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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
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L. the heavy industries,
money and distributive operations
made distinct advance. Bank ex-
changes reached their highest total
for one week since early in May. The
absorption of currency for crop NOV
ing purposes encroached upon deposits
to the largest extent this season, and
there was wider request for CONNER
cial loans, most of the latter being
negotiated at per cent. This rate
probably may now become the mini
mum for choice mercantile names,
and banking profits during the next
quarter will have an improving ratio.
Wholesale dealings in fall and Will
ter staples made substantial gain.
Shipping rooms are worked day and
night in the effort to overtake prompt
forwarding. Notwithstanding the
heavy business already completed, the
attendance of buyers remains unpre-
cedented. and higher average cost
proves no bar to liberal selections of
necessaries
Unusually large transactions are
noted in dry goods, clothing, footwear,
mems furnishings and wOolens, and
further good orders appeared for mil
linery, cloaks, groceries and canned
fruits. Former impressions of an e1-
cellent outlook for both city and in
terror retail trade are well sustained.
Stocks of merchandise among retailers
are at low point, and generous re-
plenishment proceeds satisfactorily.
Collections make a good showing,
while the commercial mortality again
is comparatively lower.
Bank clearings $197, ,196,S55, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1904 by 10 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number IS, against 10 last week.
and 35 year ago.-Dun's Review Of
Trade.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
CH0ozS
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NOO~~N~%N"

Prof s. ]. Buck has retired from the
chair of mathematics at Iowa college,
after forty-one years of service.
benjamin Franklin is to have 4 statue
erected 10 his memory by the class of
1904 of the University of Pennsylvania.
Sir Edward Elgar. who recently re-
ceived degree from Yale university. is
one of the best known musicians in Eng
land.
Charles Edward Muriem. inventor of
smokeless powder, is professor of chem
istry at the George Washington uni
yersity.
''Buddie' Krupp, 4 Kentucky noun
tain boy. walked eighty miles in two
days from Morehead to secure Il place as
school teacher.
Prof. W. VI. Davis of Harvard uni
versity has joined the official party of
the British Association of Geographers
going to South Africa.
Prof Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis,
who was chosen to fill the recently ere
ated chair of European history, is a ma
tive of Beirut, Syria.
Charles Rouxel, lately professor of
beles-lettres in the University of Hon
iuras, was recently sent up for a month
as vagrant in New York.
The library of Theodore Mommsen.
the great German historian, has been
purchased by an unknown woman and
presented to Bonn university.
Prof Reichenbach is said TO have prov
Ell that thirty persons in 100 can see, in
the dark. colored rays from the human
body and flashes from Il magnet.
William ii. Laird. the wealthy Wi
mona. Mimi. lumberman. has given S50.-
0jO for the erection of new science
hall at Carleton college at Northheld.
Frederick Law Olmstead has been in
vited to become the landscape architect
Of the park and botanical garden in
connection with the Yale Forest school.
John Butler Burke. who through the
discovery of photographs has suddenly
become the most talked of man in the
United Kingdom as a man of science. is
an Irishman, and was graduated from
Trinity college.
Alois Riehl recently appointed pro-
fessor of philosophy at the University
of Berlin, is described rs Il literary
ariStocrat and man of great elo-
queuce."
DIR. Horatio W. Parker dean of the
Yale musical school, is to provide the
musical setting for the drama founded
on the late Gen. Lew Wallace's novel.
"'rhe Prince of India
Prof. J. Herschberger. head of the de-
partment of ophthalmology at the Uni
verSity of Berlin. who is one of the high
est authorities in the world on eye dis
eases. is visiting this country.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
PANORAMA OF THE WORLD
ABOUT That WHICH HAS sEEN
AND is TO BE.
All Sides ana Conditions OF Things
are Shown. Nothing Overlooked to
make 1t Complete.
Bloodshed in Cuba.

Havana special: Official dispatches from
Cienfuegos announce the killing of Con-
gressman Enrique Villuendas, leader OF
the liberal party and the most able orator
in the lower house, and the chief of police
of C;enfuegos, during conflict between
the two political parties, the liberals and
the moderates. The government advices
say the police had information that within
the hotel in which Villuendas resided a
quantity of arms had been deposited and
they went to the hotel to investigate the
matter. As the police ascended the stairs
they were met by party of liberals who
fired ON them, killing Chief of Police Iliano.
The police returned the fire, killing Villu-
endas and wounding several others. In
tense excitement prevails at Cienfuegos
and Havana. A later dispatch says that
six persons were killed and twenty-five
wounded during the conflict.
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Total .1sl ,s51 2,2se 2,sao

Oldl .loi,coA S,<SO @,"-"
The figures show that the number of
executions has decreased steadily since
1885. while the number of murders and
homicides has increased, but there is
nothing in the statistics to explain the
decrease.
Eminent lawyers ascribe the decrease
in executions TO two causes, one being
the growing sentiment against capital
punishment and the other and more I'M
portant one being the lax administration
of the criminal laws and the fact that
attorneys take advantage of every tech
nicality TO save the lives of the murder
ers they are hired to defend. Secretary
Taft. in his Yale address. referred to the
prevalence of this method of practice
among criminal lawyers, and declared
that the judges should be given the pow
er to compel the lawyers TO try their
cases on their merits and not permit
them to eXaggerate unimportant evidence
and cover up the salient points.
Statistics covering the years since 1894
TO 1905 show the causes of all murders
and homicides committed in that period.
During the eleven years 51,602 persons
lost their lives as the result of quarrels,
23,50S as the result of unknown causes.
1887 as the result of jealousy, 3,111
were killed by highwaymen and 2,o16
mothers killed their infants. In resist
ing arrest 1,460 persons were killed and
1,1O1 highwaymen were killed. Insanity
was the cause of 1852 deaths and SIG
persons We're killed during strikes.
There were fewer lynchings in 1904
than any year since 1894. In 1882. ac-
cording to the statistics, there were 80
persons killed by lynchers the greatest
number in any of the eleven years. The
number killed by lynching has fiuctuated
each year. but there has been a gradual
decrease until 1904, showing there were
only 80 lives taken by mob violence.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
PACKERS PAY FINES.
Indicted Chicago Beef Men Admit Civ.
ing Rebates.

Indicted Chicago Beef Men Admit Civ.
ing Rebates.
Four officials of the Schwarzschild
& Sulsberger Packing Company. Chica.
go, pleaded guilty before Judge ]. Otis
Humphrey in the federal court to ac-
cepting railroad rebates in con-
spiracy TO violate the Elkins law. and
they We're fined total of s25. .OOO. This
marked the first victory of the govern
ment in its prosecution of the packing
companies in what are now known as
the "beef trust cases." certified
check fer $4,000 was handed TO the
clerk of the court, and the four de-
PENDANTS were released.
"You are indicted under section $40"
said the court in opening his sentence.
You are charged with conspiracy to
commit an offense against the United
States laws. Your. counsel has entered
pleas of guilty, and if you have any
thing further TO say other than has al
ready been spoken, you are at liberty to
speak,
The three younger defendants shook
their heads; the fourth, the man of years.
looked at the floor and said nothing. nor
did he make a sign.
Punishment for this offense os fixed
by Congress has wide range. giving the
court unusual latitude. ranging from a
nominal fine without Imprisonment to a
heavy fine and two years Imprisonment,
all in the discretion of the court.
have heard on your behalf all of YOUR
side of this matter and what the gov
ernment wished to present. | am dispos-
ed TO consider this case with reasonable
moderation. The sentence of the court
IL the case of the defendant. We'll. will
be 4 fine of $1,000 and costs and com
mitment TO the county jail until the fine
is paid, and in the cases of Todd. Skin
worth and Cnsey fine of 5000 and
costs. with the same provision in regard
TO the payment. The costs may be dis
tributed among the four defendants"
To compete with the others it was
stated, according to good authority, the
independent concern accepted rebates
from the railroad companies. repre-
sentative of the four defendants confer
red with the Attorney General and SUBJ
sequent trips 10 Washington were made
with the result that an understanding
was reached whereby, upon a plea of
guilty, fine should be assessed and the
imprisonment clause waived.
If the case had gone to a trial the de-
PENDANTS would have met the govern
ment with motion to quash the indict-
ment on the ground that it was faulty.
1t is declared Dy the defense that they
are charged with violating the Elkins act
which went into force on Feb. 10. 1908,
but the crime alleged to have been COM
mitted is charged TO have been perpe-
trated Feb. ), 1903. Attorney Boyesen
IN his opening statement in court men
toned this fact. but declared that his
clients did not wish to avail themselves
of any technicalities. He had been in
structed, he said, TO enter n plea of
guilty.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
THE BURGLARS HARVEST,
New York Has the Worst Visitation q
Such Crimes in Her Historx

New York Has the Worst Visitation OF
Such Crimes in Her History.
There are more robberies in New York
City at present than ever before in the
experience of the metropolis. On the
East Side burglars and sneak thieves are
SO active that men and women sit up
nights with all manner of firearms handy
TO repel attacks. Five thefts in the re,
gion bounded by Bradford and Fulton
streets. Arlington and Miller avenues
were reported recently in n single night
In the eastern section of Harlem 80
burglaries have occurred in the past ten
days.
In spite of strongest safes, more cum
ming electric alarm systems and more
complete methods of identifying crimi-
mails, the burglar seems to be feared now.
adays much more than he used to be.
An evidence of this is the tremendous
growth of the burglar insurance bust.
ness in this country in recent times. A
little more than ten years ago practically
all attempts to insure people against
theft proved futile. Companies were
organized for this purpose, but after
many vicissitudes they ended in failure.
Since that time nearly dozen corpora
tions have come into existence, and SO
large is the business they do that in the
last year they paid over S3S4,147 in
burglary losses. In the same time they
collected $1.3S6,610 in premiums.
This increasing dread of the burglar
is due 10 the fact that he never wa,
more formidable or more active than at
the present time. In these DAYS of
greater wealth those temptations which
are so alluring 10 the thief have been
multiplied. Consequently there are more
diamond robberies and crimes of SINH
lar character now than in he past. The
discovery of more effective tools and
more powerful explosives has also aided
the rObber, and although he does not
attempt as often as he did TO blow up
the big city banks, because of their alarm
systems and special patrols, his ravages
IN country districts have grown to an
alarming extent. At tie present time
four out of five bank burglaries are COM
mitted in towns of less than 1000 inhab-
ltants. In the last eight years 716 banks
situated in such communities We're at
tackled, with less of S1,250.0OO. Safes
onee ieSaruea as DurSlar PROOF nave Deen
shown TO be little stronger than soap
boxes in the hands of expert thieves, and
consequently many companies will not
insure country banks ut all
The modern burglar is more wantonly
destructive than his predecessor. Hi,
use of dope" or nitrogiycerine often
causes a greater damage to a building
than the loss made by the theft itself
Even when he fails of getting loot he
leaves scene of wreckage behind. OF
the S1,250.000 in losses incurred by
banks, of which mention has already
been made. more than 100000 repre-
sented destruction Of property. In rob-
berries of dwelling houses and apartment
houses the damage averages about one
tenth of the total loss.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28

The home of Attorney Warren Leslie
New York. was robbed of several thou.
sand dollars worth of property.
Miss Marie Hamill. u society girl,
and her fiance. Neil Wolf were killed in
an auto accident near Acto, y. J.
The criminal court at Stamboul has
condemned TO death the Armenian. CHR
kis Nartanian, naturalzed American
citizen. for tie murder of the Armenian
merchant, Apik Undjian. Aug. 26, who
was shot by Vartanian i'll the Galata
quarter of Constantinople.
Jerry Simpson, who is at Roswell. n.
NJ. is now reported to be suffering from
aneurism of the heart, and attending
physicians say there is small hope of his
recovery.
Rainmaker Hatfield closed contract
for large sum ut Los Angeles, Cal,
with the British government. the Kim
herly mine owners and sheep ranchers to
break the drought in South Africa.
NJ. Mccormick and \. Whittaker Of
Chillicothe. Mo-, and +. Vaughn and
John Linsey. negro portcrs. were killed
and twenty-seven persons were in iurad
when a freight train on the Burlington
railroad crashed into passenger train
at Brush. Colo.
The strike of the Montreal dock labor
ers has been broken and half of the 400
men went back TO work Mt their old
wages. The places of the others have
Ieen filled.
The seven-Story power building at
1881 Michigan street. in Cleveland,
Ohio. owned by William and f. ]. Ker-
shaw and occupied by Il number of man
ufacturing concerns, WAS destroyed by
fire. Loss S100.00O
The Southern Cotton Association,
which held its first annual convention
at Asheville, y. c.. voted that all mem
bers should market their crop as slowly
as possible, in order 90 distribute the
sale Of The staple efer the entire year.
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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
METHODS OF INSURANCE MEN.
New York Life Company Made Big Do
nation to Campaign Fund.

nation to Cam pais.n Fund.
Vice President George W. Perkins Of
the New York Life gave the Armstrong
legislative committee sensational in
side data concerning the company's
financial methods ut Thursdays ses-
sion. He frankly admitted that an
entry Of $4S,702 in ledger marked
ordered paid by the president rep
resented Il contribution to the Repub-
added that similar donations We're
made in 1900 and 1896. He acknowl-
edged that this expenditure never was
brought TO the attention of the finance
committee, but was Il purely execu-
tive action determined upon because
it was considered for the best inter-
ests of the policy holders Other
astonishing methods of insurance were
laid bare by the New York state in
vestigation.
The New York Life Insurance Ccm-
pany demanded an investigation as
soon as the wrongdoing of the EQuita-
BILE began to be aired. In compliance
with this request the legislative CON-
mittee begun to probe into its affairs.
What it has brought out is not bit
pleasing to its officers and is disquiat-
ing TO those carrying policies with the
company. 1t is not as bad as the
Equitable. but it is serious enough.
LOoseneSS and extravaganza are be-
ing unearthed. The salary of the pres
ident. John A. Mccall, has been adj
vanced from $4,000 to 100000 in
few years, and without substantial
reason. His pay was put up to this
princely figure because that of the
president of the Equitable was raised
to these figures, not that he was worth
it. In other ways the money of the
insured has been going for purposes
never intended by the articles of aSsO-
citation and which in no way contrib
uted to the strength of the company.
The life insurance officials now un-
der fire in New York are trying to jus
tify their bond-foating syndicates by
showing that if they did make money
for the policyholders whose funds they
used. In many cases these bond-ioat-
ing operations We're profitable to all
concerned. However, it is questionable
whether the same amount of money
invested without syndicate aid, would
not have brought as large returns.
Furthermore. if there were profits,
how about the losses? Here are some
of the more conspicuous losses that
have come to light during the present
investigation:
The officials of one company took it
into partnership with them for $3.SI5,-
600 in a flOtation of securities of the
New Orleans street railway system.
The street railways went into Il re-
ceivership, and the company charged
off loss Of $4,000 of its policy
holders money. The officials of this
and another great company took them
into partnership for S4,OOO,OO0 and
81 100000. respectively. in the riota-
ton of trusts securities. The latter
company already has charged UP a
loss of 100000. The other has sold
SSCO.OOO of its holdings at loss of
$4,000. and the sale of the remainder
at present prices would result in
further loss of S430,OOO And the end
is not vet.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
Sharks from the W;rea.

Philadelphia reformers have disclosed
the fact that of a bogus vote of $4,000
polled in that city in the interest of ring
politicians more than one-third were dead
men.
]. w. Gleitsman of New York has an.
piled to the court of chancery in Trenton
\. j.. for the appointment of receiver
for the American Machine Company of
Erie. Pa.
The National Firemen's Association
closed its annual session at Kansas Citv
after re-electing the old board of officers
headed by President James ID. Mcneil
of Fayetteville. y. &.
William Dayton. vino went to River
side, Cal, from Chicago short time
ago and was foreman for telephone
company. was shot anu killed by Jac;,
Meeks. whom he had discharged. Meeks
surrendered himself.
All epidemic of typhoid fever prevails
in the town of Nanticoke. near Wilkes
barre. Pa. Over 100 eases have been
reported TO the board of health. The
opening of public schools has bean de-
ferrel and public funerals have aa"n
prohibited.
Reports Oh oil production in the Texas
district during August show decrease
os compared with July of more than
OOO. 900 barrels. The figures for July
were 1856. 800 and for August 3,503, 500.
Every field in the district has shared in
the slump.
Brig. Gen. William II. Carter was re-
lieved from the command of the depart
ment of the Visayas in the Philippines
and assigned as head of the department
of the lakes at Chicago.
William B. Gill. formerly a district
superintendent of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, died at his home in
Cheltenham, a suburb of Philadelphia.
He was 80 years of age.
The ninth annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church. south, was
held in Palmyra. Mo. This conference
a church membership of 49,
TG6, an increase of 10000 over last year.
The next session will be held at Carroll.
ton. No.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
'CZAR URGES PEACE.
ASKS SECOND CONFERENCE OF
POWERS AT THE HAGUE.
EmF Foror Nicholas Invites Nations of
the World to Another Peace Conven-
tion-Russian Ruler Said to Be Backed
by President Roosevelt.

Emperor Nicholas again appears be-
versal peace. No sooner is the Russo
Japanese war over. and even before
the peace treaty has been ratified. than
his majesty is issuing invitations to 4
second peace conference at The
Hague. 1t is announced officially in
ST. Petersburg that 'the Russian gov
ernment proposes to address the for
eign powers with view to the hold
ing of a second peace conference at
The Hague"
1t is known that negotiations pre-
ceding this announcement that the
government proposed to address the
powers" were entered into especially
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
| New York.

New I0rR. tinue remarkably active
in nearly all lines. Fall
distribution is in full swing and in
portions of the West is of unprec-
edented volume Interior merchants
are still greatly in evidence in many
primary markets, three-fourths OF the
corn crop is out of danger of frost,
iron and steel are in exceptionally
good demand with outputs heavily
sold ahe6d and prices tending upward
and building and building material are
apparently as active as at any pre-
ceing period this year. Collections
generally are good for this season of
the year, despite the fact that retail
trade in the agricultural regions is
still retarded by active farming opera
tions. Gross railroad earnings for
August We're ) per cent in excess of Il
year ago. when the present wave of
activity first manifested itself.
Business failures in the United
States for The week ending Sept. il
number 1SS, against 1871 last week, 167
in the like week of 1904. 10 in 1903,
1S2 N 1902 and 1,jS in 1901. In Can
ada failures for the week number
thirty-twO. as against twenty-five last
week and twenty-nine in this week Il
year ACCOMPLISHMENTS Commercial
Report.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
Trolley Cars in Collision.

In collision between an indianapolis
Northern motor car and line car on the
Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley road on the
grade of the overhead crossing, east of Log
ansport, Ind, Motorman Walter Pruitt, of
the first named line, and William Webb, of
the second, narrowly escaped instant death,
while dozen and more passengers on the
Indianapolis Northern car were badly
shaken. Both motormen jumped before
the collision occurred, rolling down steep
embankment for forty feet or more, and be-
ing badly scratched. The passengers,
taken by surprise, remained in the car and
received the full benefit of the collision.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
vandalism in Catholic Cemeterie..

Following similar attacks on the Roman
Catholic cemeteries at Oconto Falls, Pesh-
tigo and Birch Greek, ,vandals went through
st. JOseph's and ST. Anne's cemeteries at
EscaDaba, Mich, and demolished the
crosses on over two hundred monuments,
causing damage estimated at $1,000.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
Civil War Exists in the Caucasus

A dispatch from ST. Petersburg says: As
a consequence of the continued disturb
ances in the Caucasus and the inability of
TIE soldiers in the district to cope with the
situation, the government has decided
practically to consider that q civil war
exists. Measures are being considered
looking to the sending of large field force
consisting of infantry, cavalry and artil-
lery to invade the district. A regular
campaign will be conducted against the
rioters and revolutionaries who have been
responsible for the disorders. This cam
paign is being planned with great care and
is relied upon to restore order.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
China Prepares for Great Army

Information has been received iron,
Pekin that the Chinese government has ar
ranged to open large,credits before the end
of the year with banking houses in Lon
don, Paris and New York for the purpose
of making purchases of military and naval
supplies. 1t is also stated that the Chinese
officials gre preparing to circulate among
the powers formal notice of their inten-
ton to disregard the prohibition placed
upon them by their allies at the time of
the relief of Pekin in 1900, forbidding the
importation Of arms and ammunition into
China.