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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24
A Brutal Assassin.

WESTON, W. VA, March 1S-A
farmer named Cool was deliberately
assassinated while riding along Hol-
ly river, near Diana, Webster county
Friday. by ex-convict Wash" Col
Inns, who laid in wait for his victim,
into whom he fired both loads of a
double barreled shotgun, and then
rified the body. Farmers working
in the vicinity heard the shots and
captured Collins and took him to Jail
at Addison. He served term of five
years at Moundsyille for highway
robbery, although be only obtained
fifty cents from his victim. He made
an attempt to murder at Camden on
Gauley last summer, for which war.
rants were out for him. He was
drunk and did not know Cool. but
simply started out to kill the first
man be met
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TIRED OF HONEST WORK.
Tive West FirginiaHs Wanted to Make
Money Easy, and They Purchase
'sGreen Good

The grren go.sfs ssindlers in this
CITY caught at least two victims yes
terday and cleared 1925, less the
travelling expenses OF their agent,
who journeyed to Bethlehem, Pa. to
meet the persons who dealt with
them.
The victims were Jonathan Blutne
and Archibald Montgomery, of
Evansville, Hampshire country, w.
Va. With their faces fairly beam
ing with smiles, they lovingly press
a box while in the waiting room of
the Central railway station in Jer-
sey City last night. Detective Nc
Nally and Policeman Luyster were
on duty at the station and quickly
decided that the happy pair had been
investing in green goods and accost-
ed them.
The West Nirginians were averse
to talking rntil informed that they
bad been fleeced. They opened the
box and found that it contained a
package of green paper with five new
one dollar bills on the top. The
package was supposed to contain
81, 900 of the "queer" money, and
they had paid $500 in good money
for the five bills
They were escorted to the Jersey
City police headquarters, and told
their story to Police Superintendent
Smith. If it had not been for the
five dollars in the box they would
have been penniless. Fortunately
they provided themselves with re.
turn tickets.
The men had conducted negotia-
tions with j. H. Duane, who gave
his address as No. 292 West 123d
street, this city. He sent them as
sample one half of genuine one
dollar bill. The green goods oper-
ators instructed them by wire to
journey by the Baltimore and Ohio
road to Harrisburg, then by the
Pennsylvania road to Bethlehem, Pa.
where the agent met them and es-
corted them to this city.
They did not go far from the
ferry on this side, and were taken
to house near which several coal
carts were standing Blume, who
is forty eight years old, and was
armed with blackjack" went
up stairs after he had received
Montgomery's half in the invest
ment, and the latter waited for his
return. Blume was detained only a
few moments. He was satisfied with
the quality of the goods and the sin
certify of the men, and promptly
closed the bargain.
They were taken TO the ferry at
the foot of Liberty street by one of
the gang, who informed them that
they would have the exclusive priv
ilege of handling the company's
goods in West Virginia. The vic
Tins are woodchoppers, who receive
$1.15 day, and have worked sever
al years and practised rigid economy
to accumulate the money with which
they parted so readily.
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State News,

The county of Wayne is about To
lose its magnificent court house that
has cost about $4,000. 1t seems
that some time ago the columns set
tied under the weight of the crowded
court room, breaking off the plaster.
ing below. the top not settling with
the floor. The fall of the last snow
caused the roof to settle spreading
the sides until the partition is crack
ed about one. half inch on both sides
OF the door going into the court room
from ceiling to the wood work at the
floor and breaking off the plastering
in several places.
The new route of the B. & O..
Railroad from Sandy Hook through
Harper's Ferry by way of the tun-
mel and new bridge, was formally
opened last Monday. Two miles of
the old line we're abandoned and will
be dismantled, and the old Bollman
bridge will no longer be used by the
railroad, though it will stand as a
wagon bridge. The improvements,
made at cost of about $250,0O0,
include two miles of double track, a
tunnel S75 feet in length, under
Maryland Heights, and a new iron
bridge of nine spans and over a
thousand feet in length over the Po-
tomac river. The bridge is Of con
siderable elevation. being nine feet
higher than the old bridge, and built
to stand any freshet likely to occur
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TO DEFEAT BRECKENRIDGE.
The Now Notorious Kentuckian will
Have to Fight for His Seat
i'm CONGRESS-.

LEXINGTON, KY, March 17.-This
afternoon at the Lexington opera
house, what promises to be the hot
test congressional campaign known
in the Ashland district since 1875
was duly inaugurated in speech
from Hon. William G. Owens, of. Scott
county. Owens was the first to enter
the race against Congressman Breck
inridge, and will be the first to open
the fierce battle for the seat in con
gress now occupied by the defendant
in the celebrated breach of promise
suit in progress at Washington, which
is attracting the attention of the
whole country.
In 1876 Ed Marshall ran as an in
dependent candidate against Hon. j
c. S. Blackburn and was defeated
The place now being sought by Mr.
Owens, Hon. Evan Settle and the in
cumbent has been graced by such
men as Henry Clay, Thomas A. Mar
shall, Richard Menifee, John J. Crit
tenden, John G. Breckenridge, James
S. Beck, Joseph c. S. Blackburn and
w. G. p. Breckenridge. Col. Brock
inridge is serving his fifth term.
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Dcnocratic socleties.

In view Of the fact that we should
have closer organization of the
Democratic party in this county the
following from the Erie, Pa. Herald
is particularly suggestive ard is
worthy of consideration by our lead
ers. The article was suggested by
call for the organization of such So
cieties in Erie county. Here is what
it says:
THE Democratic Society is the
revival of an institution established
by Thomas Jefferson, the founder Of
the Democratic party, the latter part
of the last century. Its work was
largely educational, and it rendered
valuable service in instlling sound
principles into the minds of the peo-
pie. 1t exerted a great influence for
good, as it reached the masses,
whom the Federlists, the party then
in power distrusted and had little
respect for. The Democratic Socie
ties were potent factor in over
throwing the Federalists and inaug
urating long era of Democratic
supremacy.
"A Democratic Society, if its true
purpose be carried out, is something
better than mere club organized
for ordinary campaign work. 1t
should be school in which the
young voters can gather, to learn
the principles of Democracy as laid
down in the past by its great foun-
der and applicable to the present. 1t
should encourage a study of social
and economical questions, recogniz-
ing the fact that changes in indus
trial conditions have forced these
questions to the front and that there
can be no satisfactory solution of
them without thoughtful inquiry,
prompted by conscientious desire
to secure justice, the right of each
man to the fruit of his toll and the
largest measure of individual free
dom consistent with the interests of
society at large, e
"The purpose of Democratic So
ciety is not to serve any personal in
terest, to strengthen faction or to
control nominations, but rather to
harmonic and unity the party by
intoxicating the doctrine that princi-
pies are paramount. Measures, not
men, should be the watchword, for if
proper amount of consideration be
given to the former, Democratic in
stinct and patriotism will infallibly
point out the men best fitted TO
lead"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24
A GOOD SHOWING.
Condition of National Banks In West
Virginia on the Last of February.

WASHINGTON. d c., March S.-The
abstract Of the condition of national
banks in The state of West Virginia
at the close of business on February
2S last, as reported t. the comptrol-
Ter of the currency, shows the re-
serve to have been 3115 per cent,
against 1854 per cent on the 10Th of
December last. Loans and discounts
have increased from So, 76S, 1921 SO to
81, LAG 500. 40; stocks and securities
from $3l7.929 81 TO 1888, $3.50 80;
GOLD c'in from $37S,90l73 to 1894
015.17; total specie from 1928, 1861
to 1851 ,36035; lawful money held
for reserve from 1861 ,94S 81 to $780,
02255: surplus fund from $764,67
SS to 1897 ,43S. %; individual deposits
from $5,445, 95S.1S to 5000, 145.SS.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24

Some Of our Republicans contem-
poraries are speaking of Judge w.
S. Meredith, Of Fairmont, as the
probable Republican candidate for
Congress in this district. His party
might go farther and fare great
deal worse. He would make a bril-
liant canvass and would do himself
and party good service, but this is
not Republican year, and the Judge
cannot be elected. If ever the time
comes when member of his party
can go to Congress from this district
there is not one among them who
can do it more gracefully than Judge
Meredith.
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Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke your
Life Away.
Through To MorgantoWn, W
Va, by Water.


Pittsburgh, Brownsville & Geneva
Packet Co., comprising three fine side
wheel steamers are now Offering extra
Inducements to parties desiring to
making delightful trip by water.
Steamers:
Adam Jacobs, NJ. A. Cox, Master:
Germania, ID. BUGHER, Master; Jas.
G.. Blaine, ADAM JACOBS, Master.
Time Of departure from Company
Wharf Boat, foot of Smithtield street.
going through to Morgantown; Daily
p. NJ, except Sunday, at $3.50 A. NJ.
Fare for the round trip, including
meals, $500. Time Of departure from
Morgantown, daily $50 A. NJ. Round
trip tickets sold to all points.
All boats leaving Pittsburgh GO
through to Morgantown. For further
information concerning the line apply
on board OF steamers or to
s. s. GRAHAM, Gent Agt..
Brownsville. Pa.
4. w. CARMACK, Agent,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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A Sure.EnOugh Railroad

The Pittsburgh extension of the
+. NJ. & p. will be a sure enough
railroad o-morrow.
Tomorrow it will be transferred
from the hands of the contractors to
the r. R. Co., a completed road,
ready for traffic.
Within few days, a schedule will
be made for trains between Fairmont
and Uniontown, and the snorting of
the iron horse will henceforth be
regularly heard all along the line.
Henceforth our exit from Morgan
town will be northward instead of
Southwark. Goodbye Wheeling
goodbye Grafton ; goodbye Fairmont.
Hereafter we will be in the fix of
the fellow who is divorced from an
old wife, married a new one, and
found new set Of relatives. His
old haunts will be neglected; his old
associations forgotten; and he will
right-about- face to a new order OF
things.
Our Pennsylvania cousins will
now come to visit US, and we will go
down to taste their biscuits and size
up their mutton-chops. We rather
like the outlook, for we never did
fancy the grub on the other end of
the line. Anyhow, change of pas
ture makes fat calves. We propose
to be mighty soeiable, and if they
don't want us to tea down the River
they would better not invite US.
Governor Fleming and party will
go down to Pittsburgh on Monday
to punch the button and do the hon
ors OF opening. We hoped to fur
nish a little enthusiasm for the oc-
casion ourselves, but we will bottle
it up for the present and open the
vent when the May schedule inaugu-
rates the lightning limited express
from ST. Louis BY way Of Morgan
town TO Pittsburgh and New York.
a
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24
READY FOR THE RECEPTION.
Everything Being Gotten Into Ship
Shape at the Experiment Station to
Celebrate the opening of the New
Building ADriI q.

During the past week there has
been apparently greatly increased
activity at the Experiment Station.
The work upon the Station building
has been concentrated upon the ex-
tensive porches, which will add much
to the appearance of the building
which will be the most handsome
upon the grounds The recent adj
dition gives it nearly as much room
as is contained in the new science
building and makes it better look
ing building. The cost has been
less than half what the science build
ing cost Prof. John L. Johnston, of
the University has been the architect
and the work has been under his i'm
mediate superintendent.
The station staff is extremely busy
getting their work fully up with the
season and preparing for the recep
ton they will give April 6. During
the past week the Director has had
the University campus fully graded,
sown in grass and rolled. The rub
bish about the buildings has largely
disappeared and the towering in Prof.
Rane's gardens has begun, and the
green houses have been worked to
their full capacity. The Professor
of horticulture has been almost bur
led in packages of seeds of hundreds
of varieties done up in little bundles
and undergoing classification and
arrangement. In the chronological
department Mr.. Hopkins is finishing
the editorial work upon his iuvesti-
cations, and getting things into
shape for next summers work. The
Chemical Department is finishing
the winter work in the analysis of
fertilizers and has made an unusual
ly large number ofanalyses this sea-
son.
Any one visiting the station is
impressed with the amount of work
going on within It's walls and around
it. Inside of the building every room
that is occupied is in perfect buzz
of work while the worlzmen upon the
outside keep up such a hammering
that you can scarcely hear Your own
conversation inside the building
The grading of the proposed lawn
around the University buildings is
probably the best that has ever been
done at the University and will add
much to the beauty of the grounds
when the grass and flowers make
their appearance.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24
EARNSHAW GUILTY.
Ben Earnshaw Convicted of Forging
County Orders.

WHEELING, March 1S.--In the
criminal court Saturday shortly af-
ter 5 O'Clock the jury in the case OF
Ben Earnshaw, on trial for attempt
ing to raise cash on forged Wetzel
county orders, brought in a verdict
of guilty, after having been out less
than an hour. The penalty is from
two TO ten years Imprisonment in
the penitentiary.
Col. Arnett at once made motion
for new trial, which the court of
fered to decide at once, but the Col
onel said he thought the court was
not ready. Judge Jordon then set
the motion down for argument next
Saturday, and Earnshaw was com
mitted to Jail until that time.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24
KITTIE FARNSWORTH,
A Daughter of DR.. L. S. Farms
worth, was the Young Lady.
Who Jumped From A Car Window.
Near Belleville-Her Baggage Arrived
at Grafton Unaeeompauied by Its
Owner and Short Investi-
cation Revealed the
TarrihIa Tru5b

ftfTibft ITutn.
GRAFTON, w. Va. March III,
has just been sscertained that the
young lady who jumped from the
Baltimore and Ohio train a mile east
of Belleville, Ohio, last night, was
Miss kittie Farnsworth, daughter
of DR.. L. s Farnsworth, of Buck
harmon, W. Va.
Miss Farnsworth was returning
from Chicago to her home, and nc
cause can now be assigned for her
strange act.
She was seen by the porter to en-
ter the lavatory of the car, and not
until her long absence attracted at.
tention was she missed.
AS the door was locked they had
to wait until the next stop was made
which was twenty one miles east Of
Belleville, where she was last seen
alive.
1t was there they discovered the
window was hoisted and Miss Farms.
worth gone.
II NNCt bOuIN
train to look out for her.
When they reached point one
mile east of Belleville they found the
young lady by the roadside in an I'M
conscious condition. They carried
her TO Belleviile, where she died af
ter short time, never regainine
consciousness
When her baggage reached Graf.
ton this afternoon Captain Il. Nj
Sheats ascertained the whereabouts
of her people and at once notified
them of the sad affair.
Her father is now ON his way tC
Beileville to look after the remains
This will be shock to her many
friends. as she was from popular
and wealthy family.
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Used To II.

At a telegraph office one day the
telegraph clerk Ga Young man J, after
repeated calls on the instrument to
young lady clerk at last got re
Spouse.
He telegraphed back to her vehe
mently: 81 have been trying to
catch you for the last hour"
In moment came the reply
pooh! that's nothing. There's a
young man here has been trying to
do that for year, and hasn't got
me yet
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24

No Transfer should be without
flannel or corduroy lined leather
coat, sold by Hirschman's.
WoMEN's strong shoes at SO and
IS cts, formerly 81 to $3.50 at
Hirschman's.
OTHER things being equal is il not
hest to buy of dealers who have per-
maDently established themselves in
trade? They will be there, and
when you want to buy, ALWAYS ready
to serve you, prepared to guarantee
the quality Of their goods, to give
low prices. and anxious to retain a
permanent trade. OF such are the
Victor Mills people, who will serve
you cheap for cash, with the best
hay, oats, chop, bran, feed meal,
-four, hominy and grain,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24
The Civil Service Fraud.

Washington dispatches contain
gratifying informations regarding
the work of the Postoffice Depart
ment in putting the friends and sup.
perters of the administration into
the postoflices and Diminishing its en-
imies. 1t is an eleventh hour reform
and ought to have been accomplish
ed at least six months ago, but
though late it is acceptable and the
rate at which Postmaster General
Bissell has been hustling the Repub-
llcans out is source of congratula-
ton to the administration and the
people.
The Register long ago pointed
out this policy as the proper one,
but Mr.. Bissell saw fit to turn the
management of his department in
the matter of appointments over to
a board of partisan cranks-the Civ
il Service Commisson-whose rul-
ings he followed blindly, to the dis
gust of his party and the serious
detriment of its organization.
He has, however, not completed
the work by large majority but he
has made more appointments than
his predecessor.
1t is apparent that he still believes
himself bound by the construction
placed upon the civil service law
by the partisan cranks of
the commission. He is nothing of
the sort. The trainers of the civil
service law never contemplated such
usage of it as has been made, nor
does the plain law itself warrant any
such construction of it. The law
was designed as one of its trainers
recently stated in the Senate not to
prevent the removal from Office of
any employe of the government, but
to provide against the appointment
of unfit persons There is not a
sentence or line in the whole act
that prohibits the removal to day of
every per son in the employ of the
government on any ground, or at the
will of the heads of departments. 1t
requires only that those who take
their places shall pass an examina-
tion to prove their fitness and ca
pacity. 1t does not provide that
political considerations shall be
abolished, nor does it prohibit the
administration in power from APP
pointing as its aids and employees
those who are its supporters and
friends, who believe in its policies
and who have contributed their
time, work and money toward the
success of these policies. An adj
ministration, and its heads of de
partments who are fit to hold power,
can surely be trusted to select their
own assistants and appoint men
whom they can trust, and are famil-
lar with, and who are in sympathy
.~.,t 1. 1
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24

The amount of work done and the
vast sums of money spent by private
parties for purely patriotic reasons
in the last campaign are astounding.
And yet there are men who have
worked in every campaign for thirty
years and paid their own expenses
who don't want office. The latter
class are generally the ones who don't
ask for anything.
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Deaths.

MoRGAN-Died at her home in
Fairmont, on the 18th inst Mrs
VERNE Morgan, wife of Sheriff z. G
Morgan, of Marion county. Mrs
Morgan had been suffering for a
long time from consumption though
her death at last came rather sud
denly. She was an estimahle chris
tian lady.
RoBINsoN-Mrs. Hannah Robinson
died at the residence ofG. w. Sisler
jr.. Stewartstown, on Tuesday morn.
ing, March Goth 1894, aged IS years
Mrs, Robinson was the widow Of the
late William Robson, who was form
erly well known and respected
citizen Of this place. She was the
mother of Mrs. S;sler.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24

Every good democrat should be
willing to allow the democrats in
Congress to decide what legislation
is at this time expedient. Every
democratic criticism of the action
or non action of democrats in Con
gress furnishes ammunition to be
used against the party.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-03-24

The Farmers Alliance of Greene
cou nty will hold a convention in
May to start move against the
corruption that is alleged to exist
in the politics of that county. 1t is
to be hoped the gentlemen will all
practice what they preach.