The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-05-29

The Host Important Happenings 4
Over the State.

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Trout Afshirg in the mountain
streams of the State is reported to
be remarkably good this season.
The Mineral county grand jury
found 81 indictments for intimida-
ton against Elk Garden miners. =
Congress has appropriated nearly
$4,000, for the repair and remodel
ing of the Parkersburg postoffice and
custom house.
The fakirs following the U. s. Cir
Gus reaped a harvest in New Mar
tinsville. They cleaned the people
out of all their spare cash -.s,.
The Democratic Convention of the
Third district will be held at Coal
Valley, Wednesday, Sept LIST, next,
to nominate candidate for Con
gress. aa u -
Jed, John and Charley Weolf,
Sarah. Woolf the wife of Jed, and
Emaline Yates, his mother, were re-
Gently confined in the Mason county
Jail on the charge of having murder
ed Green Lakewood and a pack
pedler some months ago. hss f
Three four year-old steers belong.
ing to Perry Stone, of jackson coun-
ty. were killed by lightning Monday
night. They were under an apple
tree that was first struck and the
shock thus communicated. Not a
bone of the cattle was broken. ~
The trial of Thompson, at Lewis
burg, for the shooting of Fowler, in
Fayette county, q year or SO ago. re-.
suited in a disagreement Of the jury,
which stood eight for acquittal and
four for manslaughter A new trial
will he had in November next. f.
The work on the extension Of the
Weston and Buckhannon railroad up
the Buckhannon river goes forward.
1t will extended to a point within
ten miles of Helvetia this summer,
and will for q short time be used as
tram road, but iron rails will soon
be laid, and it will become a. full
Aedged railroad.
The Ohio River Railroad Company
are going to build large wharf on
their extensive property at Point
Pleasant, and will put wharf boat
there. lis rumored that arrange
ments are about concluded between
the railroad company and the Big
Sandy Packet Company, by which
the latter will make Point Pleasant
it's terminus, and run in connection
with the railroad for both freight
and passengers. H
Some few years ago, the Coroner
of Lewis county was required to
cause the body of man named
Faulkner, residing on Glen Lick, to
be exhumed, and on inquest held
upon it. 1t was charged that he had
been shot. The jury returned YER
dict that although some shooting
had been done, he died from natural
causes. Not long afterwards the
Coroner was required to hold an in
quest upon another Faulkner "a
brother of the first named who had
been shot and killed at Jane Lew.
And now we learn that another
brother was fatally wounded few
days ago in Harrison county, m
Miss r. f. Ellis, of Racine, has an
interesting relic in the shape of a lot
of decisions made by the Military
Court of the Virginia Colony in 1854,
signed by Major Milo Carry and the
redoubtable and historic John Smith
who won the affections of the copper
colored Pocahontas. 1t was captur-
ed from a burning Virginia Court
House during the war and sent to
her by one of the soldiers from
Meigs county. The writing is very
legible and the paper in good state
of preservation. The various debts
and payments are all reckoned in
pounds of tobacco, and the style Of
fpenmanship is unique and interest
ing.
At Apple Grove, small town &c
miles below PIT. Pleasant, reside Mrs,
James Gucrin and sister, widows
each being left with large numb Ell
of children. They live near each
other, and the children quarreled
over the ownership of a stepladder
when Mrs. Thomas appeared and
carried the ladder home Her
nephew, Jimmie Guerin.. aged 10
followed her and struck her with a
large stone, crushing the back of hel
head, the woman soon, dying. Soon
after the dead woman's daughter
Eliza, aged Is, secured a gun and
fired upon her cousin, the boy imur,
derer of her mother, and riddled him
with shot, he also dying in a, few
moments. The girl was arrested.
Much excitement exists in the vii.
lage over the terrible affair, Us.