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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-07-27

Weston, w. Va, July 2I.-The
First District Democratic Congress
sional convention met at o'clock,
in the Camden opera house.
The five hundred delegates pres
ent completely filled the orchestra
and balcony, while the galleries
were we'll flied with spectators,
among whom we're nany ladies.
Chairman Cox called the conven-
ton to order and after prayer by
Rev. Mr.. Gather, introduced Hon.
Tohn w. Davis, of Clarksburg, as
temporary chairman, and Hon.
James B. Fowler, OF Braxton, as
temporary secretary.
Mr.. Davis, in accepting the office
of temporary chairman, spoke OF
the great satisfaction felt on account
of the deep interest taken in the
present convention and the large
attendance of delegates, notwlth-
standing the defeat of the candi-
dates of the party at the last cleo
ton. Such a spirit insured the
perpetuity of the proud principles
of the party of equal rights to,all
and special privileges to none,
which had been the slogan OF the
party since it's inception and had
survived the vicissitudes of more
than one hundred years.
In this time of war it was most
important to select the very best
men to fill the offices of the repub-
lie. New issues will arise by reason
of the present conflict, which will
require the best wisdom of the
country, embodied in Our most up
right and conscientious men of
known honesty of purpose. He
spoke of our former glorious stand
ard bearer, Hon. William J. Bryan,
at the mention of whose name a
spontaneous burst of applause arose
from the audience, during which a
curtain in the rear of the stage was
raised disclosing large silken ban
ner bearing the picture of "Our
next President. William J. Bryan"
The sight of the banner was the
signal for renewed and protracted
applause.
The several counties reported
members of the different commit
tees, and the convention adjourned
for thirty minutes to enable the
committees to report.
The committee on resolutions
was as follows: Braxton, L. H.
Kelley; Doddridge, w. Va, Allen;
Gilmer, R. F. Kidd; Harrison, John
J. Davis; Lewis, N. B. Newton
Marshall, J. c. Simpson; Ohio, I.
IS. Riley; Tyler, A. L. Corbly;
Wetzel, w. w. Roberts; Brooke,
and Hancock, not represented.
The temporary organization was
made permanent after the recess.
All the committees reported, and
there being no contention or dis
putes, the reports were rapidly dis
posed of.
John J. Davis, as chairman of
the committee on resolutions, made
the report of that committee, which
he read and which was frequently
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-07-27
what Italy Need d.

Shortly before his death, which oo-
cured in 1866. Massimo d AzeglIo,
statesman, orator. pset, the painter OF
Orlando Furioso, but, above all, the
trusty friend and valred counselor OF
Victor Emmanuel, was talking to a
Frenchman. who congratulated him
npon the unitication of Italy.
Eyes, was the reply I'VE have
made new Italy; now we must en-
deayor to make new Italians
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Providing For an Emergency.

"What will you have?'' inquired the
waiter as Mr.. Heyroob scanned the
French bill of fare.
WAL" he answered, placing his
finger over an item, "ye kin bring me
some O. that. But don't so away, Cause
if it tastes like it looks i'll print III
have to try somethin else. "-Detrois
Free Press
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-07-27

The silly canard published by
Mr.. Cunningham Graham, an ex-
member of the British parliament,
that the excellent gunnery shown
by Admiral Dewey's squadron, was
due to the fact that most OF the
sunners were Englishmen decoyed
from the British-Chinese squadron
by the promise of large salaries, is
effectively nailed, There is abso-
lutely no truth in the statement, and
no official denial was needed, for
the reason that the whole world
knows that the Urited States gov
eminent is not in the business Of
encouraging assertions from foreign
navies or armies, particularly those
of countries with which it is at
peace. 1t is stated by one of Our
naval authorities that foreign
trained men are not regarded favor
ably in the United States navy.
1t hasIbeen more than once stated
officially that enlisted men in the
American navy are citizens Of the
United States or naturalized aliens.
The attempt of this one English
man to detract from the glory won
fairly by Dewey's brave American
gunners, while all his brethren are
applauding their action, will have
no effect. 1t may be inspired by
malice or by misinformation, but
whatever is back of Mr.. Cunning
ham. Graham's statement, certain it
is that it is a libel on the United
States navy that the authorities of
which can afford to treat with con-
tempt, since it comes from only one
solitary Individual in friendly En-
gland.
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Signs.

"Was that man ever farmer?' in
ouired Mrs Corntossei
NO" answered her husband very
positively.
"But he's always talkin abou: the
delights of Twin III the country "
That's what shows he never was
farmer. 49, Washington Star
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Secretary.
Nominations were called for and
Brooke presented the name of Al
exander Campbell.
DR.. Kelley, OF Braxton, named
Hon. John o. Pendleton, and then
afterwards Withdrew him. Young
Bland, of Doddridge. nominated
Hon. Jackson v. Blair in very
neat speech. Mr.. Blair's nominal
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Scene IN SANTIAGO.
Captured City Settling Down
Under American Rule.
People IN GOOD SPIRITS.
Pleased by the Prospects, That
Their Necessities

Will Soon be RsIieved-The shops Are
Beginning to Open Again, But Near
Nv All the Better Glass of Houses Are
Closed.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-07-27

Little sickness is reported by the
physicians in the city which youches
for the healthfulness.
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~ All the Better Glass of Houses Are
Closed.
Santiago Harbor, July 18.-5 P.
M, via Kingston, Jamaica, July
Io.-S45 a. m.-Santiago is now
city of silence.
The American flag waves over
the military headquarters on Nor
rows flag staff. and Red Cross en-
blems are as plentiful at the church
spires.
Almost the entire population
this afternoon is gathered about
the wharves where the Spanish
shipping, now prizes Of the United
States, will soon be augmented by
a large fleet o. transports flying
the American colors.
Some stores, mostly for the sale
of liquor or drugs, are open. but
their patrons are few. Beggars are
in evidence, OF the same importu-
nate sort which makes Havana IN
pleasant for foreigners. Now and
then a man or woman OF the better
class beg the correspondents for
milk for my little one, il the name
ofGod."
At the dock where the Red
Cross steamer, State of Texas, is
unloading and preparing for long
a guard from the Ninth In
has been mounted, but the
D here have had little trouble
from the inroads of bad
4 Indigenous to seaport cities.
ere is no evidence of gloom on
faces of the Spanish men and
hen. These mercurial people
already laughing and are
feased at the military and naval
low, and at the prospect OF getting
5od other than rice and salt meats.
Nearly all the better classes of
& houses are closed. The residents
evidently have not returned from
Ell Caney and other suburban places
TO which they fled on threat OF
the bombardment by the land and
sea forces of the United States.
Filth is noticeable everywhere,
and strange to say, the city is
healthy in spite of it. But If San
tiago is to continue healthy, much
sanitary work is necessary. Ar
engagements, therefore, are now un-
der way to remove the most dan
gerous features and to improve
those which tend to purify the city.
The harbor of Santiago de Cuba
is a very beautiful place, with its
high ramparts of mountains, groves
of cocoa, palms, banana trees and
Towering shrubs pushed down to
the very brink of the bay.
The channel is tortuous, and
marked by bright blue and white
buoys, or more clearly defined in
places by long booms of logs mark
ing the entrance of shallow bays
and inlets. Old churches, forts and
bastions share the promontories
with light, wooden houses for the
emmer uses of the upper classes.
he harbor was the scene of
tiful marine pageant this after
A score or more of Ameri-
passports, the way being
j out by the Suwanee, glided
estically to the quiet anchorage
onething they had not enjoyed fo-
weeks, being compelled 70 stand
out to sea at night, TO be tossed
about by the waves, or to use the
precarious holding grounds OF Bal
ouiri. They were fine boats, many
of them being among the largest
becimens of the American mer-
liant marine.
Nearly all bedecked with flags
hey steamed in proudly, making
bodily show extending over about
mile of water.
How SOC the Spanish troops
i'll be loa&e6 on these transports
br shipment to the homes many
them have not seen for
- years or more, cannot be an
ed at present. But it is un-
4 IL Ii 4 L.
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FOR CONGRESS-
Hon. J. v. Blair, of Doddridge,
Nominated by
AN NTH STA S TIC
Gathering of Democrats at Yves
ton Yes terday.

Till Sufficient Contest Had Developed
TO Show Numerous Competent and
Available Aspiranis.
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WTiglt's Indian Vegetable Pills

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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-13
The Man Who Was Cursed.

SACRAMENTO, Sept 12.-Wieger was
married to relative by marriage of
Philip Scheld, one of the directors of the
Sacramento banks, proprietor of one of
the local breweries, and a man of con-
siderable wealth. Scheld, when informed
as to the nature of Weiger's note, plac-
ing his dying curse upon him, was not
visibly disturbed. Sche1d says that when
Wieger first got into financial difficulties
the dry-goods man went to him for mon
ey, but Scheld declined to undertake to
make good his losses. Since then Wieger
harbored i'll will for Scheld, and time
and again referred to him as the man re-
sponsible for his failure, for he main
tanned that had Scheld given him the
money he wanted he would never have
got into business difficulties However,
Scheld says he did not feel justified in
complying with Wieger's demand upon
the showing Wieger made to him.
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quaintances here, since they had long an
ticipated such would be his fate. Seven
or eight years ago Wieger was member
of the large dry goods firm of Wasserman
& Co., and as such held a high place both
in the commercial and social community
He was very proud and somewhat auto
cratic in his manner, but this quality did
not interfere with his success as one Of
the several members of the firm. When,
however Wieger started in for himself as
a rival of the old firm, opening his place
within 100 feet of the other, he found that
he did not possess those elements of per-
sonal popularity which would draw trade
to him. Then followed his imprisonment
and gradually declining fortune Public
sympathy. went out for Wieger here prior
to and after his liberia, zion from prison,
but it was noticed that while he assumed
a pride it was not of a character which
would prompt him to support his wife
and five children as his means allowed,
and there was gradual change of senti-
ment regarding him. However, Wieger
was never regarded, even after his con
viction, as a criminal and his thorough
knowledge of the dry goods business was
conceded. He had never threatened sui
eide even to his most intimate friends
here, but when they learned that he had
been out of employment long time they
looked for that end
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CHARLES WIEGER. the
Sacramento Dru-G00dS
Man. Who Poisoned
Himself in Golden Gate
Park in a Fit of De-
Sp0ndenCu.

Hermine. It is written In a remarkably
manship now being taught in the public
schools of California. The following are
extracts from the letter, which under the
circumstances are more than ordinarily
pathetic:
The mail brought such nice big fat
letter from you to-day. / asked mamma IL
1t good news. She said 1t was nice let
ter and may be we will have nice times again
like used to have. I wish you was here
for my birthday on Wednesday to have some
you ought to be here to give me ten birthday
kisses = We have four cats now. their
names are Mary. Sally, Dewey and Sampson.
is over, because they get SO many beatings
from Vera.
Another daughter, who signs her letter
Your loving little dickey bird" writes:
can't write very much because Hermine
has got ahead Of me, and has more to say,
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LEFT Wife
AND BABIES
TO STRUGGLE
Charles Wieger Owns
Life a Failure.
HIS LITTLE ONES LOVED HIM
PATHETIC LETTERS RECEIVED
FROM HIS CHILDREN.
Checkered Career and Miserable End
of Well Known Sacramento
Man Who Thought Fate
Was Against Him.

With a blessing and curse upon his lips
the blessing for his five innocent chill
dren, whom he was abandoning to their
fate In the struggle with q world that has
not been too kind to them, and the curse
for the man whom he believed to be the
auhtor Of his observation-disclosures Wieger
of Sacramento took his life day or two
ago in a secluded part of Golden Gate
Park.
When Wellborer j. K. Meyer attracted
to the spot yesterday morning by the
stencil and the cloud of flies reached the
dead body in some underbrush near the
pumping station, he saw clutched in the
right hand small phial, which had con-
tanned 100 morphine pills of one-quarter
OF a grain each These the suicide had
swallowed at some period of time varying
from twenty-four to forty-eight hours
previously.
The body was brought to the Morgue,
and the clothing was searched for evil
dence as to the mans identity. On the
back of an envelope written In pencil
was this, the last message of the unfor-
tunate man:
@ God bless my darling children and 8
9 farewell. The sun is almost down; 9
@ Philip Scheld, I curse you with my 8
@ last breath. 8
These messages were also found on en-
velopes:
Florence. Julius, Helene, Hermtne. Vera.
My five innocent darlings. L cannot help you.
Cannot help myself. / have to go, else
Will slip further down still There is pawn
ticket in this book for the gold watch. You
can redeem it within three months. Interest
so cents A steady position is what / needed
think l fought brave enough these last six
years.
In the pockets of the dead were letters
from his daughters in Sacramento. One
from his daughter Florence Is particu-
larry interesting, as it shows not only the
poverty of the family, but the degrading
influences to which young girls and boys
are sometimes exposed when put out by
their parents to work at a tender age.
Florence writes under date of August I
that she is back in 1.-The store again al
a salary of $40 per month. She adds that
she is not allowed to sit down during the
day and adds:
And besides all this influence is vile have
to be downstairs in that receiving room base
ment a good deal, and OH how those girls
and boys do act.
The boys kiss the girls and hug them and
tickle them under the arms. and then they lnot
and act, it is something shocking. It disg,,sts
and shocks me- The girls think l am very
prim and silly because refuse to talk slang,
read their wretched novels, and act tl.ey
do. And just think They laugh at me, and
tell me that when I have been there while
/ Will be just like them
l going to have vacation in about two
weeks from now. and would like to come
down to you for a few days. Wouldn't you
like your big daughter to come and see you ?
I am almost as tall as you are now. Five feet
six inches
Under date Of Sacramento, August 9,
1898, was letter from his little daughter
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NO SURPRISE nv sACRAMENTo.
Acquaintance There Expected Some
Such End to Wirger's Hapless
Career.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Sept. 2.-The an
ger created little surprise among his ac-
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I will send you Mise big round o o O o o
o O, and these hugs s. . Her
mine wrote you about Sunday school. but
have been there little longer than she has,
and learnt about Paul. 1 would like to go to
the st. Pauls church, but we have TO go to a
common church because haven't got Mise
enough close to ware, SO good buy. Your low
ing little i D1CKEY BIRD.
The answer to Florence's appeal is
found in the following extract from a let
ter written by Wieger to his wife under
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date of August 10, and found on his hodv

date OF August 13, and found on his body:
Florence's complaint about the store Is only
too true, but the stores are all that wavH
regular hotbeds for vice. but since it is or
GAINED that the dear children must go through
II, 1t is best that they should know and see
the danger and shun 1t. l trust that your in
nuence over the girls will always be strong
enough TO guide them. Get julius into the
store again, as 1t is not good for him to be loaf
ing. ~ ~ ~ -
The dead man was well known in Sacra-
mento, where he had been for some time a
partner in the dry goods firm of Wasser-
man, Davis d Co. He went into business
Tor himself in Sacramento several years
ago ana tailed This brought about his
prosecution on charge of having OBJ
tanned his stock of goods from his cred
ltors by false representations, and he.was
convicted and sent to the Folsom Peniten-
uary, put ne was pardoned before his
term OF sentence expired. In December,
1876, ne was employed by Livingston
Bros, on Post street in this city as a
clerk; put was discharged after four
months service, because he was head
strong and would not obey the orders of
ms employers. They give him an excel
lent reputation for honesty and only
Iound lauit with his obstinate disposition.
he worked also at the Emporium, at
Weinstock & Lubin's and at other estab-
lishments.
Last Friday he applied for employment
at Livingston Bros. but there was no
vacancy, and he was turned away disap-
pointed. he was very Respondent for a
lew days before his death, and seemed to
think the world was against him.
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Fast Train Service.

The California Limited over the Santa
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Der 2, between Los Angeles and Chicago,
leaving both Los Angeles and Chicago
every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday,
and going through in two and one-half
days-the fastest train ever scheduled be-
tween California and Chicago.
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His Hand Crushed.

L. Matson. residing at 1853 Jessie street,
caught his hand in chain while working
at the Oakland Mole yesterday afternoon
and his fingers were so badly crushed
that they had to be amputated. He was
brought to this city and his injury was
dressed at the Harbor Hospital.
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empire take rank among the foremost ma
lions of the world, He related several in
cidents that had come under his notice
during his residence there to illustrate
this spirit of patriotism and how it had
carried them forward with wonderful
strides toward the goal they seek.
But with all her advances Japan has
retained some Of the old customs that
prevailed during the hundred years she
was sealed against outside Influences and
it is TO correct these faults that the
word of missionaries and the religion of
Christianity are required. The nation is
dead. morally. The merchants are so dis
honest that they cannot be trusted and
all of the great trade of Japan with for
aisn countries is carried on by Europeans.
They are also a drunken people and their
laws of chastity are very lax What Ju-
li#n Hawthorne fifty described as the
hardness of paEansm," said Mr. PARISH
ley, is the root OF all evils in Japan and
the milk of human kindness never stirs
the breast.
Christianity. love for God and fellow
man is what is needed among them, and
with these Japan as Christian nation
would in truth be fit to take rank among
the greatest nations of the world.