Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-09-30
HOW IT is DONE.
Summary of News Cleaned on
Trip by Reporter.
What Was Heard Along Chancery Row.
Minor Dean GETS Salty Dose rand
Jury Members Suppressed Ed Blair
in Trouble Other Minor Matters.

Some people have a curiosity TO
learn how news is gathered for the
papers by those who have to hustle
to gather material to entertain and
instruct the readers of this paper.
A recital of stroll along Chancery
Row and the items cleaned in few
minutes by our reporter may be in
teresting.
A knot of lawyers vas found and
asked what was doing. One of them
said that Mrs. Elkins, Miss Kathe-
rine Elkins and Miss Wood had left
in the EIkins private car after a
short visit here.
Mrs John w. Mason is visiting
relatives here, was yentured by adj
other one. Milton Hirschman leaves
this afternoon for New York, said
another
just now coming up Peasants
street | saw flock Of quail which
had gotten into town and did not
know how to get out, said a fourth
Two of the birds were in big
tree in front OF Simeon Garrison s
and they were scared. They were
whistling to beat the band and were
sitting close together. Others were
down on Front street and all were
whistling away as hard as they
could"
tits bad sign for quail to enter
a house. 1t means death, said a
superstitious member of the bar
"Oh, say. You remember Minor
Dean. the bad man from Bitter
Creek, written up some time ago in
the New DoMrNIoN?' spoke up an
other 'SWell he went before Judge
Crawford at Waynesburg the other
day and was given two years IL the
pen. He had been up before the
court twice before and sentence was
suspended He was up once for hit
ting a man in the head with an ak
and once for selling liquor. This
time he was arrested on complaint
of Mayor Higgins Tor hitting Mrs.
Higgins at a picnic at Mt Morris.
Higgins swore he had on knucks,
and the court gave him two years. !"
II understand that Ed Blair is in
the workhouse SON ewhere IN Penn.
sylyania for stealing some money on
B. d O. train from a passenger, !"
said another. ed was riding with
a man who was drunk and touched
him. A detective was near by and
run him in. He has nearly COM
pleted his sentence.
"A big crowd of Morgantown boys
went to Mt. Morris last night to see
Uncle Toms Cabin, that new show
which recently took the road Guy
Brightman and George Davidson
were in the crowd. They Soy that
the show was all right"
What's new in here?" queried the
scribe going into another office.
"a meeting of the Oak Grove
Cemetery Association will be held in
Municipal hall on October 9th, at
seven: thirty. This is the annual
meeting and all stockholders are ex-
pected to be present.
Prosecutor Goodwin was hailed
and asked about the coming term of
court. He said that summons were
being sent out, but that the number
is small for thisl term. There is
very little doing over the county.
The names of the members of the
Grand Jury nave not been announc-
ed and they will not be given out.
This is to prevent anyone from max
ing personal appeals to the mem
bers to escape the consequence of
any lawbreaking of which they may
be guilty,
A quick trip back to the Office
and the Information thus secured
was made ready to be given to the
readers of the paper. Then out