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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
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Charles W. Fairbanks WAS selected as
he candidate of the Republican members
Of the General Assembly for reelection
to the United States Senate at the joint
caucus held Monday night in the House
Of Representatives. No other name was
suggested The name of Senator Fair
banks was presented with brief speech
by Lieut.. Gov. Gilbert and was seconded
by Senators Ball. Lindley and Wocas
and Representative Kirkman.
The General Assembly Tuesday took
action looking to an investigation of the
causes of the coal famine. In the Senate
Mr.. Osborn introduced Il resolution pro-
viding for the appointment of special
committee to act in conjunction with the
Governor to take necessary action ard
report to the Assembly. The committee
is to be composed of three Senators and
three Representatives. The Lieutenant
Governor appointed Senators Ogborn,
Hendee and O'Brien. In the House Mr..
Salisbury introduced bill to make it
misdemeanOr to limit the output of coal.
Or to fix or Increase the price. The pen
atty IL not less than 81. 900 nor more than
$4,000. If rhe price charged for coal
is in excess of the cost of transportation,
handling and fair profit, that shall lie
prima facie proof Of conspiracy. 1t is
also made a misdemeanor to make for
of coal excessive charges;
officers, agents and employees of all in
corporations are made jointly liable. The
hill has an emergency clause.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
LeEislative Notes.

Cnited States Senator George c. Per
kim was elected to succeed himself by
the California Legislature.
The Kansas Legislature met at To
pekn. Gov. W. ]. Bailey presented his
issues.
Gov. Murphy of New Jersey, in his
message to the Legislature, defended his
state against the charge that it was toe
liberal in granting charters to so-cali=,.
trusts.
Gov. Hunt personally delivered his
message at the joint session of the Porto
Rican Legislature. He reported the
treasury in excellent condition, as fol.
lows. On hand from the insular revenues,
S37S,67O; trust funds, $685.. .635: due from
the United States. $431. .12S.
Ia his message to the Utah Legisla.
tur,. Gov. Wells laid particular stress on
the need for additional irrigation laws
that the State may benefit more from
the recent congressional action looking
toward the reclamation of arid lands.
The message deals at some length with
the question of forest reserves ana the
withdrawal from settlement by the lnte
rior Department Of over 100000 ncres
in that State, to be used for forest re.
serves was strongly opposed. Lesisia.
tive action to remedy this is urged.
James H. Peabody, Republican, sue
ceeded James B. Orman, Democrat, as
Governor of Colorado. The inaugura.
ton was made the occasion of the great.
est military parade ever seen in Denver.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
BAD 3. & o. WRECK.

Telegraph Messenger Said to Have
Tempered with Danger Signal.
Through the alleged interference of q
messenger boy wreck was caused on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad east Of
Cumberland. Md, in which four en-
ployes of that road We're killed and three
injured.
The wreck was due to the displaying
of false signal giving clear track
for east-bound passenger. train No. 10,
when in the next block ahead there were
standing on the track a caboose and two
engines. The passenger train was drawn
by two engines and these crashed
through the caboose and engines which
obstructed the track. Luckily the train
had not attained its full speed and was
only moving at the rate of about twenty
miles an hour when the collision came.
1t is charged that messenger boy
was in the block tower when No. IL
came along and hearing the engineers
whistle for clear tracks pulled lever,
giving him clear signal. The operator
had, it is explained, previously set tie
signal at danger and was not aware OF
what was done until the crash came.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
SOUTHERN.

Mrs. Hattie B. Boyd, the legless post
mistress at Centervillc, Ky. has married
a mountaineer named Current and given
up the office. which she had held for two
years in spite of the fact that her sue
cessor had been appointed.
Fireman ]. L. Huddleston, E. u. FlOry
and ]. Hester were killed in freight
wreck on the Texas and New Orleans
| Railroad ut Sour Lake, Texas. Conduc-
tor o. s. Daniels is missing, and is sup
posed to be dead under the wreckage.
A compromise agreement is said to
have been practically effected between
| the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
| and the locomotive engineers by which
the men will receive 10 per cent increase
in wages, or One-half what was asked
for
In defense of his mother, Thomas
Whitman, aged 13 years, shot twice with
pistol and instantly killed his aunt,
Miss May Phipps, aged 36, at their home
in Hopkinsville, Ky. Miss Phipps had
been insane several years and vicously
attacked her sister.
J. II. Tillman, lieutenant governor of
South Carolina and nephew of the
S.Hitcu srihtcS hStudtoI, SuOl perhaps
fatally wounded Narcisso Gener Com
zales, editor of the Columbia State. over
an old political feud. Tillman is closely
guarded to prevent lynching.
X. a. Rigsby, professor in Macon,
Ca, business college, was shot and killed
by Mrs. Efie Carson, teacher of tele-
graphy in another college. The tragedy
occurred in the law Office of Col. NJ. G.
Payne, where, it is said, Rigsby and
Mrs. Carson had met to adjust differ
ences.
At Angleton, Texas, several men en-
tered a cell of the county Jail in which
Ransom O'Neal and Charles Tunstall
were confined, with a number of other
negroes, and shot the two men to death.
The negroes were charged with the muir
der of County Attorney Edward c.
Smith at Columbia several weeks ago.
Fire Wednesday morning totally de-
stroyed the large three-story Bryan's in
frmary on the corner of Baylen and
Darden streets, Pensacola, Fla. One
of the patients, a man named Blockton,
was burned to death in his room. The
fire was not discovered until the entire
building was in flames, and then twenty
five patients in the building had narrow
escapes. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by sparks from crate fall
ing OH to a rug in the room of Blockton.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
Told in a Few Lines.

Gold discovered twenty miles from
Admission, Ala.
Freshmen and .'preps." st. Johns Col
lege. Annapolis. Md. clashed. Some sore
heads and ripped clothes.
The admission of Argentine cattle into
the United Kingdom is awaiting only
the drawing up of the regulations and
their PRONUNCIATION in the Gazetteer
John Alexander Dowie, through ar
evangelist, has organized church of hi.
faith in New York City.
Attorney John E. Palmer. Canton, o.
sued Oliver Lanhart for $500 damages
for an alleged bad haircut.
The Hutchinson, Kan, Salt Compan,
is to erect a box and barrel manufactory
to make all its own boxes.
a Cornell Club has been organized in
London. This is the first American
university club in England.
In fire at Cuero. Texas, Mrs. Walter
Legally was fatally burned and her twin
boys perished in the flames. The mother
made every effort to save the children.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
@,laiEps

The House of Representatives voted
Wednesday morning, S5 to 81, to exact
from Congressman Hopkins a pledge
that he will support in the United States
Senate any constitutional amendment
providing for election of United States
Senator's by direct vote of the people.
Two primary election bills went before
the Legislature Wednesday morning.
Senator Parker and Representative Nor
den, of Chicago, introduced for use in
counties of more than $4,000 population
ii modification of the direct primary sys
TEN which is designed for Cook County.
but can be made applicable all over the
State. Senator Fuller. of Boone. sent up
bill designed for the country outside of
Chicago, which puts the expense of con.
Quoting the primary upon the candidates
who win in the election.
Senator Albertson introduced bil:
n the Illinois Legislature fixing the death
penalty for killing and life Imprisonment
for attempts on the lives of President.
Vice-President and their successors in
office. and a minimum penalty of twenty
years Imprisonment for attempts on the
life of the Governor or Lieutenant Gov
ernoP.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
Gszum5

Sharply at high noon Wednesday Win
Nowsll, chief clerk of the last session.
brought the gavel down in the Assem-
bly,, calling members to order and Lieut.
HOv. Davidson performed similar office
IL the Senate.
Lieut.. Gov. Davidson made a brief
speech in which he paid tribute to his
predecessor, former Lieut.. Gov. Stone,
deceased. Prayer by Rev. H. A. Winter
followed. Secretary of State w. l..
Houser, who was chief clerk of the last
Senate. was at the desk, and as the first
step toward organization read the list of
hold-over Senators. The new members
were then called forward in turn and
signed the roll, after which the oath of
Office was administered to all in body.
Election of Senate officers was then
proceeded with, resulting: Chief clerk.
Theodore w. Goldin. Janesville; SER
gean:-at-arms, Sanford Mcdonald, Ash
land. president pro tem., ]. J. McGilli-
vray, Black River Falls.
Senator John c. Spooner was renomi-
mated for United States Senator We'd
nesday night by the Republican lesisla-
tive caucus. Only one vote of the 105
east was against him.
Gov. La Toilette read his message to
the Legislature Thursday afternoon.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
EASTERN,

Louis 4. Disbrow was acquitted at
Riverhead, l.. l.. of the charge of mur-
dering Clarence Foster.
The Norman block, containing six
stores and the Masonic Hall, burned at
! l-ivermore Falls. Me-. resulting iii dam
age OF $4,000.
Z. S. DE Forest, a dry goods merchant
of Shelton, Conn, has offered his store
for two weeks to six local churches.
which are to keep the profits.
4 New York physician has success
fully used injections OF formalin in case
OF blood poisoning and cured IL woman
who had reached a state of collapse.
At II dance at Moorchouse, Mo-, Dol
pheus Hill shot and killed Marshal Dan
iel Lance and James Hill fatally stab
bed Deputy Marshal John Taylor. The
Hills escaped.
The Thomas block. including the plants
OF the Daily Journal and the Farmers
Friend. and the postoftice at Mechanics
burg. Pa. was destroyed by fire. The
loss is $4,000, partly insured.
The big factory building of a. Lunn x
Co., of Camden, \. j., was destroyed by
fire. The loss, which is estimated at
S130.OOO, is distributed among number
of firms who occupied the building.
Herminia Josephson, cashier, and
John Cottain, an engineer, lost their
lives in fire which destroyed the dry
goods store of Aaron & Weitheiucr, at
10th street and Sd avenue, New York.
The property loss is $4,000.
New York City is to have hospital
for the study and treatment of consuInp-
tion that will rival that given to Phila-
delphia by Henry Phipps. Its sendowment
will be at least $1,OO0,OO0. The name
of the donor is kept secret.
While hundreds of skaters were max
ing merry ON the bathing basin near the
Washington monument in Washington
the ice gave way, precipitating twenty
or more persons into the water. 1t is
known that three skaters lost their lives.
The employment of small girls at night
in the silk mills of Scranton, Pa, has
been stopped. Owners of the mills have
posted notices ordering the girls who
have been working night for day dniy.
This is one of the results of the strike
commission.
John Mulgrcz, Slav miner. and his
"AACs AifuiS SldtiOI, L
were fatally injured and their house was
wrecked by the explosion of keg of
gunpowder. Mulgrez was filling Il can
with powder when spark from the
kitchen stove fell in the keg.
In the United States Circuit Court,
district of New Jersey, decision has
been filed in favor of the Western Union
Telegraph Company restraining the
Railroad from interfering
with the company's lines along the road.
The Injunction is made permanent.
A baby weighing only two and one
quarter pounds has been born to Mrs. |
Vincent McNally of New York City. The |
father carried the child to the hospital, |
where it was placed in an incubator. The !
physicians at the hospital say the infant !,
IS well formed and healthy and will prob |
ably live.
The building occupied by the Tidioute |
Furniture Manufacturing Company at |
Tidioute, Pa, was destroyed. John |
Dunn, cripple, was burned TO death. |
D. H. Holdridge, a member of the firm,
jumped from the third floor and sus-
aimed fatal injuries. The loss is ST.
MO, covered by insurance.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
FOREIGN.

A special dispatch from Pekin says
the censOr's Office has memorialized the
Dowager Empress to resign in favor of
| the Emperor. as the first step in the pol
icy of reform.
In the German Reichstag the Secre-
tary of the Interior declared the best
foundation for the political and commer'
cial relations between the United States
and Germany is a tariff convention.
1t is reported that the famous bas-
relief, descent from the Cross" by
Luca Della Robbia, has been stolen from
the Church of San Severe, Florence.
The bas-relief is valued at $1OO.OO0.
The Tangier correspondent of the Lon;
don Morning Leader reports serious fight
ing outside of Fee. He says the Sultan
has been defeated and that he escaped
to the westward. War Minister Menebbi,
one of the Sultan's strongest pillars. was
killed
All details of the terms agreed upon
by Princess Louise of Saxony and her
husband are not known, but it has been
learned that she is to receive an income
of $500 a year and may see her chill
dren at stated times if she doesn't marcy
NJ. Giron.
The British embassy in Constantinople
has secured the issue of an imperial
trade granting the Khedivial Navigation
Company of Alexandria, Egypt, the
same privileges for its ships, to go hence
through the Dardanelles without stop
ping, as enjoyed by other companies.
London advices from the Falkland
islands report a life buoy and ships
wooden bucket marked "St. Enoch. Glas-
gow," washed ashore at Port Stephens,
West Falkland island. The British ship
st. Enoch sailed from Hamburg May i
for Santa Rosalia and was last heard of
May 30.
The Prussian Diet has been reopened.
The speech from the throne took
gloomy view of the finances of Prussia
and declares a loan will have to he
made. The Reichstag resumed its ses-
sions, the budget being the most import
ant matter for consideration. Both
branches of the French Parliament also
raOpened.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
10000 ARE STARVING.
People of Northern Sweden Are Eatins
Pine Ra rL and Icelo nj NIoss

People of Northern Sweden Are Eating
Pine Bark and Iceland Moss.
kilograms from Stockholm confirm
the distressing accounts of famine in
northern Sweden. About 10000 people
are affected by this famine, which ex.
tends from the 61st to the 9th degree
north latitude and from the Gulf OF
Bothnia and the Russian border far into
the interior. The starving people are
eating pine bark, which is dried, ground
to powder. mixed with stewed iceland
moss, and made into kind of famine
bread. Coincident with the failure OF
the crop is the extreme scarcity of fish,
1t is estimated that the expenditure
Of about $6,30O,OOO will be necessary te
save the population from decimation.
Thus far about 100000 has been sub.
scrincd, of which sum over S12,5OO wa.
sent by Swedes in the United States
This amount does not include the money
necessary to save the breed of cattle
which alone can live through an Arctic
winter, or supply seed for the spring
sowings. The peasants are making pa
thetic sacrifices to avert the extermina
tiOn of the hardy northern cattle.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22

D'' II. W. "iLEi. fects upon the di-
sestiOn of certain preserving substances
used in food, and the boarders during
the ensuing six months will eat, in addi-
ton to the pOisons. nothing but the pure
food furnished by the government.
The experiments have been begun
with borax and .salicylic acid, which are
largely used as preseryatives. FOrma-
line and the sulphites are also employed
in canned and other foods. both liquid
and solid. Bi-sulphite of potash is u
frequent ingredient of beer, being put up
in tablets for sale to brewers. This is
to be tried upon the bOarders, and also
bOric acid and benzoic acid which ere
popular preservatives.
Salts of copper and zinc are utilized
for ''greening" certain vegetables. and
aniline dyes are put into preserved
meats. as well as into butter and jellies,
to give them pretty colors. These and
various other adulterants, most Of them
harmful because they interfere with di-
gestiOn. will be contained in capsules sd
ministered to the young men as they eat
their meals. Each man when he sits
down at the table finds gelatine capsule
beside his plate. He swallows it at a
gulp and Is then at liberty to consume
the appetizing meal placed before him.
Only twelve of the twentyfour young
men employed in the tests are kept un-
der observation at any one time. and but
six of these eat the poisons. Things arc
so managed that the bOarders take turns
at poison eating in squads of six. One
squad has capsules three times day
for ten days, and then goes to the plain
food table. being succeeded by a fresh
squad.
DIR. H. W. Wiley. the government
chemist, is in charge of the test and. as
a result of it, he expects at the end of
six months to find himself in possession
of data which will enable him to secure
the passage through Congress of bill
restricting the commercial use of chem
ical preservatives and dyes in foods and
drnkables.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
Wholesale Theft of Coal.

A mob including over 200 men, women,
boys and girls at Toledo. seized five car
loads of soft coal which had just arrived
in the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads
yards, consigned to the National Mallea-
BILE Castings company and local oil men.
There was no attempt to stop the whole
sale theft, neither the police nor the Off
cials Of the railway or castings company
taking hand in the affair. The fuel was
carried off in wagons, sieighs, soap boxes,
buckets and baskets and nothing bur the
slack was left in any car.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
EVENTS OF INTEREST
THAT OCCURRED DURING rHR
PAST WEEK.
Tersely Told Telegraph Tales In
Brief ParaRraphs-Many Casual.
ties-A Few Crimes-Some Fires
Political and Religious News.
Roasted American.

Manila special: At the continuation OF
the trial of Major Edward F. Glenn, of the
Fifth Infantry, who is charged with un-
lawfully killing seven prisoners of war in
Samar. Spaniard, who was at one time
held prisoner by the insurgents, testified
that while he was confined at the head
quarters of Gen. Lukban, in Samar, in
May, 1890, he saw an American prisoner
roasted to death. He said sticks were
driven into the mans body and he was
slowly turned over the fire until dead.
The body was then left to be devoured by
hogs. Several American officers and men
were captured or reported missing in Sa-
mar in 1900, and the victim is believed to
have been one of these.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
@egyee,

Representative Kirk of Tuscola offer
ed i.l the House Thursday concurrent
resolution indorsing the opposition Of the
Michigan delegation In Congress to the
Cuban reciprocity treaty and urging con-
tinuation of such opposition. The neces-
sity for protecting the beet sugar indus
try is urged. The resolution was laid
over one day under the rules. Repre-
sentative Powell of Ionia introduced a
bill in the House providing the death
penalty by electricity or life imprison-
;nen:, as the jury may decide, for any
person found guilty of numbering the
President of the United States or any
member of his cabinet while in Michi
gan. 1t was referred to the judie;ar.
committee.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
CHICAGO.

stocks and grain the depression has been.
shaken off; there were signs of renewed
public interest and broader markets seem
assured from now on. 1t may safely be-
stated that the average grain man is a;
bull, insofar as his opinions are infiuenc-'
ed by the wheat supply situation in
America. ESPECIALLY in the Northwest.
There is. however, a large acreage of
new winter wheat, and while it is Inn
possible to know anything decisive as to
the prospects SO early, such reports of
conditions as have been received are gen.
orally favorable. And in Argentina a
large crop, said to be of good average
quality. is being harvested. The more
conservative trader will want to know
how the winter wheat will show up in the
spring, and about how much wheat Ar
gentina is likely to throw into Liverpool,
before buying heavily. but many argue
that the Northwestern supply and de-
mand situation will be the factor Of over
shadowing Importance later in the year,
and are bulls even at this time, believ-
ing that the best has been heard of win
ter wheat conditions, and that the effect
of big Argentine crop is likely to be
discounted by the Liverpool trade.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-22
In the National capital.

Cane growers of Louisiana threaten to
join with beet sugar men in opposing
the Cuban reciprocity treaty.
Congressman Tongue of Oregon died
suddenly; Binger Hermann, present gen.
eral land commissioner, likely to succeed
him.
House judiciary committee will report
favorably Representative Littlefields bill
to expedite suits against trusts.
Bill increasing Chicago postoffice limit
from $4,0O0,0OO to $5,O00,0O introduced
by Congressman Boutell; Illinois delega-
toin favorable and passage is likely;
greater cost of labor and material makes
larger appropriation necessary.
Clash between Germany and United
States in 1901 disclosed by Attorney
General Griggs; protest by Gen. Chaffee
against destruction in China by Kaiser's
troops described latter as ''barbarians':
State Department forced to explain"
Leaders in Congress said to have reach.
ed agreement for passage of bill to sus-
pend or rebate coal duties for six months.
Committees from both branches of
Congress at work trying to agree upon
some antitrust measures that will stand
the test.
Members of both parties expect that
if President Roosevelt is renominated
Judge Alton b. Parker of New York will
be the Democratic candidate.
Gov. Taft's refusal of Justice Gray's
and Justice Shiras' positions on United
States Supreme bench because of belief
that his services were needed to estab.
lish Philippine civil government is al
most unparalleled in American politics.
Representative Griffith of Indiana in.
troduced bill limiting the individual
wealth Of any man to $1O,OOOOOO.
President sent Philippine report "a
Congress with recommendation that leg.
islation to relieve conditions in arehincj.
ago be pushed.
The bureau of insular affairs of tho
War Department has prepared for pnbli-
cation a comparative statement showing
that for the ten months ended Oct. II
1902, the custom revenues of the Philip.
pine archipelago were S7.475.5 .5S6, against
Sc, ,921 $50 in 1901 and So. .759, ,994 in 1899.
The figures represent the total custom
house receipts expressed in United States
values, ----