The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-01
NEIGHB0RLY NOTES.
Items Of Interest of Our Neighbors in
West Virginia and Maryland.

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dealers in Grafton, W. Va, have made
an assignment.
One American and two Slaves lost
their lives in mine explosion near
Clarksburg Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Susan r. Smith, of Clarksburg,
and prominently connected with some of
the leading families in Harrison county
died Wednesday.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany has been having trouble recently
by having the trunks of its passengers
robbed. A circular has been sent to all
agents advising them to keep a closer
lookout on baggage.
Corn is in tessel." That is a head
line taken from a Baltimore county pap
err of last week.
The engagement of Miss Sadie
Dorothy, at Frostburg, to Mr. Edward
n. Fonkelhor, of Pittsburg, has been
announced.
The large engine at the Parsons pulp
mill ran away last week and flew to
pieces.
A scandle has developed in the teach
ers' examination in W. Va. At Rip
ley, the county superintendent dis
covered that the questions had been
gotten from the printer long before the
day Of examination.
Walter Stanley shot and killed Pres
ton Finn, his best friend, at Williams,
w. Va, on the Western Maryland
Railroad, near Thomas, Wednesday
night. Finn was sneaking into his home
to surprise his wife, when Stanley mis-
took him for a burglar and filled him
with shot, causing immediate death.
DIR. R. A. Armstrong, of the Univer-
sity, has refused to accept the sup
erintendency of the Parkersburg school
paying 81, 500 per year.
Clarksburg is booming the Chautau-
qua which is a new thing there and
which runs this year from Augest LIST
to 18th
Judge Mason, of Fairmont, has re-
fused to allow his name to be used as
candidate for the governorship of W.
Va
State Auditor ArnoldScheerr is being
pushed by his friends as candidate for
governorship of West Virginia.
Work has begun on bridge at Graf
ton, connecting the west ::''and south
sides.
The Mountain at Elkins, w.
Va, will be published daily after Aug
ust 18th
Elkins, W Va, is to have a new
Luthern Church.
Jas. Reed, a North Carolina negro,
on Saturday, shot and killed Policeman
John H. Daugherty, at Crisfeld, Nd.
A mob pursued the negro, brought him
back to Crisfeld, kicked him to death,
and then riddled his body with bullets.
The next day the citizens dug up the
remains and burned them to ashes.
Terra Alta has been entertaining the
shoot ars of the state of West Virginia
this week. The shooting will end to-
morrow
| Broaddus Institute will move from
Clarksburg to Bridgeport.
Ariel-Navigator Roy Knabenshue has
been engaged for the star attraction at
the Clarksburg fair, to be held the
first week in September.
Allegany County Superintendent
Wilson is spending summer term at
Harvard University, taking a course in
management of county schools
Joliff Brothers, leading merchants of
Morgantown and Fairmont, have been
compelled to make a compromise with
their creditors, paying only IS cents on
the dollar. The largest losers are four
banks, whose claims aggregate $l3, 900.
Congressman George C. Sturgiss, of
West Virginia, will deliver an address
at the Odd Fellows Reunion, held at
Harper's Ferry, August 9Th,