The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-10-07
In. WEAVER is busy quarrying

U. p. nearly broke the hearts of the
rooters. 1t was such an accident as
is likely to happen in any game.
CAR supply is one thing that is
bothering people along the n. & X.
There would be much mere doing up
there II the cars came in as they
should.
| THERE is but one best nantel and
we think that this is the Erie. We
have them in all sizes and they cost
from ten to thirty five cents. Stewart
Plumbing Company.
W. AND J. defeated Marietta by a
score of 81 to 0 at Washington yes
terday. Marietta is not as strong
this year as usual. The score is
not regarded as large one.
MAPS and profiles for the western
end of the Star Line have been filed
in the county clerks office. The
route has been given several times
in this paper. The road is to be
built and that soon.
A LETTER has been received from
Miss julia McGrew and Miss Bessie
fDavis announcing their safe arrival
in Madison, Wis :, Last Tuesday night.
They had pleasant trip and are now
comfortably located for the years
work.
LOCAL weather prophets are busy
telling how warm and wet the month
of October is to be. They say that
such conditions always prevail after
cold and dry September. Ii their
words come true there will also be a
heavy growth Of grass this month.
SOME of The merchants who have
been obeying the ordinance about
obstructing the sidewalk have de-
cidcd that they will move their stuff
out On the walks. They will be
fined without any further notice the
first thing they know The ordi
ne gce is to be enforced.
n is not thought that the window
b.rses of town will start before the
frst of November. They had been
ez pected to start on October 10 but
the workmen have not received any
n'imation from the companies as to
when the start will be made
THE people of Clinton district don't
caIt a continental about that suit for
damages against the government,
What they want is to have road by
which to come to town. At present
they have to go far out of the way to
get ere and they don't like it little
bit.
A rINE rain began to fall on Sun
day / Int. 1t will do the grass lots
of good. The streams are very low
and need the rain and there are
many other things about the down
pour which render its welcome.
The latter part of summer was very
dry.
Some of the lot owners in Palatine
along the new route of the +. M. &
p. did not want to give up their
land without scrap and there was
a special term of the intermediate
court In order that the court might
pass on the question. Four lot
owners were interested.
PEOPLE on through the county are
very anxious to have the trolley line
built near them so that they may have
chance to get to town at any time
very cheaply. They will do every
thing they can to get this line built.
1t is seated that it will be built some
distance out in the country this fall If
free rights of way are given to the
company.
The work of extending and raising
the dam at lock No. 4 involves some
difficult ieats of engineering, as well
as the consumption Of vast amount
of constructing material. According
to inspector r. A. Roberts 1t is the
largest job of repair work the
government has ever tackled since it
took over the Improvements of the
Monongahela river.
The B. d D. announces that the
last excursion of the season will be
run to Pittsburg on next Sunday.
Many of them during the past sum
msr have been crowded. One hun
bred and thirty-one tickets were
sold here last Sunday night for the
train that left Clarksbnrg that even
ing.
A LOCAL history says that the
FIRST known occupancy of the point
where Brownsville now stands was
begun in February 1854, when Capt.
Trent, of Virginia, erected strong
log building there to store the sup
plies for the Ohio Company. The
lanyard, as this bsilding was called,
was soon abandoned as the ensuing
war destroyed the Ohio Company's
trade with the Indians.
LAST night a crazy man in Jail
began to yell at the top of his voice.
Some people coming down High
street ran to see what caused the
racket and in few moments hun
dreds OF people were tearing toward
the jail. They came back in a few
minutes without having accomplish
ed any thing except to prove how
easy it is to kick up an excitement.
A STATE examination is to be held
on October 80 and 81 for teachers.
This is somewhat different from the
uniform examinations which has
recently been held, in that the re-
quirements are higher. The certi-
ficate issued is better because it is
in effect longer. Wheeling Charles
Town, Parkersburg, Charleston and
Huntington are the places where
the examinations are to be held.
We learn by phone from our
friend, Perry johnson, OF Pentress,
W. Va that company of capitalists
from Morgantown recently purchas-
ed twenty four acres of ground adj
jacent to New Brownsville (Pentress
postoffiee) on Dunkard creek, of
Savannah Foley at $500 per acre.
The same is being surveyed into
town lots and there will be lot sale
there in a few weeks.-Greene Coup-
ty Democrat.
ABOUT 1000 coke ovens in the
Connellsville and Lower Connells-
vile region are being put out of
blast. The furnaces were unable to
take the production of coke that
was going out of the two big dis
tricts, and the operators have de-
cided to cut the tonnage down to the
figures demanded by the foundries
and pig iron stacks. The initiative
in cutting down has been taken by
the H. C. Prick Coke Company.
The Rainey interests are blowing
out several hundred ovens. There