Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-03-21
NEWS ITEMS In BRIEF.

A big gasser has been struck on tn
T. P. Moffott farm near Waynesburg,
Pa.
Plans are being made in Akron. O.,
to ask Andrew Carnegie for a IL
brary.
Senator Frye, of Maine, has sailed
for San Domingo on a five weeks va
cation.
Fifty-two persons have been grant
ed liquor licenses in Lawrence eoun-
ty. Pa.
The population of Morgantown, w.
Va, has quadrupled during the last
10 years.
There have been 40 deaths from
smallpox in three weeks at ST. Al
bans, w. Va.
The furnace men in and about
Youngstown, o., are preparing to
strike for better wages.
]. Seymour Jenkins, aged 20. com
mitted suicide at GAINESVILLE, o., by
hanging himself.
William Cantrel, of Charleston, w.
Va, blacksmith, has been arrested On
charge of counterfeiting.
James H. Maize, of Punxsutawney,
has been chosen to succeed Cyrus M.
Ludwick as cashier of the Freeport
(Pa.) bank.
David Kemper, aged 20, was killed
in a drunken brawl at Bradford. Pa.
John Cleary is under arrest charged
with murder.
John Mccormick, of McCance, Pa,
was held up and robbed near his
home. The thieves stripped him of
his outer garments.
DR.. r. Lee Finn is in Jail at Erie,
Pa, being unable to pay fine of
5000 imposed for practicing in viola
ton of the state laws.
A college faetional fight has been
started at the Waynesburg (Pa.) col
lege over the selection of judges for
the inter-county contest.
Forrest Wade was accidentally shot
by a Flobert rifle in the hands of
James Wright, at Moundsyille, W.
Va, dying from his wounds.
Andrew Carnegie will donate $685.
600 toward a library for Crawfords-
vile, Ind, if that city will contribute
$4,000 annually for its support
Lawrence Baldwin, Massillon CO..
pattern worker, aged a. was killed
while at work at the plant of the
Massillon Iron and Steel company.
Peter and Patrick Carroll are I'M
der arrest at Charleroi, Pa, charged
with having thrown a brick which
seriously injured Miss Mary Busha-
ger.
A mine cave-in occurred at Mid
land, w, Va, the ground sinking sew
eral feet over quite an area. Dam
age to miners houses as yet is not
very serious.
Maryland legislature has passed a
law depriving llliterate voters assist
ance in making up their ballots. Dem
ocrats by this hope to gain complete
control of the state.
A freight train ON the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad near Meyersdale,
Pa, crashed into the rear of a coal
train, demolishing the caboose and
beveral cars. No one was injured.
Jealousy caused by seeing the wo-
man he loved about to marry another
man prompted John Johnson to com
nit a murderous assault on Carrie
Hughes, near Fairmont, w. Va. The
woman escaped and Johnson was ar
rested.
The following Baltimore and Ohio
employees at Cumberland, Md, have
applied for the benefit of the bank
rupt law Charles B. Bayne, engine
man, liabilities, s237; assets, SOL;
Benjamin L. Wilger, brakeman, liza
bilities. $295; assets, $33.60
Marriage licenses were granted at
Cumberland Md, to Charles H. Smith
and Eleanora Harrison, both of Nc
Keesport, Pa; Hervey Rupert, OF
Knoxville, Pittsburg, and Elizabeth
Fulmer, of Shady Run, Pa; Herman
l.. Hostetter, of Lambert, Pa, and
Hattie Lynch, of Uniontowa, Pa