Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-08-31
For twenty-five pounds of ban

For twenty-five pounds of ban
anas, one half pound to the NUM-
cipality, for every twenty pounds 81
pumpkins, two pounds; every ten
pounds of bread one pound, and fol-
every twenty-five pounds of each Of
other products, two pounds. The
dealers will be allowed to send
their goods to other parts of the
province only when the local con-
sumption has been satisfied, and
when this is done an extra contrl-
button is to be levied.
On the night of August 3 a de-
tective in the city of Matanzas
visited a kitchen where food was
prepared for sale and discovered a
trunk containing 373 pounds OF
horse meat. The owner of the
kitchen and his son were arrested
and have been sent to prison. Re-
ports from Calibarent say that on
July ~ an American ship captured
at Cayo, Frances, the Norwegian
steamer FRANKLIN and the launches
Dos Amigos and Hemedito. The
last named, being empty, was
abandoned by the Americans, but
the Franklyn and Dos Amigos
were held by their captor.
A MATTER FOR INQUIRY.
La Union Constitutional, referr-
ing to the capture by American
vessels of the Spanish steamer Hum
berto Rodrigues asks in its issue of
August 7: "How would Spain
have been judged if an American
ship, hosting a flag of truce, had
approached the port of Havana and
the city's batteries had fired at it,"
THE same judgment" the paper
says, ought to be pronounced re-
garding the capture of the Hum
berto Rodriguez, which was effected
by the American fleet on the high
seas, while the steamer was towing
two schooners with sick and
wounded under the Red Cross soci-
ety's flag"
La Union Constitutional further
says: "The American fleet ought
to have rendered tribute to the
steamer and her convoy and es-
corted them to Havana's waters,
thus carrying out the rules agreed
upon in this matter at the Geneva
convention by the delegates who
framed the convention.
A naval tribunal may, as 1t is
logically expected will be done, de-
clare the capture of the steamer
void, but will they return the lives
of those who died during the long
and dangerous voyage on which
they were carried by the Americans?
The value of the captured steamer
is very small, yet her seizure will
not be allowed to pass without
protest against the action of the
American ship"
EMPLOYEES WANT PAY.
On August s, La Lucha referring
to the position of the Puerto Prin-
cipe civil employees in regard to
their salaries, says that the amounts
those employees have received on
account of their salaries during the
past ten months has hardly been
sufficient to maintain them, not to
speak of supporting their families.
| On the 18th inst La Lucha again
mentions the matter of the arrears
OF pay OF the civil employees saying
that a deputation appointed by a
meeting held in Havana visited the
Marquis De Montero, the colonial
secretary, and requested that they
be paid at least one months salary
of the money due them.
The marquis received the depu-
tation eraclously. He informed
them, however, that for the mo-
ment he could not comply with
their request because of the impos-
sibility of drawing against the Span
ish government. At the same time
he expressed the hope that he
would soon be able to satisfy them.
The employees had another request
to make which was that they should
be allowed to draw provisions and
that the same be charged against
the amounts due them.
An engagement is reported to
have taken place on August IL at
Brujo, Pinar Del Rio province, be-
tween a detachment of Spanish
troops from Alquizar and band OF
insurgents under leader Collazo.
The insurgents lost four killed.