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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
IN GENERAL

The Reliance has been chosen to de-
fend the Americas cup against Sir
Thomas Lipton's third challenger, Sham
rock III.
William e. Curtis says the bonanza"
farms of the Northwest are being broken
up by settlers, who are establishing
homes and diversifying the crops.
The Valhalla Colonization and I'm
provement Company, composed principal
" of California capitalists, is looking
for colony sites in Mexico for 500 Dan
ish families.
Onicials of Brown University have be-
gun an investigation into the charge that
the oration delivered by Maurice Is. Rich
at the last Brown commencement, with
which he won the Castor medal, shows
evidence of plagiarism from an grafton
By a student at Hamilton College in 1901.
The only information the State De-
partment in Washington has concerning
the reported trouble in Panama is con-
tanned in a cablegram received from
Consul General Gudger, in which he
states that the "governorship has been
rendered and refused" and that the sit
uation is grave.
An area Of coal estimated to contain
go. 900 900 tons has been located in the
Peace river country, British Columbia.
Some of the seams are said to be nine
feet thick and the coal of good quality.
The scene of the discovery is near Hud-
son Hope. not far from the entrance to
the Peace river pass.
The managers of the Canadian Bank
of Commerce and the Bank of British
North America report that up to the
present date the banks have received
from the klondike since the opening of
navigation $2.630.OO0. They expect at
least S16,OO0.0 900 will be taken out Of the
Klondike before navigation closes.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
A REPORT ON CROPS.
Weather Bureau Forms m Estimate
ON Condition of Cereals

Weather Bureau Forms m Estimate
ON Condition Of cereals.
The weather bureaus weekly summary
Of crop conditions is as follows:
The temperature during the week end
ing July q In the districts east of the
Rocky Mountains has been favorable, ex
cept In New England, where it has been
too cool, but the need of rain is being
quite generally felt in the central val
leys and Southern States. Destructive
local storms occurred in Minnesota, Mis-
souri, and in the northern portion of the
middle Atlantic States. In California
the week was abnormally cool, but other
wiss favorable.
Over the northern portion of the corn
belt the corn crop has made good prog
ress, and elsewhere fair advancement Is
reported, but is In general need Of rain
In the central and southern portions Of
the principal corn States. While NO Sc
rious injury has yet resulted from
drought the crop is threatened In portions
Of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
Some winter wheat remains to be har-
vested in the northern portion of the
middle Atlantic States and the lake re-
gion. While light yields are generally in
dicated the crop has been secured and is
being thrashed under exceptionally fa-
vorable conditions, that in shock and
stack having wholly escaped injury from
moisture, which was quite widespread in
the previous year.
The condition of spring wheat con-
tinues unfavorable, especially over the
northern portion of the spring wheat re-
gion. An improvement. however, In the
crop on fall-plowed lands in northern
Minnesota is reported, but the late-sown
Is poor and rust is prevalent in southern
Minnesota and South Dakota. In North
Dakota the heads are filling fairly well,
but poor crop is indicated, and its con-
dition in Nebraska is less favorable.
Spring wheat Is ripening rapidly in the
Dakotas. In Montana and Washington
II is filing well.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
FOREIGN.

B. L. FarjeOn, the novelist. died sud-
denly at his residence in London.
The treaty negotiated with Denmark
expired by limitation.
Turkish cruiser Medjidia, first war
ship ever built at Cramps for Ottoman
Empire. Was launched.
Judge John G. Long, American consul
general at Cairo. died at Dunbar, Scot
land. after an accidental fall.
The historic fsherman's ring, the en-
blem of papal authority, is said to have
disappeared from the Vatican.
Japan decides to adopt the policy Of
Great Britain of waiting and watching
Russia's actions in Manchuria.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
were given an enthusiastic reception at
Belfast; city was elaborately decorated
and thronged with sightseers.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that Russia has asked permission of the
to pass through the Dardanelles for the
far east.
Thirty women took refuge in q barn
near Schalajika, in the district Don, Rus
sia, to escape from gang of men, and
were burned to death, their pursuers set
ting fire to the barn.
A terrific cyclone has passed through
the district of Tchernigof, Russia. Three
villages were destroyed in few minutes.
Churches and houses were lifted bodily
and carried long distance. The loss of
life was great
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
. There are NO signs of
m business paralysis. The
elimination of water in
Chicago.

Wall street has not put q damper on
straight business. Tho real decline in
stocks began when the court handed
down the decision in the Northern Securi-
ties case which showed that there were
limits to what even the kings Of finance
could do, and since then the influences
for decline have been many. But the
first great blow at confidence was struck
when the public began to see that the
men who held the trusteeships for the
smaller investors were managing the af-
fairs of the country's greatest corpora
tion fog their own purposes. Then the
small investor began to ask himself what
sort of a show he stood.
The lapse of speculation has been indi-
Gated this year by the collapse Of sew
eral purely speculative organizations
and the unwillingness Of the speculative
public to give the United States Ship
building a boost, while the failure of
Keene's Southern Pacific deal, after run
ming up the stock to 80, is a case in
point.
Do present conditions mean that, be-
fore very long, a shadow Is to fall again
on industrial and commercial conditions
now so promising? 1t does not look
much like it. The refunding operations
Of Secretary Shaw have added some $34.-
100000 to the circulation since April;
the period is commencing for sales of
sterling bills against the autumn exports
Of grain, cotton and other products and
Europe will readily furnish any funds
needed to meet possible money strin-
eency. The West and South are better
prepared than New York for the crop
moving period, as they have balances to
take up there and loans to call in which
were made in the spring.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
SOUTHERN.

A sharp earthquake shock was felt in
the central part of North Carolina Fri
day. but no damage was done.
Maggie L. Walker, a eolored woman,
has been elected president of St. Luke's
Penny Savings Bank at Richmond, Va.
Three persons were killed and more
than score injured by lightning at New
Hope Church, Appomattox County, Va.
Two people were killed and seven in
jured in rear-end collision between the
Southwestern vestibule limited of the
Southern Railway and a work train at
Springfield. Va.
A violent electrical, wind and rain
storm prevailed in Austin, Texas. result
ing in great damage. The wind attained
the velocity of tornado and the total
rainfall was four and one-half inches.
A resolution appropriating $4,000 for
State exhibit at the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition at ST. Louis in 1904
passed the lower house of the General
Assembly of Georgia by a vote of 50 to
Il.
Because Charelton Hullet, a contractor
at Lexington. Ky. aged so years. did not
pay him what he thought three days
service was worth, James Copper, a
laborer. aged 80. secured a pistol and
shot Hullet to death.
Miss Annie Strong, living near Vicks-
burg. Miss, shot and killed an old negro
by the name of Robert Anderson, who
lived just adjoining the Strong home
stead. The trouble originated through
the old man overlapping his property
line.
Harmon Truman Coates. who has been
wandering in the South for year and
who was committed to Jail at Richmond.
Va. for ten days for drunkenness, has
confessed To the police authorities that
he is murderer. The crime, according
10 his confession. was committed at
Spring Valley, y. Y, May 10, 1902, and
the victim was Louis Hull.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
FORTY MILLIONS LOST.

Careful Estimate OF Recent Flood
Damage In the West.
In seven fearful days the waters of a
prairie slope racing into the lower Mis-
souri, river have brought to the middle
West the greatest loss In life and prop
erty of all its history. Hundreds of lives
and perhaps sc, ,OOO, 600 of property have
been sacrificed. Farmers, manufactur-
ers, towns, cities, railroads, have all
shared In the tremendous damage-and
because fire was seldom present there Is
no recompensing insurance to make the
blow lighter, writes Charles Moreau Har-
ger in Leslie's Weekly. The Kaw val
ley of Kansas is like an outstretched
hand. The finger tips are 200 miles from
the end Of the wrist, where is situated
Kansas City, No. They are, too, 500
feet higher than the city, and down their
converging lengths flow the prairie
streams. As the river joins the Missouri
it makes a turn to the south, and in the
bend is Kansas City, Kan, the big sister
of the Missoupri town. The latter has
$4,000 people: the former 10000. In
the former are the stockyards, the pack
ing houses, among the largest in the
world; carshops, manufactures and
wholesale warehouses and grain eleva-
tors. Sixty miles westward, at the join
ing of palm and wrist, is Topeka, the
capital of Kansas. OF its 81, 200 people
nearly one-third live on the level ground
north and south of the river rather than
on the high slopes where is the state
house and where are the beautiful homes
of leading citizens.
Over a stretch Of the richest country
in the West, where wheat stood waist
high and corn was peeping through the
ground, where alfalfa fields were in
bloom and oats was beginning to wave,
200 miles long and three to five miles
wide, the valley is swept clear Not less
than $1O,0O0,O00 will be the farmers
loss The towns will lose another ST.
600, 900; Topeka, $3,OOO,OOO; the rail-
roads, 100000 And all because it
rained up among the fingers of the prairie
water basin.
The towns will suffer most from the
food. The farms will recover quickly.
On many of the submerged acres a crop
Of corn will yet be planted and harvested.
The wheat is not all gone. Not more
than one-twentieth of the Kansas crop
Is directly affected-probably not that.
There has been much stock drowned.
many farms made desolate: the blow
Is a fearful one. Only the food of 1874
compares with it. But the West is stout
hearted, buoyant; it will heal the scars
op1 rocovar
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
EASTERN.

The postoffice safe at Mayville. N. Y,
was blown open and $1,000 stamps were
secured by the burglars.
Russell Sage was taken i'll at his Wall
street Office. but refused to call doctor,
and continued at business.
The Reliance lost her gaff and Column
bia her topmast in race OF Newport
which was won by the former.
A seat on the New York Stock lEx-
change was sold Friday for $6OO0o. Ihe
last previous sale was at $6I.5OU.
Thirty-five persons were injured. some
of them fatally. in collision on the Wor-
cester and Boston Street Railroad.
Thomas O'Toole of New York, one OF
the most expert bridge builders III the
country, was accidentally killed at-Quar-
ryvillc, Pa.
Julius Finn and George Friel of But
ler, Pa, and Amile Yost of New York
were fatally burned in an explosion at
brewery in Butler.
William {. Arnold, farmer OF Jeffer-
son township. Pa. and his young wife
have been been accused of numbering
their new born baby.
Miss Jessie Brader. aged 10 years. OF
Plains, Pa, is dead from Fourth oil
July accident with toy pistol. Lock
jaw set in and proved fatal.
Hundreds of New York women have
been victimized to the extend of thou
sands of dollars as result of swindling
operations of so-called league.
Il. q. Thomas Of Iowa and E. l.. An
derson of Michigan passed their physical
examinations for the navy and were ad-
mitted as midshipmen at Annapolis.
Lawrence Murphy, accused treasurer
Of New York st0necutters' union, has
been found guilty of grand larceny in
first degree and remanded for sentence.
A. B. Youngson, who succeeded to the
grand chieftainship of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers on the death of
Chief =. NJ. Arthur, died at Meadville,
Pa.
The body of a beautiful young woman.
evidently murdered, was found in sewer
pipe at Mount Vernon, n. Y; was well
dressed, but residents unable to identify
her.
Lynching of John Peel, Lackawanna
Railroad detective. attempted by Fos-
ter. Pa. residents in revenge for evil
dence secured by him implimating them
in thefts.
The results of the annual balancing of
all the savings banks of New Hamp-
shire up to June 80 show an increase in
deposits during the year Of more than
81. 900. 900.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
OUR IMMENSE APPLE CROP
Few Persons Have Any Conception
Ita Size and Value

Few Persons Have Any Conception O,
Its Size aud Value.
Few people have any conception of the
enormous volume and value of the apple
crop Of the United States. The exports
of apples last year from the United
States were 2,543,759 barrels All OF
them went to Great Britain except 146.-
641 barrels to Germany and 1852 to
other countries.
The census Of 1900 showed total OF
21O.0OO,OOO trees in what are known as
commercial orchards-that is. orchards
maintained to sell fruit to the regular
trade. This does not include the millions
OF trees in the back yards of the towns
and villages throughout the country. The
increase during the last ten years, since
the census of 1890. was 100000 trees
more than 40 per cent-and the yield
of 1900 from the commercial orchards
alone was more than 1I5, 100000 bushels.
By districts the north Atlantic States
have 20,5OO.0O0 trees, the south Allan
tic 2o,5OO,OOO, the northern central States
92,OOO,OOO. the southern central States
31,OOO,OO0. and the rest of the country
13,OOO,OOO. Out of the total number OF
trees In the United States, the north and
south central districts have 123, ,205. 900.
or nearly three e-fifths of the whole. These
are divided among the principal apple
bearing States as follows:
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
BLAST KILLS A SCORE
CARTRIDGE MAGAZINE At LOW.
ELL, MASS. BLOWS UP.
Explosion Kills and Injuries Many
Houses Are Shattered and Fire Adds
to Panic CausedEBoston Feels the
Shock.

About twenty-five persons were killed
and thirty received terrible injuries
Wednesday when the large stone build
ing used as magazine by the United
States Cartridge Company at Lowell,
Mass, was blown to pieces by dyna-
mite explosion. At 3 o'clock thirteen
bodies had been taken from the debris
The force of the ey,iOsion wrecked
many houses in the vicinity where the
terrible blast occurred, at Wigginsville,
or South Lowell, and the burning powder
set other buildings on fire. Such havoc
was created in Lowell that four conf
panies of the National Guard were called
out to preserve order, and reports show
that Boston, Exeter, n. H., and other
places thirty and forty-fve miles away
felt the conclusion and believed an earth
quake had visited Massachusetts.
It was afternoon before an accurate
estimate of the number killed could be
obtained. Previous reports had said that
the dead would number seventy-fve, but
at 2:30 a canvass of the hospitals and
inquiry at the police station resulted In
conservative estimate Of twenty-five
killed and thirty injured.
At many points a score of miles
away window glass was shattered and
other damage done. Lowell was thrown
into a panic. and it took every effort of
the authorities to maintain order. 1t
became necessary to summon four COM
panies Of the militia.
On many streets the earth appeared
to tremble slightly and buildings shook.
In all sections of Lowell, especially the
part nearest the Concord river. glass was
smashed. A number of panes of large
plate glass in the business streets of the
city were demolished.
The explosion is believed to have been
caused by the jarring Of dynamite stored
in the magazine by workmen who were
laying a new floor. The dynamite set off
the powder in one chamber, and that ex-
plosion was followed by another In a
second chamber.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06

of the mOtormen, supposed to b, r. e.
Matthews. was among the injEred, but
he ran away after the accident.
eide at her home in Chicago by taking
carbolic acid. Before dying the girl de-
| clarcd that her lover had forsaken her.
but she refused to tell his name. Sew
| eral letters were found in her room bear
ing the signature Carl Johnson
Dora Cox, an alleged horse thief, has
been recaptured and placed in Jail at
Watonga, Ok. after successfully eluding
the officers since 1898, when she escap-
ed from the county Jail at Kingfisher.
The woman was for several years a mem
her Of gang of territory outlaws.
The striking printers have returned to
work in the Spokane, Wash, Spokesman
Review composing rooms. Their return
is in the nature of n truce. They are to
be paid the new scale pending efforts to
bring about satisfactory settlement of
the differences by the higher authorities
at Chicago.
Archbishop Alarcon has appointed the
first board of directors of the new Cath
ole bank ut the City of Mexico. The
board includes several capitalists of the
clerical party. The bank has an Arizona
charter. Lawrence Boyly Sheerer, an
American dentist. is the founder of the
institution.
A natural gas explosion at Columbus,
Ohio, wrecked the two-stOry brick build
ing at III North High street, a saloon
and restaurant, with living rooms above.
Mrs. Lewis is supposed to be buried in
the debris. Several women living in the
building were pinioned in the ruins, but
were dug out.
The Farmers Cooperative Union of
America. having 81 wheat in Chicago for
its object, has just been organized at
Hutchinson, Kan. The entire wheat belt
of the West is being covered with circu-
lars urging the farmers to hold their
grain for that price. The farmers are In
better shape than ever before to carry out
this plan, it is said.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $5.25; hogs, shipping grades.
$3.50 to $5.55; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4OO; wheat, No. red, TIC to 7Sc;
corn, No. 2, &c to 53c; oats, No. 2, S3c
to Soc; rye, No. 2, 49c to 60c; hay, tim
othy, $3.50 to $500; prairie, $500 to
$500; butter, choice creamery, 16c to
1Sc; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes,
new, 4Oc to 5Oc per bushel.
St. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.25; hogs,
$3.50 to $5.7O; sheep, $500 to 1885;
wheat, No. 2, 77c to I8c; corn, No. 2,
49c to SOC; oats, No. 2, &c to 33c; rye.
No. 2. SOC to Sic.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $500; hogs,
S4.OO to $6.40: sheep, $3.50 to $3.75:
wheat, No. 2, tic to 7Sc; corn, No.
yellow, 53c to 54c; oats, No. white,
SEC to SIC; rye, No.2 Sic to 52c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $425 to $40;
hogs, $500 to $5.45; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, 76c to tic; corn.
No. 2 mixed, Sic to SIC: oats, No.
mixed, 33c to 34c; rye. No. 2, 56c to SIC.
Observation-Disclosures, No. northern.
SEC to SIC; corn, No. 3. sic to 53c: oats,
No. white. SIC to 3Sc: rye, No. l, Sic
to 52c; barley. No. ., SIC TO 5Sc; pork,
mess. S13.32. ".
Toledo-Wh heat, No. 2 mixed. 75c to
T6c; corn. No. mixed. sic TO SIC: oats.
No. mixed. S5c to 36c; rye. No. ,, SIC
to 53c: clover seed, prime. S5.65.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$3.50 to S5.40; hogs. fair TO prime. 400
to $50; sheep. fair to choice. S4.OO to
$500; lambs. common to choice, S40O to
$500
New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs. S4.00 to $500: sheep. $500 TO
s4.I0; wheat. No. red. Soc to SIC: corn,
No. 2. 5sc to Soc; oats, No. white,
4Oc TO Ale; butter. creamery, 1Sc to 19c;
eggs. western. 15c to 19c.
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500 to
S5.25: hogs. choice light, S4.0O to $3.50;
sheep. common to prime. $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2. 15c to I6c; corn, No. 2
white, sic to SIC; oats, No. 2 white. BIC
to 83c.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
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The News y

When Russia wants any help in set
Ting it's internal troubles it will write.
Morgan and Rockefeller will hardly
fall out so long as there are good pick
ings to divide.
Since Wall street has gone broke it
might get lift by helping in the west
ern wheat fields.
1t may yet be necessary to chloroform
those Colombian statesmen and force the
$40, 600 upon them.
1t would simplify matters to determine
the ownership of those distant islands by
pitching pennies for them.
In lieu of the open door in Manchuria,
Russia may compromise by issuing pass
keys to a few favored nations.
One reason why Kansas has such hard
work getting harvest hands is that so
many men have been against the game.
Not having succeeded in bringing out
the corn crop with cloudbursts and hot
waves the weather man will try a few
thunderstorms.
Recently the smallest woman in the
world died from the effects of the heat in
New Jersey The heat should have tax
en- some one of its size.
According to the government reports
the corn crop has put in great week of
growing. The weather has been whiting
your collar in a good cause.
Since Japan feels that it is free to grab
Corea the japanese are not as badly
shocked as they were by Russia's ac-
ton in grabbing Manchuria.
Kentucky Republicans who denounced
lawlessness whether in Servia or Ken
lucky" might with good grace have
omitted the reference to Servia.
When Prof Langley succeeds In flying
Ike buzzard, as he hopes to do pres.
emily, he should not commit the ornitho-
logical error of growing over it.
Japan. it is understood. would like to
trade Manchuria to Russia for Corea
As neither principal owns its trading
stock there is no reason why the swap
should not be made.
Alfred Knapp of Ohio. who is going to
wives. or as near that many as he can
remember, should be partitioned off from
the visiting females. lest their marriage
proposals snouiu annoy MIN AT tnlS most
serious time of his life.
A New York girl has married Prince
Vladimir de Constantinovitch of Servia.
The poor girl will have to issue her Wis
iting cards in two volumes to get the
name all in.
Along with the money shortage comes
the timely news that there will not be as
large crops to move as there were last
year. Secretary Shaw can countermand
that order for gray hairs.
This announcement that China has
just succeeded in borrowing a large sum
of money from Russia serves to throw
flood of light upon the origin of the sol
emn and beautiful friendship wherein
Russia and China have settled their diah.
culties.