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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
River Ice Feared.
Pittsburg Press.

Both of the rivers are putting out
a great deal of ice this morning, and
a complete freeze-up is looked for to
night. The Allegheny is sending
out the most ice, and all boats lying
along the shores have been made
safe, as the ice is heavy enough to
cause great deal of damage if it
gets the chance. The reports from
the headwaters of the Allegheny
state that the river is frozen tight
for several miles, and should the
cold weather continue for a few days,
until the ice gets heavy enough it
will cause great deal of damage
when it breaks up. The operators
along the Monongahela will attempt
to keep this river open, and have
sent all the boats which were tied in
the harbour up into the pools to
keep the channel from closing.
While this is an expensive way to
keep the river open it saves a great
deal of money in the end, as should
the river freeze tight all of the load
ed boats now in the pools would be
in danger of being sunk when the
ice broke The Morgantown packet
did not arrive until almost | o'clock
on account of the ice which formed
during the night The captain re-
ports considerable ice in the river
above lock No. 3, and says it will
cause damage before it goes out, as
it is gorging at the dams and back
ing up into the pools.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
GREATEST RIVER SYSTEM.
The Peaceful Monongahela Is Tribu-
tary OF the Mississippi.
From the Charleroi Mirror.


Few people appreciate the magni-
tude of our river system. Many of
us living on the banks of the Monon-
gahela have seen it's peaceful flow and
turbulent flood year after year and
yet it never once occurred TO us that
it is part of the greatest river sys~
tenn in the world, and whose posi-
bilities, commercial and otherwise,
are not even approached by any other
connected set OF navigable streams.
The rivers which form the Missis-
sippi system and flow through her
channel into the Gulf of Mexico have
auaggregate length of over 100000
miles. All the rest of the great
river systems of the globe put to-
gether do not come up to this The
area of the territory drained by the
Mississippi and her tributaries is
nearly ZOO, 900 square miles. The
population of this territory is over
%, 600, 600.
The commerce OF this great river
system was carried on In 1880 by -
453 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage
OF ,, 800, $40 and a value OF SIS, 535,
600.
And so rich is that commerce that
its annual gross earnings exceed the
total value of the engaged in 1t by
nearly a million dollars. 1t carries
nearly 11,600,0o0 passengers and
nearly 80, 600, 600 tons of freight per
year.
A steamboat may leave a point on
the Monongahela any day and before
she returns she can visit IS states
without passing through any artificial
channel She can 20 up the Allegh-
eny, the kanawha, the Big Sandy,
the Kentucky, the Wabash, the Ten
nessee and the Cumberland clear In.
to Alabama before reaching the
mouth OF the Ohio.
Below Cairo she can traverse not
only the Mississippi but the st.
Francis, the Arkansas, the White,
the Red, the Yazoo, the Tallahaehee,
the Ouachita, the great hayous and
all the tributaries of the streams.
Above Cairo lies the Upper Missis-
sippi, the Illinois, the Missouri, the
Yellowstone, the Platte, the Big
Horn and a score of tributaries to all
| these
The steamboat can land at 1850
cities and towns before she returns
to her starting point.
The great lake system does not
compare with this system except that
vessels of larger tonnage can navigate
there And best of all is that from
one end to the other there are no tolls
to pay or customs officers to levy trib-
ute upon this voyage.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
STAY AWAY FROM ALASKA.
Hundred of People Destitute in the
KIOndike.

Capt. Ray of the military department,
sent out by the secretary of war to
examine and report on the outlook
in the new gold fields, gives a timely
warning to prospective adventures
to that barren land He says that
there is no employment for any large
number Of people in any capacity.
All values are speculative. There
is no fixed standard for labor
There is not now or likely to be with
in IL months, adequate or efficient
means of supplying people now in
Alaska or northwest territory Capt.
Ray is Of the opinion that only about
per cent of all the people who have
entered the Klondike country during
the past year have earned their living,
and hundreds are now scattered along
the river destitute of food, clothing
and money. People coming in have
not had the faintest conception what
to do to earn living, and after
spending the money they bring, be-
come daZed and helpless
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
Report of Morgantown Public school.


The following are the names OF pu-
pills neither absent nor tardy for the
month ending January %, 1898:
High SCHOOL,. M. Jaco, principal,
and Lynne Waddell, assistant: Boys
Bert Bennett, Walter Davis, Hollis
Jenkins, Marshall Jones. Girls
Daisy Fleming, Maud Tough, Iris
Tenant, Mary Wotnng, Chloe Mil
ler
Grammar school, grade A = Josie
Kunkle, teacher: Boys-Paul Green.
Harry Selby, James Stewart Carl Wa
teas. Grade Is: Girls Belle Darl.
ing, Bessie Hartigan, Della Hess, Ell
tic Jenkins, Kittie Jenkins. Beulah
Keener, Lima Vance. Boys-John
Protzman, Odel Tenant.
intermediate department, grade A
Laura Shisler, teacher Girls
Pearl Courtney, Katie Fitch, Nellie
Steele, Bessie Protzman, Lucy VIII
son. Boys Everett Darling, Ralph
Johnson, Jessie Jones, Donald Ross,
Lloyd Selby, James Turner, Archie
Weaver. Grade Billie Bernhardt
teacher: Girls-Hazel Gretn, Flor
ence Mccoy, Mary Skinner, Jennie
Skinner, Jessie Capehart. Boys
William Skinner, Jay Protzman, Glenn
Markley. Ross Brand.
Primary department, grade A--Em-
ma Boughner, teacher: Girls--Grace
Arnett, Mamie Hess, Ada Kiger, Luz
la Layton, Mary Mestrezat, Jessie
Madigan, Gail Mclaughlin, Lydia
Watts, Jennie Pickup, Goldie Sheets.
Boys-Harry CARNEY, Emery Hess,
Ralph Kinderman, Roger McClutcheon
and Carl Protzman.
Primary department, grade B-Ella
Simpson, teacher: Girls-Alta Hawk,
Bessie Nuzum, Mabel Keener. Boys
BERTHE Kinlaid, Noel Weaver, Fred
Hiser, Jessie Hall, Robert Bowie,
Charles White, Wallace Casteel, Roy
Baumgardner.
Primary department, grade C--1da
Hackney. teacher: Girls--Reuby Deu-
senberry, Edith Myers, Buna Cape
hart. Boys-Guy Bailey, Earl Ford,
Roy Mclaughlin, James Reed, Ray
Robe, Roy Watson.
j Primary department, grade G--Tida
Bailey, teacher Boys = Johr H.
Frankenberry, Dorsey Ford, Clarence
Myers, Ouley Watson Girls Edna
Kelley, Bertha Pixler, Helen Perdeu,
Margaret Skinner, Catharine Yates.
Avenue school, Minnie Wotring,
teacher: Girls-Alois Stenger, Della
Holyield, Bessie Rosenmerkle, Ida
Stein, Cecilia Seigwart, Isabel Stem
ger, Mary Thalman, Katie Thalman
Myrtle Figle. Boys hauncey Lew
ellen, Kilion Lohry, Lee Mcclellan,
Joe Minder, Luke Thalman.
! Colored School, A. G. Smith, teach
er: Girls-Eya Brown, Jessie Hol
land, Lille Henshaw. Adie Johnson
Velma Snider. Boys-Clark Harris,
Ray Smith, Thos. Ward.
HARVEY BRAND, Supt.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
Mrs. Barbe Entertains.

On Wednesday evening Mrs. Wait
man Barbe entertained few of her
friends at card party. Those pres
ent were delightfully."- entertained
and enjoyed themselves to the full
Refreshments were served during
the course of the evening. Those
present were: Mrs Seip, of Pitts
burg, Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Davenport,
Misses Ollie Hite, Maud McVicker,
Cora and Margaret Donley and
Messrs. r. L. Morris and ] l..
Wharton.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
CLOSING SALOONS.
In Tyler County-Deputy's Sheriffs
Pour Liquor Into the Streets.

SIsTERsvILLE, w. Va, Feb. s.
Word was received here late this
evening, that a score of deputy sher-
ifs went to Elk Fork from Middle
bourne, this afternoon, and, after ar
resting all the speak-easy proprietors
they could find, went into the sa-
looms, threw all the liquors they
could find into the street and de-
stroyed it. For a short time it looked
as though there might be some
trouble there on account of the crowd
which gathered, but some of the
cooler headed finally got the hot ones
to quiet down and neither the officers
nor their prisoners w(fe molested.
To-day four O. tt,' saloons in this
city were closed on injunctions issued
by the prosecuting attorney. The
places closed are the Brilliant Cafe,
Arlington Hotel, Thompson's Hotel
and Hollis place
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
777777777777'777 2 - -
MAN MISSING.
Charles e. Hrrr, Of Pittsburg, Who
Disappeared at Moundsyille over
Two Weeks Ago, Has Not Been
Heard From.


There is as yet no trace OF Charles
E. Harr, the Pittsburg travelling man,
who disappeared at Moundsville on
the afternoon Of Jan. l9 last, and
his relatives and friends, some Of
whom live here, are very anxious
about him, and are entirely unable
to account for his whereabouts.
Mr.. Harr who is 80 years OF age,
travelled for the Pittsburg Dry Goods
Company, for which firm his father
has worked for twenty years. On
the morning of January II the miss
ing man arrived at Moundsyille,
where he had a number OF customers,
and stopped at the Hotel johnson.
He attended TO business in the morn
ing, ate his dinner and after dinner
talked for time with the prosecuI
ting attorney. He left the hotel
about half-past one TO see couple
of business men, and talked to one
wards. He intended to go home
that evening. After leaving his
friends on the street he was never
seen again. His samples and bag
gage were left at the hotel. He only
took small amount of money not
sufficient to have taken him any dis
lance, and his disappearance is a
complete mystery. He is the second
man who has thus mysteriously dis
appeared in Moundsuille in the last
five months.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
THEY FAVOR 1T.
Sunnysiders Are Unanimous for
the New Town of Seneca.

Resolutions Adopted by the Meeting
Last Night-COmmittee Appointed to
Confer with the Beechurst People
All Concerned are in Favor Of the
Plan-A Unanimous Vote is Expected
on the Incorporation scheme The
New Town will be in Running Order
by the First of April.
The citizens OF Sunnyside had a
meeting last night to consider the
matter of incorporation with Beech
hurst which is to be voted on to
morrow. The sentiment of the meet
ing was as was predicted in this pa
per yesterday they will vote for
the incorporation and will make the
best terms for their section of the
new town possible.
The meeting was held in Wood
sons store and was very well attend
ed about thirty voters being present.
The meeting was organized with
Rev l. A. Barnes as chairman and
George Barbe as secretary. Not very
mu, h discussion was INDUCED in as
the sense of the meeting was voiced
by those who first took the floor and
there was no dissention to their re-
marks. Dir. Reynolds made the prin-
cipal talk and advised the people
over there to go into the new town
and help in every way to make it a
success
Resolutions were drawn up in ia
vor OF the move and they were unan-
imously passed A committee of
three were appointed to confer with
the Beechurst people and to come to
some agreement with them over the
policy of the new town. This com
mittee was composed of Rev. Barnes
and Messrs. Barbe and Conner. 1t
has conferred with the avenue voters
and the matter is now understood
between them. The voting to NOR
row seems nov likely to result in a
practically unanimous vote for the
plan
The avenue people will leave the
greater part of the government Of
the town to the Sunnyside residents
and the utmost harmony will pre-,
vail. This is as it should be and is
source of qualification to all inter.
ested. By the first of April the
town OF Seneca will have gotten
down to business and will have ev-
erything well started on the career
as the fourth municipality of the
county in point of formation, but
much nearer the head of the process
sion in regards to influence and
standing. Two voting places will
be established and full vote will
be polled in favor of the scheme
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
A FUNNY MIX.
Neither Side of the Musgraye
Case is Ready for Trial.

State Can't Get its Witnesses and the
Defense Can't show that their Client
Has Been Granted New Trial-Man-
date of the Supreme Court Has Not
Arrived Here = Counsel tell Each
Other their Plans aud spoil Pretty
Situation = Case will be Postponed
Probably.
The trial of Musgraye will not like
ly take place at this term of court.
This will not come from the fact that
neither side will be ready for trial or
that the state will be able to get the
court to grant continuance, but it
will be asked for by both sides. A
funny thing has been discovered.
The defense has been saying that they
would force the matter to trial,
but if they had they would have re-
ceiyed d great surprise. The mandate
for the new trial has not yet been
received.
Had the defense insisted on the
case being taken up for the final de-
.cision they would have waived all
,other rights than d right to a new
trial, and since the mandate has not
been received by the court there would
have been nothing on the record but
the fact that Musgrave had been tried
and sentenced to life Imprisonment
in the penitentiary. The state would
have asked that the sentence of the
court be carried out and that the mat
ter be disposed of as the defense had
insisted on it against their desires.
This would have come as bomshell
to the defense, but the anxiety Of the
various counsel to show how badly
they had each other spoiled this ro-
hardly ask that the case be finally dis
posed of unless they get the mandate
for the trial the next few days.
Not only has this not been sent but
the opinion has never been received.
The syllabus has come but not to the
lawyers in the case, but having been
received by The Bar for publication
and by it given to the counsel. Meth
er side knows how to go at the trial of
the case as the opinion of the court
knocks out lot of evidence that
might otherwise be presented.
Whether or not the court here
would send the man to the pen
simply because nothing had been pre-
sented to show that new trial had
been granted, when the fact that it
had been allowed was indisputable,
is problematical. He would probably
order postponement until the papers
could be brought before him. That
is what will likely be done. The case
will be poStnoned until June.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
Dropped Dead.

Yesterday morning while attend
ing to the heaters in the basement of
building at Kingwood David G. Ma
near fell dead. He had been troubled
for years with heart disease but was
apparently in the best of health on
yesterday. His body was found a
half hour afterwards, and from the
circumstances it was plainly seen how
he came to his death, and no inquest
was considered necessary. He was
about 81 years old, man of excellent
disposition and well thought of by
every one. The funeral will be held
tomorrow. He has brother, Thorn
as, who is a resident of Morgantown.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
MORE PARTICULARS.
A Fairmont Dispatch Tells Of the Mon-
tana Fire.

FAIRMoNT, w. VA, Feb. 2.--The
large store building belonging to the
Montana Coal and Coke company, To-
Gated at its mines on the f., NJ. & p
railroad, was burned this morning
shortly after one O'Clock. The first
story was filed with general mer-
chandise stock, which was total loss.
The second story was occupied as
dwellings by G. G. Michael, the man
ager Of the store, and DR.. F. w. Hill,
the company's physician. They lost
everything as the fire was burning
tiercely when they were awakened.
DR. Hill and his wife were absent, he
having been summoned to the bedside
of his mother, who lives in Pennsyl-
vania. Mr.. Michael, besides losing
all his effects, lost considerable
money.
AS the store building could not be
saved the hose was turned onto the
coal tipple which stands across the
railroad. This was not damaged.
The loss will amount to about $35, 900,
with about $50, 900 insurance The
fire is supposed to have started in the
Office, which was at the north end,
the brisk wind driving the flames
into the main store room.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04

CHAs. o. ScULL, who recently re-
signed his position as general pas
senger agent of the Pittsburg &
Western railroad, has been made
manager of the United States Fidel-
ity d Guaranty company, of Balti-
more. He will have charge of the
giving of bonds by railroad employ
es for the faithful discharge of their
duties. Mr.. Scull was until few
years ago assistant general agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burg, with headquarters in Pitts
burg.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04

THE people living in the Yough
valley have the sympathy of the res
idents of this valley in their fight for
the improvement oftheir river. Such
an improvement will be felt in every
avenue of trade and they should
renew their efforts. There is more
profit in the government Stacking
the rivers of the country than in
building unnecessary and expensive
government buildings in places
where they are not needed.
Get your razors honed at Adam
Bowers barber shop.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
NARROW ESCAPE.
A Nartinsburg Man Almost Asphyxiat-
ed at a Grafton Hotel.

GRAFTON, w. Va, Feb. 2.-Jas.
G. WEIGH, of Martinsburg, was found
in his room at the Central Hotel at
6 o'clock this morning unconscious
from asphyxiation. Medical aid was
summoned and two physicians worked
until noon before he regained con-
seriousness. He had turned the nat
ural gas in the stove on full with the
damper turned down. He will re-
cover.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
To visit West Indian Waters.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Orders
have been given by Secretary Long
to have the big armored cruiser
Brooklyn make a cruise through the
West Indias and especially among the
Windward Islands, ST Thomas and
st. Cruz. This is resumption OF
the old practice as to winter cruises.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
LOnnie Pre,zman Married.


The following has been received by
the friends of Alonzo Protzman Of
this place, but who is now in Wash
ington. He has a good position in
the senate and is doing we'll. The
announcement comes as a great sur
prise to the family who had no idea
that he was to be married The an
nouncement is as follows:
A. Alonzo Protzman,
to
Florence Healey,
Married, Tuesday, February LIST,
Eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,
Washington, d. G.
At home
1927 F ST., N. f.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04
For Rent.

A large Office room on the second
floor Of the Miller block on Main
street. Suitable for Office or lodging
room. Apply to j. r, Miller.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04

VALENTINES from 1c to $500 at
MADEIRA Bros.
Como Valentines at the Acme.
A FRESH supply of Whitman's Sc
lect candy-sold only at Madera's.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-02-04

The prettiest line Of Novelty Val
entines ever shown at MADEIRA Bros.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-27
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

The following Is the platform adopted
by the republican party Of Oregon in
ssfe convention assembled, at Astoria,
Thurs ay, April IA, 1898:
''Ws, the republican voters of the
state of oregon, in convention assem-
bled, congratulate the people of the
state as well as of the whole nation on
the unmistakable fact that the dark
cloud of adversely, which has hung like
pail over our fair land, has been dis
sipated. We recognize that the return
of prosperity is due to the restoration
Of the republican party to power.
1--WE are in favor of the maintenance
Of the present gold standard; we are
unqualihedly opposed to the free coin
age of silver and to all other schemes
booking to the debasement Of the cur.
rency and the population of debt. We
believe that the best money in the
world is none too good to be assured
by the government to the laborer as
the fruit of his toll and to the farmer
as the price Of his crop. We condemn
the continued agitation of free silver
as calculated to jeopardise the prosper
ity of the country and to shake the
confidence of the people in the main
tenance of a wise financial policy; we
particularly condemn as unpatriotic,
the efforts of the free silver agitators
to array class against class and Sec
ton against section; we declare that
the interests of all classes and of all
sections of our country alike demand
sound and stable financial system.
while we deplore the imminence of
war, we recognize that the country is
the of nndartalarf
the vindication of the national honor
and the performance Of work dictated
by every instinct of humanity; we de-
clare that the administration is en-
titled in this conflict to the confidence
and support of the entire people.
I'VE are firmly attached to the prin-
ciples of the federal constitution; we
recognize that representative govern
.ment is one of these principles, and we
are opposed to any change in law or
constitution which will abrogate this
time-honored principle.
I'VE are in favor of retrenchment
and reform in state and county mat
ters.
1--WE demand strict economy in pub
lie affairs, and the abolition of all
needless offices and commissions.
''The salmon fishing industry, so
fruitful source of revenue to the
state. should be fostered, and to that
end we favor state aid In the artificial
propagation of salmon, and their dis
tribution in the waters of the state.
I'VE reaffirm our allegiance to the
principles of the republican party of
the United States, as enunciatedi by
the republican convention in st. Louis
in 1896.
1--WE denounce the fusion party Of
Oregon as an aggregation of spolls-
men, who are ready to subordinate
principles to offices. Each Of the par
ties to this compact Is willing to stul-
tify itself and form alliances with ele-
ments which 1t has heretofore de-
nounced as dangerous and unfit to be
intrusted with power; we declare that
good government cannot come from
such an alliance"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-05-27

"If any of ye know just cause or impedi-
ment why these two persons should not be
Joined together in Holy Matrimony, ye are
to declare it, or forever after hold your
peace" If physicians obeyed this solemn
Rdmonition in the marriage ceremony and
protested with the honest and scientific rea-
sons in their possession half of the unhaPpi-
ness, sickness and death in the world would
cease to exist. The man or woman who has
developed symptoms of that dread disease
consumption should not marry until cured.
Consumption should bar the way TO welded
life. It Is a crime to transmit TO future gen.
erations the death dealing germs in the
blood of the consumptiYe.
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