The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-10-22
State Clippings.

perpetrated in this city was circula-
ted yesterday morning. 1t appears
that Mrs. Otterson, who lives at the
corner of Twenty-sixth and Eof
streets, was awakened between 3 and
four O'Clock by noise in the room,
and looking around saw some one in
the act of going through the bureau
drawers, not far from the bed.
Thinking perhaps it might be the
servant girl, Mrs Otterson spoke and
asked, what are you doing?' and
the person responded by walking over
to the bed presenting revolver to
her head and saying, "If YOU make
any noise or call out, III blow your
brains out" The af.ighted lady at
once became silent and the man con-
tinued, Come, get up here, want
YOU" and taking her by the arm as
sisted her from the bed. Now /
have for long time admired that
beautiful hair Of yours and / guess
I'll just take it with me. / have
thought many time that would
get it but | have never had the OPP
portunity before now" and grasping
pair of scissors cnt it off close to
the scalp, leaving however, the side
folds. ''Now have you any money!"
asked the man as he turned to leave.
"Yes sir, six dollars said the WON
an. "Well hand it out here" and
the six dollars were transferred very
quickly. The man then left and the
woman sank almost fainting upon
her bed. She said to our reporter
Yesterday afternoon that the man
had climbed up to the second story
of the house, hoisted the window and
entered her room. He had his face
masked with some black looking ma
terial and was in his stocking feet.
She was too much frightened to make
any notes of his appearance and of
course there is no clue to his identi
ty. The robbery was a bold one,
and at the same time so singular as
to almost appear incredible. Mrs.
Otterson had very full and beauti-
full dress of auburn hair in which
she took great deal Of pride, and
sometimes may be her vanity led her
to display it.
Mr.. Otterson and the mother of
Mrs. Otterson left for Baltimore ear
ly Monday morning, and the thief
was no doubt aware of this fact when
he so timed his visit.-RegiSter.
ACCIDENT AT THE AsYLuM-A sad
accident occurred at the asylum at
Weston of Friday night last. A pa
tient named Blaine Starry, heretofore
considered harmless, who hal been
confined in an apartment which was
divided into several rooms, the
partitions of which do not extend
to the ceiling, scaled the partition in
the night and dropped into a room
occupied by two old men. He be-
came very violent and choked one of
the men, John Rose Of Mason county
to death He beat the other occu
pant, man named Danal severely
The cries Of the patients brought sew
eidl vi tuS tttCnudutS ~ biio oNShS,
who had some difficulty in capturing
the maniac; in fact his life would
have been imperiled had he not called
assistance. The abstreperons indi-
vidual was finally put into strong
room. He was never known to be-
come violent but once before and the
accident was entirely unavoidable
Clorksbarg News.
In 1864 after the call of the Presi-
dent for 300, 900 men, Upshur county
made an appropriation of $4,000 to
pay a bounty of 1925 to those persons
who would volunteer to fill up her
quota. After the war, and after due
notice had been given this sum was
distributed among 1877 men supposed
to be the full number Twenty-six
men now come in and claim that the
coanty's quota was 1873 and that they
are entitled to 1925 bounty also. AL
so under another call another appro-
priation was made to pay $500 to
volunteers, and there seems to be a
number of those who claim to have
enlisted under these last conditions
who claim to be left out. A test case
is now pending in the Circuit Court
of that county to determine whether
they can recover.
The firm of Dayton and Dayton of
this place have, we understand, been
retained to look after the interests of
Upshur county in these suits.-Bar-
pour Jefersonian.
FRAUD.-We are informed that q
straggler came to our town during
the M. E. Conference, and passed off
for minister. He went to some of
our boarding houses, and stated that
he had been sent there to board. He
would eat two or three meals at a
place, fearing, we suppose, that should
he remain longer he would be detec-
ted 1t was soon discovered that he
was a fraud, when threats were made
to arrest him, he ait out. Mounds
ville Gazette.
RED MEN IN WRIT CoUNTY.-Wirt
county has been disgraced several
times by the action of the Red Men.
The last outrage occurred on Mon
day night near Elizabeth. Two men
named Mathers, one of whom had
been charged with abusing his wife
and the other of occasionally visiting
his neighbors' chicken roosts, were