The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-28

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Several Mormon elders are hover
ing about Petersburg, Grant county.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has completed it's line
from Grafton to Beverly.
Mrs. Swami, a merchant of Hun
tington, has made an assignment for
the benefit of her creditors.
The wheat crop of West Virginia
is not quite so good as was first re-
ported; however, it is more than an
average yield.
A negro man was knocked off a
freight train on the Chesapeake and
Ohio, at Hurricane Station, Monday
night, and instantly killed. His
name is not known.
There is d steady and noticeable
increase in the passenger, as well
as in the freight traffic, on the Ohio
River Road 1t is said their pres
ent capacity is crowded to the ut
most moving north bound freight.
There was calf at the Middle
bourne fair the body resembling the
body of dog, the legs resembling
the legs of a calf and its head re-
sembling the head Of a calf in part
and resembling the head of a man
In part.
Three prominent men of Monroe
county have been compelled to make
assignments for the benefit of their
creditors. Their names are Mr.. j.
C. Young, of Pickaway, Mr.. A. X.
Parker, of Hillsdale, and Jas. Knots,
near Union.
A sad accident is reported from
Good Hope, Harrison county. A
man by the name of Jerry Chevront
was instantly killed by falling off a
heavily loaded wagon. Mr.. Chew
ront was pulling the rubber and
fell under the wheel, which mashed
his head fiat.
The Irontown furnace In Taylor
county was sold few days ago for
5000, and moved to the State of
Ohio. When this furnace was built
it cost about one hundred thousand
dollars and was one of the best in
this section of the country. 1t
never did much good at Irontown.
A few days ago Dave King, a resi-
dent of Clay county, was attacked
and badly bitten by one Of his dogs
which had the hydrophobia. We
learn that the animal attacked a
number of dogs, cattle and hogs in
the community. There is a great
deal of uneasiness existing among
the people who live in the neighbor-
hood of Mr.. King
A prominent oil man is of the
opinion that the Washington Pa,
oil belt extends clear across the
State of West Virginia. Accom-
panying the oil belt, he believes, is
the greatest natural gas territory in
the world. The supply, he says, is
practically inexhaustible, and rich
fortunes are awaiting capitalists who
may undertake the development OF
the oil field.
Some days since, the seven year
old son of John A. Hanger, living
about a mile from Terra Alta, on
the Brandonville pike, had the mis-
fortune to nearly sever his great toe
from his foot with an ak. DR.. Shat
err was called and dressed the wound
hoping to save the toe, but on Mon
day it was found necessary to am
putate the toe at the second joint
The little fellow is now getting along
nicely.
On Thursday last, as S. F. Chalk
ley, an engineer of the Chesapeake
and Ohio road was starting out to
wards Clifton Forge, the men en-
gagged in blasting the rock for the
track in Upper Hinton, failing tc
flag him in time, his engine arrived
opposite the blast as it exploded
He was blown from his engine and
severely bruised but not very seri
ously injured. 1t was a fortunate
escape.
The greatest difficulty new post
masters under the present admins
tration have to surmount is to &C
quaint themselves with the geogra
ply of the country, and know whaf
counties certain offices are in One
of the brightest postmasters we have
in this section of the state called OF
a by-stander to know what county
Richie Court House was in. TIL,
answer was, "By Cd it is in Clay
Webster Springs Call
Rev. Willis Palmer, formerly I;
Methodist preacher of this confer
ence and stationed at Harrisvill,
and other points in this part of the
State, has been tried before the Gin
cinnati Conference for trying to cor
rupt girl in his congregation b,
giving her an obscene book to rea(
and talking all sorts of nastiness t.
her He was found guilty and wal
expelled from the conference ant
from the church. His last station
was at Georgetown, Ohio.
| The demands for transportation
upon the West Virginia Contra
Railway, it is stated, are much great
er than can be supplied. The com
pany has about 800 of it's own carr
in service, besides others borrowed
from the Baltimore and Ohio ant
Pennsylvania. Lumber is piled VI
all along the line, and large quani
ties of coal are awaiting shipment
The road will soon be completed
from Leadsville to Elkins. w. Va.
the terminus of the first division.
The suit of W. O. B. Wells agains
the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance
Company, for $500 damages fol-
breach of contract, which had beer
on trial all week before Squire
Butcher, ended last evening at six
O'Clock, the jury returning verdict
for the full amount claimed. Mr.
Wells, the plaintiff, went into bust
ness in this city on the strength O.
a promise by the defendants thai
they would loan him the face of his
insurance policy. He complied witt
the requirements, but the company
failed to live up to their contract
and he was obliged to sacrifice his
$4,000 farm to meet his obligations
The case was clear one.-Parkers
burg Journal.
DR.. T. M. Hood, assistant physi
clan at the Hospital for Insane, al
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