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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Affairs in Washington.

Russian artist, Makonsky. is painting
| a portrait of the President.
The battleship Missouri will be launch.
ed at Newport News Dec. 2S
Bills have been introduced for public
buildings at Jacksonville and Pekin, lii.
Court-martial and acluittal of Captain
Tilley. Governor of Tutuila, cost govern
ment 100000.
Congress may enact law increasing
the salaries of the Supreme Court, Cir
cult and District judges.
Court-martial of Col. II. l.. Meade re-
suited in his acquittal. Charges may be
brought against his accusers.
President Hutin of the Panama Canal
Company has offered TO sell the property
to the United States government.
War Department has received copv of
letter Aguinaldo sent TO his Manila at
torney, in which he declined to seek re-
lease from imprisonment.
Public men at Washington are much in
,ensed by the violent talk of Chicago
anarchists and agree that immediate
Steps should be taken to stamp out an
archy and its adherents.
The Secretary OF the Treasury. in his
annual report, recommended changes IN
national banking laws. Less revenue is
needed.
Special board appointed to test the
Sathmann gun reports against its adop-
ton or further experiments by the GOV
rrnment
At the request of the South n bill has
Leen introduced for n 4 900 0OO-acra Nc-
Kinley National Park in the southern
Appalachian Mountains.
The recent Supreme Court decision will
make il necessary to enact laws estab-
fishing a civil government in the Phillip
pines and provide tariff laws for the COZ
onieS.
Officers jumped by the promotion Of
Captain Crozier to chief of the ordnance
department plan fight on his contrma-
tiOn.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
TERRIBLE RESULT
OF q Collision on the Illinois Central
Railroad in Illinois.

obey orders is supposed to have been the
cause of head-end collision on the llli-
nois Central between Irene and Perryvilie,
ILL.,, which resulted in six dead, two miss
ing and eleven hurt. The two trains were
the eastbound passenger train No. 4 and
a through freight from Chicago going west
The trains met in a slight bend in the
track, both running at full speed. The
smoking, express and baggage ears were
piled on top of the locomotive, pinning in
the occupants of the smoker, which took
fire. Only three of the half dOz,n in that
car escaped. The Others, if not killed,
were roasted to death and their bodies,
along with those of the engine crews. were
consumed. ALI efforts of the survivors TO
reach the victims were unavailing.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19

they are enduring carpet bag govern
ment such as the American people
would not submit TO. We are not CIV
ing the Filipinos American liberty.
American institutions or an American
constitution. We are giving them IN
arbitrary and despotic government, for
a government imposed by force and adj
ministered according to foreign ideas
is always despOtic, no matter how bene-
VIOLENT may be the purpose Of those who
administer It,
In proposing protection from outside
interference the Democrats offer to the
Philippine republic the same guardian
ship which has been given 10 the re-
publics Of Central and South America.
guardianship that gives TO the smaller
republics the protection of our strength
without making them the victims of
our greed. For seventy-five years the
Monroe doctrine has been a bulwark
to the independent governments which
have sprung up to the south of u.s. 1:
has not involved us in any consider
able expense. but it has been immense
ly valuable both TO the wards and to the
guardian. When England recently as
serted the right to fix arbitrarily the
boundary line between her South Amer.
cani possessions and Venezuela. il only
required firm. but friendly warning
from the United States to prevent CON
fiict and secure equity and Justice for
Venezuela.
No nation in Europe would wage war
against the United States in order to Sc
cure the Philippine islands. and Ii is
doubtful if any of the leading nations
of Europe would be willing to allow
any other European nation to own the
Philippine islands.
The Republicans said that it would
cost us an enormous sum Of money to
extend the Monroe Doctrine to the
Philippine Islands. 1t has already cost
us an immense sum to attempt to as,
sert our own authority in those islands
Against the Republican prophecy we
place Republican history; against the
ungrounded fear of expense we place
we try to govern the Filipinos against
their will and tax them without repre-
sentation. they fight us. and we have
found that they are able to force us to
vast expenditures. IT, on the other
hand. We protect them from outside
interference, they fight the nation which
attacks them instead OF fighting us. anG
if they can give other nations as much
trouble as they have given US they viii
not require much help from us to main
tain their independence.
The Democratic position is not only
sound. but it is unassailable: it rests
upon the Declaration of the Indepen-
dence; it is in harmony with the consti,
tuition and the bill of rights. Now that
the party can choose the battle ground
let is challenge the Republicans to at
tack the conscience and the moral SEN
timent of the people as well as the prin-
ciples of free government. If the Demo
Gratis will present n united front on
this issue-an issue upon which the
Kansas City convention was unanE
is hope of a victory thai
will not only reinstate the Democratic
party. but restore the government to its
old foundations and the nation to that
high position among the nations te
which its ideas and its ideals have en-
titled it.-Lincoln COmmoner.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19

Terre Haute (Ind.) special: DR.. De
Witt Jordan and Wright Fisher, living
n .ar Rosedale, were found frozen to death
sunday morning. Jordan's body wGs
found in the road and Fishers body was
in a buggy which the horse had drawn up
to his home. Jordan's home is at Ander.
son Ind
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Pardon is Denied.

London special: The home Office has
notified counsel for Miss Josephine East
wick of Philadelphia, under sentence of
six months imprisonment for forging a
railroad certificate, that the petition for
her pardon on the ground of insanity
could not be granted. No reason is given.
The action of the home Office was taken in
spite of great pressure brought to bear in
Miss Eastwick's behalf by the officials of
the American embassy here.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
SCHLEY IS BLAMED.
Dewey, However, Gives Him
Credit for Great Victory.
NAVALCOURT REPORT
Censure Is for VscilIat:on. Dila a!Oriness,
and Lack Of Enterprise.

Formal Finding in Inquiry IS Against
the Rear A .miral on Practically
stroycI by the Mon Tn the Brook
Iyn, Accoriin. to declaration of Con-
que.or of Nontejo-No Glory Is Given
10 Samp
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Burgiars Mt Work in Indiana.

Safe blowers completely wrecked the
safe in NJ. J. Wagles' general store at New
Augusta. village ten miles north OF In
dianapoiis. The burglar proof box in the
safe was not reached and the burglars
were frightened away after they had riiled
the cash register.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Rank Robbed of $50, 900.

The Bank of Sturgis, in Sturgis, Union
County. Ky. was entered recently and
robbed of sS5. 900 in cash. The money was
to be used for the paying off of miners.
The bank was entered between midnight
and dawn and looted. The safe was blown
to pieceS.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
General Botha Reported Wounded.

A dispatch received at Durham, from
Nkanihla Zululand dated Dec. 8, and de-
layed in transit by the censor, tells of a
recent action near Luneberg, Transvaal.
in which Commandant Louis BOtha was
shot through the left leg below the knee.
He only escaped by crawling into the
bushes. His followers say they do not
know where Botha is now. The dispatch
adds that the British took 50 prisoners in
this action
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Mira. McKiuley,s Condition.

Canton (O.) special: Again there are
reports that Mrs. Mckinley is on the verge
of mental and physical collapse. She is
in melancholy condition. which seems to
grow deeper as the days pass. Unless
there is decided change her best friends
fear she will not survive the winter.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Iuherits n Fortune.

BY the close of litigation over the estate
of his uncle, Cornelius Vanshaik Roose-
welt of New Jersey. who died mil illionare,
President Roosevelt falls heir to fortune
estimated at between slO0. 600 and Sl50,UO
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Woman Burned to Death.

Mrs. Sarah Gehring was roasted TO death
at Logansport, Ind. and her foster mother
Jennie Daily, and her uncle Joseph Daily,
were probably fatally injured in trying TO
save the young wOman's life. A hanging
lamp broke from its fastenings in the cell
ing and fell, striking the young woman
sQuarely upon the head and exploding.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Chief of Police Shot.

An Intoxicated tramp called on Chief of
Police Nutheimer, at Niles. Ohio. and was
ordered out. lie then shot the chief in the
side and made his escape. The chief is in
a critical condition and the tramp is still
at large.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Train Wreckcrs Cancht.

The railway police arrested Patrick
Finn and John Caring while they were in
the act of throwing a switch at Twenty
eighth street. Pittsburg, Pa. which would
have caused the collision Of the Aller' eny
Valley accommodation and freight train.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Mrs. Bonine Not GuiIty.

The jury in the case of Mrs. Lola Ida
Henry Bon ne. charged with the murder of
James Seymour Ayres. Jr.. in the Ken
more hotel in Washington, ID. c., on The
night of May 13. has returned a verdict of
not guilty and The defendant was set at
lberfy
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
A PuxiIistic Judge,

There was a sensational scene in Judge
Bigger's court at Columbus, Ohio. when
Judge Badger pulled the nose and slapped
the face of Former Congressman John j..
l. entz.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19

The Senate has concurred in the House
resolution providing for holiday recess
and Congress will adjourn from Dee - to
Jan. q.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Caused Small Democratic Vote.

CauseI SINAI Ee m ocratIc otes
The Democrats of Ohio polled 106.35i
less votes in Ohio this year than they
did in 1900. This was doubtless the
result of apathy due to the failure of
the State convention to stand up and be
counted for Democratic principles as
embodied in the Kansas City platform.
1t never pays for Il party TO go back on
itself.-IllinOis State Register.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19

According to a dispatch to the London
Standard from Odessa, l30 persons per-
ished in the recent earthquakes at Er-
Eeroum.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
Whether justified or not
by wholly legitimate condi-
iions IL must be admitted
Chicago.

that red-hot bull speculative fever is
at present raging in the grain and provis-
| ion markets on change. Indeed, all the
markets appear to have but one side, that
the bull. Last week wheat prices ad
vanced Jasc per bushel, corn 4Ac. oats
41sc, pork t211yc per barrel, lard 23c and
ribs 1Ilac per 100 pounds As compared
with prices current one Year ago wheat
for May dealing is 9isc per bushel higher,
corn 32S4c. oats quite 100 per cent high
er, pork $40 per barrel higher. lard
nearly Sc per pound higher and ribs about
2l4c per pound higher. IL We should re-
duce all these advances to percentages
they might perhaps be more striking than
in giving them in gross.
Whether or not prices current for grain
and hog products are too high or too low
as measured by supplies of and demands
for each or in their aggregates the reader
must decide for himself. No one can
truthfuliy deny, however. that just now
these soaring prices are not due to any
immediate scarcity in supplies or to ex-
traordinary demands
The difference in prices current 4 year
ago and now, as shown in the first para
graph of this review, means from 100
per cent increase down. The figures are
again given in the table below, which
shows the range of prices on leading COM
modities in the Chicago market last week.
TO which is added comparison with last
year:
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19

Distant people are often near enough
so far as money Is concerned.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
EVENTS OF INTEREST
THAT OCCURRED DURING THE
PAST WEEK.

Tersely Told Telegraph Tales In
Brief ParaEraphs-Many Casual.
ties-A Few Crimes-Some Fires
Political and Religious News.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19

opening of Congress there has ever been
let loose a Pandora box of vile iniiu-
ences. Last year was an exception. The
country had recovered from the depres-
sion of a presidential year and business
was in full swing. In 1899 panicky con-
ditions resulted from a season of reckless
speculation and overbooming OF indus
trials. In 1898 the month was remark
able for strength Of stocks; 1897. the Gu
ban question, and 1896 the Venezuelan
message broke the market.
Last week a concomitant of influences
bore heavily upon the market. The open
ing of Congress failed to furnish the ex-
pected buoyancy. The Presidents mes
sage was barren of harmful suggestions,
but the recommendation of the Secretary
of the Treasury for an assets currency
faw created feeling of uneasiness and
caused many financial interests to act
with caution. At the same time gold ex-
ports We're renewed and though the rate
of exchange weakened the conditions re-
mained unchanged and the fear of re-
newal was constant. The copper market
was full of uncertainties and the heavi-
ness of Amalgamated stock restrained
trading. Under these combined pressures
prices fell all week, with the exception
Of n rally on Wednesday.
Money OH call in New York was firm
and about 4 per cent all last week. 1t
was nearer ) than 1. The demand was
steady. The surplus funds were small.
The retirement of circulation shortened
the supply of funds. The demand for
money in Chicago as the result Of the
heavy grain trading and calls from New
Orleans for funds to move cotton and
sugar made rates stiff and ascending.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19

A lover should not give his sweetheart
a silk handkerchief. She will wipd
away her affections for him.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-19
| keYYOTk.

December is traditionally
f01k a month of vagaries in stock
Ivalues. Coincident with the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-30

Arts and sciences have followed,
pleasures of various types are enjoyed,
and good stock company has been or
ganiZed.
These are the actors Of Spotless Town,
Whose plays are the cleanest that can
be fonnd.
They're .'all the rage" for both acting
and plot
Are bright and sparkling, without blot.
A stranger once wanted to see "Sapho,"
But they cleaned his mind with
SAPOLIO.
OF course we have our own troubles
notoriety seekers cannot always be
kept away. 1t once happened that
A western woman of great renown,
One day did come to Spotless Town.
With glistening axe she'd clean and clear
The town of liquor, wine and beer.
They promptly told her, "You are slow;
Don't use an axe but SAPOIIO"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-30

Of course, as is the case with settlers
in strange land. there was at first
more or less trouble. There were in
vasions of evilly disposed persons from
Smoky Range, but a militia was soon
formed, drills instituted, and the In
vaders repulsed.
This Captain bold. from Spotless Town,
Is now with aurels weighted down.
lie headed men SO strangely bright,
That dazzled foes sought instant flight.
This brilliant charge youv guessed,
know.
Was due to old SAPOLIO.
In the course of few months Spot
less Town has passed from the condi-
tons of a boom town TO a thoroughly
settled municipality. one in which hap
piness thrives for all and domestic trou-
bles are minimiZed
This Husband lives in Spotless Town;
Come Spring, Come Fall, he wears no
frown.
By charwoman ne'er put to fight
His home is clean. his smiles are bright;
housekeeping terrors stand no show
Where housewives use SAPOLlO.
The servant question is unknown,
housework is a delight.
Down on our knees we merrily go,
We maids of Spotless Town,
To scrub the boards that long ago
Gave our good town renown.
Tables and floors are as white as snow,
And the magic all lies in SApOLIO.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-30
AT BREAK OF DAY.

At break of day the birds will sing,
And soar on low or lofty wing
To try'the ambient air.
TITS then the timid birds are tame,
IT'S then their feathers are afiame,
'Tis then they have no care.
At break of day each vine and tree
Is fringed with frost-like filigree,
And flowers open fair;
The rainbow on the grass is seen,
And never was there any queen
So rich in diamonds rare.
At break of day towards Orient
Is many a wistful vision bent
To see the prospect change.
1t is as if a foreign land
Came floating in on every hand,
So wonderful and strange.
We see at early dawn of day
Things all too glorious to stay
They vanish from our sight.
Life's early morn lamp shines low
AS higher up life's sun doth go.
Till comes the darkening night.
Louis Ostenson
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-30

To give an idea of the widespread
appreciation of SpOtless Town as resi-
dence, we repeat one days list. From
Kansas City came minister; from
Brooklyn new married couples and
some tradesmen; from Chicago more
ministers, drummers, q milkman, a sill
ver-plater, and bugler who was &C
companied by his cat; St Louis. Mid
dletOwn, Ohio. and Louisville increased
the population by druggists and law
yerS; a town crier and a sheriff came
from Tole 10 in company; a drug clerk
and street cleaner, the latter not dis
posed to work, came from Minneapolis;
a judge and a priest, the latter sent by
Rabbi, came from Richmond, and the
Borough of Bronx sent cobbler and a
painter; an alderman and a golting
crank came respectively from Nashville
and Pittsburg, and Cincinnati contrib
uted poet.
The Golf Expert of Spotless Town
Is always up" and never Down"
His Drives are long, his Puts are true,
ii did the eighteenth hole in two
He tees a ball that's white as snow,
And cleans it with SAPOLIO.
Indeed, it would be difficult to find a
corner of the United States from which
people did not flock to Spotless Town.
The most beautiful parts of the South
and the forbidding North alike furnish
ed citizens.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-30
TO A TORTOISE.

Paludal, glum, with misd1rected legs,
You hide your history as you do your
eggs,
And offer us an osseous nut to crack
Much harder than the shell upon your
back,
No evolutionist has ever guessed
Why your cold shoulder is within your
Why you were disconnected with a
plan
The vertebrates accept, from fish to
man
For what environment did you provide
By pushing your internal frame out
side?
How came your ribs in this abnormal
place?
Inside your rubber neck you hide your
face
And answer not To science your
sphinx
A structural epitome of missing links;
And when decapitated, still you swell
And kick and claw and scramble just
as well.
But I'll not plague thee. Even here
/ find
A touch Of fellowship that makes me
kind
Sometimes a poet who has lost his
head
Will. keep on scratching when he
should be dead.
-Chauncey Hickok in Lippincott's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-30
COST OF GOOD COUNTRY ROADS.
New Jersey the Banner State in Road
Building.

New Jersey the Banner State in Road
Building.
The initial cost of a road depends
upon the cost of materials, labor,
machinery, the width and depth to
which the material is to be spread
on, and the method Of construction.
All these things vary so much in the
different states that it is impossible
to name the exact amount for which
a mile of a certain kind Of road can be
built. The introduction in recent years
of improved bodybuilding machinery
has enabled the authorities in some of
the states to build improved stone and
gravel roads quite cheaply. First
class single-track stone roads, nine
feet wide, have been built near Can
andaigua, N. Y, for 5000 to $1,000 per
mile. Many excellent gravel roads
$1,000 to $1,000 per mile. The ma
terial OF which they were constructed
was placed on in two layers, each be-
ing raked and thoroughly rolled, and
the whole mass consolidated to a
thickness Of eight inches. In the same
state macadam roads have been built
for $4,000 to $4,000 per mile, varying
in width from to 20 feet, and in
thickness of material from 4 to II
inches. Telford roads IA feet wide
and 10 to Y inches thick have been
built in New Jersey for $4,000 to
Sc, 600 per mile. Macadam roads have
been built at Bridgeport and Fairfield,
CT, Is to 20 feet wide, for $4,000 to
$4,000 per mile. A telford road 16 feet
wide and u inches thick was built at
Fanwood, N. j., for $1,000 per mile.
Macadam roads have been built in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-09-30

Rhode Island, 16 to 20 feet wide, for
$4,000 to $4,000 per mile.
Massachusetts roads are costing all
the way from $4,000 to $4,000 per
mile. A milk of broken stone road, Is
feet wide. costs in the state Of Mass
achusetts about $500, while mile of
the same width and kind of road costs
in the state of New Jersey only $4,000.
This is due partially to the fact
that the topography of Massachusetts
lis somewhat rougher than that
Iof New Jersey, necessitating
the reduction of many steep
grades and the building of expensive
retaining walls and bridges, and part
ly to the difference in methods of con-
struction and the difference in prices
of materials, labor, etc.
Doubtless the state of New jersey
roads for less money per mile than
any other state in the union. Their
roads are now costing from 20 to 70
cents per square yard. Where the tel
ford construction is used, they some
times cost as much as 70 cents per
square yard. The average cost Of all
classes of the roads of that state dur
ing the last season was about so
cents per square yard. The stone was,
as rule, spread on to depth of nine
inches, which, after rolling gave
a depth of about eight inches.
At this rate a single-track
road eight feet wide costs about
$2,345 per mile, while double-track
road, IA feet wide. costs about s4,106
per mile and one Is feet wide costs
about $3.50 per mile. Where the
road material is spread on so as to
consolidate to four-inch layer, the
eightfoot road will cost about $1,173
per mile, the 14-foot road about
$2,053 per mile, while the one lS feet
wide will cost about $3.50 per mile.
The total cost Of maintaining roads
in good order ranges, on account Of
varying conditions, between as wide
limits almost as the initial cost of con-
struction. Suffice it to say that all
money spent on repairing earth roads
becomes each year a. total loss, with
out materially improving their condi-
ton. They are, as a rule, the most
expensive roads that can be used,
while, on the other hand, stone roads,
if properly constructed of good ma
terial, and kept in perfect condition,
are the most satisfactory, the cheap
est and most economical roads that
can be constructed.
The road that will best suit the
farmer, in the first place, must not be
too costly; and, in the second place,
must be of the very best kind, for
farmers should be able to do their
heavy hauling over them when their
fields are too wet to work and their
teams would otherwise be idle.-Good
Roads Magazine.