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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-09-01
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Japan's board of strategy, on the con
trary, appears to be getting results.
That British mission which intends t.
retire from Tibet is still intending to re
tire.
The Hague tribunal is still shut down
hut the Krupp gun works are going day
and night.
International law appears to be abou
as lucid as law made by the ordinary
State Legislature.
Just the power Of habit may have
caused the latest outbreak against law
and order in Colorado.
Some Constantinople humorist has ca
bled it as a matter of news that the Turk
is eyading his promises.
II Mrs. Maybrick misses her inherit
ance she may have to turn her attention
to elevating the stage.
There has been an improvement in our
trade with South America and there is
room for lot more of it.
Mosquitoes are very bad at the White
House, but that will not discourage any
of the candidates for President
China's idea of what constitutes neu-
trality at any given port depends upon
what nation has the biggest warships
there.
Not counting its two Senator's, who
usually make their home in Washing
ton. Nevada must have nearly 10000
inhabitants now.
As far as the Russian navy is con-
cerned the men behind the guns seem
to be just about as effective as so many
bundles of straw would be.
The population of the world, according
TO the latest estimate. is 1,567 4I9. 2S;3
But these figures were published before
Col. Alexis Romanoff was born
The optimistic. person who thinks he
can change the popular pronunciation OF
NIAGARA" 10 "Ne-a-Gar-ra." with the ac-
cent ou the gar is probably the lone
soonest man on the earth.
Unless Russia differs greatly from 9th
er nations some desk strategists in the
home war office are already pointing our
how nue., better they could have done
than either Stoessel or Kuropatkin.
There are 67,OO0 more men than WON.
On in Michigan. There ought to be-con-
siderable rejoicing when girl baby ar
rives.
Japanese soldiers who are not killed
complain of their luck and it may be the
same way with Russian soldiers who are
not captured.
AS Oh previous occasions, China is anx.
ious to let the neighbors take Charge ot
its neutrality for safekeeping Ill! the
trouble is over.
PENNSYLVANIA BARRIERS, it is said. will
refuse to cut the hair of man who
shaves himself. This brings up the ques-
ton, will a wife who truly loves her hus-
band learn to cut his hair for him?
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-09-01
REMARKABLE FEATS OF The WIND
AT ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS

Banked broken glass up in the streets
like frozen snow.
Lifted several huge roofs far in air.
replacing one neatly.
Blew heavy skylight downward inside
of high Office building
Pulled big trees out by the roots as If
they were yo..ng onions.
Compressed rain water into solid mass.
so it swept through upper stories of high
buildings like heavy wave.
Clipped high church spire off and set
1t mp on the ground close by.
Ripped business signs loose and car
ried them into neighborin- rival stores.
Ground and beat glass store fronts to n
fine powder.
Drove light straws through heavy
planks and tin roofs by force and COM
preston.
Frustrated all electric wires and wound
them many times around trees and
houses.
Lighted two cities as bright as midday
by continuous intense simmer of light
ming.
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GOING BACK TO RUSSIA.
The Government Is Appealing to Sub
jects in America.

The Government Is Appealing to SUBJ
jects in America.
A slow but steady exodus of Russians
and Russian Slavs out of the Pittsburg
district has set in. These men have
been working as laborers in the mills.
mines and coke fields. Twice q week
special cars. and occasionally a special
train, are run to accommodate the for
eigners, many of them subjects of the
Gear, who wish to go to New York and
thence home. The Pennsylvania alsc
carries a large number.
1t is said that the Russian government
Is calling back all Russians who have
not been naturalized to serve in the army.
Special inducements are held out; in
some cases the passage across the ocean
Is paid by the Russian government. 1t is
said all Russians in the United States
remaining subjects of the Car must reg
lister with the Russian consuls, so the
Russian government may call on them.
The Russian cOnsuls in the various
American cities are reported to have sent
out agents to look up these people and
induce them to return for military duty.
But the Pittsburg district is not the only
field for such activity. In the West and
the Northwest many Russians are en-
ployed on farms, and some of these. too,
arc turning their faces homeward
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RAINS IMPROVE CORN.
Principal Producing States Experience
Favorable Week.

| Principal Producing States Experience
Favorable Week.
The weekly crop report issued by the
weather bureau is as follows:
The drouth prevailing in portions of
| the central valleys in the previous week
has been relieved by abundant rains, but
| drouth continues in central and western
Tennessee and is beginning to be felt in
the middle gulf States and over consid-
erable part of Texas. The central and
northern Rocky mountain districts and
the north Pacific coast region are also
suffering from drouth, the prevalence of
forest fires being reported from Idaho
and Montana.
The latter part Of the week was too
cool in the lake region and unseasonably
low temperatures occurred in the north
ern Rocky mountain districts and upper
Missouri valley on Aug. 81 and y. but
elsewhere east of the Rocky mountains
the temperature has been favorable.
The principal corn States have expert
enced week of favorable conditions,
abundant rains having fallen throughout
the corn belt, except in portions of Ohio
and .,ebraska. Corn has made satisfac-
tory progress in the States Of the Mis-
souri, valley and is generally improved in
the central Mississippi and Ohio valleys.
although a considerable part of the crop
in the Ohio valley has been injured be-
yond recovery. In the middle Atlantic
States and lower Missouri valley early
corn is now practically matured.
The spring wheat harvest is generally
finished, except in North Dakota and
northern Minnesota. where rust is con-
tinuing to cause great injury. Rains III
North Dakota in the latter part or the
week interrupted harvesting. Harvest
ing is also nearly finished on the north
Pacific coast
The general outlook for cotton is some
what improved as compared with the
conditions reported the previous week,
although shedding continues in every
State and rust is prevalent in the cen
tral and eastern districts. The unfavor-
able effects of shedding and rust, how
ever. are less pronounced than were re-
ported last week. In Texas the weather
conditions We're favorable, but the crop
continued to deteriorate as n result of
rust and shedding and damage by insects.
In this State injury by boil worms IS
decreasing. but the boil weevils continue
very destructive in the southwestern, CEN
tral. eastern and coast divisions. having
caused the entire absence of bloom in
many localities. Picking is quite general
in Texas. except in the north portion.
and is in progress in the southern por-
tons Of the central and eastern districts
of the cotton belt.
In the middle Atlantic States and New
England tobacco has made favorable pro-
creSS cutriny haiuV we'll advanced While
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pect in her history, and it would have
been safe until that time to estimate a
crop Of 100000 bales or more. In fact,
the government crop report, showing a
condition of 81 per cent for Texas, would
indicate crop of that size for the State.
The largest cotton crop Texas ever rails
ed was that Of 1895 1890, when 3,555,-
600 bales were marketed.
a percentage of 81 in condition would
show the plant to be nearly perfect as
to growth, vigor and fruitage. That the
government report was correct is accent
ell by all persons we'll acquainted with
cotton. But one thing the government
report did not take into consideration
was the rayage being wrought by the
boil weevil. For nearly two weeks the
State Of Texas has been visited by heavy
rains. The daily precipitation and the
heat have tended to multiply the weevil
TO surprising extent. At the present
rate of progress the weevil is making the
crop may be cut by from 100000 to
100000 bales. Great damage has been
done already and still greater damage
is feared.
1t is because the Boil Weevil Com
mission knows of no other method of
wiping out the plague than by fire that
the recommendation will be made to burn
over the cotton fields. As all sorts of oils
and poisons have failed to destroy the
weevil, the commissioners have come to
the conclusion that the only remedy is
fire. 1t is in October that the weevi
hibernates. Mr.. Johnson's idea is to have
the Legislature decree that upon a GER
tain day in October all the farmers in the
State shall cut down their cotton plants,
pile the stalks in heaps and burn them.
In the general confagration weevil, eggs,
plant and bolls will be reduced to ashes.
There are nearly 100000 acres of
land in Texas planted to cotton. Ap-
proximately one-half of this territory is
infested with the weevil. As it would
require at least one fire to each acre of
cotton land affected, that would mean
< O00 000 mr. moro fras
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-09-01
FREEDOM FOR ExILEs.
Gar Issues Sweeping Manifesto on
Day of Christening His Heir.

| Day OF Christening His Heir.
The Gar Wednesday issued q
lengthy manifesto on the occasion of
the christening of the heir to the
throne. The manifesto announces The
| following reforms:
Abolishes corporal punishment among
the rural classes and for first offenses
among the sea and land forces.
RENTS arrears due the State for the
purchases of land and other direct inn
| poses.
Sets apart S1,500.O0 from the State
funds for the purpose of forming an in
alienable fund for the benefit of landless
people of Finland
Grants amnesty to those Finlanders
who have emigrated without authorize
tion.
RENTS the fines imposed upon the
rural and urban communes Of Finland
which refused to submit to military con-
scription in 1902 and 1903.
RENTS the fines imposed upon the Jew
ish communes in the cases of Jews avoid
Ing military service.
ID
tences for common law offenses.
The genersAeffect of that part Of
the decree Ating amnesty to po-
lldcal offyngrrs will be felt from one
end of the entire to the other, for
there Ia not district, or hardly
commune that is not represented by
IN exile beyond the Ural mountains.
1t would be hard to estimate the
number of prisoners affected, but there
are thousands of them, most Of whom
were sent away as a matter of public
policy from the Muscovite standpoint,
and comparatively few Of them are
charged with neutrality-suspicious. Lot
per cent. The reason for this is that
thepolitical homicide is usually punish
ed capitally, and rarely reaches 81
IBERIA. The usual allegation against
political agitator Is that he Is sus-
picious person. or that he has con-
spired against the government, or that
he has read and distributed seditious
literature.
Many of the Siberian exiles who
have, according to their respective
grades, more or less freedom Of action,
Will elect to remain ON the farms
which they have made fruitful, but,
on the other hand. thousands will find
their way back.
1t is recalled that in 1856, after the
Crimean war, the Car. Alexander H.,
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. r. G. Dun & Cos weekly
IA review of Chicago trade
Chicago.

Business developments have not run
evenly. although taken as whole
there is indication of progress toward
further activity. The agricultural sit
uatiOn is not yet clearly defined. and
conflicting reports as to present condi-
ton of growing crops, while unsettling
recent estimates, cannot be seriously
entertained until corroborated. 1t ap-
pears highly probable that there will
be diminished surplus Of wheat avail
able for export, but there is no just ap-
prehension as to n great corn yield.
Prices Of the three leading breadstufs
now average one-fifth more than a
year ago, wheat alone being % cents
higher. Speculation in the latter cereal
has created its highest quotation in
some years. but its altitude diseourages
buying and invites violent reaction.
A more healthy feature is found in
provisions and live stock. both exhibit
ing recovery from the late depression
in vaiues Current dealings in the man
ufactnring and distributive channels
reflect wider demand. Cutting of list
prices may be followed by increased
orders for wire and nails. but more
satisfaction is derived by local pro-
ducers In the new commitments closed
in iron and steel. which reached large
tonnage in structural material, rails
and pipe. Wholesale transactions were
stimulated by augmented numbers of
interior merchants, who selected freely
in staple lines for fall consumption.
Purchases made indicate that there has
been little carrying over of old stock.
Local buyers also added satisfactorily
made a favorable showing in general
dry goods, mems furnishings and foot
wear Demand disclosed rising tend
ency in clothing, silks and cotton
goods, and Notwithstanding smaller
city needs, sales were large in gro
ceries and canned goods on heavier
county requirements. Retail trade
maintained fair level. with a better
tone in the fashionable goods. Mercan-
tile collections We're prompt on the out
sue, Dul tiihe Sio"ei oh eits uiiS'
and defaults decreased. Grain ship
ments, 1921, 1893 bushels. fell behind
last weeks and 1872 per cent under a
year ago. Cash operations were rather
light I'M flour and wheat. but the coarse
grains experienced strong demand.
Compared with the closing a week ago
corn and oats values show no change,
but wheat gained S1a cents bushel.
Receipts Of live stock, PASTA head, are
closer to the normal. Prices closed 10
cents lower for sheep. but gained %
cents a hundredweight in both choice
beeves and hogs. Bank clearings, S116,-
159. 9.415. are S.3 per cent over those Of
same week last year.
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issued similar manifesto, but at that
time there was nothing like as many
political offenders undergoing punish
ment. 1t may be that somewhere in
the archives of the government there
are records to show how many exiles
there are, and where and how they are
situated, but so far as the general pub
lie is concerned it can only guess at
the number of beneficiaries of the
manifesto.
Nicholas H. has always been cred
tied with progressive ideas. held in
leash to some extent by bureaucratic
methods and the traditions of his
house
His grandfather initiated a liberal
policy in 1856. policy that reached its
highest fruition in 1861 with the lib
GRAFTON of the serfs, and which would
have eliminated. many European
statesmen think, in the granting of
constitution to his people but for his
death at the hands of Rusokoff, the
bomb thrower, in 1881.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-09-01
MIMIC WAR AT BULL RUN.
Nearly 100000 to Be Spent In
Teaching 25,OOO Soldiers.

Teaching 25,OOO Soldiers.
Prince William county of Virginia, the
scene of many bloody battles in the Civil
War, has been selected as the site where
nearly a million dollars will be spent
this fall in teaching 25,O00 soldiers some
thing about the art of war. The maneu-
vers that have been planned for the week
from Sept. 5 to Sept. II, inclusive, will
be the most extensive in the history of
this country. Nearly twice the number
of men and horses that participated in
the West Point and Fort Riley maneu-
vers will be present, and the sham bat
ties have been planned ON scale that
Will cause them to resemble the evolu-
tions OF an army belonging to one of the
military nations of old Europe.
Sixty-five thousand acres of farming
land, extending over an area ten miles
long and FIVE miles wide in the northern
part of Prince William county, Va, ev-
cry foot of which was fought over time
and gain during the Civil War, has been
leased from the owners for maneuver
purposes. The Southern Railroad marks
Il straight line through the center of the
strip. which begins ut Manassas and ex-
tends in nOrthwesterly direction to the
little town of Thoroughfare Severa.
miles OF the Warrenton turnpike are in
;.Iuded in the strip.
The 1000 militiamen. together with
their baggage and equipment, will pour
i'll from dozen States at once on Sept. .
and the day following. They will be met
III the station by specially detailed Off
GERS who will assign them to their posi-
lions on the field. Four hundred wagons
OF the quartermasters' department will
be on hand to carry away the tents and
baggage as fast as they can be taken out
of the cars. Within six hours after ar
irving at their destination. be it Thor
Oughfare or Manassas. the militiamen
will be under canvas ready for the work
of the week.
Sunday. Sept. 4. will be day of rest
but over night will come Il transforma-
ton. The two peaceful tented cities, ly-
ing some ten miles apart. will change into
hostile camps. hourly expecting the at
tack of an enemy. Picket lines will be
fires will be covered, the
men will speak in whispers and all will
hc on the qui viye. awaiting the appear
ance of the foe. The following day will
occ ur the mimic war.
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Before the campaign is fairly begun
1t is possible to say just how many votes
in the electoral college each party Is
sure Of Some States are safely kepuo-
lican, others safely Democratic. Ihe!
never change. In others the independent
voter thrives.
A study of the map shows that the
Republicans have strong holds on tne
New England States. Their strenglh,
however, begins in the Ohio valley, anu !,
spreads westward. All the "hite
States are Republican.
The Democratic tide begins IN tne
South and sweeps northward and east
ward Its States are black.
Scattered all over are the great de-
batable States, in which the independent
voter thrives and which are the pattie
grounds of both big parties. This Is the
subdivisions:
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Four Injured in a coIl;.iou.

passenger trains on the Pittsburg division
Pa. four persons were severely hurt and
ten or twelve sustained minor injuries:
The road is single track at Glenwood,
where these trains usually pass, and the
north bound train, being twenty minutes
late, was for some reason allowed to 60
past. The trains came together at Beck's
Hun, on curve. The engineer and fire.
man on the north h-bound train escaped in
Jury by jumping.
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Funston Accepts the Post.

1t Is announced that General Grant will
assume the command of the Department
OF the East, on September IS. General
Grant will be succeeded in Chicago by
Gan. Fred Funston.
General Funston has notified the War
Department that he is willing to take the
detail of the Department of the Lakes.
made vacant by the transfer Of General
Grant. He admits that he would have
much preferred being appointed to the
Department of Columbia.
When he learned, however, that Gener-
al Williams had been assigned there he
waived his desire. General Williams is
already on the way to his new appoint
manf
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-09-01
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT THAT WHICH HAS BEEN
AND IS TO BE.
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make IL Complete.
Hatchet Brigade smoshes Saloons

H0tchet brfRade Sm0shes Saloons.
Four illicit saloons were wrecked by
women at Cuba. Kas., and much liquor
destroyed. Mrs. e. o. Fites and Mrs.
William Mcdonald, wives Of prominent
business men, armed with hatchets, first
entered, without warning, the place run
by Ben Hult. Without ceremony they
began smashing everything In sight, and
. on they had demolished bar and fixtures
and broken every bottle and opened every
keg to be found. Later they were joined
by twenty-five other women and the party
raided the other three places in Cuba.
The stocks and fixtures at each place
were destroyed in prompt order. Finally
the women spilled into the street great
quantity of keg beer that had been con-
fiscated and stored at the city Jail.
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6H00zS
%ILEdEs

| Prof. George V. Rodgers OF Cleveland
Ohio, has been unanimously elected pres
| ident of Baldwin College, Berea, Ohio.
He is a graduate of Drew Theological
Seminary of Madison. y. j.
The Rev. William Lawton Brown. the
oldest living graduate OF BrSwn Uniyer-
sity, has turned his ninctietll year He
is u resident Of Wrentham, Mass. where
he lives with daughter in cozy home
Mrs. Mary W. Newberry. widow of the
late Rev. L. Z. Newberry of Philaiel-
phia, has been elected preceptress OF
Ohio Wesleyan University The Rev.
and Mrs. Newberry were both graduates
of that institution.
As result OF several students ut Mis-
souri, University. Columbia. having tried
with good results going OH only two
meals day 25O of the students have
now decided TO leave out their midday
dinner for the next four months and note
the effect.
Mrs. sarah l.. Hall of jamestown. y.
Y. has been a teacher in the puhii..
schools for 80 yea-s and is still active in
the work. She celebrated the sem-cen-
tennial of her work by giving reception
at her school room, which was largely
attended by citizens generally.
The surprising contrast is drawn be-
tween the secondary consideration given
to sports in -Americon schools and their
superior Importance in the English sys-
TEN. even teachers being there chosen
for athletic attainments rather than
academic. Many have doubtless been
ignorant of this fact when deploring the
tendency here to twinc with the laurel
the captain of the varsity eight and
ignore the valedictorian. The pervading
creed in America that education has =
money value is strongly exhibited in the
reports.
The schoolma ans of Cincinnati are
agitating for as gaoi pay as the men
who teach in the schools get Il know
had-carriers in this city who are getting
more pay than some of U.S. says one
Justly indignant yo1ne woman. I'VE
know just rs much as the men do" saws
another, land here they expect us to
work for several hundred dollars less
wear. the mean Old things
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MAY BURN ITS COTTON BELT:
Texas May Start Bonfires Over Millions
of Acres to Wine Ont Roll Weev;I


If the present plans of the Boil Weevil
Commission are carried out, the cotton
area Of Texas affected by the boil weevil,
amounting to 100000 acres, will be
turned into vast bonfire in hope Of
thus effectually destroying the pest.
which has cost many hundreds of mill
ions Of dollars to Texas. The Boil Wee
vii Commission, the president of which
Is Jefferson johnson, formerly commits
.sioner Of agriculture. will recommend
this fadlcaf action to the Legislature.
Those who o|hsve given most earnest study
to the boil weevil trouble favor the
meth9d as the only safe cure, and see no
hopeS1n the other remedies proposed
not even the Guatemalan ant.
me ravages which the boil weevil is
low committing in the cotton belt are
alarming. Up to two weeks ago Texas
bad the most flattering cotton crop pros
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Jefrie. Still Cham pion.

Like the veriest amateur in the prize
ring, Jack Monroe of Butte, Mont, went
down and out before Champion James j.
Jeffries at San Francisco, CAL, in the
second round. The man from the min
ing district made such sorry showing
that the great throng in Mechanics pa
vilion roundly hooted him as he protest.
ed to Referee Graney aga inst the decis-
ion that had been given in favor of JEFF
fries
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Boy Killed by Liehtnin

Charles Young, 10 years old, of near
Berne, Ind, took refuge from passing
thunder storm at the home OF his uncle,
Frank J. Young. Lightning struck the
house and the boy was killed. Six menu
bers Of the Young family were knocked
senseless on the floor, where they laid for
two hours. Mrs. Young is partially par
alyzed and the house is wrecked.