The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-06-27
STATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest Clipped from Our
West Virginia Exchanges.

Items Of Interest Clipped from Our
West Virginia Exchanges.
The West Virginia Conference of
the NJ. E. Church meets in Wheeling
on the 30th of September. Bishop
Warren, of Denver, Col, will preside.
A man named Davis, engaged in
building the telephone line between
Grafton and Clarksburg, was mashed
to pieces last week near Pennington
by falling pole.
Wolves have killed large number
of sheep in Webster county, and the
County Court offers $50 each for wolf
scalps, to which citizens commit
tee will add $40 more.
Mrs. Sarah Riggs, of Richie coun-
ty, is 102 years old. Her husband
was a soldier in the war of 1912. The
old lady is in good health and is the
mother of Is children.
An electric railway is to be built
to connect Charleston and Kanawha
City, the new city laid out about a
mile and half from Charleston on
the opposite side of the river.
Nicholas county had a large guam
tity of valuable timber destroyed by
the heavy storm of last week 1t cut
swath through the forests 800 yards
wide and Is miles long, leveling the
monarchs of the forest to the ground,
and destroying much valuable tim
Der.
The work of widening the Grafton
and Greenbrier Railroad to stand
ard gauge will be commenced and
completed at once. 1t is said that
the Baltimore and Ohio people have
contracted with Senator Davis to
give him Pittsburg connection via
Morgantown by the LIST of April,
1892.
Gustavus Merse and several other
young men of Parkersburg were
bathing in the Ohio river Wednesday
and Merse who was a good swimmer
amused himself by calling to the
others for help number OF times
The last time he called his compan-
ions believing he was again fooling
them did not go to his aid and he
drowned under their very eyes.
The enrolment at the Reform
School is now A, with other com
mitments, which will increase it to
AT. There was meeting of the ex
ecutive committee on last Tuesday,
at which time the Davidson property,
on the Reform School premises, was
ordered to be repaired for a work
shop for the boys. Other improve
ments and repairs about the build
ings are contemplated which will add
to the convenience of the buildings.
AS I. L. Hurley was walking over
ploughed field in Fayette county,
near the border of Greenbrier and
Summers, he found sixteen dollars
in silver which had been ploughed
up Some of the coins were very old.
One Spanish dollar coined in 1912.
There were two half dollars coined
in 1908, the other in 1877. There
were Others of which all the dollar
pieces were Spanish and the halves
and quarters in United States cur
rency, none of which dated later
than 1922.
Solomon Efaw, who has been on
trial at Buckhannon for the murder
of young Sabisca Bennett May 7,
was convicted of murder in the first
degree Wednesday and sentenced to
the Penitentiary for life. Efaw awak-
ened young Bennett by attempting
to burn him to death by throwing
lighted rags, saturated with oil on
his bed and when Bennett got up to
put out the fire Efaw shot him dead
through the open window. Evidence
proved this to have been one of the
most brutal murders ever committed
in the State.
A dispatch from Putnam county
says: Doubtless it was a special
providence that caused Rev. j. w.
Stones knife to strike rib when he
stabbed John Woody the other day
in Putnam county. and prevented
murder. Rev. Stone had been con-
Quoting a revival in Mason county,
and was accused by Woody of being
too intimate with a sister of the
fold. Stone called Woody liar,
whereupon the divine received left
handler in the lip, and instead of
turning the other cheek to him who
smote him, Rev. Stone drew his
knife and plunged it into Woody's
side. The blade struck a rib and
was prevented from entering the
heart. Though Woody was wound
ed, he proceeded to give Stone such
a threshing that but for interference
be might have killed him. Woody's
wound is serious, and he is said to
have lost twenty-five pounds in few
days since the fight.