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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION

house at the time Of the explosion
and was hurled 200 feet or more
down the hillside, injuring him
so that he died in about two
hours.
Deceased was a married man
and lived but a short distance
from the scene of the accident,
and leaves a wife and children.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
Russian Boats in Harbor.

Special to The Oil Review.
Tangier, Oct. 29.-Four Russian
torpedo boat destroyers and one
collier arrived here last night.
Four destroyers and four colliers
entered the harbor this morning,
and all are now coaling. The
British cruiser Diana and French
cruiser Kleber saluted the Rus
sian vessels on arrival.
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SAD ACCIDENT OCCURRED

ceeded in getting to house near
by. DR.. Abel and several other
doctors were called, in but with
all their skill he died after suffer
ing untold agony. He was %
years old and single. He was the
son Of J. W Hammond, and has
a host of friends to mourn his
loss.-West Union Record.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29

One of the saddest deaths that
we have ever been called upon to
report occurred Friday near Shlr-
ley.
John Hammond, whose home is
near this town, was riding a horse
Just this side of Shirley and it
stumbled and fell on him crush
ing Hammond terribly. He sue
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
DISPATCHES Received.

Special TO The Oil Review.
Vigo, Spain, Oct. 29.-Officers
of the Baltic fleet came ashore
this morning and received two
bulky dispatches for Admiral
Rodjestvensky.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
Big Mortality List.
TO The Oil Review.

Special to The OIL Review.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 29.-Gen-
eral staff states that the Russian
losses between October 6 and lS
was 1900 officers, $4,000 men kill
ed. wounded and missing.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
Some More Fighting.

Special to The Oil Review.
Toxic, Oct. 29.-Marshal Oya-
ma reports October q a detach-
ment of japanese right army af-
ter stubborn resistance occupied
the position and captured two ma
chine guns.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
No Truth in Rumor.
al to The Oil Review.

Special to The Oil Review.
Toxic, Oct. 29.-It is officially
announced that Japan has not
purchased or ordered single tor
pedo boat from England since the
war begun.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
Don't Like It.
, The Oil Review.

Special to The Oil Review.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 29.-Naval
and grand ducal parties in Rus
sian capital are feeling very sad
over the concessions made by
Russia to England in the North
sea affair.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
ALL HOPE ABANDONED

in mine NJ. ) at Torrice yester-
day. There is nc possibility of
bodies being recovered Tor many
days. The mine is an absolute
week. A fire is raging now.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29

Special to The Oil Review.
Trinidad, Okla, Oct. 29.-There
is absolutely no hope for any of
90 men caught in mine explosion
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29
BANK FORCED TO THE WALL

business today, ard i is feared
it will not reopen until it's affairs
are settled through bankruptcy
court. The crash falls heavily up
on wage-earners.
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Special to The Oil Review.

Special to The UlI RrVleW.
Cameron, Oct. 29.-Yesterday
afternoon the boiler exploded on
the Mrs. Criswel farm of the
South Penn Oil company, killing
Thomas Rosser, a pumper in the
employ of the company. Rosser
was sitting outside the boiler
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-29

Special to The Oil Review.
Lima, O., Oct. 29.-The doors
of the Lima Savings Bank &
Trust company did not open for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11
Carrying a skunk by the Tail.

A correspondent asks IL there Is any truth In
the notion current in many parts Of the country
that a skunk may be carried with impunity by
once get your skunk safely by the tall There
is where the rub will come. and. though the
skunk is gentle animal 1 should advise great
precauton in trying the experiment have not
it done. but have heard reliable testi-
mony of its being done In my native town. not
long since. a man. with impunity carried one
by the tail through the village street. Hucson.
in his book. The Naturalist on la Plata"
scouts the idea that skunk may be thus
handled. though belief in IL is general in South
America, as We'll as here. Any one who has
skunk throw his essence understand
how powerless the animal must be when held
up by the tail When the skunk discharges his
battery he throws his tail back that the
glands holding the fiery fluid are fully exposed
and the shot have free range. Then the tail
jerks spasmodicaily. as II IL a lever that
brought pressure 20 bear upon the sack or
glands holding the charge. a ring Of ducts
open. and fine. threadiike jets Of the fluid shoot
out ten or fifteen feet | have witnessed thls
battery action. but have always lodged the
shot From the quick movement Of the tail has
arisen the notion that the skunk throws It's fluid
with It's tail But never drop of 1t even touches
the animal itself Held by the tail II seems to
me that il would be utterly impossible the
animal TO eject its iuid.-John Burroughs. in
Outing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11

Ignorance of the Bible seems TO be-if one may
venture the bull-the chief attainment of the
modern college student. Bishop Potter has wept
over the condition at Yale; President Harper is
suffering from chronic melancholy because his
favorite book is so little regarded in Chicago,
and President Hyde finds that even the piously-
bred sons of Maine do not enter Bowdoin with
any too much Biblical lore. The last college to
be heard from is Johns Hopkins. where. IL any
where. life and learning taken seriously.
Presiden: Remsen read to a class of eighty an
editorial which alluded to the Ethiopian chang
ing his skin and to the shadow moving back
ward on the dial OF the eighty young gentle
men but could identify the illusions. and he
is candidate for the ministry The rest of the
class are doubtless sustained by ST Pauls COM
Portable exhortation to the Corinthians: If any
man be ignorant let him be ignorant New
York Post.
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To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
With the welcome sounds Of bells, haling the
municipal crowning of our new reformer. hardly
as yet faded away. with but six months since
his election and with recollections Of his nu-
nerous promises still deeply impressed what
can we of assurety say has been Accomplishment
Overlooking the numerous things that might
have for the enforcement of week
day violations Of the law. let any person who
doubts the truth Of this article investigate for
himself or the public the shameful and Illegal
enterprises that are in full force. openly and
without interference. upon the holy Sabbath
Saloons continue TO be open gambling devices
have been busted and are reinstalled and are
receiving a liberal patronage Poolrooms are
filed with minors. and in our most prominent
streets there several low and degrading
places of amusement whose open doors attract
the ear with ever-clangng pianos and entice
the eyes of men. women and children with sug-
gestive posters advertising the works of art
and beauties of nature" upon which the eyes
can feast for cent. To permit the display
OF such indecency at any time is disgraceful.
and to be allowed on Sunday is gross breach
of the promises made indueement for our
vote. VOTER
INDIANAPOLIS. April 10
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11

The seven-star Inn at Manchester. England,
boasts of having been licensed for $50 years.
Lake Baikal. the Holy Sea-" is excepting
Victoria Nyanza, in Africa, the largest lake in
the eastern hemisphere 1t is 300 feet deep. its
bottom being 1000 feet below sea level. and in
area it corresponds TO Lake Michigan.
Sergeant John Martin. the only survivor of
General Clusters regiment engaged in the battle
of the Big Horn in 1877. has been placed the
retired list of the army. Two hundred and sew
enty-seven OF his companions killed during
the engagement.
A military writer in a London paper says that
he was in vladivostok a few years ago. where
there were many Russian soldiers stationed. and
has had chance to carefully study the japanese
soldiers in their home empire. and he says for
physique. general bearing and smartness the
Russians compare poorly with the japanese.
The Bookman takes the author of a recent his
torical novel to task for putting a repeating
rifle into the hands of a mountaineering
Russian. Such trifing blunders are common
enough. Did not one of our most gallant heroes
of revolutionary fiction do valiant service for
Washington with a revolver? There is really no
excuse for such blunders. but they do not seem
to trouble the general reader at all.
What some people think of high-bred cocks
and hens in this day of specialization may be
Judged from a transaction reported from Race
Vile " V where George II. Northrup poul-
try fancer has shipped to Germany flock of
nineteen rose-combed Minorcas for which he
received $500 One OF the cocks alone brought
81. 900 and another $500. The former weighed nine
pounds.
During the past year novel and interesting
experiment has been tried with considerable
success in the parks which are under the con-
| troll of the London County Council. In order
| TO induce small meat-eating birds. such as
wrens titmice and robins. TO frequent the parks
| there have been hung in the trees muslin bags
| filled with suet and these have been the means
| Of attracting birds which previously were sell
| dom, II ever. in the metropolis.
Probably the two most learned women in the
| world, certainly the foremost women Biblical
scholars, are Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewis and Mrs.
Margaret Dunlop Gibson. Of Cambridge, Eng
| land who have just discovered what is known as
| the Sinaitic palimpsest the oldest known man.
uscrpt OF the four gospels This is the most
| important discovery of Biblical manuscripts
| which has been made in modern times. Re-
| markable to say Mrs Gibson and Mrs. Lewis
| are twin sisters. Clearly II Is of inner
| tied talent.
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Religious Notes.

in memory Of relatives who persisted in the
Iroauois fire. parishioner of Christ Church,
Winnetka. H., has offered to build new $4,000
church
India has Christian Endeavor paper called
Masihi Karigar. which is published in Urdu and
Hindi. and devoted to the interests of Christian
Endeavor in the United Provinces.
Paul Dwight Moody. twenty-four years old. the
youngest son of the late Dwight Lyman Moody.
the evangelist, made his bow day or two ago
for the first time. far the public is con-
cerned. an instructor in the Bible.
DIR. James Stalker. the famous author. preacher
and theolosian of Aberdeen, Scotland, has ac-
cepted the invitation to deliver the commence
ment address to the graduates of the Oberlin
Theological Seminary Thursday. May IL.
Missionaries are working among the pygmies
Of the great forest in Central Africa. Some of
| these little people have been baptized. and the
missionary says that there is great change in
them since they reached and instructed.
Many OF them still cannibals, however.
The type of the ''thumbnail edition Of the
| Bible is too small to be read without a micro
scope, but in spite of that fact there is a great
demand for that edition in England The Brit
| ish and Foreign Bible Society reports sale of
more than 5000 900 Bibles during the last year.
The mission hospital in Madura, India, which
has been under the charge Of the Rev. DR.. Van
| Allen, of the American board, since 1855, built
| it's present building entirely from the gifts OF
| grateful Hindus, from whom fee is required
for medical services. Last year the Hindus gave
y 900 rupees toward maintaining the hospital and
! 5000 rupees to start an endowment fund.
Paul Dwight Moody, twentyfour years old.
youngest Of the late Dwight Lyman Moody.
seems inclined to follow in the footsteps of his
| father and become an evangelist. He is teacher
of Bible study in Mount Hermon School for
| Boys near Boston. He is also teaching English
there. The young man is vastly more toleran,
Of so-called liberal thought than was his dis
tinsuished parent. In fact, it may be said that
lie begins where his father left off, acknowl-
edging that there things in the Scotch phase
| of theology which too strong for him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11

DIR. Lyman Abbott. in THE Great Compan-
ion," says that is sanity that he can
we'll dispense with aids to devotional life Al
though there is doubtless danger lest the image
be substituted for the reality. the cruchx for
the Christ. he considers it questionable whether
the danger outweighs the advantage, and. al
though not entering into discussion Of the sub
jet, he says: But I may remind my Roman
Catholic readers that their own church forbids
them to venerate the image. and bids them TO
use the image never a substitute for the liv-
ing person, but only to recall Him; and may
remind my Protestant readers that it may be
less acceptable 10 Christ to forget Him altogether
than To recall Him TO thoughts by means
OF statuette a picture. That we may rise
above the use of sacred symbols do not doubt;
but no one can doubt that We may fall below
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else. In many instances they are not the most
highly educated, but they know nothing outside
of doing right and being scrupulously honest.
II is the custom of these people to hold yearly
association as they call their convention or
conference These meetings are something AFTER
the order of the camp meetings OF the Metho-
dists save as / am told. that the Baptists be-
lieve that good whisky is an essential part OF
good living. They do not go behind the door 10
take nip. While making arrangements for one
of these associations the Baptists in the neigh
borhood had gathered at the place TO arrange the
meeting house. ard one of them asked neigh
Dor:
We'll, Brother Morrow. what preparation
have you made for entertaining the brethren at
your house?
Brother Beavers. I've laid in barrel or
flour and a gallon of whisky was the reply
"A gallon Of whisky for big meeting" ex-
claimed Brother Beavers in establishment A
gallon of whisky DO say. Why. I've laid N
whole barrel and you're just as able, Brother
Morrow to support the Gospel as am bar
rel of whisky for big meeting! Do say
Washington Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11
Senator Spooner's Clothes.

WHO is that little senator with the tousled
hair and The sarcastic smile, with his underlip
stuck out?" asked New York womah visitor
in the Senate gallery
THAT is Mr. Spooner. Of Wisconsin, said the
Washington who showing her
around.
IT thought So" she commented. His clothes
show plainly that they couldn't have been made
anywhere but in Wisconsin
Back of them sitting another woman who
overheard the conversation She compressed
her lips tightly, walked out of the gallery with
a resolute air. proceeded to the marble room
and summoned Mr.. Spooner out of the Senate.
John" she said firmly. 81 have just
heard a conversation which I am going to re-
peat to you. because II proves that | am right
You l have always told that you
shouldn't have your clothes made in New
York Washington Letter in New York Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11

The latest idea Of the men who invent auto
matte selling machines is which promises to
be OF value 10 the drcg store men as well as
convenience TO the public IL Is a stamp-seiling
machine. and carries l and 2-cent stamps and
postal cards. The machine viii accept only pen
MES and II more than the proper number are
inserted in the slot they are returned with the
stamp postal purchased. The machine Is one
OF the few that cannot cheat. for when the sup
ply OF stamps runs out. all the cents put in that
particular slot drop into the trough In front
Of the machine and are returned 10 the would
be purchaser II is understood that the postal
thoritics view the machine with favor. II Is nov
In operation In England and on the continent.
The inventor Is a Swiss--Sew York Gloes-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11

The expected has happened. Hon. w
Bourke Cochran had hardly got warm in
his seat in Congress before he broke out
with speech of the Cockranesque kind
oratorical and rhetorical, spectacular and
oracular. snowy. shallow and famboyant.
His service in Congress will probably be
marked by many speeches of the kind and
by very little else. For committee work.
for investigating any subject of Importance.
for suggesting, framing or promoting legis-
lation, he will be of no account but for
making speeches of the kind called by
courtesy 'impassioned oratory'' he can be
depended upon at any hour of the day or
night.
His speech was IN defense of the constitu-
tional prerogatives of the House against
the alleged usurpation of President Roose-
welt in his recent order constituting the pen
sion law. 1t is lucky thing for the coun-
try that Mr. Cochran got to Congress Just
initiated by the President. He censured
the House for submitting to what he called
executive dictation and for allowing the
Senate to trench upon its rights, thereby
| impairing its dignity and weakening popular
government. IF the Presidents pension
order be tolerated without protest by the
| House." he exclaimed, what power is
| there that the executive order cannot
usurp? What fragment of control over the
country's purse?" Probably the American
people will never know how near they came
to being robbed of their liberties by the
bold, bad in the White House whom
Mr.. Cochran got TO Congress just in time
to warn them against If the latter had
| spent as much time studying law as he has
studying oratory he would have known that
| the Presidents pension order related sim
ply to the execution of the law passed by
Congress, and that it laid down a rule OF
construction and administration without
attempting to change the law in any par
ticular whatever.
While the oratorical statesman and polit
| ical lawyer who opposed Bryan in 1896 and
| supported him in 1900 attacking the
President In the House. real lawyer wa:
defending him in the Senate. Senator
Spooner was making a speech in which h,
said that Tin nothing President Roose
welt so much distinguished as in his de
termination TO enforce the law" Referrin,
to the pension order Mr.. Spooner said tina
$50 far from violating the law. the orde
had ameliorated violation of the law il
1898. when there was a Democratic Presi
dent" He said further that il was not in
tended that the strict rules of the Law
courts should be applied in granting pen
sions, but that the secretary of the interio
and the commissioner of pensions were Z
be the judges 10 what shall constitut
due proof" under the law
There are many better lawyers than MI
Cochran In both branches of Congress VIII
do not see any usurpation in the Presi
dents order and many members of tn
House of much longer service than he VIII
have not made the startling discovery tina
he claims to have made. namely. tina
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Hidden Wounds.

The Heart Knoweth Its Own Bitterness
All who shall tell of that disguised despair
Hid from the world in bitterest disdan!
The ardor damped: the newborn hope, new
slain
Joys bud unfolding but rose Of care!
The frailty and the unpermanence that dare
Mask true love. while proving such love
vain,
These daily poniards of recurrent pain
These may be borne we have learned to bear
But. oh! the life with deeper anguish fraught
Yelled decorations of the poet-heart-
That inward bleeding at the triumph of wrong!
The wounds from nonreciprocated thought
The throbbng ache from unaccomplished art,
And ceaseless pang of Intellectual song!
LLOYD Miff1in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-11
NOT A SUBJECT FOR NATIONAL LEG
ISLATION.

A Washington dispatch to the Journal
says that in accordance with the terms of
resolution recently introduced and re-
ferred to the House committee on labor.
the committee has decided to call upon the
Department of Commerce for all informa-
ton in its possession relative to the labor
insurance systems in vogue in foreign
countries. The resolution provides that the
secretary of commerce and labor shall
port to Congress what legislation is re-
qdired in order TO establish an effective
system of labor insurance in the United
States and to what extent such system
could be established by federal authority.
and to what extent such system has been
established elsewhere whether under gov
ernmental aid and authority or otherwise
and the effect thereof upon those sought to
be benefited thereby
That House committee should discuss
such resolution several weeks and finally
call on the head of department for infor-
nation on the subject seems to Indicate a
drift toward paternal and class legislation
that can hardly be called healthy. There
is such a thing as a country being gov
erned too much 1t is pretty good rule
that the government ought not to do any
thing for the people which they can do for
themselves. We have all sorts of benefit
societies. fraternal organizations and in
surance companies in this country and
they are patronized to extent that few
persons are aware Of Why should the
government NEEDLE in the matter, and es-
pecially why should it undertake to pro-
vide insurance for one class of citizens
| while ignoring others?
The House committee is said to have
| been led to give the matter favorable con-
| sideration by the fact that some European
| governments have adopted cooperative
| insurance systems, under which employers
employees and the government become joint
| contributors to an insurance fund The
| suggestion is we'll enough as far as en-
| ployers and employees are concerned, if
they wish to form voluntary associations
| of that kind. Some of the leading rail-
roads in this country have already done
So But it is not perceived under what
| provision of the Constitution or by what
| show of right the government could do So
| The whole business savors of a kind of
| paternalism that is contrary to American
ideas. 1t is a good subject for Congress
| TO let severely alone
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STORIES THAT ARE TOLD.


young woman hesitatngly approached big
policeman with whom 1 talking at the
trance to City Hall this morning
Where do you procure licenses?" she timidly
asked.
Marriage or dog?' the officer wanted to
know.
Her bushes painful to behold. "Oh, -
said She drawing tightly rolled manuscript
under her cloak, II mean poetic licenses -
This was a new the policeman He
turned to me and frankly confessed that he had
never heard of poetic licenses. Where do they
issue 'em, do you know?' he asked.
/ talked the matter with the young
woman and learned that she had written a
story in rhyme and wanted TO copyright it-New
York Sun.