Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-05-23
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No snAD have been taken ct this point,
a. yet.
TEE ne~ drug Law goes into effect
to-day.
A LARGE crowd went down on the Di-
urnal excursion, Saturday evening.
Tue Rechabites are making big prep
arations for the reunion next Thursday.
TIE Riverside blast furnace 10 being
improved by an addition to its casting
houses.
HoBBs, Brockunier & Co. will COM
menee glass making from their new 10
pot furnace TO day.
THE fi4gging has been removed on
Capitol square preparatory to placing
the Soldiers monument.
TnERE will be q big temperance mass
meeting held in front OF the State House
Wednesday evening.
TIERS was trouble in Psrker's block,
Sixth ward, yesterday, caused by one
man abusing another mans vile.
A SON Of Officer Kennedy, OF the
Eighth ward, fell from fence Saturday
evening, ana badly fractured his arm.
SQUIRE FKLBsR on Saturday issued
peace warrant for VIM. A. Streets on
complaint of wm. Tolivar. Both par
ties are colored. .-
THK moon will be q parasol for the
earth, on Friday next, and will come
between us and the sun. Some persons
call this an eclipse.
A CROWD OF young blooas will be be-
fore the Police Court, this morning. Tor
creating a disturbance in the Second
ward market, Friday evening.
The Circuit Court Part /, Judge
Boyd) met as Usual Saturday. The only
business transacted was the hearing OF
motions for new trial and demurrers.
RESERVED seats will be placed on sale
at Banners music store tomorrow
morning for the appearance OF Lawrence
Barrett at the Opera House next Tues
day.
Tax gathering boys at the Nail City
Bottle Factory are on strike. They
have been getting So q week. and the
warm weather induces them to ask
for s..
LAST Saturday Auctioneer Haller sold
from the front steps OF the Court House
the Grant House property to II. h.
hist for So. 200. The bidding was very
lively.
A DISPATCH received in this city from
Geo. Baird conveys the information that
while at the Louisville races he had his
pocket picked OF his gold watch and
chain. The watch was very valuable
one.
DURING this week the steamer La
Belle will have the Benwood band on
her special trip, every evening, for the
purpose Of giving concerts to her pas
sengers-
An excursion from Steubenville, CON-
ing on the Abner 0Neal, was in the
city Saturday, with more than the
usual quota OF pretty girls. The affair
was under the auspices OF the Christian
Church.
The Harmonie-Maennerchor Singing
Society will excurt to Steubenvi,le on
Thursday next, for the purpose OF re-
pesting there the concert recently given
in this city. The trip will be made by
rail and the fare one dollar. A pleas.
ant time awaits all who may 90. ~
SQUIRE PHILIPS on Saturday sued
John Desmond S and costs aud placed
him under 500 bond to keep the peace
Iior,one year. The suit was brought by
Kate Porter, who afterwards instituted
suit against Desmond for $500 damages
/ for defamation of character. The case
will be up on Thursday.
THR State temperance convention
will hold a session June % in the
Fourth street church; every county in
| the State will be represented. Cover
nor st. Johns, OF Kansas, is expected to
be here. The Wheeling people, rs usu-
al, will show their hospitality by enter
tanning the delegates in their royal style.
SOME time, either Saturday morning or
Sunday night, thief entered the room OF
James Ferguson, a well known mailer q
| the Belmont, and stole therefrom his
pants containing $50 and some other
yaluables. Mr.. Ferguson resides in a
boarding house near the corner of
Twenty.fourth and Main. There is no
clue TO the thief.
THERE was big blaze over in Mar
tins Ferry. Saturday evening about |
| o'clock. The cause was the burning oil
the laundry house at the Martins Fer
~ barrel, key and box factory. The
fire caught from the flues and the build
ing was with its contents entirely de-
stroyed. Ii con tanned about $3.50 worth
| of material and the entire loss will be
about $500.
GREAT complaint is made OF the
numerous cases ofindecent exposure by
bathers and swimmers along the river.
Boys and half-grown men battle at all
hours OF the day, regardless OF passing
boats, people on the banks, or, in TACT,
OF anything. The police are making q
decided effort to break no the habit,
which is punishable by ordinance.
Now that the warm weather Is here,
making the evenings delightful, the old
trouble OF corner losfing arises. One
officer thought he had moved two thous-
and men and boys, yesterday. II the
loafers were men or gentlemen, the
practice would not be 50 reprehensible,
but they are so often rowdies, obscene
and foul mouthed, that they cannot be
too quickly moved.
The City Democratic Executive Com.
mittee met at the City Building, Satur-
day evening, and talked up the coming
Municipal Judge election, the prospects
being a brilliant victery for ex-Mayor
LETTERS. Alfred Caldwell was elected TO
fill vacancy in the committee from the
First ward caused by the removal Of
George Hook. Gus. Matthews was elect
ed to fill q similar vacancy in the Sec
ond ward, vice John w. Shorts resigned.
The Republicans also held thinly at
tended meeting.
The excursion to Steubenville, next
Friday, will be q very pleasant affair,
though it is TO be regretted that W heel.
ing will miss the first rendition OF the
"Chimes Of Normandy" The st. Law
rene will leave the wharf at $3.50 on
Friday afternoon and will carry away q
merry party. The fare for the round