The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-16
Through The state.

Well, well, WE'LL Fairmont now
has dog with wooden leg.
MARTTSsBURG sent eight Of its pop
ulation to the penitentiary last week.
CAPTAIN G. w. Graham, of Har-
per's Ferry, was recently bitten by
poisonous insect and was obliged to
suffer amputation Of the entire hand.
DIR. S. N. Meyers has been elected
president Of the Merchants and
Farmers bank, OF Martipsburg, in
place Of John w. Bishop, lately de-
ceased
CAHTAIN P. w. Mundy. one of the
Oldest conductors on the b. & o. rail-
road, has been placed on the retired
list. He was reared in Hancock
county and did his first railroad work
in 1850.
AS JOHN SAMMoNs, an aged and re-
spected man who lives on Tug river,
entered his barb one day recently, he
was attacked by jack which he
owned and was kicked TO death by
the beast before assistance could ar
rive.
WHEELING made over 40. 900, 900
stogies last year, and claims TO he tho
greatest stogie-making town in the
United States. The widely circulated
endorsement Of the stogie ~ Tom
Reed seems to have value as an aGyer
tisemcnt
A CERTIFICATES Of incorporation
has been granted to the citizens bank
OF Blueiield One Of the iucorpcra-
tors is Edwin Mann who was fermer-
~ student here and many OF our
readers will remember him.
Hon q. S. G.. Pitzer, of Berkeley
county. is an ayowed candidate for
congressman Dayton's shoes in this
district. This eastern panhandle pol
itician will give the gentleman from
Barbour lively fight for the nomi-
nation if he enters the race.
L. all the towns to the north of
us where the Home telephone com
pany is coming into competition
with the Bell the latter is dropping
their charges The tolls are exces-
size and competition is bound to
bring them down.
THE timber on 1000 acres Of the
lands owned by the late A. w. Will
son, situated at Wilsondale, near the
Mingo county line, has been sold to
parties at Marion Ohio. The pur-
chasers will put three saw alls to
work at once to nanntaciure the
timber.
BUCKHANNoN authorities, accord
ing the the Knight Errand, have at
last got clue to "Jack the Hugger.n
who has been frightening the ladies
OF that town. This miserednl has
carried on his questionable amuse-
ment for some time, but at last they
think clue has been obtained
AT a cooking main near Parkers-
burg last Friday night, 500 sports
were present, and over s., 600 changed
hands. The fights took place OF
Ohio soil, as Judge j. NJ. jackson, of
the Wood county criminal court had
gotten wind of it and had threatened
the extreme penalty of The law
against any one caught at thr fight.
a MAN was arrested Thursday at
Volcano, Wood county, who was sup
posed to be Morgan insolvency, who
murdered William H. Mason at Mar
ietta, o., last week. The MIN an
swered McSweeney's description, but
investigation, by Marietta officer
revealed that the man was not Nc
Sweeney. The Washington county
authorities have offered $205 reward
for the murderer's arrest.
THE Pioneer Press, printed at
Martlnsbure, the leading colored
organ of the State, refers to lion.
sChris." Payne, the colured states
man, Of Fayette, who figured rs the
solitary representative Of hia acc in
the last legislature, as "a rounded
mediocre, hest with fatal fiaeney
of clap~tfap syeophancy,a and uses
other terms about him which no
white mans paper would dare to
print about negro
SOME idea of the attention nat the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad j., now
paying to its passenger traili may
be gained from the fact that Daring
the past eighteen months nearly 800
passeng # cars received Thorough and
ordinary repairs, COG being reprinted
Nearly all of the equipment is now
royal blue, and most of it is equipped
with Pintsch gas, the Pintsch light
being used on local as well as through
trains.
Down is Mississippi a marrige cere-
mony has just been performed by tel
ephone. The bride stood at the end
of the wire in one town and the groom
at the other in another town. A cler-
gyman and witnesses surrounded each
of the contracting parties, and ''cen-
trail attended to it that no time was
wasted. t is to be hoped that the
fond couple to the "hello wedding"
will never get their wires crossed,
and require divorce court to ring
them Off
A NUMBER of coke ovens have been
built along this road above Outcrop
and others are expected to follow
just as soon as the excellence of the
coal they are working on is estab-
lished. For years it has been the
i'll founded idea of Pennsylvania OPP
orators that the coal up this way
was no good. How this could be
the case is hard to understand. The
coal in the same vein down there is
the finest in the world and why it
should change it's nature when it
crossed an imaginary state line is
hard to see The time for the en-
tertainment of such ideas is past
and the invasion of coke plants has
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