The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-10-12

Ant Scissors Auf Mil.


The West Virginia schools at
Romney for the deaf mutes now have
an attendance of nearly one hundred
pupils, the largest they have ever
had this early in the term. There
are several to come yet which will
swell the number to over hundred.
Mrs. Jack Lee, of Braxton c. H..
left her baby lying on the bed and
went to the kitchen. Shortly she
smelled something burning, and re-
turning to the room found that the
bed clothing was on fire and had
burned to within a few inches of
the child.
The store house and residence of
A. j. Haldren, of West Charleston,
took fire and was entirely consumed
about noon on Friday, together with
the store and residence of W. A.
Thomas and two other smaller
dwellings,. Loss about $4,000; in
surance, $500.
Several new depots are to be con
structed by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad authorities along the line
between Wheeling and Pittsburg.
The list includes handsome pas
senger station at Little Washington,
of the latest architectural pattern
for such structures, and will be a
costly affair, including all the con
veniences of first-class station.
A gang of counterfeiters have been
operating in Upshur county during
the last year, and the section is
flooded with spurious coin. 1t is
principally dollars and half dollars
and the workmanship iss $50 good as
to defy detection except by an ex-
perienced eye. Two arrests have
been made on suspicion, but SO far
the officers seem entirely in the dark.
Newton Keister, a farmer who
lives on Gee Lick, three miles from
Weston, felled large oak tree last
week, and in cutting up the limbs he
cut into knot and found coiled up
in it very large copperhead snake
which struck at him as he reached
down to move the piece he was work
ing on. The limb in which this rep
tile had taken up his winter quarters
was nearly one hundred feet from
the ground Weston Republican.
A judgement which was rendered
short time since, in New York
court, is of interest to all. 1t was a
suit in which the child plaintiff was
granted judgment for four thousand
dollars as damages against the steam
boat company, for the loss of her
father while on the line of duty as
stoker on one of the boats. 1t APP
pears that he became intoxicated at
the bar of the boat, fell overheard
and was drowned. The court held
the company responsible as stated
above.
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says an exchange, went out to the
stable one day last week and was
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