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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
Van Baker Case.

The case of the State VS. Van b.
Baker, the convicted murderer, has
been postponed until the September
term of the Supreme Court of APP
peals, which meets at Charlestown.
At Tuesdays session the Attorney
General called attention to the fact
that the printed record of the pro-
ceedings of the Circuit Court had
not been filed before the opening
day of the present term, so that there
had been no time to allow of careful
examination so as to file brief.
The court then agreed that the case
could not be heard this term, and it
will be docketed to be heard at Char
lestown. The record consists of l, 112
pages of closely printed matter,
about $50 pages being taken up with
the pleas of the defense in abatement,
demurrer, etc, and the examination
of jurors upon their voirdire. The
balance is taken up with the testi-
mony. The printers fees for the
record are $944.35 which have been
paid by the State owing to the in
solvency of the defendant. The fate
of the appeal will not be known un-
til next September, and Baker will
have three months more of the coun-
ty Jail before he knows whether he
will have another trial.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
Kansas Flood Disasters.

ST. LOUIS, June 22.-Additional adj
vices about the disaster in Kansas
from wind and rain storms are that
Uniontown, about Is miles west of
Fort Scott, on the Wichita q West
ern Railway, was swept away and
that two women and four children
were drowned.
Uniontown, which is a place of
600 inhabitants, is in the midst of
thickly settled country, and it is
feared that the loss of life is
much heavier than reported. AS the
wires are down for Is miles ON either
side nothing definite can be learned.
The storm struck the western part
of Bourbon county late at night,
coming from the West, where it
played great havoc. At Augusta it
assumed the form of cloud burst.
Though everything possible has been
done to obtain details by the rail
roads, all is uncertain at present.
In Fort Scott it commenced rain
ing about o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Old residents say it was the
hardest rain in 80 years. The water
commenced rising in Buck run at
8 A. M. Lamb 4 Mead's ice dam,
on Sixth street, burst about 10 A. NJ,
causing the water in Buck run to
rise at the rate of about three feet
an hour, carrying away several
houses and the bridge across Sixth
street. The part of Fort Scott
known as Relltown is entirely under
water. This was caused by the
overflow from Marmaton river. Peo-
pie were taken out with boats.
Several bridges were washed out
and trains were stopped on both
sides of Fort Scott The Kansas,
Nebraska and Dakota track is under
water for about nine miles out. The
Memphis road is badly damaged for
about 1000 feet 10 miles north of
Fort Scott. All the people in the
bottom in East Fort Scott moved
out. At last accounts the water
had stopped rising, and if no more
rain falls the flood will rapidly sub
side. Every effort is being made to
obtain information from Uniontown.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
The Great Economic Struggle.

As long as the people of this
country prefer protective robbery
they will keep the Republican party
in power; because that party upholds
protection as the corner stone of its
creed. The Democratic party is
committed TO the opposite policy
of tariff which shall produce reye.
nues sufficient for the needs of the
Government without aflording subsi
dies to monopolies A majority of
1000 of the people Of the United
States and of more than a million of
the white people approved the Demo
cratic policy in the last Presidential
election. The revolt of the farmers
against the binding Irvine trust will
undoubtedly result in Democratic
tidal wave in tie Western and
Northern States two years hence, to
be followed in 1892 by the restora-
ton Of the tariflreiorm Democracy
TO power in tie National Govern
ment. But whether our victory is
to come SO soon, or is to be still
further postponed, the Democratic
party will continue to fight for a
tariff for revenue only until the
people are ready for it. A Demo
cratic protectionist is Republican
in fact, just as tariff-reform Repub
ican is Democrat in fact, and both
will be forced to take their rightful
places by the new party alignments
which the issue so clearly join
ed must compel.-EcansviUe,(In Ind. J
CourjeJ..
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
West virginia's Defamers.


The greatest calamity that has
yet afflicted the State of West Vir-
ginia, and which forms an incubus
on its growth and prosperity is the
constant misrepresentation It re-
ceives at the hands of a set of
press reporters, who for so much a
line defame the character of the
State. We do not suppose that West
Virginia is any better, or any worse
than the average State, in the point
of morals. Her population presents
great contr asts, such as might be
expected in any territory which has
as great diversity of physical feat
ures. We have the mountaineer, the
miner, the lumberman, the farmer,
the stock raiser, the manufacturer,
the professional man, merchants, pol
iticians, &c, &c But there are 9th
er States in the Union which have
the same classes. They are as hon
est, as moral, and as law abiding as
the same classes anywhere else. And
yet, one can hardly glance the eye
over the columns of any of the lead
ing journals published in the coun-
try, without finding one or more
thrilling and sensational narratives
of the happenings of some disgrace
full occurrence within our borders.
The Hatfed-McCoy vendetta was
truly disgraceful, but it's evil was
greatly magnified by the penny-a-
liners, and the iniquity of it is visit
ed by outsiders upon the whole State,
regardless of the fact that the scene
of it was laid in remote corner aud
arough mountain region. Apart from
that deplorable crime, there is moth
ing in the record of crime in this
State, that need give the State any
worse reputation than any of her sis
tiers. 1t frequently happens, too,
that some outrage committed on the
border of an adjoining State is
snatched up by the West Virginia
reporters, and a message detailing
the occurrence, with lots of fiery col
or daubed on to fill up, sent out dated
from some point within this State,
and the impression created on the
mind of the careless reader that it is
another West Virginia horror.
We protest against these scandals
being sent abroad. We protest
against the Crawfords and the Tay-
Tors injuring the character of the
State and damning her prosperity.
If these same -mongers would
devote their time to letting the world
know the good points of the State,
and detailing the number and char
acter of new enterprises set afoot,
they would not only improve the NOR
al tone of the leading journals, but
would receive the blessings of the
people whose prosperity they now SO
much injure.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
Two Victims to Drink.

A peculiarly sad suicide occurred
in st. Louis the other morning, the
victim being James German, the
sixteen year-old son of Mrs. Mary
German, a widow, whose family con-
sisted of the son and two grown
daughters. The cause of death was
a dose of Paris green, and the sui
eide is due to drink. For year
past the boy had been addicted to
drinking, and when under the in
fuence of liquor developed suicidal
mania. When sober he was q
model of industry and good man
ners.
Annie McMasters, the sister of a
famous lawyer in Montreal, and a
representative of one of the oldest
and best families in the Dominion,
has just been sent to the Martha
Washington Home in Chicago, her
incurable appetite for drink having
dragged her down to the gutter.
She has been in the Bridewell, the
House of the Good Shepherd and
the st. Joseph's Asylum, but as
soon as she gets out her old habit
returns with undiminished force.
There were many traces of beauty
in her swollen, disfgured face as she
stood before Judge Kersten. Her
people in Montreal have again been
communicated with, but for OBVIOUS
reasons their names are withheld.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
"IN THE SOUP"
A Couple Of Guesses at the Origin Of the
Famous Phrase.

A correspondent writing from
Ophir, Col, gives his view Of the or
igin of the celebrated phrase. He
says in former days when mines were
far away from the base of supplies,
and when freights had to be packed
or taken in wagon trains distance
of two or three hundred miles, pro-
visions were very dear, and also very
scarce at times. lrhe waste scraps
or remnants after every meal were
carefully gathered and put in the
soup. Corn, rice, meat, tomatoes,
potatoes, in fact, all kinds of miscel-
laneous food was picked up by the
walters and put in the soup. The
cooks invariable answer, when asked
what was to be done with anything,
was always the same, namely, "Put
it in the soup"
1t seems that the phrase has also
French origin. The French pa
pers are in the habit of taking back
from the retail dealers all papers
that are unsold These unsold pa
pers are termed "bouilon." Every
day an emmissary Of the papers goes
around to the kiosks, (newstands
and gathers in the "bouillon." OF
course, an old newspaper is the most
useless thing in the world. Natur-
ally when paper is not sold it is in
the "buillon" or sin the soup"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
The Request Of the Girls.

A curious petition was that which
was addressed in 1873 to the Governor
of South Carolina by sixteen maid
ems of Charleston. 1t ran thus:
1.-THE humble petition ofall the maids
whose names are underwritten.-
Whereas we, the humble petition
ers, are at present in very melan-
choly disposition of mind, consider
ering how all the bachelors are
blindly captivated by widows, and
we are thereby neglected; in conse-
quence of this, our request is that
your Excellency will for the future
order that no widow presume to
marry any young man till the maids
are provided for;or else to pay each of
them fine for satisfaction for inva-
ding our liberties; and likewise a
fine to be levied ON all such bache-
Tors as shall be married to widows.
The great disadvantage it is to us
maids is that the widows, by their
forward carriage, do snap up the
young men, and have the vanity to
think their merit beyond ours, which
is great imposition to US, who
ought to have the preference. This
is humbly recommended to your Ex-
cellency's consideration, and hope
you will permit no further insults.
And we poor maids, in duty bound,
will ever pray"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
Randall News Notes.

RANDALL, June 21.-The school
taught by Rosa Riggs at Usage clos
ed with literary performance on
Saturday evening, June 15 Mrs.
Riggs had "a pupils, which was a
very large school for summer
school in the country and the attend
ancc was good up to the close, which
certainly is good indication that
the teacher is well appreciated in
the community. The Cassville or
chestra was engaged to play for the
closing performances. but they fail
ed to put in an appearance and ID.
Wiedman had to furnish the music
on his violin.
The performance was one Of the
best ever heard, and it was an clio.
cutiqnary treat to those Who could
appreciate such performance
SINE of the young ladies possess
Lne Evolutionary talent and had they
the opportunity Of taking course
in this branch would make very fine
performers. ] would like to men
ton some of the pieces that were
considered the best and also mention
the names of those that showed de-
cided talent, but mnst refrain fer
fear OF IA tempest in tealot.
There will be Children's Day ex,
ercises at the church known MS the
Battle Ground church on the first
Sabbath in July. A noted speaker
from Morgantown is expected To nd.
dress the school, and it is expected
that a number OF those young ladies'
who took part in Mrs. Riggs PER
Torrance will have rccitatiotis for
Children's Day. Prof. Martin is SUI
pcrintendent OF the school and will
have charge of the singing. and
need not say that all who come may
expect to hear some good music
The Board of Education Of Cass
district has bought charts for iis
schools. understand they paid
S400 for them, and opine tia, this
will cause rs much kicking i'inip tho
tax payers as the new court house
will.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
Disarming the Unseen Foe.

This was sometime paradox,
as Hamlet says. Since, however.
the peopie of America and other
lands have been enabled to pit Hos
letters Stomach Bitters against that
unseen foe, malaria, it is no longer
a paradox, but an easy possibility.
Wherever malaria evolves its misty
venom to poison the air, and decay
ing unwholesome vegetation impreg-
mates the water there, in the very
stronghold of miasma, is the auxili-
airy potent to disarm the foe and as
sure efficient protection. Fever and
ague, bilious remittent, dumb ague
and ague cake, no matter how tena-
ciously they have fastened their
clutch on the system, are first forced
to relax their grasp and eventually
to abandon it altogether But it is
its preventive force that should chief
ly recommend the Bitters to persons
dwelling in malaria cursed localities,
for it is a certain buckler OF defence
against which the enemy is power
less. Cures, likewise, dyspepsia,
rheumatism, kidney and bilious all.
mcnts.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
POSTAL CLERKS KILLED.
Fatal Accident ON the Pan Handle,
Near SteHbenYille-Three Cars
Jump the Track.

PITTsBURG, Pa, June 19.-The sec
ond section Of mail train No. 7 west
bound, on the Panhandle railroad
was wrecked this afternoon while
passing New Cumberland junction,
two miles east of Steubenville. Two
persons we're killed outright, and
eight injured, four of them seriously
The names of the killed are:
J. II. Payne, Postal Clerk.
f. X. Reinhart, Postal Clerk.
Those seriously injured are:
Conductor Burris.
Brakeman Mcfarland.
Postal Clerk W. S. Bolton.
Postal Clerk j. +. Mathews.
Messrs. T. d. Armstrong, E. E.
Benner, G. j. Minor, and Frank
Shook were also hurt, but how badly,
is not known. The accident was
caused by the third car from the en-
CINE leaving the track. 1t was fol
lowed by two more, all going over an
embankment. The train consisted
of the engine, express car and four
postal cars, and we're running at the
rate Of forty five miles an hour Be-
sides the regular train crew, there
were fifteen postal clerks on the train.
In consequence Of the wires being
down the cause of the accident has
not been learned.
A telephone message just received
says that Burris and Bolton are SO
badly injured that they cannot re-
cover Surgeons were sent prompt
ly from Steubenville and the injured
removed to that city, where they
were given the best of attention.
The accident happened about half
past two o'clock this afternoon.
LATE DISPATCH.
Payne lived at indianapolis, Rein
hart at Emingham, ILL.,, Bolton at
Newark, Ohio, Mcfarland at Mans.
field, Pa, and Burris at Columbus
Ohio. Mcfarland has since died
and Bolton and Burris are in a seri-
ous condition
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29

A nameless Paul Revere lies solnu-
where among the unknown deal.
Mounted GA big bay horse.h he came
dashing down the pike, which passes
through the Conemaupli TO johns
town, shouting his portentious warn
ing:
Run for your lives to the hills!
Run to the hills
The people crowded out Of their
houses along the thickly settled
streets, awe-struck and wondering.
Nobody knew the man, and some
thought he was maniac, and
laughed.
On at deadly pace he rode, and
shrilly rang out his awful cry. In a
few moments, hswevcr, there came q
flow of ruin down the broad streets,
down the narrow alleys, forty feet
high, some say, thirty, according to
others, was this sea, and il Travelled
with terrible swiftness.
On and on raced the rider, and on
rushed the waves. Dozens of people
took heed of the warning, and ran
up to the hills Poor, faithful rider,
it was an unequal contest. just as
he turned across the railroad bridge
the mighty wave fell upon him, and
rider, horse and bridge went out into
chaos together, and the hero per-
ished.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
The Samoan Treaty.

The Samoan agreement has been
signed, the American delegates hay
ing Withdrawn their principle obiec-
tions. The treaty guarantees an
autonomous administration to the
Samoan Islands under the joint con
troll of Germany and America, with
England acting as deliberator in the
event ofinterferences arising between
the joint controlling powers. The
Samoans are to elect their own King
and Vicel oy and are to be represented
in the Senate, composed of the prin-
ciple chiefs and Chamber Of Repre-
sentatatives to be elected by all the
people. The Government so consti-
tuted will have the right of leyying
duties of every kind. The Germans
whose property was destroyed dur
ing the recent conflicts on the Is
land are to be Unidentified by the
Samoan Government A special
court is to be appointed to take con
nizance of the land question on the
Islands.
The American adhesion to the
agreement signed is made condition
ally, and will only become absolute
upon the ratification of the treaty by
the United States Senate. The
plenipotentiaries have therefore
agreed that until December next the
status quo shall be maintained.
William Walter Phelps sailed for
New York from Bremen Saturday
bringing the treaty with him.
The Samoan agreement provides
that King Malietoa is to be reinsta-
ted. On all questions affecting the
life or property of subject of for
eign government, there will be an
appeal to a resident judge who will
be either an American, German OF
a British subject The importation
Of liquor and firearms is to be re-
stricted.
The London Times commenting on
the Samoan agreement says: "Per-
haps it is as well that Bismarck has
been made to realize that where
American interests are concerned the
American government is very little
affected by many of these considera-
tions which restrain the action of
the European governments with
whom he is more accustomed to
deal, and with whom he can for this
very reason deal more easily" The
Times intimatcs that Germany will
think twice before she proyokes a
collision with America.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
An Administration Full Of Scandals.


In less than four months Harri-
sons administration has created
more scandals that are neither denied
nor palliated by any one than were
ascribed to the Federal Government
during the four years of Cleveland's
term by the most bitter opponents
of the Democratic President.
Nepotism, gross favoritism to I'M
scrupulous partisans, universal in
justice to political opponents, the alb
solute subordination Of public inter
ests to the advantage Of cliques, the
degradation of the judiciary to fac
tional uses, and unblushing disre-
gard of constitutional and legal re-
straints upon the disposal Of public
Offices, are among the most notable
of those delinquencies that make up
a record in which redeeming feat
ure is sought in vain.
The most regretable characters
tic in the shameful spectacle pre-
sented to the country is that scan
dals prevail, not in spite of, but be-
cause of the conduct of the Presi-
dent. 1t is by following the example
he has set that the conduct of de-
partments and bureaus has fallen to
a lower standard than was ever be-
fore reached in American history.
In the use of public authority and
money to maintain relatives, in eva
ding the laws by premature and for
hidden partisan appointments,i in first
Gripping by criminal neglect and
then prostituting the Civil Service
machinery so that it might be made
to promote the very evils it was de
signed to extirpate, General Harri-
son instigated the prevalent miscon-
QuCJ VI cucTdl ahdlTS tudI al OFcI-
whelming public sentiment already
sweepingly condemns.
1t is no pleasure to Democrats to
point out these discreditable features
of government in which every true
American of whatever party aspires
to take patriotic pride. 1t is simply
duty to expose the truth in order
that an indignant public opinion
may compel, through the fear of in
culpated officials, regard for the
obligations of their positions Of
which they are naturally devoid. Let
every well-meaning citizen do his
part to prevent any increase Of the
scandals with which the Harrison
Administration is already loaded
down.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-06-29
TO REBUILD YOUNGSTOWN.
Practical Measures by the Pittsburg
Relief ommittee-Portable Houses
to he Furnished.

PITTsBURG, June 2l.-The relief
committee have decided to erect one
hundred portable houses to shelter
the survivors, as soon as the build
ings can be received from Chicago.
The houses will be - by 26 feet and
will be large enough to accommodate
six persons. Carpenters will be sent
from this city next Sunday to put
the houses together. Each house
will be furnished with stove and
utensils, six chairs, two beds and
bed clothes, two spring mattresses,
one pairs of sheets for each bed,
woollen blankets, a bureau, table
and tableware to set in it. In fact,
family will be given everything
necessary to go to housekeeping and
told to go ahead now and paddle
their own canoe.
The object is to start the town on
toward a rise from the ruins, but as
the town is yet in chaos it is impos-
sible to make permanent arrange
ments. The grade of the town may
be raised. If a man cannot find his
own ground now, he can set his
house up anywhere and move it onto
his land when it is found under de-
bris. If the houses give satisfaction
the committee will not stop at buy.
ing 1000 Of them and building up
the town.
In direct conjunction with this
move at building up the ruined city
General Hastings has purchased an
immense quantity of lumber and
will next Tuesday commence build
ing shanty stores for those that will
set up in business again. Over 100
have already made application. Ar
rangements are now being made for
the erection of a lock up, which Bur-
CESS Howell says will be filled, as
soon as completed, with people who
have been filling their houses with
valuables from the wreckage. Many
citizens who have hitherto been con
sidered honest, are known to have
entered wrecked homes and carried
off valuables by the armful.