Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-10
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country deputy for Sheriff Brown.
Deputy SHERIFF MITCHELL and Asses
sor Philips are busily engaged in get
ting out the tax bills for the sheriff.
The Street Commissioner had the
Paxton Fountain cleaned out yesterday,
At the instance Of Councilman Baker.
The Riverside nail factory was off yes
terday On account of q srarcity OF nail
plate and partly because OF the excessive
b at.
Wi are panied to announce the seri'
ous illness Of the estimable wife OF Proi.
Mccain, Paincipal Of the First Ward
school.
TIE Sixtsenth Street English Luth-
eran Sabbath School will celebrate their
usui Al Harvest festival two weeks from
tomorrow.
A DsBp was was made yesterday by
Henry Seamon and wife 10 Virginia
Smith for a piece Of land on cald"eiis
run, for 1926.
TIE Starlight Social danced at Turner
Hail last night 10 Mayors music. A
large crowd was in attendance and q
good time had.
THz river rose three inches yesterday,
and if another inch or two be added the
"Lone Wanderer' will be liable to re-
port at any time.
CAPT. Ton Prince will build a new
boat for the Wheeling and Beltslre
| trade this fall which will be twice the
size OF the LaBelle.
WHILE running to The fire yesterday
the Vigilant engine boys lost one oil
their stay chains. They would be thank
full if the finder would return it.
The funeral of Mrs. Kurner, wife OF
David Kurner, Esq took place from
her late residence ON the South Side,
yesterday and was very largely attended.
The refining and repairing ef the old
furnace at Hobbs 4 Brockunitrs glass
house will be completed to day, and put
into operation on Monday or Tuesday OF
next week.
A PRIVATE moonlight party will be
held at Seibert's garden, out the Ma
tIonal pike, next Monday evening, by a
party of South Wheeling folks. Billy
MAYER will play.
CART. PRINCE has chartered the little
steamer LaBelle for the low water sea.
son to Freiburg & Workman, OF Cincin-
natl. a firm Of distillers with works at
Petersburg, NY.
The sugar refinery is beginning to as
sumo shape. The tirst-story walls are
about up, and the stack will be com
\ pieted IN 4 few DAYS. When completed
IL will he an immense affair.
The management of the Children's
Home have invited the German Lnth
! eran Joint Synod OF Ohio and adjacent
States to visit the institution at some
time during their stay in Wheeling.
A PRIVATE telegram received in this
CITY last evening from Geo. Weisgerber
stated that he wonld not row in the
final heat at Toronto to-day, and that he
would leave there for home last night.
The Wilson Gordon stabbing ARRAY,
which occurred in the Eighth ward a
few DAYS ago, will be tried before Squire
Murrin next Monday, Gordon having
so far recovered as to be able to attend.
Gus. SPEECH, a heater at the La Belle
mill, was taken suddenly i'll yester-
I dav with severe pains in his back and
had TO be conveyed to his home. Medi'
cal aid was summoned, and the case pro-
nounced rather critical.
HOMER CLINE, John Mulvey, Peter
| Loefier, James Hurley, Isaac Hender-
Y shot, James Hone, John West and two
or three other boilers and their helpers,
will leave to. day for Birmingham, Ala
bama, to 90 to work IN the mill there.
THERE has been considerable talk
| about postponing the Belmont &C unity
fair at st. Clairsville on account Of the
scarcity Of water there, but the rain OF
last evening has dispelled all such
| thoughts and the show will go on as
originally intended.
The fine blackboard picture illustra-
tive Of prayer for President Garfield,
used at the Sabbath School Association
meeting on Tuesday, has been kept on
the board that the children OF the Eng
lish Luthern Sunday School may havea
view OF it tomorrow.
The employees OF the gas works will
TINS morning dig up the gas pipe on
Twentv-fourth street in front OF the
United engine house. For some days
past the gas in that vicinity has been
very poor, supposed to be causel by
water in the pipes.
BETS on the boat race over the upper
course to-day are about even. We heard
of several having been made that way
last evening, though the friends OF Hab
berfeld seem TO be numerous, and some
thing is expected from them to-day.
The judges will be chosen this afternoon.
The statement made in the REGISTER
yesterday morning that Johnny Ritz
wanted to row any person in North
Wheeling except Felsing, was not cor
rect. Johnny says, however, that there
are some up there whom he can and
will accommodate whenever the oppor-
tunity offers.
THEstreet Arabsin the Eighth warda r
as full Of mischief as they can be. Yes
terday they amused themselves by pull.
ing q number OF picnic advertising
streamers from the street cars and tear
ing them to shreds. Such vandalism as
this should meet with the severest con
domination, and parents should see to
it that it is stopped.
The health OF the city at present is
not as good as II night he. The iouI
and filthy cutters and ewers about
town add materially to the sick list, and
in some localities the stencil arising
from the cess pools is uttealy unbesra-
bic. There is not a sewer in the city
but what needs a through flooding, and
the sooner it is done the better it will be
for all parties concerned.
FROM a gentleman who has Just re-
turned from sn extended trip on the B.
( o. road, We learn that the crops were
Eve in a worse condition. The long
continued dry spell has played havoc
with the corn, and the orchards look as
though fires had been built under the
trees, and the leaves completely dried
up. The grape crop will also be very
small, nothing like an average yield be-
ing anticipated.
Nh. A. NJ. DRAY, the retiring Chief
Clerk at the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
way Company's machine shops in this
city, vas q iew evenings ago made the
recipient Of a besutifu, and costly Nal.
tese Cross, presented to him as a mark