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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
THE TATTLER.

Miss Cora Dow of Cincinnati is the pro-
prietor of four successful drug stores in
that city.
Miss Ada Negri, the young italian poet
who has been having considerable vogue
in London, is an ardent socialist.
Baroness Hirsch will found colony
near Smyrna for the $50 families who fed
from Russia some three years ago on ac-
count Of persecution.
Mrs. U. S. Grant denies a recently pub
lished statement that she Aas engaged to
Alfred SandfOrd of st. Louis before her
marriage to General Grant.
Miss Jennie Clinton designed the three
memorial windows in the church at Ho-
hokus, n. j. The design has been much
admired, and the color harmony is said to
be most artistic
Nine. Nordica, when recently compli-
mentcd on her improved health, said that
she owed it Oil to the training which it
was necessary to undergo in order to sing
Wagnerian roles
The beautiful Countess of Warwick,
formerly Lady Brooke, has written life
of Joseph Arch, president of the British
Agricultural Iaborers' union, Methodist
preacher and-advocate Of labor reforms.
Miss Edna Whitney, the young woman
who works IN n cigar factory and whom
Kansas City rejected as maid of honor at
the fall carnival, is going on the stage.
She will study for her new profession in
Kansas City.
Mrs. Fannie NJ Merryfield, woman
telegraph operator who gained consider
able fame during the recent Indian trou-
bles in Wyoming, las been an operator for
30 years and is now chief night operator
at Cheyenne.
Lady Ranford, wife of the newly elected
governor of New Zealand, recently dis
played great courage in q fire in Auck-
land She rescued baby from the flames
and worked with the men in pouring wa
ter on the fire.
Miss Virginia Montgomery, known in
the art world of the south, has had her de-
sign for q Confederate memorial at San
Antonio, Tex, accepted, and she will be
the first southern woman to have her
name on monument as the designer.
1t is said that Mrs. Bruno Gansel of
Chicago recently chopped into pieces the
sleigh in which in 1912 Napoleon / rode
away from Moscow The sleigh belonged
to Mr. Ganscl, who received it from his
grandfather Mrs Gansel said she was
tired of "secing the old thing around,
and so th0ushtfully cut it up to get it out
of the way.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
State Charter Issued.

Charleston, w. Va, Feb. 49,
The secretary of state has issued
the following charters:
The Del Monte Leasing Compa-
ny, of Charleston, w. Va, with a
capital of ST 900 and the privilege
of increasing the same to $4,000
The shares are S. each and are held
by A. E. Humphreys, George Da-
Wis, of Charleston; James A. Nc
Guffin, of Sewell; w. H. Bryant
and H.. c. Dinninny, of Denver,
Col.
To Alaska Grub Stake and Gold
Mining Company, of Charleston,
w. Va, with a capital of $4,000
and the privilege of increasing the
same to 900, 900. The shares are
$40 each and are held by St. Louis
parties.
To Standard Drilling Company,
of Lackawanna, Pa, with capital
of s. 900 and the privilege of in
'creasing the same to $1,000, 900
The shares are held by VIM. D,
Boyer, Thomas J. Foster, Rufus ].
Foster, Walter L. Henwood and A.
R. Raub, of Scranton. Pa.
To American Yeast company, of
Parkersburg, with capital Of $500
and the privilege of increasing the
same to 1880, 900. The shares are
500 each and are held by New
York and New Jersey parties.
To Kimple Mill company of
Charleston, with capital of ST. 900
and the privilege of increasing the
same to 100000. The shares are
$40 each and are held by New York
parties.
To the Carter Gravity Magnetic
Ore Separating company of Charles
ton, with capital Of $500, and the
privilege of increasing the same to
s., 100000. The shares are 500
each and are held by W. G. Leon
ard, G. L. Welsh, P. c. Russell, J.
A. Summers and A. e. Gunther, of
Charleston.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
STAGE GLINTS.

Miss Maud Haslam has been engaged
by Rudolph Aronson for a leading part
in "a Paris Model.
Delmore and Wilson, late of "a
Broadway Girl" company, have Joined
the Murray and Mack company.
Augustin Daily has secured the Amer
lean rights Of "La Poupee" and will
give it another chance in New York.
Contracts have been signed for the
appearance of Sam Bernard as star
next season in 1.-The Marquis of Michi-
gan"
Dore Davidson and Cuyler Hastings
have been engaged by Robert Hilliard
for 'M,. New York." the new version
of "Lost-24 Hours"
"Frou- Frou'' will probably constitute
the last of the series of ,revivals to be
given at Days theater, New York.
Miss Rehan will essay for the first time
the role of Gilberte.
a Paris Model" the new three act
comedy by Jane Mauldin- Feigl, will be
produced early next month at the Bijou
theater, New York, under the direction
If Rudolph Aronson.
Herbert Labadie contemplates grand
production Of Richard H. later in
the season, with himself as Richard and
Marie l.. Labadie as Lady Anne. He
will not discontinue Faust, however.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
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The mild and the extraordinary
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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23

uUI1Dt LuaJ sue udu Decu muT ucIcu al
the body securely hidden.
Then came rumors from many dis
tant places that the young lady ha
been discovered at each. Sometime
she was reported to be ON the stage
sometimes she was milliner; some
times waiter in dining room; some
times clerk; sometimes a saleswomal
and once she was in a lunatic asylum
Many of these rumors were very ex
plicit. They burdened the telegraph
wires and occupied much space in pres
reports. Many newspapers publishes
unrecognizable pictures of Miss Stelli
beside the pictures of the discovered
and sometimes there really was a re
semblance, which was usually found t.
be due to the skill Of the engrayer o.
the artist.
All these rumors were investigated
for each really inspired hope. Man.
people have become suddenly craze'
and it would not do to let any hope q
by ungrasped.
When the volunteer searchers aban
doned hope and retired from the searcl
the adjutant begged for detachment
of cavalry with which to renew tn
search and a detachment was detailed
under his command for that purposl
and again, in a careful and systemath
manner he secured the whole country
but with no new results.
When, in the regular course OF thef,
march they came to the abode Of Johl
the Baptist, they found him at hi
door with a pitcher of water jus
brought from the adjacent spring, ant
the adjutant said:
Have you seen or heard anything o
the young lady who is lost among thu
hills?"
You seek the virgin? The time il
at hand! Prepare We the way Of thu
Lord; make his path straight; / in
deed, bapIize you with water, but on
cometh after me who is mightier thai
|, the latchet of whose shoe | am no
worthy to loose. He will baptize you
with the Holy Ghost!"
DO you see all these people? The.
are looking for young lady who il
lost. Old man, pull your wits togethe'
and try to remember if you have seel
her"
Eyes, Yes; the virgin! Ye seek thu
virgin, but your time is not yet! Thu
time is ripe! There be some standing
here which shall not taste death til
they see the Son of Man coming IN hi
glory; for he shall come in the cloud;
of heaven and all his holy angels will
him! Ye scribes and pharisees, hypo
critics! Oh, We generation Of vipers'
Who hath warned you to flee from tn.
wrath to Gomez
1T is useless! He would not remem
Der, if he had seen her an hour age.
The thick walled hut with its ston'
roof and mailed door was left to it!
insane proprietor apd the searcheri
went onward over the hills, anXiousl!
continuing hopeless search.
For full week the adjutant and hli
detachment went fruitlessly up an(
down among the hills, scanning theil
SUBMITS and securing their bases
Then the troops were ordered back t.
camp and the search for the lost Stella
Zenith was ended and her disappear
ance was added to the great catalogue
of unsolvable mysteries.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
National Gas in Kansas.

independence is rejoicing be-
cause the town now has plenty of
gas, the local gas company having
secured the Ringle & Henry wells,
in the Forest Oil company's Table
Mound gas district, for connection
with the city plant. The Forest
drilled these wells two years ago
and they have been kept securely
plugged. The product of these
two wells, also of any other wells
that NAV be drilled on those two
leases, has been secured by indie
pendence with direct reference to
brick plant and other contemplated
industries for that city. The indie.
pendence Gas company is party
to the deal, also some of the fore
most business men of the city, and
doubtless they secured the gas, a
guarantee of plenty of gas in tie
future, for manufacturing purposes,
from the Forest Oil company much
cheaper than they could have pros
pected and produced the gas, al
though they probably did have to
meet the oil company's terms. -Ne-
odesha Derrick.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
XVII.
AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY.

The entire population of Minersvale
and the surrounding country and ada
cent towns was aroused.
Thousands of men tramped over the
hills in every direction, for miles.
Cordons of searchers were systemat-
ically moved forward and back, sweep
ing like a living broom across every
hill, through every hollow, over every
plateau and valley.
Not cluster of bushes, not a hollow
stump, not a stream or pool, we'll or
shaft, not a barn or empty structure
or any outbuilding was, for miles
around, left UNEMPLOYED.
During the day the hills were peo-
pied more thickly than we're the pleas
ant parks of populous city on a fair
day. All night the hills were red with
fires and aflame with glazing torcAes
Day and night, night and day, the
search went on and the same ground
was covered repeatedly; but not trace
was discovered, not clue was found.
Hope died within the hearts of the
searchers and their numbers began to
decrease. Some were worn out physi-
cally; some retired because of their
conviction that further search would
be futile.
Some alleged that the young lady
had disappeared from reasons of her
own. Some did not doubt that the ad-
jutant had her safely carried off, Some
had no doubt that she had eloped with
one of the adjutant's rivals. Some
concluded that she had been captured
by brigands who, : due time would
demand a ransom Many did not
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23

lowered within his reach so That
could pour into it the tremendou
charge of powder that he held in NJ
palm. Having deposited the poHder II
the barrel he stood the piece erect ant
ratified the butt. on the floor to settl'
the charge into the chamber. Finding
that he could not, owing to the altitude
of the muzzle, keep the gun perpendlc'
ular while he drove the wadding nome
he mounted an upholstered chair ant
started a roll of paper down the Ions
bore. Then a new difficulty was en-
countered: the rammer could not 81
drawn without inclining the gun, th'
length of the gun added to the length
OF the hammer exceeding the height O.
the ceiling; and Tom had an idea tina
the powder must be kept level in tnt
chamber or something would happen
Therefore the gun must not be inclined
until the wadding was packed upon tnt
powder. Climbing down from the chalI
he went to the porch and stood the CUR
on the ground, so that there was onl!
a cloud for the hammer to penetrate.
Having rammed the wad home WITT
a vigorous and willing arm Tom sem
a handful of shot rafting down upor
it and after the leaden pellets he SEM
another section of newspaper. Throw
ing the gun across his left arm he pro-
ceeded to prime it by pouring powder
into the pan which he uncovered foi
that purpose. Captain Zenith was SIT
ting on his own porch reading the
Scranton Republican and Toms prim'
ing movement brought him into range
and he cried:
tom! Don't point that thing this
way"
BEG your pardon, Captain, l didnh
notice any one!" and the gun was
shifted with the muzzle toward the
parlor window, bringing the sports
mans mother into range.
What are you going to shoot, Tom?
Captain Zenith inquired, rebels, de-
serters or a provost marshall"
Rabbits! n you bet I'll kill drove
of 'eml l know where they're thicker
n hens teeth"
eff you kill for market you may
bring me two brace.
How much II you give?'
Market price"
'All right, / don't know how much
that is, but I'll find out f you don't
know. N say, Captain Zenith, I've
just traded Brownie for this gun n Ma
says t Pap won't lemme keep it. Won't
you tell Pap t he oughtta femme keep
ito"
Eyes. Tom, I'll talk it over with him
AID help you if | can"
Thank you Captain. You're brick
If yer girls is sassy. l tell you them
girls of yours is terrors n | don't see
now you get along livin' in the same
house with EN-. It's bad enough Twin
next door. Carrie isn't so bad, but |
wish bushel that Mollie was a boy
for about a nour! I'd enjoy the occa-
sion by givin' her mighty good lick
in to last her for life an make her re-
spect boys as long as she lives. Now
Stell was different! She'd give Teller
fits fer tricks, but she'd treat him nice,
too: n shed help Teller over fence
f she did scold him fer clim'in'. | al
ways liked her n l always liked you,
too. Captain, n I'm awful sorry Stells
lost"
Thank you, Tom" the Captain an
swered with tears in his eyes, and in
tones that told of RI aching heart
Tom proudly sRouiGered his artillery
and took up mis- march of happine1J Il
the scene of anticipated conquest and
glorious slaughter
ITO BE CONTINUED
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
WOLVES IN MINNESOTA.

Farmer and Trainmen Have Been At
tackled by Them and Much Stock Killed.
Wolves are making life unhappy for
Minnesota farmers.
Henry Fellen was attacked by a pack
near Deerwood, Mimi. on the Northern
Pacific, recently and killed several be-
fore he drove them off. They had at
tackled two of his COWS. When he ran to
the rescue, the wolves attacked him.
Fellen climbed a tree and, seated on
q limb, began war on the beasts. He
shot several of them, and these were
Immediately torn to pieces by the others.
Fellen fired all the cartridges in his
rife and was kept prisoner in the zee
by the animals FOR an hour or more,
until a neighbor, who had heard the
shooting and the bowls of the wolves,
came to the rescue.
Later in the evening the crew OF
Northern Pacific train discharging a
cargo at the Oeerwood station was at
tackled by wolves, supposed to be the re-
mainder of the pack which had attacked
Fellen. The men had just time to draw
their revolvers and make for the train.
Shrill blasts from the whistle and the
opening of the escape pipes for steam
scared the wolves away.
Already a considerable amount OF
stock owned by the settlers has been
killed by the animals, and people are
afraid to 60 ont of their homes after
dark. The heavy snow and the intense
cold are driving the wolves into the set
Elements. New York World.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
XVIII.
TOM CoYNE MAKES A TRADE.

lOM GUY NE MAhEEO n Ilf1bC.
Tom Coyne was a Free-born Ameri.
can Boy. His parents lived next dool
to the Zeniths and naturally enough
Tom lived there also. Quite as natur'
ally the young ladies Of the ZENITH
household entertained many decided
opinions concerning the average Free.
born American Boy; and the concensuS
of opinion among the Misses ZENITH
was antagonistic to the F'ree-borr
American Boy and they sometimes ex-
pressed their respective opinion to Tom
personally in language as vigorous
emphatic and unmistakable as custom
permits the Freedom American Mai
den to make use of. Indeed, there Is
no doubt that they sometimes stretched
the permission of custom to its utmost
limits and ceased to stretch that per-
mission with some reluctance, feeling
that justice had not been done in the
case; perhaps even feeling that JUS
tice is unfair and tyrranical
when she forbids young ladies to en-
ploy all of the resources Of language
concerning the Free-bOrn American
Boy!
Some days after the search for Miss
tered the parental parlOr where his
mother was chatting with a neighbor.
His mein was that of conquerer of
cations who fully appreciated his OWL
Importance to historians.
Now, that's what | call bargain!"
he said, displaying a flint-lock musket
of the oldest pattern extant. The
stock was clumsy, the barrel of amaz-
ing length, and the calibre great
enough to carry a peach. But it was a
gun and that satisfied Tom. For its
oddities, its deformities, he cared
nothing; his boyish ambition had been
to own a gun; this was a gun; he
owned this gun; therefore he was hap
Ply.
tom! Where in the world did you
get that?' his mother asked in a dis
couraging tone that was lost on Tom.
It's mine"
Where did you get it,"
Traded for it,
What did you trade for it?''
Brownie"
oh, Tom! You poor foolish boy.
That old gun is not worth fifty cent:
and the calf is worth five or six dol
lars! Your father will make you undo
that trade"
You tell him to not? I'd rather
have this gun n whole drove o!
calves! N it won't eat nuthin' n it
won't cost nuthin' n it will kill rab
bits like gosh! We can eat rabbits n
I'll see that it kills plenty of 'em, you
bet! N I'll have more fun with this
gun in a nour than 1 could ever have
with Brownie! A Teller can play with
a gun an enjoy life but no Teller with
good sense can play with a calf n have
fun!"
I'm sorry to disappoint you, my boy
but it is foolish trade"
"Well, mayn't l keep it to-day?"
you may keep it till your father
comes home and then he may do as he
pleases.
IN you make him let me keep il
Ma; anyway I'll go huntin' now; I've
got powder n shot"
He stuffed his pockets full of old
newspapers for wadding and proceeded
to load the piece. The gun was so ION
that he had to thrust the butt severa
feet to the rear before the ElEZcie va
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23

A Little Learning.
To the skater it comes
With the loudest ring
That n little earnings
a dangerous thing.
New York Truth.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23

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DIR. BRILL,

61s-6!e rem AVE., E!s'slufE, "a.
Leading specialist with rich eI-
perience from European Military
and Civil Hospitals and Polyklin-
iks, for Chest, Throat, Nose, Ear,
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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23
The Meanest Man.

"Aha! have found the meanest man
at lastW
"What did he do?"
"He's deaf and has never told his bar
Der. New York Journal.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-03-10
AN IMPORTANT ADMISSION.
A Naval Officer Says the Court of Inquiry
Does Not Depend Entirely Upon the Testi-
mony of Divers.

A Naval Officer Says the Court of Inquiry
Does Not Depend Entirely Upon the Testi-
mony of Divers.
Havana, March "A naval officer
here in reply to a suggestion yesterday
that it was pity such an important
decision as the verdict of the court OF
inquiry into the Maine explosion should
rest solely upon the testimony of the
divers, who seemed men of only aver
age intelligence replied: THE court
of inquiry has not had to depend upon
divers testimony alone" Then realiZ-
ing that he had said more than he in
tended, he resumed his reserve. 1t is
believed that the testimony of Lieut..
Wainwright was highly important, as
bearing on the question OF the exist
ence of submarine mines.
The government has employed an ex-
pert photographer who will send to
the naval department in Washington
photographs or armor plates and diff
ferent portions of the wreck immedi-
ately upon recovery from the water.
If the Spanish court of inquiry has a
definite plan of action, VIII ch seems
doubtful, it has not been maue public.
The Spanish divers will report the re-
suits of their observations to the Span
ish court of inquiry, but when or where
has not been made known.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-03-10
WAS A CUBAN VICTORY.
Spanish Lose 1000 Killed and Wound
ed ut HoIguin.


New York, March 3.-Reports of the
recent battle at Holguin, province of
Santiago de Cuba, have been received
in New York. Instead of the battle
being Spanish victory as represented
from Havana, it was a disastrous de-
feat, followed by retreat on the part
of the Spanish forces. This information
comes through Cuban sources, and is
the cause of "a great amount of rejoic-
ing in Cuban circles, because the guns
and ammunition shipped from Long
Island less than month ago We're used
in the fight.
Owing TO the character OF the coun-
try less than 1000 of the Spanish troops
could be brought into action when the
Cubans opened fire, and the Cuban force
of less than 1000 men could not be
dislodged. Gen. Garcia's command diG
not reach its full strength until the
fifth day after the fighting began. On
this day the Spanish columns retreated
in confusion, carrying the wounded to
Holguin and leaving 200 dead on the
field The Cubans' loss in the five days
fighting was less than so killed. The
real Spanish loss will never be known.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1898-03-10

infrequent visits of the merchant ships.
On this account and because of the i'm
mediate demand for supplies at the
points indicated, the officers of the as
sociation requested the secretary of
the navy to authorize the use of one or
more of the war ships at Key West in
the transportation there of food sup
plies contributed by the charitable peo-
pie of the United States in response to
the appeals of President Mckinley and
Secretary Sherman. Secretary Long
conferred with the president on the
subject and it was decided to comply
with the request. The Montgomery
and the Nashville were selected as most
suitable for the service and the neces-
sary orders were dispatched to Admiral
Sicard. The Montgomery will go to
MatanZas and the Nashville to Sagua La
Grande with the understanding that
they will remain in those ports only
long enough to deliver the supplies to
the agents of the association for dis
tribution where they will do the most
good. Although the mission assigned
to the war ships will take them both