Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-05-02
NEWS ITEMS In BRIEF.

Cfsll Benson, aH lt4lldb, htd Dosn
legs cut off by a shifting engine at
Johnstown. Pa.
Hugh Hunter. aged Is, died at
Franklin Pa. He formerly lived IN
Pittsburg.
The miners and operators Of the
fifth Ohio sub-district have compro-
missed, ending long strike
James Tarry. of Altoona, Pa. who
left home 10 years ago, returned to
find his wife dead and his family scat
tered
Arthur w. Milligan. aged f4, and
Alice Snow. aged 10, both Of Forest
county, Ia. were married at Frank
lin.
Thomas 0hls. who lives near Sa-
lem, O.. took poison because he found
his fance married to another man.
He may die.
The Rev. w. S. Van Cleye, aged g.
died at Gettysburg, Pa. He had served
in church in that vicinity for about 81
years.
The Rov. Presley Thompson was
installed as pastor Of the Second
United Presbyterian church at Wash
ington, Pa.
The residence of Thomas Woolsick,
at Kecksburg, Pa, was destroyed by
fire, causing a loss of about $4,000
There was small insurance
Members of the commission from
the CubaL constitutional convention
sailed for Havana on the steamship
Havana.
The drilling for coal veins near
Berlin, Pa, has resulted in more inn
portant discoveries than was at first
supposed The vein is from six to
seven feet thick instead of four.
The Rev. G. A. Roger resigned as
pastor of the Lutheran church at Car
mel, w. Va. and accepted call to
st. Peters Lutheran church at Clear
Spring. Md.
A second discovery of hidden treas
ure was made ON the farm of Oscar
Osbourne, near Akron, o.. about ST.
600 being found in an old teakettle.
Osbourne was murdered about three
years ago.
Mrs Carrie Nation returned to
Wichita after attending the funeral
of her brother and surrendered to
stroying saloon property.
Thomas Hires, aged 60. of Morris
street, Jersey City was Frustrated in
the street Tuesday night and died
during the night. Heat and heart
failure caused the death, the doctors
said
The plans for the 100000 public
building at Cumberland, Md. which
will contain the postoffice and United
States court room, have been com
pleted and ground will be broken in
| the early summer. 1t will be of
colonial style, three stories high
Four men lost their lives by the
caye-in at Mount Airy tunnel. on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The re
mains of Section Boss Michael Cur
Clarksburg. w Va. The remains of
the other three are under mass of
earth and rock which may require
about three weeks TO clear.
There was a general strike of 800
roofers, all of the skilled union me.
chanics in tar, felt and waterproof
| line throughout Greater New York
and Jersey City. The strike is to en-
| force the eight-hour rule and the sign
| ing Of yearly contract between the
As firms of roofing contractors and
the Tar, Felt and Waterproof Work
| ers' union.
A strike for fewer hours in an i'm
portant department of the building
trades marked May | in Philadelphia,
which virtually opens the building
season The men who quit work are
known as housesmiths. They are en-
ployed to build iron stairways and to
put in elevator screens, fire escapes
and similar fittings.
Joseph f. Widener, who suffered a
! conclusion of the brain by the upset
ting of a coach at Fifteenth and
| Spring Garden streets, Philadelphia.
last Saturday morning. was greatly
improved. His improvement has been
so rapid the past two days that his
physicians think he can be removed
to his home at Elkins within week.
George Lyles, a negro, about IS
years Of age was held for the grand
jury at Washington on the charge of
| twice crfminally assaulting Miss Kate
Dreager, a young German woman. He
was positively identified by his vic
tim. who also swore that he used a
| revolver tc terrify her into submis.
sion Both assaults occurred in the
streets of the city in lonely places.
A band of about 100 Russian gyp-
sizes who have been encamped in the
suburbs of Washington and have com
mitted number of depredations
were ordered to move on by the au-
thorities and thew started westward
with Pittsburg as their avowed des-
tination. This was the band that was
| believed to have had hand in kid
naping Willie Mccormick, of New
York, but chain of evidence could
not be forged about them. They stole
everything that they could lay their
/ hands on, and on Monday six girls
and two men waylaid a young school
rirl and by force took her purse con-
tanning 81 and some car tickets. An
! other woman was robbed of three
| gold rings. The thieves were fined
| $37, which was paid. and then were