Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-08
BE1LLAtRE,

Blaunt Shtake was in town on busi.
ness Tuesday evening.
Presiding Elder Grey, Of this district,
passed through town yesterday.
A child OF Stephen Hollands,o out near
the stock pens, has the diphtheria-
Jim Wells came over from GAINESVILLE
yesterday, but he would not stay long.
E. B. Potts and wife. OF Powhattan,
were registered at the Globe House, yes
terday.
B. E. Gould, of Pittsburgh, was
tramping through Bellaire dust yester.
day.
Harry, a four year old child Of Geo.
McClain's, died from the effects Of diph.
liberia yesterday afternoon.
Miss Annie McNay. of Wheeling, il
spending a very pleasant week with the
family Of Alex McGregor.
The hot iron portion Of the nail mill
shut down on both Tuesday and We'd
nesday on account CT the intense heat.
A street sprinkler is badly needed
here. 1t would be Q paying enterprise
for some industrious fellow to take hold
OF. Give il a trial.
Quite a delegation from here will at
tend the St. Clairsville Fair on next
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Everything bids fair 10 have Q very sue.
cessful exhibition.
A fellow who halls from Benwood
claims to have been robbed Of $50 In
money and q watch while he was lying
drunk in Mrs. ~Shsnelly's saloon late
Tuesday afternoon. He did not see ut
to have any arrests made however.
Israel Ross and James Stevenson
each lost a child with diphtheria yes.
terday. Both families live below the
creek. The Ross family had previously
lost one CT lid, and the %Stevenson's two.
They have the sympathy Of q large cir.
Gle OF friends in their bereavement.
The three burglars, who were arrested
early Tuesday morning, had a hearing
before the Mayor the same evening, and
they were bound over to court In the
SUN Of $500 each. They will be sent to
St. Clairsville this morning. and II Is
probable that they will not have an OPP
porunity 10 visit Bellaire again for sew.
ersl years.
A pedd!er named Costello got caught
in town on Tuesday without money, so
he could not pay fora license. He de-
sired to 90 to Barnesvile and could not
get them without money 80 he sold q
piece OF oil cloth ior % cent. He was
gobbled up by the police and and the
Mayor fined him IS 80.
The Republican Judicial Convention
for this district, which is to meet here
on next Tuesday, does not appear to
stir up any great amount OF enthusiasm.
1t seems probable at the present time,
however, that Mr.. Hunter, OF Woods
field, can have the nomination, but it is
not probable that he will accept, for in
case he does Judge Oxey will withdraw,
and Hunter will be left 10 fight the bat
tie alone with Swaney, and he would I'M.
d~oubtedly be showed under.
Be. laire at the present rate will have
quite a number OF criminal cases before
tho next term OF court. Yesterday a
boy, giving the name OF Frank Beales,
was arrested for stealing q valuable
young horse, in broad day light, from
Hugh Gifin, who lives but . short dis.
lance from town. The boy claims that
a man with whom he met, offered him
S30i if he would steal the horse and de-
liver it TO him on the road to Jacob Heath.
erington's The youth had nearly reach.
ed town, when he was overtaken and
brought before Squire Powell. He
plead guilty to the charge, and VAS
bound over TO court in the sun OF 500.
His accomplice bias not yet been found.
This same boy, Frank Beales, used to
black shoes about the streets OF Bellaire,
and is undoubtedly a pretty hard young.
ster,