The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-10-30

IN GENERAL.

Lieut. W. III. Buck. commanding the
presidential yacht Sylph. resigned 20 ell.
gage in private business.
Miss Alice Roosevelt is said to be en-.
gagged TO John Greenway of Hot Springs
Ark, a lieutenant of the Rough Riders
National W. c. Z. U. convention adopt
ed resolutions upholding organized labor
the eight-hour law ana the abolition q
child work.
Purchase of iron ore properties worth
S6S000.0O0 10y independent steel com
panies of Pittsburg thought 10 foreshaG
ow fight with combine.
Merchants Association of New York,
representing $4,000 firms and Il capit.l
of S200. 100000. plans to secure American
control of Cuban markets.
1t is announced that the proposed sew
ing machine company trust has practical
Is fallen through. the small companies
refusing to join the big ones and holdin.
their plants ut fabulous figures.
Anthracite coal price has been alvanc-
ed 30 cents by President Baer TO cove
extra expenses of miners strike and pos
sible increase in wages; 30 per cent q!
miners have failed to get jobs back.
Nearly all the details of the big leaG
trust are completed and the holding com
pamy. with a capital of SG0.O00.000. which
is to be Incorporated under the laws of
New Jersey, will be formed by Jan. /.
Col Mosby, special agent of the Int
rior Department. reports that cattle rails
ers are Illegally occupying millions of
acres of public lands in the West which
ought to be open to homestead settlers.
\ daughter was born the other day TO
Mrs. Lewis Rutherford Norris. who was
formerly Miss katherine Clark, daughter
of the millionaire Senator from Montana.
The child is even now heiress to S2o, ,000.-
600.
Chief Postoffice Inspector Cochran has
received a cablegram announcing the ar
rest of Ramon Ruiz. the postmaster at
Juana Diaz. Porto Rico. for embezzic-
ment of money order funds. Ruiz has
confessed.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
has decided against the United States
and Great Britain and i'll favor of Ger
many IN the Samoan controversy. of
which he was the arbitrator. The land
ing of marines Mt Apia is held to have
been unwarranted.
The American board. in view of the
hint that the Sultan of Turkey would re-
gard Miss Ellen Stone. the ransomed mis-
sionary. as persona non grata and refuse
her permission TO land in his dominions.
will probably not assign her TO her old
field of work in Macedonia.
The steamer Centennial, from Alaska,
reports the loss of two vessels. tho
schooner Courtney Ford and the shin
Louis Walsh. both of San Francisco. and
the death of four men. The Ford went
ashore on lien Island the evening of
Sept. I and the Walsh was lost on the
spit near Dutch harbor during gale on
Oct. IA.
According to the estimate of the CORE
spondent of the New England Home
stead, the apple crop throughout the
country this year will be 43.0O0OO0 bar
rels, against 21,000,000 barrels in 1901.
In the old orchard sections of the Middle
and Eastern States the increase sitter
last years failure is pronounced. In the
central West there are also sharp gains.
while in the Southwest, n territory last
year favored by exceptionally good yields,
the crop this season is deficient. As for
quality. it is far from satisfactory in the
Central and Western States, but in New
England is very much better.