The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-06-25

u tIact iOr painting tuc oOubu, McE-
gan and Keck residences.
NoSoSeALrA county gets from the
superintendent Of the general school
fund of the State 6,487.58.
i Our band boys furnished music
for the Fairmont Normal school com
mencement and received many com
pliments.
\ MIKE RIcE with the assistance of
his son. caught pike in cheat river
last Friday that weighed 80 pounds.
And this is not fish story.
The dry goods stores all close now
at Z P. NJ, and each and every one
says the rule will be strictly adhered
to. The scheme is good and long
may it wave.
i On our second page to day appears
another of the series of California
letters that are being written for the
NEW DOMINION. Much information
relative to the only California will be
found in them.
! DEPUTY SHERIFF Jones as guard
took Ben Walton to Moundsville on
Monday, where he began term of
three years in the state penitentiary
for assaulting Mrs. Harmon Trickett
with intent to commit rape
Ar special meeting of council
Tuesday afternoon, called to pass on
the application of man named
Sneathe for license to keep a pool
room in the Commercial Hotel base
ment, the application was refused.
/. N. WEAVER has taken sub-con-
tract for considerable masonry on
the F., M. & p extension under
Lane Bros. He is now preparing to
! pat a large force of stone workers on
this contract. Several quarries will
be opened on the line.
IT IS said that campaign songs are
to be set to the music of ''Ta-ra-ra,"
and those who are half-crazed by
that chestnut being continually
whistled, sung, played and yelled
will go the whole trip if it keeps
up till next November.
GRAFTON has races to-day and to-
morrow, and Clarksburg will have
races on the glorious Fourth. If
there are to be any races here soon
the keen and practiced noses for
news of Morgantown newspaper men
haven't run into any such informa-
ton.
THERE has been such a rush of
river business that the boats are all
late in arriving here. This will be
remedied before a great while by the
addition of another boat on the pack
ct line, and along about that time
the excursion season from towns be-
low will begin.
The demand for carpenters here
is great indeed, but nothing in com
parison to what it will be when the
b. d |. company gives out the con
tract for those so new dwellings that
are to be erected on their property
below town. And that wont be
many days ahead, it is confidently
, asserted.
CAPT. BOB DFMArN is not going to
resign the command of the steamer
, Blaine, as had been reported, or at
least that is not his present inten-
ton. Capt. Domain is a popular
, and efficient commander, not so long
, in that capacity, as some, but hav-
} ing the genial nature to make every
body feel at home. Besides, he
! knows the business.
A CAR load of dynamite stood on
the siding in South Morgantown the
greater part oflast week. 1t belonged
to Lane Bros, the contractors, and
Z is one of the factors of railroad
building, now being so energetically
carried on from here to Point Marion
Some of the citizens were little bit
r shaky about the car load of explo-
sive, but their fears were groundless.
SUPERINTENDENT Butler, of the
, electric light company, has had four
big arc lights placed on Main
street, at the crossing of Peasants
street, Commercial Hotel, crossing
of Walnut street and at the Wallace
House, and within that boundary it
is as light as day every night, with
: both the gas and electric lights out
in full These lights were not con-
tracted for by the town, but placed
: in their positions temporarily for
advertising purposes.
The F., M. up. gives out the prom
Use that we shall have no more delay
e ed trains on that road. Last week
the order went into effect that no
freight is TO be carried on passenger
! trains hereafter, special local freight
, will attend to that business between
! here and Fairmont For some time
; past passenger trains between those
points have had to switch around
with freight cars, but all that is now
+ abolished and passenger trains run
! strictly with the schedule.
a The cut rates to the Chicago CON
: vention, which reduced the price for
0 the round trip from Wheeling to
e $500, is warning to people to go
into no savings fund which will sup
e ply ticket to the Worlds Fair, on
. the easy payment plan, of course,
Q but at most extravaganza figure
. If the rate above is quoted for a
J. convention lasting possibly three
days, the railroads will certainly do
= as much for an exposition in contin-
!. ual blast for six months.
: THE leaders of both the political
i parties will learn with regret that
0 the edict has gone forth that the
{ court room upstairs in the new court
: house shall be used for no political
= meetings whatsoever. So the county
court has decided. There is moth
s ing said about the use of the balcony
# over the main entrance. from which
" a speaker could address crowd, nor
$ is there prohibition against the
II county court room, but only that
3 the circuit court room is to be used
y exclusively for court purposes.
THE track is being laid on the B.
! q 0. extension from Uniontown to
- Smithfield and it is expected to run
= trains on the line early in July.
- - The force of men will then be put on
\ the line from Smithfield to Point
: Marion and have it graded by the