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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
The Election Laws.

In passing the bill to repeal the
Federal election laws the House has
simply executed, so far as team, one
of the mandates of the people. The
time chosen was inopportune, but
the thing done is right
To speak of this repeal as 'remov
ing all safeguards against fraud"
and "a deadly blow at honest cleo
tions,n as some of the prefervid Re
publican organs do, ieto insult the
intelligence and virtue of the people.
If the citizens of the different
States either cannot or will not con
duct elections fairly and honestly
without the supervision of Federal
agents, our system of local self-gov-
erment is failure.
If corruption or intimidation pre-
vailed, the attempt to prevent them
by central authority, with the aid of
bayonets as a logical recourse, would
be remedy worse than the disease
Is it necessary to remind the cen
tralizers that this is not Mexico or
France?
The plain fact is that the Federal
election laws have utterly failed, as
Mr.. Fitch showed in his very able
speech in the House on Monday, to
do anything except to nag local
authorities and provide a job for
partisan agents and burden the tax
payer
The elections have been growing
fairer and more honest every year,
and the Republican party has been
growing weaker. But the progress
is due wholly to an enlightened pub
lie sentiment. This sentiment has
secured the enactment of ballot-re-
form laws in a majority of the States,
providing privacy for the voter and
secrecy for the ballot. These laws
are worth more as safeguards to free
and honest elections than supervision
by an army of Federal spies and
bulldozers would be.
The people have decreed that this
worthless and undemocratic system
shall go, and it is going.-World
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

How CAN you sell the best of ev-
erything in your line at prices lower
than any one else, is question often
asked us. The answer is simple
one. BY practicing all the small
economies in business, of which a
few only may be briefly noted, such
as buying only for cash; buying at
wholesale shipping in car lots, and
so getting lowest freight rates; un-
loading and storing at our private
railroad siding by machinery, and SO
saving loading with teams and much
manual labor; by buying by tele-
graph on each decline in the market,
and keeping full stock of supplies
on hand in our own ware rooms and
elevator, and by use of newest and
best machinery in making chop,
meals, hominy and grits. By these
means the Victor Mills Co. defies
competition, and sells the best in
quality at the lowest price. Try and
see and believe for yourself.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Died.

MCCLURE-Miss Jennie Mcclure
daughter of William Mcclure, living
few miles up Decker's Creek from
this place, died yesterday morning
of typhoid fever. She was II years
old and one of the most popular
young ladies in her neighborhood
The funeral took place at Rock
Forge, Tuesday at four o'clock.
CoBUN-At his home near Pier
points church, Sunday evening, John
w. Cobun died, aged SO years He
had been afflicted with typhoid fever
and when considered on the fair road
to recovery took relapse which
caused his death. Deceased had
been for many years member OF
the M, f. church. A wife and five
children survive him.
DAY-Mrs Mary Day died at hel
home in Philadelphia on Saturday
last, aged 65 years. Some time since
she was struck by bicycle, which
caused internal injuries from which
she never recovered The deceased
was the mother of Rev. S. II. Day
pastor of the NJ K. church of this
place.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Some thing Picturesq ue

There is something picturesque
in the candidature ofGov. Mckinley,
says the Courier Journal. These
renity with which he hobs up with
the most delightful Inconsistencies
of the fact that he has wrecked his
party is without a parallel in history
or fiction. Perhaps the young gen
tleman in Great Expectations, :"
who fought Pip in Mrs. Haversham' s
back garden, without the faintest
suspicion that he was outclassed,
in spite Of a dozen knock outs, may
afford something like a suggestion
of Maj McKinley's state of mind !;
but the guileless youngster invol
we'd nobody but himself in defeat,
while Mckinley called down the dis
pleasure Of the greatest nation on
earth, not only on hims elf but on
his party also That he dares again
to raise his head high enough 10 be
shot at shows o curious unconscious
ness Of the mischief he has done. or
else wonderful confidence in the ig-
norance of the Ohio electorate. Per
haps both these reasons co operate
to make possible the oandidature of
the putative author of the most
foolish aud abomniable tariff law
that ever encountered the statute
book Of any enlightened nation.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
WEST VIRGINIA COAL.
Pew Facts and Figures Of Which the
State is Proud.

A report from the Worlds Fair
about West Virginia coal and coke
contains the following true, though
surprising statements:
'It is difficult matter to convey
to the mind of one not familiar with
the facts any adequate idea of the
immensely and value of the West
Virginia coal fields. To say that
10000 out of the $4,000 square miles
of the territory in the State is I'M
derlaid with coal gives but vague
idea Of what there really is. To say
that over 100000 acres of West
Virginia is coal land, under which
there is an average thickness of 10
feet of coal, means but little more.
When we say that there is a sufficient
quantity of coal hidden away in the
hills and beneath the surface of the
State to supply the wants of the en-
tire world for centuries to Gene, then
does the mind begin to realize the
real extent of the coal deposits OF
the State. Going further and esti-
mating the amount of coal in the
State at the usual average rate of
production, the 100000 acres
would yield one hundred billion tons,
The coal production in this State
for 1892, the greatest for any year in
the history of the State, was some
thing over 100000 tons. Increas
ing this to an average rate Of 10, 900,
900 tons year, the coal of West
Virginia, constantly mined, would
last 10000 years The entire amount
of bituminous coal consumed in the
United States during the year 1889,
according to the last census, was a
little over 95,000,000 tons. Increas
ing this to 100,000,000 tons year,
the coal in West Virginia alone
would supply the entire United
States with all its coal for the next
1000 years.
statistics show that there is more
coking coal in West Virginia, many
times over, than there is in Penn
sylvania, and that in the production
of coke West Virginia ranks next to
Pennsylvania. With the best cooking
coal in the United States, if not in
the world, and more of it than in any
other state, and with rapidly grow
ing demand for coke, the fact is
readily seen that West Virginia must
soon become one of the greatest
coke making eenters in the world
Last year the state produced almost
100000 tons of coke"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Barnum Show Train Collision.

A dispatch from Clarksburg, dated
last Friday, says: "A terrible rear
end collision occurred at Bridgeport,
town five miles east of here, about
eight o'clock this morning. Barnum
and Bailey's greatest show ON earth
was coming from Morgantown in five
sections The first section. coming
up the grade at Bridgeport, was run
ming about two or three miles an
hour when the second section, being
a light train, came around the turn
at twenty-five miles an hour, and
without minutes warning crashed
with terrible effect into the rear end
of the first section which was made
up of cages, with four sleepers on the
rear. The last two cars were teles-
COPIED and the inmates were awaken
ed from their sleep by being violent
ly hurled to the front of the cars or
pinioned in their berths. Probably
dozen were hurt, half of that mum
Der being seriously and one, at least,
fatally injured. The list of the killed
and injured is as follows:
Frank Everett, Brooklyn, N. Y,
both legs cut of, died almost in
stantly.
George Gilmore, New York city,
injured internally, thought to be dy-
ing several times during the day,
may recover.
Robert Nelson, New York, hip and
thigh badly bruised
j. p Frederick, Allentown, Pa,
legs slightly mashed.
Harry Marshall, Pittsburg, ribs
broken, badly hurt
Nathaniel Merrill, New York city,
leg broken.
Charles Mills, address not learned,
jaw broken and badly bruised about
the face.
E. R Richey, Honesdale, Pa, spine
hurt.
All the injured will be moved in
the morning to Johns Hopkins hos
pital, Baltimore.
None are injured seriously with
possibly the exception of Gilmore,
and it Is thought that he will pull
through all right. The cause of the
accident is the same old story, two
sections running about two minutes
apart without proper precautions on
the part of the employees. The loss
to the show in property will amount
to from eight to fifteen thousand
dollars.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Abatement of Fever.

Will Semans is much better and
will be able to be out in few days
if his condition continues to improve
f. H. Rice is able to walk out of the
house. Ernest Rice had a relapse
Monday, grew worse and fears are
still entertained for him. The other
members of this sorely afflicted fam
lily, while yet quite i'll, are no longer
considered to be in a dangerous con.
dition.
Biggs Dancer is men ding rapidly
Miss Lou Bakers condition has
slowly improved all week
The members of the Pastorius
family who have been i'll are conva.
lescent, as are Mrs Moore, Mrs Cox
and all others who have the fever
There is a decided abatement, ne
new cases of fever having developed
during the week.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Sad if True.

Last week the announcement was
made of the marriage of Miss Mamie
Hall, a well known young lady OF
Fairnont, a daughter Of S. w. Hall,
to A B. Potter, of Denver, the cere-
mony taking place at Tiffin, Ohio.
Since then the following dispatch
from Tiffin has been sent out: A
surprising sequel to the romantic
marriage in this city yesterday of A.
B. Rotter,o of Denver, and Miss Mamie
Hall, of Fairmont, w. Va, has been
developed. They claimed here that
they bad met for the first time at the
Worlds Fair, and that she was on
her way home, and he boarded the
same train and induced her to get
off here and become his wife. To-
day information was received to the
effect that Potter is not a Sante Fe
official, but that $500 reward has
been offered for his arrest, he being
wanted on charge of passing forged
checks both in Illinois and Iowa.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Married.

Observation-Disclosures October
10Th, 1898, at the residence of the
brides mother, near townsville. by
Rev, Jos B. Feather, Mr.. Ebert Ar
nett, of Arnettsville, and Miss Min
ME L. Cox.
-SPURGIN--On Thursday,
October 10, at the Methodist Epis
copal parsonage, by the Rev S. Ham
ilton Day, Newton MCGEE and Miss
Frances Z. Spurgin, both of Preston
county, were married.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
M,kISLEY DISCONNECTED.
An Old Man Asked Questions Difficult
to Answer.

ZANEsvILLz, o., Oct. 22.-The
Mckinley meeting here last night
was marked by some interesting i1,-
cidents The Major made valiant
effort to answer Meals argument on
''who pays the tax" end struggled
hard to explain why he took Off the
tax on sugar, believing as he does,
that the foreigner pays the tax. He
began by saying that he did not
come as a partisan or as an advocate,
but simply as one citizen to confer
with his fellow-citizen over the
great crisis that had befallen the
country. An unregenerated indi-
vidual in the gallery yelled;
Caused by the Sherman act and
Mckinley bill.
He then touched on the silver
question, and said that everybody
had abundance of money when the
Republicans were in power. An
other voice from the gallery replied
The Homestead riots and the
soup. houses established two years
ago show that
A third gallery god wanted to
know why he failed last winter if
there was plenty of money, While
the Major was discussing the sugar
question a venerable old man with
gray whiskers arose and propounded
question. He wanted to know if
the people of this country didn't pay
a bounty of some $I2, 200, 900 annual
ly to some 300 sugar planters in
Louisiana. The Major was evident
ly embarrassed and floundered
around awhile, but the old man
poured the questions into him faster
than he could answer, and finally he
became so embarrassed that the
sympathetic audience began to yell
Put the old man out" The old
man, one of the best respected citi
zens of this city, arose and said:
Gentlemen, it will not he neces-
sary to put me out | asked Gov
ernor Mckinley, with whom | served
in the army, few simple questions.
If you are not satisfied with his an
swers | will go out without the form
ality Of putting me out"
The old gentleman then retired.
But the rest of the proceedings were
lacking in interest The numerous
interruptions seemed to discomfort
the speaker and he hastily branched
out on the tariff in general and stuck
TO that question to the end.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Starving on the StriD.

The fond illusions of land seekers
to the Cherokee Strip are be.
ing rudely shattered. Settlers from
the Strip are crowding into Guth-
erie and others of the older towns
hungry, cold and penniless. There
is little work for them. Seven sick
men without cent are being cared
for by the Y. M. G. A. at Gutherie.
Every day brings news of deaths
from want and exposure. While
thousands who made the rush" Sc
cured homesteads, hundreds did not.
Nearly half of the people who went
into the Strip on Sept 10th. have
come out to the borders of Kansas
and old Oklahoma 1t is not TO be
understood, however, that the new
land is not of the very best, for it is.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
And Such Thing Can Happen I'M
der Our Boosted School System.


PARKERsBURG, w. Va, October l6.
A warrant was issued by Justice
Beckwith this evening for the arrest
of Jos. Givens, a school teacher at
Watkins, in Clay township, for cru
ely and brutality beating one of his
scholars. Frank Dickson, an eleven
year-old boy, son of VIM. Dickson,
of Clay district was the victim. The
boy is mass of black and blue
splotehes, some of which are large
as mans hand. The surface of his
body from his shoulders to his heels
is almost solid mass of cuts and
bruises. The brutal affair occurred
last Friday, but the boys condition
has been too serious for removal.
The above is not news item from
the dark ages.
1t is a nineteenth century event.
II happened in the month of Octo-
Der 1898
1t happened, too, in one of the
schools of our boasted public School
System.
1t will continue to happen until
some outraged parent has the man
hood to stamp out the delusion that
permits any man to whip another
mans child, by stamping out the
school teacher $50 called) who does
it.
The arrogant brute who does this
thing under the guise of school
teacher, and thinks he has the pro-
lection of the law on that account,
is less deserving of any protection
for that very assumption.
There ought-to be an example
made of him.
And there will be.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Campbell
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PITTSBURGH.
Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke your
Life AWAY,

Is the truthful, startling title of a little
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wonderful, harmless guaranteed tobac-
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the man who wants to quit and can't
runs no physical or financial risk in us
ing Motto bac" Sold by all druggists.
Book at store, or by mail free. Address
The Sterling Remedy Co., Indiana Min
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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Col. Alex. Mcclure, the veteran ed
itor of tina Philadelphia Times, is
very near deaths door. When he dies
there will have been removed man
whose name was familiar with every
one in the entire country who had
the least claim to being posted on
public affairs.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Open switches throughout the
country for the past week have cost
several score of passengers their
lives. When will Railroad Compan-
les recognize the Importance of en-
ploying reliable men for responsible
positions?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Prof. Rane had letter in last Sat
urday's Register which set forth full
ly the purposes and facilities of the
agricultural department of the Uni
versity, which will serve to spread
the facts concerning that feature Of
the course all over the State. Tn.
der his direction the agricultural
department will become popular
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

The republican candidate for gov
ernor Of Iowa is pension attorney,
who was disbarred from practice
during Hayes administration on ac-
count of fraudulent practices. Since
the publication of his record, and
the letter of the secretary of the In
terror giving the reasons for his dis,
barment the candidate has given ev-
idence of an exceeding great desire
to get down from the ticket without
being kicked down.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Hon. William L. Wilson says the
new tariff bill will not be ready before
the the first part of November. If
any one knows about this the Chair
man of the ways and means com
mittee is the man.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Matters in the Senate to-day,
since the compromise scheme which
the steering committee made out
died before it was presented, stand
about where they did when they
met in extra session last August,
except on Monday the body learned
better than ever before what was
expected of it. AS the dispatches
say; Anything may happen.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Both Republican candidates have
pulled off from the judicial contest
in the Fayette- Greene district, and
there remains but one thing certain,
that is, n Democrat will be elected.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

The new Wilson tariff bill will be
one for revenue only, and the free
ist enlarged. 1t will not be scheme
for the promotion of private interests
at public expense.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

The President replied to the
trainers of the compromise Sena-
tors who had arranged bill to suit
themselves, that nothing but uncon
ditional repeal would receive the
sanction of the administration, and
all the filibusterers for the compro-
mise came to q dead halt.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

Charley Mitchell and Jim Corbett
will probably not get to fight at all
in this country. This will be sad
for the fellows who were going to
back Corbett.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
Cant StOp Business.

The Pittsburg Dispatch of late
date says:-The great body of Amer
lean people cannot be idle. They
must prepare the ground, SOW and
reap that they may get something
to eat Our commerce and indus
tries cannot remain torpor-stricken
for any appreciate period. The
spirit of commerce and of specula-
ton must assert itself Torpor bred
of apprehension must be shaken off;
it must not be permitted to burden
the great energies of a mighty nation
like an Old Man of the Sea. Dan
gers happily passed must not be re-
called; forebodings based upon the
uncertainties the situation through
out Europe presents or those discern
ed nearer home must not be permit
ted to interfere with the wheels of
trade, The merchant prince and the
mechanic, employer and employee
cannot afford to pause-the wheels
must revolve; they must prepare and
transport all the necessaries of life,
from the fuel the cook employs to
the costliest garments the ultra fash
ionable deem essential to life. Com
merce can't be quit Of the risks each
each year brings From the man
who invests a dollar and quarter
in Government land to the banker
who loans on two-name paper, back
ed ap with "giltedged" collateral, all
assume risks. 1t is impossible to
eliminate hazard.
1t is impossible for anybody in
volved in the complex thing we call
business to stop. This being the
case, torpor cannot weigh long upon
the magnificent energies of the great
Yankee nation.
These are words of wisdom, and
if all will so far appreciate them as
to act upon them the country will
soon return to it's normal condition
of business prosperity. Already the
banks are filling up with money and
renewing their loans. Prices are
tending upward, business is begin
ming to revive in very remarkable
degree, and a more hopeful and con
fdent tone to pervade all classes.
This is not so much to be attributed
to any pending or prospective legis-
lation on silver coinage, or any finan
cial legislation at Washington, but
the inherent impossibility of long
suppressing the energies of our peo-
Pile which must and will have a
speedy outlet to their Astounding
energy and hopeful ambition. AS
an evidence of this returning conf
dence and reviving trade we may
mention the fact that the Victor
Mills people are buying and selling
more hay, grain and feed, flour and
meal than ever before in the history
of their trade, and at lower prices,
and doing this business upon a cash
basis, which they have found is both
better for them and their customers.
1t will not be long ill the bulk of all
trade will be reduced to cash basis
or so short a credit as to be practic-
ally for cash. The man who allures
you into buying on credit, has a
large margin of profit on his sales to
you, to insure against losses, or else
will himself soon become insolvent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

The World in making an exposure
Of the business transactions of the
Standard Coal and Timber Company
of West Virginia, which it alleges to
be doing business on the strength of
forged deeds to large tract of land
in West Virginia, shows how easy it
is to dupe the leading bankers and
financial agents when the promises of
big gains are held forth.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28
WEEKLY REGISTER,
PUBLISHED AT
WHEELING, w. VA.
Tho Eaproar,c Er;and

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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-10-28

", B. & ], H, SmVth,
Merchants and Steamboat Agents,
Vaudeville Landing.

We have a line of general
merchandise on our shelves
that has been carefully select
ed and marked down to the
lowest figure.
WE HAVE A LARGE LOT OF SALT
That we will sell during the
month of July at sI.oo per
barrel.
We are Agents for and have
the exclusive handling of the
Forest City Paint and Varnish
Cos famous paints and will
sell them on a guarantee.
White Lead 7 and one-half
cents.
Also handle country pro-
duce. Any kind of marketa-
bic produce bought at ruling
rates.
W. B. & ]. h. SMYTH,
Vaudeville Landing, West Va.