The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-01-13

| 1ukiy H. 1lluOTu was arrested.
GEORGE R. McCoNKEY, a County Treas.
urer in Nevada was found dead on the
floor OF his Office on the Sd, shot through
the heart. His accounts have not vet
been examined. 1t is doubtful whether
it is murder or suicide
RICHARD J. HINTON, editor of the Wash.
| ington Sunday Gdtette. has been appointed
Discussing Agent in one of the divisions
of the Treasury Department by Secretary
Folger. This appointment is said to create
some surprise, owing to the bitter enmity
displayed by the Gazette for the manage
ment of the Treasury Department, particu.
larly when that department was under
Gen. Sherman.
JOHN RUSSELL and John Linteman were
drowned by the capsizing of a boat, on the
4th, in the Boston aarbor.
Gov. CRIrrENDEa, in his annual message
to the Missouri Legislature. offered his
congratulations upon the destruction OF
the James gang
DURING feast in Bedford County, Va,
on the 4th, Armistead Barksdale cut the
throat of Scott Clayton, and then commit
ted suicide. Both were colored.
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cago tobacco manufacturers memorialized
Congress to remove the tax on imported
leaf tobacco, but to retain that on manu-.
| featured.
GOVERNOR JARVIS, of North Carolina,
recommends that the valuation of proper
ty in the State be nearly doubled and the
rate of taxation lowered A,Railroad Com
mission is also urged.
The Senate, on the 4th, confirmed the
following: United States Attorney, An
drew w. Brace, for the District of Color
ado, Joel B. Erhardt, United States Mar
shall for the Southern District of New York.
MRS STILLwELL, the self-confessed muir
deress, now lying on her death-bed in
Knox County, o., made another confess
sion on the 4th of having strangled her
mother to death and cutting her fathers
| throat
The President, on the 4tb. decided not
to interfere in the case OF Dick Liddell.
| now in Jail at Huntsville, Alabama, charged
with robbing United States Paymaster at
Muscle Shoals Alabama, in the spring of
| 1881.
| The Special Committee on Mississippi
River Improvement on the 4th heard Gen
eral Comstock, President of the Commits
sion. He said of the "a 600, 900 allotted from
the improvement appropriation last year,
| there would be about 81 ,000, 600 left on the
first of next July.
THE boiler in the box factory of the PEN
insular Manufacturing Company, at North
Muskegan, Michigan, exploded on the 4th.
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seriously injured. One end of the factory
was demolished, and the whole building
| badly damaged Low water was the cause.
NEAR Fernandina, Florida. on the 4th.
an aged colored woman named Boston and
an infant were burned to death The
woman lived on the outskirts of the town.
| and took care of the three children of Mer-
rift Jackson, the murderer hanged last
August. Jackson's wife was hired out to
some parties in the neighborhood, and had
only left her children little while before
the catastrophe occurred.
A CHAMPIONSHIP billiard tournament will
be held in Chicago, beginning on the 26th
inst, at Mccormick Hall, under the direc-
ton of the Brunswick and Bake Manufac-
turing Co. The game will be for SO, 0oO
and will include eight of the best billiard
lists in the country, and will also include
Vignaux, the Frenchman. The cham ion-
ship game will be played with the Bake
line around the table.
A DISPATCH from Mumfordville. Hart
County, KY, on the 4th says Bob Ed.
wards, negro, was hung by mob Ed
wards killed Archie Long, a white man.
at Bacon creek on Christmas eve, was cap
tured in Hardin County, on the 1st inst.
and taken to the Hart County Jail, at Nun
fordville. On the night of the Sd officers
attempted to take him on a train to Bowl
ing Green, but mob of two hundred hav-
ing collected at the depot, the officers took
to the woods with the prisoner. Particu-
ulars have not been received, but it is sup
posed the mob overlook the officers and
accomplished their purpose. Two years
ago two other negroes, Jim and Bill Ed
wards, were hanged by mob at Munford-
vile, for the murder of an old farmer.
GER. BEN. BUTLER was lnaugurated Gov
ernor OF Massachusetts, on the 4th In his
address he dwelt at great length upon free
and equal suffrage. Regarding a free bal
lot and a fair count, the Governor said !:
why not provide that all votes shall be
inclosed in self-sealng envelope of the
same size, quality and color, to be furnish
ed by the State; then the size and COM
plexion of the ballot would be immaterial.
The law still remains on the statute book.
which requires that envelopes for such
purposes shall be furnished at the polls.
The legal machinery is ready, and to make
it effectual, the permissive clause is only
to be made obligatory" The suggestion is
| made that law be passed allowing women
to vote under the same regulations as men
in municipal elections, which law shall
| take effect when it shall be accepted by a
majority of the women voting at the same
general election, provisions to be made OBJ
Waiting the objection that women may have
to go into ward-rooms and voting places
for the purpose of exercising the right of
suffrage.
The American Bark, Star of the West
sailed from New York for Bremen on Oct
ober 20, with e cargo of refined petroleum,
valued at about $4,000 AS she has not
been heard frcm since then, she has been
given up as lost. The vessel was valued at
1926, 600, and was partly insured. Her crew
consisted of Jos. M. Pickett, of Portland,
Maine, commander; H. NJ. Thiessen, mate;
Andrew Carney, second mate; All Foo,
| steward; All Sin, cook; Peter Rohario,
George Debar, Peter Jensen, w. Stemering,
Peter HOff r. Rechell and r. Ienimer.