Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-04-16
SOME NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Tylersdale Connecting railroad
near Little Washington, Pa, was
bought by the Baltimore and Ohio.
James Ryan, Of Transfer, Pa, who
had been working for the Pennsylva-
mia railroad since 1861. was pensioned.
The engagement of Miss Marie Sat
terfeld formerly of Mercer county,
Pa, to Franz Joseph, Count Won Lar
ish, Of Austria, was announced at
Buffalo Count Won Larish is 2
nephew of the late empress.
John Tank and Charles Ball, ne
groes, were arrested on the charge OF
being implicated in the burglaries at
Somerville, Pa.
General Daniel Butterfield, who is
sick from an attack Of paralysis at
his home, Fifth avenue, New York.
was said to be slightly better.
Edward Purcell, a brakeman, was
struck by an engine in the yards of
the Pennsylvania railroad in Jersey
Citv and killed. Purcell was unmaf-
ried.
ocottdale, Pa, is enjoying an indus
trial boom. Several old plants have
resumed operations and new works
dlG DSlll5 buiit
A considerable portion of one of
Fayette City's principal street was
engulfed by the caving in of an aban
doned coal mine
p. j. Sweeney and George r. Buck.
ley, who were suffocated by gas in
New York hotel, were Scranton, Pa
men. 1t is believed the gas was
turned low and was blown out by the
wind.
The report that an attempt has
been made to assassinate President
Kruger, OF the Transvaal, is untrue.
| The Grand Trunk car ferry Huron
ran aground in the slip at Windsor
Canada. BY crowding on steam tae
ferry reached the Slip and the passen
ger train was got off with difficulty
The ferry boat sank.
DR.. Victor c. Vaughan, dean of the
medical department of the Michigan
| university, appeared before the Mich
igan state board of health and praeti-
cally acknowledged that the case Of
Student Charles b. Hare is one of
| bubonic plague. He assured the
board that there would be no spread
of the disease.
AT New York, Henry Francis, an
1S-year-old negro bicyclist, ran over
and dangerously injured John Sulli-
van, 13 years old, with his wheel
! Francis was locked up and bail re-
| fused.
Cardinal Gibbons left Baltimore for
Dubuque, Ia, where he will confer
the pallium ON Archbishop John J.
Keane next Wednesday in the catned-
raj Of that city.
A farmer living near New Milford
Pa, reports that boy answering the
description of Willie Mccormick, the
! missing New York boy, worked for
him last week. Saturday night he
paid the lad and he disappeared.
The Rev. Edward w. Appleton,
aged 81, rector emeritus of st. Pauls
Protestant Episcopal church, Ogontz.
near Philadelphia, died. He has been
III for long time and his death was
not unexpected.
Lille T. Cole, a White Rat" song
and dance artistic, brought suit In
| common pleas court No. A, Philadel
phia, for divorce from her husband
James H. Cole also a white Rat,
on the grounds Of desertion and cruel
and barbarous treatment.
Secretary Gage was offered s3e5
oo0 worth OF short-term bonds, but
the price was too high and the offer
was not accepted.
Imprisonment in Sing Sing for life
was the sentenced passed on Su Sing
the Chinese highlander who shot dead
All See in Pearl street, New York, on
Sept. II, Su Sing pleaded guilty of
murder in the second degree under
advice OF his counsel Abe Levy and
Henry Unger. It has been many
years since Chinaman was SEN
fenced In New York for like crime.
An unsigned letetr from BROOKLYN
containing $500 gold certificate with
the request that the amount be cred
tied to the Conscience fund" was
received by Comptroller CoIer Ia
New York. This is the largest amount
| OF conscience money received nv
the comptroller since he has been in
Office.
The actual work of excavation was
begun in City Hall park, New York
on section l OF the rapid transit tun-
mel rms section comprises the
terminal station and loop at the post
ONCE and will extend to Chambers
street. Gangs of men began work
early in the park, where a deep hole
is to be dug and walled. From the
| bottom of the excavation the work
men will cut their way in two direc-
tons. Men are now employed all
along the line.
The New York police secured infor-
nation that they believe will lead to
the recovery of 100000 in bonds
and the revealing of the plot and
perpetrators Of the great Manhattan
savings institution robbery for about
2S years a mystery. 1t was learned
that the bonds had not been DESTROY
ed, that the. securities were in New
York and that the man who had them
was willing to return them to the
bank officials for a trivial reward
DR.. T. A. Pope, of Cameron. Tex
said in Washington the Legislature
OF that state is being severely criti-
cized for its failure to appropriate
literally for the Galveston storm suf.
ferers, after Governor Sayers had as.
! SDrp0 the nannIp af ofbo,,