Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-20
AUANDRANCY
Minor city News and Pertasens Talk
ana ComnenG

Minor city Views and P~ersaaens Talk
and Comment
QUITE q large crowd visited Seiberts
Garden last evening.
Two new glass kilns will be erected at
the Wheeling Pottery Immediately.
OFFICER JUNKISs ran Toby Vance in yes.
terdsy for being beastly drunk on the
street.
JAMES RIDER was returned by his bonds
men yesterday, and is now in the county
bastile.
The workmen are busily engaged laying
the double track for the B. go. railroad to
Benwood.
The htel;gencer is correct for once in
monopoly"
TIE work of building new freight cars
for the b. & o. railroad, is being pushed
along very rapidly.
jim JONES was arrested for trying to
break up Housekeeping in the North End
misunderstanding dishes, etc.
An effort will be made to-day to remove
the iron from the Central glass works we'll
by means of a powerful magnet.
An attache of a certain city paper had a
ScLlO III odiOOut cory ySoSS
and laid out his mar a Ia Sullivan.
A yELoCIPEDE was stolen from in front OF
Reckless cutlery establishment yesterday.
Who the thief was no one appears to know
OFFICER MORRIS left on q two weeks
pleasure trip to Randolph county, via the
b. & y. r. r, at two o'clock this morning.
STEPHEN WATERHoUsE and Gee. Robinson
left yesterday afternoon to visit the Healy
A. -1,Lio oar, ~ NV hto WHALING NFaRk-
THE streets were musical last evening.
The mouth organ fiends were abroad, and a
vocal quartette enlivened things about the
st. Charles Hotel.
THE htelligencer always favors progress
and enterprise when it is pecuniarily inter
ested-the vote Of its proprietor to prolong
the strike OF last summer, for inst ance?
THE new electric lights were tested on
the new steamer Chesapeake last evening.
They worked very we'll, but showed that a
few needed alterations would have to be
made.
THE Eagles and Pill Founders will plays
match game of base ball at the old fair
grounds this afternoon. A gay time is an.
ticipated. The game will be called promtly
at . o'clock.
OFFICER NoLrE arrested Mike O'Donald
for disorderly conduct yesterday, and
while taking him to the lookup Bull Nc.
Donough inteIfered witt the officer and was
also placed behind the bars.
YESTERDAY Luke Nolte was arrested on a
peace warrant sworn out by VIM OiterSon
before Squire Caldwell. The case was
tried Yesterday and the prisoner sent to
Jail for ten days.
A CRANK broke loose in South Wheeling,
last night, and painted the town red. He
filled himself with beer and pranced about
the streets, wearing nothing but one sock
and carrying his coat under his arm
"PRoGREss,' such a thing was never
known in the office OF the fossilized IateHt.
| Qenccr. That concern stands where 1t stood
twenty years ago. The paper mas not
changed, and everything about the place is
as old and as much behind the times as it
is possible to be.
THE fly speck' editor of the Mt~ligencer
in closing an interview with himself states
that the REGISTER is busy manufacturing
! office interviews. The fact OF the matter IS
that the REGIsrER's interview was genuine
and the 'hy speck" trash was bogus
Funny how you can tell 'em every time,
! isn't it?'
CHARLES J. HARPER (colored) was a~rresteu
by Constable ST. Myers yesterday, at the
instance Of r. G.. Barr, on a charge OF steal
ing q horse from the complainant, who re-
sides at Glen's Run. The prisoner waived
an examination and was required to give a
$500 bond for his appearance before the
Grand Jury.
THE supposed suicide which was pub.
lished In yesterday mornings issue, had
developed no further particulars at |
O'CLOCK this morning. Men were working
industriously dragging the hole in the
nm on1 finally uava nm and all eff with
the general impression that the man was
either a crank wading around in the creek,
or else it was a practical joke. There is no
doubt in the minds of those engaged in
dragging as to there not being a body in the
hole, for every inch of the ground hs3
been most thoroughly dragged.
YESTERDAY afternoon William Swain,
aged about - years. a brakeman on the O.,
L & w. railroad, met with a very serious
accident. He was at work on the train IN
the yard at Kirkwood, D, and unfortunate
ly fell off the car, the wheel passing over
the left limb Just below the knee, crushing
it badly. Medical attention was immedi-
ately procured and everything done to re-
lieve the sufferer. The limb will have to
be cut of above the knee, as the knee joint
is also injured. The young man has only
been an ~employe OF the road a short time;
his home is at Grafton, w. Va.
YESTERDAY afternoon. Newton, a small
son of Joseph Campbell, a resident of the
East End, met with a very painful acct
dent. The little fellow was playing on
Wood street, aud was accidentally run over
by a birch beer wagon. Miss Mary WATSON,
who saw the child's danger, rushed for
ward and pulled it from between the
wheels. DR.. Hupp was Immediately called
and upon an examination found no bones
broken, but quite a number of bruises and
a large cash in the child's forehead. Had
the lady not rescued the child it certainly
would have been seriously injured.