Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-08

MeUNDsvILLE is in danger of a re-
turn OF the skating rink craze
THE Albatross, the q. S. steam
yacht, has been taken to lock 9 where
1T has been placed in winter quarters.
VIM. NucKLEs, Jr., living at wy
oma, Mason county, was severely
gored by vicious COW. He is in
critical condition.
OUR prices give your money added
power We can suit and fiji you in a
suit or oyercoat. With our % per
cent reduction on all clothing it will
be big saving to you.-HIRsCHMAN
A PAVEMENT is being laid from
Main to Spruce along the west side
of Wiley street. This is something
which the residents of that section
of town have long wanted.
IAN Anonymous Recital, +" short
story in the Christmas number of
Godey's Magazine, showing unQues-
tionable talent, is from the pen of
young Wheeling writer, Howard Mar
Gus Strong.
THE secretary of the treasury's esti-
mate of appropriations for the next
fiscal year includes among Others the
sum Of $4,000 for the locks and
dams on the river between here and
Fairmont.
BERT FLEMING is building six
room residence and store room on
Wiles addition. He expects to 90
into business in the store room and
rent the residence portion of the
building.
A HOG with eight feet was recently
killed at Wheeling. The four extra
feet were smaller than the feet used
by the porker, and appeared near the
middle joint on the legs. His eight
footed hogship weighed about IT'S
pounds and attracted considerable at
tention.
j. III. TORRANCE & Co., of Lewis
burg, have just finished threshing
the 1897 wheat and oats crop, in
their neighborhood. Messrs. Tor
rance & Co., threshed $1,000 bushels
of wheat and 5000 bushels of oats
for their seasons work. They re-
port that good many crops average
thirty bushels per acre.
JET Roy, living in the "Babb
Place, " in Randolph county, killed a
wolf that measured seven feet from
end OF tail to tip of nose, and weighed
fifty pounds, last week. It was
caught in a trap, which it tore loose
from it's fastening and dragged for
several miles when found and shot
The wolf was the last of pack of
several which had played sad havoc
among the sheep of that section, and
had been hunted in various ways for
thirty years.
AT Princeton, little town of 500
inhabitants, and twelve miles from a
railroad, is located the most prosper
Gus banking institution in the State.
The Princeton Banking Co., was es-
tablished in 1874. Fl. W. Stralcy was
elected president and Capt. H. Scott,
cashier, and both still fill the same
positions. The capital stock was
$25, OO0 The bank now does a year
ly business of over half a million, and
pays from seventy-tve to a hundred
per cent dividends each year. The
President is one of the wealthiest
men in the State.
The Cincinnati Post in spirit of
Journalistic enterprise, in order to
obtain an interview with female
prisoner charged with murder at
Huntington, had one of it's lady cor
espondents, named Helen West,
locked up with the prisoner, on the
charge of having burglarized a store
in Harrison county. OF course she was
released when she got the informa-
ton she wanted, and the facts were
made known. This new journal
ISM is knocking old established
newspaper methods Helen West and
crooked.