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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
SHOOT DOWN BANDITS.
Swift Vengeance in Train of Street
Car Hoid.up at Aurora, Ill

Car Hoid-up at Aurora, Ill.
One robber was shot and killed and
one other was wounded at $3.50 o'clock
the other night, shortly after they held
up Riverview Park street car, just out
side the southwest city lines of Aurora.
Three masked men signaled the north
bound Riverview Park car, in charge of
Motorman Plum and Conductor Whit
ney. to stop at a switch short distance
below the Sard stove works. The mo-
torman, thinking some passengers wish
ed to board his car for Aurora, complied
with their wishes. As soon as they were
aboard they covered the crew with their
guns, ordering them to hold up their
hands. They then searched the conduc
tor and motorman. Whitney had only
81 in his pocket, while Plum did not
have any valuables.
They then ordered the two inside the
car and took charge themselves, running
the car as far as the stove works, when
they left it and disappeared across the
country in the darkness.
The police were notified and Officers
Gibson and Grass were detailed on the
case. They learned that the robbers
boarded the Chicago electric car for the
city at 10:15 o'clock, and went after
them on car following. At the substa-
tion on Union avenue the officers saw
their men, who started to run. A fusil-
lade of shots resulted, ending in one rob
Der being killed and another wounded.
The robbers were well armed, and put
up spirited battle. Officer Grass, after
firing all the cartridges he had, ran to
the station for fresh supply. While he
was securing them Officer Green rushed
up and informed the night men that he
had shot one of the robbers. The entire
force returned with him and found the
dead robber lying in the weeds.
He had been shot through the fore
head and one eye. The ambulance was
called out and the body was taken to
an undertaker's rooms. The police re-
mained behind to search the river bank,
as another of the trio is wounded. He
wore a black hat, which was found on
the ground. The dead robber was about
40 years of age, well dressed and wore a
brown fedora hat, which had been pur-
chased in Des Moines, Iowa.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND is TO BE.
All sides and Conditions OF Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make 1t Complete.

Spanish Resent Visit of War Ships.
Madrid special: The newspapers OF
this city are filled with indignant COM
ments over the news that fleet of Amer
loan war ships is to visit Spanish ports
and be accorded ar official reception. The
newspapers say that German war ships
did not visit French ports until thirty
three years after the fall of Sedan, while
the United States dares to send a fleet to
Spain within five years after the fall of
Santiago, and King Alfonso's government
would be pusillanimous enough to feast
the visiting Americans. Ell Pals is espe-
cially bitter in its comments on the pro.
posed visit. 1t prints letter from an
officer in the Spanish Army, in which he
says that Spaniards will never forget OF
forgive their humiliation at the hands OF
Americans. Ell Pals fears that hostile
demonstrations will be made against the
American war ships when they enter
Spanish waters.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
FOREIGN,

! Cases of bubonic plague have been dis
covered at Campos, State of Rio Janeiro.
A new treaty between France and
Great Britain has been concluded along
the lines Of the Hay-Pauncefote agree
ment.
Serious news has been received at So
fla, Bulgaria, from the frontier of fight
ing between Turkish and Bulgarian
troops at Demir-Kapia, both sides sus-
tanning losses.
The Uruguayan gunboat General Ri
vera has been sunk at Santa Barbara,
S. ~, as the result of an explosion. The
commander was burned to death and
many of the crew were killed. The war
ship was of 300 tons.
George Forman, chief inspector, and
c. j. johnson, constabulary supply Off
Ger, both stationed at AIissamis, Minda-
mao. whose accounts were under investi-
CATION, took $4,000 from the safe, seized
steamer and have started for Borneo
A hurricane has swept over Germany.
a portion of the tower, $50 feet high, of
the new city hall at Charlotenburg, a
suburb of Berlin, has been blown down.
A wall at the new baths of Dresden was
blown over, killing four workmen and
injuring eight others.
The Marquis of Donegal is the happi-
est man in England. An heir was born
to him the other day. The marquis, who
is in his eighty-second year, married Miss
Violet Turning of Nova Scotia, who is %
years old. The marquis has been mar
ried twice before without having issue.
A terrific storm swept over the Baltic
and North Seas and a number of mari
time casualties are reported. The steam
er Finsburg foundered in the North Sea
and her crew of thirteen were drowned.
The bark Clara went down off the coast
of Schleswig and her crew of twelve
were lost.
Russia has notified China that she will
not evacuate Manchuria unless all her
demands, presumably the eight points
submitted some months ago, are COM
piled with. This may endanger the
American commercial treaty and render
the much-talked-of war with Japan
measurably nearer.
An astronomical expedition organized
by d. o. Mills is installed on a hill 1000
feet high close to Santiago, Chill. The
mission of the expedition, the observa-
tions of which are conducted by Univer-
SHY of California astronomers, is to
throw additional light on the motion of
the solar system through space.
General ]. p. Sanger, latterly in
charge of the census work in the Philip
pines, has arrived from Manila. As a
result of the census work the government
is in possession of 100000 names. rep
resenting the civilized portion Of the ma
tive population of the islands. The un-
civilized population is placed at about
100000.
Mr.. Balfour announced patchwork
and accepted the Duke of Dey-
onshire's resignation. The cabinet ap-
pointments are Alfred Lyttleton to be
colonial secretary, Graham Murray to be
secretary for Scotland, Lord Stanley
postmaster general, Austen Chamberlain
chancellor of the excheQuer, st. John
Brodrick secretary for India. and Ar
nold-Forster secretary for war.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
EASTERN.

A report sent to Washington recon-.
( mends S1.5O0.O0O improvements at the
Brooklyn navy yard.
H. G. Farnham was arrested at Syra-
cuse n. Y, on the charge of impersonat-
ing a treasury agent for fraudulent pur'
poses.
Two men wounded. one fatally, and
one man under arrest is the outcome OF
a clash between anarchists and socialists
at Barre, Vt.
Five Bowdoin College students were
seriously hurt and sixty others slightly
injured in riot with Brunswick, Me-,
town boys over 'nightshirt' parade.
The Boston police arrested Guy Tong
as he was preparing to smugsle pack
age of cartridges into a building alleged
to be the headquarters of hishbinders.
Two men were killed near Merchant
vile, Pa, by being struck by Penn
sylvania Railroad train. They were in
buggy and did not see the train ap-
preaching.
The entire plant of the Peoples Lum-
Der Company, with the exception OF the
Office, at Monessen, Pa, was destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000, with an in
surance of $4,000.
An attempt to make Professor Lang
ley's flying machine iiy ended in failure,
the aerodrome landing in the Potomac
River a wreck. The operator. Professor
Manley, escaped with ducking.
Ruth Bryan, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Jennings Bryan, was married
to William Homer Leavitt of Newport.
r. l., at Fair View, the summer home
of the Bryans near Lincoln, Neb.
Mrs. Marie L. johnson, New York,
secretary of United States Playing Gard
Company, is accused of embezzling $780,
600 from her employers for stock specu-
lation. Her husband is a prominent phy-
sician.
The police of Middletown, Conn, ar
rested n. H. Ward, whom they claim to
be clever burglar. 1t is said he used
yacht and bicycle to carry on his work.
Several trunks of plunder were found on
the yacht.
Wilson S. Bissell, former Postmaster
General, died at Buffalo. The end came
easily and peacefully. Mr.. Bissell suf-
fered from complications thought to be
akin to Bright's disease. although not
well understood.
Dashing over an cmbankment in their
automobile, Herbert Bowen, publisher, Of
Richmond Hill, L. l., his wife Agnes and
their 5-year-old son, Herbert, Jr., were
seriously hurt while descending a hill in
East New York.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
NO DEAR1H OF BucKwHEAI.
A Ten. Million Rushel Crop Is Nov
Being Harvested.

A Ten.MilIion Rushel Crop Is Now
Being Harvested.
Lovers of buckwheat cake will be glad
| to learn that the largest buckwheat croT
ever harvested is now being gathered in
the two great buckwheat raising States
of the Union, New York and Pennsylva.
MIA.
Last year the buckwheat crop of the
United States amounted to 9.566,96G
bushels, valued at $5,341, Alb. OF this
total New York produced $3.50, 15S bush.
els, worth $1,S69, 800, with Pennsylvania
a close second with & production of g.
1SS.402 bushels, worth 81, ,153.621. Com
pared with these the State of Maine
makes a poor third, yielding 719,T6O
bushels.
Twenty-four States figure as buck
wheat producers, the grain growing as
far south as Georgia and as far west
as Oregon. Considerably more than two
thirds of the total production is always
from New York and Pennsylvania, to
which nearly every State in the Union
pays tribute for the delectable griddle
cake.
The total of the crop for the present
year will certainly exceed 100000
bushels. The four counties of Armstrong,
Indiana, Westmoreland and Butler, in
Pennsylvania, will yield more than D
100000 bushels, these counties forming
the buckwheat belt of the United States
and yielding nearly four-ifths of the
crop produced in the Keystone State.
The production of New York generally
exceeds that of Pennsylvania, but its
cultivation is there more generally dis
frihufnd
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
Political Potpourri.


Don't swear at the trusts: vote for
lower tariff duties!
The tariff ties your hands; the trusts
pick your pockets.
The trusts are making hay while the
tariff sun Is shining.
Unparalleled prosperity-for the
trusts. Did you get your share of it:
The average family puts $1OO yeai
into the tariff pot. Does it get it QUIT
If so, how?
The most prosperous decade in our
history was from 1850 TO 1860. Cause
low tariff duties
NO man is good enough to govern
another man without that others con-
sent"-Abraham Lincoln
Some Republicans talk about good
trusts and bad trusts, but fail to
mention which are the good trusts.
LET well enough alone" says Sen
ator Hanna. who declines to ask the
trusts to take their hands out of your
pockets.
"The men who made the Republican
party are In their grave. The men
whom the Republican party made are
in congress" s."-Wendell Phillips.
The borax trust charges us 1sI cents
for borax, which it sells to foreigners
at 2Ia cents per pound. The duty
is ) cents. This is a sample tariff
trust.
A tariff on goods may protect the
makers of goods: it cannot protect
labor Three thousand immigrants
day are reaching our shores, all with
labor to sell. =,
The protected billion-dOllar steel
trust taxes the average family So a
year. You pay your share. 1t figures
in your bills for rent, fuel, groceries
and hardware.
Charles NJ. Schwab. president of the
steel trust, says that it costs S12 q
ton TO make steel rails here and SIG
Il ton to make them in England. Why,
then, the tariff duty of ST.Sf a tor
on steel rails?
"Yes. men are on the free list They
cost us not even freight. We pro
mote free trade in men, and it is the
only free trade I am prepared to pro
e"-Hon. VIM. d. Kelley, protec.
ZIONIST leader in congress in 1872.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
AN ARMY OF CROP REPoRTERs
No Less Than 25O,OOO Turn in Infor.
nation to Uncle Sam.

nation to Uncle Sam.
In gathering the necessary information
concerning the crops, Uncle Sam en-
pl'ys NO less than 25O.OOO reporters
Nine-tenths of the people being directly
concerned with the outcome of the wheat
and corn crop it is natural that great eff
fort should be made TO get accurate sta
tistics. Property in thousands of west
ern towns goes up or down just as the
crops are grown, and merchants expert
ence prosperous or dull times. according
to the size of the crops in their neigh
borhOod. The basis of the crop report
ing system is the greeting of one farmer
TO another: How is your wheat. John y
His reply is given TO someone else. the
news finally gets into town, and there the
correspondent of the government draws
his own conclusions and telegraphs them
TO the Agricultural Department.
In this same locality may be a CORE
spondent of some firm of brokers. His
opinion as to the crop may be different
from that of the government, as 1t often
is, and a difference of opinion and an
uncertainty about the crops in that region
will exist in Wall street.
Sometimes this difference of opinion
in local observers may extend over an
entire wheat belt, where millions of
bushels are grown annually. Such a
condition once prevailed in North Da-
kota, and firm of spectators in Chi
cago sent a trained expert into the field
to make examinations. 1t cost them ST.
900 to learn his opinions, which proved
to be wrong, causing them to lose $685.
900 by buying wheat. While the govern
ment agents may err in their estimates
they generally come nearer to the situa-
ton than anyone else.
There are thirty-eight special observ-
ers stationed in various parts of the
country and each of these has hundreds
of reporters under his charge. The OBJ
servers make as nearly correct reports as
possible, but in the same neighborhoOd
are others who are sending in crop re-
ports directly to the Secretary Of Agri-
culture. In fact, in every township there
IS some special correspondent who sends
III reports to the government about the
condition of growing crops.
1t is the most complete system of YER
ifcation afforded anywhere. The tele-
graph toll paid by the government in a
season rms into the hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
When all of these reports come whirl-
ing into the Agricultural Department at
Washington, there is great deal of work
for the clerks. Expert crop estimaters
are employed, and from the reports of
each community composite report is
issued. being correct and careful COM
pilation of all the estimates. There is
10 guesswork. for every telegram and ev-
cry report is compared and a balance is
struck
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
Russia Means War.

Russia's answer to the Japanese move
ment of troops into Korea was the dispatch
Of mighty feet to the same quarter. Tel
egrams received in London, report that
ninety Russian warships have arrived at
Ma-San-Pho, harbor in southern Korea,
and have anchored within easy distance
Of the Japanese ships sent there some days
ago. The Russian feet is composed OF
warships Of all classes. and is the one
Russia has been gathering about Port
Arthur for nearly year, presumably fol
just such crisis.
Additional warlike news is the an
n0uncement that brigades of Russian
troops have been hurriedly marched to
the Korean boundary line, where they are
now encamped. With the dogs of war
ready on both sides and straining at the
leash, the diplomats of Russia and Japan
are still trying to reach an amicable
aOreoment
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The News ~

King Peter of Servia formally denies
| the rumor that he has been assassinated
| yet.
Evidently no man with a weak heart
| should engage in the business of raising
corn.
Curtis Jet admits that he had a fair
| trial, but perhaps that is the reason he
wants another.
Girls who were beginning to lose hope
should cheer up. Upton has Joined a
bachelors club.
While the Balkan war cloud has not
shed much water. it has Lost in the past
few weeks barrels and barrels of hot air.
Turkey is buying supplies of powder
1t can purchase the stuff only in Chris.
tendon, but, of course, business is bust
uess.
A farmers trust might cut down the
visible supply of trustful farmers that
lend joy to the existence of the bunkc
man.
Bulgaria may want some of the larger
powers to be standing around SO that II
may be pulled off if it threatens to hurt
Turkey.
Beirut may be trying to qualify as the
lew capital of the Turkish empire when
the Sultan has to pack his grip and move
out of Europe.
Those West Indian hurricanes must be
precise in their methods, for they always
do damage to the extent of $1,000 000-
no more, no less.
If large enough hall can be secured
perhaps there will be a reunion in about
ten years of the girls who were reported
engaged to Hobson.
Dressmakers in convention never dis.
cuss how the dollar may be cut bias and
be made to reach farther around by
little skillful piecing.
With Il heavy snowstorm to his credit
and drop in the temperature of so de
grees the Butte weather man must be
regarded as a wonder.
Gen. Miles has gone into the oil bust
ing any troubled waters for the admins
tration at reduced rates.
Secretary Shaw has turned loose SIG,
000, 900 and there will be no great scram
bling among the people to see if they car
get away from this loose money.
Perhaps the farmers who ask for
popular election of Senators think that
under such an arrangement they would
have better show to be elected.
With cabinet ministers resigning righ1
and left Great Britain may have to draw
on this country for few able statesmen
We could send over shipload warranted
not to resign.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
IN GENERAL

For the first time in history the United
States postOffice transactions exceed the
billion-dollar mark in a year.
Sir Thomas Upton proposes to oiier
$500 cup to be competed for in races
across the Atlantic by fast yachts of all
nations.
A remarkable exposition which has
closed at Dawson proves that the Yukon
is self-supporting in grains and vegeta-
bles and farming has become an estab-
ished industry.
General Tyner, former Postmaster
General, and several others have been
indicted by the federal grand jury in
connection with the postoffice frauds,
which practically closes the investigation.
The State Department has received a
dispatch from Minister Beaupre stating
that Charles Radford of Georgia, who
was sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment for murder, has been released by
the Colombian government
Former Mayor Pajardo of Mayaguez.
Porto Rico. has been acquitted of en-
bezzlement Judge Irwin (American) dis
sented. The verdict indicates the ac-
the alleged frauds at Mayaguez.
The War Department has received the
following cablegram from Gov. Taft:
Gov Belts reports the surrender to
Col. Bandlnoltz of the constabulary of
thirty three more rifles at Ligao. Albay,
making 100 in all. Trouble in the PROV
ince is reported at an end"
John d. Rockefeller defeated ]. Pier
pont Morgan in the battle for supremacy
in shaping the policy of the United
States Steel Corporation. the directors
announcing cut in the dividend on COM
mon stock in accordance with the de-
mands of the Standard Oil Company in
tereSts.
The State Department in Washington
has been informed that the American
Chinese commercial treaty and the jan
anese- Chinese treaty had been signed at
Shanghai. The cablegram was sent from
Shanghai and was signed by Minister
Conger, Consul General Goodnow and
Mr.. Seaman, the three commissioners
who negotiated the American Chinese
treaty.
An unexampled fishery situation pre-
shortage in the Canadian and American
catches on the Grand banks agents of
the large dealers in Goldfish in Nova SEQ
tia and Massachusetts, are seeking to pur-
chase 100000 quintals of Goldfish at St
Johns for disposal in their markets. The
local supply is also short. Cod liver oil,
which last year sold for 20 cents gal
lon, now brings So.
The rioters who were arrested in the
Canadian 500 have been tried, and with
the exception Of Denes pleaded guilty.
Leonard Lavergne, Baptiste Roseon, AL
bert Robinson, Frank Lalond, Edouard
Giasson and Fred Winer were fined S25
or two months in Jail for riot and $40
or one month in Jail for assault. Noise
Dupont was fined $25 for riot, as was
also Andrew Denes. The court held thu
company was much to blame in aggra-
vatiug the riot.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15

upon which the arrests were based was a
charge of conspiracy in accepting a
bribe from John ]. Ryan of ]. j. Ryan
g. Co., turf commissioners.
Prior to their arrest, postofIice inspec-
tors had recommended that fraud order
be issued against the Ryan firm, sus-
pending all its mail. Ryan and Judge
Outcalt went to Washington to argue
their case. Attorney Miller represent
ing the other side. Ryan claimed his
company had enough money to pay all
aepositors in full and, as a result of the
hearing, Acting Attorney General Chris
tiancy recommended that the postoffice
inspectors make another investigation
They did so and second time a fraud
order was recommended.
A few days later. according to tele-
grams produced before the grand jury,
Miller telegraphed Johns to deal with
Ryan. a meeting was held at the Glib
son House between Johns and Ryan, in
which Ryan paid $500, of which
$4,000 was for favorable decision on
.he scheme allowing Ryan's continued
use of the mails and $1,000 was for
revising Ryan's advertising matter so
as to conform to the ruling of the At
torney General. Ryan, it is averred,
paid the amounts in checks, which are
held as evidence against Johns and Mil
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
Cuban RecinrocifY.

| President Roosevelt has determined
20 call congress in extraordinary ses
zion, November 9th, for the express
purpose of ratifying the Cuban reci
procity treaty. When the last con
gress adjourned without ratifying this
:reaty, although the president had
lsed all the great power of his office
% force it through, he, in one of bis
speeches, declared that the treaty
would be ratified, ''as sure as fate
The fated day will soon be here and
he forces of the rival factions of
he Republican party are buckling or
heir armor for the fight. The ground
work of the squabble Is sugar and
The sugar trust. Whatever reduction
The treaty finally contains on the
ariff on raw sugar is an increased
profit to the sugar trust except any
slight advance the Cuban sugar grow
ar may obtain over the price now paid
Dy the trusts. The trust wants to
have Cuban sugar on the free list,
but is willing to take any discount
that it can get congress to allow.
The present duty on raw sugar
amounts to S36 per ton. and as the
Cuban crop is about 100000 tons,
which would give the trust the enOr-
nous bonus of S32. 100000 annually.
If the Cuban treaty should only al
!ow discount of 25 per cent. from
the present duty on raw sugar the
saving to the sugar trust would ap-
prOximate, or perhaps exceed, SS,OGo.-
300.
1t is rather startling to have Presi-
dent Roosevelt so anxious to see this
bonus given to the sugar trust, and
yet pose as the great trust fighter.
But it must be remembered that no
trust has been prevented from its ex-
tOrtiOn by the Republican plan Of
lighting them and that words are
good only when backed by deeds"
The faction of the Republicans that
is fighting Cuban reciprocity is the
-protectionists, who declare that
no letter or word of the sacred tariff
must be changed and they are backed
by the money of the trusts and the
protected monopolies. The Protective
Tariff League, the organization of the
manufacturers. who are benefited by
the tariff, is the center around which
all mOnopolists gather and is support
ed by the money of the monopolists.
is fighting Cuban reciprocity tooth
and nail, OH the ground that the Re-
publican party is pledged to protect
the domestic sugar growing interests.
In its issue of September IL, it ap-
peals to the Republicans to stand firm
for those interests and says:
There are some things which even