Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-09
STILL THEY BURN.
Three More Fires Last Night.

1Qrcc NAOIC INV"
The ire bugs are apparently upon us
again. Atthis writing, Tor Who can tell
what an hour may bring iorth, three IN
cendiary fires have occurred, al attend,
Ell by the Customary excitement anu
mystery. A singular circumstance CON
nected herewith Is "a follows: Mrs'
Gosborn. who lives near the lack rae
tory, was at her door Just before me IRE
broke out. She noticed a man Hde up
ON a prey horse, hitch it to a tree near
by and enter the factory yafi' ina
lew moments he emerged, rrmonh'sn
and rode rapidly away, and then 'he
fire broke out. This might nc be sus-
picious had not this same individual, on
the SET same horse, been seen IN me VI
cinity of the second fire. related below.
Who is he? II this is all true here Is an
opportunity for the police to get on 10
him.
THE TACK FACTORY FIRE
VAS discovered so quickly iha. Il
amounted 10 but little. II seems ihat
some one threw a wsd OF packing, at
urs,ed With oil, into the windo" "i =
room Immediately in III" rear o; tie
Office. An alarm, was g:yra anu loI
Atlantic engine came promptly, 'iioush
one bucket of water e~xtlngulshed the
flames. A quantity OF oil was stored
near by. but the flames had no cppor-
| tupitv TO communicate with It, other
xise a disastrous fire might have re-
suited. 1t was tie opinion oil persons
in the neiyhborhood that the fire was
the work OF some boys.
At 1912 O'CLOCK
a telephone alarm was sent ont from the
United engine house that there was a
fire i'm that neighborhood. The bells
Immediately commenced ringing, an! q
red glow in the sky indicated 10 those on
the street in what direction the fire was.
When the reporter arrived on the spot
he found the stable OF John B)yce, No.
o4l7 EFF street, in ruins. The stable
contained no hay, and was used as a
hennery. Mr.. Boyce having about sixty
hens, all of which wer2 DESTROYED
There had not been Il .i?ht about tie
place, and the general impression anon
all was, that il was another l~nc,rdl"III,
attemrt. The loss Oh the stable and
contents will reach $50, on which there
is no insurance.
The companies were all on hand
promptly and lost no tiUae ia getting on
water and thereby preventing The Ire
from spreading.
AN HOUR LNT@R,
il being but a few minutes after eleven
o'clock, an alarm was struck on The n""
gongs, fir IN Not located a tn" Potter!
corner, and a bright biaz" for 1 mom"i:'
illuminated the sky in that direction
and then died out again. The tirem''
had barely reached their houses, hu'
they quickly responded AMI were soon
oathe track. Again il vas Inunt 20 10
the work OF an inccndiary AMI aya!n q
stable had been selected As i;ls OF thyli
field OF labor. Ii Was the stable, asmal
frame affair, oil Il party named RDScn
krantz, situated on Market street, n'aj
the corner o. Twenty-scvcnth street
There was a cow in the stable lux sh'
managed TO escape although her hdc'
was somewhat scorched. The loss wa
not over So. The "Iire bug hat use,
straw and shavings.
WAS II ROBBERY or IiE*:
Just before the lire at II O'Clock. sDin'
gentlemen were drinking II 'hrI'
Heddrick's saloon on TNcnty.thi''
street, when one oil them went 10 Ia
back door, as,,he thought he heard alrcr
liar noise. While there he say wha'
he took to be a man in the shadow "
the house. lie spoke to Mr.. licddrics
and that gentleman taking his ievo'v"r
started out; as he did 50, two mcn broH'
from the shadow oil the house and JUMP
ing over the fence ran At full spec,
down the alley. They left n~"tlin; he
hind BY which to Judge their character