The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-27
HERE AND THERE.


to VI Az, 39S.91.
The Pensboro Monitor has sus-
pended publication, but will he re-
moved to Writ county and revived.
The next annual meeting of the
Supreme Lodge of Knights of Honor
of this State is to be held next month
at Clarksburg.
Tom Burr, of Weston, was indict-
ed seventeen times, and was acquit-
ted by jury in each case, and the
suits were all tried in one day.
A citizen of Calhoun county was
indicted at the last term of Judge
Fleming's court for an attempt to
bride a member Of the Grand Jury.
Mrs. Abe johnson, of Keyser, has
a great arm chair which her grand
father brought to this country with
him in lao. 1t is still in constant
use.
The county commissioners of
Lewis county are having some trou-
BILE with insurance companies over
the adjustment of the loss by the
burning of the court house.
The gentlemen operating the Black
Diamond railroad movement say
they can secure the construction Of
the road if the contractors along the
line will subscribe $500, 900 in bonds
and donate 250,000 acres of land
A man named Helmick has been
sent to the penitentiary from Lewis
county by Judge Brannon for eight
years. 1t was the third conviction
for burglary, and Helmick could
have been given much longer term
had the Judge so desired. AS 1t
was, he gets off easy.
For lifting a registered letter out
of the Martinsburg postoffice that
did not belong to her, though adj
dressed to that name, Rebecca Hill
was a few days ago, sentenced to
fourteen months in the penitentiary
by the U. S. Court, at Parkersbnrg.
just as passenger train No. 8 was
ready to start from Grafton last Sun
day night, freight engine ran into
the engine of the passenger train at
the depot wrecking the engine so
badly that she could not take the
train east. AS there was no other
engine ready the train was delayed
about an hour.
Isaac Conan, Justice of the
Peace in Kanawha county. has been
arrested by one of Marshal Sehon's
deputies on capias from the dis
trict court at Parkersburg, for VIC
lation of the pension laws. He gave
bond in the penalty of $4,000 for his
appearance at the June term of court
at Parkersburg.
A Wyoming county widow died
the other day whose matrimonial ex-
perience was something awful. She
had had seven husbands and in a
dream had been shown her next
This gentleman happened to be a
citizen of the place and hearing of
his calling and election promptly
pulled up stakes and fled for his
life.
While Mrs. Jessie Toney, living
near Messy postoffice, Fayette coun-
ty, was visiting with her boy, 3 or 4
years old, she missed her child, and
going to the door to look for him she
was Mortified to find his lifeless
body lying under a large log with
his neck broken. 1t is supposed
the child crawled upon the log and
it rolled over and he was caught.
Near st. Johns run, ON the Balti-
more & Ohio road, there is sand
works run and owned by Pittsburg
parties, the sand from which is used
for the manufacture of glass. The
sand stone is gotten out of the noun
tain by tunneling into a solid bed of
that formation, and conveyed by a
tramway to the mill, situated near
the railroad, where it is ground and
prepared for USE 1t is white, having
the appearance of granulated sugar.
The proportion of silica in this sand
is greater than in any known in the
United States, and the supply is
claimed to be inexhaustible. The
capacity of the mill is from forty to
fifty tons a day.
We learn that recently dispatch
was sent from Baltimore to Clarks-
burg to arrest tramp who was sup
posed to have arrived at that place.
Accordingly the tramp was arrested
and put in jail. Not long after
wards, the tramp made it known
that he was detective and had got
ten into the good graces Of John and
Charlie Tibbs and John Murphey,
who were confined with him in the
Jail and accused of attempting to
wreck a passenger train recently
near Clarksburg. The supposed
tramp accomplished his aims by OBJ
tanning a full confession from the
parties who were guilty of the hor-
rible deed of trying to kill innocent
persons.
The people of Rockport, Wood
county, were shocked by the news OF
the suicide of Mrs. Powers, wife, of
Rev. G.. A. Powers, Baptist minis
ter, who resided on Pond creek.
Mrs. Powers, for quite while has
been subject to fits of mental aber-
ration, during which she made sew
eral attempts to kill herself. At
one time she was found suspended
from the ceiling by the straps of a
bride. Since that attempt she has
been closely watched, but recent
ly she was left alone for few min
utes, during which time she got
hold of a rope, threw it over a rafter
and succeeded in hanging herself for
the third time. Some member of
the family looked into the room a
few minutes later and found her
hanging by the neck. Every effort
to resuscitate her was made, but
life was extinct. The unfortunate
lady leaves husband and eight
children to mourn the sad ending OF
a once intelligent, bright and loving
mother.
Fiendish and cowardly Red Men
have broken loose again in Richie
county. The Harrisville Reviec re-
ports that few nights ago they Wis
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