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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
Scared the Operator.

Two masked men walked into the
telegraph office. which is connected
with the ticket office, at Oakland
Sunday morning at 3 o'clock and
covering Ernest Cline, the night op-
orator, with couple Of big revolvers,
ordered him to throw up his hands
Ernest, who had been leaning for
ward in doze on the table, was q
little dazed on being awakened SC
abruptly and a little slow about
getting his hands up, whereupon one
of the robbers, for such they un,
doubtedly were, sent bullet within
four inches of his head. The report
of the pistol and .Ernest's screams
awakened Engineer Cowan in anoth-
or room and hearing him coming
the ruffians fed. Ernest, who is a
young son of Capt. A. T. Cline OF
Grafton, Superintendent of tele
graphy, was Frustrated from the
shock and for time was exceeding
ly III. 1t is generally supposed that
the men knew Saturday was pay day
and believed that they intended to
get rid of the operator and rob the
Chicago express, which was due a,
B o'clock A. NJ. only few minutes af-
ter the shooting occurred.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
NUMBER 50.


West Virginia, by her natural re.
sources and unrivaled position be-
tween the Atlantic seahoard and the
great central west, compels the To-
cation of the new trunk railway lines
The Baltimore Il Ohio and Chesa-
peake 4 Ohio roads have been nc
small factors in the little Montain
States development. The third
trunk road to pass through our state
is the great Norfork n Western,
which is now completed from Nor
fork, Va. to Columbus, Ohio, dis
lance of 707 miles. That portion of
the n. 4 W. in West Virginia ex-
tends from the Pocahontas coal
fields to Kenova, about two hundred
miles. 1t opens up to commerce a
hitherto almost unknown region
1t means that the undeveloped int
rior counties of Logan, Wyoming,
Mercer and Mcdowell win. in a
short time, be the scenes of indus
try's busy hum. Coal, Iron and
timber are the elements of the pros
perity that will come with the ad-
vent of the steel rail.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
Miller VS. M'KinIey.

We have not seen Governor Nc
Kinley's speech in Washington, but
it is to be presumed he maintained
his most conspicuous absurdity that
the foreigner pays the custom tax.
The governor believes, at least he
asserts, the consumer does not pay
the tax, but gets in a bog at once
when he claims the reduction in the
sugar tax has saved the American
people $60,000,00O, a year. 1t I'M
doubtedly has, as under the profiga
cy of a Republican congress and adj
ministration the revenues do not
reach the Republican expenditures
the people have to make up the $780,,
100000, repealed sugar tax by
some other form of taxation, or
cheat the sinking fund, as Secretary
FOSTER is doing.
But we have an authority on who
pays the tax that seems to knock
MCKINLEY end ways. This is no
less a person than Attorney General
MILLER, the law officer of the Harri-
son administration Not long ago
the attorney general addressed to
| the secretary of the treasury an
elaborate opinion relating to the
liquidation of customs duties and
1.-The return to importers of the duties
levied in excess of the legal rate
There are many such cases growing
out of suits in which the courts de-
eide the duties collected are exces-
sive. Speaking of the controversies
thus arising the law officer of the
administration declared:
The contest between these impor-
tiers and the government is very
unequal one. Before it begins they
have received their goods and sold
them with the duties as liqnidated
included in the price, and they are,
of course, content to wait indefinite
ly for a possible refund of duties in
which they really no longer have an
interest, because the consumer has
already paid for them. This hoped
for refund, if realized, is as expert
ence indicates, sometimes literally
divided with third parties, who may
be said with truth to he more inter
ested in the contest with the govern
ment than the importers themselves
who must often be at loss to un-
derstand on what ground they are
entitled to recovery from the gov
eminent. But the real party in in
terest in such cases, the taxed con
sume,s, the remedy of the law un-
fortunately does not, and perhaps
could not practically reach.
We would like to hear Governor
MCKINLEY respond to this sensible
exposition by the attorney general.
1t afiirms that the S220,000, 900,
customs duties annually collected
are taxes paid by the American
consumer.-Ptttsbarg Post.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

The constant demand of the travel
ing public TO the far West for com
Portable and at the same time an eco
nomical mode of travelling has led to
the establishment Of what is known
as Pullman Colonist Sleepers.
These cars are built on the same
general plan as the regular first-class
Pullman Sleeper, the only difference
is that they are not upholstered.
They are furnished complete with
good comfortable hair mattresses,
warm blankets, snow white linen,
curtains, plenty of towels, combs,
brushes, etc, which secure to the oc-
cupant of a berth as much privacy as
is to had in first-cl sleepers.
There are also separate toilet rooms
for ladies and gentlemen, and smoking
is absolutely prohibited. For full in
formation send for Pullman Colonist
Sleeper Leafet. L. l.. Lomax, Gen
eral Passenger and Ticket Agent,
Omaha, Neb.
| EXPECT to be back.
DIR. w. r. STEWART.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
Sewerage Set Back.

The sewerage bond question was
defeated by vote of 70 in favor te
50 against.
The reason it was defeated was
not for lack of voters but fol
lack of votes. 1t was a case of apa-
thy and stay at home on the part OF
the friends of the measure, and ac-
tiyity, effort and voting the-last- man
by the opposition.
Nobody doubts, who knows the
public sentiment, that a majority OF
the voters of this town are in favor
Of sewerage Nobody doubts that
one hundred votes could have been
polled in favor of it on Wednesday
and only SO were needed to carry it,
There are one hundred voters
every day on the streets willing and
Internationally declaring themselves
in favor oft, yet when the polls are
opened they forget about it, or allow
a trife to keep them from the polls,
while the opponents are hustling for
every vote they can command. BY
hard work they polled eighty votes
last Wednesday, which is about
their full strength. Yet they have
successfully defeated the proposition
at two successive elections.
The Town Council has done its
duty in submitting this matter to a
vote and asking the people to provide
the means. If they don't have inter
est enough in it to go to the polls
they don't deserve to have it.
The opposition worked the rack
ct" of the enormous cost" last week
and maintained that the amount
asked for by Council would not pay
the bill, another loan would have to
be asked to complete it. We are
sorry that the Council did not spike
this gun by an official statement of
the engineers plan and estimate.
For it is fact that an engineer
has estimated the cost at $4,000.
But the public was not informed and
hence there was a chance to bubble.
While there is no disputing the
fact that sewerage was fairly knock
ed out at the polls last week, yet it
is also fact beyond dispute that a
majority of the people are in favor
of it, and are willing to pay for it.
1t has become a necessity to such an
extent that individuals are putting
down sewers at great expense to them
selves, which ought in faiines to be
put down by the town. Either this
must be continued by individuals or
the town must do it. The more it is
done by individuals the less number
of voters there will be for general
system. We ought to have gener-
al system, and the Town Council
ought to go ahead and put it down
loan or no loan. If they are not
permitted to borrow the money let
| them make a levy
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
A GREAT OIL STATE
Is What Prof. l. C.. White Believes
West Virginia Will Become.
Wheeling New


Prof /. C. White, formerly of the
State University, is registered at the
Windsor to day, being in attendance
on the U. S. Court. Prof. White is
very enthusiastic over the. prospects
of West Virginia as an oil producing
State, and is particularly well pleas
ed over the success of the well which
he had put down in the Gordon sand,
near Warrington. In response to a
query by News reporter this morn
ing, he said:
1.-THE well proves that West Va.
has all the productive oil sand. All
the wells heretofore in the Manning
ton and Dolls Run fields have been
in what is known as the big Injun"
sand. This sand is not found at all
in Pennsylvania. We determined to
drill to the Gordon sand some time
ago. The well which we got is now
yielding some rs barrels per hour,
and opens up enormous possibilities
for W. Va. as an oil state. In the
Warrington field the Gordon sand is
only about 2,700 feet deep, very little
if any deeper than it is in the Nc
Donald field, and we can put down
wells cheaper in West Va. than
they can in Pennsylvania, because
we have no water in thew. Va. wells
below 600 or 700 feet and so much
casing is not necessary
as this the only Gordon sand well
in the State?"
"Well, it is the only one that is
satisfactorily productive, if not in
fact the only one. l haven't how
ever the slightest doubt that the
Gordon sand wells, that are certain
to be drilled in the near future will
be enormously productive. In twelve
months, believe West Virginia will
be the banner oil producing state of
the Union"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
The Cost Of Harrison.

The ordinary expenditures OF the
first three years of the Cleveland ad
ministration were 1927, 100000. Fol
the first three years Of the Harrison
administration the ordinary expen
ditures have been 1901, 100000.
The three years of Harrison cost
the people $274,OO0,O00 more than
the three years of Cleveland.
The average annual cost of the
Cleveland administration was 5000,
100000; of the Harrison administra-
tion over $500, 100000
These figures are for ordinary ex
penditures exclusive of expenditures
for sinking fund, for interest, fol
premiums and bond purchases and
for the postal service.
Harrison cost the country as
much for ordinary expenses in three
years as Cleveland did in four.
The increase under Harrison il
entirely due to the Republican policy
of taxing earners for the benefit OF
nonearners-a policy well illustrated
in the case of the exhorbitant direct
bounty of over s10,O0O,000 a yeal
paid to few corporations in Louisi
ana and few sap-boilers in Yer
mont. The Republican argument
for giving these people public mon
ey is that they could not earn it;
that they we're the crippled veterans
of the tariff system, and that having
existed under it until they were ut
terly incapable of independent self
support they thereby became entitled
to pension direct from the Treas
ury. Every year, therefore, between
$10,000,000 and $15,000,000 is taken
from the pockets of people who have
earned it and paid to these incapa-
bles on the ground Of their incapaci-
ty.
There is no metaphor about this.
The money is taken directly out of
the treasury and put directly into
their hands to do as they please with,
and they are not required to render
the least service to the Government
in exchange for it.
The same policy of bleeding the
Garner for the nonearner is carried
out in every direction-through di-
rect subsidies to steamships corpor-
ations and in general policy of
extravaganza intended to prevent
the lessening of indirect subsidies
accruing under the high tariff taxes.
The Republican party cannot be eco
nomica in administration. Its
theories involve the extravagant
expenditure of other peoples earn
ings, and it grows more extravagant
asst grows more radical in the en-
forcement of it's theories. Republic.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

The Kingwood argus prints the
entire expose of Elkins Army "rec-
ord" for the benefit Of its large
contingent of Republican voters in
Preston. The campaign is being
vigorously urged by the Democrats
over there. They are tired of hay
ing the highest tax rate in the
state. And that Elkins Army rack.
ct is surprise to the g. o. p. as
big as they have come in contact
with for many long day.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

1t had to come. The announce
ment is now officially made that the
international monetary conference
will not be held until after the cleo.
ton. The cholera is the excuse, but il
there had been no cholera some Other
reason for postponement would have
been found.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

Protection! Protection Always
protection. Has it come to this that
100000 of American freemen are
so weak and so inferior to the rest
of mankind that they can be scared
into the idea that they need protec-
ton from anybody Ifso, we are the
poorest lot of people on earth
Nc Eld0wneu.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

Chairman Carter, of the republi-
can national committee, is said to
have become so much of dude in
his dress that his old Montana asso-
ciates would not be able to recognize
him. That will make little differ.
ence to him, however, because after
election he will be ashamed to show
his face in Montana again.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

American craftsmanship will be
taxed to the utmost in providing fol-
the reception and comfort Of the
party of cannihals expected at the
Worlds Fair. The cannibals de
mand human meat and they positive
ly refuse to eat Chinese.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
What Stronger Proof

Is needed OF the merit of Hood
Sarsaparilla than the hundreds Of
letters continually coming in telling
of marvellous cures it has effected
after all other remedies had failed?
Truly, Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses
peculiar curative power unknown to
other medicines.
Hoods Pills cure Constipation by
restoring the peristaltic action of the
alimentary canal. They are the
heat family cathartic,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

The stingiest man has no objec-
ton to giving his check to be put
under the cornerstone of a church
provided the check is made payable
to his own order.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

1t is fashionable these days to
abuse Tammany officials, but all the
same they seem to have maintained
pretty effective quarantine at New
York against the cholera.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

The democratic rainbow looks as
though it was disposed to cover a
goodly portion of the country on the
9Th of next November
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

Republican editors will be the first
to abuse Commissioner Peck, when
his report is no longer serviceable to
them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

When a cold or cough has been
neglected for long time and tuber-
cles, have been formed in the lungs
the cure of the sufferer is hopeless
How important it is that these first
stages should be watched and the
first symptoms detected and cured
with DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

Mr.. Blaine is going to Washing
ton soon, so that he may be there to
enjoy the coming defeat of Mr.. Har-
risop.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
VOLUME XVI.

Senator Hill isn't receiving so
many compliments from republican
sources now The reason is obvious.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

A new and cheaper process to make
whiskey has been discovered. Good
Lord! What is this wicked world
coming to?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
Can't Sleep Nights

Is the complaint of thousands suffering
from Asthma, Consumption, Coughs,
etc. Did you ever try DR.. Acker's En-
glish Remedy? II is the best prepara-
ton known for all Lung Troubles. Sold
on positive guarantee at 25c. and soc.
j. M. Reed & Co.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

thankful to them for building the
railroads which they could not build
for themselves, and loaning them the
money they need?
A. Yes-If it is a fair claim on q
mans gratitude to first take his earn
ings from him, and then loan it back
to him at s per cent.
q. But il the farmers Of Illinois
and Kansas borrow money on their
farms, it must be because they need
il.
A. That is true; and they will
need to borrow more and more, every
year, as long as they are bled the
amount of millions for the enrich
ment of the industrial states. Farm
mortgages are increasing at far
greater rate than farm property in
these states
@. Do you mean TO intimate that
the Eastern money invested in Wes~
tern railroads and farm mortgages
was first extortcd from the people or
the West through the protective tar
iff?
A. A very large part of it--thrce-
fourths at least; and II this assertion
startles you. here is another that
will surprise you still more: IL the
people of Illinois had today all the
money taken from them in the last
twenty seven years by the protective
tariff, they would be able to pay of
the last of their farm mortgages and
buy three. fourths of the railroads in
the state And the same can I've said
Of the other Western states.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
When the hair shows signs of fai

W HtH 1It H8II hHUW5 SISHe VI Tut
ing, begin at once to use Ayers Hair
Vigor. This preparation strength
ems the scalp, promotes the growth
of new hair, restores the natural
color to gray and faded hair, and
renders it soft, plant, and glossy.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

Nothing does the work so WE'LL
Mr.. p. Byrd Of New Grand Chain,
Ills, writes4 Being exposed TO all
sorts of weather am more or less
liable to have pains of some kind. !
have tried a number of different So
called remedies, but nothing does the
work so well as Salvation Oil. II is
the best linimeut | have ever used"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

"He who dallies in bastard and
he who doubts is damned" applies
with particular force to the Force
Bill which Harrison and the Repub-
lican party generally, Except Blaine
who condemns it, are trying to have
made a law. The quintessence of
legislative iniquity is contained in
that bill, which would have negroes
as u. S. Marshals in the south to say
whether or not white citizens
should be voters.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

mot all is gold that glitters" is a
true saying; it is equally true that
not all is sarsaparilla that is so la
belled. If you would be sure of the
genuine article, ask for Ayers Sar-
saparilla, and take no other Health
is too precious to be trifed with.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

Under a quarter of "a century OF
Democratic dominance in State af-
fairs West Virginia has advanced SO
rapidly in industrial development
that she has excited the admiration
of the commercial world, and drawn
within her borders millions upon
millions of money for legitimate in
vestment and profit. And now these
blatant hypocrites, representing a
party whose only object is to get a
chance at the spoils of office, go rant
ing up and down the State, charging
Encouragement and extravaganza
against the party in power Are the
people to be hoodwinked by such de-
ception? Not muchly. They are
too patriotic, and the moral law OF
equity and justice is too deeply i'm
planted in the hearts of all true
West Virginians to permit any such
deception to succeed. - Huntington
4dvsrtfssri
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
- ~-e-
H0w's This!

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Cattarrh that cam
not be cured by taking Halls Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known
f. J. Cheney for the last Is years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligation made
by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and N ucous surfaces of the system.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
In the Dent Pickens breach OF
promise suit, at Philippi, decided
against Pickens at the February term
of court last, in which a verdict OF
$4,000 was rendered against him,
the Supreme Court of Appeals has
refused to grant writ of error and
so the verdict stands as rendered.
A few miles from Beverley farm
er named Daniels noticed fire in a
remote corner of his yard, and he
rushed off to extinguish it. While
gone thief went into his house,
broke open his trunk and stole all
his money. 1t was a neatly planned
trick
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

tHArHAwAY, Soule 4 Harrington's
shoes excel all other makes for style
and quality at Hirscltmsn'sl
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15
w G. MCGREw, Agent,
Morgantown, w. Va.
Sixty Million Bushels of Wheat-A
Bushei for Every Inhabitant Of the
United States. The Kansas Crop of

Never in the history of Kansas has
that state had such bountiful crops as
this year. The farmers cannot get
enough hands to harvest the great
crop, and the Santa Fee Railroad has
made special rates from Kansas City
and other Missouri River towns, to
induce harvest hands to go into the
state. The wheat crop of the state
win be from sixty tc sixty-fiye million
bushels, and the quality is high.
The grass crop is made, ana is a very
large one: the early potatoes, rye,
barley and oats crops are made. and
are all large. The weather has been
propitious for corn, and it is the
cleanest, best looking corn to be found
in the country today. Cheap rates
will be made from Chicago, st.
Louis and all points on the Santa Fe
east Of the Missouri River, to all Kan
sas points, on August 80 and Septem-
Der 81, and these excursions will give
a chance for eastern farmers to see
what the great Sunfower State can do.
A good map Of Kansas will be mailed
free upon application to Jno. J. Byrne,
1913 Monadnock Block, Chicago, H.,
together with reliable statistics and
information about Kansas land.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

Drs. Blair and Edmiston, Camden
and Hoffman Sommers, Roberl Shut
Ellsworth and j. A. Greer have es-
tablished Gold Cure Institute at
Martinsburg The Institute starts
out with fattering prospects.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

WALLACE HOUSE. Main ST., Jas. c. Wallace
w owner and proprietor; first class in everything
......r..l. :. lcI11.nu acnslrs
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

VT /. PROTzMAN & SON, sewing mac hines. ac-
w cessores and organs; repairing speciality
cLoTHIERs
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-15

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