The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-10-03
Numerous Notes and Comments

The Gordon We'll at Washing
ton, Pa, throws out from 90 to
100 barrels of oil daily.
The weekly output of coke in
the Connellsville region at the
present time is about 800 cars. |
The attendance at the Tyler
county fair was very good, al
though not equal to that Of former
years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wheat, widow
of the late General James S. Wheat, |
of Wheeling, diedrecently in Wash
ington City.
There are 800 candidates in
the field for the French Chamber
Of Deputies. Talk about hungry
office seekersl
Parnell says: 1--WE will have
home rule for Ireland or make leg
islation for England impossible, +"
and he will carry his point
Connellsville, Pa, has steam
laundry in operation. 1t is turn
ing out handsome work and it is
thought the venture will be sue
cess financially.
Buffalo Bill, at the head of the
Wild West Show was arrested on
the 22nd. of Sept. at Pittsburgh,
Pa, charged with refusing to pay
a license of 500, assessed against
him for showing his show.
John Dowlin, U. S. Revenue
Collector in Fayette and Green
counties, Pa, it is said receipted |
for 8, 1888 gallons of whiskey
in the warehouses. There is a
good deal of drunk in that much |
whiskey.
On Saturday, September 10th,
at Dawson, in Fayette County,
Penna.. difficulty occurred be-
tween J. F. c. Percy and w. J.
Stewart in which Stewart shot
Percy with a revolver causing
death in about 80 minutes.
While Frank A. Robbins circus
was exhibiting at Martinsburg last
Wednesday night the tent was
blown down by a windstorm and |
lamps extinguished. Amid the
darkness nothing could heard but
the shrieks of Women and children
and many persons received severe
and dangerous wounds but nobody |
killed
At Titusville, Pa, on the 22nd
inst. while Barnums circus was
exhibiting the big tent holding
10, 900 people suddenly collapsed
in violent wind and rain storm.
Half the people were inside, but
cut their way through with their
knives or crept out under the can
vass. Twenty-Five persons were
injured.
1t is estimated that there are
over 200 barges of coal, loaded and
ready for shipment, between the
mouth of Elk river and Cannelton.
Averaging these at 10, 900 bushels
each, it will be seen that about
?, 900, 900 bushels of the black
diamond are loaded and ready to
be shipped on the first rise in the
Kanawha.
Adam Bartender was lately
President of savings bank at
Erie, Penna, and allowed the in
stitution to be Quilted. He was
tried and last week was placed in
the Western Penitentiary at Allie
gheny If a few more defaulting
Bank Presidents were served the
same way it would probably have a
similar effect.
The lower class of French Cana
dams have no faith in vaccination as
a preventive of smallpox, but they
wear while at work pictures Of
Saint Roche with prayer fastened
on their backs. They are taking
the smallpox and dying off at the
rate of about $50 per week. This
shows what faith cure may &C
complish.
George w. Downer a respected
citizen of Uniontown, Pa, and
Lieutenant in the army during the
late war was drowned at Brook
vile, in Jefferson county, Pa, on
the 2Ist of Sept. He was at
tending a reunion of his old regi-
ment and being stranger mistook
his way and fell into creek where
his body was found next morn
ing
Mr.. Nasuel McGill was instantly
killed on Sept 10Th, last, by the
of an engine boiler at
tached to his steam saw mill in the
woods near Greensburg in Berkeley
county w. Va. The unfortunate
man was thrown some. distance
from the furnace door where he was
at the time of the explosion; one leg
and one arm were torn off; his skull
fractured and the brains entirely
dislodged.
John Ostermaier boy ID years
old while working on a brick ma
chine at Pittsburg, Pa, on Sept.
22nd, fell into the crushers and
was ground to small pieces. Ow-
ing to the peculiar construction of
the rollers it is impossible for any
thing getting into the rollers to
escape being ground up. The
rollers weigh over two tons each.
The largest piece of the boy found