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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
PRISONERS LEAPFRoM TRAIN.
Two Criminals Escape While Oh the
Way to Penitentiary.

Two prisoners OF a gang OF twenty
four who were being taken TO jefferson
City to serve out sentences in the peni-
teniiary escaped from Sheriff kickham
of st. Louis and his deputies by leapinS
from rapidly moving passenger train at
Valley Park. The two convicts were
Louis Mcdowell and Charlie Meyers,
alias Milwaukee Dutch" Mcdowell Is
one of the shrewdest and most noted
criminals who have fallen into the hands
OF st. Louis police for many years. lie
was arrested in Cincinnati in the act OF
trying TO get more jewelry 10y represent
ing himself to bc Eugene Zimmerman,
brother-in-law of the Duke of Manches-
Ter. Milwaukee Dutch was convicted
of robbery in the first degree. He has
lengthy police record. The escape from
the Missouri Pacific train was most des-
perate. The two conyicts We're in the
smoking car, handcuffed together. Me
Dowcl and Meyer managed 10 slip the
handouts off their wrists, and when the
officers attention was attracted 10y tn"
screams of a negro woman in the ear
ahead they quickly raised window and
leaped out headforemost. The train was
running thirty-fivc miles an hour. by the
time it was brought TO standstill the
two fugitiycs had disappeared in the
woods
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l<onC Search Ends.

After travelling through England, Amer
lea and the European continent for twen-
ty-five years, the famous Gainsborough
portrait OF the Duchess Of Devonshirc,
which was stolen from the art gallery of
the Agnew Brothers in London, England.
May l6, 1876, is reported to have been
found in Chicago and returned to its own
ers. The painting is valued at $4,000. A
Chicago detective agency claims to have
been instrumental in recovering the pict-
ure. The holder of the picture, who, it is
said, was one of the band OF thieves who
stole it from the gallery, is said to have
received large reward for its return and
exacted an agreement to drop the prosecu-
tion. According to the detectives he had
carried it with him for years, carefully
packed and sealed. The picture, it is an
nounced, has arrived in London.
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HISTORY OF A WEEK.
PEOPLE. PLACES AND THINGS
OF THE WORLD.
News Of Crimes and Criminals, Ac.
cideuts, Fires, Etc, from North,
Eouth, East and West, Sanwiched
With Minor AHairs.
A GRUESOME STORY.
Ship Wrecked Sailors Compelled to
Eat Their Mates.

The Singapore correspondent OF the
London Daily Mail wires ghastly story
of cannibaliSm at sea. brought to Singapore
by two survivors of the Nova Scotian
bark Angola, wrecked six days sail from
Manila, October % last. The correspond
ent says:
"The survivors, johnson, a Swede, and
Marticorun, a Spaniard, assert that the
Angola struck 4 reef. Two RATS were
built. The smaller, bearing five men, dis
appeared. The other with twelve men
drifted for forty days. The sailors ate
barnacles, sea weed and finally their boots.
''On the 25th day two became in
sane and killed themselves. On the 25th
a Frenchman killed the mate with an Ak,
drank his blood and tried to eat his brains
but was prevented by the others.
Next day the Frenchman was killed
while attempting to murder the captain.
The survivors, all of whom were now
insane, ate the Frenchman's body.
Cannibalism continued until only john
son and Marticorun remained. On the
torty-second day the raft stranded on
SubioI fat island. in the Natuna group
northeast of Borneo.) johnson and Mar
ticorun were awfully emaciated. Friendly
Malays sent them by junk to Singapore -
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
A WOMAN'S HEART.
Mre. Samuel G. Dyer Tells a Harrow.
ing Tale of Suffering.

ing Tale of Suffering.
McCarron. Mich, April Especially
Mrs. Samuel q. Dyer of this place
has given the following interesting let
ter for publication:
For years I suffered intense pain in
the region of the heart doctored with
the best physicians. Some of them
would relieve me for short time. but
the pain always returned. My heart
was so bad that l would have to sit Ip
in bed for hours. to get relief. l would
lie awake almost all night I am g.
years of age. and no one can under
stand how much I suffered with this
Heart Trouble.
about year ago heard of Dodd S
Kidney Pills, and commenced to use
them. From the first my condition i'm
proved. The pain in my heart gradu-
ally grew less, and my general healtl,
much better. and now 1 can say posi-
ti-ely that | am entirely cured. l can
sleep all night. and enjoy almost per
feet health. l thank God for the cure
that has come to me through the use
of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Il have thought long over the matter
OF giving this letter for publication.
and am doing So now without any So
licitation whatever. and simply because
i feel ii TO be my duty to express the
profound gratitude / feel for my re
cOvery, and to let others who may be
suffering as was know how they may
find cure. l know that nothing else
but Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me, be-
cause l have taken no other medicine
for over year. feel better now than
l have for many years. and it is all due
to the use of DOdd's Kidney Pills.
Mrs. Dyer's case and its cure has at
tracted great deal of attention. and
her Litter is splendid tribute to the
curative properties of Dodd's Kidney
l,iliS
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
Drinking from a Skull.

The parish minister of Torridon, in
| the northern county of Ross. Scotland,
has just discovered that shocking
pagan rites are being followed in the
neighborhOod of the town.
Many years ago Il woman committed
suicide by drowning herself in the
Raigie River. near Torridon. The in-
habitantS refused to consent to the
body bein;. buried in the -Annat church
yard on the plea that if the body was
buried in view of Loch TorridOn the
fish would forsake the waters. The re-
mains We're consequently inferred i'll
unconsecrated ground about 100 yards
from the cemetery. and there they now
lie.
What this woman's grave has to do
with pagan rites has still 10 he told.
however There is local belief that
epileptics will he cured of their trouble
10y drinking water from certain pool
out of the skull of suicide. Such q
skull has been kept hidden for many
years under the surface soil of this
grave. but whether it is the skull of
the woman herself is not clear. Those
suffering from epilepsy GO TO the grave
in the dead of night, unearth the mold
ing skull and drink out of it water of
the pool already mentioned.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
Jealous of Funston.

About the only persons who appear
to object to the appointment of Fun
ston to be brigadier general are the
members of the bureaucracy ut Wash
ington. The objections which those
persons urge are childish and their
lnimus is plainly that of jealousy. The
fact that he is not Il West-Pointer is
what sticks in their craw. They urge
that he did not go about the business
Of capturing Aguinaldo in scientific
military spirit. The methods he used,
these persons say, are not those TO he
found in Jomini's Art of War" or Up
toms "Tactics." We >io not believe
they were. Funston disregarded Il
good many things in accomplishing the
capture of the head of the Filipino in
surgents. Among those things Of
which he took no account were danger
and red tape. He went about the task
In the most unscientific manner and he
deserves a court-martial. No doubt
this is what he would get if some of
the carpet soldiers had their way
Chicago Chronicle.
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ing as carclessly little to the right,
when we came upon negro hidden in
the brush. He was very much fright
cned, but he told straight story to
the effect that the rebels were in hid
ing in front, and that they had Il bat
terry of large guns masked by ever
greens.
"Thc darky insisted that the masked
guns were the largest cannon in The
country, that ne saw the brush cut to
put in front of them, that he saw men
lying along the hill ready 10 fire upon
us as we came up the read. The cav
airy company was halted, the infantry
regiments Were thrown into line. and
Taylor's battery, under Lieutenant
White. opened with two guns on the
point where the negro said the rebels
were waiting for Us. The first shots
unmasked the rebel battery, throwing
the brush in the air, and in five minutes
rebel shells We're flying over our heads
and causing Il commotion among the
trains.
Warned of the danger, we turned
the tables Oh the fellows who had pre-
pared surprise for us. We moved
forward rapidly in battle order, drove
the rebels from their position. followed
them at double-quick for five miles.
and inflicted severe loss on them, and
practically dispersed their army. Sew
eral civilians, Union men, Joined us in
our sweep forward. and one o. these
assisted IN capturing his father and
two brothers who were in the rebel
army After the first line of the Con-
fcderates had been broken Dr. Mellow
ell. of McDowell's College at ST. Louis,
came bacl, with white handkerchief
attached to his sword. and asked for
an armistice to bury their dead. Col.
Plummer looked upon this as a scheme
to suspend hostilities until the rebels
could reorganiZe and get away. His
reply was: 40 armistice; we will bury
the dead and our brigade moved for
ward.
Il remember the engagement the
more clearly because it was our first
considerable fight. and because just
before the battle had sprained my
ankle, and really believed that / could
not walk step. When the first shot
from the rebel artillery passed over
the ambulance in which | was quar-
tered | jumped out, took my rifle, ran
forward. joined the company, and nev-
er thought once of the lame ankle until
the fight was over. | remember also
on that day. at the beginning of the
battle. | took my first chew of to-
bacco. In the excitement never knew
what became of il. I don't know
whether l swallowed it or not. and TO
this day | don't remember anything
about the taste of tobacco. After the
fight my ankle was as painful as ever,
and | was two miles from where the
regiment was ordered into camp. By
using my rifle as a cane or crutch, and
with the help of two of the boys, l
came back over the road along which
1 had gone in the morning at gallop
with the same lame ankle.
Inter Ocean.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
Might and Might Not.

It was oonsoling to a well-known East
End resident a short time ago when he
called physician TO go into consulta-
ton with the family doctor and dag
nose case : little son was seriously
Ill, and the father wanted everything
done that was known in materia med
lea. After the two physicians had
been in consultation for some time the
father asked Of the consulting ply
sician what they thought Of the case.
Well" said the physician who had
been called. your son may get we'll
and he may not"
Can that be possible? said the
father. Il ought 10 have called mo-
torman. I've made a mistake"
About what:" asked tile physician.
''In calling you. A motorman could
have told me the same thing. and I
knew my little boy would either ge.
we'll or he wouldn't before | sent for
you"
Now the physician wants the father
to pay Sj consultation fee, and the
father swears he never will. The child
recovered. Commercial.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
sid ChanEc in Three Years.

What Il transformation scene three
short years have brought about. Three
years ago how We did eyecrate the
cruel Spanards for their tyranny and
oppression and especially with what
consuming wrath did We denounce the
rcconcentrado policy of Butcher Wey-
ler'' for the subjugation of the Cubans
the policy of which President Ne
kinley said: 1T is not civilized war
fare; it is determination" And now,
. irony of ironies. what do we see:
Why, We see this same reconcentrado
system applied in one of the Philippine
islands by the government which de-
nounced it.-Portland Maine, Argus.
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Chevy of Tobacco in Battle.

Before We had learned the value Of
scouting" said the Captain, "the ne
groes in the South saved US from many
an ambuscade. A good many of us
had cause to be thankful for warn
ing given us at Fredericktown, No,
Oct. II, 1861. Our brigade, composed
of the Twentieth Illinois, the Seven
teenth Illinois, and the Eleventh Mis-
souri,, under the command of Cob
Plummer, marched across from Cape
Girardeau to meet Col. Carlin coming
from Iron Mountain to capture JEFF
Thompson.
I'VE met Carlin's force near Freder-
icktOwn, but found that Thompson $
force had retreated. Carlin decided 10
go no farther. but Col. Plummer de
citled to pursue the enemy. The general
impression was that the rebels had left
the country, and the brigade moved
forward on that theory. | can remem-
Der that an Indiana cavalry company
moved up the road without skirmish-
ers in front. and the infantry was NOV
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $500; sheep, fair to choice, So 60
to S5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, I3c to 74c;
corn. No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. ., 24c
to 25c; rye, No. 9, 49c to soc; butter,
choice creamery, 19c to zoe; eggs, fresh,
lie to 12c; potatoes, 34c to 31c per
bushel.
polis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
$3.50; hogs, choice light, S400 TO S6.12;
sheep, common to prime, $500 to $40;
wheat, No. ., 73c to 74c; corn, No. =
white, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2 white,
29c to 30c.
st. Louis-Cattie, 1925 to $50; hogs,
$500 to S6.10; sheep, $500 to S5.15;
wheat, No. ., 69c 10 zoe; corn, No. .,
SOC to 40c; oats, No. ., pc to pc; rye,
No. =, sic to 52c
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 TO $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat No. 2. 76c to Tic; corn, No. .
mixed, 44c TO 45c; oats, No. Q mixed, PC
to 2Sc; rye. No. 2, 54c to soc.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 TO S4.T5; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to Sl.00;
wheat, No. 2, 16c to TIC; corn, No. =
yellow, 43c to 44o; oats, No. 2 white,
29c to zoe; rye, soc to SEC
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 73c TO
74c; corn, No. mixed, 42c to 43c; oats,
No. mixed, &c to 2Sc; rye, No =, 51c
TO 52c; clover seed, prime, $3.50 TO S6.Io.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
Tic to 72c; corn, No. 3, 42c to 43c; oats,
No. . white, 2Sc to 29c; rye, No. ], 53c
to sic; barley, No. 2, 56c to 5Ic; pork,
mess, S15.55.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 to $500; hogs, fair to prime. $500
10 S6.25; sheep, fair TO choice, $3.50 TO
SJ.2o; lambs, common to extra, $3.50 10
$500.
New Xork-Cattle, s3.15 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to S6.40; sheep. $500 TO S5.25;
wheat, No. red, tie to 7Sc; corn, No. .,
47c to 4Sc; oats, No. 2 white, Gle to 32c:
butter, creamery. 21c 10 22c; eggs, west
arn 10 IN 1Sc
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FEAR THE BOY Is KIDNAPPED.
Willie Mccormick, Jr., of HiEhb idEe,
n. ", Is Missing,


After vainly running out every clew the
police have become convinced that Willie
Mccormick, Jr., 10-year-old High
bridge, \. Y, boy who disappeared,
is the victim of a kidnapping plot.
Two Of the boys sisters were CO.
ing TO church with him when he
found 1t necessary to return to the house
for his overcoat. He was delayed for n
few moments and the sisters walked to-
ward the church. When he failed TO re-
join them soon they walked rapidly 10
the church. both believing until they had
returned home that he had decided not to
90 with them. As a matter of fact, he
had slipped on his overcoat and started
after them. Capt. Cannon in discussing
the case said: Il am firmly convinced
that the boy has been taken 10y designing
persons, and that he is being held by
them. This boy was never known TO be
away from home over night. His habits
were good and there had been nothing to
drive him away from home. am of the
opinion that he is being held here in New
York City" Capt. Cannon added that
every section of the city and all points
adjacent TO it had been secured. Willie
is the son of retired florist living In
Highbridge. He has eleven sisters.
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Gettinr Ready for Moro Debt.

Hawaii when annexed to the United
States was in debt nearly S5,000,00O,
count of the postal savings system of
the islands. Under the terms of the
resolution of annexation S4,000,000 of
the debt and the postal system ac-
counts are To be paid by the United
States and the Treasury Department
has already set about the task. BY the
end of the current fiscal year the Ha-
waiian debt will have been reduced to
trivial S600.0G0 or 100000, and the
speculative island financiers will have
Il clear basis for further schemes in
volving the issue of public obligations.
Philadelphia Record.
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INCREASED ouTGo PERMANENT.

The internal revenue receipts oil the
general government FOR February were
81, l,SJr,IIl greater than for the same
month last year. For the first two
thirds of the current fiscal year the re
reipts from this source We're over S2u3,-
G00.G0o, indicating Il total for the year
IF about S3O1 .Guo.UUo.
The Indications are that the customs
receipts will reach S2io.0UooGO this
fiscal year and the receipts from mis-
ccllancous sources S33,0o0,0O0. This
would give Il total income of SoIi,-
JoO,Go0 for the year from all sources,
IN increase OF about $lo,O0o,O0o over
last year.
Had no change been made in the
war" revenue law we might. perhaps,
have looked for Il like increase the com
ing year and = total revenue of $685.
100000, though treasury officials some
time ago gave warning that the cN-
tremc limit Of customs receipts under
the existing law had been reached.
But Congress reduced the war taxes
last session, cutting off revenue to the
estimated amount of Si0,ooo.Oon. The
total income TO the treasury next year,
therefore, is not likely to exceed So4t,-
100000. Congress, however, appropri-
ated much more than that, notwith-
standing the failure of the river and
harbor and ship subsidy grabs and the
postponement OF outlays on account of
the transisthmian canal.
There would lie first-rate prospect
for deficit, therefore, but for the
chance that ii may not be necessary
to spend all the money voted. The ad-
ministration is much elated just now
over Funston's latest exploit and is
hoping that an army of minimum
strength will suffice. If its hopes are
realized there may be a saving of Si0,-
Oo9,00o in the military expenses. But
we can tell better about that by and by.
BE that as il may, there will be no
money to spare. More money is likely
to be wanted when the next Congress
takes care of rivers aud harborS and
begins to spend money on the tran
sisthmian canal. The army is more
than doubled at the least, and that per-
manently. The same and more is sub
stantially true of the navy.
There is not going TO be any return
to the scale of expenditures TO which
we were accustomed and which we re-
garded as eXtravaeant before the war
with Spain We have never yet had a
war without great permanent in
crease in expenditure. No exception to
the rule is in sight. But we shall get
used to it.-Chicago Chronicle.
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R..uIt of Repub.ic,n Control,

The natural and inevitable tendency
10 extravaganza III Republican Legis-
latures. of which Maine affords 4 con-
spicuous example, is further illustrated
In Nebraska Last fall the Republi-
cans redeemed that State and after
ten weeks of control Nebraskans find
their Legislature dominated by cor
porate interests and an era of cXtrava-
that proposed appropriation for State
expenses are already over 100000 in
excess of revenue from all sources
Portland Mainel Argus.
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Omit Buying Army Mules.

A dispatch from New Orleans says the
war office iii London has cabled its agents
in this country to buy no more mules and
horses for the South African War, but to
hurry all stock now under contract to
New Orleans, where it will be put aboard
ships as speedily as possible. 1t is be-
lieved here that the injunction suit began
by General Pearson of the Boer army, and
Evan Ness of New York, had something
TO do with the instructions TO stop buying
stock, though the British representatives
DENY it.
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West Pointers,

West Pointers were not all philosophi-
cal. The Colonel of the writer's regi-
men,-now Major General S. Carroll
who had recently been assigned from
the regular army, was one day passing
by the camp when he overheard a
strapping Irish private giving impu-
dence to little corporal, also an Irish
man.
How dare you speak like that to
Your corporal. sir:" asked the Colonel
In sharp tone
Whats it to you. you red-heade,l
-" was the mans answer
II was scarcely out of his mouth
when the Colonel picked up musket
that stood near him, and grasping it
near the muzzle swung the weapon
around his head and struck the aggres-
siye fellow full on the sconce with the
fiat of the butt.
The man fell to the ground and lay
as if dead, and the Colonel. with the
indignant taunt, ''That will teach you
how to talk to your officer" passed on
and paid no further attention. In a
minute the man sat up. rubbed his
head. and with the remark, BE gobs,
the Colonel has quick hand" arose
and went 10 his duty.
There was 10 resentment there. and
when on the march a few days after
ward the Colonel, riding along the
column. espied the man he had knocked
down, he called out pleasantly:
Dan, how's your head:' and Dan
answered.:
Its all right now, but that was a
hard knock You gave it.
Gen. Carroll was man of imperiOus
will and courage, but at the same time
he had immense tact in commanding
troops. His men would go through
thick and thin for him.
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Million Il Week for War,

The conIuering British sought peac,
from Botha like folks who are deuced
anxious for if. This is another Of the
oddities OF war. The iingo papers in
London now pretend to be very indig-
lures and furiouSly they cry for "war
to the bitter end" It's war 10 the bit
ter end all right at the rate of 81 ,000,-
900 a week and increased income taxes.
Springfield NIass.) Republican.
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What Distinguishes "a Democrat.

There are but few eases in which the
two great parties occupy contradictory
positions about the objects to be ac-
complished. In those cases the Demo
crat is always for the less authority,
the stricter construction of the law, the
greater liberty. of the individual. for
Influence and time as against force. 1t
is method of thought, 4 philosophy Of
life. which distinguishes a Democrat
from all others. \ Democrat believes
in himself and will not call ON the gov
ernment until his individual power is
exhausted. y paternalist goes to the
government at once There you have
it.-Aiilwaukee Journal.
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Not the Greatest B,uuder.

BY paying $ioo0oo to Spain we now
possess whatever title she may have
had 10 Cagayan. Cibutu and the other
Islands in their group. How much 1t
will cost us to get possession remains
to be seen. We have paid this because
of blunder of our representatives who
made the treaty of Paris and neglected
10 include these islands among those
surrendered by Spain in consideration
of the receipt from us of S2o,o00,O0o,
but it was not so great blunder as the
payment of the larger sum.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
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India Being DepopuIated.

The depopulation Of India through
famine and cholera is assuming alarming
proportions. 1t is estimated that five
millions have died in India since 1896 from
causes directly due TO the famine. In
Western India things are even worse.
The Odeypoor State returns show de-
crease of $40, 900 of IS per cent. of the popu-
lation; the State of Bhohaul shows a
decrease of 800, 900; the district Of Banda
shows decrease of 124 900 and so on.