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Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-14

Don't let the little ones suffer
from eczema or other torturing skin
diseases. No need for it. Doan's
Ointment cures. Can't harm the
most delicate skin. At any drug
store, so cents.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-14

The republican county conven-
ton held in Middlebourne Saturday
resulted in walk over for the
Har oman faction. The victors did
their work with merciless precis-
ion. They were there to nomin;t
theic man, and no influence that
could be brought to,bear by oppos-
ing forces could deter them from
their avowed purpose.
The middle of the road" dele
gates, or those who have been pre-.
tending to favor Lincoln district,
and respect the interests of Sisters
vile on the final vote, went over 70
the bosses, and left the Sistersville
contingent in the cold.
While the vote between Gregory
and Hughes was close, it was made
so for a purpose. 1t was evident
from start to finish that Sistersvilla
was to be ignored. Her demands
we're not to be acceded-not even
respected.
The large support givenLineoln's
candidate was really designed for
the purpose of preventing party
discord and thereby hoping to hold
the republican vote of S!stersville
solid for Hughes.
THE CONVENTION.
The convention did not meet III .
til 1 o'clock. The candidates and
politicians were early On the scene
and the entire morning was taken
up in various preliminary work
which usually precedes a meeting
of the kind. Hardman, who makes
no attempt at concealing his oppo-
sition to Sistersville, was ener-
getically mastering his forces so as
to present a solid front to his op-
posers.
No little anxiety was felt by out
siders and hard fight for suprem-
acy seemed inevitable to the casual
non interested observer.
When the convention was called
to order the court room was well
filled. Considerable enthusiasm
existed the crowd was exceedingly
good natured. Hon: Silas Smith,
chairman of the county executive
committee, called the meeting to
order and appointed K. S. Boreman
temporary chairman, with G. w.
Bishop, as secretary. The various
committees were appointed COM
posed of delegate. from each dis
trict.
w. F. Clark, of Ellsworth dis
trict, offered as an amendment to
the resolution that the Office OF
County Superintendent of Free
Schools be abolished. The amend
ment was greeted by tremendous
Kisses from all over the audience
and was fatty rejected. The re-
ports were adopted without altera-
ton.
1t was agreed upon by the COM
mittee on rules and order Of busi-
ness that the candidates for house
of delegates be voted for by ballots
by districts alphabetically. The
nominating speeches were confined
to ten minutes, and seconds to S
minutes.
The chair anpounced that nom
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-14
HUGHES NOMINATED
BY Fraction of a Vote in the
Republican Convention.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
A no License Man-Wells Nom
mated For Superintendent

OF Free SchO0ls-SmIIh Not fn it-ResO-
Iurfans q reaf On War, bat silent on
the Aftermath Starvation and CrUei.
ty-A Weak Ticket, but Thoroughly
AgainSt Our Ciiy-The Bosses Still
Rule and Run the Party.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-14

Two million American suffer the.
torturing pangs of dyspepsia. No
need to. Burdock Blood Bitters
cures. At any drug store.
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-14

follows:
A. L. Hughes by E. L. Long; ].
S. Roberts by Isaac Underwood;
RI. Gregory by w. G. Grimes,
w. F. Smith by D. w. Virden.
The nominating, as we'll as the
.seconding speeches were bit spicy
and worked laughter and wild
cheering.
The first ballot Hughes received
32 votes; Gregory 80; Roberts "a
and Smith Ic. Second ballot,
Hughes "a; Gregory "a; Roberts
"a and Smith q Third ballot,
Hughes 50 4I9; Gregory 81 1-19;
Roberts IS 4-I9; Smith E. Accord
ing to rules of the convention, the
candidate receiving the lowest
number of votes should be dropped
after announcing the result OF the
third ballot. Smiths name was
eliminated from the ticket, leaving
| ut three men in the field. The
fourth ballot resulted: Hughes
80 1919; Gregory 331-19; Rob
erts 80 4-Io.
Fifth ballot, Hughes, 40 14-1S;
Gregory, 474I8. 1t was McEl-
roy district that gave the majority
to Hughes and he was declared the
nominee.
The names of J. c. Lewis, S. B.
Wells and I. F. Stewart were placed
in nomination for the Office Of
County Superintendent. On the
second ballot Wells was nominated
by the almost unanimous vote of
the convention.
For Commissioner of the County
Court the following names were
peresented: Armstrong Weekly,
E. N. Archer, Silas Henderson and
John Thompson. Weekly was
nominated on the first ballot, re-
ceiviug So votes.
The convention listened atten-
lively to short talk M. w. Bur-
CESS, candidate for the legislature
from the Tyler-Wetzel delegate
district, after which they adjourned
by giving three deafening cheers
for the G. o. P. and President Nc.
Kinley.
The following resolutions were
submitted by the committee and
adopted.
The republicans of Tyler county
in convention assembled reafirm
their allegiance to those principles
which have made the history cf
this party coordinate with the
years of progress and prosperity of
the nation.
We endorse the wise liberal and
progressive action that has been
taken by the present administra-
ton from the inception to the vic
torious conclusion of the recent
war with S5ain and believe it to be
of another exhibition Of that atti-
tude for personal liberty and be-
cause of humanity which the re-
publican party has always main
tanned.
We rejoice in the fact that under
the wise management Of the Presl-
dent and his able advisors, the re-
cent war with Spain, fought in the
interest of humanity, was brought
to such speedy and triumphant
conclusion.
We endorse the course of our
able and distinguished congress
sional representative, Hon. B. B.
Dovenor, and pledge to him the
unanimous support of the republi-
cans of this county to the position
which he has held with so much
honor to himself and his party.
We also pledge Our support to the
republican senatorial delegate dis
tricl and county nominations, be.
lieving their election will subserve
the best interests of the citizens Of
Tyler county.
ISAAC M. UNDERWOOD,
S. c. NICHOLS,
o. P. A. SHANeR,
"' A. E. DoLAN,
CYRUS BRADFORD,
Z SuTTu
Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-14
Interesting Statististics.

A correspondent Of the Washing
ton Post publishes some figures in
reference to the appalling death
list of the war of the rebellion. A
study of the statistics in his opinion
should put a check to the wild
clamor that has been raised in
connection with the unfortunate
situation in the camps of the army
today. Here are his figures col
lected from official sources, show
ing the cause of death in the north
ern army during the civil war:
Killed or died of wounds. .1Io,o7o
Died of disease ..............19o,7to ....
In Confederate prisons. .......24 S66
Accidents ...................: -. ALA
Drowning. ................... 4,o44
Sunstrokes. ...................... 3I3
Murdered...................... $40
Killed after capture. ..... 1o4
|Suicided. ..... .......... 3oI
Military executions. ............. 267
Executions by the enemy. "a
Causes known but unclassifed
.................. 2,O34
Causes not stated. 49,. ..,I2,I21
Largest figures as to American
losses in the Spanish war are not
included in the above article, but
are found in a dispatch from Wash
ipeton. They are as follows:
Officers killed in battle ........ 80
Men killed in battle. ...23I
Officers and men wounded. 1880
Officers and men killed by
disease, estimated ......I,5 800
Lives lost in the navy and
marine corps:
Officers killed i'll battle. ......I
Men killed in battle. ...I3
Men drowned. .............. ......1
Men wounded SO
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
CH|NA'S EMPEROR REPORTED
To HAVE BEEN ASSASS|NATED

place in secret. The court of cessation,
however, can order an open trial, and it
can even summon Dreyfus before it,
Blow For tn Jesu is
The interesting announcement is made
that the pops has ordered the papal nuncio
at Paris to request the clergy and clearical
organs to discontinue their opposition to
revision of the Dreyfus case. This is
blow for the Jesuits, who have been insti-
eating the military authorities and who
control the most virulent and most un-
scrupulous anti-revisionist newspaper, the
Libere Parole.
In the meanwhile Lieutenant Colonel Pic
quart is strictly secluded in the military
prison of Cherche Midi. No written or
verbal communications, books or writing
materials allowed him. The prisoners
meals are taken to him by two soldiers,
who stand beside him while ne eats, but
they must not speak to him.
M. Henri Rocheforts newspaper, the In
transigeant, publishes some sensational ac-
cusations against the French military au-
thorities in Africa charging the officers OF
the naval disciplinary battalion with re-
voting cruelty, and giving names and
dates
The extraordinary lax treatment of the
anarchist assassin of the empress of Aus
tria, the Italian, Luccheni, in the prison
of Stantonino, at Geneva, Switzerland, Is
causing remarks. He is allowed wine, ci-
gars, letters and newspapers, spends
money, and gives newspaper interviews. In
fact he is treated like the lion of the prison.
Until examined before the magistrate he
makes a parade of jests and frivolous an
swers
The assassin will be condt mned to soli-
tary confinement for life. Only man
has hitherto undergone this punishment,
which has more terrors than capital pun
ishment The prisoner is confined in an
underground cell into which no sunshine
ever penetrates. He is not allowed bed,
must sleep on the ground and is only per-
mittetd to take exercise once a week in
the prison yard
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
HAD NO MEDICAL ATTENTION
And the Ghastly Discovery Vas Made
by the Health Officers.
FRESH OUTBREAK OF THE DISEASE
Twenty-Five New Cases and Five
Deaths Reported in Louisiana Yes
terday- Britannia's Immigrants
Not Allowed to Land

Jackson, Miss, October 1.-The corpse of
a negro woman, victim to yellow fever,
and a deaf and dumb boy, sick with the
disease were found this afternoon in the
room of house on Clark street The hus-
band and father, Jim Ellis, had disappeared
and thus far no trace of him has been
found, though the police are making dill
gent search for him. The woman had had
no medical attention whatever and the
Chastly discovery was made only by the
health authorities on their rounds.
Another section of the house was occu-
pied by negro family, but even those Did
not know of the death near them Itey
stated that the woman had been sick two
or three days, but that when it was sug-
gested to Ellis that he get physician he
cursed and swore at them and refused. This
case illustrates the antipathy of the negroes
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
MORTAL REMAINS
OF THOS. F. BAYARD
Committed to the Grave With
Impressive Ceremonies.
FLAGS WERE AT HALF MAST
Multitude of People Assembled at the
Quaint and Historic Swede
Curch to Do Honor to the
Dead Statesman.
FLAGS WERE AT HALF MAST

Wilmington, Del, October with flags
at half mast and draped in mourning, with
the closing of business houses and with
other demonstrations of sorrow, Whining
ton today committed to the grave the NOR
tai remains of Thomas F. Bayard. A null
titude of people early assembled at the
quaint and Historic old Swede church. The
hour of the funeral was o'clock, but be-
fore that hour the little church was crowd
cd with those for whom admission had been
reserved They comprised the pail bearers,
members of the Newcastle County Bar as
sociation, Sons of the American Revolution
and committees representing the Bayard
Legion and the Young Mems Democratic
clubs.
The honorary pail bearers were: Former
President Grover Cleveland, Former SEC
retary of the Treasury Chas. F. Fairchild
Eb. w. Tunnel, governor of Delaware;
Chancellor John r. Nicholson, George L.
Rives, of New York city; John v. Craven
and Thos. Craven, of Salem N. j., and
Judge Ignatius c. Grubb, DR.. James A.
Draper and Henry G. Banning of Whining
ton. Members of Mr.. Bayards family left
the family residence, Delamore place, in
time to arrive at the church at o'clock
and few minutes later the burial services
began They comprised simply the prayer
book service for the burial of the dead of
the Protestant Episcopal church. The SER
vice was read Jointly by the Rev. DIR. G.
w. Douglass. of Tuxedo Park, N. J., who
as rector of St. Johns Protestant Episcopal
church, Washington. performed the mar
riage ceremony of Mr.. and Mrs. Bayard,
and the Rev. Martin B. Dunlap, rector of
Old Swede.
When the service reached the point of the
commitment of the body to the grave, the
casket was lifted by the carriers and at
tended by the pail bearers, members of the
family and others within the church, was
taken to the Bayard burial plot in the
graveyard adjoining the church.
A great crowd had assembled waiting to
see this only public feature Of the funeral.
Slowly and solemnly the body was lowered
into the vault, where lie the remains of
Mr.. Bayard's father and mother and three
of her children. In measured tones DR..
Douglass read the commitment, the invoca-
ton and the benediction. The family and
friends then took a farewell look at the
casket.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
STANDING ARMY
OF 100000 MEN
President Will Urge This Increase in
His Message to Congress.
0FFlCERING OF REGIMENTS
Preference Will Be Given to Those Now
In Volunteer Service.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NAVY
Will be Dwelt Upon by the President,
and He Will Recommend I hat In
creased Appropriation Granted
to Promote Its Efficiency.
by ARCHIBALD w. BUTT

Washington, October lit was said at
the war department today that General
Miles will recommend that the army be in
creased to one hundred thousand men and
that the president has assured him that he
will urge this increase n his message. 1t
increased regiments that preferences will
be given to the officers now in the vo,un-
teer army
The men will be employed in the colonial
possessions of the United States in such
numbers that the remainder of the regular
army to be left in tn country viii proba-
bly, not exceed the original strength of 25,-
600, and thus the ella ms of the opponents
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
DIR. GUILFORD ARRESTED.
Bridgeport Midwife Charged With I'M
plication in Death of Emma Gill.

London, October 1.-Dr. Nancy Guilford,
the midwife of Bridgeport Conn, who is
wanted by the American police on the
charge of hav ng been connected with the
death of Emma Gill, has been arrested.
Mrs. Dr. Guiford was arrested by IN
spector Frooste, of Scotland Yard, who has
been on her track ever since she landed at
Liverpool from Montreal on Tuesday last.
She was taken into custody at a board ng
house and gave the name of McAllister,
though at first arriving in London she de-
ciared her name was Catherine Wlibur.
The prisoner was taken to Bow street po-
lice court where she was formally charged
and remanded.
DR.. Guilford will be taken before mag
israte on next Monday.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
CHARGES FILED WITH THE
INVESTIGATING Commission


deaths; De Logny, one case, no deaths.
The board of health is daily apprfsed of
all sorts of rumors concerning the health
of the city. Several were run down and
denied and as for the rest, the official re-
port is the answer
The Britannias cargo of Italian imm'-
grants will not be allowed to land in Louis
lana, and Mobile and Galveston will also
refuse. The immigrants will have to go to
New York or back to Italy.
To Intercept Suspect
Washington, October 1-Surgeon-Genera
Wyman of the marine hospital service has
taken steps to prevent the entrance of the
yellow fever into Texas from Mexico, the
possibility of which was reported by the
collector of customs at Laredo. Additional
inspectors have been provided at Laredo,
Brownsville and Eagle Pass to intercept
any suspects entering from Mexico.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
Subjected to Frightsul Torture

London, October "A special dispatch
from Shanghai announces that the death
of the emperor is confirmed The reports
as to the means employed as to his taking
off differ. One story has it that he died
by poison, and another that death was
caused by stranguation, while a third
states that he was subjected to frightful
torture, red hot iron being thrust through
his bowels.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
To Look for Camp Sites.

Washington, october 1.-The war depart
ment has decided to send boards Of officers
to Cuba to investigated and report upon
locations for camps for the army of occupa-
ton in that island. Each board will con-
sist of quartermaster, commissary and
a surgeon. Havana. iCenfuegoe, Matanzas
and Muriel will be visitetd. There will be
five posts established including Manzanillo
and six counting Santiago.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
Germans Engage Rebels

London, October L. A special despatch
from Cape Town says the German troops
have indecisively engaged the rebels at
Asosea Eleven soldiers were killed. Re-
Inducements have been asked for.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
Snow storm in Utah

Salt Lake City. Utah. October 1.-The
first snow storm of the season began this
morning. Several inches have fallen and
the storm still continues.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
Judpe Van Wyck Resicns

New York, October 1.-Augustus Van
Wick, democratic nominee for governor,
has resigned his seat on the supreme court
bench that he may constitutlonally accept
the gubernatorial nomination.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
More FlexibilIty Needed

There is no question that reforms will
be suggested in the laws governing the ad-
mnistration of the army to make them
susceptible of more fiexibility in times of
emergency. The president will take pride
in pointing In his message to the achieve
ments of the navy and urge that the re-
suits obtained in the war through the eff
cheney of the navy warrant the most gen.
erous attention to the necessities of that
branch of the military arm of the govern
ment.
He will strenpously urge that there shall
be no cessation of the work OF building
up a strong navy, but that the appropria-
tions shall be made upon even a more lib
eral scale than in the past The colonial
possessions of the government must neces-
sarily depend for protection upon the navy
The expansion policy upon which this gov
ernment has entered cannot be successfully
pursued without the backing of a strong
naval force as moral and not physical
influence.
This country cannot lose sight Of the fact
that Spain Is even now preparing to build
q new navy. The enlisted strength of the
navy would have to be materially increased
in the near future to man the ships which
will be retained in commission, and other
increases will have to be made year by
year as the vessels now on the stocks are
completed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02

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to the health authorities and to what
lengths they will go to conceal the disease.
The body was at once buried and vigorous
sanitary measures taken. In addition to
the above another case of fever is reported
here today, a negro man on Clinton street.
Both of those are out of the ordinarily in
fected districts and widely separated but
all in West Jackson. A suspicious case
with black vomit is reported at Winona,
Miss, and DR.. Cant has been sent to in
vestigaate. Mayor Redfeld reports two
new cases, both colored, at Edwards. DIR.
Dunn, who was sent to Harriston, Miss, to
investigate sickness there, wires today as
follows:
Situation bad; send at once two female
nurses. About twenty down, one death.
Please order DR.. Luster, of Cayuga, to come
here"
The state board issued an order declaring
Harriston under quarantine with DIR. Dunn
as state health officer. The board also
issued the following order: Whereas. yell
low fever has been reported at Wilson,
Clinton, La. Harriston, Miss, and Rolling
Fork, Miss, it is hereby ordered that no
persons will be allowed to embark or de-
bark from any train on the line of the Y.
M. v. railroad in the state Of Mississippi.
This refers only to the line running from
Memphis to New Orleans.
Following is the report of Drs. Cant and
Birchett:
"Taylors, two new cases; Orwood no re-
port; Oxford three new cases, twenty cases
to date, nine under treatment seven recov-
cred, four deaths, three seriously SICK
own
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02
In Louisiana

New Orleans. October 1.-Dr. souchon re-
ports today:
New Orleans, five cases, one death; Har-
vey's Canal, three cases. three deaths;
Baton Rouge, two cases. no deaths; Frank
lin, nine cases, no deaths; Wilson, nine
cases, one death; one case has been re-
ported in st. James parish. Recapitulation
to OctobG' 1: New Orleans, thirty-three
cases, six deaths; Harvey's Canal, fourteen
cases; three deaths; Wilson, fifty cases, one
death; Franklin, 172 cases, five deaths;
Baton Rouge, three cases, no deaths;
Houma, two cases, no deaths; Clinton, two
cases. no deaths; Plaquemine, one case, no
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-10-02

to the increase of the army that 1t is
menace to republican institutions will be
dissipated.
The secretary of war will recommend in
creased appropriations to equip these men
with modern rifles and smokeless powder.
Reforms in the law governing the militia
will also be recommended by the presi-
dent. 1t was shown at the outset of the
war that the militia system Of the United
States was deficient in some respects, ow
states. Some of the evils may be overcome
by extending the system of federal super
vision of state militia and having all the
forces armed and equipped in a uniform
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1898-03-05
PIE.

Give mo q spoon Of Oleo, ma,
Aud the sodium alkaii.
For I'm going to make a pie, mamma.
I'm going to make a pie,
Foe John will be hungry and tired ma,
And his .issnes win decOmpose,
So give tue a gramme Of phosphate
And the carbon and celiulose.
Now give me a chunk of ~casein, ma
II sborten the tlIernic fat, i
And itand ne the oxygen bottle, ma,
Aad look at the therm0stat.
And If the electric ovens cold,
Just turn it ON half an OHM.
For | want to have supper ready
As soOp as John comes home.
Now pass me the neutral dope, NAM
ma,
And rotate the mixing machine.
But give me the sterilized water first
And the oleomargarine,
And the phosphate, too, for now /
think .,,
The new %typewriter's quit,
And John will need more phosphate
To help his brain a bit.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1898-03-05

A worried looking stranger
mp to . crossing policeman !
MORNING Gud said:
"V'iil you kindly direct M
MastheY, Mark, Luke and Jd
way uspot!"
.WAat:"
The stranger repeated his reo|
There isn't any such depot
town. replied the cficer. w
you giving me::"
THAT isn't the name q,
course. rcjoincd the other. "a
something like it. lily heads
gled up this morning, and I ca
anything right"
a sudden thouGhs s:ruox tht
man.
do you mean the Big -Four
he asked.
That's it'll" exclaimed the
dcli8htcdly. II was sure I'd KIN
/ heard i, again. Where il it,"
Tho officer started him ia Ii
direction and then went into 4
study. At tho end Of half an
emerged from 1t and said to hin
gu audible voice:
II wonder If that guy wasn't
fun with LIE. "-Chicago Tribur