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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
MAN MISSING.
Charles E. Hrrr, Of Pittsburg, Who
Disappeared at MoundsviIle Over
Two Weeks Ago. Has Not Been
Heard From.

There is as yet trace of Charles
e. Harr, the Pittsba;s travelling man,
who disappeared at Moundsville on
the afternoon OF Jan. 10 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 IA the miss
ing man arrived at MOundsyille,
where he had 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 prosecu-
ting attorney. He left the hotel
about half-past one to see couple
of business men, and talked to one
of them on the street shortly after
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.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
River Ice Feared.

Both Of the rivers are putting out
Il 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 a great deal of damage if it
gets the chance. The reports hon
the headwaters of the Aleghe nv
state that the river is frozen tight
for severa, miles, and should the
cold weather continue for 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
mt all the boats which were tied in
the harbour up into the pools tc
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 shounl
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 lcck No. 3, and says it will
cause damage before it goes out, as
it is gorging at the DANG and back
ing up into the pools.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
West Siders Faxed.

Within the last two weeks the
people of the west side of the river
from here to Laurel Point have
been victimized by young stranger.
He calls at all the houses and says
that he is a representative of the Sc
neca glass company and that he is
selling soap and tumblers. Three
cakes of soap and half dozen tum-
blers Three cakes of soap and a
halt dozen tumblers are to be given
for Is cents Most people are inter
ested in the local company and a
chance to get some of their product
so cheap is eagerly snapped at. The
money secured the fellow says that
he will be back in short time with
the tumblers but so far no one has
seen him.
The number of his victims can't
be found but at one place shortly
after he started he had sold twenty
two families The people are not
very much disturbed over the mat
ter as they think that they have re-
ceived the worth of their money in
the soap but it is d. swindle all the
same 1t is claimed that he is a
resident of this place but inquiry
has failed to find anything about
him. The name given is Davis.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
Snan and Ginger.

The three following items are from
the State Journal:
Fairmont is to have an electric
street car line-maybe and tenn
perance convention surely. The
former is chiefly promoted by Col.
A. Howard Fleming, and the latter
by the no-thank- you'll never take
anything people, who will put a
ticket in the municipal contest
The athletic association now being
organized at the University has
elected temporary board of direc-
tors. Basket ball games will be the
"go" from now on. There are thirty
members of this association, which
is the same that G. Bentley Hender-
shot gave a hypnotic performance
for its benefit recently.
The latest acquisition to the Jack
the so-and-so type comes from Nor
gantown. 1t is a man who dresses
peculiarly and disdains to reply to
the salutations Of curious passers-
by He wears sun bonnet, fur
coat, and carries club, thus seem
ing to be equipped for all sorts of
rapid contortions of West Virginia
weather and armed to prosecute the
business of fool killer, which we
venture to say, would keep him busy
if he entered upon that pastime in
that drowsy little hamlet.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09

THE BAKER FORTUNE AGAIN.
President Hart Claims Spies Attended
the Tifiin Meeting.

President S. j. Hart of the Baker
Hers association of Upper Sandus-
ky, O., has issued the following
notice. My attention has been
called to an article expressly intend
ed to discourage the Baker heirs. This
article has been extensively repro
duced in the local papers of the
country Such e 'os do not stand
to run alone; there 10 a power be-
hind it. This move on the part of
the enemy is no surprise to us.
Their safest and cheapest way to
fight us is to discourage investiga-
ton. Thousands of people are now
living on our lands in and around
Philadelphia. They had their spies
at the Tiffin meeting. Their spies
have visited me here at Upper San
dusky. Don't let them discourage
and deceive you If we have an es-
tate in Philadelphia we will soon
find out and at little expense. Let
us move forward promptly without
the loss of single person from our
ranks as agreed upon at Tiffin, and
we will soon know whether or not
we are building upon rock"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09

Has a Great State any Business
Conscience or Liability?
Prom, Tho Rar


The proceeding now going on at
Charleston, of collecting the initial
tax on corporations second time,
has no warrant either in moral OF
civil law.
Such a proceeding we regard as a
reproach to the moral sense and bust
ness integrity OF the state. 1t is adj
mitted that these taxes were in good
faith paid by the corporations: the
money was received by an officer of
the state: aud now the state is suing
both the officer to recover the fees
which these corporations paid him,
and suing the corporations to re-
cover the same fees second time.
We submit that if business
man should act thus in matter of
private business he would lose char
acter and credit in any business
community Is great state under
no obligations to observe the com
mon principles Of business integrity?
1t is an elementary and fundament-
al principle of the law of agency
that when a man allows another to
hold himself out as his agent, and
stands by silently permitting the
public to deal with him as his agent,
he is as much bound by his. acts as
though he had express authority to
so act as his agent.
For four years the state of West
Virginia stood by and saw the sec
rotary of state collecting the state
tax on corporations. Not word of
protest or dissent was made from any
quarter. Everybody seemed TO recog-
nize the authority of the secretary
of state to collect these taxes. In
deed, we think the secretary of state
has been recognized as the proper
officer to do SO, from the very founda-
tion of the state. No other person
was waiting or willing to receive
them. The corporations paid their
money into the hands of the only
officer the state put forward to collect
them.
Now when the state finds that
its officer and agent put this money
in his pocket and is unable to pay,
for the first time it discovers that
he was not legally authorized to re-
ceiye the money; proposes TO repu-
date the payments to him; and pro-
ceeds to collect the money a second
time from the corporations.
We say this is not honest, and it
is not law.
The state of West Virginia cannot
afford to do this thing.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
WAS HOSKINS' MURDERED?
Capt. Heaton Suspects Foul
Play in this Case.
The Body never Recovered-Suspicious
Circumstances Surrounding the Nor
gantown Mans Death.
Parkersburg journal.

City Detective Heaton went out
to Kanawha Station Saturday to in
vestigate the circumstances sur
rounding the drowning of Jerry Hos
kins, of Morgantown, which was re-
ported to have taken place near Ka-
nawha about two weeks ago.
He found that the body had not
only not been recovered but that no
efforts had been made to find it, as
the drowned man seemed to have no
friends in this part of the State.
Taylor, the man who owned the
houseboat, which was moored near
the place where the alleged drowning
is said to have taken place, has left
the place, casting of his lines and
dropped on down the river. The
men who brought the news of Hos
kins' drowning to this city have dis
appeared, never having been seen
here from that day to this.
From what little he could learn of
the affair Captain Heaton is dis
posed to believe that there has been
foul play-that Jerry Hoskins' body,
if discovered, will bear marks of
violence-wounds that caused his
death long before he had chance to
drown.
The case is a mysterious one and
presents many points calculated to
arouse suspicion.
Capt. Heaton will sift the matter
as thoroughly as possible and try to
get at the facts and ascertain wheth-
er or not crime has been commit
ted.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
The Greatest Yet.

The Inter-C Collegiate Oratorical
Association of Pennsylvania and
West Virginia, dee:"ed to hold the
next contest at Waynesburg college.
The schools represented are West
minister, w. U. p, Geneva, w. Va.
u, Allegheny, Thiel, Bethany and
Waynesburg There was a full meet
ing of the executive committee at
the It'll Ave. Hotel, Pittsburg, on
last Saturday and all the final ar
engagements were completed. The
interest this year is greater than
ever before and the Waynesburg
students are all much interested
and will not be outdone in making
it the greatest contest yet held. Ex-
Governor Pattison will likely be
master of ceremonies, and the judges
will be representative men of Western
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
An effort will be made to have the
Alumni hall seated in time for the
contest, which will take place on
Wednesday, May 18th, 1898.
FRANK ULLoM, Sec.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
State Treasury Ralanc es.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Feb g.
The balance in the several funds in
the State treasury at the close OF
business Jan. 81. is as follows:
Receipts-State funds, 500, 0Iz5I,
general school fund, $l09, 957.62; the
school fund, $41, 812.19; total, $654,
1912.
Disbnisements-State fund, $73,-
731.7l; general fund, $79,k55.41; the
school fund, sos total, $3.50, 217.-
81.
Balance in Invested school fund,
1913, l31.73; balance in uninvested
school fund, $274, 1861; the school
fund, 1887, 62S.54.
Balance in State fund, 1856, 97S. 90:
balance in general school fund, $685.
1881: balance In the school fund,
uninvested, $274, 1861; balance in
the treasury, 81, 095, 644.47
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
GREATEST RIVER SYSTEM.
The Peaceful Monongahela is a Tribu-
tary OF the Mississippi.
From the oharleroi Mirror

hNsAf WIZ SaeAaVhoh
Few people appreciate the magni-
tude of our river system. Many of
us living on the banks of the Monon-
gahela have seen its 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 100, 900
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 100, 600 square miles. The
population of this territory is over
%, 600, 900.
The commerce Of this great river
system was carried on in 1889 by T.
453 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage
OF 2, 393,379 and value of SIS, $780,
900.
And so rich is that commerce that
It's annual gross earnings exceed the
total value Of the engaged in 1t by
nearly million dollars. 1t carries
nearly 11,600, 900 passengers aud
nearly 33,000,000 tons of freight per
year.
A steamboat may leave point on
the Monongahela any day and before
she returns she can visit 25 states
without passing through any artificial
channel. She can go up the Allegh-
eny, the Kanawha, the Big Sandy,
the Kentucky, the Wabash, the Ten
nessee and the Cumberland-cl 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 Tallahachee,
the Ouachita, the great bayous 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 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.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
M-MlNISTER DEAD.
Thomas L. Thompson Kills Him
self in California.
Commits Suicide From Dependency.
Related to Well Known People "A
Useful Careers Untimely Eud.

SANTA Rosa, Cal, Feb. 4.---Thos
L. Thompson, Ex-United States
Minister to Brazil, committed sui
eide here this morning by cutting
his throat. Dependency is sup
posed to be the cause.
Thompson served in the House OF
Representatives from 1887 to 1889.
He was born in Charleston, w Va,
in ls4S, and was educated in the
common schools and in printing
office at that place. He removed to
California at the age of sixteen
years, and for about forty years
worked in that State as printer,
and was editor and publisher of the
Sonoma Democrat. He was dele
gate to the Democratic national con
vention that nominated Hancock,
and was elected Secretary of State of
California two years later. He de-
clined reelection to that office and
later went to Congress. Thompson
was appointed minister to Brazil by
President Cleveland, and returned
to Santa Rosa when his term of ser
vice expired
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
Report of MOrgantown Public school.

The following are the names of pu-
pills neither absent nor tardy for the
month ending January 2s, 1898:
High school-L. M. Jaco, principal,
and Lynne Waddell, assistant: Boys
Bert Bennett, Walter Davis, Hollis
jenkins, Marshall Jones. Girls
Daisy Fleming, Maud Tough, Iris
Remnant, Mary Wotrlng, Chloe Mil
Ter.
Grammar school, grade A - Josie
Kunkle, teacher: Boys-Paul Green,
Harry Selby, James Stewart Carl Wa.
teas. Grade B: Girls Belle Darl-
ing, Bessie Hartigan, Della Hess, Eft
tie Jenkins, Kitte 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 Will
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, Godie Sheets.
Boys-Harry CARNEY, Emery Hess,
Ralph Kinderman, Roger McClutcheon
and Carl Protzman.
Primary department, grade Bella
Simpson, teacher: Girls Alta Hawk,
Bessie Nuzum, Mabel Keener Boys
BERTHE Kinkaid, Noel Weaver, Fred
Hiser, Jessie Hall, Robert Bowie,
Charles White, Wallace Casteel, Roy
Baumgardner.
Primary department, grade C--Ida
Hackney, teacher: Girls-Reuby Deu-
senberry, Edith Myers, Buna Cape
hart. Boys-Guy Bailey, Earl Ford,
Roy Mclaughlin, James Reed, Ray
Robe, Roy Watson.
Primary department, grade C--Tida
Bailey, teacher: BOYS - JohE 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
Holyf1eld, Bessie Rosenmerkle, Ida
Stein, Cecilia Seigwart, Isabel STEM
ger, Mary Thalman, Katie Thalman,
Myrtle Figle. Boys-Chauncey Lew
ellen, Kilion Lohry, Lee Mcclellan,
Joe Minder, Luke Thalman.
Colored School, A. G. Smith, teach
er: Girls-Eva Brown, Jessie Hol-
land, Lille Henshaw. Adie johnson,
Velma Snider. Boys-Clark Harris,
Ray Smith, Thos. Ward.
HARVEY BRAND, Supt.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
INDEX ITEMS.
Newsy Fairmont Budget clipped from
that Exchange.

The stock subscribers for the
Fairmont Railway Company is $500
but they have the privilege of increas-
ing it to 81 100000.
Prof. j. Walter Barnes has taken
charge of his classes in the Normal
after his recent illness. His many
friends are glad to learn that he has
almost recovered.
The meeting at the NJ. L. Church
has been going on for more than
three weeks, and more interest has
been manifested than ever before
known. All along the attendance
has been excellent and the CONVEX
sions number twenty FIVE.
Mr.. A. l.. Hefiner is nursing a
boil on his left hand While he is
laying of, he says he is putting in
his time hunting up Dayton men in
this county. After several days
hunting he has only succeeded in
finding three, and each of them holds
good federal position.
To-day the corporation at Farm
ington comes to an end and after
this there will be no town there.
The election by which the corpora
ton was voted away engendereiI
lnuo.y hard feelings and caused much
e excitement One of the most direct
ress:lts which seemed sure to follow
will be averted but the escape was
very narrow.
Four gentlemen are now in the
field for the Republican nomination
for Congress in this district: Con
gresham Dayton, Hon. George c.
Sturgiss, Judge John II. Holt and
Grant Pitzer If the Republicans
think at the time the convention is
held that they have no chance OF
success then Mr.. Dayton will be re
nominated with great unanimity. II
they believe they have a show OF
election, then some other candidate
will be selected.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
NEW RAILROADS.
For the Interior Of the State-L. X. v
Ry. Contractors Get Another
Nice Award.

The contract for the construction
of the Greenbrier Valley railroad has
been awarded and work is to be begun
next month and pushed vigorously
to completion. Messrs. Rinehart,
Gooch, Carpenter and Shepherd, of
Staunton, the we'll known contractors,
have been awarded the contract.
These are the contractors who have
been at work on the little Kanawha
Valley railroad from Parkersburg to
Elizabeth, and have surprised every
one along the line by the rapidity
with which they have pushed their
work, and the excellent character of
the roadbed they have made. The
road is said by persons who have rid
den over it to be far superior to the
ordinary new road, and equal in
smoothness and tirmness to many
older ones.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
The PLAN DEFEATED.
Sunnyside votes to Stay Out of the
Borough.
The Contest Hot One-A Gold Brick
sold to the 0pposition-Seneca Will
Get the Plum Next Saturday--Nor
gantown, on Light Vote, Votes to
take in Sunnysjde.

/
The election to pass on the propo-
sition to annex Sunnyside to Nor
rgantown was defeated by the suburb.
The town voted in favor of the
scheme under the impression that
the outlying town wanted in the in
corporation But the vote shows
that thep were not very enthusiast
cally in the notion of moving into
town. The reason for the defeat of
the plan is to be found in misun-
Outstanding which has been circu-
lated among the people of the suburb
They did not want into any town
and only started the movement to
come into Morgantown because they
thought that they would rather be
in that place. than in new incorpo-
ration with Seneca. They knew that
they would be taken in by Beech
hurst If it came to a vote and they
began the agitation to get into town.
The election was ordered to be held
before the Seneca election could
come off. If it had carried the Sen
eca matter would have been killed.
AS it is Seneca will be Incorporated
and Sunnyside will be part of the
town.
The reason for the defeat of the
plan by Sunnyside was that some
one had told them that there were
only thirty-fve voters on Beechurst.
When they heard this they conclud-
ed to try to beat both propositions
and have carried out the first part
of the program. The real fact in the
case of the number of Beechurst vo-
tiers is that there are more than
hundred votes ON the addition and
these will be cast solidly in favor of
the new town on Saturday if the
word of the men who are most in
terested in the matter is to be taken.
Sunnyside will find that it has
bought a gold brick. Many of the
people who voted against the plan
now see that and they are sorry that
they did so but their repentance
comes TO late. We wish the new
town that is to be, success but are
sincerely sorry that they did not see
their way clear to come into the old
town. That they will do so later is
to be hoped.
The vote on Supnyside was for
extension of the borough limits, So;
against extension, 81 In town the
vote stood: ior extensionl02; against
y -
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
Both cant be True.

Father j. A. Reynolds, who has
been assisting Father d. O'Connor
here for several years, has gone to
Morgantown, where he will take
charge of charge at that place
Cldrksburg Telegram
Rev. j. A. Reynolds, who has been
assisting Father O'Connor for the
last three years in his church work
in this city has been assigned to a
church at Montgomery, W. Va. Rev.
Reynolds has made hosts of friends
since his sojourn here whose best
wishes go with him to his new field
of Cldrksbuyg Ners.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1898-02-09
STAY AWAY FROM ALASKA.
Hundred Of People Destitute ia the
KlOn dixie.

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.