The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-11-17

a meeting last night but were pre-
vented by the absence of Mr. Frank
Cox. The heater matter will not like
ly be taken up for settlement for a
week or ten days yet, as the board
wishes to be entirely certain that
what they do is exactly right.
FoUR OF MADEIRA Bros. newsboys
are hustling 6o a prize which has
been offered to tb, boy who sells the
greatest number of Sunday papers
| between now and Christmas. The
names of the contestants are Isaac
Williams, Nose Smith, Lowry Hen
derson and Jim Smith.
THIS time it is the estate of Lord
George Walden, estimated to be
worth $40, 600, 900, for which Ameri-
can heirs are wanted. The Buck
harmon Banner says that J.. W.
Walden, of that town, is direct
heir, and his share will be something
| like half million, should the estate
be secured,
One night last week, at West I'm
ion, the water works advocates cele-
brated their victory by laying out
graveyard on Main street and ded-
icating one grave therein to each of
the prominent citizens who had OPP
posed the improvements. A proper
ly inscribed headstone marked the
victims of the joke who were about
the liveliest set of corpses WestUnion
ever had.
WEATHER prophets tell us that
unless all signs fail this winter will
be universally severe. The heavy per-
simmon crop means hard winter;
the large crop of acorns and locusts
indicate severe winter. Old people
say that when the skin or peeling of
the apple is thick you may expect
hard winter weather The outside OF
the apple never was tougher than it
is this year.
LAST Sunday night about dozen
drillers and rig men wound up a
drunken bout in the Elk Fork oil
field near Sistersville by beating a
young man named Thompson in so
fiendish manner that he died from
the effects of his injuries Tuesday
They had proposed that Thompson
should drink pint If whisky, and
he only succeeded in drinking half
the quantity, for which delinquency
they dubbed him to death.
THERE appears to be an epidemic
of school house burning in West
Virginia. A school building at Rich
ardson, Writ county. was burned
down the latter part of last week.
This state of affairs is anything but
pleasant to contemplate. The cul-
prits who are doing this should be
brought to justice, and sufficient re-
ward should be offered for the appre-
hension of the flends to induce de-
tectives of experience to work on the
cases.
In dry goods and notions we still
have a complete stock. And in
cantons, Neutrality-suspicious., calicoes,
outing cloth, underwear, gloves,
mems shirts, trunks, telescopes, and
in fact any thing in mems furnish
ing goods, we have and can save you
money on. Remember that we take
your butter, eggs, chickens turkeys
and potatoes along with your case
in exchange for our goods. Cali on
Hutchinson Il Jacobs, Little Falls,
w. Va
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rcceivrd letter from w. f. Glass
cock who is at Mount Clemens,
Mich, taking the baths for rheuma-
tism. The colonel writes that he is
very much taken with the course
and that he is improving even faster
than the physicians promised him
he would A letter from Mrs. Glass
cock says that she too is delighted
with the prospect of Mr.. Glasscock's
complete recovery. They will return
about December 9Th.
LUTHER JACOBS had narrow es-
cape for his life last Tuesday morn
ing. He had been indisposed for
several days and the day before went
to physician who prescribed : for
him He took his medicine home
and laid it on the mantel beside
corrosive sublimate. On the day
above mentioned he swallowed a
considerable amount of the poison
GUS drug installing it for that which
the physician had prescribed for
him. He.hastened to the physicians
office and was given medicine to
throw up, it is supposed, all the poi-
son he had swallowed. At this writ
ing he is thought to be out of dan
ger.-Inder.
One of the latest and most unique
railroad inventions is baggage car
bicycle carrier, invented at the Mt.
Glare shops OF the Baltimore & Ohio.
1t will soon be introduced on several
of the Baltimore d Ohio cars. The
device consists of two plush padded
iron fingers placed far enough apart
and at sufficient angle to catch the
lower forward truss bar and the up
right brace in a bicycle frame and
hold it securely There is an auxil-
larry piece Of iron also padded, which
reaches far enough forward to pre-
vent side motion of the front wheel.
These bicycle carriers are placed
along each side of the baggage car,
near the top, leaving enough head
room for the handle bars just to
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