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West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-10-28
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West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-10-28
EGULAR-

IRREGULAR
WHEELING, SISTERSVILLE & EaTAMORAS PACKET.
Leaves Wheeling-Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, at IL a. m.
:, Leaves Sistersville-Monday Wednesday and
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West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-10-28
WITH DERRICK AND DRILL.
The Latest Information Of the Monroe
County OH and Gas Fields

County OIL and Gas Fields
Galeys are drilling Nos. 6 end 7
on n. Covert at Jackson's Ridge.
No. 5 was drilled in last week and
IS good well.
The Albert Jackson we'll is due
IN the sand and good producer is
expected.
The Winland we'll is going down
IN good shape; they have put in the
8 q casing.
A good we'll has been struck on
the Alex Cronin farm on Rich Fork.
OH was found in the Cow Run sand
which makes production various.
ly estimated from IS to 500 barrels.
1t was reported in the Review as
200 barrel we'll. Twenty five to
fifty barrels will probably be fair
estimate. This may open up a vast
pool Of oil in that section and still
help to prove that Monroe county
has yet vast resources to be opened
in the future.
A we'll on the Barker farm at
NSAAAi l. "uS M DSNNSu III lIlS
hrst OF the week, but nothing later
has been heard.
Fishers we'll on S. P. Suodgrass
at Wilson run is due in the sand at
present writing. There are about
eight wells drilling there now and
several more rigs up and building.
The outside casing has been
drawn at the 1. II. Norris we'll near
Benwood. Spirit of Democracy.
Look out for an oil boom below
town. We understand the Fisher
Oil company has leased all Of the
land in the Grandview bottom from
their we'll on the Cochran farm up to
the town and have promised each
lease a we'll, one being completed
every 40 days until all have been
drilled. We sincerely hope a pay
ing field will be opened up down
there. New Matamoras, O., Mail.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
ANOTHER AIRSHIp.
Thomas A. Edison. dr., Believes lie Has HIS
tho Successful Principle.

NEW YORK, Feb. Thomas A. Edi-
son, Jr., is experimenting with IN air.
ship, which be believes will be success
full. The ship is the invention of
Frank Sauther, of Milwaukee, but
Edison hit, by accident, upon a gas
which he believes is the only thing
required to make the ship practical
Sails were substituted instead OF any
propelling power. Mr.. Edison says;
1t was at this point that conceived the really
new principle 1t struck me that 1t would be u
good idea to initiate the sails viii gas, thus
making them serve as balloons as well as sup-
plying the sailing power II will not DO 10 make
baggy balloons Of the sails, 50 they Wero diyi-
ded into numerous compartments, wllcA when
inflated, resomblcd thin water bags The vas
tube running to the balloon was tapped
In three places to supply gas TO the main sail
and rubber tubes carried gas to the two jiOS
The compartments OF the main sail were con-
connected by narrow openings, the gas thus
following freely through the entire sail A
rudder completed the airship After many
failures we were successful The ship actually
few, and we succeeded in steering it. Il believe
that the inflated sail idea is the one that is go
ing to solve the aerial navigation problem.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
THE REPORT DENIED.
Mrs. Smith and Mrs Cotton VIII Not I'm
dow the Chicago University.

Mrs. Smith and Mrs Cotton VIII Not En-.
dow the Chicago University.
SEDALIA, Mo-, Jan. 2S.-Mrs. Martha
z. Smith and Mrs. Sarah L. Cotton, of
this city, referred to in dispatch as
about to endow the Chicago university
with $4,000, last night stated that it
was case Of ''nuch ado about moth
ing" Friends of the university have
talked with the ladies with view to
having them assist the institution
financially, but nothing has been prom
ised, nor is it at all probable that any
thing will come OF it. The sisters are
not worth to exceed SS0O,OOO, and at
their death, it is believed, their wealth
will be used in founding female sem
mary in Sedalia, in accordance with
the wishes of their father, the late
Gen. George r. Smith, 10 be named in
honor Of their mother -"Melitta col.
lege.r
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
NEWS NOTES.

A boy about l6 years old was killed
by u freight train near Sheffield, a
suburb Of Kansas City, Mo. He was
unknown
On a bet OF $500 Charles Wurz, Of
South Bend, Ind, has undertaken to
eat one goose day for 80 days. He is
now on his Gath goose.
At Carrollton, Mo-, the foundry Of
the Doin Manufacturing company,
structure 5Oxl50 feet was destroyed by
fire. 1t will be rebuilt.
Bennie Skiward, aged seven, who
has recently stolen three teams of
mules at Hutchinson, Kan. will be
sent to the state reform school.
Mike Gleason, st, Joseph (Mo.) sa-
loonkeeper, was robbed of $500 in his
barn in the rear OF his residence after
being dubbed into insensibility.
Senator Harris, OF Kansas, has intro
duced u bill to remove the charge of
deserton against W. Il, Linton, who
was one of the fusion electors in Kan
sas in 1896.
S. W. Cox and |. D. Gordon, real
estate dealers Of jefferson City, No.,
quarrelcd and came to blows in the
Exchange bank there over some busi-
ness transaction.
A half interest in the Warrensburg,
Mo-. Standard Herald has been pur-
chased of the editor, Mark baldwin,
by James NJ, Shepherd, city collector
of Warrensburg.
AT midnight on January 81 the re-
ceivership of the Union Pacific rail-
way terminated and the road passed
into the hands of the reorganized
company, of which T. d. Burt is pres
ident.
The attorney general Of California
has brought suit to enjoin the world
pool of powder manufacturers, which
controls absolutely the trade in ex-
plosives of the eastern and western
hemispheres.
The city council Of Salina, Kan, de-
feated un ordinance that levied pro.
hibitive license on glove contests and
the contest between Dutch Neal and
Billy Norbury will come off there
February II, as scheduled.
Judge Elbridge Burden, 95 years old,
and resident Of Lexington, Mo-, for
65 years, is dead, He was the first
mayor of Lexington, a member of the
legislature for eight years and had
held several other state and county
offices.
Chairman Jones, of the national
democratic committee, says there is no
truth in the statement that he had re-
moved William Harrity, of Pennsylva-
MIA, and substituted the man designa-
ted by the democratic state committee
as his successor.
Nearly every dog and many of the
cows and horses in the village OF
Uvalde, Tex, were bitten recently by
wolves, which attacked the town in
packs Coon after some of the dogs
showed signs of hydrophobia and all
bitten animals We're promptly killed.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
BECAUSE SHE WAS JILlEo.

Lillian Cain, u kentucky Girl, Deserted b.
Her Lover, Attempts Dramatic Sui
eide.
LEXINGTON, KY, Feb. l.-Lillian
Cain is lying at the home Of her par
ents in this county with a bullet in
her breast. Yesterday hersweetheart
Ben McMurtry, took his ring and left
her a note saying he might be gone
a long time. In the afternoon
her parents came to town. She
then removed her clothes, put on her
nightrobe and, kneelinp before look
ing-glass, fred the bullet at her breast.
Surprised to find that death did not
result, she threw the pistol down and
running into the lot, threw hersel!
into pond. She screamed as she ran
and men working near by rescued her.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
MANY STARVED.
Narrowing Tale of suf'ering and Death
Reported ut 81. johns. n. r.


Reported At 81. Johns. N. r.
NEW YORK. Feb. 1.-The Red Cross
line steamship Portia arrived to-day,
four days overdue. from st. Johns and
Halifax. The crew tells OF desperate
encounter with pack ice off the New.
foundland coast and narrowing tale
Of blizzards and destruction in the coast
section of that country. Hundreds Of
men, women and children. dead or dy.
ing from exposure and starvation, with
abundance close by, and hundreds
more threatened with like fate, are
the brief details OF the condition of
affairs brought by the Portia. Four
days the portia was penned in huge
arctic foes, in plain sight OF st. Johns,
unable to move. She managed to es-
cape by the merest accident. Many
other craft, several Of them relief YES
sells sent by the Canadian government
to succor destitute fishermen, had to
abandon their errands OF mercy and
return to st. Johns. They were still
in the ice when the Portia struggled
into clear water.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
TElE.TAlE LETTER BOOK.

John Hancock, the Famous Patriot, Was
an Enemy Of Washington and an Em-
bezzler.
BosToN, Feb. IA startling his
torical discovery has just been made
here which indicates that John Han
cock, the famous statesman and pa
triot, was not only an embezzler, but a
bitter enemy of George Washington.
Hancock, who served his country as
the president of the provincial con-
gress in l774-75, and again in 1775-77,
and also was the first signer of the
Declaration of Independence, left a
tell-tale letter book. This has just
been brought to light in Quincy, his
birthplace, where it has lain unno'
ticed and undisturbed since the death
O t its owner. in October. 1893.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
ACREAGE OF CEREALS.

Final Estimates Of the Agricultural Do
partmsnt, with Production and Value
WAsHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The final es
Inmates OF acreage, production and
value Of the crops in the United States
for 1897 made by the statistician OF the
department Of agriculture are as fol
lows:
Corn, 800oi 10i acres, i90S, o67, ,o33 bushels,
1901, ,072 S52 value; wheat 80, O65 acres. 5O,
104 1oS bushels t42s, ,5i7 l2l value; oats .5.73O,
S7b acres 69S 7o7, ,SO0 bushels, sl470H7l9 value:
rye, l7O3b8l acres n. .3B3 3A bushels, 1929 6i7
value; barley, s7l9, ll6 acres G66s,, l2' bushels,
s25, l4!,i30 value; buckwheat, 7l7S30 acres, a.
s7,451 bushels. t83i9. 1855 value potatoes, 2,bA,
W acres l64, ,0l5 ,9H bushels, S96i3,Ol9 value;
hay A. ,26 10 acres, 6O s76 tons, .4Ol, S9 72s
uulua
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
MANY LIVES LOST.
Tornado Hot Winds and Fires Devastats
Portions Of Australia.

Portions Of Australia.
VANCOUVER, b. c., Feb. Ia tor
nado struck Perth, West Australia, to.
tally dcmolishing some buildings and
wrecking hundreds. The hot wave
throughout the colonies is almost un'
endurable. In many places the ther'
mometer registered 1874 degrees in the
shade and the lowest registration was
10 in the shade
Fires from spontaneous combustion
are very numerous and in Victoria and
other colonies hundreds OF thousands
of acres have been swept by flames.
In Tasmania hundreds of miles OF
country have been devastated by fire.
houses, orchards and fences all being
destroyed. Some families were burned
to death and the loss of life was ap-
palling.
Many people saved their lives by
wading up to their necks in creeks
Others raced with the flames on bicy-
cles and won. The gross loss to farm
ers will be millions of dollars.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
CHOKED TO DEATH.
4 Child Draws O Toy Balloon into
Her Throat
CONFESSED TO TRAIN WRECIlNC.
A German Commits Suicide In Jaii-An
Aged Couple MurderedTwo Electric
Cars Combine Georgia Town
BADLY Sc0rched.

NEWARK. N. j., Feb. 1.-Nine-year-
old Rose Carrevolli, of No. G2 South
Canal street, was choked to death bya
10Y balloon yesterday afternoon. She
started to run across the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks, when she tripped and
fell. She lay face downward, and sew
eral persons went to her assistance.
She seemed to be in spasm, and 70
liceman Barnett carried her to the
Office Of DR.. william Seidler near by.
When the doctor examined the child
she was dead. II was learned from a
companion of Rosa that she had been
blowing up small toy balloon as she
ran. An examination disclosed the
TACT that the rubber bag and wooden
tube had been drawn into her throat
when she fell, causing her to choke to
death.
CONFESSED TO TRAIN wREcKING.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. Henry
Goetel, young German baker, after
making confession TO the sheriff to
the effect that Herman Breetz and
himself wrecked passenger train
near Rivera, on the Florida East Coast
last Tuesday night, committed suicide
by hanging himself with towel in
the Jail early yesterday morning.
After wrecking the train, the amateur
wreckers lost their nerve and ran. IT
was their purpose to hold up the pas
sengers. Breetz, his associate, who oc-
cupied the same cell, also attempted to
kill himself, but he was unsuccessful.
AN AGED COUPLE MURDERED.
GRAYsoN KY, Feb. l.-"Virginia
Bill" Friley, an old citizen OF Elliott
county, aged 80 years, and his wife,
about 10 years Of aye, were murdered
last night at their home in Elliott
county Ky, and robbed OF from $500 to
$1,000. There Is no clew to the mur'
derers. A maui was the instrument
Q5eu. NO OIlt WhS NV hoihC SASCpp WIZ
old couple The crime is shrouded in
mystery. Intense excitement prevails
in the neighborhood. II the perpe.
traitors are discovered a lynching will
follow.
TWO ELECTRIC CARS COLLIDE.
NEwBuBypoEr, Mass, Feb. 1.-Two
electric cars operated between this city
and Haverhill collided yesterday. Mo-
tOrlnan John Ilackctt, Conductor 81
mer Mitchell and Thomas Smith, a
Boston liquor dealer, injured. Mitchell
may die.
A GEORGIA TOWN BADLY sC0RCHED
AsnBURN, Ca, Feb. IA dozen
stores, one warehouse and two dwell.
ings were destroyed by fire here yes
terday. The loss is estimated at $780,.
900; insurance about $1,000. 1t was
thought at one time the whole town
would be destroyed.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
WHY BREAD is DARK.
Fault Laid to Letter, Who Has n "Corner'
on 100000 Bushels of Wheat.

FNulG LHlu tO ArttrFs WIN h"n" NpAuOA
on 15.OOO,OOO Bushels Of Wheat
CHICAGO, Feb l.-Joseph Letter, ac-
cording to experts in the trade, is
forcing thousands Of people to eat
darker bread than has ever been seen
in America since the introduction of
the patent roller process of making
flour. His control Of l5,OOO,O 900 bushels
of contract wheat means, they say,
that the millers are grinding the best
grain they can procure since their sup
ply of choice No. hard spring wheat
has become exhausted. Grocers and
retail flour dealers have been receiv-
ing complaints regarding breadstuffs
from cooks and housewives who have
returned sacks and barrels of flour
marked with the fancy brands and
bought at the highest price. The
loudest protests have been raised by
the restaurateurs and bakers, who buy
-four at wholesale.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
KANSAS MOB FOlLED.
Dick Ward, a Negro, Freed by the Officer
Who Had Him In Charge.

GALENA, Kan, Feb. IA mob of 20
or more citizens Of Galena met the
early morning Mefnphis train for the
purpose of hanging Dick Ward, a
negro, who one week ago stabbed and
killed Dennis Brown. Marshal Lafe
Roe had the prisoner in charge. On
arriving at the depot the officer
was surrounded by the mob and or
dercd to deliver the murderer, but in
stead OF obeying he ordered the pris.
oner to "hy for his life" which he did.
The mob held the train over five min
utes searching the cars for the prison.
er, who had jumped off the opposite
side Of the train and has not been
heard of since,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

KANSAS City, Mo-, Feb. l.-Charles
D. Etue was arrested last night, sus-
pected Of completely in the murder OF
Miss Emma Schumacher at Seven
teenth and Campbell street, the night
Of December s. Etue shot and killed
Anton Schuh as u result Of quarrel
over woman at Twelfth and Walnut
streets, October 10, 1893. lie was in
dicted for murder but acquitted. He
is q son of ?. d. Etue, at one time a
well-known employing printer of this
ait,,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
ILLINOIS TOWN sCoRCHED.

Blaze at Mount Sterling Destroys 100000
Worth of Property and Causes One
Death.
ST. Louis, Jan. 2s.-A special from
Mount Sterling, ILL.,, says; The most
disastrous fire in the history of Mount
Sterling broke out here and before
it was out Albert Pieper was
killed by falling wall; Constable
Snodgrass and two other men were in
iured and over 100000 worth of prop
erty was burned up. The Bloomfield
hotel was entirely destroyed and al
most the whole block went with it.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
KILLED ON A TRESTLE.
Mrs. Lizzie King and 12-Year-Old Boy
Kun Uown by an Express Train.


ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2S.-Mrs Lizzie King
and her neighbor's son, Frank Carey,
10 years old, were run down by the
northbound Burlington express yester-
day The body of the lad lies on
marble slab in the morgue and the
woman is in the city hospital SO
manned and injured that the doctors
scarcely hope that she will recover
They were crossing high trestle over
Highland creek, making their way
slowly over the ice-covered timbers,
when they heard the loud shrek of the
locomotive whistle. A train was upon
them. Mrs. King jumped. While the
lad watched her, Mortified, the engine
struck him. He was dead when picked
up. The woman's condition is critical
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
McNalrs son Attempts Suicide.

lola, Kan, Feb. 1.'-Out Of money,
out of work, respondent over domestic
troubles, W. S. McNall, son of State
Superintendent of Insurance Webb Nc
Nall, yesterday attempted to commit
suicide by taking arsenic. He was oc.
cupying a bunk in the city Jail when
he took the poison. 1t is thought he
will rerover
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

AURORA. ILL.,, Feb |. The New En-
gland Congregational church was
crowded to the doors at Sunday morn.
ing service, the attraction being the
christening Of Cressy Tia Fam Ang,
infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs. All Ang.
The child's father is q Chinese mer.
chant of this city. His mother is
American born, Of German parentage.
The father has forsworn all Chinese
customs and will join the church soon.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. IA very
dangerous counterfeit 81 silver certifi,
cate is in circulation in Kansas City,
md for the past week the receiving
tellers Of the banks Of the city have
been making more careful scrutiny
Of bills than is customary. The bill is
the 81 silver certificate that bears the
picture Of the late Senator William
Window. 1t is described as the Win.
dom 50 silver certificate, series 1891,
check letter c, plate 10, J. Fount Till.
man, register, and D. N. Morgan, treas.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
without Food for Three DAYS.

TOPEKA, Kan, Feb Mrs. Anna
Bronth, u weaver, who came here
few weeks ago from the east hoping to
get employment in the new wooden
mill and failed, was found almost
starved to death by the police in a
room that was without stove or table.
She had been without food three days.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
Alice Nielsen Single Again,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. Miss
Alice Nielsen, the prima donna of the
Bostonian opera company, secured a
legal separation from her husband,
Benjamin Nentwig, in Judge Ilenry's
division of the circuit court Monday.
BY agreement Miss Nielsen, who was
not in court, permitted the defendant
to file cross bill alleging desertion,
and to obtain the decree. Her boy re.
mains with her mother in California.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

PLATTsBURG, Mo-, Feb 1.-At Gray.
son, this county, Charles Rowland, q
well-known young man, was shot and
killed by James Grimes, well-to-do
farmer. The tragedy was the result
of too friendly relations between Row
land and Grimes wife. Grimes says
he had warned Rowland to leave the
country. The trouble is of long stand
lag.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
Kansas National bank Quits.

CoNcoRDIA, Kan, Feb. THE Citi-
zens' national bank, Of Concordia, will
to-day transfer its business to the
First national bank, Of this place, and
20 out OF business. No cause is as
signed for the change, as the Citizens
national had been doing profitable
busincss.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER.
Rare selfSacrifice of Frank Buck, an Em-
ploye of Chicago Street Railroad.

ploye of Chicago Street Railroad.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9S.-To save q
stranger, Frank Buck, laborer for
the Chicago City railway, gave up his
life yesterday. Buck was employed at
the terminus Of the Chicago City rail-
way at ONeill and Halstead streets. A
trailer was being shunted down ONeill
street and in front of it man was
walking, unconscious of its approach.
Buck saw the danger and gave the
stranger a push that landed him
safely, but Bucks feet slipped and he
fell in front of the car. His head and
shoulders were crushed by wheel
He was picked up unconscious and
died in few moments.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
Ia Now In Eject.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. THE
Texas fever quarantine goes into ef.
feet to-day, and from this forward all
cattle shipped into Kansas or Missouri
must be passed upon by the inspectors
of said states and obtain clean bills OF
health before being shipped.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 1.-The senate,
by o vote Of 30 to 5, adopted the assem-
bly, resolution in favor of the general
government taking such action to re-
store peace In Cuba as seemed wise.
The belligerency substitute was de-
feated.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
LEFT FOR GREEN PASTURES.
Irate Husbands ut Guthrie, Ok, Wanted to
Thrash % medium"

GUTHRIE, Ok, Feb. Alexander
Lee, medium who has been hold
ing forth here for several weeks, left
town suddenly, to escape the venge-
ance of several well-known citizens
The wives of the wrathful men had
been consulting Lee, and were told by
the Spirits" Of several escapades of
their better halves, which caused them
to 90 home and read the riot act. The
husbands sought to retaliate by thrash
ing Lee, and he concluded to fill an en-
gagement elsewhere.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
TO strengthen MormoniHm in the East.

New YORK, Feb. IA general con-
ference of Mormons will be held in
Brooklyn next Sunday afternoon and
evening. The purpose Of the confer
snce is to strengthen the Mormon faith
in this locality, where at one time a
Hourishing church existed.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Feb. l.-Trainmaster
Finvey, of the NJ, X. 4 I. railroad,
has been looking over the ground be.
tween Columbia and Kennard, eight
miles south Of this place, with view
to building an electric railway line.
He reports that the roadbed is practi.
cally constructed now, the grade be-
ing SO slight, and that the needed
capital can be secured for building the
road,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03
Paris Aids the Cubans.

NEw YORK, Feb. DIR. Sanchez
Agramonte, surgeon general in the
Cuban iusurgent army, has just arrived
from Europe, bringing $4,000 raised
in Paris for the Cuban cause.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

At Kansas City, Mo-, Ross W. Lat
shaw, ex-justice of the peace, was ac'
quilted of the charge Of attempting to
bribe juror in the Goddard murder
eaae.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1898-02-03

Twenty.six buildings at Clifton,
Tex, were burned, causing a loss Of
s2s,2OO