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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-08-07
RUSH FOR PENSIONS.
Flood of Applications Filed by Span
ish War Veterans.

FLOOD OF Applications Filed by Span
ish War Veterans.
Pension Commissioner Ware was very
much astonished when the pension appli-
cations growing out of the Spanish-Amer-
lean war were submitted TO him. \ COM
parative statement of the records of five
regiments of volunteers and five regi-
ments of regulars which We're before
Santiago shows that there has been great
industry or the part of the pension at
torneys.
Commissioner Ware had heard that
there were many applications from vet
erans of the Spanish-American war, but
the figures We're far greater than he had
imagined.
Western and Southern regiments have
been much less active than Northern and
Eastern regiments in their attempts 10
draw money from the United States
treasury. When the Eighth Ohio landed
in Cuba it had 1880 members. Veterans
of this regiment and relatives of deceased
members have flied 1O5 pension claims.
The government is asked to pay pensions
for the services of 53 per cent of the men
who served in that regiment. This regi-
ment was much larger than most regi-
ments which served in the Spanish war.
Consequently its greater number of pen
sion applications will not bring the per-
centage of applicants above that Of many
others.
\ company which served in a certain
volunteer regiment of a Northern State
had captain who was pension attor-
ney. He did not forget his former pro-
fession VIXEN he left the service and it is
said that practically every member of
that company has an application filed for
a nenSinn
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-08-07
FOREIGN,

Col. Picquart has won verdict for
$1,000 against the Echo de Paris for
libel.
The London Gazette contains n royal
proclamation fixing Aug. 9 as the date
for the coronation.
1t is reported from Peking that Minis
ter WI Ting Fong has been ordered to
stay at Washington for an indefinite
time
The epidemic of cholera at Cairo,
Egypt, is increasing: there were forty
one new cases and thirty-five deaths in
one day.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. ac-
companied by Sig. Prinetti, the minister
of foreign affairs, will start for Berlin on
Aug. 22 to visit Emperor William.
The steamships Prince Alexander and
Ban-hin-guan have been in collision off
Malacca. Straits Settlement. The Prince
Alexander sank and forty lives were lost.
Explorer Baldwin has arrived in Nor
way from the Arctic and tells of great
progress made in polar explorations and
of preparations for a dash to the pole in
1903.
The corn beetle has done immense dam
age to the crops in many districts in the
government of Kherson. Russia, and in
a large area Of Bessarabia. Two hundred
thousand acres have been ravaged.
SO far sixty-seven bodies have been
recovered from the Mount Kimbla col
liery at Wollongong. Australia, where an
explosion occurred. The work of rescue
is greatly hampered by afterdamp in the
mine.
In a dispatch from St. Petersburg the
correspondent of the London Daily Mail
says the order for the withdrawal of
Russian troops from Manchuria has been
rescinded, as that country is overrun with
Chinese robber bands.
4 dispatch from Tarbes, France. gives
news of terrible fire at Lourdes. the
town famous for its shrine TO Our Lady,
to which many pilgrims go. The fire brig
ade was unable to check the flames. and
when the dispatch was sent, an entire
block of houses had been destroyed and
a number of persons had been victims Of
the fire.
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The News =

Beware sf the soft drink in too large
quantities.
In resaci to Nj. Cleveland, is Col
Wattersop 81, 10?
What viii President John Mitchell do
with al bis bouquets?
Hohson should enter caveat against
the whole of womankind.
Gen. Smith may be glad that retirement
from the army was all he got.
Is the Chicago safety-deposit box really
no better than the cid stocking?
Farmers along the Mississippi River
are having the water cure" administered
TO their crops.
L; nis:= lie that the coal trust is keep
Ing u the strike just to get the people
used TO high prices.
b. this time the Mayor of Minneapoli:
is probably convinced that the grand jury
is = prejudiced body.
Mary MacLane does not read all that
is printed about her. The poor girl has
10 Lave some sleep.
While collecting her scattered diamonds
May 1ohe made no attempt to gather up
her scattered husbands.
Gen. Bragg should hasten TO demo,-
strate that it is an easy chore to make
a whistle from pigs tail.
With its Mayor far away in one dircc-
tion and its chief OF police in another.
Minneapolis breathes easier.
Bandit Tracy's method of paying for
his meals would never become popular
with timid eastern landladies.
We may be able to live without Mr..
WI. but for the first week it will seem
as though something were lacking.
Midsummer foods and spring Jroughts
demonstrate that the old reliable patent
medicine almanac is no longer running
the weather.
Chicago bookmakers who put their
money in those Masonic Temple safety
deposit vaults row know how people feel
when they have deposited money on sure
thing tips with the bookmakers.
Gen. Bragg thinks letters to his wife
should be private communications. He
should labor with the lady to make her
see it that VIZ.
Down a; Evansville, Ind, n baseball
umpire shot pitcher who took excep-
tions 10 his rulings. This shows that
there is none 50 Gowntrodden but that
lie will turn when the pressure becomes
too great.
The sohc.:-book trus: has been chased
out of Kansas; Being incorporated un-
der the laws OF New Jersey, tie trust
fondly imagined that it did not have TO
pay any attention to the rules and regu-
la;icns Of Kansas. Dr. il woke up soon
after reaching the State.
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IN GENERAL.

Dr. Charles Kendall Adams estate has
been found to be worth only $4,000.
The United States government has been
warned TO watch for anarchists recently
| ordered out Of Turkey and supposed tc
| be headed for this country.
Rose Coghlan, actress. known in pri-
vate life as Mrs. John I. Sullivan. has
| declared her intention in Oregon to be-
come n citizen of the United States.
Mrs. Mary Runyon Haskins, daughter
| of the late Theodore Runyon, once am.
bassador TO Germany. has been granted
| a decree of absolute divorce from II. G.
| Haskins.
Railroad net earnings for June show
| decrease for large systems, in spite of
reduced operating expenses: Santa Fe re.
ported S24O $50 and Canadian Pacific
S214.6 net loss.
Cuban revenues are falling off and the
| new government will face a deficit at the
end of the first year of the republic. San.
itary conditions are neglected and return
! of scourge invited.
The Armours have procured control OF
two Hammond packing companies and o
merger of all the big concerns is said to
| be near. the financing of which will ap.
proximate S150.OO0.OO0.
The weekly crop report found tempe-a.
ture generally favorable; corn making
good growth and spring wheat promising
| rain delaying winter wheat harvest and
| drought seriously hurting cotton.
One million dollars in treasure was
| brought by the steamship Roanoke. which
has Just arrived at Seattle from Nome
| and ST. Michael's. This is the larges,
shipment from the Nome digginys this
season.
A fire in Ignacio street, Havana. Cuba
resulted in a loss to the dry goods firm
of Prendes 4 Co. of S16S,O0O. $50. 900 of
which was covered by Insurance Other
dry goods firms. including Pella n Co.
also los. heavily.
| Serious trouble has developed on the
! war yacht. During the last few days
there have been nine desertions among
the crew. Primarily the trouble seems te
revolve around the executive officer of the
ship. Lieut.. w. w. Phelps. who. the mer
| assert. is overbearing and tyrannical
The greatest trust the world has We,
| seen. a combination which will have alb
solute control of the trade of Europe
America and Asia, sprans into being
| when a semi-ofiicial announcement was
made in London of the merger of the in.
terests of Rockefeller, Rothschild ana
Nobel This combine has unquestioned
proprietorship of the great oil fields il
the United States, in Russia and in 81
| IBERIA.
The Interior Department has sent out
notices asking for bids for the pine tim
ber on sections 16 and So of each Of the
townships of the Red Lake reservation
I. and of part of the White Earth res
ervation. in Minnesota. The action i.
the beginning of the disposal of the tim
ber and the agricultural lands of thos,
two extensive reservations under an aci
of the last session of Congress. Tn.
! timber to be disposed Of amounts to aboui
10000. 900 feet and covers 1900 acres
The law requires that the sale shall b,
| advertised for six months in most part:
Of the country.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-08-07
SOUTHERN.

Asa Messer shot and killed William
Simpson during quarrel near Barbours
vile, Ky.
Daniel Farley. colored, was hanged at
Memphis for the murder of his wife July
%. 1901.
Alonzo Scarberry and Faris Castle
We're struck by lightning and instantly
killed during a storm at Inez, Ky.
Warren Smith killed Calvin Senter and
was mortally wounded himself during
dispute over a woman near Mingo Mines,
Ky
Rev. S. o. Mitchell, a Baptist minis.
ter of Louisville. Ky, while visiting his
brother-in-law, George III. Maston. near
Yelvington. was struck by lightning and
instantly killed.
In fit of temporary insanity as re-
suit of a severe attack of pneumonia, ID.
Z. Dye. formerly barber, shot and IA
tally wounded his 11-year-old son, Car
roll and then committed suicide al his
home in Louisville.
Judge Keller of the West Virginia fed
eral court has issued an injunction
against President Mitchell and other
miners leaders. forbidding them intimi
dating peaceful employees of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Coal Company.
The Valley Iron Company with capi-
tai of S1,OOO.OO0 will be organized next
month to develop mineral lands near
Chattanooga. Tenn, by Ohio and Penn
sylvania capitalists. A blast furnace Of
200 tons capacity will be erected.
News has reached FL Paso, Texas, of
the capture of one of the three Mexican
Central train robbers, who held up the
Wells-Fargo express car just out of Ber
mejillo on July D. and got away with
$4,000. The man was captured at Ma
pimi, Mexico, and has been identified as
Bell Taylor.
Six lives lost is the total reported in
the flood districts in Texas-five in the
San Marcos valley and one at Wylie. The
names of those drowned in San Marcos
valley are not known. but two We're ne
groes. At Wylie Charles Davis attempt
ed TO save his wife and baby from the
flood. The baby was lost.
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H'EClAE|g7G2S

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
S4.OO to $3.50; hogs, shipping grades,
S4.25 TO $3.50; sheep. fair TO choice. SIO0
TO S4.40; wheat. No. = red. zoe to 11c;
corn. No. 3, 59c to 6Oc: oats. No. =. soc
TO 52c: rye. No. .. 52c to 53c: hay. tim
othy. S11.0O to $1,000; prairie, 5000 to
S11.5O; butter, choice creamery. lic to
19c; eggs, fresh, Ice TO lie; potatoes,
, new, 40c TO 60c per bushel.
Indianapolis-Catt shipping. $500 to
SS.25; hogs. choice light. S4.O0 to $40:
sheep. common to prime. $3.50 TO S4.OO;
wheat. No. ., zoe to tie; corn. No
white, 65c to &c; oats, No. . white,
SOC to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $50 to $50: hogs.
$500 TO $3.50: sheep. $3.50 to Si25:
wheat. No. 2. 64c to 65c; corn. No. =,
No. .. 52c to 53c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $3.50 to S7.25: hogs,
S4.00 TO S1.95: sheep, $3.2o 10 S4.00:
wheat. No. .. zoe to lie; corn. No. >
mixed. &c to Csc: oats. No. , mixed,
33c to SIC: rye. No. .. 5Sc to SOC.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 TO $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $50 10 $3.50:
wheat. No. .. I2c to I3c; corn. No. 3
yellow, 6Ic TO 6Sc: oats. No. white.
Gle to Csc; rye. zoe to Gle.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. 2 northern,
Toe to 16c: corn. No. 3. Soc TO 60c: oats,
No. = white. Ace TO 4Sc: rye. No. l. 5Sc
TO SOC: barley, No. >, 65e 10 66e; pork.
mess. $l6.95.
Toledo-Wheat. No. . mixed. zoe to
11c; corn. No. mixed. 62c to G:3c: oats.
No. mixed. 2Ic TO 2Sc; clover seed,
prime, S5.12.
New York-Cattle. S4.O9 10 S1.15: hogs.
$500 to SI.65: sheep, S4.00 TO S4.50;
wheat. No. red, &c to &c; corn, No. >.
6ic to 65c; oats, No white. 6lc 10 69c;
butter. creamery, 1Sc to zoe; eggs. west
ern. lie to 19c.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers.
S4.OO to $50; hogs, fair to prime. $4.O0
to $50; sheep. fair TO choice. $50 10
S425; lambs, common to choice, S4.OO to
$500.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-08-07
AIM TO DUST JACKSON.
Miners Want Impeachment Proceed.
ings Against Iudge.

An effort will be made by the officials
Of the United Mine Workers 70 bring
impeachment proceedings against Judge
John Jay jackson of the federal court
of West Virginia if. upon a final hear
ing. the judge refuses to dissolve his
blanket injunction restraining the miners
from agitating in favor of a strike.
Secretary Wilson of the miners ;inion
said that preparations were now being
made to submit to President Roosevelt
and the Senate complete copy of the
court proceedings. which terminated in
the issue of the injunction by which the
unions were forbidden TO hold meetings
for the purpose of inducing men to leave
their work in the mines. The public. too.
will be fully informed as TO the precise
grounds upon which the West Virginia
jurist issued his restraining order. Mr..
Wilson says that the evidence in the case
will be published and the people left 10
Judge for themselves whether or not the
injunction is just. 1t is asserted by the
officers of the union that they have ex-
cellent grounds for the impeachment of
Judge Jackson.
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Edward Philbrook. one of the largest
cattle owners of Eastern Montana, WAS
drowned in the Rosebud River near For
sythe, Mont.
The Madrid express was derailed owing
TO some unknown cause near Guarda
PortugaD. Nearly all the ears Were
wrecked Six persons were killed tnd
twenty-seven injured.
Secretary Moody, after consultation
with his bureau chiefs. gave orders that
one of the battlcships authorized at the
last session ef Congress be constructed
at the New York navy yard.
William J. Haddock, for thirty-eight
years secretary of the board of regents
of the University of Iowa at Iowa City,
has resigned because of i'll health.
A Mexican woman in FL Paso. Mexico.
has given birth 10 two healthy children.
the Sc, ond one born six weeks after the
first. The case has caused considerable
comment among physicians.
A gathering Of representatives of the
religions of the world like that of the
Congress of Religions of the Worlds
Fair is planned in connection with the
Olympian games 10 be held ut Chicago in
1904. Every country which will send
an athletic representative will be urged
TO have its religions represented is well.
Prof Langley of the Smithsonian In
stitution recently read before the Philo-
sophical Society of Washington paper
in which he stated that there are no real
natural laws; that what We call laws of
nature" are merely expressions to simpli-
fy the results of human observation. and
as science progresses and view points
change the laws" must change, too. Few
OF the laws, he says. are facts. such as
gravitation, for instance, which would
exist if We were not here. but many of
them he ascribes to human conceit.
Richard Mullen. aged 33. n Cincinnati
fireman. in a jealous rage shot and IA
tally injured his wife. aged il. and then
seriously shot his 2-year-old baby.
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sLAMEs CONGRESS FOR WASTE.
Missouri River Commission Tell. Of


ExtravaEant Expenditures.
Reports from officers in charge Of river
and harbor improvements. with estimates
for the fiscal year 1904. received by the
chief of engineers include that of the
Missouri river commission. which ceased
to exist June 80. The commission has
been in existence since 1854. The re-
port states that the policy OF the COM
mission. which has remained unchanged
was for a continuous. progressive control
Of the river. contracting it where neces-
sary. giving the channel proper direction
and securely holding il i'll place, but that
unfortunately the commission has not
been permitted TO carry that plan out.
The report enters into an elaborate de-
fense of the commission. based upon criti-
cisms in the press and in the report of
the House committee on rivers and har-
bors. 1t is asserted that Congress spe-
ciically directed the expenditure of funds
for local work unconnected with the gem
eral improvement OF the river to the
amount of $2.2lS.OO0. The commission
has been at expense, the report states,
to maintain improvements.
Since the organization of the commits
sion SI.150, 900 has been appropriated for
work under it, Of which S24O.OO0 has
been expended on the river above Sioux
City. Iowa; 81. .164. .364 on detached locali-
ties, S3SO,OS2 on snagsing operations.
S469.5S5 for surveys and gauges, $500
165 for plant, office WORK and expenses of
the commission. leaving bat $3.22S0.201
for effective, progressive and systematic
improvement Of the river extending over
period OF eighteen years. part of this
amount being expended near Kansas City
and the remainder in the first reach. The
report says that this expenditure has pro-
duced good results. although there is now
danger attending the navigation of the
river as attested by the wrecks Of 800
steamboats, lying imbedded in the sand.
1t is claimed that no sufficient improve
ment Of the river has been made 10 dem
onstrate what could be done for the ben
eft of commerce.
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The Northwest is just
about entering upon what
may be called the nervous
Chicago

period of the year. The time Is close at
hand when the growing wheat will have
reached the most delicate stage. and the
weather attendant upon the process OF
maturity through the critical period fol-
lowing may make or unmake the crop.
What wonder, then, il interest for the
next few weeks centers upon the crop
reports?
From every corner Of the Northwest
comes good news, and from every point
of view the present outlook is highly en-
couraging. Grain men, whose business It
is to anticipate, and who habitually scan
the horizon for a speck to denote the rise
Of an adverse factor. are unable to dis
Germ the faintest indication Of anything
in the least disturbing. Hot winds. al
ways a possibility through the milk pc
riod. could do great damage to the crop.
There is no more reason. however. to ex-
pect them now than in any other year.
One Of the most conservative inanciers
in the country said: IF the corn crop
fulfills its promise, this fall will see the
advent of the most remarkable era Of
commercial prosperity America has ever
experienced"
will bring this about, for il the granger
roads made money with corn failure
last season, heavy yield this year should
enable them to show the largest earn
ings in their history. All other roads will
share in this TO some extent, and the peo-
pie will be benefited by the continuation
of general prosperity.
The country at large presents n view
not materially changed from the previous
week. The same activity is noted in the
leading lines. the same hopefulness and
continued talk of the good fall business
that is to come. The fruit season is now
at its height. Produce prices in general
are high, considering that there is suffi-
cheney in the supply centers, but the peo-
pie are consuming largely and are pay
ing for the best. Cotton. nearly all hog
products and the cereals are lower. An
exception is found in cereals for July de-
livery in which the scarcity of supply
and bull manipulations forced prices to
really phenomenal points. At - cents.
July oats were higher than corn. and
higher than at any time since the Civil
War.
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STATUS OF FlL.?iNos ABROAD.
Entitled 10 American Protection, but
Not to Passport.

Entitled 70 American Protection, but
Not to Passport.
Gradually the status of the Filipino in
his relation TO foreign countries is being
established. The State Department has
finally decided how it shall take care OF
Filipinos outside OF their archipelago.
Ambassador White has established a
precedent in the case of Edward Fran
cixo, q native OK Manila, a record of
which has just reached the State De-
partment. This man applied to the Am
bassador in Berlin for passport or pro-
lection papers. The Ambassadors certifi-
cate says:
Satisfactory proof having been fur
nished me that Edawrj Francixo is a
native OF the Philippines and loyal to the
United States, he is entitled to be ac-
corded adequate protection by the diplo-
matte and consular officers OF the United
States. AS, however, &c is not citizen
of the United States. he is not entitled to
a passport"
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FOOD DEAR IN LONDON.
Poor Feel the Record Breaking Price
of Provisions.

The increase in the price of provisions
is making great difference to London's
humber inhabitants. At the present mo-
ment. in the opinion of Londoners in the
provision trade, food is dearer than at
any time for n quarter of century. ba-
con. the poor mans luxury, has risen IN
price between one-third and one-half. Ba-
con dealers declare that it is due to
scarcity of hogs in the United States.
"How does the poor man. whose wages
sre of fixed amount, do:' one dealer,
experienced in the retail trade. was ask
ed. HE simply doesn't do at all. was
the reply. He has either to diminish the
quantity of bacon he eats, or else. the
more usual course. he substitutes cheap
Jam or marmalade."
Chickens all round are pence each
more at retail than in 1900. Pigeons are
3 pence or pence more. Pork has risen
so much that many shops no longer Keep
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EVENTS OF INTEREST
THAT OCCURRED DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
Tersely Told Telegraph Tales in
Brief Paragraphs-Many Casual.
tfes-A Few Crimes-Some Fires
Political and Religious News.
Bandit Tracy Well Equipped

Harry Tracy. the fugitive desperate, is
now in eastern Washington, unwounded.
in good health, armed with four guns and
200 rounds Of ammunition, provisiOned for
five days and equipped with two horses.
Tracy crossed the Columbia River and is
now supposed to be headed toward the
Idaho line. He declared that he wants to
held up bank or rob an express car. He
says that he has promised to give 5000
within one year to the parties who helped
him escape from the Oregon penitentiary.
Heis making his way to the "Hole-in-the-
Wall" country in Wyoming. When there,
he declares, he will be a thief among
thieves and thinks he will be safe.
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Two Monster Lake Boats.

The Detroit Free Press announces that
the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation COM
pany has about completed arrangements
for the building of two new side wheel
passenger steamers to outrank in size and
carrying capacity any side wheel passen-
ger steamers in the world. The estimated
cost is $3.50, 900 for each boat. Each boat is
to have four decks, 1000 persons being the
carrying capacity of each deck. Each
boat will have sleeping capacity of from
LOO to 1,200 with 800 state rooms.
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money while alone in the room He en-
phatically denies the charge of murder.
Three tramps held up and robbed pas
senger from the Rio Grande Western
train who had stepped out on the plat
form of the Union station at Ogden.
Utah. A detective who went in pursuit
of the robbers was in turn held up and
relieved of his revolver, handouts and
other paraphernalia
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Bars Reporters.

Gen. Jacob Smith has arrived at San
Francisco, from Manila on the transport
Thomas. General Smith positively de-
clined to say anything for publication and
would not even allow reporters to oapproach
him. Through his aide, Lieut.. NJ. Ii.
Shields. General Smith said he would not
be interviewed, as he did not care to SUBJ
ject himself to further criticism. Major
Davol OF the transport service, delivered
General Smiths order of retirement to him
on board the ship.