Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-06
FACT AND FANCY.
Minor city New. and Pertinent Talk
and Comment

ana COmm0ns
Detective ALI. Burnett Is again in the
city.
Mr.. ISAAC Forsx is lying dangerously ill
at his residence on La Belle street.
THE work of laying the 12-inch pipe on
Tenth street was commenced, yesterday.
Miss Coen and Mrs. Greenwood, OF OHIO,
are visiting Mrs. Louis Schwabb, on Main
street.
SEVERAL small boys were bathing in the
river, yesterday afternoon, just nortn OF
the Suspension bridge.
Two colored gentlemen, attempting to
ride q bicycle, created much amusement on
Twelfth street, last night.
DURING the wind storm, yesterday after
noon, q large tree was blown down on Chap
line, near Twenty-fourth street.
THE Clator ladder was placed in the
Hook and Ladder house yesterday and will
be used by that Company until their regu-
lar truck can be fully repaired.
COMPLAINT is msde that the lamp in alley
c mas not been lighted since Monday. A
citizen living there came all the way to
this office last night to ask means Of re-
dress.
YESTERDAY a warrant was issued before
Squire Ankle for James n. Bulger, on
charge of using abusive language TO bis
daughter Mamie. The case will be tried
to day.
A YOUNG boy named Henry Wolf
while playing with a toy pistol
yesterday evening shot himself through
the hand. DIR. Pipes was called aud
| dressed the wound.
YESTERDAY q son of Geo. Bolts, the
South Side liverymsn, met with very
serious accident. While closing the cellar
door his finger got caught between them,
MASKING it very badly.
/ YESTERDAY afternoon Fred Dedrich nm
dertook to raise Gain" in Chas. Horstman' s
saloon, on the South Side, but unfortunate.
i ~ for him he tackled the wrong man and
| was worsted in the setto.
| YESTERDAY afternoon about half-past four
/ O'Clock, John Watkins and Joe Mimlickie
had fight in Bridgeport, during the strug'
| gle the latter had a bad cash cut IN ms
thigh from q pen.knife in the hand Of his
opponent.
| \ COUPLE Of the geptlsr sex undertook to
demolish each other in the quiet village OF
Fulton Yesterday. Several men happened
to be near and in a very few moments had
disarmed the women. Squire Prettyman
will try the case to-day and decide on It's
merits.
The A. NJ. E camp meeting commences
on the eth at Walnut Grove, Martin
Ferry, Ohio The opening sermon will be
preached by Rev. Il. Tanner at I:3O P. NJ
services on Sabbath, $50; praise and prayer
meeting 80 4. NJ; preaching by Mrs
Lucy L. Cooper, the eloquent lady preacher,
P. NJ; preaching each service will be sup
plemented BY praise meetings.
| LION, one of the Atlantic engine house
horses, has been in the habit OF drinking
out OF the pan placed under the water
cooler. Yesterday when called out at test
time, he as usual went to the pan for his
drink, and not finding a supply oil
water in it, deliberately knocked the cooler
off the stand and broke it. B +. Caldwell
hearing of Their loss presented the Com
pany with fine new cooler.
CHARLES ADAMS received dispatch from
Meadville, Pa, yesterday, signed by Mrs
William Wilson, the wife OF the man VINO
was accidentally killed by falling out Of
the third story window, at the corner OF
Sixteenth and Market streets, yesterday
morning Mr.. Adams left for that point
with the remains yesterday afternoon
The deceased has been separated from his
wife for three years she having had three
children by him, and he has been keeping
q woman in this city ever since his arrival
in fact, brought the woman with him.
MR. \. SCHr LTz, the Market street con
feCtioner, feels aggrieved at an arrest by
the police, on Tuesday night. About II
o'clock, on that evening, he sent one OF his
storeboys out to try rocket and cautioned
him to see that no persons were about
The boy fired the rocket and an officer i'm
mediately arrested him. Mr.. Schultz de-
sired his release, offering himself as securi-
ty, but the officer declined and locked him
up, Capt. Bennett afterward releasing him
| Mr.. Schultze thinks the officer should,
under the circumstances, have released the
boy.
| YESTERDAY morning Frank Webster
called at the police headquarters and mott
fed Capt Bennett that he had lost 800 at
the Fair grounds. A search warrant WAS
Immediately procured from Squire Peter
man, and armed with this instrument
Capt. Bennett commenced the search
among the employees at the fair. The
money was finally found in the toe of a
boot belonging TO Walters Walters, q hand
| in the employment of Webster. He was
Immediately discharged by Webster, and
as nothing could he proved against him he
was let 90 on his promise OF leaving the
town, which he did before dark last night.