Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-11-23
THE WEATHER.
Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia-Fair.
EVENTS IN BRIEF.


Samuel Buffalon, Bluefeld. w. Va, dice
as the result of self-infieted wound.
At Canal Dover. O., Clifford Hunt,
years old, was burned to death at a gratt
fire.
Gold is reported to have been found at
the Wallace coal mine ON Jeddo run, neal
Steubenville, o.
Five New Kensington milk dealers were
fined $50 each and costs for selling adul
terated milk.
The First Presbyterian congregation Of
Mercer Pa, has extended call to tho
Rev. John S. Duncan, of Parnassus, Pa.
John SWEETS, a coke worker at Oliphant
near Uniontown, Pa, was killed by 4
Pennsylvania railroad passenger tain.
Monitor No. s. formerly known as the
Connecticut, building at Bath, Me-, has
been renamed the Nevada by Secretary
Long.
Captain w. NJ Meredith, Of Illinois, ha,
been appointed chief of the United States
bureau of engraving and printing, al
Washington.
The plant of the Jennings Manufacturing
company makers of wooded handles
burned, at Charleston, w. Va. Loss, $15,
600: insured for half
The Westminster Presbyterian ehurel
and the Tabernacle Presbyterian church
Youngstown, O., have asked Andrew Car
negie for church organs.
Admiral Remey has Informed the navy
department that the old Monocacy viii
spend the coming winter in mud dock IL
the Pei river, in China.
The population of Missouri, officially
announced is 3.106,665, against 2.679, 49,
in 1880 This is an increase since 1896
of APT, 4S1, or 1873 per cent
The Wetzei county, w. Va, court house
will be built at New Martinsvlle. 1t will
cost 100000 and its location has beer
the subject of Il long fight.
The population of the state of Missis
sippi as officially announced, is 1,551, 270
as against 1889 900 in 1890. This is an
increase of 261 $40, or 202 per cent.
r. d. Burns and J. Foster, of Wash
ington, d. c., are in Jail at Indiana, Pa
charged with victimizing soldiers widows
out of S. each, promising to get Their
pensions increased.
Harry Matthews of Terra Alta, and
Blanche Semans, of Morgantown, w. Va.
were married at the latter's home, the
groom being sick In bed of typhoid fever
An elaborate church wedding had beer
planned.
Mr. and Mrs. f. Hill. of Hickory, Wash
ington county, Pa, celebrated their gold
en- wedding. Their three surviving chill
dren We're present-Calvin, of Boston
Mass; Thomas, of Pittsburg, and VIII
son, of McKeesport.
Councilman Charles w. Lapp, of Cleve
land, swears that Councilman White told
him certain members of the council re
ceiyed $4,000 for voting for police alarm
contracts, and intimated that 5000 more
was to be paid for votes for a fire alarm
system.
The National Association of State Ii
brarians adjourned at Harrisburg, to meet
at Waukesha Wis, in 1901. The follow
Ing officers were elected: President, l.
ID. Carver, Maine; vice president, DR.
George e. Read, Pennsylvania; secretary
and treasurer, Miss Maud Thayer, Illinois
]. Fletcher Shera, the stock broker and
member of the New York stock exchange
who failed last week, was arrested, charg
ed with grand larceny. Lemuel W. Bax
ter, Sheras bookkeeper, also was arrest
ed. Boht men were arrested on warrants
issued at the instance of General Sickles
who charged them with failing to ac
count for $4,000, but Sickles' attorneys
say the amounts Involved will aggregate
10000.