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Weekly Oil Review!
FORMERLYJLTYLER DEMOCRAT,
I, h, IcCOY, Editor aid Piop'r, SistersYille, W . Va
SUBSCRIPTION, ii months.in Advance, $1.00
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Entered at the P. O. at Sistersville as Second
class mail matter.
WEDNESDAY JULY 2p, 1898.
Speaklug: or "Oblljcalioos."
* The Oil City Derrick publishes a
long wail over the fact that the
Standard Oil's pipe lines and its
adopted contingent the Tidewater's
line are the only-only' s in the oil
piping busiress which are obliged
to succumb to the exactions of the
revenue law ^nd help to pay Uncle
Sam's army and navy expenses.
No doubt but the United States and
the Producers and Refiners pipe
line companies would gladly share
in paying these revenue taxes could
they be allowed to do sufficient
business to bring them within the
limit, but as the Standard Oil com
pany has so long hogged almost
everything in sight and done its ut
most in every way to harass and
curtail the business of its antagon
ists, it must now "pay the piper"
while the others sit by and
listen to the music. It is
no fault of the independent
companies that "with the single
exception of the Tidewater, there
is not a pipe line company, outside
of those of the Standard Oil com
pany, that comes within the provis
ions of this act.'1 The Derrick
also entertainingly sets forth that
the "Standard Pipe Line companies
have already gone to great expense
In having new gauge books printed
in order to comply with the law,"
but it forgets to state that the con
tract heretofore printed on the
back of the tickets in these gauge
books in entirely eliminated from
the "new gauge books" in order to
save the great Standard the sum of
23 cents on each ticket and thus
prevent the grand total it would
make from going toward paying
the expenses of the war. As the
Derrick claims "the Standard
Pipe Line companies average 34,
000 runs a month," the blank
look on the back of the tickets in
the "new gauge books" will beat
Uncle Sam out of nearly $8,000
per month, an amount which, if
more properly directed would make
quite a show of patriotism on the
part of Standard Oil. In the face
of this cut-off by the Standard Oil
company of $8,000 per month from
the government, the Derrick says
that "The present tax must come
entirely out of the profits of the
transporting and refining interests
and no industrial concern in the
country will meet these obligations
more cheerfully than the Standard
Oil company. The government
must be sustained and the necessi
ty of the present war tax is free.y
admitted," and yet one of the first
acts of the Standard is to lessen its
"obligations" from $8,000 to $340
per month in one item alone ?
Bradford, Pa., Record.
* m ?
Hon. John O. Pendleton declines
to enter the congressional race.
His communication elsewhere kin
- these columns states his position in
the matter. It breathes loyalty to
his party and assures the nominee
of his hearty support.
Mr. Pendleton, as far as we can
learn, is the choice of Tyler's de
mocracy, and doubtless some will
be disappointed to learn that he is
not a candidate.
However, there is plenty of tim
ber available in the First district
and after all a first class man will
be nominated when the nominating
convention meets at Weston on the
2 1 st inst.
Porto Rico Invasion.
The war board has evidently de
cided to push operations in West
Indian Spanish possessions to a
speedy conclusion. It certainly
bespeaks energy on their part to
know that the Porto Rico campaign
has actually begun and the first de
tachment under General Miles is
now on its way. With the subju
gation and occupancy of Porto
Rico by Americans, Spain will have
practically nothing lett of her west
ern possessions. By the co-opera
tion of the land and naval forces
against it, San Juan, the most im
portant and really the only city of
importance on the island of Porto
Rico, will soon be ours.
m ?ti ?
Will some one please specify
what Captain Dovenor has done to
improve the Ohio River beside
talking about it. We know of
nothing and desire information on
the subject.
^ ^
Think of the Star bolting a re
publican nomination. Shades of K.
S. Boreman! kwhat a spectacle to
behold.
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DECLINES.
Hon. John O. Pendleton Declines fo
Enter the Race For Cons;r??H?-His
Communication and Position Con
cerning: the flatter.
Wheeling, W. Va.July 17.
Having been to some extent sug
gested as a probable candidate at
the Weston convention for Con
gress, it is not improper that I
shDuld say something upon the sub
ject.
There will be no lack of strong
and popular candidates at the com
ing convention. Among those who
will have strong advocates, to- wit:
Messrs. Arnett, Howard, Camp
bell, Kincaid, Blair, Davis, Speery,
Holt, Brannon, Withers, Kelley,
and Fowler, a winning leader can
easily be found.
I feel under a deep sense of obli
gation to my party for past favors,
and do not desire at any time to be
considered as faltering or hesitating
in my duty to it, but at the same
time do not believe that I am at all
essential to its success. The nomi
nation of any one of the above
named gentlemen will receive my
hearty and cordial support. I have
not been, and am not now a candi
date for any nomination. It is my
wish that my friends at the Weston
convention shall support such one
of the above named gentlemen as
they shall deem the fittest exponent
of democracy, and that so long as
any good democratic candidate is
before that body they shall not un
der any circumstances permit the
presentation of my name.
Very respectfully,
John O. Pendleton.
m -a*
The steamer Eloise is running
between Marietta and Parkersburg
until there is a rise in the river
when she will resume her old trade
between Wheeling and this city.
The Sure La Grippe Cure.
There is no use suffering from
this dreadful malady, if you will
only get the right remedy. You
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body, your liver is out of order,
have no appetite, no life or ambi
tion, have a bad cold, in fact are
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It acts directly on your liver, stom
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whole system and makes you feel
like a new being. They are guar
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For sale at Hill & McCoach's drug
store. Only 50 cents per bottle.
The girls only wear one-half of
their dresses now. They carry the
other half in their hands, especially
is they have a pretty new colored
skirt to exhibit.
Farms For Rent and Sale.
I would sell my team, tools and
stock to a good party, and rent him
70 acres of good river bottom, on
"the halves," and sell 60 acres of
river hill all in grass and only one
half mile distant, both in Ravens 1
wood Independent District, which
has an eight-room brick school
building, and one of the best grad
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This offer open till September
1 st, 1898. G. W. Park,
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7 16-d 1 wk-w 2 t.
HORRORS OF IORRO CASTI J
GhastlyTragedies Enacted by
Bloodthirsty Spaniards.
HOW SPANIARDS SLAUGHTER PRISONERS.
No citizen of the United States has a
keener recollection of Spanish atrocities
than Captain J. J. Alles of Celestine, Ills.
"In November, 1850," says Captain
Alles, "I went to New Orleans with a raft
of timber from the Yazoo swamps. On
my arrival I found they were organizing
an expedition to assist the Cubans to their
freedom. Being young and anxious for
adventure, I joined them, as did also my
partner, Robert Weathers of Tennessee.
General Narcisso Lopez was in command.
We were paid $25 each in Spanish gold,
and if we succeeded in freeing the island
wo were to have a farm apiece. There
wero 400 of us, and we went into camp be
tween the United States barracks and the
Jackson battleground. Lopez placed us
under regular military discipline, and wo
were not permitted to go into the city
without a pass.
"After we had camped therefor three
weeks President Fillmore issued a proc
lamation stating that the United States
was not at war with Spain and those who
went to Cuba would not be protected by
tho government of the United States. He
issued special orders, I afterward learned,
for us to disband. We were not allowed to
know this. The same night tho procla
mation was issued an old ship was moored
for us. I believe her name was Pomperio.
We wero hurried aboard, and the next
morning we were 90 miles below New Or
leans and anchored in tho gulf of Mexico.
We staid there ten hours and then sailed
for tho awful end that awaited us. It
seemed that our officers wero afraid our
government would send vessels after us.
"As I learned afterward, tho govern
ment had absolutely nothing to do with
tho ctpedition. It was simply a filibuster
ing trip started by speculators from New
York, Philadelphia and other centers,
who were in a land grabbing scheme with
tho few insurgents who wero then rebel
lious. They had promised Lopez to or
ganizo other companies, and we ^'chored
on tho south of the gulf to await them,
but they did not show up promptly. The
officers were afraid of tho government
overtaking them, so, as beforo stated, we
lifted anchor and sailed. Wo went around
the south of tho gulf and were about to
land on Cuban soil one fine morning
when a Spanish cruiser came along, gob
bled us up bodily and towed us into Ha
vana as prisoners. Wo were put into his
toric old Morro' Castle.
"I learned later that other companies,!
hearing of ourvmisfortune, put back to sea '
Qiid disbanded. Our officers were all
Spaniards ? rebels. My captain's name
was Rodriguez. They told us when wo |
enlisted that when wo got to Cuba all
would be our friends except a few aristo
crats. I am sorry to say that in later
events we found the Cubans our worst
enemies. The descriptions which we have
had so graphically in the press deal lightly
with Morro Castle. Tho reporters havo
evidently never explored tho man consum
ing bowels of the great monster. Men
cannot find in the English language
words that can picture the horrors of the
underground construction as it was in
1S50, and I suppose it is worse today. The
first thing the Americans should do when
they take Ha\ana is to tear down tho old
castle.
4 4 The descri pt ions of tho terrible Spanish
prisons at Ceuta on the north African
coast give faint ideas of the catacombs of
tho Morro. Tear down the walls and
there, lying in dark, damp, vermin filled
caves Americans will find people who have
not beheld the glories of the sun for years.
I cannot deseribo now how wo tunneled
Underground to these little casements.
The one Weathers and I, by most remark
able coincidence, were placed in was about
7 feet long, 4 feet wide and 5 feet high.
The water was constantly dripping on the
straw we had for a bed, and there was no
telling how long this straw had been
there. It was moldy and alive with ver
min. The odor was sickening. We were
left in continual dusk. The light from
the tunnel was the only ray from the out
side world reaching us.
"From every side of this tunnel of star
vation and torture camo groans of agony
j and sighs of resignation. Here a political
prisoner told of his incarceration for
months because of some trivial act. There
a woman and her children were being
starved. The awful inquisitional horrors
and imprisonments of those of Ceuta
could not have been more terrible. But
this is but the overture for the drama of
tragedy and barbarity that wo were to
witness.
"Ataut twa after our ixrriscn
Tnentwo received, an'announcemcnt tnai
filled us with terror. It was that, although
a sort of mock trial was given to the .pris
oners, not one was being acquitted, but
were being adjudged guilty in haste and
executed without mercy.
"We had been compelled to see them
ehot in all manners. Sometimes the order
was to place tho muzzles of the guns in
their mouths, and their brains were thus
blown out. Other times they were lined
back against tho walls, and after a hollovs
mockery of religion had been gone through
with they were riddled. You have seen
the pictures of Maximilian's execution.
That was tho way most of them went, and
they died bravely, but like .dumb beasts
led to slaughter.
"But the worst sight and the one that
terrified us most was tho death inflicted
upon General Lopez. Ho was garroted It
was one of those slow processes in which
the garroter, who can dispatch a man by a
turn of tho screw, prolongs tho agony lor
hours. It was terrible. It makes m>
blood freeze when I recall the scene. His
last words were, 4 1 die for my Cuba.
After passing through this theater of hor
rors I can appreciate to a slight degree at
least tho horror of Spanish rule, vanity
and cruelty. . ,
"It was tho morning before our trial.
The turnkey of our division was a very
old Spaniard, and I often tried to engage
him in a conversation in different lan
guages, but ho would shako his head
I asked him if there was a German consul
in Havana, but he only repeated, Consul,
consul,' and shook his head. I have a lit
tle German blood in my veins, and, though
it is covered with the American, it served
mo well in that incident. Then I said to
him, 'Embassador Prussia,' and ho ntxl
ded his head. Every morning at about b
o'clock ho would bring us a loaf of dark
bread. It looked as if it were made out
of oats, and we found oat chaff In it. lie
usually opened our ccll door and handed
us a jug of water and threw us in our
"But this morning ho brought our bread
wrapped in paper. I told Weathers they
were getting stylish in serving bread with
paper on it. By that time Weathers had
torn off a pieco of tho bread and put it in
his mouth. He ripped out a big oath and
said, 4 Yes, tho scoundrels want to feed us
on nails now.' I told him ho was getting
crazy. 'Why, look here,' he said, and he
handed mo a piece of wood about an inch
and a half long. I went to tho keyhole in
tho door, which was tho only light wc
had, and, lo and behold, I held a piece o
lead pencil in my hand ! It then lx>gan ?
dawn on me what that paper meant that
was wrapped around the bread. I took it
and tore off a piece and wrote a note to
the Prussian consul. I cannot recollect
what it was now, but you can well sur
mise the purport. The turnkey "'turned
that afternoon, and I wanted to gi\o
note to him, but he wouldn t take it. >i>
heart sank, and I never felt so lorlorn. 1
I tried to press it on him. but to no ? avail,
and at hist in an agony ot mind I un
| thinkingly crumpled and throw it hito his
basket and then sank down on the stra%%
and cried like a child.
?'That evening at tho usual time for
turnkey I heard a strange noise in the
gangwav, which was laid with stone tug
gir.g. it sounded like metal striking the
rock. Directly the key turned in the cell
door, and it opened. Before mo in tho
dusk I could make out the form of ot
turnkey, but with him stood a tall gentle
man, covered with a black cloak that
reached almost to the floor. I saw 'the tip
of a scabbard showing out ; hence the noise
I had heard. It was the Prussian consul.
I realized that my note had reached the
right point, and there is one Spaniard in
this world, If he is still alive, that I owe
my life to. After asking questions where
I was born, when I came over and how 1
got there he said: 'I will do the best I can
for von, but It will be a difficult case
These Spaniards are a bloodthirsty people.
"He then turned to my partner and
asked him where he came from. Being a
Tennesseean, he could not understand thi
German. Tho consul understood the cast
?t a glance, but he whispered to me that
.t would be well for us to pretend to be
brothers and for me to do the talking, in
racceeded in having our trials postponed,
and wo were finally acquitted.
"Frtyrant Fog."
On the western coast of France there is
ioted occasionally a stranpe phenomenon
vhich i* described, by the name gheni,
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CAMP ALGER REJOICES
Over the Fall of Santiago ? The
Soldiers
ALMOST WENT WILD
When They Were Informed
That They
Would Accompany the Expedition
Against Porto Rico? Major Weidler's
Death Enwrap* the Camp in tiloom.
Flags at Half Sfast? Resolutions of
Respect Drafted?News Xotes or the
Camp.
Camp Alger, Va , )
July 17, 1898. )
Will write you a few lines from
camp as it isiu a great uproar over
Shafter's victory.
The bands are out and marching
all over camp and through the
company's streets, and the soldiers
are all hollowing.
When the paper came out there
was another uproar, as it said that
the first division comprising the
Eighth, Twelfth and Thirteenth
Pennsylvania, First New Jersey,
Seventh Ohio, Sixty-Fifth New
York and Third Virginia was going
to Porto Rico within ten days.
Major General Butter will have
charge of the division. He had
been to the war department quite
often trying to get them in the
expeditions that sails soon.
They ordered a general Inspec
tion of the men and quarters, and'a
note was taken of everything that
was lacking in equipment of men.
Our regiment is fully equipped and
ready to move at an hour's notice,
and if word would come to move
they would be ready quicker than
that, as all are anxious to get to the
front and kill Spaniards before it
all ends. They don't want to go
home and have it said that they
were nice soldiers ? didn't kill a
man.
Well, everything in camp is quiet
today, as our flag is at half mast in
memory of Major Weidler,who was
major of the Third Battalion of the
Seventh Ohio, and who died at his
home in Chillicothe, of fever. The
following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, It having pleased Al
mighty God to muster out by death
our beloved comrade and friend,
Major Edward W. Weidler, and
W hereas, In his removal the
regiment has lost a faithful and
efficient officer; his loving wife
and child have lost an indulgent
husband and father, and the sol
diers of this command an esteemed
officer; therefore, be it
Resolved, That in deploring our
loss, the sympathy of all be evinced
by forwarding to the family an
engrossed copy of these resolutions,
by the half-masting of our garrison
flag for a period of ten days and by
the wearing of crape on the hilt of
the officers' swords for a period of
thirty days.
NOTES OF THE CAMP.
Capt. Gerber, of Company L ,
has gone to his home in Middle
port, O., on a furlough.
Capt. West, of Company E., ha?
been detailed as recruiting officer,
and is in Ohio recruiting men for
the hospital.
Louis Hanshumaker has received
his appointment for second lieuten
ant in Company E.
Sim Morrison, of Company E ,
had his hand broken by boxing.
Companies D and E received
from Marietta one tablet, one tow
el, one handkerchief, two stamps,
one package of mail pouch and one
lead pencil for each man.
Seven of the boys in Company E
received bibles from unknown
friends in Sistersville, but thank
them just the same.
Misses Black, Campbell, Roberts
and Gardner were visitors in Com
pany E last week and the boys
were sorry to see them leave.
No soldiers from camp can go to
town except those who have good
character for sobriety. That will
leave a great many in camp.
Soldier.
SIMM'S TRIAL
At Last Begun Today at Middle
bourne ? The Case Heard
BY JUDGE HERVEY.
A Jury Was Refused the
Defense
Proaeentlnc Attorney Jmm. H. St rick,
ling On Trial for HnirriNMRff In Of
fire? The Case nu latere*! Iiik On# Md
Everybody Will Be Anxioni lo Kn?v
the Sequel.
From Tuesday's Daily.
The trial of Prosecuting Attor
ney Strickling is now in progress
at Middlebourue. Judge Hervey,
of Wheeling, is hearing the case
and as far as we are able to learn,
both the defendents and prosecu
tion are satisfied with the jurist.
The trial begun just alter noon.'
Court convened this morning at
10 o'clock and the morning was
taken up with preliminaries. The
defense moved that a jury be se
lected, which was overruled by the
court. After this ruling both par
ties assented readiness and no time
was lost in assembling the witnesses
who were sworn, when court ad
journed until i o'clock when the
trial was opened and the first wit
ness, J. G. May field, put upon the
stand. As we go to press he is
still in the witness chair.
The charges against Mr. Strick
ling are too fresh in the minds of ^
our readers for reiteration here.
The case is a most sensational one)
and many spicy features will
disclosed. The Review has em
ployed a thorough newspaper
man to report the case in
detail. Today's proceedings will
be given in full tomorrow and as
the whole town is interested, be
sure to buy a paper each day dur
ing the progress of the trial.
Whi'e the charges are serious the
defense claim they will vindicate
Mr. Strickliug. If Mr. Stiickling
is innocent he should be acquitted,
but if he is guilty /he should be
dealt with accord ingly.
Never judge a person by his out
side appearance. A shabby old
coat may enwrap a newspaper pub
lisher, while a man wearing a high
plug hat and sporting a gold head
ed cane may be a delinquent sub
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