The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-22
NEWS AND NOTES.


four per cent bonds for anything but
gold.
The striking cigar-makers OF New
York receive large contributions from
their fellow-eraftsmen in England.
AT Norfolk, Va, Benjamin Godfrey
aged nineteen, shot and instantly killed
Miss Mollie +, Wilmington, aged seven,
teen. Godfrey then shot himself.
Jealousy.
Miss SADIE MCCALL, aged about
thirty, daughter of the Rev. Ii. Mccall
committed suicide at her fathers house
in Malvern, Ohio, by cutting her throat
dying almost instantly.
MONROE VIoKERs, of Elwood, Ind,
aged fifteen, was accidently shot by his
brother while hunting, the charge lodg-
ing in his arm and stomach, causing
death in short time.
WOLVES are becoming so plentiful and
ravenous about River Falls, Wis, that
the heaviest sheep raisers are selling off
their stock, and either emigrating or
going out of the business.
THE total of school receipts in Ohio
for the last year was $347 29S.S6. The
payments amounted to 1870, 532. IL.
Male teachers receive an average salary
of SOL per month; female teachers, 1874,
AT Canton, Ohio, boy about four
teen years of age, named Streck, was
seriously and probably fatally injured
by being struck on the head by piece
of stone thrown from grind-stone which
bursted in room where he was working
A DISABLED veteran named Zilius,
lately discharged from the German army,
applied for a pension. On being told
himself in the presence of the Emperor
as he was leaving his place. He did not
succeed in killing himself
THE population of Richmond Va,
has doubled since the war, and her man
ufactores now number 36l. The sales
in 1876 reached the sum of 1922, 424 800,
her wheat and corn mills producing 81
S57, 900, and Al tobacco factories, Sl2,-
OBS, 300, and her iron works, $2,032, $50.
EMMA, aged seventeen, daughter OF
Wright Lancaster, of Richmond, Ind,
stepped backward into an open cellar
way at her fathers residence and struck
upon her head on the lower step. A large
metallic ornament upon her hair ribbon
was forced into her skull, rendering her
unconscious.
Ar Montgomery, Alabama, not long
ago, the bodies of Antoine Nicrasi and
Aurelia Sharp were found in the ceme-
terry with pistol ball hole in each head.
A note from Nierasi indicates that they
were willing to die for each other. 1t
is supposed Nicrasi shot her and then
killed himself.
AT the inquiry into. the causes of the
recent explosion at the Blantyre mines
in Scotland, fireman named Little con-
fessed that although fire damp was con-
stantly present, the men worked with
naked lights in front of their bonnets.
If they touched the roof it would kindle."
The rules as to the use of powder were
systematically violated.
INDIANS are said to be numerous in
the vicinity of Red Water, and have
commenced depredations by killing a
ranchman whose name we were unable
to learn other than Hank. The particu
lars of the shooting were not known, as
he had gone out on an expedition alone,
anu WAS HOU Sctu again uHtll HIS COTpSc
was discovered near the mouth of Spear
fish.
Two years ago Lyman Blackman,
farmer living near Birmingham, Mich,
decided bis farm to his son Henry, on
condition that he should support his
parents and sister. He failing to do this,
his father started for Pontiac to make out
necessary papers revoking the deed. In
his absence Henry quarreled with his
motherand sister, which resulted in his
shooting and killing them both, and set
ting fire to the house and barn.
The sentence of $500 fine and three
months Imprisonment, imposed on
Philadelphia druggist for killing young
woman by giving her muriatic acid
instead of essence of peppermint for
favoring medicine, is not heavy PEN
atty, but it is greater than such careless
ness sometimes receives. Bottles con-
tanning active poisons, instead of being
kept apart, are too often placed among
harmless drugs on the apothecary's
shelves, and a momentary inattention,
as in the Philadelphia case, may cause
the taking up the wrong bottle, and the
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