West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-06-06


Payable in months, las
ia $50
These terms are enforced TO encourage
the cash in advance system Examine the
tag on your paper. which shows you every
week where YOU are paid to.
!. SLIDELL BROWN. Editor and
Proprietor.
Kingwood, June 6, 1901
The Supreme Court has decided
that Congress is superior to the
Constitution and that that old fogy
instrument is out of date. Truly,
we are drifting into imperialism
with vengeance.
Some of the function fellows
got into trouble on Decoration Day
by getting drunk and trying to cap
ture the train on the way home
from Grafton, but b. * .. spec
ial officer who was on the train ar
rested them and made them pay
for their fun.
The Paw-Paw railroad now build
ing between Fairmont and Fairview
in Marion county, is now ready for
track-laying as the grading has been
completed. The road is IL miles
long and $50 men are at work upon
it. Fairview is the center of an oil
and coal section and the road opens
up some good country.
"
The Supreme Court should have
handed down a diagram with its
decision on the Porto Rico case in
order that the general public could
tell the cardinal points of the COM
pass anyhow. AS it is we are en-
tirely "at sea" and can't tell where
we are at.
The bloomer base ball club de
feated the boys at Grafton on Dec
Grafton Day just as we said they
would last week and now the boys
are swearing that some of the
bloomer girls were boys dressed up
shat way but we think not for most
any old thing could beat Grafton
playing ball.
Hon. Thomas +. Davis, collector
of internal revenue, has appointed
II. S. White a deputy collector of
internal revenue. He was formerly
United States marshal under Harri-
son. He will have charge of the
work in Logan, Mingo, Mcdowell,
Mercer, Wyoming, Boone, and Raj
eigh counties. His headquarters
will be at Matewan.
Will the Parkersburg Journal
kindly inform this paper how long
the present editor of the Charleston
Gazette has been in the newspaper
business We spoke of him as be-
ing young in the business and the
Journal takes exceptions TO it as if
the Gazette man was an old veteran.
We are always willing to receive in
formation.
The condition of Mrs. Mckinley
since her return from the Pacific
coast, has grown steadily worse I'M
til there is said to be no hope what
ever of her recovery, and her death
is expected at any time. The fam
lily physician, DR.. Rixey, pronoun-
ces her ailment as consumption of
the bowels. She has been IN an I'M
conscious condition and does not
even recognize her husband.
Tom J.. Johnson, the newly ell
ected Democratic mayor of Cleve.
land, is already being doomed for
Governor OF Ohio, and will likely
be the Democratic nominee. As
this is an of year, and Johnson
very popular and wealthy, he has a
bare chance of election, and, if he
should carry Ohio, it would make
him formidable candidate for the
Democratic Presidential nomination
in 1904
The editor of the Warrington Ad-
yocate claims that he also received
a letter from Mrs. Mary Catharine
Beatty, same as she sent to this
office and that it was written in re-
ply to the interview published in
the Advocate between its editor
and J. Wesley Beatty. We make
this statement in justice TO the Ad.
vocate as we do not desire to do
that or any paper any injustice, as
per our criticism Of a recent date.
Attorney General Freer has ruled
that the new school law REGARDING
the county superintendents is mop
cratiye as it stands. Neither the in.
creased duties nor salaries Of super.
intendents will take effect until new