The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-13
KERE AND THERE.
The Most Important Happenings
Throughout the State.

being fioated out Of tie kanawha.
About 100000 bushels of coal
went out of the Great Kanawha last
week.
The leasing of oil and gas terri
tory has broken out afresh in Mason
county.
Henry Duncan, of Wayne county,
has been appointed to 81 500 pen
sion Office.
Fritz Bauer is now captain of the
guards at the penitentiary at
Moundsville.
The little town of Ceredo, Wayne
county, has mills which give employ
ment to 100 meh and boys.
There were 997 letters mailed at
the Charleston postoffice last Sat
urday night between eight and ten
o'clock.
The Piedmont Amateur Dramatic
Association realized $95.6S in Pied
mont and $S4 at Frostburg, all of
which was given to the Newburg
sufferers.
A Tenant ON Auditor Duffy S
farm, in Webster county, has recent
ly converted into stove wood a curly
ash tree worth, delivered on the river
bank, sl25 per 1000 feet.
A. j. Wood, of Weston, is insensi
Bile to the effects of cold. Recent,
when the mercury was "a degrees
below zero he walked around in
his shirt sleeves, declaring himself
perfectly comfortable.
Alexander Kidd, we'll known in
Wood and adjoining counties as a
sewing machine agent, was tried on
an indictment for forgery in the
circuit court of Calhoun county last
week, and acquitted.
The distance between Addison
and its nearest railroad point, Yves
ton, is sixty miles and during the
winter months it takes the road
"schooners'' ten to twelve days to
make the round trip.
James Parker and Frederick Bow
ers, two youths of about Is years of
age, got into dispute one day last
week at Merchandising, which re
suited in the severe cutting of young
Bowers, an artery in his right arm
being severed.
Marcellus Squares, of Doddridge
county, was hanging up his rifle,
when the strap broke, and falling,
the rifle was discharged, the ball
striking him in the leg about FIVE
inches above the ankle, SCATTERING
the leg in horrible maner. Several
pieces of bone were taken out.
Governor Wilson has issued pro-
clamation appointing thejail of Lewis
county at Weston as the place at
which the Circuit and County Courts
shall be held, by reason of the
destruction by fire Of the Court
house, until the same be rebuilt or a
more convenient place be found.
The Wellsburg grand jury report
ed thirty seven indictments, all for
misdemeanors in selling Intoxicating
liquors without a license. Eighteen
indictments were against N. Little,
Six against A. West, four against L.
Walters, three against f. Spring
burn, three against Geo. Nelson and
two against John Ott
The citizens of Fairview, Marion
county, held an election last week to
settle the matter of incorporating
the village. The result showed a
majority Of two out of 66 cast, in
favor of municipal government.
Marion county already has four
incorporated TOWNSHIP: Fairmont,
Warrington, Rivesville and Pala-
tine.
David Barr, criminal sentenced
to one years confinement in the
Berkeley county jail, made his es-
cape few nights since by tearing a
hole through the wall of the third
story of the building, and then by
means of blankets descended to the
street and nothing has been heard
of him since. He was imprisoned
for sending obscene matter through
the mail to a young lady.
The report that Uncle Daniel
Holland and family had frozen to
death in Kansas during the blizzard
last month, is not true. Miss Lii
liam Mallonee received letter from
Miss Mary Holland daughter of
Uncle Daniel few days ago in
which she says they are all well and
getting along nicely in Wichita,
Kansas, and well pleased with the
West and have no desire to return
to West Virginia. Grafton Stand
ard.
Mr.. w. H. Abby, representing
Cleveland, Ohio, syndicate, purchas-
ed last week large tract of land at
Leon, w. Va, on the line of the Ohio
Central railroad. He will cause to
be erected on the property, without
delay, one Of the largest saw mills in
the State and prepare lumber for the
Cleveland market. Mr.. Abby was
in Charleston few days ago, and
purchased all the lumber and logs
that he could find in the market.
James Copen, an old citizen of
Parkersburg, was recently arrested
on a charge of forging check on
the Marietta, Ohio, National Bank.
The endorser's name was also alleged
to have been forged. Copen was
jailed at Parkersburg until the arriv-
of Marietta officer, when he was
taken in charge and conveyed to
Ohio for examination. An uncon-
trollable love for alcohol was undoubt-
edly the prime cause of "OPENS fall.
For some time past, exchanges
from the interior have been printing
accounts Of the marauding exploits
Of a man and boy, known as Tom
Brady and his son. Their favorite
occupation appeared to be horse
Last week W. H. Trippet,
a detective from Youngstown, passed
through Beverly, Randolph county,
on the track of these parties. He
gave the mans name as Jerry Hays
and that of the boy as Frank Hays,
and said that they hailed from Pres