The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-01-12
State Notes.

TRINITY Episcopal church, at Par
kersburg, will be enlarged and i'm
proved at cost of $4,000
q THE Bank of Marlinton will open
for business in the spring. This
bank was chartered in 1891 and a
building was erected.
SIXTEEN men operating in the new
mines at Kingwood produce an out
put of two cars of coal daily. Pros
poets for big mine are flattering.
POINT PEASANTS mayor issued a
proclamation forbidding the shoot
ing or the display of fire works on
the streets on Christmas day.
THOMAS G. Chiffon, G. s. O.
brakeman, was knocked off moving
train near Hinton and received a Sc
we're scalp wound.
The Elizabeth Times has been sold
to B. E. and w. G.. Hane, at Parkers-
burg. who promise to make it one of
the brightest Republican papers in
the state.
AT Martinsburg, last Sunday, Rev.
Washington, colored told his flock
the negro race would be much better
off If there were fewer S. hats on
cent heads.
THE Standard Oil Co. is negot lat
ing for piece of land near the o. r.
II, yards on which to erect steel oil
tanks, and will make Point Pleasant
a distributing point.
SSisERIFF TARLroN's shortage in
Richie county will reach $4,000.
His assets and uncollected taxes will
reach $4,000. All his property has
been turned over to his bondsraen
IRA COLLINS and party of ten
men are getting out ties near Will
Hanson for the Ironton Cross Tie
Company. They have established
camp and will spend the winter in
the timber regions of Mingo
WEST Virginia's well known news
paper editor, Hon. A. w. Campbell,
returned to his home in Wheeling
this week, after an absence of nearly
a year, during which he has Travelled
over considerable portion of the
west.
PARKERsBURG is overrun with
tramps. They took possession of
school house recently and used the
furniture for fuel. The stone pile
has been abolished and the town is a
regular headquarters for the knights
of the road
S. B. WOODS, Of the firm of Woods,
& Sou, was found dead at his home
at Oak Hill, this week. Woods was
an old confederate soldier, and one of
the leading merchants of Fayette
county. Heart failure was the cause
of his death.
THE West Virginia Central Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Society was
organized in Clarksburg, Jan. 1.
They will have in charge arrange
ments for and direct special energies
toward the success of the Clarksburg
fair of September '9S.
In the Graves divorce case in
Huntington, Judge Doolittle refused
Mr.. Graves petition for divorce, and
continued the plea of Mrs. Graves I'M
til the next term of court, when the
question of alimony will also be de-
termined upon.
WHILE shoveling dirt for the plac-
ing of telephone poles. at Wheeling,
last Friday, workman threw up a
coin, which, being frightened, reveal
ed the date 1897. The finder has a
superstitious idea regarding the date
of the coin and will preserve it as
having special value.
TILGHMAN GORE, of Clarksburg,
has family relic that he prizes very
highly in the shape of an old clock
that was made in l777. For hum
bred and twenty years the ancient
time piece has been measuring off
the hours, and is still doing business
from force OF habit at the old stand.
VIM. Blake, Jr., son of Editor Blake,
of the West Virginia News, published
at Ronceyerte, has been furnishing
creditable amateur Illustrations for
that paper. Among the latest is
cut of Col. Robert w. Eastman, the
Parsons shootist and Archie Watkins;
whose recent mysterious disappearance
is puzzling Hinton.
DEPUTY q. S. Marshal G. e. Stall
maker has run down Bill Ayers,
Greenbrier counterfeiter. The scene
LOT Ayers operations was Webster
county. He was taken from Camden
on Gauley to Sutton, and given a
hearing before U. S. Commissioner w.
f. Hines, and committed to Parkers-
burg Jail to await the action Of the
U. S. grand jury.
SEVERAL days ago, at Preston, Min
eral CO., John j. Oyerton, aged one
hundred years, became the husband
of Mrs Mary J. Henderson, aged
seventy-seven. After the ceremony
had been performed the happy couple
drove twenty miles to the groom's
residence, where they will make
their home. The couple is said to be
the Oldest bride and groom in the
country.
On last Tuesday a monster black
bear was run across and shot by our
sportsman, Willis w. Cork, on DAY.
isson Run, about two miles from
tcwn. 1t was fine buck, about
FIVE years old and weighed when
dressed l40 pounds. 1t was sold to
Butcher John Candy where 1t Is now
on exhibition and Will be served to-
his patrons. The skin was sold to
an eastern furrier and brought els,---
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