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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
tn the ten-year averages:

The average condition of the oat crop
on Sept. l was 75.7. against 79.5 on
Aug. ], 1903; S1.2 OH Sept. /. 1902; III
ON the corresponding date in 1901, and q
ten-year average OF S0.6.
The average condition of barley on
Sept. l was S2.1, against S34 on Aug.
], 1903, S9.1 on Sept. 1, 1902, S3S at the
corresponding date in 1901 and a ten
year average of SD.
The average condition of rye on Sept
was S4.1. against S7.2 one month ago,
90.2 Sept. l, 1902, $40 at the correspond
ing date in 1901, and ten-year average
of $50.
The average condition of fax ON Sept
l was 500, against SOB one month ago
and S6.2 on July 1, 1908.
The average condition of potatoes on
Sept. was S4.3, against S7.2 one month
ago, S9.1 on Sept. 1, 1902, 52.2 at the
corresponding date in 1901, and ten
year average of &c.
The average condition of tobacco on
Sept. was S3.4, against S2.9 one month
ago and S5.1 on July 1, 1908.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17

Another large gas well has been COM
pleted at Pleasanton, Kan.
A fire in the business section of Foss.
o. T., did damage estimated at $40, 900.
Philippines bonds amounting 10 $3,-
100000 were sold in Washington at n
premium of 81 ,024.
A passenger rate war is on between
the roads running from st. Paul, Mimi,
to the Atlantic coast.
Menotti Garibaldi, eldest son of the
Italian patriot, died in Rome from liver
complaint, complicated by dysentery.
The preliminary prize list, classifca-
tions and rules and regulations govern
ing the worlds fair live stock shows have
been issued.
1t is reported that Charles NJ. Schwab
has purchased a controllinG interest
(SSOO,O0O) in the Chicago Pneumatic
Tool Company.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the First National Bank of
Clinton, o. r.. to begin business with a
capital of $4,000.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the First National Bank of
Hamilton, Kan, 10 begin business with
a capital of $4,000.
F. $. Addington of Salina. Kan, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself on the
south-bound overland train between
Santa Paula and Fillmore, Cal. No rea-
son assigned.
A new gem recently discovered in Cal
ifornia has been examined by DIR. Charles
Bakersville. the chemist, and named
kunzite, after George f. Kunz, lis dis
coverer.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
proposes to solve the water problem at
Peabody. Kan, by constructing lake
there half a mile long, a quarter Iaile
wide and sixty feet deep.
While whirling loaded revolver about
his first finger, Harry Hamilton of Gush-
rie, o. T., was shot and killed. 1t vas
supposed that. al the cartridges had been
removed from the weapon. but upon ex-
animation it was found that one had
been left in.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
FOREIGN.

Three men and two women have been
arrested at Halle, Prussia, charged with
insulting Emperor William. The precise
nature Of their effeuse has not been dis
closed.
Saloonkeepers will be forbidden to
grant credit to anyone, and will be fore
ed to sell milk. coffee, tea and cold food
if bill to promote temperance is passed
by the German lawmakers.
Bulgarian reports place the number of
victims of massacres by Turks at from
10000 to $4,000. More than 10000 in
habitants of Monastir are said to be in
hiding, many of whom are starving.
III an interview in Honolulu Gov. Dole
stated that he would not resign his office,
but would retire/Rt the end of his term,
which expires in May next. Gov. Dole
is anxious to resume the practice of law.
The British foreign office is said to
have made representations at Washing
ton anent the recent seizure of two or
three islands off the northeast coast of
British North Borneo by the United
States gunbOat Quiros.
Mail advices from Pekin say the EN-
press DOWdSer Is suffering ITom u ldclai
disease and cannot live a year. The
news has caused CONSERVATION in Chi
nese court, circles. 1t is unknown to the
public in Pekin, according to the advices.
Special dispatches give an unconfirmed
report of an attempt on the life of King
Peter of Servia at Nish. 1t is said that
stones were thrown at the royal carriage,
one striking the King in the face, and
pistol was fired from a neighboring win
dow.
Many officers of the Servian army, in
cluding forty-seven in Nish garrison,
have been arrested for conspiracy to kill
all the conspirators involved in the as
sassination Of King Alexander and
Queen Draga; plot said to include 100
men.
Germany assents, but other powers
object. to a proposal of Russia and Aus
tria that coercive diplomatic action be
taken at Sofia to sever relations between
Bulgaria and the Macedonian insurgents,
and the plan is believed to have fallen
through.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
FARMERS TO COMBINE.
Plans Perfected for n National CO.
operative Association.

operative Association.
Organization of the farmers of the
country into vast cooperation associa-
ton was successfully effected in the first
meeting of the advisory board ap-
pointed by the convention which held
session in the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chi
cago. The board, which at present con-
sists of six members, representing three
societies devoted to the agricultural in
terests of different sections, will begin q
recruiting campaign among other organ
izations of n similar character, planning
to enlist every farmers society in the
work.
According to the motion under which
the advisory board was appointed, each
organization which throws its interest
with the cooperative association is en-
titled, while maintaining its distinctive
individuality and membership, to two
representatives upon the central body,
called for the present the advisory
board" Since the announcement of this
intention nine other organizations in the
middle West have applied for member
ship.
The headquarters of the board will be
in Chicago during this preliminary stage.
and the work of enlisting the sympathy
of the nations farmers with the move
ment will be continued, with Chicago as
a center, until the first of December, at
the opening of the annual live stock show,
at which time every society which has
manifested its intention of joining will
send two delegates as members of the
board. From this number an executive
committee will be elected which will take
in hand the working out of the details of
cooperation. Fifty farmers associations
are expected to be allied to the move
ment by that time.
The avowed object of the association is
to regulate distribution, placing this func-
tion in the hands of the farmers them
selves instead of the ''middlemen." This
will make necessary the construction of
elevators and warehouses throughout the
country. Discussion of capitalization, so
that this would be possible, occupied
much of the time of the convention.
State representatives or correspond
ents have been appointed by the ad
visory board in every State in the coun-
try to assist in the task of enlisting the
farmers as individuals and the farmers
tinnS in tbo movement
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Kentucky Soldiers.

81 remember how shocked some of
the boys from Ohio were on one Of our
first scouting expeditions" says a
veteran. I'VE We're prowling along a
ravine when the scouts or skirmishers
reported armed men on the other side
of the stream. There was some confu-
sion, but before instructions could be
given out our men fred ut a man who
had shown himself well up the hill,
and whose body a minute later came
tumbling down toward us. Our scout
had recognized man who. as the
leader of a guerrilla band, had burned
the house of his father and driven
the family from the neighborhood, and
had shot him through the head. There
upon the gueTrillas scattered and our
own men discussed the shooting with
many expressions of disapprovaL
THAT night several Kentuckians dis
appeared from camp, and We learned
later that they had Joined some men
of another regiment, pursued the rebel
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
TO IMPROVE WASHINGTON.
Ambitious Scheme to Make the City
the Grandest in the World.


the Grandest In the World.
1t is the intention to make Washing
ton both the Paris and Berlin of Amer
lea. Plans which have been considered
by Congress for making the nations cap
ital grander, more beautiful and more
splendid in every respect, call for the
expenditure of millions upon millions.
The first step in this long-looked-for
aGgrandizement will be taken in earnest
when the work on the Union Railway
station is under way. This great build
ing alone will cost S20,0O0.O0O. Several
years will be occupied in its construction.
The station will excel in size and mag
nihcence anything of its class in the
world. No railway can be barred from
its facilities. The mileage represented
will be about 1000.
In keeping with this colossal under
taking will be the homes of the States
on National avenue. The idea is for the
United States TO give a tract of land
5000 feet in length by $50 in breadth,
the frontage to be allotted proportionate-
ly to the population of the different
States, and in the order of their ad
mission into the Union. Here each State
is to erect building. Speaker Reed
thought the idea a fine one. Presently
there will be fifty States in the Union.
The fifty State homes along National
avenue will provide fifty reading rooms,
fifty writing rooms. fifty sets of home
newspapers, fifty bureaus of information,
fifty halls of social converse. fifty places
for business appointments, fifty trysting
places for sweethearts. fifty public COM
forts. There will be go seats in each
home, accommodating all told 12.50O Wis
itOrs at 4 tlmo.
Each home will be provided with spa
cious galleries, or balconies, from which
great public functions may be viewed.
These will give ample room for $4,000
visitors from all over the country to
witness the Inauguration in comfort-to
see it, so TO speak, from their own doors.
There would be some fifty acres in gal
ieries and open courts.
Designs have already been submitted
to Congress for n National Pavilion, ad-
jaccnt to the homes of the States in Ma
tional avenue. to contain open-air and
covered halls. restaurants. apartments
and Il roof garden. 1t is largely of glass,
with easements 10 be closed for warmth
In winter and open for pure air in sum-
mer through Venetian blinds.
Other proposed improvements contem-
plate a new park, new White House
and terrace gardens and broad boule-
wards along the Potomac. A national
Hall of Fame is also among the pm
posed changes.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
IN GENERAL.


San Miguel, Mexico, where Cortez
ricane, which caused great loss of life
along the wiole Mexican coast.
The United States has warned Colon
bia that neglect to ratify the canal
treaty unamended will result in meas
ures that will cause regret to the South
American republic.
Statistics issued by the Interstate
Commerce Commission show thirty
States have laws exercising control over
railways and the tendency to regulate
rates by State laws is increasing.
Sir Thomas Upton blames Designer
Fife for the poor showing made by
Shamrock I'LL, and there is said to be
friction between the two because of an
error made in the plans for the yacht.
Commander Robert L. Peary will,
make another dash for the north pole
next summer. He is granted three years
leave of absence and has hopes for sue
cess of new methods in his coming ven
ture.
The Erie Railroad Company has IS
sued an order for the discharge of all
employees over the age OF ID VINO nave
been taken into employ of the company
since May I, 1901. The order is design
ed to protect the older employees.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company an
nounces a wage increase of cents per
hour for boilermakers, machinists and
blacksmiths at all the shops on the sys-
TEN proper between Chicago and AL
buquerque. This means an increased
expenditure by the company of 100000
yearly.
According to the latest reports receiv-
ed from Bogota, the Hay-Harran canal
treaty is now generally regarded in the
capital as dead and buried, and It is de-
clared that the United States might as
well turn seriously to negotiations with
Nicaragua. On the isthmus the people
have lost all hope.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
EASTERN.

Two additional victims of the trolley
car collision at Pelham. n. H.. died. The
list of dead numbers six, with the pos
sibility Of two being added to it.
a man who is said to have threatened
TO shoot President Roosevelt was arrest
ed at Syracuse by tho police and secret
service officers, out no pistol was found
on. him.
An incendlgry fire destroyed three
honses and a etore at Pocantico Hills
near Tarrytown, n. Y. The houses were
occupied by Italians employed by John
u. Rockefeller.
Harry Brooks. alias 'Gentlcman
George" Robinson, who pleaded guilty
20 five indictments. three of which charg-
ei burglary, was sentenced in New YORK
TO twenty-three years Imprisonment.
Two young sons of NJ. Epstein, living
with their parents over junkshop, were
burned TO death in Scranton. Pa, in q
fire which destroyed the building. The
fire is supposed to have been of incen-
diary origin.
-Four men were injured seriously du:-
ing the running of 4 fivc-mile cycle
handicap at Manhattan Beach, New
York. They plunged over the track EN-
bankment opposite the grand stand while
going at a terrific pace.
After being missing for some time
Theodore A. Shaffer, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron Work
ers, resppeared at Poughkeepsie, n. Y.
10 make Labor Day speech. but again
disappeared Immediately afterward.
Three persons lost their lives in n we'll
at Neshannock. Pa. They were Joseph
Spencer, 35 years old. wellto-do farm
Sr; his son Walter, IL years old, and ALI
gust Miller, % years old. They were
overcome by black damp ard fell into
the water.
After a separation of a quarter of a
century, John Kingston, railrosd en-
ploye at Ithaca, II. Y, has just found
his son, John Kingston, Jr., prosperous
engineer of Chicago. The younger
Kingston went to Ithaca from Chicago
and proved his identity to his fatler.
During heavy storm cloudburst in
the bennington river valley near Bur-
lington, Conn, wrecked passenger train
on the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad. The train of three coaches
was toppled over, and about doze. pas
sengers were injured, none, however, Sc
riously.
Fire in PittsbGrs destroyed six large
buildings and three dwelling houses. The
property was owned by the Comstock
Brass Manufacturing Company. ware
nouses of the Pittsburg Plate Glass
L.
Company. Pittsburg Switch and Signal
Company, Thuemler Manufacturing
Company and Allegheny Manufacturing
Company's stables and storage yards.
The flames originated in the hay loft Of
the latter company. Sixty horses were
burned to death. The loss is S263, 600.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
A more confident feeling
in the business outlook is
con.firmad in laryer deal-
Chicago.
ings recorded

ings recorded by various industrial lines
and wider distribution of products.
Bank exchanges exceed those of the cor
responding week last year and reported
failures in the Chicago district are less
in number and significance. Country
buying remains very strong and local
demand is we'll maintained. Railroads
are liberal buyers on materials for re-
pairs and extensions and have placed
contracts for additional equipment involv-
ing large expenditures. Traffic, by both
rail and lake, exhibits no diminutiOn in
volume and earnings of railroads CEN
tering. here show steady gains.
The markets for grain and provisions
are fairly active. The monthly state
ment of hog products in store disclosed
a 10 per cent decline since July figures,
but compared with August, 1902, there
is a gain of 81 per cent.
Trading in the cereals was more ami
mated notwithstanding limited operations
for foreign account. Quotations were
moderately advanced in all the pits, corn
acting as leader Sales of flour are
tone on prospective business for the con-
tinent and lessened stocks in hands Of
domestic dealers. Live stock receipts
297 .5O2 head-are 16 per cent over a
year ago. Receipts of produce increas-
ed in lard per cent; hogs. IL; -four, 16;
hides, II; sheep, 80; cattle and butter,
20; seeds. 80; barley, IS; wool, As, and
corn, 315. Decreases are in dressed
beef, 16 per cent; broom corn, %; cheese,
40; wheat, 45; oats, 81, and rye, IS.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
PAST AND PRESENT
As IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
Telegraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
of the Many.
May Call an Early Session.

IL an extra session of congress is held
at all it is not unlikely to come in October.
President Roosevelt is much in favor of
this, and his opinion is shared by many of
the prominent leaders of the senate. The
claim is made that an extra session called
in November will not afford sufficient time
to accomplish any important legislation
and would be almost useless, while ses-
sion called month before would promote
the transaction of such business as would
probably come before it. 1t is known that
the president has intimated this intention
to senators in Ohio, but has been urged to
withhold until November because of the
state campaign. This same objection has
come from other places where campaigns
will be under way. A strenuous protest
has been sent from Ohio.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
CORN AVERAGE HIGHER.
Increased Yield Is Indicated by the
Government Report,

The monthly report of the chief of the
bureau OF. statistics of the Department Of
Agriculture shows the condition of corn
on Sept. / to have been SOL, as compar
ed with 1S.1 on Aug. l, 1903; S4.3 on
Sept. !, 1902; 51.7 at the corresponding
date in 1901 and n ten-ycar average of
I9.3. These figures as well as those on
other crops indicate the condition on
Sept. /, and no attempt is made to an
ticipate the results from future weather
conditions.
The following table shows for each of
the twenty principal corn States the con-
dition OH Sept. l of the last three years
and that on Aug. 1, 1903, with the ten
year averages:
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
wiec Uurderer Is Doomed.

At Hamilton, Ohio. Judge Brlden re
fused new trial fer Alfred 4. Knapp
the self-confessed murderer of tvo of his
wives and three other victims. The co,:r
fixed Dec. u for the execution. Knapp
took the decision with Indifference and
made 10 statement. He will be taken to
Columbus for electrocution.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Under Falling Walls.

Fire broke out in the third story of the
wholesale grocery house of Coleman.
Tompkins & Co., 81 Broad street, Nash
vile, Tenn, which after destroying every
thing infiammabe on that and the second
floor spread to the adjoining buildings oc-
cupied by the Broad Street Stove and Tin
wars Co., Harley Furniture Co., W. II.
Smith & Co., druggists. and Hall & Muir
ray, meats. The total loss was about
$4,000, of which Coleman, Tompkins &
Co., suffered to the extent of SS5, 900.
While the firemen were still at work, the
walls of Nos 311-31S and SI5 suddenly
collapsed burying dozen men in the
debris. Two citizens were taken out dead
and a number of fireman seriously in
jured.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Coffee Pot Kill. Women.

Mrs. John Henderson and Mrs. vii
liam Shaffcr were burned to death and
their children narrowly escaped at Blue
Ash. Ohio. The boiling over of coffee
extinguished the FIRE and the gasoline
flowed unnoticed. An explosion follow
ed the lighting of match.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
sho,. FIv at Parry Home.

Guards surrounding the home of d. NJ.
Parry, near indianapolis, fought Il pitch
ed battle with two unknown men. Numer-
Gus shots were fired, but the sentiuels
escaped uninjured. The marauders fled
and it is not known if either of them was
rl,ot
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
One of Many.

Mifkins-What became of young
Simkins. who graduated from college
lastyear?
Bifkins-Oh. he's still studying.
Mifkins-Studying what?
Bifkins-The newspaper want col
umns, with a job as porter or janitor
in view.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17

The average condition at harvest of
winter and spring wheat combined was
74.1, against so on Sept. /, 1902. SIS
at the corresponding date in 1901, and a
ten-year average of 1873.
The following table shows for each of
the seventeen principal wheat States the
condition on Sept. 1 of the last three
years, with the ten-year averages:
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Girl Commits Suic:I,.

Elsie Ducket. 16 year-oij girl living
near Lebanon, ILL.,. hanged herself after
being scolded by her father for receiving
the following lines from boy playmate:
'.As long as the vine runs round the
stump I'll be your darling sugar lump."
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Reward for Conviction.

Cynthiana (Ky.) special: Judge Osborne
has certified to the state treasurer that
Sheriff Woodson NJ cCord of Clark county,
is entitled to the reward of $500 offered by
Governor Beakham for the arrest and
conviction of the assassin of j. B. Marcum.
Sheriff McCord arrested Curtis Jett.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Will Not Sell clav Mines.

London special: The Westminster
Gazette says that an offer, believed to
amount to over $50, 900, 900, was received
from an American syndicate for thepottery
clay mines of Dorsetshire and Devon
shire, which the owners are said to have
refused to sell.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Hitchcock Fires a Man.

Secretary Hitchcock has announced the
removal of John A. Sterrett of Ohio, as
townsite commissioner for the Cherokee
Indian nation in Indian Territory and the
appointment of Dwight Tuttle of Con-
necticut, as his successor. The removal
is the result of charges against Sterrett's
administration of his office.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Judge Baker Hesitates.

Indianapolis (Ind.) special: United
States circuit judge, Francis Baker, heard
arguments in the extradition case of
James Lynchehaun, the Irish fugitive and
reserved his decision until later. He said
but one question perpleXed him and that
was whether warrant issued by United
States commissioner in the southern dis
trict of New York, could be competent
for service in Indiana.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
scourped by Grasshopners.

Grasshoppers have destroyed the crops
of the Picuris Indians in Taos County,
New Mexico, and the government will
have to help them over the winter and
supply them with seed grain next spring.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
Four Men Killed.

By the giving away of scaffold sixty
feet above the ground four men, engaged
in repairing break in the Peavey con-
crete elevator, at Duluth, Mimi. were in
stantly killed and one man seriously in
jured.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
ssFeel,'' ~

A soldier wrote from the Army Of
the Potomac about his rations:
"Oh. how l long for Il meal of moth
er's cooking, We get a substance for
soup called pressed vegetables 1t
looks good deal like big plug OF
dog leg tobacco in shape and solidity,
and is composed in part of potatoes.
onions, beans. lettuce. garlic. parsley,
parsnips. carrots and saur kraut.
Il ate two platefuls at one sitting,
and when l arose. TO my surprise and
that of my comrades. l could srpak
the German language with elegance
and fiuency l am new ready to fight
nit SigeI-"