The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-09-15
STATE NEWS.

Huntington is building a new city
hall at a cost Of $4,000.
The Wood county Jail contains five
men charged with the crime of muir.
der.
Doddridge county has had foul
murders within her hounds since
April.
a Richmond papers says that Hon
c. j. Faulkner funded some $4,000
of old Virginia bonds recently.
1t is rumored that Aaron Bennett
young man of Barbour Co., has
been sentenced to death for robbery
and murder in Iowa.-Ecchange
A young man by the name of Gun
ion while cut hunting, having laid
his gun down, pulled it toward him
by the muzzle, when it was discharg-
ed, killing him instantly.
The Clarksburg and Weston road
last year, besides paying interest on
its debt, paid its bondholders a 33
per cent dividend. West Virginia is
a good State for railroads.
The fine Touring mill at Romeo
vcrte on the c. II O. r. r., was burn.
ed on Monday Of last week, entailing
loss of $4,000. 1t was the work Of
an incendiary. The mill was one of
the finest in the state.-Sentlnel.
Ground has been broken and work
commenced on q new railroad to
extend from the Ohio river to Ceredo
back through Wayne county into Lo-
gan. 1t will open up an exceedingly
rich section Of the country Wheel
ing Register.
Money surely is plenty from the
way our. city is Furnishing. Two
squares built up solid since spring
opened, and another full block laid
out, cellars dug and buildings under
way. No other city in the State has
made such progress.--MoundsvtUe
Herald.
The Fairmont Inder says shat it
is informed that during the last two
weeks three married couples, two of
whom live in Union and one in Win
field districts, have quietly separ-
ated, so far as they were able with
out resorting to the courts for re-
lief from the burthens Of matrimony.
BY the explosion of a portable steam
sawmill, at Willow Island, w. Va,
two men were blown to pieces, two
others fatally injured, and others
severely hurt. The engineer had his
clothes and boots torn from his body.
Several spectators were blown some
distance. knocked down, and covered
by debris, yet escaped serious injury.
A professional man while stopping
a few days in town last week in speak
ing of his native county-Nicholas,
says there are walnut trees there Is
feet in diameter and chestnut trees
that will make 5000 rails. That he
has passed under chestnut trees where
he knows he could gather 800 bushels
of chestnnts from under single tree.
The prospects of finding silver, in
paying quantities, on the farm of
Rev. j. w. Hedges, Berkeley county,
are said to be more encouraging as
the work goes on. Several shafts
have been sunk, and specimens as
sayed by leading chemists, pro-
n0unced to contain silver, without
any traces Of copper or other, metals
One authority places the amount of
silver in toa OF ore at SIS Romney
Intelligencer
BY the close of 1888 new railroads
will have been built into or through
seventeen counties in West Virginia,
viz: Upshur, Wetzel, Tyler, Pleas
ants, Marshall, Wood, Ohio, Mineral,
Grant, Tucker, Lewis, Mason, Put
nam, Kanawha, Cabell. Barbour and
Taylor. Prior to 1888, ten of these
counties were totally without rail
roads. IL these ticks can be kept
up for few years West Virginia
will be out Of the woods literally
Register.
On Sunday evening and imbccile
boy, named Harper, an inmate of the
Poorhouse, with some other boys,
were about the premises Of Jacob
Geiger, when an alteration took
place between the boys and Mr.. Gel
ger and his two sons, resulting in
their chasing the boys from the prem
ises. But this was not ALL The
Geigers followed and stoned the i'm
beetle boy most numerically, he not
being able to get out of their way,
and following their helpless victim to
the river, the unfeeling father, Jacob
Geiger, finished the cruel work by
hitting the boy on the head with a
club. from the effects Of which, and
the stoning, the boy died soon after.
The Geigers, father and two sons,
had hearing before Justice Davis,
and were committed for murder
Parhers5u,'g Freeman.
Opcnin. of tho Pittsburgh Eek.
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