The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-08
STATE NEWS.
Items Of Interest Clipped from Our
West Virginia Exchanges.


pacity of 1900 tons day. 1t is {
fourteenth foot vein, and embraces OF
covers an area Of 260 acres. The en-
tire length Of the main heading is al
present $3.50 feet. 1t requires three
shifts of men TO do the work every
"a hours to keep the mine in running
order. No horses of any consequence
are used, as two 40-horse power en-
gines are used instead of horses
mules, etc.
Since the opening Of the West Vir-
ginia hospital for the insane at Yves
ton, 2,224 patients have been admit
ted up to this date. The larges,
number at any one time in the his
tory of the institution was GIG. The
present number is 907, and the cosl
per capita per week is $2.23t. This
amount includes board, clothing
medical attention, employees wages
and officers salaries. The affairs Of
the hospital are well conducted, tn,
inmates comfortably provided for
and the people of the state should
congratulate themselves that this
mammoth institution is so satisfac-
torily and economically administered
After brief illness, at his resi-.
dence in Center View, johnson coun.
ty, Missouri, died George Washing
ton, formerly resident of jefferson
county, W. w., aged about sixty
years. George Washington was
born at Cedar Lawn, Jefferson
county on the 9th of December, 1880
His father was John Thornton Au-
gustine Washington, a nephew of
General George Washington. His
mother was Elizabeth Conrad Bed
niger, daughter Of Captain Daniel
Bedinger Ia revolutionary soldier,
and a sister of the late Hon. Henry
Bedinger, and of Mrs. Edmund l.
Lee, of Shepherdstown.
Riley Greenleaf, an old citizen OF
Roane county, took his son law,
DR.. G. Casio, to the Salt Sulphur
springs at Webster &. H., and left
the young man in a dying condition.
He returned to his home at Highly,
went to an old house on his farm and
hung himself He adjusted the, rope
to beam and leaped off, falling sever
al feet. He had been dead two hours
when found. DR.. Casio was young
man of promise, was agraduate from
a Louisville medical college and
loved by all who knew him. His
place of business was Highly, Roane
county. He went to the springs to
improve his health, but the water
proved fatal.
The Eihins Nesos says: Our towns
man, j. Z. McCarty, who has for
years been engaged in the manufac-
ture of extract from bark and wood,
has recently invented chemical APP
paratus which will revolutionize the
tanning business. This wonderful
machine will leach the wood or bark
and absolutely extract all the tannin
therefrom. 1t will then dry the spent
"ood or bark, ready for the furnace,
or if wood, ready for the pulp mill.
And after the spent wood is dis
charged from the apparatus this same
machine will reduce the liquor SO OBJ
tanned to heavy syrup by evapora-
ton in vacuum at temperature not
exceeding 1875 degrees F. No more
bark pealing, no more anxiety about
bark becoming scarce, as all kinds OF
oak can be used, and even the roots
and limbs will be utilized. Mr.. Nc.
Carly has a small machine now in
operation in this town, which can be
seen on application to him.
The Jackson Herald reports the
following: zone night last week as
the crowd was leaving the U. B.
church at Cottageville. at the conclu-
sion of Prof. Ruffner's lecture, eggs
began flying through the air, one
striking Rev. Blagg, another despoil-
ing the professor and three hitting
VIM. Warner. Rev. Blagg threw his
coat and put the assailants to fight,
while the professor rctreated into
the church and departed not thence
until 2 o'clock the next morning.
We are told that the trouble came
from disagreement at a church fes
tival few weeks previous and re-
fussl of admission to the lecture, free
of charge, Of the egg throwers, who
maintained that as they were mem
bers of the U. B. church and helped
build the structure, they should have
a voice in its being turned into lee
ture room. Rev. Blagg was here yes
terday for the express purpose of hav-
ing a warrant drawn by lawyer.
The B. q O's IMPROVEMENTS AT
BENwooD.-The extensive improve.
ments of the B. d 0. at Benwood
junction are rapidly nearing compile.
tion. The work of filling in the low
ground for the purpose Of building
new B. & o. shops, depot and q
loop was begun about one year ago
Twenty-Five acres of ground were to
be filled in and already about eigh-
teen of these have been finished and
within three months everything will
be in readiness for the building oil
the shops and improvements. Al
present gang of ninety men are 81
work and are rushing it rapidly
The loop which is about three
fourths of a mile long and is situa-
ted about a mile below the bridge
is completed with the exception OF
the connection with the main track
The loop will save the change of en-
gines on north bound trains coming
from Ohio and vice versa. The new
depot will be located between the
crotch Of the lower end of the mair
track and the loop. The shops will
be located about one mile below thu
bridge and will cover several acres
The whole place when all the i'm
provements are made will be one me-
work Of tracks and gangs of work
men are already at work on thei
construction. A pumping hous'
and water tank have recently beer
completed, and the pumps are-read,
for service. A penstock will shortl,
be put in for the engines. A report
er was informed this morning tina
when these shops were completed, al
the repair work for the divisions en-
tering at that point would be don
at them, and probably considerabl
of the work now done at Graftol
| vould he done at the iunction