Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19

CHAT and Gossip o. Various Topics
About T0wn.

TIE travel on the Citizens railway yes
terday was very large.
The Bellaire ns~ilfeeders will hold .
meeting before going to work, on Monday.
YESTERDAY Bull McDonough's boudsmen
gave him up, and he was committe to
Jail.
WILLIE, oldest son of Mr.. William Wend.
ling, is lying dangerously i'll with typhoid
fever.
The steamer Little Anna will leave the
wharf at / O'Clock this afternoon for
Moundsville.
SEVERAL of the prominent residents will
take al early ride this morning, taxing
breakfast at Elm Grove.
HARRISON TAYLOR, q ruffer a. the La
Belle mill, has been unable to work this
week, owing to 8 sore limb.
YESTERDAY, G. o. Smith, real estate agent
sold the J. B. Montgomery farm TO Fred
erick Lagos, Of this city for $500.
The pavement in front Of the Vig'lant
engine house will be repaired next week.
This ravem ent is in a very bad condition.
JOHN PowELsoN. the alleged young kid
NAPIER was held in the SUN of $1,000 yes.
teruay, fo- his appearance before the Grand
July of Marshsl county.
SEVERAL gentlemen were complaining
yesterday about tue bad connections made
between the Bllsire packet and the narrow
gusge railroad at Bellaire.
THE North Wheeling Glass Works will
Start up Monday two weeks. This estab-
nshment has increased its capacity three
fold during the past ten months.
YESTERDAY Messrs. Mccoy and Hoge,
tv well. known gentlemen, left for Cleve-
land, taking their bicycles along. They
a~nant IN raturp h0ma over land
LAST evening a fight took place on the
trtin coming from Wellsourg, tWeen q
colored man and a white resident OF this
city, in which the latter was wOrsied.
MANAGER Reister, of the Opera House, is
busily engaged making The needed i'm
provements. A gate will be built at the
Market street entrance to keep loafers out
OF the entry.
PAT. galley. of Bellaire. hereby chal.
lenges Riddy Williams to run a 100 yard
foot race for from $500 to $500. Will meet
him or representative at Healy's saloon, at
B nwood. next Saturday night
Two picked mines composed OF compos.
j ors of the IEtelligencer news room, played
a match game of base ball yesterday, on the
tunnel green. At the end OF the ninth
inning the score stood p TO 2t.
THE case OF the State VS.. Mrs. Klech, on
charge of petit larceny, was called for a
hearing before Squire Peterman yesterday.
The defendant waived a hearing and car
ried the case to the Circuit Court,
YOUNG Condry, who was run over on the
Hempfeld division Of Tue s. & 0. some
time ago, Is improving slowly. 1t is still
a mooted question whether his limbs will
be Of any actual service to him alter his
recovery.
THE case of the State vs.. Mrs. Margaret
Lberling, on The charge Of d sturbing the
peace, was tried before SOU r. Arkle last
evening, before a very large audience, The
c, Sc was dismissed at the cost of the com.
plainsnt.
JonN PowErsoN, the kidnapper, had a
hearing before Squire Peterman, yesterday,
ard was committed to Jail in default OF
LOCO bond. He will be taken to Mounds.
vile tomorrow, where he will have to
stand trial.
SUPERINTENDENT LOTUS, of the Citizens
railway line, is changing the switch at
BELLS foundry. Heretofore this switch
Was a source of great annoyance to the
foundry, lying too close to the west side OF
tie street. The superintendent is rectify.
ing the evil by moving the switch east
al nj two feet.
The concert |iyen at the Academy Of
Music, in behslf of Messrs. Mooney and
puyal, two blind young men, who are very
fire musicians, was only partially a sue.
cess. The ball was about half filled. The
audience, though not being a large one, was
certainly an appreciatiye one, judging by
the numerous appliances. 1t is to be hoped
another concert will be given by the same
parties.
THE following cases were tried before
Squire Peterman yesterday evening: State
vs. Dan Cady, assault and battery, s. and
costs; State VS.. CaroliLe Shenk, on three
charges-assault and battery, disturbing
the peace and nuisance-$5 and coats in
first, 81 and costs in second, n was re-
quired 10 give a 800 for her good behavior
in the third case.
YESTERDAY afternoon the Lilys. Of Eel.
laire, and the Healy nine played a match
game at the old fair grounds. The umpire,
CrOgan, decided the game a draw on the
eighth inning, by a score OF > to .. This
was the finest amateur base ball game ever
been played in this vicinity, and had not a
dispute arisen in the eighth inning it would
have also been one of the most enjoyable.
OFFICER COMBS found a stranger in the
Eighth ward, yesterday, who was in a very
pitsble condition. His feet, hands, and
body were so badly swollen from disease
that be was unable to walk and had laid
uONu " ult. SOulUlloslOutI plOhCl was
sent for and took the young man TO the
%poorhouse. He is a Swede, hailing from
McKeesport, o., and judging from his con-
vrrsation, &c, a very respectable man,
who has suCcumbed to disease and became
extremely poor.
YESTERDAY a reporter, while conversing
with Squire Murrin, was informed that the
warrant which was issued for a certain
young man in this city on a charge OF at
tempted outrage and placed in the hands
of a policeman and also a constable had
never been served. We are unable to say
whether the officer and constable are dila-
tory in their duties or not, but the case is a
very peculiar one. The young man is in
the city and has been all the time, so the
Squire states, and yet neither Of the officers
have captured him.
A SUDDEN and inexplicable death tool
place in the north end OF the city, yester.
Gay morning. Some weeks ago Miss Ida
Harlem, an estimable and much loved
young lady WAS AIKEN i'll with typhoid
fever. She recovered, however, after a Sc
we're sickness, and was able TO be out again,
and was on the streets only a few days ago.
Yesterday morning at s o'clock, to the
great surprise Of her many friends, the an
nouncement was made that she had passed
away. In the afternoon a post mortem ex-
animation was held, showing her death TO
have resulted from two large assesses, one
in the stomach and the other Just shove it.
A MAN of the name OF McMillen was re-
Gently hanged over a. Canton, o.. and some
smart Aleck started the story hat he was
of the old Col. John McMillen stock. prom
inent in Brooke county forty or fifty years
ago. 1t is Indignantly denied on this side
OF the river, the hanged Nc appearing to
have been a man Of foreign birth. Col.
John Was one OF the jolly old souls, a "a
nous Democrat and a heavy drinker,
memorable in this town for having laid out
without injury one cold winter night that
froze TO death in the stable, q Maltese
Jacksss," but there was never imputed TO
him OF any of his connection, which in
those days was large and respectable, traits
such as ordinarily bring men to the gal.
lows. They were very large land owners
in what is now Hancock, and Col. John
served a term, possibly more than one, in
the Virginia Legislatnre.- HeAsburg Herald.
Wheeling Park.
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