Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-08
ONE WEEK IN WHEELING.
A Compendium OF the Local News OF
the PAST Six Days.

SUNDAY, July John Higgins, Ben
wood saloon keeper, 3 somnambulist, gets
up in his sleep and walks out OF a second
story window, falling upon the sharp
pOIurs of an iron railing, receiving seri-
Gus injuries. John Keatiug falls into the
rlyer near the mouth of the creek, aud has
narrow escape from dro \ lbert
lnglehardt falls down the stairs OF his
boarding house, on Market street, and dis
coates shoulder ...... Timothy Calligsn, OF
he North End, badly bitten by dog.
Chief Uunning thrown from his buggy
while en- route to a: fire.. First sacred con-
cert Wheeling Park: about 1900 people
present.. Martins Ferry society torn up
over a ScapdSl......F. ID. Robertson, the hat
ter, n axes an assignment; liabilities about
8, 900; assets, 81, 600. Police complain OF
doors and windows being left open by
ousehOlderS.
MONDAY, July Irregular monthly meet
ing of the Board OF Commissioners; the
Ohio River Railroad Company makes de-
mand for the cOunty's subscription Of So
100, county agrees to pay il as soon rs the
company guarantees TO construct Its own
line oY, the entire route; other business
Onfned 10 routine matters. Board OF
Education Of RiChlant district slr CT Sec
rotary and school Trustees. ..... Letter car.
riers report for June shows l5l.9it pieces
of mai matter lie iyered and s., 7SD collect.
ed. Health Officers report for June
Il Ows eataS from causes, A. proper
tiUn 10 LOCO of pOpu, alton, Is: eight
deaths from scarlet fever. against six
durins May......W. II Forster, boot and
shoe me- chant, makes an assignment, assets
nos stated; liabilities. $ 5000. Board of
X. gents Of the STATE NSrmal S:nOpls meet
at thu Cap tai and eject princiPa 8; John III.
Birch, Superiut eUdeut of the Wheeling
schools, CD, sen principal OF the Fnirmont
school; salary, Sl,tnO...... Henry PaScher,
drowned az Gl-n'S run. Wealth n very
warm Thermometer, ~.
TUESDAY, JulS ; -Wheeling telegraphers
deny q great SrIike i 10 take place in the
immt diste future....City banks and mer.
chants 60 back On tie trade dollar. Mar
rage OF Miss Jennie Gray and Mr.. Thomas
". Shreye, at Martins Ferry Body OF
! Henry PasCher, drowned at Glenn's run,
reCOve red ...... Police report for June shows
a tOtai OF lSS arrests; fines assessed, S9I1;
fines aid 500: total of fines and fees paid.
s.. 800 90, or $3i7 90 more than the entire
police expPnSes...... twenty-five extra po-
icemen sworn in ...... Mercury up TO go.
WEDNESDAY,, July Business entirely
suspended, and the day more generally
observed than for several years; fully ID,
900 p. ople leave the city on pic mic and
pleasure excursions; but few accidents re-
ported .....N Nathan Kuhn caught in the
wheel of the steamer Dlurnal and badly
| crus he'd VIM. Wilson, DO TX binder, in
the employ of fancy Bios. falls from tue
third story of his boarding house, curner OF
| Six eenth and Market streets, and instantly
killed ... Fire-craCEerS cause slight blaze
| at M. a South Penn street, Island. Hot
| test day uf the season; the mercury scores
| an ev. lOOo in the shade Black Diamond
| Tool Works, at Martins Ferry, narrowly
rsraIe destruction by fire......Gredt display
| of fireworks throughout the city III the
| eve, ing
THURSDAY, July Block of brick resi-
| denC-S on South Front street. Island. par
TALLY destroyed by fire loss so Hook
| End Ladder truck overturned on Zane
| street. and the men badly brUlsed......A
| Miss Davis badly burned with coal oil at
| RpnwOod ... Heat intense; mercury mp TO
| gS3 Work of re establishing the bound
| sry line between West Virginia and Penn
| sy vania completed
| FRIDAY, July 6.-Two Bellaire brutes tie
| 3 10 vear-old boy with ropes and throw
| him into an empty freight car, where he
\ laid for several hours, and was found al
| most dead from exhaustion ...... Represen'
| tsiiyes Of the Ohio river railroad call upon
! Mr. JOS Speidel, agent for Ohio county,
! snd renew the demand for the county s
! subscription of $50 600; the demand re-
| fused The Baltimore and Ohio road
| formally OPP rs its Pittsburgh eXtensisn to
| freight traffic ..... The old story of Baiti'
more and Ohio short line, leaving WHEEL
! ing ont in the cold, revived. Weather
! slightly cooler mercury 90.