The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-08-16
STATE NEWS.

iIC Salvation army Is gong TO
make raid on Charleston.
Edward Ruhl and Thomas Hea-
ley were drowned at Wheeling last
week.
There is great excitement over a
supposed silver mine in Richie
county.
Senator J. N. Camden is expect.
ed home from his European trip in
a day or two.
There will be dog and cat fight
at Coal Valley Kanawha county
Aug 2Ist. The stakes are $3.50 a
side.
Bro. Morris of the Gaeehf is out
of the Congressional racket and is
now being whooped up for State
Senate.
+. Willis Wilson. the next Gov
ernor of West Virginia, will adj
dress the people of Grafton next
Friday.
The officials of Raleigh county
offer $50 for wolf scalps and 50
cents for wild cat scalps taken in
that country.
a terrible storm and flood de-
vastated the country in the neigh
borhood of Piedmont recently.
Loss about 500, 900.
Dock. Auglen, of Barbour coun-
ty, was married one evening last
week and arrested for horse steal
ing the next morning.
big Bill Kinney, of Doddridge
county, the notorious outlaw and
murderer, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life last week.
The Government property at
Harper's Ferry is to be sold. How
much for the old John Brown fort
and the historic U. S. Arsenal2
Our sprightly and enterprising
contemporary, the St. Adams Non
pUr1l has been enlarged and very
much improved. Success to you
JIM
Samuel Lemley, of Marion coun-
ty, was badly beaten and probably
killed while working in a field on
his own farm last week. His broth
er is suspected.
The fourth Annual State Fair
and Exposition will be held in
Wheeling September Sth, 9th, 9th,
nth, 18th and 18th. $4,000 are
in premiums.
Hon. Ellis S. Hyer, one of the
most prominent Republicans of
Braxton county, died recently at
He was a member of the
Legislature in 1880.
Miss Heinlein, aged seventeen,
living near Benwood, was burned
to death by the explosion of an
oil can from which she wasY pour.
ing oil on a smouldering fire.
Governor Jackson issued pardons
to two criminals at Moundsville
asst week One of the men was
Albert Collins, Of Braxton county,
the other was Martin r. Hamrick,
Of Webster county.
Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson informs
US that in an interview with the
Solicitor of the Treasury that off
cial indicated it to be his purpose
to offer the Government property
at Harper's Ferry for sale about
The middle Of September.
Two hundred employees of the
Labelle Nail Works in Wheeling
we're discharged last Friday because
The company has concluded to
nails from nail plate
ourchasedin Pittsburgh. The step
created general alarm among the
mill men.
Senator Jno +. Kenna, Of this
State accompanied by ]. Donald
Cameron, Wayne McVeigh and
other capitalists Of Pennsylvania,
ire making tour over their pro-
posed narrow guage route from
Weston to Charleston. Don Cam
IRON is large stakeholder in sew
,ral large steel works in Harrisburg
Penn, and his wealth is rated at
SIo, 900, 900.
1t is conceded upon all hands
hat w. f. Chiffon, Prosecuting
of this County will have
10 opposition for the nomination
O that position in his own party.
This is due as much to Mr.. Chill
on's able and consistent course
Turing his term of office, as to his
conceded strength, before the peo-
lie in all sections of the county.
to that position in 1883,
ucceeding a gentleman of known
bAity at the bar, he was at once
allied upon to defend the interest
# the State in cases requiring both
bility and nerve; and it is a part
# the history Of the County that
lis success has been honorable and
air to all.-NoNbayr1I.