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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-06-12

il of time the conference would be con-
sidered ended and his majesty's govern
ment would not be bound in any way by
the present declarations.
The Beers asked to be allowed until
Saturday night to give an answer, and
the result was seen in the termination OF
the war.
| The signing of the peace agreement on
| Saturday night last was carried out With
the least possible ceremony. Lord kitch-
ener and Lord Miner. and Gen. De Wet
and others, representing the Orange Free
State, and Gen. Schalkr Berger and 9TH
ers of the Transvaal government, quiet
ly met in the dining room Of the resi-
dence occupied by the burghcr delegates,
adjoining Lord Kitchener's house in Pre-
toria.
The document lay on a table, ready.
Amid profound silence the Boer leaders
took n pen, in order Of precedence. and
affixed their signatures, thus surrender
ing the independence for which they had
so gallantly struggled.
! The announcement of peace in South
Africa was hilariously celebrated in Lon
don Monday night There was tremen-
dous noise in the streets, pandemonium
of horns and cheers and the coarse jests
of costers.
| Women. many carrying babies, boys,
drunken loafers and others. glad of any
excuse TO defy the law and order, were
the principal elements in the ragged pro-
cessions passing and repassing through
the principal streets.
The Liberal members of the House of
| Commons declared freely that peace IN
South Africa might have heen secured a
wear earlier and upon better terms had
not the British government been SO OBJ
durate. In some quarters the comment
on this peace with honor ending of
the war was that Great Britain has the
peace and the Beers have all the honor.
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which Prof. Smith has some fine speci'
mems, is a most curious creature. 1t II
from an inch to an inch and a half long.
the body being dark. while the wings arr
CLASSY with delicately defined veins. Tho
eyes are orange color. With the excep,
ton of butterflies. there are scarcely any
insects known that are more beautiful
The locusts from which this years
brood is due appeared in 1885. The fall
iu- branches of the trees killed at that
time left the insect eggs upon the ground.
where. for seventeen years they have
been developing. The last big invasion
Of the cicada was in 1894. The present
brood. according TO Prof. Smith, will ex-
tend throughout New Jersey, the soutn-
ern part OF New York, westward 10 the
Mississippi and more or less south. Warn
inss have been issued fruit raisers against
setting out young trees.
The cut worm or measuring worm, as
it is also called. is playing havoc in the
orchards OF Missouri. according to ad-
vices from over the State. Word comes
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Empires Great Gain.
Brief News Items.

At a railroad camp northeast Of Guth-
rie, o. T.. Phil Brooks shot and killed q
boy named Ona Gun in a dispute over
trivial matter.
At Hickory Grove. near Clinton. No..
during an alteration arising over game
of horseshoes, Harry Kidd shot and prob
ably fatally wounded David Green.
Fire in the business section of Perry,
o. T.. did damage estimated at $500,
on which there was $500 insurance.
The fire originated in Shanafelt's book
store.
Carbondale, Kan. was almost destroy
ed by fire. The damage will be fully
$50, 900. All the best wells in town were
pumped dry in an Intellectual effort to
subdue the flames.
Orville G. Frantz of Enid, D. l., the
Harvard athlete and ball player. carried
off one of the Boylston prizes in elocu-
tion at Harvard. Frantz declaimed an
extract from Lincoln's second inaugural
address.
Resident Engineer S. A. Pryor of the
Oklahoma and Western Railroad was
drowned while crossing the Washita riv-
er in Oklahoma in a small boat. Twenty
FIVE men witnessed the drowning. but
could give no help.
John Minshall. aged 60 years. farmer
living one mile south of Butler, Mo-, was
killed in Butler by his horses becoming
frightened and overturning his buggy.
Rural free delivery service will be es-
tablished on July l at Lancaster, Kan,
with one carrier, X. f. Johnson. length
mil
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the Illinois State Board of Arbitration,
the representatives of the big Chicago
packing houses and their striking team
sters made mutual concessions. and Il
peaceful settlement OF the strike was
reached. The night of peace negotiations
was preceded by day of wild riotins,
over 100 persons being injured and many
arrested.
The south-bound Oregon express on
the Southern Pacific road was wrecked
near Clear Greek. Cal. The accident was
caused by a half-open switch which evi-
IDENTIFY had been left in that condition by
some unknown person. Engineer .. NJ.
White and Fireman Fred Taffel of the
forward engine We're thrown under the
wreckage and crushed 10 death, their bod
les being fearfully manglei.
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CHICAGO'S BIG STRIKE.
Teamsters' Tie-Up Threatens Both
Meat and Ice Famine.

Meat and Ice Famine.
The teamsters' strike spread its results
throughout all sections of Chicago Mon
day. Disorder and bloodshed followed
efforts of the packers to move their meat
wagons. A series of riots occurred on
the West and North sides. Serious trou-
bic was experienced on the South Side.
Two score or more of trouble makers
were arrested. A number of policemen
were seriously injured.
One peculiar feature of the general sit
uation is the fact that the strikers kept
in the background The disorder and
bloodshed followed the movements Of
their sympathizers or alleged friends.
Meat wagons under the ban of the
Teamsters' Association were blOckaded
in a systematic manner by street cars
as well as by brother union teamsters
not on strike.
Chicago has been experiencing both 4
meat and an ice famine. The ramifica-
tions of the striking packers are extern
sive, all labor bodies lending their full
quota of moral and financial assistance.
At the stock yards. Saturday aud Mon
day, there was an utter absence of busi-
ness, while not pound Of meat was be-
ing delivered by the packers, VINO gave
the ultimatum of no recognition of union
ism. The small number of independent
butchers and packers at the yards were
unable to furnish sixteenth of the local
demand for meats. The downtown hotels
and large restaurants We're not only short
of meat. but also of ice, while the coal
teamsters threatened. if patronage OF the
meat packers was continued. TO cut off
the supply of fuel Ice dealers were no.
tilted that any attempt on their part 10
supply the hotels would result in & strike
against them.
The coal and ice supply of the Fulton
market. the large downtown distributor,
was cut off and the market was forced
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SOUTHERN.

Engineer Frank Finch and Fireman
Pay We're killed in Cincinnati South
ern wreck near Chattanooga.
4 Baltimore and Ohio locomotive blew
up near Piedmont. w. Va, killing Fire
man Robert Graham Of Cumberland and
f. Smith of Rowlcsburg, w. Va.
1t is authoritatively announced that
Captain Richmond L. Hobson will re-
turn TO Montgomery, Ala, and run for
the Alabama Senate at the next cleo
ton.
At Elizabeth City, n. c., the Godfrey
building was destroyed by fire and W. X.
Carter and Benjamin Ward perishej.
Several adjoining buildings were slightly
damaged.
]. NJ. Gregg shot and killed T.. X. Riggs
near st. Mary's. W. Va. The trouble
arose over the treatment by Gregg of
Riggs stepdaughter. who was staying
at Gregg's house. Gregg was arrested.
4. J. Russell. Speaker of the Missis-
sippi House of Representatives. who de-
livered the annual Grafton at the Univer-
sity of Mississippi, was found dead in his
| room at Memphis the following day.
Death was caused by heart failure.
Maj. L. C. Camp. principal owner of
the Coal Greek Coal Company. and 9TH
| ers owning shafts in the Frater Valley
| district. were indicted by the grand jury
at Clinton. Tenn, charged with criminal
misdemeanor in connection with the re-
cent disaster at the mines, where 2iu
| lives were lost.
Ruddock, La. the ideal mill city of
Louisiana and the lifelong dream of
Charles ii. Ruddock, the millionaire lum-
herman Of Chicago. was almost wiped ont
by fire. 1t is impossible to estimate the
loss at present. for the whole place is In
a panic over the destruction of the I'M
mense plant of the Ruddock Cypress
Company.
| 1t has become known in business cir
cles in Beaumont. Texas. that the Amer
! lean steel and Wire Company had,
through an agent, secured title 10 lUc
acres of land in the southern part of
town. and that it was intended TO erect
S5,oO0.0OO factory ON the site at IN
early day. 1t is expected that the fac
tory will employ at least 5000 people.
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HOW PEACE CAME ABOUT.
Details of the Movements Leading UH
tn the Agreement.

to the Agreement
\ parliamentary paper gives the CORE
.pondence preceding the BOer-Britisa
peace agreement From this it appears
that Gen. Schalk-Berger (acting pres:-
lent of the TransvaaD informed Lorh
Kitchener March II that he was prepaT-
I'd TO make peace proposals. A month
later the Beers delegates submitted
propositions.
On April 13 the war secretary, Mr..
Brodrick. refused to entertain any prop
,sition based on the independence of the
.epublics. Subsequently President Steyn
Of the Orange Free State and Gems.
Schalk- Berger and Botha declared that
the surrender of independence must be
submitted to the burghers in the field.
The British government expressed sur
prise at this attitude. but announced its
willingness TO accept the Beers surren-
der on the same terms that Lord kitch-
aner had previously offered Gen. Botha.
and to give facilities for a consultation
of the Boer commands.
On May IL Gen. Schalk-Berger and
Mr.. Steyn informed Lord Kitchener that
the burghers assembled at VereeniginG
had empowered commission TO neso-
tate peace terms, subject TO ratlhcatlon
at Nereeniging. Lord Miner, Lord
Kitchener, and the Boer commission met
May 10.
The latter offered to surrender the in
dependence of the republics as regards
foreign relations; to surrender part OF
their territory. and retain self-govern-
ment under British supervision. These
proposals were forthwith rejected.
The same day Lord Miner, Gen. Smuts
and Judge Hertzog drew up form of
agreement, TO be submitted to the con-
ference at Vereeniging. for a yea or nay
vote. This was very similar to the final
agreement. and with few alterations, was
approved by Mr.. Chamberlain, who. in
giving notice of his approval, told Lord
Miner he must inform the Beers that
unless it was accepted within fixed linz
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EASTERN.

New York is to have the most magniti.
cent hotel in the world. 1t will be twen-
~ stories high and cost S10.0OO.OOO.
At the annual meeting Of the Amalga-
mated Copper Company in Jersey City.
the retiring board of directors was re-
elected.
Oscar Webb, colored, during a family
quarrel, shot and killed his wife and
her mother, in Germantown, Pa. He
then turned the revolver on himself and
inflicted a fatal wound.
The safe OF the Duncannon National
Bank Of Duncannon, Pa, was blown by
burglars. The dial plate was blown of,
but the vault was not entered. The burg
lars took about So and a revolver.
George H. Snow, son of late president
Of Mormon Church. caused the arrest in
New York Of Bat" Masterson and three
others ON charge Of dishonesty securing
5000 in faro game in Chicago hotel.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has agreed to pay into the treasury of
New York City S1.3S3.00 for the use of
streets during the twenty-five years that
its franchise for the proposed North Xiv
er tunnel will last.
By the oyerturning of a raft in the
Monongahela river above Fayette City,
Pa, the 1l-year-old son Of Theodore
Booth was drowned. Several children
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WATCH INDUSTRY GROWS.
S227,54,4S3 Invested iu Factories il
America.

S227,54,4S3 Invested iu Factories in
America.
A special report of the census bureau
on watches and watch cases has been
issued, showing capital Of S22, ,Ioi, ,lSao
invested in the manufacture Of watches
and watch cases in the forty-three es-
tablishments reporting foS the United
States. This does not represent the cap
ital stock of any of the manufacturing
corporations. The value of the products
is S14.6O6,5T1, involving an outlay OF
S5S3,Sl5 for salaries of officials, clerks.
cts; S5,511.510 for wages, SSS9,9S2 for
miscellaneous expenses, and Sa,6S4,J6o
for material used, mill supplies, freight
and fuel.
The value of products of watch facto-
ries shows an increase of SI.0O3.J3l. OF
142 per cent, during the last thirty years.
Notwithstanding the fall in prices. The
average value ut the shop or factory OF
the watch movements made in the
United States was S331. This does not
include low-priced or dollar watches,
which are made exclusively in clock fac
tories as a by-product.
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IN GEN ERAL.

Gen. Maxine Gomez has published an
open letter, in which he refuses to accept
the annual pension of $4,000 provided for
him in a resolution which is now before
the Cuban House of Representatives.
Benabe Acevedo. Jose Torres, Ramon
! Troche Cadeno and Juan Torres, the four
men found guilty of murder, robbery and
outrage. committed in October, 1895. at
Guayo. a suburb of Adjuntas, were gar
| roted at Ponce, Porto Rico.
Circulars announce the appointment of
Chief Engineer John Stevens as general
| manager of the Great Northern SYSTEM
including proprietary lines, and w. w.
Broughton as general freight agent of the
eastern end of the system in charge of
| lake traffic.
The uprising among the Yaqui Indians
| of Mexico is becoming general. \ de-
| tachment of seventy-three men from the
| force of Gen. Torres, who is pursuing
the Yaquis in the Mazatan mountains
| east of Hermosillo, was ambushed and
thirty of the number killed. Only one
escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, who, as
the beautiful Harriet Lane, was first lady
of the land during the administration of
her uncle. President Buchanan. has been
/ invited by King Edward to the corona
tion. Miss Lane was mistress of the
| White House when the King, then the
| Prince of Wales, visited this country in
1860.
A battalion of the Mexican army. COM
| manded by Gen. Torres. head of the army
| in Sonora. fought a desperate battle with
4 NJ
Hermosillo. Forty Yaquis We're killed
| and twice that number wounded. The
| Mexicans lost fifteen men. The Yaquis
escaped toward the Mazatan Mountains,
leaving their dead.
A new system of wireless telegraphy,
which it is asserted is far superior to the
| Marconi system, will soon enable the pub
lie TO send messages as quickly as by
wire telegraph. The system is of Ameri-
can invention. the work of Il. III. SnIythe
of Chicago and Lee De Forest. gradu-
ate of Yale University. The system diff
fers radically from that of Marconi.
One of the largest deals in Texas cat
| tie had lis initiative in the recent ship
/ ment of $50 head of such cattle from
| Pensacola. Fla. The shipment was
| made by Maud K Carrow. and is intend
| ed as the first of many to be used in
restocking the veldts of South Africa. 1t
! is understood that Maud x Carrow have
IL contract to supply the British govern
ment with young breeding cattle in South
! Africa The shipment from Pensacola
| consisted of high grades and pure-blood-
ed cattle.
The joint agreement between the Unit
| ed States and Pacific Express companies
has been dissolved and separate agencies
| have been established in st. Louis and
elsewhere. The main offices of both COM
pauies are in st. Louis. The United
! States Express Company operates over
F.! The Baltimore and Ohio. Lake Shore and
/ Michigan Southern. Chicago. Milwaukee
! and ST. Paul. Chicago and Alton and Wa
bash systems. The Pacific company has
the Wabash, St. Louis, Iron Mountain
and Southern. Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul, Texas and Pacific and Great
| Nnrthern systems.
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tlOn> Oh tne struggle from 'ie otSiniiiHS
10 the end:
1899
Oct 11-War begun.
Oct. 12-NataI invaded.
Oct. 14-Neweastle occupied by Beers
Oct. 1j-Kimberiey isolated; 134 days
siege began.
Oct 1e-Mafeking attacked. 213 days
siege began.
oct 2o-BattIe of Glencoe; British claimed
victory. but retired
Oct, 21-Battle Of Elandslaagte; Beers de
feated.
Oct 22-British evacuated Dundee, re-
treating to LadysIDith-
Oct. 23-General Symonds died of wounds.
Oct. 30-Battie Of Nich0lSon's Mex; lUv
British captured
Nov. 2-Ladysmith Invested; III days
siege began.
Nov. a3-Battle Of Belmont; Beers re-
tired.
Nov 2J-BattIe of Gras Pan: Beers re-
tired.
Nov. 2s-Battie of Modder River; Beers
retired.
Dec. 1G-Battle of Stormberg; Gatacre de-
feated.
Dec. 11-BattIe Of MagersfonteIn: Methuen
defeated, General Wauchope killed.
Dec. 15-Battle Of Coienso; Butler De
feated
1860.
Jan. 6-Boer attack on Ladysmith re-
pulsed.
Jan. 10-Roberts arrived In Cape Town.
Jan. 23-Spion Kop captured by Warren
Jan. 24-Spion Kop abandoned by British
with heavy loss.
Feb. 5-Buller's third attempt TO relieve
Ladysmith began.
Feb. T-yaai Kranz evacuated by British
Feb. 3-Roberts reached the Modder.
Feb. 15-kimberey relieved.
Feb. 20-Cronje surrendered
Feb. 2S-Ladysmith relieved by Butler.
March 11-Salisbury rejected Boer peace
proposals.
March -Bloemfontein occupied by Rob
erts.
March 27-General Joubert died.
March 31-British trapped at Sannas Post.
losing seven guns.
April 3-Cronje and 600 Beers sailed for
ST. Helena
April five hundred British troops cap
April 5-General Villebois Mareuil killed
April 1ECronje landed at ST. Helena
May 1-RObertS began march on Pretoria
May 12-KroonStad occupied.
May 11-Mafeking relieved
May 2i-British crossed Naal River
June 5-Roberts captured Pretoria.
Thereafter for year the activity was
confined to guerrilla warfare, until in
July. 1901, the Beers made brilliant
stroke. The record continues:
1901.
July 11-Boers captured COO British and
two guns at Witars Mex
July 20-General Prinsloo surrendered
with 400 men at Bethlehem
Dee 15-General Kritzinger captured
1902.
| captured at Klerksdorp-
Feb. 2i-Kitchener killed or captured 90
| Beers near Harrismith-
March 1-Merhuen defeated. wounded and
captured.
| Transvaal to discuss peace negotiations
Nav 3l-BoerS sign treaty Of surrender.
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Total
Six Raj roads .,ndicte,l.

Six railroads TnteriDt Memphis. Tenn,
have been indicted by the federal grand
Jury on the chGrge rh,.t there is deg
laration'' or ag'eeme9j between them
constituting a fool f,i the purpose of di-
vidirg on a pfo rasl basis, the cotton
shipped out of Menshis. as well as tC
maintain rates Tn, roads indicted are
the Illinois Ger trail, louisville and Nash,
vile. the st. Louis. Iron Mountain and
Southern. the Frisco route (Kansas City
Memphis and firmir Sham,, the Southern
Railway and tie Nashville, Chattanooga
and ST. Louis.
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we're on the raft at the time, and as three
have not been accounted for it is thought
they were also drowned.
Mrs. Charles u. Kingdom, mother of
Mrs. George Jay Gould, was robbed at
the Waldorf-Astori Hotel in New York
of Jewels worth $4,000. The circnm-
stances of the theft. all Of the doors IN
Mrs Kingdoms suite having been locked
from the inside and the thieves having
left a diamond necklace worth $50.OoO
living in full view on chiffonier, made it
the greatest puzzle the detectives have
had to deal with in years.
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GREAT LOSSES IN LIFE.
More than 100000 Persons Dead oil
Both Sides in Conflict.

More than 100000 Persons Dead on
Both Sides in Conflict.
Three hundred thousand men, women
and children comprised the population of
the South African republic and the Or
ange Free State whep the war began.
Although it is impossible to get the ex-
act figures, it is estimatei that the sur
vivors of the conflict p1mber only about
1S4. 900 persons. the death list, therefore,
numbering 10000. OF The survivors 49,
900 are women and children, who are
congregated in the British conceatration
camps: $4,000 men arc prisoners of war
in the hands of the British, while ll.oo0
soldiers will quit the field as result Of
the signing of the terms of surrender.
Boer leaders who were in 9 position
to know have never given out .he actual
OF even an approximate numh.r of .heir
compatriots in arms. British officers.
however, have sought irforin, ton from
prisoners and from natives Of South AT
rica who had penetrs%ed the tioer lines
and their estimate of the total number
of Boer soldiers is 63.000. Jhis, how
ever, may be in ex,ess OF lie actual
number of able-bodie6 men in the ranks.
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B0ER WAR is ENDED
Treaty OF Peace Is Signed and
London Cheers.
BIZ RGHERS GIVE UP.
Lord Kitchener Makes O ficial Announce
ment of Their Surrender.

Exact Terms Believed to Have Been
CabIed to War Office, but Are Not
Issues a Peace PrOclamatiOn-Brita
Makes Concession to the Vanquishcd
Foe-Great Gain to Empire Through
Wars Ending.
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The cost of the suojugaticp of the
Dutch republics in SOr;th Afri.a has been
prodigious and Presiient k.uger's pre-
dictions that the price OF thei, extinction
would stagger humanity" ha: been fully
justified. Up to the Beginning of the
present year the British Treasury expend-
ed SS35, 10000 for war pur. oses. Since
then SOD, 100000 his been Idded. The
chancellor OF the exfhequer l,cently rec
commended an increase in taies TO meet
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One hundred thousand dollars is be-
ing spent in the construction of 4 tunnel
for telephone wires between Minneapo-
lis and St. Paul. The object of the tun-
mel is to protect interurban service from
interruption by storms, and TO increase
the capacity for communication between
the cities
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chos. a Horrible Death.

William Armstrong of Richmond. Ind,
70 years old. saturated his clothing with
kerosene and after igniting 1t fired bullet
into his brain, dying instantly. He left a
note asking the forgiveness Of his wife
and family. He had long been suffering
from rheumatism.
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Cavalrymeu Taken Prisoners.

Manila special: A sergeant, two cor
porals and four privates of the Fifth
United States cavalry were decorating the
graves Of American soldiers at Binango-
nan, in Rial province, LuzOn, when
large number Of ladrones attacked the
town and captured the men OF the Fifth
cavalry, as well as the presidente OF Bin
angonan, his secretary, doctor and other
prominent Filipinos. The prisoners were
hurried northward through the mountains.
Later two soldiers and four Filipinos
managed to escape from the ladrOnes and
made their way to the town OF Morang
Troops and constabulary were at once sent
cut In pursuit Of the bandits. The ladrones
who attacked Binangonan have also cap
tured large quantity Of dynamite whiah
was stored at some quarries.
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Upwards OF 1,000 lives have been lost
and half Of the city Of Ratanhulen,
Guatemala, has been destroyed by the
eruption OF Tacano volcano, according to
advlces received at San Francisco, by the
Chilean steamer Palana from Valparaiso
and way ports. Ratanhulen lies several
miles back from ChamperinP, on the coast,
and it was at the latter city that news OF
the disaster was secured. Earthquakes. il
was said, had continued at short intervals
'eyery day since the great disturbance OF
April Is when the city OF Quezaltenango
WnS DESTROYED,