Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-18

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the Chapel.
Asorr seventeen men and boys
turned out on the Island, yesterday
-it.1noon, to kill a superannuated dos.
Trey did it.
The West Va. Stencil and Seal Works
will be under the management OF Mr..
A. T. Castor hereafter: See card in
another column.
OFFICER FUGArE on Saturday arrested
a party named Green, on complaint OF
the Street Commissioner, for dumping
ashes on the street.
GEO. PowLEss, nightwatchman at the
Riverside iron works, had the first I'm
ger of his right hand taken off at the
second joint Saturday afternoon, while
putting up the squetzers.
The petit jurors are summoned to
appear at the Court House this morning
and it is probable that the cog wheels OF
the judicial machine will grind right
lively for the remainder of the term.
SATURDAY night about $50 o'clock the
watehman on duty at the LaBelie
cooper shop, noticed two suspicious
characters about the buildings and fired
two shots at them; they left in quick
order.
SATURDAY evening a warrant was is
sued by Squire Wait for the arrest OF
Dick Freeze on the charge OF commit
ting an assault on Willie Harrison, a
little son OF Hugh Harrison, OF the United
engine company.
ABOUT $50 O'Clock Saturday evening
an aged lady named Barnes was run
iuto by three drunken brutes, near the
Grant House, knocked down and one OF
her limbs so badly injured she had to
be carried home.
The congregation OF st. Pauls' German
Church, worshipped for the last time In
that edifice yesterday, until il should be
renovated and frescoed. They will
worship in a neighboring church until
the repairs are completed.
PETER WRLrY, a German employed at
the Riverside mill, dropped bar OF pig
iron on his toe, on Saturday, MASKING 1t
badly. His fellow workmen raised a
purse to delray the expenses OF the
The Benwood blast furnace. OF Mar
tins Ferry, which has been shut down
for some time, will resume operations
this morning. The company has Sc
cured the services OF Manager Crockard,
formerly of the Riverside mil.
JAMES DUFF, the workman from
Clarksburg, who was so badly injured
by falling from the old City Flour Mill
ruins, Friday afternoon, died from his
injuries, which were largely internal, at
tue Hospital Saturday afternoon.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL error in the adver-
tisement of Richards 4 Bailie, on Satur-
day, made them state that they had con
trscted to furnish fine monument to
II. w. Deatrick, OF Martins Ferry. 1t
should have been, II. n. Deatrick OF
Martinsburg.
WITH the drinking OF the extra quail
ty OF beer on tap Saturday night, came
work for the police. What with pulling
houses of illfsme, looking after tights,
running after revolver shots, etc, the
eleven worthless who preserve the peace
OF the city had their hands full.
MANAGER CHARLIE HOWARD has
signed contract to take charge OF the
Arcade Theatre, Jersey City, May 2Srd,
and run it during the summer season.
He will close the Academy Of Music in
this city, on the 30th inst and will re-
open it on the'12th of September.
The Jury case set for . o'clock Satur-
day afternoon before Squire Philips
was decided in this manner. Capt. ALI.
Prince charged VIM. Turner, Alex. and
James Jones, with taking coal from a
stranded barge at the head OF the Island
but the evidence was not strong enough
to substantiste the charge and the de-
PENDANTS were discharged.
The rivals OF that enterprising literary
liyeryman, Ed. Larkin, are after him
with sharp stick again. Peter Erb has
sworn out warrant charging him with
q violation OF the first section OF the or.
dinance providing that all hacks, etc,
kept for hire shall be numbered and reg
istered. Larkin, it seems, was obliged
to hire some hacks from Bridgeport Tor
his own use.
Tomorrow night ball will be given
at Turner Hall that should be literally
palronized. Ii is being gotten up by
the members of the Vigilant engine
company and the proceeds will be used
to fix up their apartments and make
them comfortable. They also want to
procure some readable matter. Both
are laudsble objects, and We wish the
boys success. Mayer will furnish the
music.
TRANsRKRs in this county recorded
Saturday, included conveyance of hill
lot in Bushfield & McMechen's addition,
from U. s. Building Land and Loan
Association TO Mary Blerkortte; lot
Jacobs addition, South Wheeling, from
John NJ. Newlsnd to Mary f. Cunning
ham for $3.50; east half lots No. 50, SO
and 90, Caldwell's addition, from An
drew Wilson TO Fred. Unruh for 81, 100,
and south lot, square II, Csldwelps
addition from S. b. Caldwell to James
Lynch for $500.
TIERS was fun on Seventeenth street
East Wheeling Saturday evening about
II o'clock. First there was q miscel-
lareous go-as-you-please fight, in which
about fifteen parties took q hand.
Several bruised heads were the result.
About the time that rumpus was over
two men came out of the house Of i'll
fame No. lis and started q drunken
quarrel during which shots were ex-
changed. Information was given to the
police, but not soon enough. Officer
Morris is looking the matter up.
THREE attempts have now been made
to rob Mr.. Fred. Smith, a Market
Square grocer. The last one was Friday
evening. 1t was about IL O'Clock, and
he was on South Broadway, Island, 60
ing home when two tough locking citi-
zens approached him. Suspecting fun,
Smith threw his pocket-book, containing
$265, into an adjoining yard. One OF
the aforesaid t. c.'s noticed this and
started for il. The other came at Smith
with q knife, and slashed his coat
badly. Smith used o revolver freely
and drove them of, evidently wound
ing one of them, rs drops OF blood were
found. The rumpus attracted a crowd
Of frightened Islanders, and the pocket
book was found.