The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-07
State News.

The Presbyterians are to have
new church at Clarksb urg. the cor
ner stone being laid this week.
In the town of Martinsburg aIon
so tar this fall there have been solt
1450 tons of commercial fertilizer
and 2l00 bushels of timothy seed. Th,
farmers of Berkeley county use grea
quantities of both.
Miss Livia Simpson, the lively edi
tress of the PIT. Pleasant State Ga
zette, was arrested last week for rid
ing a bicycle on the side walks o
that city, and was find $40 and costs
Shame on the officials.
John Stevens, colored, committed
suicide at Crescent, Fayette county
Monday. by drowning himself l,
seems that his wife had left him ant
returned to her home in Virginia
and he, respondent, took his owr
life rather than be separated.
Frank Yeager, the well known
sheep man, has skipped by the pale
moonlight. He left about ten OF
twelve thousand lambs that he hat
purchased in this vicinity and failed
to take up Many farmers and some
of his agents sustain heavy losses
Clarksburg Telegram.
On last Sunday morning Morgan
and VIM. Stanley of Marion county
were running their horses in the road
on Wickwire in Taylor county near
the residence of George Kiger when
the latter's horse fell and seriously
injured the rider He was taken tt
his home that afternoon and is recov
ering.
At st. Adams Helen johnson was
displaying revolver and showing
its working to Marie Payne, when
she discharged the weapon with the
muzzle close to her companions face
The bullet penetrated Miss Payne's
head, killing her instantly. Miss
Johnson's distraction threatens hel
reason.
Mrs. Christian Gerling, the wife
of once well known music teacher
died in the hospital for the insane at
Weston few days The unfortu
nate lady was admitted to the Asy-
lum from Martinsburg in 1876.
After her death the superintendent
wired to that place to notify her
friends but none could be found.
The remains were buried in the state
cemetery at the asylum.
The passengers on the Balti more
q Ohio accommodation train witness
ed horrible and fatal accident last
week. On road, parallel with the
track, horse, carrying a young wo-
man named Jennie SAMSON, became
frightened at the traiE. The girl was
thrown of, her foot catching in the
stirrup. For some distance she was
thus dragged, when she fell off and
soon died Her body was horribly
mutilated, her head and shoulders
being crushed.
Much excitement prevails over the
robbery of the Winfield and Rena
mail, which the mail carrier John
Bess, claims TO have occurred Satur-
day morning on the public road about
a mile below Winfield. The mail
comes in from Rcna and returns ev.
cry Saturday. Before starting in
Saturday morning Mr.. Bess put $422
in his pocket to liquidatc some debts
that he owed to different parties in
town. Mr.. Bess says that two men
approached him, thrust a revolver in
his face and commanded him to make
no resistance. His private funds to
the amount above mentioned were
taken, together with a portion of the
mail extracted from the pouch, after
the strap thereto had been cut A
posse started Immediately in search
of the robbers.-Chdrleston Republi-
can.
The Terra Alta Oracle gives an
account of the conduct of some young
fellows in that section which reads
a little like a leaf out of a descrip-
ton of the doings in some barbar-
Gus community There was wed
ding and a considerable number of
them gathered to give the couple a
''calathumpian serenade." That, in
itself, is remnant of barbarism.
The proprietor of the Terra Alta
hotel, where the couple we're stop
ping. went out and invited them into
the house to partake ola collation.
Of ice cream, cake, fruits. nuts, etc.
This they declined and demanded
and when this was refused
made such an uproar that the may
or of the town threatened them with
arrest This quieted them for a
time, but when the bridal party, ac-
by nearly all the people
about the hotel, went to the station,
the Young indians rushed in and took
most of the eatables and all the ice
cream and even stole the can from
the freezer. The citizens of Terra
Alta, wisely we think, declare that
wedding serenades are at an end in
that place. 1t is difficult to charac-
terize such conduct as the above
without using language rather too
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