The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-04-10
IN GENERAL.


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| Petitions are being circulated owe
portions of the Western Reserve ask
ing that the entire judiciary system
of the state of Ohio be revolutionized
1t asks the jury tribunal be reduce,
from twelve to six jurors, that al
suits involving a consideration o
less than 5000 be settled in tn,
township in which they arise. Sen
ator Fasset. the 'labor Senator" ha,
taken hold of the matter. and tn,
result will be the speedy introduc
tion of a bill for that purpose in tn,
Ohio Legislature.
Dispatches from lockwood, Tenn.
say that 200 feet of the railroad track
was washed out and the coke ovens
of the Roane Iron Company are bad
ly damaged. At Emory Gap, Emory
run marks seventy feet, and the
bridge over the Cincinnati Southern
road is in danger. AT Dayton, Tenn,
the backwaters are inundating the
town and many are driven from their
homes. At Rising Town, Ga, the
water flooded the coal mines and one
miner was drowned. The Rising
Town furnace was compelled to shut
down, and a coal famine is appre-
hended at Dayton and lockwood
unless traffic is speedily resumed.
A disastrous fire occurred at Kew
West, Florida, last Wednesday. Ov-
er so houses were destroyed, includ-
ing Masonic Hall, three or four cigar
factories and the bonded warehouse,
containing nearly S250,0OO worth of
tobacco. Officers from the United
States steamers Brooklyn and Pow
haitian blew up some of the houses
with powder. There was no water
supply, the cisterns being mostly
dry. Six wharves and five brick
houses were also burned. The loss
will reach nearly 81, 100000, with in
surance os about 100000. Fifteen
persons were injured, of whom six
were taken to the Marine Hospital
and the others on board the men-of-
war. No lives were lost.
An old farmer named James Ne
well, aged 81 years, who lives few
miles from Enon, Pa. and who has
always made it his boast that he owes
no man cent, nor has ever taken a
drop of medicine in his life, nor even
needed a physician. was taken ser
iously i'll few days ago. Expect
ing to die be had his coffin made of
black walnut under his own direc-
tion and had his grave dug. The
grave, according to his directions, is
walled up with brick and a large
fiagstone cut to cover the mouth of
it with. The grave is in plain view
of his bedroom window, and the old
gentleman, it is said, has them take
him to the window each day so he
can take a good look at it.
A fearful storm swept over the
North West last week. At Helena,
the Atlantic beer garden
was blown down and on to the roof
Of a one story frame house adjoining
through the roof and set.
ting fire to it from cooking stove.
By a great effort the fire was extin-
yuished before it had time to spread.
The walls Of the opera house and
other large buildings, the remnants
Of the late fire, were thrown to the
ground. The coal feet was swept
,ut into the river, and the distress
signals of the boats added to the
confusion. The Phillips county
,ourt house was unroofed and strip
BED of it's window blinds. Glass
iOors and windows were mashed in
ike eggshells.
Some astonishing revelations have
been made concerning the mysteri
Jus disappearance of Grace Whit
'omb, Postmaster General Villas
liece, from her home in jackson,
tich. The family have from the
irst asserted that it was unlikely
hat she had left Jackson, but it is
low learned that Grace took from
Iome $54, which was not her own,
nd also that she must have hid a
lew silk dress under her garments
N leaving the house for the depot,
9here she went ostensibly to see
riends off on a train. By means of
hat dress and her personal appear
nee generally, she has been traced
s far as Syracuse, n. Y, and there
Dst sight of. 1t was thought she
ad gone to the School of Oratory
n Boston, but telegram from Prin-
ipal Moses I. Brown says she has
ot been seen there, but that the
olice of that city are watching for
er, fearing that she may have fall
IN into unfriendly hands. J. F. /
tuart, superintendent of the Him
is division of the American Express
company, Miss Whitcomb's uncle,
, expected at jackson at once, and
'ill~start for the East Immediately
4 search of the missing girl. Ike
Ugh character of Miss Whitcomb
nd her pleasant home relations
lake it appear almost impossible
hat she could have been herself /
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