Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-13
A WEEK IN WHEEuING.
A Csmpendiam Of Local Events Trans
pfrfnG LIN and About the City

piripg In and Ab0at the City.
SUNDAY, May 6.-Meeting of State Phar
maceutical Society called for June 18th ......
Barouche load of inebriated Martins Fer.
rians make Rome howl out the National
road .....Two alarms of fire, but no damage
of consequence ..... Intelligence received in
city Of terrible ravages of smallpox in Mer.
Hornbrook's Park announce il is to be
transformed into cemetery .....C Coal struck
in Wellsburg shaft at depth of 1Sg feet.
All preparation for boring gas we'll at Mar
tins Ferry completed. ....... ..-
| MoNpAY, May III eavy rain and hail
storm about dark hailstones as large as
mar bles; no damage done ANDES e1cur-
sionists arrive home fr ON Cincinnati ORA
matte Festival. Arion, Gernania and
| Beethoven Singing Societies decide to par
ticipate in Decoration Day ceremonies.
Regular monthly meeting of the Board of
Commissioners; Commercial Bank takes
River Railroad loan; Supervisors school
election in country districts named. ..
Striking coal miners at Bellaire determine
to stand cut indefinitely .:Gather1u boys
| at Nail City glass works strike for increase
1 in wages VIM. Martin. of Seventh ward,
badly injured while at work at dock $50.
| John Stipes, Of Laughlin mill, missing
since Saturday; foul play feared.
TUESDAY, May S.-Weather rather warm
er than one would choose for comfort;
| mercury well up in the S0s......Alarm for
| fire from box II, Seventh ward, calls out
entire department; cause, chicken coop in
flames; fowls all rescued horrible holocaust
averted......Mr. Geo. Hook buys out inter
est of MessrS. Connor and List in Horn
brooks park ..... Report OF gas commission
ers for month of April show receipts OF
SS,G43.0l, and expenditures of S1,5li.5S......
Regular monthly meeting Of city council;
twenty-oue members present Second
Branch, and thirteen IN First; in Second
Branch various committees submit bills
aggregating 81 ,067.l0 session Improbable;
evening spent in going over Kimberly
case again ...... Striking gathering boys atNail
City glass works gain their point and resume
work Stores of H. II. Hutchinson and
Isaac Wirner. at Beallsville, O., burglarized
and about 500 in money and notes carried
fist. Cairsviile has her first case under
Scott liquar law. Ephrian, Burnett, col.
ored walks off raft just north Of city, and
is drowned
WEDNESDAY, May H-Another warm
day ... Citizens Street Railway Company
and Board of Public Works lock horns over
laying the new track on Twenty second
street. .Mendels furniture factory has
narrow escape from destruction by fire.
dCClutlll near NOii WI hst
on Ohio side, bank caves in and burries
four quarrymen; Chris. Rector Instantly
| killed and Dennis premium seriously, and
| James Ford and Samuel Burdoc slightly
| injured..".. Martins Ferry minus police
| force see. Godfrey Fatz seriously beaten in
an last End saloon.
THURSDAY, May l0.-BrIdgeport develops
destructive fire; four buildings entirely
| DESTROYED and Back river bridge seriously
| damaged; loss about 0JO.....Public
| school commencement set for June d..
J. G. COvery arrested under the pharmacy
| act Small pox plague IN Southern part
| of State growing dsily more appalling:
| disease spreading over Wyoming and Nc
| Bowel counties; business reported at stand
| still in Mercer county.
FRIDAY, May ll.-Receipts from saloon
| licenses turned over to Receiver Dunaway;
amount in round numbers, $1,000.
| Break down at city water works; first mis-
| hap for some time; accidents of this nature
| used,to he OF almost daily occurrence. In
| tel views with manufacturers and employees
| sives impression that extended strike in
| iron industry is almost inevitable; this
means another reason of business stagna.
| ton zee. Joint stock company with capital
| of $4,000 formed for purpose OF converting
| Hornbrookcs park into summer resort;
much satisfaction expressed thereat......
Publication OF programme of State Sunday
| School Convention at Moundsville Mrs.
| Mary Miller, of St. Clairsville, hangs her.
self, but is cut down and revived. .... Board
| of Public Works make proposition to pave
| Chapline street from Twenty-second to
| Twenty.thrd street, provided citizens sub.
| ,ribe $500.