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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Cracking a Steel Safe.

"The work Of cracking an old steel
safe has become very simple" said an
inspector of the postoffice department
to Washington Star reporter. you
see." he continued, "all the burglar
has to do Is to pour nitroglycerin in
the cracks of the safe, then throw
some combustible material over 1t. set
it afire and get out Of the way. In a
short time the explosion occcrs and
the doors drops out as readily as if
it were made Of pasteboard.
This method Of going into a safe
is known to all the cracksmen, and il
seldom occurs that We hear Of case
Of burglar!zing pcstofiice in the
small towns that has not been accom-.
plished in that manner. The old meth.
cd Of boring into a safe In order tc
insert the explosive is no longer heard
Of. / do not know how this practice
can be stopped unless greater care Is
taken in watching the postOffices or
modern safes are provided. 1t is i'm.
practicable to equip all the postoffices
with modern safes. so that I think
the simple methods of the burglars will
be used for long time to come"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10

S-- SAYS.
Selsonable temperature and holiday
purchs ses stimulated retail trade, making
:esulis more satisfactory during the past
week Than Mt any recent date. Improve
nent was most conspicuous in heavy
Wearirg apparel and kindred lines that
lave remained dull because of the mild
weather. Another encouraging feature
vas tie resumption of work at the New
York mills, although there is still much
die machinery, especially in the textile
and iron industries. Thousands OF op-
.ratives are idle because of the shutdown
It few of the paper mills. In view of
The nrinerous wage reductions there is
noteworthy harmony between employers
and workers, indicating that labor lead
.rS appreciate the necessity Of sharing in
lie readjustment
1t L at last possible to perceive an inn
proveInent in the demand for pig iron.
1ue TO the exhaustion Of supplies by con-
;umera the extensive reduction in output
ind a'>sence Of further price concessions.
BUSINESS is by no means brisk, nor is
here any expectation of wholesome ac-
lvity during the remaining weeks of this
Sear. Yet there is evidence Of returning
confidence with the lapse of time. Max
srs Of structural shapes are also looking
forwdrd to resumption of building op-
srations that were dcmoralized and dis
.ontirned because of contentious between
emplcEers and wage earners.
Textile manufacturing conditions are
without alteration. Colder weather stim-
alateii retail trade in woolens and wors'
teds, but as yet there is no improve
ment in piece goods.
Failures this week numbered 25S in
the Tinted States, against 213 last year,
and Il in Canada, compared with 16 a
rear ego.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Ieopold,s Chinese House.

King Leopold Of Belgium has Just
imported a beautiful little Chinese
house as curiosity. After much trou-
BILE 1t was acquired for him by the
Belgian Consul at Shanghai. The
house is a marvel Of beauty. 1t is
carved from top to bottom in splendid
wood. The rooms are large. and all
furnished in Chinese style. The house,
which will travel in pieces to Belgium,
is to be set up in the park at Laeken,
where the king has his country house,
and has already erected Chinese pa
CODA and a Chinese tower. The love
of Chinese things was a craze of the
Georgian period in England. We still
see traces Of it In the pagoda in Kew
Gardens and in much of the early
Chippendale work. Every lady of those
times had her black boy. her Chinese
grotesque figures. and her little span.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Bright's Disease Cured.

Whitehall. ILL.,. Dec. IA case has
been recorded in this place recently
which upsets the theory of many ply
sicians that Bright's Disease is incur
able. 1t is the cnse of Mr. Lon Man
ley, whom the doctors told that he
could never recover. Mr.. Manley tells
the story of his case and how he was
cured in this way:
Il began using DOdd's Kidney Pills
after the doctors had given me up
For four or five years 1 had Kidney
Stomach and Liver Troubles; I was q
general wreck and at times l would
get down with my back so bad that
could not turn myself in bed for three
or four days at a time.
81 had several doctors and Mt last
they told me I had Bright's Disease
and that I could never get well.
commenced to use DOdd's Kidney Pills
and am now able to do all my work
and am all right. I most heartily rec
ommend Dodd's Kidney Pills and am
very thankful for the cure they work
ed in my case. They saved my life
after the doctors had given ms ap."
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
CLEVELAND SAYS "No."
Not to Run for Third
Term Is Una1terable.

Determination Not to Run for Third
Term Is Una1ternble.
Grover Cleveland has declared that
under No circumstances would he accept
the nomination to be President Of the
United States for a third term. This
declaration is made in a letter to st.
Clair McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn
Eagle.
Grover Cleveland's letter is as fol-
lows:
long time to say something which ! think
should DC said TO you before others.
You can never know how grateful I am
for the manifestation of kindly feeling to-
ward me on the part of my countrymen,
which your initiative has brought out. Your
advocacy in the Eagle of my nomination for
the Presidency came to me as great sur
prise. and It has been seconded In such man
ner by Democratic sentiment that conflict
caused me TO hesitate as to the time and
manner OF declaration on my part con-
corning the subject, IL such declaration
should seem necessary or proper.
In the liidst Of 1t all and In full view Of
every consideration presented. / have not
for moment been able. nor am l now
able, to open my mind to the thought that
alton l should ever again become the nomi-
nee OF my party for the Presidency.
Ny determination not to do so Is unal-
terable snd conclusive
This on, at least, ought to know from
me, and should be glad IL the Eagle were
made tie medium of its conveyance to the
public. GROVER CLEVELAND.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
|Rt)lPNCAr..
| PREAlnER
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Iowa Wesleyan College is now fires
from debt.
| The laie Bishop Webber was the FIRST
Anglican bishop TO find a grave in
| Queensland.
| Pope Plus " reads and understands
French, but he cannot converse readily
In that language.
The Rev. DIR. Moses. formerly Of
Wayne, Pa, was installed as dean Of the
| Cathedral of the Incarnation, in Garden
City, n. Y.
| Abiial Whitney. the oldest male menu
Der Of plymouth Church, Brooklyn, and
one of is founders, died recently ut the
age of 90.
| The Rev. DR.. R. B. Miller of Boston
has accepted the chair Of biblical litera-
ture in the Red River Valley university,
North Dakota.
| As a memorial of the late Queen Vic
toria a new carved oak pulpit of English
workmanship is being placed in Whip
bingham church.
| The Rev. DR.. Charles W. Winchester.
who has accepted the presidency Of Tay-
lor university at Upland, Ind, has a
| long record of active service in the Meth
! sdist Church.
| Snead Cox, who is to write a biog-
saphy of Cardinal Vaughan, says he will
be greatly assisted through the careful
and exhaustive diary that the cardinal
kept for many years.
| Bishop-elect Edwin s. Lines of New
ark has received from the women Of the
iiocese handsome episcopal ring,
bought By subscription, which is Of the
finest beaten gold, containing large
amethyst.
| The Raw. L. $. Shermer of Philadel-
phia has taken up his work as pastor Of
the Church of the Advent, Boston, to-
succeed the Rev. d. C. Hinton. Mr..
! Shermer is the first married priest who
| has been connected with the Church of
| the Advent.
| The Rev. Dr. B. W. Hutchinson, who
| IN June resigned the principalship of
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, has been
elected president Of the West Virginia
| State Normal School.
Canon Bernard Smith, one of the few
surviving men identified with the TracI
tartan movement, of which Cardinal
| Newman was contemporary, has just
died at NARROW, England, in his seth
year.
| st. Andrews is the oldest Presbyte,
| rian church ia South Africa, and it has
for nearly seventy-fve years been the
garrison church for Presbyterian soldiers
in Cape Town. 1t is proposed to erect
building to seat about 1,2oO people.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
EASTERN.

DR.. Cyrus Edison, the famous germ
specialist, died in New York after briei
illness.
Fire has destroyed the coal pocket nj
the big freight terminal in South Boston
entaiiing n less of about S125,O00.
The entire plant of the Hancock
Leather Company, at Amherst, Me-, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is 100000.
Edward Lutz, maniac. was arrested
at Pottsville, Pa. for shooting at Read
ing engineer who disregarded his order
10 stop train.
The Rockefeller Gould combination is
said TO have gained actual control of the
Pennsylvania lines. MS well as other vast
railway interests.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles was the guest Of
honor at the second dinner of the Cruel
ble Club of Pittsburs. He was present
ed with loving cup.
The town of Greenwood, Del, was
nearly wrecked by an explosion of dyna-
mite. Two were killed and 100 injured.
Many houses We're burned.
At the meeting OF Christian Endeavor
workers in Philadelphia President Fran
els f. Clark reported that the member
ship shows marked increase.
As tile result of quarrel Mrs. Emma
Miller Was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded at her home in Glens Falls.
N. Y, by her sister, Mary Montgomery.
The safe at the passenger station of
the Pennsylvania Railroad in Phoenix
vile, Pa, was blown open with dynamite
and robbed of $50. There is no clew
to the robbers.
John Z. McTighe, who has been super
intendent of police of Pittsburg since
Mayor Hays took office, was dismissed
by the city executive for conduct unbe-
coming an officer"
A private car containing officials of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway
crashed into gang Of worEmen at Gil
berton. Pa, instantly killing John Zu-
bricki and fatally injuring John Deyda
and Michael Barna.
The will of William Wyman of Balti-
more devises the bulk of his S5O0.O00 es-
tate to trustees to pay his daughter $6.-
600 a year. After her death, without
issue, the property goes to the Johns
Hopkins University.
Helen Douglass died in Washington at
the age Of 65 years. She was the widow
Of the late Frederick Douglass, the we'll
known colored orator. Mrs. Douglass
was the second wife Of Douglass and
was a white woman.
Three members of a crew of eleven
men on the tug Idlewiid were drowned,
the remainder Of the crew narrowly es-
capped death. and the tug was sunk one
minute after n collision with the tug
Hercules in New York harbor.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
GOVERNMENT POSTAL AFFAIRS.
Bristou's Report Shows Reform and
Big Augmentation Needed.

hCpOIt ShOWo heIOI" 0nO
Big Appropriation Needed.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow's annual report for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1908, says the gov.
srnment has been robbed for years by
contractors and dishonest postal officials,
but that n reformation Is scheduled.
AN investigation, which is still In
progress, has shown that for n number
If years supplies for the free delivery
service have not been purchased with an
rye single to the public interests" says
Mr.. Bristow Both in the matter of
quality and the cost of equipment the
ruling has been individual gain. This
applies TO articles furnished under regu-
,ar contract, such as street collection
boxes and carriers satchels, as we'll as
20 those bought in the open market under
aXigency privilege, which has been much
abused.
Favored contractors, abetted by a
:rusted bur unfaithful official, have cor
:upted the public service. An early and
thorough reformation will be undertaken
along the line of service equipment with
:he prospective result Of improved SER
Sice at reduced cost. Fraudulent con-
tracts have been abrogated. In the re-
citing of contracts honest competition
will have fair and free play"
Mr.. Bristow makes recommendations
as follows:
An appropriation 10 construct inspec.
:ors' lookOuts in postoffices wherever
necessary in the opinion Of the Post
master General. that the interstate COM
nerce law be amended so as to prohibit
common carriers from aiding and abet-
ting in the green goods, lottery or any
,ther scheme carried on partly by mail
ind partly by common carrier in viola
ton Of the postal laws; that special
agents and postal inspectors be desig-
nated rural agents; that the provision
that rural carriers shall not be prohibit
I'd from doing an express package busi-
hess be repealed; that the maximum of
rural carrier be increased to $3.50 per
innum for a route Of twenty-five miles
,r more in length and that law be en-
icted requiring assistant postmasters,
cashiers and other employees to give bonds
% postmasters direct and holding post
masters responsible under their own
bonds.
The estimated expenditure for both
:ity and rural free delivery service dur
ng the fiscal year beginning July ], 1904,
aggregates about $47,OO0O0O.
There are now in operation 1896
'ural free delivery routes. 1t is estimat-
ID that $500 additional routes can be es-
:ablished out of the appropriation now
AVAILABLE. the total to be in operation or
ordered established by March !, 1904.
To maintain the service on these routes
Turing the fiscal year from July 1, 1904.
20 June 80, 1905, will require S13,50O,-
NO
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
7EtS MAga&gRS
5000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to s5.25; hogs, shipping grades,
S4.eO to S4.6O; sheep, fair to choice, 1925
to s4.00; wheat, No. . red. S4c to Soc;
cori, No. 2, Ale TO 42c: oats. standard.
34c % 35c; rye, No. .. 52c to 53c; hay,
tim othy, $3.50 to $13.00; prairie, $500 to
S11 90; butter, choice creamery, DC to
25c; eggs, fresh. zoe to 2ic; potatoes,
&c to 65c.
Iudianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500 to
81. 90; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to 81.
sheep, common to prime. $3.50 to $3.2o;
wheat, No 2, SIC to S3c; corn. No. 2
white. 42c TO 43c; oats, No. white,
35c to 36c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $4.5O to s5.3o; hogs,
$500 to S455: sheep, $500 to 81. 10;
WHEAT, No. ., SSc to 90c: corn. No. .
SOC to 40c: oats. No. 2, Soc to See; rye.
No. ., 4Ic to 4Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $4.25 to s4.o0;
hogs. $4O0 TO S4.60; sheep, $500 tc
So. 25: wheat, No. 2. Sic to SIC; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 45c to 46c; oats, No. =
mixed. 36c to SIC: rye, No. 2. 5Sc to 6Oc
Detroit-Cattie. $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
S4.cO to S4.35; sheep, $3.50 to 1925
wheat, No. .. SSc to 0Oc; corn. No. 3
yellow, 4Ic to 4Sc: oats, No. 3 white,
SIC to 3Sc; rye. No. 2, soc to 5Sc.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No. northern
Sic to S2c; corn, No. 8, 4Jc to Acc; oats
Nc. 2 white. 37c to 3Sc: rye, No. l. 55c
to 5tic; barley, No. ,, 64c to Csc; pork,
mess. S11.25.
Buffaio-Cattle. choice shipping steers
$3.50 TO 1925; hogs. fair to prime. S4.OC
to S4.6O; sheep, fair to choice, S3.23 To
S4.OO; lambs, common to choice, $4.OO tc
$3.50.
New York-Cattle. S4.OO 10 $3.50
hogs, S4.OO to S4.75; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, SIC to SSc; corn
No. 2, 4Sc to 49c; oats, No. 2 white
41c to 42c; butter. creamery. 1Sc to 24c
eggs, western, &c to Soc.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SIC to
Soc; corn. No. 2 mixed. 4Ic to 4Sc; oats
No. . mixed, Sic to 3Sc: rye, No. 2, 54c
TO &c: clover seed, prime. $50.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
QUEER JEWELLERS IN CHAD.
Island in Which the People Are Not
Ruled by Conyentiona1itics.

Island in Which the People Are Not
Ruled by Conventionalities.
A French army officer who recently
made an exploration of the Lake Chad
region in Central Africa has ser to
his government curious reports of the
island dwellers in the lake, who were
amazed when the first steamboat ever
seen there puffed its noisy way among
them.
Lake Chad Is roughly triangular in
shape and about 100 miles on each OF
its sides. At no point is it more than
about thirty feet deep, and it is a
perfect maze Of islands.
The Islands are long and narrow.
and all lie in q north-northwest and
south-southeast direction. This uni
formity is attributed by Colonel Des-
tenave in part to the current from
the Sharl river and In part to the pre-
vailing winds.
Many of the islands are fairly we'll
wooded, and no difficulty was expert
enced in supplying the steamer with
fuel. Among the trees is one which is
lighter even than cork, and the natives
sometimes use 1t for canoes and also
as float in crossing the lanes of Wa
ter which separate the islands. Usual
ly the canoes used by the natives are
made of reeds. but not infrequently a
native transfers his family and f1ocks
from one island to another by simply
swimming across. The cattle become
accustomed TO this mode Of changing
pasturase.
Colonel Destenave estimates that the
number of inhabited islands is about
eighty. supporting q population of
about $4,000 people. There are some
10000 or $4,000 head of cattle on the
islands. as well as number of horses.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Fatal Fight Over Slot Machine.

In controversy over the earnings of a
slot machine at Frankfort. KY, Irvine
CrumbaIgh, bartender. shot and killed
Dudley Williamson. customer. The
trouble started over a penny which
Williamson claimed 10 give him in max
ing change. Williamson was shot twice,
one bullet. penetrating -the heart, the
other the iugular vein.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
South wants Convention.

Frank B. Williams. sugar planter,
and chairman of tire republican state
central committee, has announced that
Louisiana republicans will offer $500, 900
for the next national republican conven-
ton to be held at New Orleans. He Of
fers $25. 900, promising to raise the ball
ance from eleven Louisianans, giving a
similar amounf
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Killed in q Collision.

4 head-On collision occurred on the
Dayton and Western traction railroad
near Eaton. Ohio. An eastbould car
running empty cOllided with west
bound car filled with passengers. DR..
Clarence w. Lehman was crushed to
death and Motorman Young fatally in
jured.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
$4,000 For The President.

President Roosevelt is to receive
$4,000 and his children, Kermit and
Ethel, 5000 each from the estate of the
late James King Oracle, an uncle by
marriage Of the president. The will has
been admitted to probate in the Nassau
county surr0gates court, New York.
The will is a long document, covering
every detail Of the testator's possessions
and forgetting none of those related to
him.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Zangwill Is Welded.

Israel Zangwill, "the master OF the
Ghetto" as he is called out Of regard to
two Of his most famous books, was quiet
iy married in an East London registry
office to Edith Ayrton, daughter Of W. e.
Ayrton. president Of the British Institute
Of Electrical Engineers.
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by Chief Of Police
james Woods. The
crime was commit.
ted on the night of
Nov. IA, six miles
east Of Havana.
When rre s t e d
Strube did not deny
his identity or guilt,
but refused to talk.
A ( t erw ards he
broke down and
made a full confess
sion of the crime
y MI
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Students Are Suspended.

The faculty at Rutgers college at Bruins
wick, n. j., suspended for a fortnight
twenty-five upper clasSmen who kid.
mapped John Bergen of New York and
hazed him on the campus. Bergen was
forced to cut capers in his undergarments
and is seriously ill from exposure.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Duke of sIanchester Seriously III.

A London dispatch to the New York
World says that the Duke of Manchester
is lying rather seriously i'll at his Irish
residence, Tangeragee castle. The nature
Of the illness is not authOritativeiy given
out but it is believed that lie has diabetes.
Much sympathy is expressed for the
duchess, who is very popular in the
district
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
typographical Union to Establish
Cooperative Type Foundry.

Officers of the International Typo
graphical union who were in Chicago
recently perfected plans for the opening
of an independent type foundry to be.
conducted n the cooperative plan. The
foundry is 10 be established for the ben
eft of the type founders Of the country,
all of whom are on strike OF have been
locked out because of difficulties with
emplOyes
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Old Maid. at a Premium,

The Parker Pen Company of James
vile, Wis, will give to the women and
girls who have been in its employ three
years SIS, and s3j after five years serv-
ice. The move is made to discourage the
girls from getting married.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Those Dear Girls.

Mildred-Jack Shortleigh proposed to
ne week before last.
Amelia-Why, he proposed to me last
week!
Mildred-I'm not at all surprised to
hear it. When 1 refused him lie threat
ened to do something desperate.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
oId-rime Snowman Dead.

John Lewis, "A years old, said to be
the original side show man, is dead at his
home in Circleville. He began his career
with Van Nostrand's and was identified
with many different shows during his ac-
live life. James A. Bailey is said to
have worked for Lewis in his early ca
reer.
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Over His Head.

Sarah "a country girD-I say, father,
what did that city chap mean by saying
we had transformed the old elm grove
into a peach orchard?
Father-Blamed If l know. l didn't
see any peaches there. All I saw was
you and the Tinker gals.-Boston Tran.
scriDt
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Wife SLAYER HanEed.

Joseph Canovisky, who beat his wife to
death at their home in Minersviile, Pa,
on January last. was hanged in the Jail
yard at Pittsburg. Death resulted in
twelve minutes from strangulation.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
information Wanted.

"In order to be great" said the moral.
izer, "a man must be good"
How about great criminals. great ras.
Gals and others Of that class?" asked the
demoralizer.
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PAST AND PRESENT
As IT COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
felegraphic Information Gathered
By the Few for the nliGhten ment
Of the Many.
Want. to Flee From Hi. Debts


Hemmed in by creditors and with Zion
City in the hands of receivers. John Alex
ander Dowie is making preparations to
leave Chicago on January l and sail for
Australia, there to join his wife and son.
There is possibility, however, that even
if Dowie's examination before Referee
Eastman is completed by that time he
may find obstacles to this plan. A mem-
Der of the law firm looking after
the interests OF Samuel Stevenson, who
holds Dowie's notes to the amount Of
500, 900, as an unpaid portion of judg-
ment of sl50, 900. fatty asserts that Dowie
will not be permitted to go except
on the special order of Federal Judge
Kohlsaat, who appointed the receivers.
Among Dowie's followers announcement
Of the plan has caused CONSERVATION.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Second Class Mail Privileges.

Third Assistant Postmaster General
Edwin e. Madden in his ann ual report
says that the reform of the abuses of the
second class mailing privileges is moving
steadily forward and can be completed
in two years. Upward of thirty publica-
tions are still involved in court proceed
ings on the question Of second class priv
ileges and on the result of these cases
great part of the reform depends. Mr..
Madden expects the court proceedings
will be ended within the next few months
and the way then opened to complete the
reform