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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
Notes of National Capital.

Senate committee on military affairs
postponed action on the Gen. Leonard
Wood case to Jan. 4.
President Roosevelt congratulated AS
siStant Secretary Loo!nis over his speech
Senate committee on commerce ordered
a favorable report on the bill giving Chi
cago naval officer at 5000 year.
rhe House committee on interstate
and foreign commerce will take up the
pure food bill at the first meeting after
the holidays.
Chicago Aldermen have been in Wash
ingtOn to secure an appointment TO the
Mann bill, allowing the city three years
in which 10 lower the t,nneis under the
river.
Signing of tue Cuban reciprocity bill
by President Roosevelt and his proclama
ton making ii operative opens new conf
plcations with other Sggar-producing
countries.
Former First Assistant POSTMASTER
General Perry :. Heath is scosed and his
integrity attacked in the report of
Messrs Conrad and Bonaparte on the
Tulloch charges. made public in Wash
ington. Other high postal officials are
criticised in connection with his acts.
A petition for the removal OF E. L.
Macarthur, superintendent OF the Nez
Perces Indians in Idaho. was filed at
the Indian bureau by Senator Hepburn
Of Idaho.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho introduced
a joint resolution requesting the Presi-
dent to acquire by annexation the island
of San Domingo. the dependencies Of
San Domingo and Hayti.
The Senate in executive session receiy-
ed the favorable report of the foreign
relations committee on the extension of
the naturalization. treaty between tue
United States and Hayti.
Representative Williams of Mississip-
pi introduced a bill providing for the re-
funding to certain States of cotton taxes
paid in 1865, 1866 and 1867 and appro-
priating $50 100000 for that purpose.
Lieut.. Col. c. E.. l.. Il. Davis, corps
of engineers. has been relieved from duty
as division engineer in the Philippines
and ordered TO Detroit. Mich, in charge
of the river ard barber work in that Vi
cinity.
Agreement between the Northern Pa
cific Railroad and the Boston Steamship
Company, tending to shut tramp vessels
from the hemp trade from tho Philip
pines, has been admitted before the in
terstate commission.
Senator Penrose introduced concur
rent resolution requesting the President
to use the good offices OF the United
States to induce the sisnatory powers OF
the Berlin congress OF 1878 TO convene
to see that the provisions OF the treaty
which guaranteed protection and reforms
to the Christian population Of the Otto
man empire may be faithfully carried
out.
Mr.. Williams of Mississippi introduced
a concurrent resolution in the House pro-
posing an amendment to the constitution
to give Congress power to collect taxes
on incomes and providing that such tax
shall not be construed to be direct tsx
within the meaning Of the constitution.
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This and That.

Mrs. Carrie Nations show has come
TO grief in the Pennsylvania mining re-
gions Its effects were attached at York.
President Roosevelt and COMMISSIONS.
of Pensions Ware will deliver addresses
on the Gettysburg battlefield next Me
mortal day, May 80, 1904.
A. Baumgartner prominent farmer,
eight miles west Of Newton, Kan, was
struck by Santa Fe train No. ., two miles
west of Burton, and killed instantly.
John Nelson was blown to pieces and
John Morris fatally injured by an explo.
sion of dynamite at a railroad construc
tion camp near Oklahoma City, o. I.
A tragedy was enacted just south Of
Huntington, W. Va, when Kelly White
fred three bullets into the body of his
wife. wounding her fatally. He then
killed himself.
An epidemic OF cholera has broken out
in Nayasaki, Japan, and the marine hos
pital authorities in this country will from
now on exercise unusual vigilance in in
spectins and Quarantiuing vessels from
the Mikado's realm.
Because Charles Veal of Whining
ton. Del, objected to his mother. Mrs,
Eliza DeGroff, marrying second time,
he demolished the furniture in her home
Just a few minutes before the wedding
was scheduled to take place.
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6HONS
CsO @t.L1aEs
~~~oNA

More young men and women are re-
ceiving college education this year than
ever before in this country. Sure indica-
ton Of this educational fact is gained
from enrolment reports received by the
Chicago Record-Herald from sixty-fve
prominent institutions of learning. Last
years phenomenal attendance Of $4,000
Mt these schools is now increased to more
than $1,000. The growth reported does
not confine itself to any section of the
United States or to any specific lines of
work. The University of California
shows a substantial addition to its roll of
students, the University OF Maine does
likewise, and in the South and middle
West the deans and registrars report a
similar increase. Higher requirements
for admission have not acted as n re-
straining influence save in the case of
Brown University and a few other iso-
lated instances. Itemized estimates of
the attendance show that most of the
5000 new students are actual freshmen
and not postgraduate pupils. The pro-
fessional schools attached to the univer-
sites have their share of the increase,
but 1t is in the undergraduate, academic
Al tHdt Tic CldSScS cN lucliCt
the greatest expansion. Schools of mu-
sic seem next in the favor OF seekers
after culture.
1t is probably not generally known
that the United States spends annually
on elementary education about S22I ,000,-
O00-the exact figures for 19O0-19O1
were, according to the report of the
United States Commissioner of Educa-
ton, $226, ,043, ,236. Europe spent during
the same period approximately S246O0O.-
600. The enrolment in the elementary
schools of Europe is. however. in the
neighborhood Of 45.00O,0O while in the
United States it is not much more than
10000, ,OO0-although it is estimated that
there were, in 1901, almost 22.OO0.00O
children of school-going age in the Unit
ed States. The yearly expenditure per
pupil in the United States averages SD.
Some profit may be gained from a COM
parison Of the amounts spent yearly by
representative American cities for the
maintenance and operation of their pub
lie schools. New York spent in sin
gle year S19.731.629: Chicago follows
with an outlay of $S,203, ,493: Philadel
phia's expenditure was S3.319, ,604: Bos-
toms, S3,043, $40; BaltimOre's. Silt .392;
Cleveland's, S1,251, ,345; and Washing
toms S1,1S2,91G. New Orleans is at the
end of the list, with an expense of only
S41S.O25. st. Louis. by the way. pays
more for its police department than for
its schools: S1,6O2. 1872 for the former.
against $1,526. 40 for the latter-a ratio
Of one dollar for the police to ninety-fiv
cents for the schools.
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NINETEEN FOOTBALL PLAYERS
HAVE MET DEATH THIS YEAR

Nineteen lives were lost on the football
field during the season of 1903, one boy
was driven insane from injuries and thir-
teen players were severely hurt. some of
them being disabled for life. The NUN
Der of minor but painful accidents goes
into the hundreds, and the list of the Sc
verely injured necessarily also is incom-
plete.
The feature Of the years tabulation
is that 1t shows serious casualties prac-
tically were confined 10 unframed play
ers. No member of any of the first-claSs
elevens was killed or permanently dis
abled. One Yale player and one Har-
ward player suffered broken leg.
No player in any one of the teams OF
the big nine" in the West was the vie
lin of any hurt worse than a wrenched
shoulder, a bruised head, sprained
knee or turned ankle.
In consequence of the injuries sus-
tanned by their players several of the
minor schools have forbidden the game
of football. Two towns-Columbus
junction, Pa, and Greenfield. Ohio
have stopped the sport as the result OF
petitions circulated by parents.
The list of dead this season is as fol-
lows:
Sept. 1S-Gustav Becher. Lake Forest
University: back broken.
Sept. 2e-Wilson Acrsed, Penllyn. Pa;
broken neck.
:. Sept. 2G-James Boswell. Winnipeg, Man
Sept. 26-B. Jeffry, Norwich, N. Y; in
ternally injured
Oct. 1O-J: r. Hnughton, South Bend,
Ind; internally injured.
Oct. lI--lOhn Nelson nj. frac
skull.
Oct. o1-Robert E. Levin Baltimore
Medical College; heart disease.
Oct. 21-John Withnell st. Louis Uni
versity; internally injured.
Oct. 23-Walter Edmunds, New Castle,
Pa: internally injured.
Oct. 2sLw. F. Connolly, Elmira, y. Y;
Oct. 23-Danlel Meany, Boston; ruptured
artery.
Oct. 24-Edward Cox. Newark, y. j.; In
ternally injured.
Oct. 2s-Thomas McCauley, Brooklyn:
conclusion Of the brain.
Nov. 3-Raymond Mcyeigh, Brooklyn;
conclusion Of the brain.
Nov. Frank Shanklin, Indiana; intern
ally Injured.
Nov. 7--H. Gustavel. Akron, o.; internal
ly injured.
Nov. 1s-Charles Hope, Corning, n. y;
Nov. 27-Harvey Chase. Kirkwood. Mo-;
died Of blood poisoning following operation
Oh injured arm.
The injuries, minor injuries they are
called only in football, run up into the
hundreds. Scarcely a team in the coun-
try is without its list of broken bones
and dislocations. The list OF nineteen
dead does not include large percentage
Of the team from Purdue University,
who were killed in a wreck on their way
to play a game.
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FOREIGN.

Tie military convicts on Alcatraz ISL
and rebelled, but the mutiny failed and
seven leaders We're thrown into dun
geons.
According 10 the Spanish newspapers
4 project is on foot for the marriage of
King Alfonso to his cousin, the Princess
Maria Hel Pillar of Bavaria. She is 13
years old.
Over Sl0,OO0.OO0 in bank notes has
been found i'll wall of Pope Leo's
| apartments and turned over 10 his sue
cessor; the hiding place was revealed by
| former Cardinal Gotti.
The attack of gOut from which the
Pope is suffering has lately been becom
| ing more pronounced. DR.. LappOni, his
holiness physician. has prescribed II
most severe course OF dieting.
Japan made its reply to the Russian
note and Immediately began active prep
aratiOns for war, ordering the dry docks
cleared for the navy and military trans
ports to concentrate at Hiroshima.
The London Daily Mail publishes an
unconfirmed statement that the war of
fee is preparing a scheme FOR the COM
pulsory military training of all males
between the ages of IS and % years.
The Australian harvest generally is
turning out excellent. 1t is estimated the
total yield of wheat for the six States
will be IG,000.0O0 bushels The previous
highest record was 4S.O00.OOO bushels.
The Berlin Lokal ANzeiger announces
that the Czarina of Russia recently gave
birth 10 dead son. The Car and
Czarina are in the deepest dependency.
says the paper. the Czarina's grief being
uncomfortable.
The Governor of Alcxandretta. Syria,
made an official call upon United States
Consul Davis and formally apologized
for the indignitics suffered by the con-
sui. Attrian. the naturalized American
citizen whose arrest by the Turkish au-
thoriiies caused Consul Davis to leave,
has been liberated.
w. Tattersalrs annual review of the
cotton trade says this year has been the
worst in the last decade. Eighty-two
spinning concerns in Lancashire lost
$1S0.0OO during the year and the trade
must adopt short time because American
cotton is 45 per cent above the spricc ut
the same time last December.
A miserably clad man fired two shots
ut Max Nordau, the litterateur and vice
president of the congress of Zionists, at
Zionist ball ut the Sale Charras in
Paris. One of the shots grazed Nordau,
willie the second wounded Il guest. The
would-be assailant was arrested. He
gave his name as Chain Selik Louban,
and said that he was Russian revolu-
ZIONIST
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
NEW WAY TO KILL CROWS,
Southern Planter Finally Drove The,
from His Eielda

Southern Planter Finally Drove Them
from His Fields.
"The crow is an awfully wise bird,
and it does not take him a lifetime to
get on to the farmers plans" said a
man from the country, in the New Or
leans Times-Democrat, "and 1 have
had occasion to see many examples
Of the crows shrewdness and ingen-
uity in marking out the danger line.
Strychnine is often used by planters
in an effort to get rid of crows, black
birds and other pestiferous plumaged
members that swarm on plantations in
great numbers during the planting sea
son. But the crow is not long about
finding out that poison is lurking in
the luscious grain for him, and he
shys around it. The crow can tell the
poisoned seed from the seed that isn't
poisoned, too. and for this reason the
use Of strychnine has not been found
as efficaeious as might have been de-
sired.
Il had In mind the rather unique
method resorted to by a planter in Ar
kansas good many years ago, who
found that the crows in his neighbor.
hood had learned to shy around the
grain that had been poisoned. He re-
sorted TO a plan that was as cruel as
it was spectacular. He soaked a lot
of corn so that the grains would swell
and soften. resembling very much the
grains which had been soaked for the
purpose of making hominy. After
softening the grains in this way he
would run long horse hairs, hairs prob
ably twelve or fourteen inches in
length, through them. He would use
an ordinary needle TO make hole
through the pithy part Of the grain.
He would scatter these grains all over
the infested portion of his place. Crows
would pick up and swallow the grains
of corn without being at all conscious
of the fact that these inviting bits
of food We're hanging on the ends of
long hairs. The result was tragic. In
a short while you could see n vast
army Of crows hopping around and
cawing to beat the band. They could
not get rid of the hair in the throat.
They could not swallow it. 1t would
not come up again And it was an
irritation they could not conquer. 9th
er crows would become alarmed over
the caws of distress and would fly
away. The crows in this unhappy pre-
dicament would sicken and finally die
ut was good remedy, though a bit
tedious. and not lacking in certain
aspect Of cruelty. But at any rate it
was better, from the standpoint of the
planter, than the strychnine method,
and I want to tell you that he got a
deal of pleasure out of it. for when
the crows began TO struggle with the
hairs he would simply sit on the fence
and laugh, of course"
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the operation of the banks affairs, and
| says that false entries have been made in
| the books.
Mrs. Anna Sieboldt and her 5-year-old
! daughter, Esther, were found dead in the
basement OF their home in Chicago. The
| two were wrapped in blankets and the
gas was turned on. 1t is thought by the
| police that the mother turned on the gas
and murdered the child and committed
suicide.
| 4 telephone message from Denton,
Neb.. says at Il Christmas entertainment
in school house John Shields and Kate
Sullivan We're fatally burned and others
slightly injured. Miss Sullivan. acting
| rs Santa Claus was euvcloped i'll cotton,
which took fire Shields and others Went
| Ia her assistance.
Alderman John j. Brennan. now serv-
ing his seventh consecutive term as
member of the Chicago City Council
from the Eighteenth Ward. was sentenc-
ed by Judge Gary to one year In the
house of correction for procuring the
false impersonation of voters ON the oc-
casion of the judiciary election June l
last.
If the special election does not decide
in favor of the issue OF bonds 10 pay the
Indebtedness of the city, the city OF Ham.
ilton. Ohio. will be placed in the hands
of a receiver This startling statement
was made by Mayor Charles s. Bosch.
The city council has called a special elec-
ton in January to pass on the issue of
$4,000 in bonds.
Harry Simons, II years old. has con-
fessed TO his teacher. Harry Nelson.
that he wrecked the Rock Island limit
ed express near Elsmere, Colo. He
placed an iron bolt on the outer rail on
sharp curve in the road. The bolt
lifted the fiange over the rail and the
engine. tender. baggage and smoking ear
were derailed at a 5000 loss.
Six persons were asphyXiated by llu-
minating gas in San Francisco and the
coroner concluded that the cases were all
accidental. In most instances window
was open in each room in which gas
was escaping and the coroner called at
tention to the fact that it is popularity
supposed a fatal result cannot ensue
where fresh air also has entrance.
A battery of seven boilers in the power
house of the st. Louis Transit Company,
at Jefferson and Geyer avenues, explod-
ed. killing three employees, injuring six
and wrecking the building. The boilers
let go Unexpectedly, the brick walls fell
outward and the heavy truss roof drop
ped, covering the debris in which almost
twenty employees We're imprisoned.
After going through the Supreme
Court, the Kansas City Court of Appeals
and the st. Louis Court of Appeals, be-
sides the lower courts, the case of Thos.
Sublette against the st. Louis and Iron
Mountain Railway Company, for the
killing of bull nineteen years ago, was
settled in the Clayton Circuit Court by
the rendering of S276 judgment in favor
of the plaintiff.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
Betrayed by q Kiss.

dear. Kiss mamma. l want to see if
you have been smoking cigarettes.
Thanie complied with mammals re-
quest.
Mamma-Oh, Thanie, 1 am going to
tell your father on you and he'll
Thanie-Mamma, why are you like
Judas?
And that night Thanie got an extra
hard spanking, after which he was
told that Judge Callahan and Official
Papa Greenlund would catch him if ha
didn't quit smoking cigarettes.-Cleve-
land Leader.
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Iuternatioual,a Repart.

Special kilograms from correspondents
Of the International Mercantile Agency
concerning the state of trade throughout
the United States are summarized as fol.
lows:
Interest and dividend disbursements at
Philadelphia Jan. 1 will aggregate S9,-
100000, at Pittsburg S6,000,0OO. and at
st. Louis S4.00O,OOO. At the Quaker
City" the wool industry fell behind 25
per cent this year owing to previous
forced production and strikes, but the
outlook for 1904 is good.
General trade prospects at Pittsburg
for next year are for gains. Chicago re-
ports a fair outlook for next year, st.
Louis an encouraging one, and st. Paul
one as good as this year.
Nearly all leading western railways
are suffering from lack of motive power
to move freight offered-the first instance
of the kind this year. Inquiries for
$4,000 tons of rails and structural steel
at Chicago constitute one Of the fea-
lures of the industrial week.
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Chicago's Death Rate.

Although the November, 1908, mortal
ity in Chicago was below the average of
the previous ten years-13.1 and 1880
per 1000 respectively-the month did
not fulfill the hope that it would continue
the decreased rate of the previous five
months, and so offset the high rate Of
the earlier months of the year. The
probabilities now are that the total
deaths for the year will be in the neigh
borhood of 2S,4OO. and that the death
rate. computed on the departments con-
servative estimate of 1,SS5,000 popula-
ton. will be but fifteen in the thou
cond
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Carried Away Rich Safe.

Boulder (Mont.) special: The sheriff
here has received word from Elkhorn, a
mining camp several miles from here, of
daring robbery. Cracksmen entered
the saloon OF Harris & Anderson
and stole the iron safe, which
they carried away on a sled quarter of
a mile from town. The robbers then
blew the safe open and secured about
$4,000 in gold coin. The safe WAS the
banking place of many men in the
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
A EriendlY Tin.

Gould You suggest anything that
might improve my poem?" asked the par
ty with the unbarbered hair, as he pock-
eted the rejected manuscript.
Sure" replied the editor. IF it were
mine would cut it down about one-half,
and then"
YES" interrupted the verse maker.
"and what would you do then:"
''Id burn what was left" continued
the blue pencil manipulation.
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The Ferris wheel, which was the Won
der of hundreds of thousands Of people
at the Columbian Exposition in 1898,
is being taken from its present position
north of Lincoln Park, Chicago, and will
be shipped TO st. Louis with the expec-
tation that it will prove as great ar at
traction to the sightseers at the Louis
lana Purchase Exposition next summer.
The wheel will be carrying passengers
in st. Louis by May l. 1t is costing
S175, 900 to make the removal. Search
lights in the cars will be one Of the new
features next summer.
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Our NIiIlion-ires.

The President of one Of New York 8
richest banks and the head of great
commercial agency deny the statement of
Senator Depew that there are 100000
millionaires in the world, 1000 Of whom
live in the United States and 1000 Of
them in New York. According to the
financial Red Book, a carefully compiled
publication. there are only 1900 per
sons in this country worth more than
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
Dowie Children to Be Ruled Out of
Chicago Schools.
A New APPOINTMENT,

Lawrence o. Murray of Chicago has
been chosen as assistant secretary of
commerce and labor. The selection was
announced by the president, who stated
that the Office had been rendered to and
accepted by Mr.. Murray, and that his
nomination would be sent to the senate
Immediately after the holiday recess.
The appointment is made on the per-
sonal recommendation Of Secretary Cor
telyou, who has known Mr.. Murray for a
number of wears.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
War Ship Is Burned at Sea

A dispatch from Copenhagen says that
the battleship Irer Hvitfeldt was de-
stroyed by fire aad sank. The Iver
Hvitfeldt was built at Copenhagen in
1885, but was partly reconstructed in
1899. She was n twin-screw vessel, 242
feet In length, with a displacement of
$500 tons and of 8, 100 horse power.
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A Frightfal Loss of Life,

A disastrous passenger wreck oc-
CURED on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road, eight miles west of Connellsville,
Pa, and at least siXtythree people were
killed and twenty or thirty badly hurt.
No particulars at this writing.
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Our Minister Coming Home,

A telegram to the state department
from Bogota, dated December I9, an
nOunces that on that morning Minister
Beaupre had left for the United
States via Cartageua. and that the affairs
Of the legation were now in charge of the
secretary, Mr.. Snyder.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
A Wabash Wreck.

An eastbound " abash passenger train
collided with freight train near Mex
leo, Mo. Engineer Thomas Whitten, of
Moberly, was killed. G. W. Blodgett of
Busy, Iowa, and c. r. Lamont of Van
dusky, Mont. are probably fatally in
jured. Seventy-five passengers were
shaken up severely.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
Accident on Medidiia,. Run.

The new Turkish cruiser Medidjia was
an unexpected visitor to Baltimore. She
came to bring to the Johns Hopkins Hos
pital four fremen who were seriously
scalded by the breaking Of gauge
glass while the cruiser was making q
builders run on the government course
of Barren Island to standardize the pro-
pellers.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31

Hal T. Lewis, former Supreme Court
justice of Georgia, died Thursday at
Greensboro, Ga, at the age Of 81. Lewis
sprang into national fame in 1896 by
making n speech at the Chicago Demo-
cratic convention, nominating w. ]. Bry-
an for the presidency.
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G,s.t Wealth for Pope.

Over $10,0OO.0OO in bank notes has
been found in wall Of Pope Leo's
apartments and turned over to his sue
cessor; the hiding place was revealed by
former Cardinal Gotti.