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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-29

tillery, three light and three heavy.
The preparations have been proceeding
quietly for some days, and although the
stories have been going abroad at Tampa,
rigid censorship at that point has pre-
vented any word going out as to the
expedition. The actual departure from
Tampa was expected by the War De
partment to occur to-day. although there
may be unavoidable delays. Twelve
transports are to carry the expedition.
The warships constituting the naval CON
vOy are not disclosed. but they probably
will include one battleship and several
cruisers and auxiliary craft. Gen. Sny-
der's second division of the Fourth army
corps now ut Tampa. is made up of
three brigades. containing nine regiments
as follows:
First brigade, Col. |. De Russey, com
manding; Eleventh Z. S. infantry,
Eighteenth U. s. infantry. Second bri-
gade, General j. III. Carpenter, com
manding, First District of Columbia,
Second New York. Fifth Maryland.
Third brigade. General II. III. Hall.
commanding: Third PENNSYLVANIA, Hun
dred and Fifty Seventh Indiana, First
Ohio. First Illinois, Whether some regi-
ments will be taken from other divisions
cannot be stated definitely. 1t is known
only that General Snyder's division has
been looked upon by the War Depart
ment as the one best equipped for an
immediate start The batteries will be
designated by General Randolph, in com
mand of the artillery at Tampa.
If the expedition got away to-day, it
will arrive off Santiago about next Satur-
day The trim doubtless will he TO the
eastward around Cape Maysi, along the
same route as that of the Shafter eX
pedition. This will bring Shafter's force
up to about 10000 men, made up of the
10000 men he took with him; General
Duffield's command on the Harvard and
Yale and Gen. Garretson's command will
go on the same steamers with General
Snyder's division from Tampa.
1t was learned at the War Department
to-day that General Miles probably will
proceed to Santiago within the course
of n week the exact date not having
been determined.
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road trestle near that place. 1t is now
said that Jauragua may be selected as the
permanent coaling harbor FOR the fleet.
Gustave Weineck, an ordinary sea-
man, belonging to the flagship New York,
was accidentally drowned yesterday.
The Dolphin has gone to the Havana
blockade and the Helena and the Yank-
ton have gone to the southern blockade.
A bulletin issued to the fleet by Rear
Admiral Sampson yesterday said:
From Il report made by one of the
wounded, nephew of Surgeon Berryhill.
of the flagship New York, a considerable
part of the damage to our troops on
Friday last was done by seven mlimeter
machine guns manned by seamen so that
there would seem to be some probability
in the report of the use ashore of the
guns from Admiral Cervera's ships.
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TO PREPARE FOR SERVICE.
Entire First Corps Ordered to Get
Ready Quickly.

Chickamauga National Park, June IS
The order issued Sunday to immediate
ly equip and prepare fifteen regiments
of the first corps to form an expedition
airy force was revoked by Major General
Brooke to-day. This does not change the
plan to prepare for an expedition, how
ever, since the revOking order affects
more especially the transfers that were
named i'll the former order. 1t provides
further that instead of fifteen regiments
being Immediately equipped and pre-
pared the entire first corps of twenty
seven regiments is to be hastily prepared
for active field service, and the natural
inference prevails among the best posted
army officers at the Park that the entire
force will be off for Tampa or other sea
ports within a week or ten days or As
rapidly as transports can be provided.
The regiments included are: Ninth
Pennsylvania, Second Missouri, First
New Hampshire Twelfth New York,
Twenty-first Kansas, Eighth Massachu-
setts, First South Carolina, Twelfth
Minnesota, Fifth Pennsylvania, Four
teenth Minnesota, First Pennsylvania,
Second Ohio, Sixth Ohio, One Hundred
and Fifty-eighth Indiana, First West
Virginia, One Hundred and Sixtieth H.
diana, First Georgia, Thrty-first Michi-
gan, Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Second
Wisconsin, Third Kentucky, Fourth
Pennsylvania, Third Illinois. Fourth
Ohio, First Kentucky, Third Wisconsin
and Fifth Illinois.
Major General Brooke was appointed
by the President to command the corps.
Major General Wade, will be left in
command mt Camp Thomas. The change
made in tO-day's orders appears to have
been in accordance with Gen. Brooke's
desire not TO go to the front without suf-
hclent men for any emergency that
might arise.
The work Of equipping the corps is
proceeding with all possible sDeed and
the quartermasterS and the ordnance de-
partments are being taxed to their ut
most capacity.
Major Otto Becker and Major Sey-
mOur Howell, were the only government
paymasters arriving to-day. although
twenty-five were expected Major Beck
er stated that the corps would begin pay
ing the army at once and it is estimated
the amount to he paid out will be not less
than two million dollars.
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PEACEFUL HAVANA BLOCKADE
Long Lines of Earthworks Nearly COM
pleted.

On board the Associated Press dispatch
boat Cynthia Ill, off Havana, June 27, s
p. m, via Key West, Fla, June ,2S.-
7:55 a. m.-For the first time in four
weeks newspaper dispatch boat visi-
ted the blockading fleet off Havana yes
terday. The conditions were found to
be as peaceful as the waters Of the
Gulf Stream were turbulent. Since the
good practice by the Spanish gunners
on the Montgomery the other day, parti-
cnlars of which were cabled at the time,
nothing has occurred TO break the mOnOt-
ony of this peaceful blockade.
Rarely has Cuba's capital been seen
under such exceptional advantages as it
was yesterday morning, when the
Cynthia III, steamed laZily along nine
miles off the harbor entrance.
TO the east Il long line of earthworks,
not seen before by newspaper men,
crowned the hill, and advices from Ha-
vana say work on these and similar for
tifcations to the westward is being
pushed daily.
The health of the fleet is good on the
whole.
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GOMEZ is INCENSED.
lie Feels That He is Neglected by the
Americans.

London, June 29.-The Madrid cores
pondent of the Standard says:
"The latest reports from Cuba show
that General Luque has been able only
to detach Il few battalions and one
mountain battery, under Col. Escario,
to reinforce Santiago.
Admiral Cervera has been authorized
to act ut his discretion, either to cooper
ate in the defense OF Santiago or to
make sortie. The Spanish papers lay
great stress on the probab bilty of rup-
ture between Gen. CalixtO Garcia and
Gen. Maxine Gomez. The latter is in
censed ut the special attention shown by
the Americans to Garcia, Sanguilly, Rabi.
Castillo and other chiefs, while not only
discarding the oldest leader of the ris-
ing but providing him sparingly with
the supplies he so sOrely needs.
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SPANISH EvACUATE WORKS.
And They Are Occupied BY Our
AuXiliarieS.

Copyright by the Associated Press.)
At the front, on the Rio Guama. on
Monday. June %, noon, per the Asso-
ciated Press Dispatch boat Wanda. via
Port Antonio, Jamaica. June 2S. Tues
day forenOon), via Kingston, Jamaica.
l2;3o p. m.-The American front has
been advanced beyond the first crossing
or the ITO Guiana, about Il mile and n
tug lies three and n half miles from the
Spanish entrenchmentS. General Law
tons brigade rests on the road to San
tago de Cuba The third brigade under
General Chaffee, composed of the
Seventeenth, Twelfth and Seventh regi-
ments, holds the trench with his com
mand lying across the road and river.
The First brigade, the Eighth, and
Second Massachusetts, under General
Evan Clarke, lies on the left flank slight
ly in the rear and the Second brigade.
the First, Fourth and Twenty-ffth, oc-
cupies the opposite position on the right
flank.
General Wheeler, with the cavalry, is
in the rear, between Sevilla Hills aud
Rio Guiana.
A strong line of outposts is maintained
ahead.
General Chaffee's brigade, with three
thousand Cubans. under General Aguir-
RI and several hundred under Colonel
Gonzales, was skirmishing towards the
city this morning.
The Cubans had several slight skirm-
ishes with the Spaniards stationed on
the hills on the American right flank,
and our auxiliaries occupied the block
houses in that vicinity, which were
evacuated before daybreak by the Span
iards. The Entter retreated towards San
tiago de Cuba. No fatalities are re-
ported.
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THE BATTLE LAST FRIDAY.
Number of Americans Engaged Shat
ter's Dispatch.

Washington, ID. c., June %. Adju-
tant General Corbin tonight received
from Major General Shafter, of the Gu
ban army of invasion, a cablegram CON
tanning the official list of the Americans
killed in the battle last Friday.
The list in no material respect differs
from that given in the Associated Press
dispatches the day after the fight.
General Shafter's dispatch states that
the number of troops engaged was 964
as follows, First cavalry 244, Tenth cav
airy 22O, First volunteer cavalry 800.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-29
THE CABINET MEETS.

Washington, ID. c., June 2S.-All the
members of the Cabient were present at
to-day's meeting with the exception of
Secretary Day, who is out of the city.
At its conclusion, it was stated that the
work of supplying Commodore Watson's
squadron with ammunition, coal and pro-
visions preparatory to its departure for
Spain was progressing satisfactorily and
that in all probability the squadron
would be ready to sail in the course
of the next four or five days.
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FREEDOM FOR PORTO RICO.

London, June 2S.-The Paris CORE
spOndent of the Morning Post, says
Il learn, on the authority of DR.. Bet
ances, that with view of preventing
American Intervention, Spain will be-
stow independeEce upon Porto Rico.
subject to certain commercial advan-
tages- being reserved for the mother
country"
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O'HIGGINS STAYS AT HOME.
Report That the Cruiser Has Been Sold
to Spain Untrue

New York, June 2S.-Flint & Co. or
this city have received II dispatch from
Beech X Co.. their agents at Valparaiso.
Chill, saying there is no truth in the
report that the Chilian armored cruiser
Almarante O'Higgins has been sold TO
the government of Spain.
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GOMEZ AND GARCIA.
1t is Thought the Relations Between
Them Are Strained.

London, June 2S.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Times says:
Owing to the inactivity of Gen. Go
mez it is believed here. that his relations
with Gen. Calixto Garcia are strained
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ANOTHER EXPEDITION.

Nine Thousand Men Probably Left
Tampa Yesterday for Santiago.
Washington, ID. c.. June 2S.-Orders
have been issued for the departure of
another large army expedition from
Tampa, composed of about 5000 men,
of the Second division of the Fourth
army corps. under command Of Brigadier
General Snyder, and six batteries of ar
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19
Nj. f.. Conference jurisdiction.

The West Virginia district is
composed of nine districts, as fol-
lows: Buckhannon, with Fl church
es; Charleston, with rs churches;
Huntington, with 80 churches; New
River, with % churches; Clarks-
burg, with 10 churches; Parkers
burg, with 26 churches; Morgan
town, with IS churches; Oakland,
with 20 churches; Wheeling dis
trict, 20 churches. There are
three churches in the conferences
outside of the district, one in Penn
sylvauia and two in Maryland. The
number of communicates in the
state, in round numbers, is $4,000.
This is an increase of about I, 500
over the figures of last year.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19
TWO SKELETONS
the Mounds I'm the Washington
Woods

The Result OF Dr. Hale'S Research IN
the Mounds In the Washington
Woods.
DR.. Hale, last week, opened six
of the mounds il the Washington
Woods down the river, but nearly
all the skeletons were SO badly de-
composed that he was unable to
save any except two. They were
in a fairly good condition. They
were apparently buried lying down,
both in the same mound. They
were rather small of stature, and
the skull indicated very inferior
degree of intelligence. He also
found several arrow heads of very
fine agate flint which probably
came from the Rocky Mountains.
There were also some tomaha wks,
but no other ornaments. In all the
mounds he found evidences of fire
and rock which had been in the
fire. The Washington Bottoms
seem to have been a great centre
for the aborigines as innumerable
skeletons and interesting relics
have been found there.
wood News.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19

Jackson, Miss, Oct, IL. = 1t
seems impossible to prevent the
spread of the infection of yellow
fever. More people are leaving the
city, under the advice of the State
Health Officer. Three new cases
were reported today; all white.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19
A Blind Farmer.

Fayette Sters is man who has
mastered one of the most trying
physical infrmities, and made his
life useful when others would have
given way in despair. Mr.. Stems
is farmer 10 years old, who,
though blind for IS years, has, dur
ing all but two of these years, car
ried on the cultivation of 10 acres
of land. For two years after he be-
came blind, Mr.. Stems was obliged
to lay aside all labor, though Draw
ny, and physically as able and anx-
ious to work as ever, writes Rut-
land, VT, correspondent of the
New York Times.
During this period he tried many
times to plant portions of his gar
den by kneeling and trying 10 per
feet measurements with his inple-
ments. One morning the idea
came to him that he would take
two stakes and a string, and sus-
pending the latter from the stakes
could construct satisfactory guide.
Mrs. Sterus set the stakes for the
first row to be, planted across the
garden. With this assistance he
planted his first acre, setting the
stakes over for each new row, OBJ
tanning measurements with the
short hoe handle which he carried,
while on his Bonded knees he
opened the hill, planted the seed
and covered it over.
Before he could DO much garden
ing he earned money churning for
neighbors. In this way he earned
money enough to purchase cover
ing for the addition to his house
and afterward built the staging
himself and laid half the covering.
Mr.. Stems mows, rakes and pre-
pares enough hay to keep three
cows ;and "a horse. For moving
the stakes are set at the outer edge
of the field by Mrs. Stems, with the
string suspended at such height
that with each swing OF the scythe
the blind mans forearm just
touches it. When he has moved a
swath across the field he sets the
stakes over the width of swath,
which he measures with his scythe;
then guided by his string, he makes
his way back across the. field. In
this way, when once started he
mows an entire meadow, and al
lege that even at TO years of age
he is brisk man 10 follow with
"a scythe. e
Working entirely upon this prin-
cipal, the blind farmer plants, hoes,
weeds, and harvest's all kinds OF
farm products, aud with the aid of
a faithful wife the crops are gath
arod ~, the harm
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19

Chancellor, Col. S. A. Poster, Nor
gantown; Grand Vice Chancellor,
c. Y. Benedum, Middlebourne;
Grand Prelate, Capt. c. II. Wolfes,
Martinsburg; Grand Keeper of Rec
ord and Seal, Col. Manner Jenkins,
Piedmont; Grand Master OF Elk.
chequer, w. II. Smith, Keyser;
Grand Master at Arms. B. F. Sayre5
Grafton; Grand Inner Guard, VIM.
Z. Mansfield. Wayne county,
Grand Outer Guard, o. G. Wilt,
Preston county; Grand Trustees, c.
C. Rand, Charleston, I'd Bennett,
Wheeling, T. H. Clay, Huntington;
Supreme Representatives, w. 1.
White, Terra Alta; F. A. Lang
Clarksburg.
The special committee on thanks
made the following report:
To the Officers and Members OF
the Grand Lodge of West Viz
ginia Knights of Pythias:
Brethren:-Your committee rec
ommends the following.
Resolved, That the thanks of the
Grand Lodge are due and are here
by most cordially given to the mer-
bers of Monarch lodge, No. 81, the
local Sir Knights and the officials
and citizens of the Town of Sisters
vile for the warm welcome given
and hospitable entertainment ex-
tended US.
We are pleased to note the rapid
and permanent public improve
ment made in this city, and that
they are only equaled by the open,
hearted generosity of the people,.
Resolved, That we appreciate
the acts of the railroad companies
that gave US reduced rates of trans
portation, and hereby tender 20
them our thanks for same.
Fraternally Submitted,
]. V. BLAIR,
G. E. VAN GLIDER,
J. II. CUMMINs,
Committee
The Grand Lodge then adjourn
ed to meet in Wheeling during the
second week of October, 1899.
NOTES.
The Uniform Rank had a large
parade yesterday afternoon, about
FIVE hundred Uniform men in the
parade.
Col. Lancaster, of Wheeling, in
the absence of Brigadier General
c. c. Rand had charge of the pa
rade.
Captain Charles w. Walker, adj
jutant of the Second Regiment Of
Charleston, in the absence of Colo
mel West, had charge of the Second
regiment.
The Ravenswood company of Ra-
venswood, Captain w. E. Hoyt.
gave display dill and carried off
the $50 prize. They were the,
best drilled men that ever walked
the streets of Sistersville.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19

The public school opens in Mid.
dlebourne Monday the oath.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19
KILLED By AN ELEPHANT.
NJ Took Revenge ON q Man While He
Was Asleep.

Was Asleep.
A Lincoln county exchange says
that news has reached it that Geo.
Dilly, a former Lincoln county boy,
had been killed at Ronceverte by
an elephant.
He had been teasing a female ell
ephant and her baby, and though
warned to desist, kept 1t up at in
tervals until the animal became en-
ragged. George and two other OF
the canvas hands layed down and
went asleep in the tent where the
elephant aud her baby were. While
they were sleeping the animal man,
aged to get the chain from her leg,
walked over to the boys VINO were
asleep, picked up young Dilley with
her trunk and thrashed him over
the ground until he was dead, finally
winding up by tramping on him.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19
A HAPPY Man.

II suffered with constipation and
dyspepsia for five years, never
having natural operation. After
eating always felt as if there was
a great lump in my;stomach. Four
packages of Thompson's Tonic Tea
entirely cured NET. M. Nc
Cracker, 323 Washington Avenue,
Oil City, Pa. 81
Said by G.. W.. Grier.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-10-19
THE.FIRST TORPEDO.
j. w. rFius Disputes the Roberts
| Story.

Story.
EDITOR REVIEW:-In the Re-
view of October 4th you gave an
account of the first torpedo by the
Hon. D. A. Roberts. Mr.. Roberts
is four years behind the times on
the torpedo business. 1 want to
tell you what know about the
first torpedo. Mr.. Drake struck the
first oil we'll in the fall of 1859. In
the spring of 1860 Edgar Wads-
worth, T. Reed, N. w. Reed and
myself procured AL oil lease on the
Stackpole farm, three miles south
of Titusville, on the bank of Oil
creek. About one-half mile be-
low US, at the first ford, on the east
side of the creek, another we'll was
drilled, and l think that Willard
Skinner, and Mr.. Harper, OF Watts
burg, Erie county, had an interest
in the we'll. We had built shanty
to live in while drilling the well
and Mr.. Skinner and Mr.. Harper
called upon US frequently while go,
ing to or returning from Titusvllle.
/ think in the month of September
they completed their well, but it
was nearly dry, so they conceived
the idea of shooting it (Mr. Skin
ner was machinist). They went
to the Pleasantville pottery and
had some jugs made-I should say
3H feet long and about AZ or 5
In diameter. A one-half inch nip
pie was fastened to the top of the
jug by strips of tin passing under
the bottom and up the sides of the
lug and soldered to the nipple, SO
as to make it water tight. The jug
was then filled with powder through
this short nipple, after which it
was lowered into the well by one
halt inch pipe and when it was
lowered to the desired point the
pipe was fastened with small rope.
Then a slim red hot iron was
dropped down the pipe and the ex-
plosion occurred, throwing the wa
ter some distance out Of the well.
II any one has an earlier account
of we'll being torpedoed we would
be glad to hear from him. Now /
will tell you why | remember this
so we'll. ! was interested in it, for
it was something new and it was
talked, over in our shanty and we
stopped our work and went down
and saw the we'll shot, l think l
can give you the names of those
who went with me. As remember
there were Edgar Wadsworth,
Bruce WadsWorth, N. w. Reed
and myself in the party. We
started just after dinuer-it was a
beautiful day and l think it was
about 2:3o o'clock when the well
was shot. The date was early IN
September, 1860.
Edgar Wadsworth now lives in
Michigan; Bruce Wadsworth in
Kansas. They are brothers of our
late townsman, Oscar Wadsworth.
N. w. Read lives in Kane, aud the
writer in Bradford. / do not think
Mr.. Roberts was entitled to his
patent on torpedoes, nor to the
fluid packing as this we'll was full
of water when it was shot.
1 think Mr.. Willard Skinner
died in Housewife in the fall Of
1861. I don't know when Mr..
Harper died, but his son was inthe
torpedo business few years ago.
was subpenaed as a witness /
think in 1866, when the oil men
were Sighting, Mr. Roberts on his
patent, but l never had an oppor-
tunity to give my testimony, but
this is a true description of the
first torpedo for oil wells. po.
100 j. W.. FRITTs,97
Bradford, Pa, Oct. q. 1903.