Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-12
FACT AND FANCY.
HIaor City News and Pertinent TaIk
and Comment

and Comment
TIE Circuit Court meets this morning.
ANNA DICKINSON ss Hamlet" on Tues
day night.
SPECIAL meeting of the Board of Educa.
ton tonight.
ONLY two arrests reposed in the lookup at
a late hour last night.
MONDAY night the water works skiF was
stolen from its moOrings just below the
works.
The Jersey cattle men will meet to NOR
NOR evening at the Entry Clerks office to
organize Breeders Association.
WASHINGTON BoLAN was fined $40 and
cost at Squire Ankles yesterday for break
ing into Frank Walters vineyard.
LAST evening, at o'clock, Carl Myer and
Miss Caroline thinner were married at 1921
Wood street. Rev. Braun oificiated.
TIE case OF State VS.. Sohn Frill, on charge
Of assault and battery, was tried before
Squire Arkle yesterday and the defendant
fined s. and costs.
Dan pOYp, sn employee at the Riverside
coal bank, w0s badly cut about the head
ard had two fingers mashed by a fall OF
sosp stone yesterday.
YESTERDAY Ralph Arkle WAS attacked
with Il lit on The fair ground and had to be
assisted home. DR.. Myers happening 10 b.
near revived Mr.. Ankle
YESTERDAY Frank Webb was arrested OF
charge OF d:SOrderly conduct and placed in
jail. He vii! be tried before Squire Arkle
this afternoon at o'clock.
DR GENES, OF S'eUbeuyille, will lecture
III the First VI. L. Church, OF Bridgeport,
this evening on tie Prohibition Amend
mant. Come and hear him. Admission
free.
W. J. H re, grocerymaH, was arrested
yesterday on charge Of using abusiV,
| Language to Henry c. SChallCrOsS. The
| case will be tried before Squire Arkle ut !
o'clock this morning.
The cases Of the State VS.. Scan" Flynn
| Nick and Francis Halpin and Walter
| Buckly on charge OF entering the vine
! yard at Mt. de Chantal and eating grapes
| were fined 5 and costs each. Mr.. Flynn
! will appeal his sons case to court.
VIZ. RATCLIFF, while walking along Chap
| line street asst evening met with a very
severe accident at DR.. Edwards residence
! He stepped on the grating over the cos
| vault, which turned with him, eau ipg
him to tall and badly bruise his limbs.
The Arion Association elected the fol
| lowing directors for the ensuing year, at 4
meeting held at the hall last night: Levi,
| c. Snfel, J. S Slroehlein, J. &. Hoffman
+. Reister, John A. Hess, Chris. Arnold
c. Oppenseller, Henry Biummenberg and
Lewis Baker.
AT 10 o'clock last night the strata
of hSrd sand stone bad been b)red
| through at the Central gas we'll aud
they were now in she'll. The volume oil
gas is increasing rapidly and they ex pect
TO strike the main reservoir 10 day. Great
excitement prevails in that end Of the city
MONDAY morning the occupants OF u
! buggy had a narrow escape on the National
pike, near Stock Yard hollow. The horse
scared at the motor and upset the buggy
| spillrg them out on the pike. Fortunate.
! ~ neither Of them were hu-t. A gentle
man that witnessed the accident said that
the entire cause of the accident was incom.
potency Of the driver, he being little more
thSn a child.
GOOD audience witnessed the first pre-
sentation, last night, of Campbelrs Whit
Slave, snd was much pleased. Mr.. Camp.
bells heroine of this new piece is really q
white girl Of high psrentage, although the
result Of an irregular alliance, the es
tate Of the Judge, her supposed owner
but really her grandfather. is mortgaged
by the girls lover, who is the Judge :
| nephew snd business manager, the mort
gsgee beiu & a planter gambler who has en-
trapped the young man. A home is broken
up, the negroes including the heroine, sold
to the villain, the girl is rescued by her
lover. There is thrilling steamboat
scene, followed by fire ane explosion; the
couple drift down the Mississippi on
fragments Of the wreck, are cast
upon sn island, captured by the vii
lain who, in the end, is shot by sheriff
whom he had summoned to arrest the
heroine snd her lover, and every thi lg ends
as il should, thanks to a lawyer who ar
riyes just in the nick of time with exactly
the proper documents. The situations are
all thrilling and powerful, while the
scene painter and nachinist do wonders in
| every act