Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-11-02
EVENTS in BRIEF.

President Mitchell left Hazleton, Pa, fol
New York.
Thomas A. Dupuis. the Pittsburg medi
cal student who attempted suicide at Phil
adelphia, is improving.
Thomas Harris, living three miles ives.
of Huntington, w. Va, is dying from in
Juries received while playing football.
Frank Gould, aged 60 years, genera
agent Of the Erie railway in Dunkirk, N
Y, ex-mayor and ex-supervisor Of the town
died.
At Hamburg tho Russian secret police
have discovered a stupendous counterfeit
ing plant among Polish and Russian
refugees
Jerry Simpson, lending 80 young women
has started on a campaign tour Of West
ern Kansas In the interests of Bryan anG
Briedenthal
Or. Campos SALES, the president OF
Brazil, who has been visiting General
Roca, the president of Argentine, left OIL
his return trip to Rio Janeiro
Mrs. Il. w Connor Of Brookield town
ship, near Sharon, Pa, was burned sc
badly while burning leaves in her yard
that her recovery is in doubt.
Clyde shipbuilders have placed orders
for 10000 tons of ship building materia
In the United States thus saving ESQ 00t
At Halifax, n S., the overdue transport
Idaho, with several hundred members OF
the GanadidH contingent who participated
in the war in South Africa, reached hel
dock.
Robert j. Black, who wrote the alleged
interview with Grover Cleveland, and VIII,
lives ut Ylnton, Ia, has been following
his calling of Il phrenologist for the last
six or seven years.
During storm in Texas houses were
blown down in Terrell Whitney, Ennis
Iforney and Muenster. There was consid
cradle damage done to crops. No fatal
ties have been reported.
Matthew Blaine, aged 50, of Bealsville
father of Mrs. John Aiken. of Washington
Pa, fell striking on his head and shout
ders Although not otherwise hurt, b,
seems to have lost his memory.
Jacob Faust, brakeman on the Balti
more and Chic, was brought to the Con
nellsviIle, Pa, hospital He was caught
while making coupling and terribly
crushed. His home is in Lancaster.
Car ACT of the Avalon line ran into !
beer wagon at California avenue ant
Knox street. Allegheny City, Pa, and tbs
collision resulted in a boy, John Meifer
being killed and two men severely ia
jured
General William Booth, commander-in
chief of the Salvation Army, is coming Il
America next September to take practi
eally the control of the Salvation Army
in the United States for at least sin
months.
George shoup, of West Union, Greer
county, Pa, was assaulted by two men
thrown down and gagged, his hands TIED
and robbed of $40 and a watch at Wash
ington, Pa. The men, one eolored and one
white, escaped.
Funeral services were read over the body
of Ambrose McGregor, the Standard Oi
millionaire. at his country home, Ghetto
lah, at Oriental Point, Mammaroneck, l.
|. The body was shipped later to Cleve
land O., for interment
United States Consul MeCook at Daw
son, Yukon territory, in a report date(
over n month ago, reports several new
cases of smallpox in the pest house below
Dawson, and says it looks as if Their,
might be Il serious outbreak.
DR.. Louis w. Read, aged 70 years, dice
suddenly IF heart failure at his home
at Norristown, Pa. He was surgeon gen
eral of the Pennsylvania National Guart
for % years, until year ago, when Gov
ernor Stone made a change.
1t was announced in New York thai
prices on anthracite coal have been ad
vanced 80 cents a ton over the nomina
price of the July circular, by the anthri
cite mining and carrying companies. Tht
change covers the whole country.
Because his son Walter is in Jail, pnt
of the four men charged with the muir
der of Jennie Rosschieter. James Meal
lister has shut down his silk plant IL
Paterson, n. ]. All the employees hay,
been paid off and the works are closed.
The Rev. and Mrs John Inglis, of cIays
Vile, Pa, who have been in Presby
terrain mission In China for several years
and who went through the horrors of the
siege of Pekin, sailed from Europe ant
will arrive in Allegheny City next week.
Catherine Virginia Humm, aged 3 years
wandered away from the home of hel
parents, Mt No 6626 Margaretta street
Pittsburg. The child wore blue plaiC
skirt, tan jacket and carried doll
The police have been asked to look for thC
little wanderer.
A Boer commando captured a British
outpost of 80 men in the vicinity Of
Geneva, Oct. %, and afterward held vi
a Cape Town mail train, looted the ear
riages and passengers, destroyed the mails
set fire to the train and decamped OF
the approach of an armored train. The
Beers, later, released the prisoners.
John Johnson, the musician of Braddock
who was so brutaliy assaulted on the might
of Sept 20 while returning home from
dance. died at the West Penn hospital
Pittsburg As result of Johnson's deatf
the coroner has issued warrants for the
arrest of five men, Andrew Linstrum
Henlg Colson, of McKeesport; John ant
August Olson and John Eckstrom, of Nun
hall All the men are Swedes.
A few days ago, on Big Otter Creek, Ii
Clay county, w Va, Mrs. Boggs, aged 70
was mysteriously murdered She lived
by herself and was sitting at window
when a shotgun charge entered her body
killing her instantly. A man named Cot
trill is now In the county Jail on suspicion
Cottril believed the woman was witch
and thought he had suffered from super
natural power exercised by Mrs Boggs.
Osborne Rowles, eolored barber. was
found dead under some Baltimore and
Ohio ears at keyser, w. Va. 1t is said
he was struck with a srone on the head