Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-01
ONE WEEK IN WHEELING.
A COmpent,ium of the Local News of
the Past Six Days.

SUNDAY, June 2i.-Michael Hoelsteia
and four companions backed over bank
up Caldwells run, while out driving, and
narrowly escaped DEATH. William VIM
tiers, a tifteen-year old boy, residing at NO.
2O2 Eighteenth street, has his left arm fear
fully lacersted,by bulldog, just out OF the
city ...... Coroner SChultze returns verdict
Of accidental death in the case of the
woman Charity Brooks, who sustained a
broken neck by falling from porch.
Large excursion from Steubenville at the
wharf. Reopening of the Wesley NJ, +.
Chapel .... Peter Bishoff and Peter Lietner
thrown from buggy and badly hurt.
MONDAY, June 25.-Apportiontment OF
the school fund among the various counties
published; Wheeling gets $lO,952SI, and
ohio county s2,7ll.22..... Mrs. Lettie
Baker, aged As, fatally burned by an ex-
plosion OF coal oil at her residence on Third
street.-The spell men at the Gre cent
mill 20 out for an advance. Hardware
store of William Nesbitt, No. 2253 Market
street, entered by buI glars George Wat
son and William Leeper engage in fight,
in the course of which the latter has his
wrist broken. .... Heavy thunder storm
passes over the city; several residences in
southern part of city struck by lightning. .
TUESDAY, June 26.-Second Branch OF
Council meets: G. G. Roth, member from
the Fifth ward, resigns, and n. L. Whlta-
ker elected to fill the vacancy; the Gas
Trustees submit proposition to bore a gas
we'll at the works; Council refuses 70 as
sent to the experiment......Hig hwaymen
attempt to rob John G. Hoffman, Sr., on
the peninsula......D Discovered that the city
may be compelled to pay the Judgment in
the Eccles suit twice. Considerable anx.
iety over cases of scarlet fever in various
parts OF the city.
WEDNESDAY, June 27.-Funeral of Mrs.
John Baker, burned to death in North
Wheeling. ..... Physicians say the scarlet
fever scare is without grounds. Commit
tee on Real Estate Of the Board OF Educa-
ton purchase the Shepherd property, next
the Seventh ward school, for $1,000.
Several children bitten by dogs in various
portions of the city....A prominent iron
manufacturer says, in an interview, that
the Wheeling steel plant will not be put
up until il is seen how the Bellaire ex-
pertinent turns The Central gas
well still stopped up by drill being lost
in the hole....Jury in the third trial OF
the Shepherd MoMechen will case, at
MoundsyiIle brings in a verdict for the
contestants.
THURSDAY, June 2S.-The strikers at the
Crescent mill gain their point and return
to work ...... An intoxicated individual fires
Cld[Ee SuOL lulO INC Va al
sive citizen near the tunnel. Market Mas
ter Edwards decides TO hold market on
Tuesday afternoon, and thereby raises the
ire of the hucksters..... Twenty.fif ami
versary of the entry of Father Kreusch
into the priesthood; the reverend gentle
man presented with valuable gold watch
by his friends. Several small accidents
about town; George Hess, of East End, has
his right leg broken.-..Wm. Stiliwell,
aged fourteen, attempts suicide near Bar
ton, Belmont county, by discharging shot
gun into his abdomen; will die.
FRIDAY, June 29.-Sixth annual COM
mencement of the city public schools; ex-
ercises held in Academy of Music; about
1900 people present; graduating class mum.
bers thirty-six; Miss Annie V. Sage, saluta-
torian, and Miss Jennie F. Wincher, yale
dictorian; diplomas awarded by c. H. Col
lier. President of the Board OF Education;
Peabody medals by B. L. Butcher, State
Superintendent Of Schools. Serious acct
dent at the Laughlin mill, Martins Ferry /;
engine runs through itself, necessitating a
stcppsge OF about ten days......First Branch
of Council meets; tax ordinance passed.