Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-09-20
SOME TRI-STA1E EVENTS.

The. coroner's jury returned a yer
dict of suicide in the case of Michael
A. Hurry, aged rs years, found deao
with his throat cut beside the rail
road tracks at Monessen, Pa.
At kenton, O., the stakes for the
new buildings of the Champion Iron
works were set at the junction of the
Erie and Big Four railways. The
shops will cost 100000, and will EN-
ploy over 400 men.
Benjamin l.. Forster, of Harrisburg
was nominated for congress by the
Democrats of the Eighteenth district
The Democrats of the Seventeenth
district nominated /. H. Huber. OF
Chambersburg, Pa.
Suit in mandamus was filed by
John Koogler VS. the Board of Educa
ton of Springfield township to compel
it to open the Millcreek school, near
Springfield, o. 1t was closed by the
board and the pupils transferred to
the Possum school
Colonel James West, of Silver Lake
Pa, was nominated at Tunkhannoch
by the Democratic congressional con
ference of the Sixteenth district
which embraces Bradford, Susquehan
ma, Wayne and Wyoming counties.
At Bucyrus, O., Miss Augusta Nc
Cracker, custodian Of the public Ii
brary was nearly asphyxiated by es
Gaping gas. She was found uncon
scious.
At MarysviIIe, o., Jacob Bruthrer
Of Fl. Wayne, Ind, pleaded guilty Of
horse stealing and was sentenced te
one year in the penitentiary.
At Toledo, O., Isaac n. Morrow
aged rs. United States inspector OF
immigration, was probably fatally in
jured by falling downstairs.
Thomas cMahon, Of Oil City, Pa.
suspected of robbing Mr.. and Mrs
Miles, an aged couple of Fagundas
was taken to Grand Valley, neal
where the crime was committed, and
arraigned on a charge of burglary
He was afterward taken to Warren
Pa, Jail.
At xenia, O., Charles Brown, mar
ried, of Dayton. o., brakeman OF
the c., H. & D., lost both legs under
a train and cannot recover.
At Bucyrus, o., Henry Geiselmar
was arrested, charged with raising :.
pay check from $375 to $50.
At Stoutsville, o., s. x. Valentine
aged 80, retired stock dealer
dropped dead from apoplexy.
At ciarksburg, w. Va, j. A. Jami
son, colored was arrested by Specia
Policemen Lyon and White in tn,
opera house there for carrying a gun
On the way to Jail Jamison tried tt
pull the gun. In the tussle the gui
was discharged, striking Jamison II
the leg.
The power house and stables of tn.
Victoria Coal and Coke company, a.
Caperton. near Charleston, w. Va.
burned. Loss, 5000
LemueI McCauIey and Thomas Con
ley were acquitted at Elizabeth, neal
Parkersburg, w. Va. OF murderins
Charles Weaver. near Standing Stone
last February.
The convention of the Retail Mer
chants association, of Pennsylvania
at Scranton, elected officers as fol
lows: President, Albert Kaiser, Phil
adelphia: first vice president, w. Fl
Drury, Pittston; second. William Nc
MILAN, New Brighton; third, F. A
Kelly. Iazleton; recording secretary
A. M Howes, Erie; financial secre
tary, E. J. Morris. Reading; treasurer
William II Nelson, Chester.
James Code, coIored, at QUINN
mont. w. Va, shot his wife and hei
mother and father His wife's in
juries may prove fatal, but the Others
will recover. Code was arrested. He
claims that he was cleaning his pisto
and did not know 1t was loaded. TIL,
three persons were hit by the same
bullet, which passed through the body
Of Mrs. Code. then grazed her mother
who was standing behind her, are
lodged in the body Of her father II
ar adjoining room.