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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
BURROWED OUT OF JAIL.
Exploits Of an Enterprising and Active
Horse Thief.

FRIENDSHIP, n. Y, Aug. 31.-Six
years ago Howard NJ. White. of this
town stole horse and buggy at mid
day from j. c. Holden's barn, and
got away with it to Pennsylvania.
He was overhauled at Smi:hport
Mexican county, and lodged in Jail
at that place to await requisition
papers. Before they arrived he tun-
neled his way out of Jail and let sew
eral other prisoners out.
He returned directly to Allegany
county, stole the same horse he had
taken before. and also three others
He got away with all of them, aud
was chased clear across the State oil
Pennsylvania into Ohio, where all
trace of him was lost. He was heard
from subsequently as doing sue
cessful business at horse stealing in
Ohio. He was finally captured and
sentenced to four years in the Colum.
bus Penitentiary His term was up
last week, and White was surprisd
to find Deputy Sheriff johnson, OF
Allegany county waiting for him al
the prison door. Officer johnson
started with his prisoner for New
York State, and White got away from
him five times on the way, but was
recaptured every time. He is now
in jail at Angelica.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
NINE TOWNS
Wiped Out by the Flames-Granite Is
the Latest Victim.

DULUTH, MINI, Sept. Another
town has fallen a prey to devouring
flames, making nine in all that have
been consumed. This time the vii
lage of Granite, on the Omaha road,
two miles south Of Barronette, is the
victim. A good share of the town.
saw mill and 100000 feet of lum-
Der, were consumed No lives were
lost The mail agent op the Omaha
northbound arriving here last even
ing, stated that the face of The en-
tire country is so completely chang
ed by the disasters that he would
not know it was the same as he has
been in the daily habit Of passing.
0. f. Murray, the Eastern roads OPP
orator at Hinckley, has not been
found, and it is feared that he is
dead. Murray was the man who
wired here the first report of the dis
aster, saying that the fires were com
ing up like magic, but one minute be
saw a few flames down the track and
minute later sent word that he
must leave the instrument as the
flames were ON him Mr.. Bulls,
agent Of the Eastern Minnesota at
Sandstone, arrived here last night.
1t was through his heroism that the
500 refugees on the Eastern train
that arrived here Sunday night did
not all suffer the same fate as hun
RI Of ctk lot 49,
is mile out of the town of the same
name and Kettle River, crossed by
Great Bridge, flows between. Bulls
was at his instrument when the
Eastern train bringing 500 refugees,
passed back into Sandstone He
tagged the train in the darkness,
went back to his burning Office, wired
north to stop all south bound bust
ness, to give free road and sent the
train back as quickly as possible,
knowing that the bridge might be
afire any moment
TOOK THE CHANCE AND WON.
When the train arrived at the L.
500 foot bridge Flagman Jessmer
saw it burning brightly in several
places, but he at once decided that
the chance Of getting over was pref
cradle to sure death on the tracks,
and it went on. Five hundred lives
bless the promtness of these two
men. After Jessmer left the bridge
he hurried with his wife and three
children on to Sandstone and found
all the population in the river. They
were in the water there for four
hours.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
DEMOCRATS GET EVERYTHING,
Clean Sweep Made by Them in the Ar
kansas Elections.

LITTLE Rock, Sept Returns
from Yesterdays ections show that
the Democrats nave made clean
sweep. In White c,,usty, the Popu-
lists stronghold, a heavy vote was
cast, and the Democrats are claim
ing the county for Clark by 200 plu-
rality. Jefferson county, which has
heretofore been controlled by The
Republicans, owing to split in the
Democratic party in that county,
gives about 700 Democratic MAORI
ty, the aplit in the latter party hav.
ing been bealed up before the cleo
ton. Carroll county, the home oil
General Powell Clayton, gives q
small Democratic majority.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The death list resulting from the
the terrible fires in the Northwest
will reach over 400. The calamity
is appalling. In many places the
people fed from their homes into the
pine barrens to escape and in reality
were only stepping into death trap
from which escape was impossible.
The long continued drought had
made it as infammable as finder, in
some instances the fire outran the
LOCOMOTIVES; in one case overtak-
ing and entirely burning the Duluth
United train. The scene ia indescrib-
able.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
Republican Party Depending
Upon IdIeness and Dis
tress for Success.

THE Republican party this day ba
ses all its hopes Of 1894 and 1896 on
the continued depression of business.
In the whole history of politics it is
the first time that any great party
ever welcomed hunger, nakedness
aud enforced idleness as allies-Hon
Champ Clark, of Missouri, before
Young Mems Democratic Society,
of New York.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

In pursuance of a call of the Pro-
hibition committee, convention is
hereby called to meet at Laurel Point,
on Saturday, September 18th, 1894,
Bring your baskets. Morning session
called at 1890; Afternoon session
called at 1870. Good speakers are ex-
pected to be present and speak on the
leading question Of the day. All vo-
tiers are requested to be present and
register as we must make one pei
cent in order to vote. A general in
vitation is extended to all
BY order of the committee.
j. r. FLEMING, Chairman.
Morgantown, Box 1913.
j. II. HALL, Secretary Laurel Point,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
TERRIBLE FIGHT
Between Americans and Hungarians at
Farnum, Harrison County-Clubs
and Rey0lvers Used-0ne Man
Left for Dead.

Carksburg Telegram.
A very bloody fight, almost end
ing in murder, occurred at Farnum
on Saturday evening.
A party of nineteen Hungarians
were imbibing very freely in Chas
Ross speak easy" when for some
reason they began a brutal assault
on Dan Cooper, who was unable TO
repel the attack of the mob, and his
friend, John Richards, a powerful
man, weighing over two hundred,
came to his assistance and was
struck on the knee with beer bot.
tie. A rough and tumble fight en-
sued, in which Richards, assisted by
jerks Smith and Stein Conway, sue
ceeded in flooring five of the Huns
The remaining fourteen then seized
any weapon to be found and center
ed their attack on Richards, who
was forced to flee for his life. After
running for some distance he turned
TO repel his pursuers, when one of
the Huns shot HIN in the mouth
with 80 calibre revolver. The bul.
let entered the corner of his mouth,
and knocking out lower tooth,
lodged in the roof of his mouth, Just
entering the skin, so that ne spit
both it and the tooth out. He was
then knocked down, his skull frac-
tured, and arm badly bruised, when,
thinking that he was dead, the Hun
garians left
Richards, having been taken into
house nearby, was cared for and
brought to town the next morning,
when his wounds were all dressed
and he was made as comfortable as
possible under the circumstances,
and returned to Farnum the same
evening.
The Hungarians are arming them
selves and trouble is expected, as
they are determined to have revenge
before leaving for Hungary next
week.
Great praise lie given to Richards
for his bravery in coming to the as
sistance of his friend, and for his
prowess in the fight. For quite a
while, single handed, he withs,ood
the whole mob and through it all
defended himself and Cooper in a
very courageous manner, as the scars
on many Hungarion head will tes-
fifv
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Chauncey Depew is over in Europe
and has been getting himself inter
viewed and his sayings cabled to the
United States. Some months ago
he said "Mr. Cleveland was the most
unpopular President who ever oc
cupied that chair" Chauncey has
changed his opinion for he now says
the President has won back fol
himself the confidence and enthusi
asm of the industrial masses of the
country"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
The Very TarfaLa,r.

The Wilson tariff bill is now the
low Of the land and in actual opera
ton throughout the country. 1t is
in some respects defective, as are all
tariff laws, but taken as whole 1t
formulates the best tariff policy the
governmont has ever given the peo-
pie since the war. With the excep-
ton Of excessive protection to the
Sugar Trust, there is not, says the
Philadelphia Times, vital feature
of the bill that is not highly com
mendable, and even the sugar
schedule has the merit of reducing
the profits of the Sugar Trust near
ly fifty per cent.
The manufacturers who declare
that they must reduce wages be-
cause Of the passage Of the Wilson
tariff bill are neither just to them
selves nor to their workmen. II
manufacturers shall pay to labor
the full amount of tariff taxes on
their products in excess Of the wag
es paid for like labor in competing
countries abroad, the wages Of our
American workmen will be increased
instead of diminished. The Nc
Kinley bill increased tariff taxes os-
tensibly to increase the wages of la
bor, but there were reductions of
wages throughout the protected in
dustries of the land under that tar
i'll, and very few instances, if any,
in which they were increased. The
protected employers took the benefit
of the increased tariff taxes for
themselves and left labor without
increase of wages, and in many in
stances reduced wages. The work
ingmen of the country have become
quite too intelligent to be deceived
on this point and the manufacturers
who pay to labor the taxes levied
by the government for its protection
will be certain to make the most in
the end.
There may be slight increase in
the cost of sugar to consumers I'M
der the new tariff bill, but in any
event it will hardly be perceptible.
Under the Mckinley bill the people
paid over $20,000,000 of taxes to
the Sugar Trust and $12,0C0,000 as
bounty to sugar producers, making
an aggregate tax of nearly $35, 900,
600, not dollar of which went into
the Treasury. Under the new tariff
law the people will pay very slight
increase of taxes on sugar, but the
Treasury will be benefited to the ex-
tent of some $40,000,000 a year, and
that amount of money is absolutely
necessary to enable the government
to pay the fixed expenses saddled
upon it by the profigacy of the last
Republican administration. The
sugar taxes the people shall pay un-
der the new bill they will pay into
their own Treasury and get the ben
eft of it themselves, while under the
Mckinley bill they paid nearly as
much solely for the benefit of the
Sugar Trust and few sugar pro-
ducers.
In word the new tariff policy is
the wisest of any we have had since
the war, and the people Will speedily
send calamity howlers to the rear
as commerce, industry and trade re-
vive amongst US.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
TWO NEW RAILROADS.
Projected to Pierce the West vir-
ginia Interior.
RICH MINERAL LAND TO Be OPENED
BY Two Routes, one Tapping the new
baltimore & Ohio Branch at Point
Marion and the other at Morgantown
ASurYey Being Made Along the Line
ON the Quiet.

The Connellsville Courier says
that the recent opening of the new
Fairmont branch through to Fair.
mont has opened up the northern
part of West Virginia very much,
and has led to plans for penetrating
farther into the interior. Two lines
are now projected. Among those
interested are prominent exofficel
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, and several Pittsburg and
West Virginia capitalists.
One line, it is rumored, will con
meet with the Baltimore & Ohio at
or near Point Marion, and will run
up the valley of the Cheat river
twenty five miles to Kingwood,
where it will meet the Tunnelton,
Kingwood d Fairchanee narrow
guage railroad, which runs south to
the main line of the Baltimore 4
Ohio.
The other line will tap the Balti-
more g. Ohio somewhere between
Point Marion and Fairmont, proha
bly, at Morgantown. 1t will be over
forty miles long, probably termina-
ting at Philippi or Grafton. The
country to be tapped by both these
lines is rich in iron ore, timber,
limestone, glass sand and the best
of coal and fire clay. The first route
named will give to Kingwood rail
road connections to the north, and
give still easier access from Pitts.
burg to the main line of the Balti-
more a. Ohio.
A corps of engineers has been en-
gagged for the past two weeks in
making survey through Cone
maugh township, in Westmoreland
county, Pa. They are very secretive
and will not disclose the object OF
the survey, but it is the general
opinion that they are engaged by
one of the railroad companies that
have an eye on the Somerset county
coal fields.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
A Card From ''One Of the School.

Will you kindly correct mistake
printed in the Morgantown Post last
week in regard to the Point Marion
Band furnishing the Millroy Union
Sabbath School with music, and in
which it was stated we did not treat
them. We paid them their own price
and also treated them to ice cream,
lemonade and cake. There were three
or four members OF the band who were
not treated, but that was their own fault
as they were away playing pig in the
parlor or hog in the run, do not know
which. We always do by others as we
wish to be done by and don't enjoy be-
ing criticized for what is not our own
fault.
Please do us the kindness to publish
the above.
ONE OF THE SoHooL.
Sent 3-g4
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
A SHOOTING ARRAY.
In Which About Twenty Men Particle
pate.

JANE LEW, w. Va, Aug. 30-A
shooting affair of an exciting nature
took place in Jane Lew on Saturday
night. Jefferson Baylan, hard
character and outlaw, was shot.
About twenty men were engaged in
the trouble. 1t is thought that the
affair will prove fatal. Whisky was
at the bottom of it all.
Baylsn knocked quiet citizen
from horse with stone, which
was the beginning of the trouble.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

and nnobstructed passage Of the
House bill'' might have produced.
"The American people are aroused
as hardly anything else could have
aroused them to the deadly menace
which protection begets to 1he purity
and very existence of free govern
ment."
The Democratic platform in this
campaign. then, must be that which
Mr.. Wilson outlined in his speech
at Martinsburg, and which was in
dorsed in the ringing resolutions of
the convention which nominated
him. There can be no halt in the
march of tariff reform, and no com
promise with trusts and monopolies.
The imperfect tariff bill just passed
must be perfected, and the trusts
which shave challenged the Ameri-
can people to trial of strength"
must be met and vanquished. And
to accomplish these objects the
Democrats of the country should be
careful that their congressional nom
inees really represent Democracy,
and not monopoly. I'VE know"
Mr.. Wilson says, "where to put the
responsibility for our partial failure
to redeem our pledges to the people,
and the latter should be sure that
they are not eleeting men who will
again aid the trusts and monopolists
to write their own taxes. For
the burden upon the people is the
same "whether the trusts use Dem
ocratic or a Republican hand as
their amanuensis." But the wrong
to the people lis infinitely the great
er when those who bear the commits
sion of their own party thus prove
faithless to its highest duties"
Tho fight is fairly on between
true Democracy and monopoly. AS
one of the foremost, most faithful
and ablest representatives of the
former, Mr.. Wilson deserves the
earnest, unAagging and determined
support not only of every man who
is interested in the triumph of pure
government and in the continuation
of popular supremacy.-Baltimore
S,,o
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Times may be hard, but they are
bound to get better in a country
where nearly so per cent of the fam
lilies own their homes. No other
country can even approach such a
showing.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The extraordinary enthusiasm
that characterized the Democratic
convention at Martinsburg, which
renominated Representative William
L. Wilson, shows how strongly the
popular heart has been stirred by
the recent struggle for tariff reform
and how deeply the public mind is
interested in its successful prosecu-
ton. 1t is doubtful if even Mr..
Wilson himself fully realized the
intense feeling which has been
aroused among the rank and file of
the party on this subject. The peo-
pie do not need any urging to keep
them up to the fight 1t is their
battle and they know it and are de-
termined that it shall go on, not
half-heartedly, timidly or languidly,
but with more vigor and earnest
ness than ever The temper of the
Democrats of the second district of
West Virginia is the temper of the
true Democrats in every section of
the Union, and as convention after
convention is held throughout the
country the fires of popular earnest
ness and enthusiasm will grow con-
stantly brighter and stronger.
Mr. Wilson's nomination and ad-
dress of acceptance appropriately
inaugurate the popular campaign of
1894 for tariff reform not only in
West Virginia, but the rest of the
country as well. 1t is the first reg
ular gun of the renewed battle. and
it will be heard throughout the
length and breath of the land. Mr..
Wilson's speech strikes the keynote
of the campaign. AS already said,
there can be but one great issue in
the congressional elections this fall,
and that issue is between the people
on the one hand and trusts and mo.
nopolies on the other. Mr.. Cleve-
laud and Representative Wilson and
other Democratic leaders who have
boldly fought protection and monop-
oily during the recent session of Con-
gress enjoy the public confidence,
and they are the leaders to whom
the people look and in whom they
trust at this juncture. 1t is pecu-
liarly appropriate and fortunate
that Mr.. Wilson, who was the Dem
ocratic leader in the House of Rep
resentatives and who there proved
himself so able and uncompromising
an enemy of trusts, should also
mark out the plan of campaign for
the army of the people in the field
and lay down the principles on
which it should be conducted, as he
did SO clearly and forcibly in his adj
dress at Martinsburg. That plan
of campaign is simple and direct.
In substance it is, "Forward~ The
battle must go on until the princi-
pies and essential features of true
tariff reform have been firmly estab-
lished by law, and until the monop-
olistic influences that opposed the
Wilson bill have been made to sub
nit to the popular will.
Mr.. Wilson and other Democrats
like him, who fought monopoly in
Congress, can, as he well says, claim
that they shave kept the faith"
They shave been true to their prin-
ciplcs," and though all has not been
accomplished that was promised, it
has been through no fault Of theirs.
The very defeat Of their efforts, as
Mr.. Wilson suggests, may result in
the smore complete triumph Of com
mercial freedom than the smooth
N.Y. III
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

QUITE a number Of new students,
either in person or by proxy, have
been here within the past few days
engaging quarters and making ar
engagements for the school year.
Ur to the time of going to press
no returns have been received from
either the Grafton or Elkins Conven-
tions.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Nineteen Of every twenty men in
the United States approve Of the in
come tax. The only kickcrs are the
men VINO will have to give up lit
tie Of their i'll gotten wealth to help
support the government from which
they TT % many favors,
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The opinion is universal that our
young friend Dan Tenant, of Bat
telle, will be the democratic nominee
for representative in the house of del
sgates. Dan is popular young man,
well known in the county, of IRE.
proachable character, and will make
splendid race.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The activity in the wool market
and the advance in price is unac-
countable when we remember that
free wool was to put out the fires of
industry and to scatter misery and
ruin everywhere. Who will ever be-
-heve those high protection orators
aoain2
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

When Gov. Wilson and Thos. B..
Reed get into political discussions
we may expect the fur to fv. The
egotistic New Highlander will have
some of the wind taken out of him.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Ex- Vice President Morton is a
candidate for the Republican nomin-
alton for Governor of New York.
Levi has quite large barrel and
during campaigns keeps it open.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Mr.. Harrison is credited with a
desire to stump New York for Nor
ton. Perhaps he wishes to atone
for taking part in the dirty job that
put Whitelaw Reid on the ticket
with him in '92.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

EVERYBODY smokes Nun Nicer
cigars. The best for bets. Jos. r.
MILLER, Sole Agent Il.
ATTEND Ireland's Commercial
School, Morgantown. St
20 GENTS buys your boy q pair q
knee pants q Hirschmans.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The Jersey woman who was ac-
cused Of having had numerous hus-
bands bitterly denied the accusation
and said that she had only six hus-
hands.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Democrats owe it to themselves to
attend the county convention on the
18th and see that good men are NOM
mated. The democratic party is the
party of the people.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Don't forget the democratic coun-
ty convention on the 18th. The par
ty should turn ont en- masse and
show their approval OF the fight just
made for tariff reform and the relief
Of the people.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08
Democratic County Convention.
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee Of this county has fixed upon

tee Of this county has fixed upon
4 SATURDAY, SEPT. IS, 1894,
at O'Clock, and Georgetown, Grant
District, as the time and place for
holding the county convention to NOM
mate candidates for county offices and
transact such other business as may
come before the convention.
Not only are all the delegates urged
to attend in person but are also re-
quested to take their neighbors along
Good speakers will be present to adj
dress the convention on the political
issues OF the day
J. j. WHARTON, Chm.
A. B. BoUGHNER, Sec'y.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The faucet on Mr.. Elkins' bar'l
seems to be locked. 1t may be got
ten into working order however after
a while.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The calamity croakers are at their
wits end. They cried until they
were hoarse that the Wilson bill if
adopted would ruin the business of
the country. Now that it has be-
come law and business is reviving
everywhere, they say sob well it
can't last" When they find it not
only lasts but continues to increase
it will be difficult to imagine what
they will offer next.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

The Democrats of the Second
Congressional District have their
fighting clothes on and will make it
hot for the Doodle Republicans from
this time until the polls close on the
9th of November.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-08

Not single calamity organ has
made a note of the advance in the
price of wool. Probably they haven't
found it out yet