planting act can be
administered for local purposes by any
municipality in the State. Rochester, y.
Y. has secured legislation for systematic
tree planting and supervision by the city
authorities. The work has been placed
in the care Of the park commission.
Mischievous persons visited the dairy
farm OF John Anschultz. Stowe town
ship pa farmer, and adjusted pair
of red spectacles over the eyes of his
cross white bull. Dexter The animal
made a wild charge. The side of the
barn was knocked in. several lengths of
fence prostrated and a milkmaid barely
escaped with her life. The bull is laid
up for repairs.