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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-06-25
PETER CHOSEN KING.
Elected at the Dictation of the Cor
spirators Who Slew Alexander.

Elected at the Dictation of the Con-
spirators Who Slew Alexander.
The peaceful manner in which Prince
Peter karageorgevitch was chosen King
Of Servia contrasts curiously with the
scene of atrocious savagery which clos
ed the life of his predecessor. The
skupshtina and senate, the two houses
Of the Servian parliament, met in joint
session and within fifteen minutes had
made their choice, each member rising
quietly in his place and announcing his
vote. The blow which struck down King
Alexander was crime against both hui
man and divine law. 1t was treason as
well as murder. Yet, the blow having
been struck, the dynasty having been
changed by reversion to the ways of
elemental savagery, the same forces
which brought about the crime return to
the forms of peace and law. The late
conspirators against the throne are now
the upholders of the throne, and those
who still profess allegiance to the for
mer King are the only ones open to the
charge of treason. Truly the Servian
public, which cheerfully acquiesced in
both proceedings, has given curious
instance of the way in which popular
will may rise above man-made law and
become itself the law.
For the other powers the chief diff
Guilty will be the question whether civil
kation can afford even tacitly to coun-
tenance assassination by recognizing the
government now established. 1t has been
announced that Great Britain will de-
cline to sustain diplomatic relations with
the new ministry if it is to include any
Of the men who participated in the slay-
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ing of Alexander. This, says the Chicago
News, apparently is the only attitude
compatible with civilized standards of
law and morality, yet it may be doubted
whether the attitude can be maintained.
The inen now in power in Servia are not
likely to convict themselves of crime or
put themselves out of Office. They con-
stitute the Servian state. The powers
isfment, but the chances are that after
a pretense of the kind they will find
themselves obliged to follow the exam
pie of the Servian people and recognize
the de facto government regardless of
the hideous methods which it employed
in securing the governing power.
The Servian parliament elected Peter
Karageorgevitch to the throne, practical
ly at the dictation of the conspirators
who assassinated King Alexander and
overthrew the government. None of the
conspiratcrs is to be punished. The Off
GERS of the army after conference, sent
an ultimatum to the members of the SEN
ate and skupshtina, declaring:
First-The form of government must
not be changed.
Second-the names of the conspirators
must not be revealed nor the nature of
the role they played in the revolution.
Third-No officer must accept any re-
ward for the services he rendered his
country in the removal of King Alexan-
der.
Fourth-No officer who is arrested
shall appear before the courts in mill
tary uniform.
Peter Karageorgevitch accepted the
throne by telegraph almost as soon as
it was offered him. Indeed, he accom-
panied his acceptance by proclamation,
evidently prepared in advance.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-06-25
MANY MILLIONS INVOLVED.

New York City to Sue 1 900 Tenement
Owners.
In New York suits are being prepared
in the corporation counsel's Office against
no less than 1000 tenement owners for
alleged violations of sanitary clause of
the tenement house law. Expenditures
aggregating perhaps $4,000, 900 hinge OIL
these suits. Tenement house owners
have as a rule found no fault with the
provisions of the law. Now, however,
the first serious concerted attempt to
nullify provision of the tenement house
act is to be made.
All the alleged violations of the sani-
tary clause occur in structures built un-
der the provisions of the old law, since
the so-called new law" buildings are
inspected so thoroughly as their con-
struction progresses that any illegal at
tempt on the part of builder is straight
way detected and remedied.
But it is not the provisions relating
to light or air or score of other impor-
tant regulations which have led to the
combination to fight the law; it is solely
Q matter of sanitation.
Differences of opinion exist as to the
uumDSA VI tSuCiucutS dSdluSl WHICH tlO-
iation is chargeable. The property own
ers concerned estimate that no less than
5000 houses are affected, while the Ten
ement House Commission places the
number at about 6,O00. Argument also
has arisen as to the cost of remedying
each case, the owners stating that it
would be about $1,000, while the Tene-
ment House Commission believes 1000
to be liberal estimate.
From the viewpoint of the property
owner, 1900 houses each subjected to
an expenditure Of $1,000 would mean to
them cost of $1S,O0O,O00. The esti-
mate Of cost made by the Tenement
House Commission is said to be about
$6.OOO,OOO.
1t is contended by the men who own
the tenement houses which are under
the ban of the law that change from
the sanitary conditions complained of
would involve a useless expense, since
no more healthfulness might be obtained
thereby.
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Chicago porters have organized.
Denver timers receive 1915 a day.
Spain controls the Cuban shoe market
Toledo has blacksmiths' helpers
union.
The constitution of Mexico forbids mo.
nopolies.
The saw smiths will meet in st. Louis
next year.
The best laundered people are the
Americans.
Wheeling tobacco workers want the
nine-hour day.
Cincinnati's building laborers have
formed union.
India exported s46.0OO,O0O worth of
cotton last year.
On many railways cement ties are dis
placing wooden ties.
Mexico will employ Chinese coolie Ia
borers in the hemp fields.
The coal teamsters of Paterson, N. j.,
struck for increased wages.
One concern in Wurtemburg exports
5000, 900 harmonicas per annum.
At Reading, Pa, 200 hat 6nishers went
out because of disagreement over
wages.
Mexico raises $4,000 bales of the 1OO,-
600 bales of cotton used each year in
that country.
Kansas City, Mo-, cigarmakers have
secured an increase in wages of 81 on
each 1000 cigars.
Master builders at Boston, Mass, have
agreed to the demands of the carpenters
for an advance in wages of 20 cents a
day.
There is movement on foot among
the school teachers in Council Bluffs,
Iowa, to combine for mutual benefit. 1t
is proposed to make a demand for a gem
eral advance in salaries.
At San Antonio, Texas, the threatened
strike of the San Antonio Brewery EN-
ployes over the wage contract for 1903
is off, through an amicable settlement Of
the controversy.
Brantford, Canada, a city of 10000
population. did not know what labor
organization was a few years ago, and
now she has thirty, nearly all organized
in the past two years.
The strike OF the harnessmakers at
Walsall, England, is on large scale,
some thousands being idle. The dispute
is over the new piecework rates. The
workmen suggest arbitration.
Dockers are again on strike at Mar
seilles, France, for a nine-hour day. At
three other large ports there are ru-
mors of general strike having been
agreed to. This is not confirmed
Stone masons at Newcastle and Gates
head, England, struck recently over the
proposal of the employers to change the
time for revising the working rules and
regulations.
A straight eight-hour day will be de-
manded on May /, 1904, by all machin-
lists working in contract shops and under
the jurisdiction of the International AS
sociation of Machinists. The demand
will not apply to railroad machinists.
AS result of the big strike in New
York the 1900 organized teamsters of
that city will join the International Team
Drivers Union, reports President Corne-
lius p. Shea, of the Boston Team Driv.
ers' Council, who is in New York.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-06-25
FEUDISTS USE TORCH.
Hotel of Chief Witness for the State
Burned at Jackson, KY.

Hotel of Chief Witness for the State
Burned at Jackson, KY.
At Jackson, KY, the feudist's torch
was touched to the large two and ONE
half story hotel, owned by B. ]. Even,
Sunday morning, and the fourteenth ar
son committed during the Hargis-Cock
rell feud, begun two and half years
ago, was recorded. To this record of
arson must be added FIVE assassinations
during this time to make the feud story
at Jackson complete. Strange to say, the
murdered were anti-Hargis partisans and
the houses burned were owned by Card
we'll -Cockrell sympathizers.
Captain Even, who is the man who
testified against Jett, against the warn
ing that he would be killed if he did,
was in the camp under guard of the sol
diers. 1t was expected by the Hargis
feudists that he would run unaccompan-
led to the burning building and could be
assassinated by men stationed near the
bridge for this purpose. He was not al
lowed to go, however, until large guard
could accompany him. Ewen's wife and
nine children and number of boarders
were at the hotel. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Word was received in Portland Mon
sured, but a week ago Captain Even
was notified that on account Of threat
ening conditions, the company had de-
cided to cancel his policy. The house
and fixtures were the savings of life
time, and Even and family are homeless
and dependent on the hospitality of the
troops in camp.
The burning of Ewen's house fulflls
in part the threat made by the man
whom Even Says called at his home and
offered to bribe him by giving him $5,-
600 if he would alter his testimony.
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $5.15; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to S6.25; sheep. fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to tic;
corn, No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; oats, No. 2, S5c
to 37c; rye. No. 2, SOC to sic; hay, tim
othy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, $500 to
S15.OO; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes,
75c to 9Oc per bushel.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
S3c to Sac; corn. No. 3. 49c to sic; oats,
No. . white. 3Sc TO 39c: rye. No. !, sic
to 53c; barley. No. 9, SOC 10 zoe: pork,
mess, S16.95.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to s.. 10; hogs,
$500 to 5000: sheep. $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 75c to 71c; corn, No. 2,
SIC to 53c; oats. No. 2, 3Sc to 39c; rye,
No. 9, SIC to 53c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $4.25 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to
$4.25; wheat, No. ,, 1Sc to 79c; corn.
No. mixed, SOC to 51c; oats, No. 2
mixed. 3Sc to 39c; rye, No. 2, SIC to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
S4.OO TO $6.4O; sheep, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, 76c to nc; corn, No. 3
yellow, Ace TO SOC; oats, No. 8 white,
soc to 4Oc: rye, No. 9, 52c TO 53c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, TIC to
73c; corn, No. mixed, 46c to 47c; oats,
No. mixed, 35c to 38c; rye. No. 2, SIC
TO 54c; clover seed, prime, $500.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$3.50 to $40; hogs, fair to prime, 500
to S6.25; sheep, fair to choice. $4.O0 to
$500; lambs, common to choice, S4.O0 to
S7.25.
New York-Cattle, $4.OO to S5.45;
hogs, S4.OO to $500; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, SIC to Sac; corn,
No. 9, SIC to SIC; oats, No. 2 white,
44c to 45c; butter, creamery, zoe to 21c;
eggs, western, 15c to 1Sc.
Indianapolis@Cat shipping, $500 to
S5.25; hogs, choice light, $500 to S5.S5;
sheep, common to prime. $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 9, 74c to nc: corn, No. 2
white, 4Sc to 49c; oars, No. 2 white.
2Sc TO 3Sc.
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NJ -, cept in those
hef YORK. branches of business tina,

~ "E cept in t b IS e
NV I0[k. branches of business that
O--1ar are always quiet at this
season reports indicate a steady demand
and prices of commodities are firmly
maintained. Manufacturing returns are
irregular. idleness in textile lines par
TALLY offsetting the good effect of activ-
ity elsewhere. Earnings of railroads re-
porting for the first week of June are
only 3 per cent larger than last year
and I.S per cent greater than in 1901, a
condition due entirely to western floods.
That furnace stocks of pig iron increased
only 10000 tons despite the unprecedent-
ed output testifies to the great consump-
tion of the steel industry. Quotations
are without alteration, although much
business is delayed by labor troubles. In
case of general settlement of these con-
fiicts there would be resumption of work
on many buildings, and, including the re-
quirements of railroads, heavy tonnage
would be sought"
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade makes the foregoing summary OF
the industrial situation. Continuing, the
review says:
1t is an evidence of confidence in the
future that blast furnace operators are
forcing production beyond all previous
maximum figures. While the demand for
structural steel has diminished, there is
notable inquiry for rails and plates. Ma
chinery and hardware lines are doing re-
markably well for the season, which is
usually quiet in these departments. Coke
ovens are surpassing all previous records
for activity, and the output of anthracite
coal promises TO establish a new high
water mark this year above 10000, 900
tons.
Failures this week were 215 in the
United States, against 162 last year, and
II in Canada, compared with 20 year
ago.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-06-25
POSTAL SCANDAL GROWS.
Bristow's Expose of Corruption stlrs
the Capital.

tuG AapltaIs
Postmaster General Payne Wednesday
announced the summary dismissal of
James T. Metcalf, chief of the money
order division. Mr.. Metcalf has been in
the employ of the department for the
last twenty-0ne years, most of the time
in the money order division, of which he
has been chief for several years. For
efficiency, honesty and integrity he has
had an enviable record. The division
under his charge handles annually enor-
nous sums of money, last year the
amount of money orders reaching $780,
600 1000. and the loss through fraud has
been infnitesimally small.
Action in the case of Metcalf was
taken after President Roosevelt had been
consulted by Postmaster General Payne
and full investigation of the case will
be made later. The dismissal is the re-
suit of acts of Mr.. Metcalf in opposition
TO the bid of Paul Herman of Ruther
ford, n. J., the lowest bidder by S45, 900,
and in favor of the next highest bidder.
the Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford
Company of New York, of which Mr..
Metcalfs son is an employe. Mr.. Met
calf Indignantly denies being influenced
by this fact and claims that he was ac-
tuated solely by his desire to see the
government best served
In connection with the new develop
ments Postmaster General Payne made
public all the documents and reports of
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow bearing on the Tulloch charges
as they are known. The features of these
documents are:
Mr. Payne in n memorandum accompanying
the report says some of TullOchs charges
are directed against the late President
Mckinley, who needs no defense, and
against former Postmaster General Smith,
who has replied for himself
The report Of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow tells 10 detail how the
Inquiry was started at the time the Wash
ington postof1ce was transferred from
Postmaster Millett to Postmaster Merritt.
Various exhibits are attached to the report
composing the results OF investigations by
inspectors showing that efforts were made
by Mr. Beavers and others to have irregu-
larities overlooked, and that in one case
the names Of Perry s. Heath and Of the
back up threats.
responsibility for the many illegal ap-
pointments, the payment of two salaries
to one and the same person, and the dis
which practically no service was per-
formed, should be placed where it prop
erly belongs and the many abuses cor
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There is to be no further reduction in
wool rates this season. 1t is understood
that an agreement has been reached by
the rail and water associations
1t is announced that the Big Four will
begin double-tracking the road on that
part of the st. Louis division between
Terre Haute and Indianapolis at once.
The Grand Trunk is applying to the
Dominion government for permission to
increase its capital. The increase will
be at least S5,OOO.000 and perhaps $1O,-
100000.
The Reading has adopted new meth
cd for the redemption of unused tickets,
whereby they yare paid for at once, with
out going through the red tape form in
force heretofore
The Michigan Central will double-track
its line between kalamazoo and Layton
the next two years. The cost of this
work, it is estimated, will be between
$2,0O00OO and $2,5OO.OOO.
An official of the 500 line states that
the work of replacing the light rails
which have been in use several years
with heavy steel is to be carried through
The passenger department of the At
lantic Coast Line has authorized the sale
of colonists and other settlers rates to
all points on that system. This includes
North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina
and Alabama.
The Federation of Commercial Travel
ers of America have started a move
ment which has for its object the author
izatiOn of a 3,000m INTERCHANGEABLE
ticket on all trains in Western Passen-
ger Association territory.
Requests are coming TO Chicago from
the great railroad centers in the East
for young men to take positions as stem
ographers in the Offices of the roads.
Young men are wanted who have both
the ambition and the capacity to fill the
important places in the management of
the roads in the next ten or fifteen years.
There is a dearth of this character of
help in the East. There is decided pref
erence for men as stenographers in most
railroad Offices because of the policy be-
ing pursued which makes this position
the avenue for promotion 10 responsible
places.
The annual demand for railway ties
IL 400 for each mile of track and the
average life Of tie is seven years. 1t
Is an unusual acre Of forest that has
300 trees that will make three ties each,
and it takes fifty years to grow a tree
that will make three ties. Therefore.
twenty-five acres of forest are necessary
for every mile of track. Electric rail
ways included, there are in the United
States about 250.0O0 miles of road.
At a recent meeting of the per diem
committee Of the American Railway As
sociation at Cincinnati it wu decided
that if cars are delivered, therr Is 20 be
no per diem charge on them, eves u Wy
bill Is not at hand
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$4,000 HOMELESS OURS.
Chicago Menaced by Rabies From Hy-
drophobic Creatures.

Chicago Meuaced by Rabies From Hy.
drophobic Creatures.
With the deaths from hydrophobia in
Chicago already exceeding in number
those in any other metropolis in any en-
lightened country, the city is threatened
with an increase in the ravages of the
disease during the coming hot season.
In Europe, where proper dog laws are
enforced, the average Of hydrophobia
cases is one to every 100000 inha bit
ants. In Chicago the average for last
year alone was IA for less than 2,000,-
600 people. In reality the average was
higher, as many cases were cured and
many were probably mistaken in diagno-
sis, or not reported to the authorities.
There are in Chicago 1900 homeless
dogs, and these are mainly in the out
lying sections. 1t is from these herds
Of vagrant ours that most of the rabies
| is communicated.
"The existing dog laws in Chicago"
says DIR. Bevan, who has made study
of hydrophobia. "are stupidity inefficient
and are not effectively enforced. Why
did the wise city fathers make the law
inactive between Nov. / and April l.?
Because, 1 imagine. they still believed
in the old fairy tale that dogs did not
90 mad in the winter. This is. however,
no excuse, because they could easily
have found by investigating the subject
that hydrophobia is as common practi
cally in winter as in summer. And it is
the duty of men in their positions, posi-
tions of responsibility, to investigate such
important subjects. But even if we had
a proper law it would be of no value un-
less efficiently Senforced, and even the
existing poor law is not being enforced"
Lax dog regulations have permitted
a steady growth of rabies in Chicago
until the death rate from the disease is
In excess of that of New York; and an
officer of the Humane Society says there
are more dogs in the city than in Con-
stantinople.
The new dog pound at the bridewell is
completed, but unless the conditions un-
der which the animals are herded before
they are put to death are greatly improv-
ed it is said the new buildings will be
Of little use in protecting the city from
threatened dangers.
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The Karageorgevitch dynasty carries
heavy accent on the nasty"
Absent treatment is certainly the best
for one who is threatened with a cyclone.
Now it will be interesting to see how
long dynasty originating in murder will
last.
Mr.. Folk should be able to carry Mis-
souri,, provided the penitentiaries do not
get vote.
1t appears that Queen Draga's beauti-
full sister escaped. What hit she could
make on the stage now.
Now that the country is pretty well
stocked up with panama hats they are
rapidly going out of style.
Doubtless the people of Kansas City
are overjoyed to think that they were
bright enough to build their city on a
few hills.
Abdul Hamid is going to release 1,4OO
Bulgarians from various prisons. Alb. is
never happy unless. he is making trouble
for the world.
1t is pleasing to know that somebody
in the War Department has sense and
courage enough to cut through several
yards of red tape when occasion requires.
The opportunity to give relief to the flood
sufferers through judicious use of mill
tary stores is one of these occasions.
1t must be that Jim Hill does not
want to buy any more stocks at present
or else he is using another variety of
pepsin, for he now sees prosperity ahead.
1t remains for the revised editions of
the dictionaries to explain whether the
past tense of the new verb Ito standpat'
should be 'stoodpat' or ''standpatted."
The two forms are about equally elegant.
In Erie, Pa, the police force has gon..
on a strike. While endeavOring to pro-
tect their lives and property against the
criminal classes the people of Erie may
now speculate upon the desirability of
having public servants organized under
union leaders and amenable to strike Or
ders,
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Explosion KiIIs.NIany.

Fourteen men were killed and thirteen
Injured BY an explosion in the lyddite
factory at the Woolwich arsenal, London,
England. Several of the victims were
literally blown to pieces. The building
was completely wrecked. The roof was
blown OF and the interior collapsed. The
explosion is attributed to the bursting of
shell. There were many pathetic scenes
about the gates of the great arsenal, where
thousands of relatives Of the employees
besieged the officials for information. Six
additional men are missing and it is be-
lieved they were blown to pieces.
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New. of Minor Note.

Out-of-work benefits paid TO members
of the Cigarmakers' International Union
during the year 1896 We're S175,767.25
while for the year 1902 the amount had
decreased to S21,0I1.
In anticipation of strike resulting
from a demand for increased wages and
shorter hours. all the white labor laun-
dries in Portland, Ure., posted notices
that they will shut down indefinitely The
lockout throws 600 operatives out of
work.
At Boston, Mass. the structural iron
workers have won decided victory in
that their demand for 1O-cent-an-hour
advance was received by the contractors
without a murmur.
A carpet industry was started few
wears ago in a poor district in Donegal,
ireland. and commencing with a dozen
women workers, it has grown to such an
extent that it now finds employment for
several hundred people.
A strike of miners has taken place in
Lanarkshire. Scotland, owing to the re-
fusal to dismiss some Poles who are
alleged to have assaulted a Scotchman.
The men say they will not resume work
until all foreigners are dismissed.