Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-08-30
SATURDAY SPORT.
Collection Of Free Fights and
General Rows.

familiar expression, tney maue houio
howl. 1t has been estimated that the
bad blood engendered, with that which
was split, was sufficient to wash away,
great as they are, the sins OF the Radical
party. To gather up and collate the In
Vulnerable fights which occurred, kept
reporters skin mishing, and this is the
result: :,
Saturday was payday in several OF
the manufactures of the city, and pay
day usually means big day Tor saloons,
Especially was this so last Saturday.
particularly in the evening. The
weather was iearfnlly hot, and the cool
and refreshing lager was in great de-
inand. In fact some OF the saloons ran
ont of their Sunday supply, and the
brewery wagons were going until MD
night. Now, some beer produces Tight
in. qualities hen partaken OF too freely,
and this seemed to be the trouble Sat
urday evening. There were fights in
Vulnerable, and some OF them pretty
severe ones. The reporters IN skirmish-
ing around, picked up the following;
In the afternoon Hans Marshall and
party who would not give his name,
while in a street car, opposite the Hos
piral, commenced to quarrel over
watch. They became so obstre-
porous that the driver put them OH
As soon as Marshall got of he picked
M stone and let it caress the Uranium
OF his partner. A man who had wit
messed this performance then knocked
Marshall down. The prospects for
free fight were first class when Officer
Price appeared and induced Marshall to
take a walk.
There was picnic at Green's Grove on
SATURDAY., and VIM Carney was there.
He started several fights there, but with
no serious results. After arriving home
he was still on the warpath and. meeting
Ed. Duffy and friend whose name is
understood to be Coombs. he suddenly
assaulted them, right in, the midst
of the big crowd and dealt them some
quick and sudden blows in the face with
a heavy beer mug that he had with him.
Their faces we're badly cut, and DIR.
Harvey was called upon to bind them
up. Carney got away, and the police say
he assaulted three other parties in the
course OF the evening. 1t will 90 hard
with him when the police get their.
clutches on him.
Robert Mason, an inofensive Second
ward citizen finding Sturgiss' speech teo
much for him, stepped IN Huseman' 5
saloon to get a glass OF beer, whil1
drinking it he was approached by a
stranger, who struck him in the face
with a beer mug, cutting a deep cash.
Who the man was is unknown, as he
has not been caught yet. He is sup
ro<ed 10 be nonresident.
While the Republican procession was
passing up Market street, little street
arab ran against person, who can not
be called a man, for he grabbed
the lad, struck him severely and then
threw him into the gutter. The crowd
were highly indignant and the brute de-
cidcd that it was best for him to get out,
which he did quickly. The boys are
provoking at times, we know, and howl
and make unearthly cries to their com
panions and run against persons, but
they mean no harm and such treatment
as the above, does not improve them by
any means.
Some aged individual undertook 10
paralyze a party named Weiss in North
Wheeling, but he did not succeed, from
the fact that Officer Price arrived and
made arrangements for their appear
ance at this mornings session OF Police
Court.
The First ward was very lively Satur-
day night, and howls and yells rent the
air until nearly daylight Sunday morn
ing. 1t reminded one of the election
times.
About five o'clock Saturday afternoon
in Martin Karls saloon, in the North
End, Martin Terrell was badly used up
by a msn named Jack Rodgers. Martin
was terribly pounded.
"Spotty" Gibbons went into koch's
saloon in the Eighth ward to hear the
Tvrolese warblers, and while there en-
countered a streak OF bad luck, as some
one swung beer glass into his face
and bruised him up badly.
At this same saloon the Ole boys
and George Morningstar could not agree
on something, and the natural conse.
auence was a free fight. Morningstar
spent the night in the Eighth ward
station house and will be among the
hosts OF General Wallace this morning.
In the vicinity OF this concert hall
about eleven o'clock shot was heard,
and the next second man named
Bruckenburg was bowling for dear life.
The bullet had hit him in the leg, max
ing an ugly flesh wound. Who fired
the pistol is not known.
This Eighth ward was bowling will
ierness all night long; several more
rows were heard of, but particulars
could not be learned.
In the Fourth ward. the DRINKS were
OF harmless set and did nothing but
indulge in mandlin yells. The only
row heard OF was one at the postottice
corner, in which Young lads ID and 10
wears Of age INDUCED. 1t is said that
they had been procuring beer from sa-
loon.
In the gallant Sixth Capt. Cooper said
the howls and wells would have
led one to believe that tribe oil
Indians had broken loose.
About o'clock Sunday morning
word was sent to headquarters that a
shooting ARRAY had occurred at the
Fseder mansion, on the South Side.
Officers Shorts. McCully and Ruther-
ford were dispatched in that direction,
but found everything dark and quiet.
Returning, they found man, who
Shorts AYERS was six and half feet long,
living in the gutter, dead drunk. After
trouble, he was landed in
tie Central Station.
4 most cowardly exhibition took
place, on Saturday evening at O'Clock.
in front OF Stanton & Davenpcrt's. A
large crowd was upon the street through
which man suddenly darted and ap-
preaching another who was quietly
walking down street, struck him heavy
blow from behind, telling him to the
ground. Not content with that he
struck and kicked him while down. Be-
fore any one could interfere. he had run
rapidly down the REGISTER alley and
His name could not be as.
certained, or it would afford us genuine
pleasure to show him up.
H.. 49,. ,.,,orot ahnut on Saturuay