Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-22
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BELLAIRE.

BELLAIRE-
The Congressional Committee met at the
Globe House in this city Saturday and made
the preliminary arrangements for holding
the convention at st. Clairsville on We'd
nesday, June 81. There were present Capt.
Alexis Cope, of Belmont; ]. c. Brown, o
Jefferson: J. A. McEwen, of Guernsey, and
W. B. Hearn, of the Cadiz Republican, who
acted for Hon. D. A. Hollingsworth. 4. Z.
Thompson, of Noble county, sent a letter
saying he was in favor OF any place on the
B. & o. road and no other. Three OF the
committee voted for the time and place
above stated, and ii is considered in the ma
ture of a boom for Hollingsworth by some
of the other candidates. There may be such
a thing as Hollingsworth having too many
blooms" He has been selected as tempo
rary chairman OF the Republican state
Convention, as the orator at Steubenyille
on Decoration Day. and has, finally, had the
time and place of the Congressional conyen-
ton fxedto suit him. Thus it would seem
that he will get honors enough before the
convention meets. Combinations IN the
Congressional canvass have already com
menced. The Taylor, Poorman and Dalzell
men wanted the convention on the line OF
the B. &. o. road, and the Updegratf and
Hollingsworth men were for -. ClalrSvllle.
This, if Hollingsworth's canvass IS really
an Updegraff boom, as there seems TO be
little doubt of now, places that gen tleman
farther ahead in the race than his earnest
competitors have counted on.
MI. William Mcfarland, OF this town
ship, will leave to-day for Monmouth, ILL.,,
where he goes as delegate TO the General
Assembly of the United Presbyterian
Church.
The Bellaire furnace is now running to
its full capacity, turning out about % tons
of iron per day.
MI. j.. T. Smith. Secretary of the Bellaire
Bottle Company, has purchased the lot on
Belmont street just south of the property
occupied by Judge Anderson, and will ata
early day put up for his own use a hand
some private residence. The price paid for
the lot was $1,000.
Rev. B. S. Dean and wife, II. W. Nelson
and wife, and William Heatherington will
go to Columbus, to-day, to attend the meet
ing of the Ohio Christian Missionary Soci-
ETY.. which begins tomorrow.
The local directors of the West Wheeling
school district have sold the lot and house
on the south side of the school property to
Mr.. d. B. Lowe for 1915.
David Benline and a woman named
Sarah A. Matthews, who tried TO blackmail
a fellow named Ellis, from Bridgeport, by
charging him with an attempt to rape said
female, were arrested in Bridgeport on Fri
day evening, on a charge of living in a state
Of adultery. They plead guilty and were
fined S25 and costs each. In default OF pay
ment both parties were taken to Jail at ST.
Clairsville. In the meantime Squire Girls
well still holds the man Ellis in Jail here,
although the rape case was set for Saturday,
orI tha nrncnsDting WitnpSCpg were hDth in
Jail, and are likely TO remain behind the
bars for a while.
One of your Wheeling "CoOns' was sur
prised the other day by adusky maid leav
ing a babe at his fathers home for pro
lection and care, Efforts are now being
made to have the grandmother of the child,
on the mothers side, in this city, to take
care of the LITTLE one. The father, it is
alleged. is James Smith, a resident OF the
Garden Spot.
But one unfortunate was pulled last
Saturday night, and it was only a plain
drunk"
The city Board Of Education will likely
consider the propriety of employing a new
JanitOr at the next meeting.
Confirmation services were held in the
German Church yesterday forenoon.
A man named Charles Fry, an employe
of the tack factory, in your city, came
down here Saturday evening. and abused a
Bellaire man. He was 50 insulting in his
language that She Bellaire man gave him a
beautiful pair of black eyes.
GRIM. ron. CASE.
There was a lively little personal enCOun-
ter on Belmont street, Saturday afternoon,
between II. Il. Kitchen, a o~ne.legged man,
and S. q. Hamilton the druggist. 1t grew
out OF some of Hamilton's declarations al
fecting the character OF Kitchens wife. In
fact it was the outgrOwth of a scandal that
has been rolled under the tongues Of the
scandal monger as a sweet morsel for sew
eral days. No blood was spilled in the fra
cas-, but it gave the scandal business a new
start, and it was in every body's mouth.
This started the reporters, who have here
tofore held back any publication because of
the high standing OF some of the parties
whose names would be unpleas-
antly connected with the
affair, and it was discovered that Mr..
Kitchen had had prepared papers for an ex-
tensive damage suit. In the petition Mr..
Kitchen = charges Mr.. Hamilton with
having criminal connection with his wife,
and asks for damages in the sum of 5000,
and this petition was filed with the Clerk
of the Common Pleas Court at st. Glars
Vile last Saturday. The particulars of this
dlldlT are very SldIlIluB " TIE truly BOOu
people of the town, and nearly everybody
will watch the subsequent proceedings close
ly enough to get the principal part of the de-
tails. So far as can be learned now, it
seems that on a Wednesday evening
about two weeks ago Mr.. Kitchen happened
to go home an hour or two earlier than
usual, and was much surprised TO find Mr..
s. Q. Hamilton. the Belmont street drug.
gist, in the room with his wife. OF course,
efforts to explain the suspicious circum-
stances were made, but the injured husband
was not satisfied, and after Mr.. Hamilton
left, which he did without much delay,
balance Of the night, but the ne1t day Mrs.
Kitchen made a full statement Of the rela-
tons OF herself with Mr.. Hamilton.
Mr.. Kitchen, who IS an easy
going, well. behaved and we'll thought Of
gentleman, but whose eyes seem to be par
TALLY. closed to some worldly things was
frenzied with grief at the revelation, but
consulted friends, and particularly Mr..
and Mrs. Wildbahn. at whose house his
wife had made her home prior to her mar
risge. Mr.. Wildbahn is the guardian Of
Mrs. Kitchen, who is still a minor, both
her parents having died when she was
quite young. The youth Of the unfortu-
nate young wife, her husbands love and
BtlitChNCP iCauCu hC anu lo hdi5u
were resorted to. In a little
while Mr.. and Mrs. Wildbahn and the
guilty wife left the city for Altoona, Pa,
and then the town was rife with
rumors about Hamilton buying them off
and sending them away, but nothing is
known about the facts of this part of the
proceeding. But Mr.. Kitchen has not dis
carded his wife by any means, and the suit
against Hamilton is being brought on the
strength of Mrs. Kitchens testimony along
with others. The characters of both the
principals to the affair will no doubt be
fully ventilated during the trial of the
case, if il ever comes TO a trial. In the
meantime the deceived and injured man
and the wife of the recreant husband lave
the sympathy of the entire community.
1t is probably but just TO Mr.. Hamilton to
state that he stoutly denies the whole af-
fair, and says it is but a jealous freak on
the part of Mr.. Kitchen that his only bus
mess with Mrs. Kitchen, was to sell her
tickets to Burdett's lecture.
BRIDGEPORT.