The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-28
sTEUBENYILLE LOCALS.
An Unnatural Son RObs His Father
OF Eight Hundred DOliars-Emma
Abbot as PIucky as Ever Acct
dents-GOssip.

| A little son of Mr.. John G..
Hsrter, of the st. Charles Hotel, had one
I of its hands severely burned this evening,
by falling against red-hot stove.
Some fast work is being done at the
Jefferson IRON works. On the night turn,
first furnace, which usually made five
heats By II o'clock, midnight, now
finishes by 9 o'clock.
Mr.. Frank Ridgely, clerk in the drug
store OF Mr.. Joseph Beatty, on Market
street, had one of his eyes severely in
jured by piece of glass entering it from
q lamp which exploded.
Benjamin Jones was before the Mayor
this afternoon on charge of having
stolen So from Mrs. Robinson Yesterday.
His trial Will come oil tomorrow morn
| ing a. 10 o'clock, and on failing to pro-
duce 500 bond was remsnded TO the
lookup.
In Council, last night, the resiGna-
ton of w. J. Doyle as City
Marshal WAS accepted. and police
man w. f.. Fisher was sppoited IN his
stead. VIM. Hunt lately mate on the
steamer Della, was appointed to fill the
vacancy on the police force caused by
Fishers appointment as Marshal.
The celebrated prlms donns, Emma
Abbott, with a full company, will be at
| Opera hall, on Friday evening, March
| ls.. Miss Abbott has been very Ill with
= sore throat, At Cleveland, Ohio, for
some time and the impression has got
abroad that she will not appear here, but
| Mr.. VIM. Z. Andersen, her agent, as
sures US that she will positively appear at
the time specified.
/ Some four weeks ago man stopped st
the Imperial Hotel, on Market street,
registering as W. A. Harrison, OF Louis
| vile, XIV. lie was accompanied by has
\ son, William Harrison. The msn an
rounced that he WAS in the tea business.
/ He proceeded TO visit our citizens, taking
ordt,s Tor tea, and when he hsd sccumu-
/ lated number Of them would have his
goods shipped to this place and deliver
them TO bis patrons. II seems that bis
son William, who is about twenty yesrs
of age, is somewhat wsywsrd. /! was
noticed tina. he had very expensive
hsbIts. He smoked the costliest cigars,
drank the cos,lest drinks, and was ST.
ways ready to trest anybody who de-
sired 1t. The matter continued
in this way without exciting
specisl comment fer fast young men
hsye visited our cityAteioce, snd after q
time taken their departure, snd nothing
csme of 1t. But this morning some ex.
element was occssioned around the hotel
by the young man disappearing, leaving
letter behind for his father, telling him
that be had robbed his trunk o! sli the
money he WAS possessed OF, snd IN sddl'
tion had received lot OF ies, delivered
it, and received the money theretor-the
whole suoUnting 70 shout $500. The
father, since the matter has come 10 light,
has baen slmost crszed, snd in addition
hiss taken 10 drinking hesvily. Oae
voung man of this city, who wSs rather
intimate with his son. he Is very bitter
sgsirst, seeming 10 think thsi be was in
strument,l in causing bis son TO commi!
the crime. He threatened hlm with cIEe
vengeance while in s crszed condition
from drink snd grief. /: seems thst this
is not the first time the son has been
guilty Of such sc:s, FOR BY the sts.emen;
Of the father he had been robbed by him
on several different OCCASIONS, although
he Cor sidered that the boy had reformed
We sre Of tie opinion that the young
Steubenvillisn had nothing 70 % with
the matter, except, probably, IN indQlg.
ing in the luIurIes the fast boy from
down the river Was dispensing with such
lsvish hand. The reformation of Hsrvi
son, the younger, was undoubtedly sham
and the best recommendation o TIE
father We can give is 10 let him seek biz
own level and 60 TO the dogs if be is in
clined. Il. tsiher, it sppesrs, was g.
one time wealthy. snd hiss been reduces
greatly In Circumstances By the Wild lif'
Of his son. The old gentleman is still
stopping s, the Imperial, and is some
what calmer a. this writing.