Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-28
NO CLUE
To the BeIIaire Thieyes-Interesting
Bellaire Budget.

To the Belia1re TnfeSes-AuterestlnE
Bellaire Budget.
The examination of Evans, the night
Waterman at the narrow gauge station, de-
veloped nothing new in regard to the rob-
berry. The finding of the cash box near
Wheeling, leads to the belief that the
thieves at least went to Widening, if they
didn't come from there. There is no clue,
however.
Mr.. J.. T. Kelly, teller in the First Ma
tional bank, is confined to his home with a
severe attack OF inhamatory rheumatism.
J. Jockey and party of gentlemen, got
in yesterday with a batch of twenty. four
turtles. Some of them were fine, large
ones
The miners at Rockershausen & Sterrett's
Pittsburgh coal works, who went out on q
strike because of the way the check miners
were paid, returned to work yesterday,
after being out four days. without ac-
complaining anything but the loss of some
money to themselves as we'll as the pro-
prietors.
John Randolph is home from Baltimore.
The family Of Capt. Brown, OF the post
office, is summering at Moundsville.
The Odd Fellows of this city will go to
Woodsfield tomorrow to attend the ban
quet and parade Of the Order there.
At last there is some improvement being
made in the gutter at the c. & 7. depot,
over which everybody who went on that
road had to jump. 1t is being repaired and
a crossing viii. be msde. 1t ought to have
been done long ago.
A boy from this city went over to Ben
wood yesterday, and stole some iron from
the Benwood iron works. He slipped along
the bank and got on the ferry boat just as
il started out The parties who were after
him found out that he was on the boat be-
fore it landed at this shore, and called to
Squire Msiilton, who is in charge OF the
ferry, to stop the boat He did so, but just
as he stopped, the boy jumped off the front
fore the boat landed, and made good his
escape by skipping up the c. & z. railroad
track.
VIM. Davis, boy about Is years Of age,
son of Merris Davis, one of our Township
Trustees, who lives two miles west of town,
met with very serious accident yesterday.
He took an old horse pistol" out to shoot
hawk with and while the bird was flying,
he raised it up and fired away. The pistol
flew back when the pistol was discharged,
striking the boy on the head, cutting him
clear TO the bone, but fortunately it did not
fracture the skull. Another. wound was
inflicted Just over the left eye, cutting the
flesh so that il dropped down over the eye
v,
of the pistol cut his upper lip through.
Medical aid was summoned and the boy
head patched up so that there are now no
fears that the accident will prove fatal, al
though he is badly wounded
The HdeDeRdaat, OF this city, says: ''There
is some talk of moving Franklin College
from New Athens, Harrison county, to St
Clairsyille. Eastern Ohio has no college
that amounts to anything. st. Clairsyille
Is q good place for an institution of that
kind, and il her citizens will take hold of
the project something can be made of it,
but il will take both work and cash. The
Barkhurst property Immediately south Of
the town is the location talked Of" This
would be fine addition to our county seat,
and we hope they will succeed in securing
the location Of the institution.
gainesville hiss library Of one thousand
volumes. Bellaire has none.
The Bellsire people now at Atlantic City
are Hughey Thompson, Scott Cunningham,
Tom Manly, Bob Thompson and George
Bartlett.
A lot Of drunken men raised q disturb.
ance in woods6eld Wednesday night aud
made it very uncomfortable for the good
people Of the town by making night hid
.eous with their drunken quarrelS and
i6iotic wells 1t was pay day.
Mr.. Jacob Heatheringtou has about com.
pletsd an improved way OF delivering coal
to steamboats,. The coal will be dropped
from bins into the fuel box of the boat
Last night Frank Bumbright got into a
row with Fred Heimberger and in the
course Of IL knocked him down After
some little searching 0fficer Archer found
Frank at his mothers saloon and locked
him up.