Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-31

chat and Gossip On Various Topics
AbOaf Town.

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Aboat Town.
july dies tonight.
Doc days come tomorrow.
BxLL's foundry was OF yesterday.
TIE La Belle forge and heating depart
ments will start up next Monday.
In pursuance to q call Of Acting Mayor
Hildreth Council will meet tonight
YrsrKRpAY, the repairing Of the forge en-
zine at the La Belle mill, was completed.
MEssRs. WHEAT & KINKLE, Of. the Eighth
ward, have purchased . very fine delivery
wagon.
THE work Of relaying the curbing on
Eleventh street, is rapidly reaching COM
pletion.
SEVERAL new crossings are being laid on
the Island. A few blocks Of curling would
not be amIss.
JOE CoBuRS, boss kilnman at the pottery,
left for Columbus, yesterday, On a few days
pleasure trip.
THE Knoke-Heil race. which comes OF
AZ B. Ilaire August 18th, will attract a large
crowd from this city.
PHILIP FTTZsINNOSs was arrested in the
North End by officer Dunlap, on q charge
Of disorderly conduct yesterday.
YESTERDAY the $3.50 damage suit Of
~SchmaizipetZ vs.. Newman. was tried at
Squire Ankles by a jury Of six men. The
jury returned q verdict in favor OF the de
PENDANT.
TIE United club played two games yes
terday which were both won by them.
First game-United, Ii; Growers, ID.
Second game-United, 10; Jennings, D.
The United and Jennings clubs cross bats
again tomorrow At the old fair grounds.
LAST evening, Albert Althurton, an Eng
lishmsn and Robert Schuman; a German,
had q set to- at thec corner Of Sixteenth
and Wood streets. Officer Freebolt arrest
ed the latter in the East End and Officer
Combs caught the other in the Eighth
ward.
LAST night Capt. Bennett, assisted by
Officers Junkins and Barum, raided the
ranch Of Maggie Ruble, on TSenty-hrst
street. and captured two girls, the madame
and one man. The warrant was sworn out
by q man who supposed his daughter was
in the house.
Tue Mollie Darling fishing club are in
camp at Wells landing, just below Cllr-
ington. A very prominent waiter OF the
Riverside, who is a member Of the CLUB,
arrived in the city Sunday and reports
fishing very good. Several friends OF the
club left for their camp yesterday.
SUNDAY afternoon a prominent young
man of the South Side had a very narrow
| escape from drowning in the back river.
He and several comrades were bathing and
he very fooliShly undertook to swim down
L. the point OF the Island. but gave ont be-
fore he accomplished the feat, and only
the quick action of his friends, who had
! found a skif, saved the young man from a
watery grave.
L,sr night thieves entered the Mount
| Zion Cemetery by breaking down the gate
| aud entered the sections house, procuring
IheretrOm 3 hammer and other tools.
They repaired across the road 10 Sim
Raers' powder. house and with the assist,
anCe of the tools procured al the grave
ysrd. burst open the door and carried oil a
| large quantity OF ine powder. Al tins
wiring no clue had ben found by wnIcA
/ the thieves could be identified.
DAVE Evans, butcher in Benwood, at
tempted 10 commit suicide on Friday by
hanging. Having gOne into his coal shed,
/ ono placing a rope around his neck fastened
II 10 q cross beam in the roof and was ju-t
! in Il e act of kicking the chair from uater
HIM when he Vas discovered andcut down
I The EcnwOod whisky must be terrible
stun Three attempted suicides ia on
weeE, all of which were traceable IN a de
gr, 10 drink, is q big thing, even IN Suai
q QeulOrallLlng Town as DeuHOOt serhS -
be.-Bcilai1e Independent.
Coz. JAKE KENPLH has received aud &C
cepted an invitation to deliver an address
at the opening of the b. Il Il c. Railroad
which takes place at SOmerIfeld, Ohio. on
Wednesday. AS an Grafton this should os
the graudest effort of his life. He has hob
| nCbbed with railroad rings and eaten lunch
with the brakemen of a freight train; rid
den in a Pullman palace, and slept in the
CabOOSe of q cattle train; and il reports are
true has inspected a great many miles
whilst taxing pedestrian exercises bel
Washington, ID. c., and this city. No doubt
the speech will be full OF personal rem
inisCences and experiences of an interest
ing nature.
DURING a conversation with a prominent
glass blower yesterday, 3 REGISTER reporter
was informed that neither lodge : or : OF
heir association, which are situated az
S~,eubeuyille, had been thrown out OF the
national lodge on account Of the members
housekeeping. In the first place only six
teen members Of lodge seven are black.
sleeping, and not one of lodge eight. Or
course some action will be taken in the
near future, but Just what it will ba he
could not say. TGe above sDOken OF SIX
teen members are the only ones in the
United States or Caraii that belong TO the
organization that have 80 lar degraded them
selves As 10 be called b'sCh sheep.