Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1897-12-29
THE DAILY NEW DOMINION
MoRGANTowN. DEcEMBER %. 1897
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OFFICE hours s. A. NJ. to II NJ; to
. P. NJ, DIR. A. L. Boyers, dentist,
Crown and bridge work speciality.
DR.. w. E. STEWART, Dentist. First
class, latest dentistry in all its branches
Best sugar cured hams IN town at
nine cents per pound at j. Leonard
Smiths, Main st.
SHEPHERDsTowN was settled in
1927.
THE old stone church at Lewisburg
is l0l years old.
THE Acme people sold over thirty
pounds of fine box candy yesterday.
HUNTINGTON is to have u new five
story business house.
ALLOW of gas has been found at the
new well on Alum Fork, Lewis
county.
GEORGE WASHINGTON was for
ger and he was arrested at Hunting
ton on Wednesday for forging a
check.
Col. George a. Huntington, ed
itor of the Wheeling Intelligencer,
and Miss Florence Kidwell were mar
ried in Washington on Wednesday.
THE latest London fad is to have
photograph taken in your night
clothes We hope that it may be
headed off before its arrival in Nor
gantown.
WYOMING prisoners have been
found with revolvers, ropes, axes, etc,
on several occasions. Evidently some
of their friends are trying to help
them out of trouble.
HUNTING ION commission men
have been victimized by New York
sharpers. One man alone lost 5000
turkeys by accepting a worthless
draft in payment for them.
THE Lincoln News claims that the
delinquent land sale in that county
has not been advertised long enough
to make the sale legal and advises
prospective purchasers not to buy.
Tom Collins is serving life sem
tence for killing G. & o. passenger
while trying to hold up the f. F. V.
train at Huntington. His friends
are circulating petition for his
pardon.
ALL bills with the DAILY New
DOMINION are always due and are
payable weekly. Subscriptions are
in advance An order either for
subscription or advertising is paya-
BILE on sight
THE Davis Coal and Coke Co., of
Kedmont, have just completed 100
pew coke ovens. They also handle
the product of four other companies,
and are still hardly able to keep up
with their orders.
THE annual meeting Of the stock
. holders Of the Monongalia Navigation
company has been called for January
80. Officers will be elected for the
ensuing year. The affairs of the COM
pany will not be wound up for some
time to come, as there remains much
business to be settled.
A recent decision of the Secretary
of the Interior is that no soldier is
entitled to pension on account of
wounds due to his own carelessness.
The test case was that Of soldier on
a fiat car cleaning his gun with the
znuzzle resting on his foot, pulled the
trigger to see If the gun was loaded,
sending the bullet through his foot
THIS paper takes pleasure in stat
ing that an article published in it
some time ago In reference to new
trial for Musgrave was entirely true
and was the exact language Of the
assistant prosecuting attorney. The
statements used in reference to thetrial
were made in the Peabody Office in
the presence of several people and no
injunction as to it being kept secret
was made.
The Hill at Tunnelton, where the
big b. & 0. tunnel goes under the
mountain, is settling perceptibly. A
big crack several feet deep and so feet
long has appeared in the hill side near
some residences. In several places
cracks have been seen. Fences have
been twisted out of shape by the set
Ting or the earth, and the houses
seem to be settling. Fears are en-
tertained of collapse by the people
of the town.
SPARRow's fine candy is sold only
at the Acme See their window.
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