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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
BRIDGE IS FREE.
Tolls are no More TO be Collect
ed IN This County.

For Half Century we have Paid frib-
ute-That has Ended now and the
County is Unyexed With toils-The
Move is Popular one-Great Many
People are coming into town attract
ed by the Freedom From Tolls
Every one is Glad to see the Last of
the old Relic.
The thing that we have all been
shouting for and working for all these
years has come TO pass. The bridge
is free and the public is at last at
liberty to walk across or take team
over without having to pay tribute for
the privilege,
Monongalia county has left the old
relic of 3barharism behind her and she
has joined in with the rest of the pro-
cession in abolishing toll bridges and
toll roads. There are now but few
left in the state to vex the citizens
The one at Charleston is probably the
most offensive.
The history of the free bridge agi
tation in this county dates back for
number of years. For a long time
the advocates of the measure had a
very hard row TO hoe but before the
agitation ceased they had practically
all the fair minded men in the coun-
ty on their side. To-day there is
hardly man in the county who will
raise his voice against the improve
ment and before five years people will
be wondering what on earth kept it
from being made long years ago.
The county will be able to pay for
the bridge without raising the levy
and before the tax payers know it
they will have turned over the amount
of money necessary. No one will feel
it and the results will be Of very great
advantage to everyone.
The bug bear of a fear of what some
of the people would say prevented the
county court from acting long before
it did and the very men it had feared
TO displease state that they are we'll
satisfied with what has been done.
With March thirty first the last
toll was collected III the county after
it had been collected for more than
half century. OF course there can
never be return to the old system
and the county is rid forever of the
greatest incubus to it's progress that
it ever felt.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
A BOLD FRAUD
In the Pension Department
will be Punished.
Ellen Jones, Who Drew q Pension as
Mary Butler, Will go to Prison.
Remarkable Case.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 31.-
Ellen Jones' one of the most remark
able pension frauds on record, will
probably spend the rest OF her days in
prison, as the result of her conviction
yesterday. 1t is in the discretion OF
the court to sentence her TO 100 years.
She is the third woman who has pos
ed and drawn pensions as Mary Butler
the mythical wife Of VIM. Butler, a
colored soldier, who was killed at
Wilson's Landing. Butler was
single man. After he died one OF his
comrades, Chas. Marshall, another
colored man, married Carrie Jones.
Marshall was runner for pension
attorney, and while in that business
conceived the idea OF passing off his
mother-in-law, Malvina Jones, as the
widow OF Butler. Under the name OF
Mary Butler, who never existed, Mall
VIVA was granted a pension of 50 a
month in 1859. She continued to
collect 1t quarterly until 1873, when
she died. Thereupon her eldest
daughter, Carrie Marshall, assumed
the role of Mary Butler and collected
the pension quarterly for IA years.
When she finally died her sister, Ellen
Jones, fell heiress to the perpetual
name of Mary Butler and the pension
and drew 1t regularly. She even sue
ceeded in having the pension increased
from So TO $l2 month. Chas. Mar
shall, the originator Of the swindle,
died long ago without being suspected
Of wrong doing.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
Died.

DowNEY--Mr. Eli Downey, aged
so years, died at his home on Maple
avenue on last Saturday night, after
an illness OF some weeks. The de
ceased was born in Monongalia
county, on March "a, 1889. near
White Day, and has spent his life in
that and Marion county. In 1861
he enlisted in fhe 9th w. Va, Vol
unteers, under Capt. John Fisher,
and served as loyal and true sol
der. He leaves behind three child
rem, Mrs. Kate Logue, Miss Mary
and Henry Downey, all of this place
besides his brothers, VIM. Downey,
who resides in Winfield district,
James. who reside ms Monongalia
county, and Thomas, of this place,
and sister, Mrs, James Jack, of
GAINESVILLE. He was a member of
Meade Post, No. 6, G. A. r., who at
tended his funeral, and he was bur
led with their highest honors. Free
Press.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
DIR. $. A. STONE DEAD.
Apoplexy the cause of death-PrOmi-
nent in Masonic and political circles.

FAIRMoNT, w. Va, April DIR.
S. A. Stone died at his home at Mo
nongah this morning at 430 o'clock.
He attended his usual duties yesterday
visiting his patients and attending to
his office practice, and was in his
usual good health. Late in the even
ing he complained of pain in his
head. His illness increased very fast
and by eight o'clock he became I'M
conscious.
Apoplexy was the cause of his death.
The remains will be taken to Parkers-
busg for interment. He was a mem
Der of Fairmont Lodge No. of Orient
Chapter No 8, and of Crusade Com
mandery No. 6, Knights Templar.
He was the Democratic candidate for
the State Senate last fall.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
4 Remarkable Birthday Party.

A birthday party was held on Good
Friday at Mrs. III. S. Hayes that was
rather remarkable. Remarkable be-
cause it was the 9lst birthday of
Grand ma Finnell. Few people--less
than Que in thousandever reach
that age. Mrs. Finnell Is still active
and retains all her faculties in an as
tonishing degree. She walked from
her home, the Franklin House, to
Mrs. Hayes without assistance and
on this occasion had the pleasure OF
meeting all her living children, viz:
Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Fitch and Mrs.
johnson and her son G. w. Finnell.
There were present besides these,
grand children and great grand child
rem. The occasion was also the fif-
tieth anniversary OF her residence in
Morgantown. Her advanced age aud
excellent health give evidence Of life
well spent and promise that she will
be spared to round out her century.
That Is the wish Of all her many
friends.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
BROUGHT BACK.
David Mayleld HES away to Preston
County but Heshas to Come Back.

David Mayfield has been lodged in
the county jail to await the action Of
the circuit court in his case. He Is q
native OF this county but when indict-
ed here for carrying a revolver he
found the climate of Preston much
more salubrious and left for that land
Of buck wheat and honey After he
got there he could not restrain his
playful nature and he committed
number offences against the dignity
of the law.
Preston officials nabbed him and
then agreed to allow Monongalia to-
get whack at him first. According
ly he was brought here and lodged in
jail where he will remain until the
court gets done with him.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
LOVED HIS PAPER.
A story Of the late Joseph Medill Of the
Chicago Tribune.

LIZ Is told that within ten minutes
before he breathed bis last, Joseph
Medill turned to DR.. Sarkesian, his
attendant physician and said: My last
words shall be, What is the news?
And so they were. He asked to have
the morning papers read TO him evin-
cling the liveliest interest in current
news, especially the foreign dispatches
relating TO affairs in the Philippines.
The habit of half century was not
to be relaxed in the presence of death.
Years and feeble health had not dull
ed in single degree that absorbing
eagerness to know all that was going
on in this busy world up to the hour
for closing the last forms.
1t was no daily curiosity hardened
into habit that caused Mr.. Medill
thus to wish to know the latest news
of the universe. He scanned it and
absorbed it for the omnivorous that
made him power in his profession.
Everything he read. saw or learned
was used Immediately or stored away
for future use in the columns of the
Chicago Tribune. He never was too
far from the office not TO employ his
hours and bis faithful shears on print
ed books, magazines or newspapers TO
make copy" and marked it with his
imperative Must for the pages OF the
journal to which he was devoted.
How great was Mr. Medill's deyo-
tion to the Tribune may be judged by
single incident that happened in
Chicago few years ago. As is well
known Mr. Medills health has inter-
fered with his constant presence at the
Tribune office for several years. 1t
was currently rumered that he had
grown weary over the burden of his
editorship and was prepared to sell
his interest, settle his affairs in Chica-
go and retire to the gentler climate of
Southern California.
Negotiations were accordingly open
ed with Mr.. Medill by a gentleman
DESTROYS Of purchasing his interest in
the Tribune. Mr.. Medill entertained
the proposition to sell, but halted as
to the price, upon which matter of
some $3.50, 900 separated the parties.
Finally they came to terms on
figures not far from round 81, 600, 900
| for Mr.. Medill's controlling interest in
| the Tribune.
Everything was in readiness to close
the transaction and the cheque TO bind
it was in Mr.. Medill'S hands.
But the touch of the cheque seemed
to cause an instant revulsion in the
aged editors feelings. He seemed to
realize that the Tribune was some
thing more to him than the cold dollars
he had set upon it. ! can't do it, he
said take back your cheque; can't
part with the Tribune. You might
as well ask me TO sell my child.
So the negotiations were broken off
and Mr. Medill continued TO be the
guiding spirit of the Chicago Tribune
until his death last week.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
MORGANTOWN LAD.

One Of the Wounded at Manila Ma
tive of this Place-Ralph Downs Is
Seriously Wounded.
Among those recently wounded
in the fighting at Manila is Ralph
Downs of Uniontown son of A. F.
Downs. Ralph was shot in the thigh
and the dispatch states that he was
seriously hurt He went with the
third batch of recruits to the Phil
ippines.
The young man was native of
Morgantown and left here when
quite young. Many of the people
about town will remember the fami-
ly. They lived in the Rogers prop
erty on Price street. The Union
town News Standard states that he
was born at their town but they are
very much mistaken about this mat
ter. Downs has several relatives
about town.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
1T DID NOT WORK
Although the evidence was very ingen-
ions.

Last Friday night the postoffice at
West Union was broken into and
robbed. In the office next morning
was found newspaper directed to the
Clarksburg Mail. As it is custom
for hobos to visit sanctums Of news
papers and get exchanges, it was
thought that possibly this would give
a clue leading to the identity of the
guilty parties. A tramp was arrested
at the depot at Clarksburg Tuesday
and taken to the Mail Office but none
of those who were in the office recog-
nized him.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
Mrs. Nelson Dead.

Mrs. Evan Nelson, who resided in
Parks Valley, near Capon Bridge,
died at her home on Monday even
ing last, aged sixty seven years,
after a protracted illness. Mrs. Mel
son was one of the most respected
ladies in the community. She was
the mother of J. Frank Nelson, local
editor of the Morgantown Post, who
arrived home Sunday night, in an
swer to message advising him of his
mothers serious illness. Hampshire
Review.
The above will be read with deep
regret by the many friends of Mr..
Nelson, in Morgantown.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
MONONGALIAN KILLED.
Fred Jennewine of Laurel Iron
Works killed at Manila.

Was member OF the Tenth Pennsyl
vania having joined at Uniont0wn-
Several of the wounded known here
w. M. Engelhari of Gnseman wound
ed Roy Knox also among the wound
ed-He is seriously hurt.
The Tenth regiment Pennsylvania
volunteers is among the first in the
fighting at Manila. Many Of the
boys in it are well known here or in
the vicinity. Several of them have
been wounded but in the fighting
yesterday the first one was killed
He was Fred M. Jennewine, of Lau-
rel Iron Works.
The following special from Union.
town will be read with interest by
his friends and acquaintance who
regret very deeply to learn of his
untimelv death so far from home;
Fred NJ Jennewlne, who was
killed. is resident of Laurel Iron
Works, w. Va, close to the Penn
sylvania line. He was not OF age
when the war broke out, and his
father, Benton Jennewine, opposed
his desire to serve his country. The
lad was determined, and slipped
away from home, coming here when
Major Beeson returned from Mount
Gretna for recruits, and left here in
May for Camp Gretna. He was Il
years old and unmarried
The same special tells of another
who was wounded The reference
to him is as follows.
William NJ Englehart, of Com
pany G. reported wounded, was one
of the last recruits to leave here af-
ter the company had sailed from San
Francisco. He was so anxious to
get in the Pennsylvania regiment
that he came here from his home at
Guseman, w Va. TO enlist Moth
ing is known of his family.
Another special tells of the wound
ing of Roy Knox who is very well
known and popular here. He was
shot in the foot and is seriously
hurt This is from Mount Pleas
ant:
News was received here last night
Of the injury Of Roy ID. Knox, amen
Der of Company E, in Manila, Young
Knox was well known here, although
his home was In Uniontown. He has
many relatives living here. He was
one of the second lot OF recruits. He
is a member OF prominent family,
his mother being Mrs. Martha Kiefer,
whose maiden name was Shupe.
Young Knox is % years old, and en-
listed against the protests of his moth
er and friends, but being anxious to
go to war, after being refused at one
place he was picked up by Captain
Loar to make UP the full list OF re-
cruits Of Company E. He was phar-
macy student at the University Of
West Virginia at Morgantown. His
mother, Mrs. Kiefer, is visiting at Mt.
Pleasant from her home at Uniontown,
and left there when the news Of the
injury Of her son was received. She
was sadly affected, and is waiting
anxiously for more definite news.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
Livery Stock Sold.

Luther Garrison to-day sold his
stock of livery horses at public sale.
He has concluded to leave the bust
ness as his health does not permit the
proper attention to be paid to 1T. He
has not been we'll for some time being
troubled with gravel.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
Flowers For Easter.

Leave orders for flowers at David
Chadwick's for the Easter Season.
Your orders will have prompt and
careful attention, just as anything
else left with him. You will get the
best. have your orders filed promptly
and exactly as you request.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
Spring Term Begins.

The spring quarter at the Uniyer-
sity began this morning. There are
about twenty-five new students en-
rolled bringing the enrolment up to
seven hundred and forty. A number
OF others are on the ground and will
enter this afternoon and Monday.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
Not How Cheap but how Good!

Cheapness has never been chafac-
teristic of the Cleveland bicycles for
they have always found plenty OF
buyers with discernment enough to-
know when they get their moneys
worth.
The
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
FortnightIy Club.

The Fortnightly club will meet at
the home of Dir. and Mrs. S. VI.
Leech tonight
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
For Sale.

A good Fertilizer for lawns, gar
dens or flowers, in large or small
packages at Hite's ware room.
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01
The Weather.

.sFair and warmer tonight. Warm
er Sunday"
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01

Headache Dada Get Dr. Miles Pain Pms
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-01

Resurrection of the Savior is Celebrated
all over the WOrid-He has Conquer
ed all Foes Including Death the Final
and Most Terrible one For Forty
days He Suffered and Finally Died
After three days He rose From the
Graye-Celebratio of the Day in
Morgant0Wn.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-13
MERRIAM
MAKES V AR
ON A WOMAN
Troops Imprison an Editor
and Wrest Printing Office
From His Wife.
OUTRAGES IN IDAHO
Temporary Dismissal Of Complaints
Against the County Commis-
sionerS and the Sheriff.
BY HON. PATRICK REDDY.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Y ALLACE, Idaho, June 12.-The
VEI effort of the Governor. Sinclair
WV and other politicians to remove
the Sheriff and County Com
missioners to-day failed. Judge
Stewart dismissed the proceedings
against them. The Attorney General
Immediately filed a new information
against Sheriff Young and the States
attorneys promised to do likewise in
the Commissioners cases. The incar-
ceration of the Commissioners is one OF
the most dastardiy acts yet perpetrated
by the Governor. There is no pretense
that they were in any way connected
with the recent riots, yet they were
thrown into the bull PEN and kept
there simply because they would not
knuckle to Sinclair and the mine
owners.
A most pitiable story is that OF
Mrs. Stewart, whose husband is con-
fined in the Hbull pen" because he
dared expose the inhuman practices
in vogue at the prison in his paper.
Mrs. Stewart has three small chill
dren, the youngest not yet four
months old. After the arrest of her
husband, the plucky woman con-
tinued to issue the paper herself, set
ting the type and running the press.
Last Thursday company of soldiers
accompanied by two of the Coroner's
deputies came to her place and in
formed her they had come to confis-
cate her property so that she could
not publish the paper. They carried
away eighteen cases of type and all
the advertisements which were set
up. Mrs. Stewart was entirely de-
pendent upon the paper for living,
and is left destitute. That the white
soldiers do not relish the job given
them is evident by the remark of
sergeant to Mrs. Stewart, who said
that while he had to obey orders, he
thought the authorities were in
damned small business in sending a
company of cavalry to rob one poor
woman.
That the insanity of the prisoner
Johnson who was shot at by the negro
soldiers was caused by the outrageous
conduct of Coroner France is beyond
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-13
CANADA NOW SEEKS
FURTHER CONCESSIONS
Will Ask That Goods Imported Into
the Dominion From Alaska Be
Free of Duty.

WASHINGTON. June 12.-While hope
full that the modus vivend with Great
Britain respecting the provisional Alas
kan boundary will be settled upon the
lines laid down by ambassador Choate,
there seems to be some apprehension in
official circles that the London govern
ment will demand further concessions
So far as the boundary itself is concerned
the two governments are near enough
agreed to make it apparent that there
will be no hitch to the location of the
line. There seems to be a disposition to
believe that in view of Canada's failure
to secure a port on the Pacific for her
great Northwest Territory she will urge
the British Government to ask of the
United States that all goods imported
into the Dominion from the Alaskan coast
be permitted to come in free of duty and
that a certain zone be set aside through
which goods could pass without him
drance. This proposition has not yet been
submitted. but II is stated that if brought
to the attention of this Government it
will be Immediately rejected whether the
concession desired be either temporary or
permanent.
The Dalton trail seems yet TO be the
only point under discussion. and 1t is
stated with postiveness that the line will
be placed just to the north of the village
Of Kluckwan and will not include it. This
location will deprive the Canadians of the
port they are so anxious to obtain.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-13

special to the Times from North Wis
consin Junction, Wis, says: A courier
from Boardman just in reports that
the whole town has been wiped off the
face of the earth, and while no definite
news can be obtained at this time of
the casualties it is presumed that many
were injured and possible some killed.
1t is known that Dave Hefferon is
severely injured and his wife killed.
courier just in says New Richmond
has been also wiped off the map and
that 200 or 800 people are injured
A special to the Tribune from Hud-
son says: One of the most terrific
cyclones ever witnessed by the citizens
Of Hudson passed through the country
about $50 p. m. 1t formed in a water
spout four miles south of Hudson on
Lake st. Croix. 1t was witnessed by
hundreds of people and seemed to fol-
low the lake and to be making directly
for the city, but about two miles south
it veered to the east and left the lake
and crossed the country.
1t was about twenty rods wide and
destroyed everything in its track. The
first building struck was over on the
IdTUl Oh L. Z. NdUClSOn. On6 eQSe OF
the storm struck his buildings, twist
ing his barn out of shape and throw
ing his windmill some rods. 1t then
struck the Gridley farm. The family,
seeing it coming, fed for a large stone
quarry about twenty rods from the
house, where they remained safely un-
til it passed. The house is a small
brick one and held to the foundation,
but the shingles were torn from the
roof. The cyclone veered to the north.
leaving the buildings unharmed but
tearing large oak trees three feet in
diameter out by the roots and twisting
them into every conceivable shape.
! About one-half mile northeast from
there it struck the buildings or II. /.
Mattison. Just before the storm reach
ed the place the family and farm help
fled to the cellar. The cellar had just
closed when the crash came. This place
was directly in the line of the storm and
not building, tree. wagon or piece of
machinery is left whole. The house
was completely swept from it's founda-
ton and nothing remained but the
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