The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-11-22
THROUGH THE STATE.
The News of the Week Boiled
Down.

AhS NCWS VI luC WICK DOllCu
Down.
The city of Wheeling is in great
financial embarrassment.
]. H. Lininger has severed his
connection with the Richie Gazette.
John Dorm, of Wheeling, suicided
last Wednesday night. He was
intoxicated to insanity.
IT is reported that a Wheeling
nail firm has an order from New
York for 40, 900 kegs of nails.
Jane E. Hervey, an inmate of
the Asylum at Weston, committed
suicide one day last week.
Richie county has a new Dem
ocratic paper published at Harris
vile, and is soon to have another
published at Pennsboro.
On Halloween some unknown
parties tore down about 700 panels
of rail fence on the farm Of Mr.. B.
Swan about a mile from Middle
bourne, Tyler county.
Chairman Dave d. Johnson of
the State Temperance Executive
Committee, has once more sent
out all over the State thousands of
blank petitions to the Legislature
asking the submission of the pro-
hibitory amendment. He wants
100, 900 signers this time.
The West Virginia Central (Hen-
ny G. Davis's) new Railroad i. now
finished to Beaver, a point eight
miles above Thomas. Beaver is
hereafter to be known as Davis
City, and will be the location Of
the company's shops. The work
of building the road farther will
be suspended till Spring.
Grand Lodge A. F. A. NJ, Of
this State, at its session last night
elected George E. Thornburg. of
Barboursville, G. M; H. R. How
ard, Of PIT. Pleasant, D. G. M. /; w.
S. Summers, of Charleston, S. G.
W.; George l. Irvine, of Wheel
ing, JIG. W.; Hugh Sterling, of
Wheeling, G. Treasurer; and O.
S. Long, of Wheeling, G. Secretary.
Reports say that something SIM
liar to a plague is raging in Raleigh
and Monroe counties. 1t i. be-
lieved to have been produced by
the protracted drouth. Nearly one
hundred people have already died
besides great many domestic an
imals. The small streams are
heavily charged with mineral mat
ter from the mountains, thereby
producing peculiar disease.
The Hinton Headlight says that
last Thursday, at Greenbrier stock
yards, in Summers county, Hub.
Shinall was shot directly through
the heart by Thos. Kane, causing
death almost instantly. The shoot.
ing is said to have been accidental.
Kane left the county, but returned
Monday morning, giving himself
up to Squire Manning, who, upon
hearing the case, sent the accused
to jail to await the action of the
next grand jury. Both parties are
colord.
The work of repairing the broken
place in the inner wall of the Cap
itol tower at Charleston-as to the
extent of which so many exagger-
ated stories were circulated-is
progressing rapidly. Nearly all
the brick have been removed, and
the heavy wall above, weighing, it
is estimated, $50 tons, braced with
wooden beams SO securely that
there has been no sinking whatever.
The wall will be rebuilt of brick
laid in hydraulic cement, and it is
expected that the whole will be
completed within few days. -Ex.
A certificate of Incorporation was
yesterday issued by the Secretary
Of State to the Ohio & West Viz
ginia Oil Company, formed for the
purpose of mining, producing, re-
filming and dealing in petroleum, |
and manufacturing its products. |
The principal office will be at Park
ersburg, and the capital stock is
500, 900. The stockholders are
R. H. Thomas, John A. Steel, A.
B. Barrett, A. c. Robinson and 7. !
all of Wood county. |
This company recently struck a
gusher on the Marshall farm, at
Bethal, near Bellaire, o. 1t is also
drilling for oil in other sections of
Belmont county. 1t is thought that
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