The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1881-08-13

be to the interest Of both States to
have the matter forever settled
! Charleston State.
A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
Some time ago the Sentinel contained
an account of the disappearance of a
traveller going west over the b. q O.
r. r. who had stepped off the train
when near West Union and fallen
through q bridge receiving injuries.
He got up and started to Central Sta
ton and was never heard of after
ward till his body was found in a
car at Chicago In box belonging to
a Hsefehatft at Central.
We chronicled the information as
it was given lis without adding to it
or taking from is, and Mt the time be-
lieyed it to be true. The West Union
Record seemed to have got wood
tick in its hair when it read our arti-
Gle and it roared around like it was
ALFRED mad enough to eat us up
without pepper or salt.
We derived our information from
an official of the Railroad Company,
who gave us what he thought to be a
reliable statement of the case as it
occurred. He had been misinformed
and in turn so were we. 1t is not
always in the power of newspapers to
investigate the truth of every item of
news that is furnished. Moreover,
newspaper men being truthful, they
of course suppose that everybody is
as equally honest.
We met Captain Ball of the Mari
eta & Cincinnati. road the other day
and made inquiries for Information.
Catain Ball was in charge of the train
carrying the lost mans family west
ward from Parkersburg, and it was
when he was collecting tickets that
the mans absence was discovered.
Even then it was thought that he
had stopped off the train at Parkers-
burg and been left. The mans wife
was on the train, but her husband
had the tickets; Captain Ball carried
her to Athens and left her to get on
the next train presuming her husband
would be. aboard of it. The woman
stated they were bound for FL Dorado,
Texas, to which place they had tick
cts and baggage checks. Sire had so
she said, eight dollars with her, and
her husband had about three dollars
and that, according TO the woman S
statement was all the money they
had.
After remaining at Athens two or
three days and hearing nothing of
her husband, she was passed to Gin
cinnati, where collection was taken
up for her and Mr.. Barry furnished
her with a pass as far as his authority
extended, and the woman and child
were sent on toward their destination
The last seen of the man by anyone
aboard the train was when he was
passing out of one car to 90 into an
other with his pipe and a match in
his hands.
Captain Ball says that the woman
sud neither she nor her husband had
any money except the amounts above
referred to, and they were evidently
poor people.
The story about the nran having
been found murdered in car at Chi
caeo turns ont to be the meanest
kind Of fiction, gotten up and circu-
lated BY some orc to iniure some Of
the good people Of Doddridge county.
Anyone that would be guilty of Civ
ing life to such q story for the pur-
pose of harming the reputation Of
another should Ire made to- feel the
benefits of a red meu's vfsit.-Par-
hersbury Sentinel.
AcCIDENT.--On Tuesday last, as
Thomas Blake, of Rock ford, Harrison
co. was driving horse and buggy
close the railroad track near Mt. Glare
the horse became frightened and in
attempting to jump the track, fell in
front of the COW catcher of a passing
train and was killed. The horse in
jumping upset the buggy and Mr..
Blake was thrown out, and by some
means his foot came in contact with
the car wheel and was severely crush
ed. The buggy was q total wreck
We understand that no blame can at
tach to the employees of the company
for this ccident-W Weston Democrat