Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-11
WHEELING WRITINGS.
Town Evsats Trimmed Down for Hurrie..
Rea<iers.


tiers at IL o'clock, last night
The dust out the road yesterday was SIM
ply terrific, causing untold discomfort to
unhappy occupants of vehicles.
A GENTLEMAN who crossedthe Suspension
bridge about ) o'clock, declared he felt the
great earthquake shock distinctly.
BEcKER, the south Jacob street jeweler,
is erecting handsome building on JACOB
street, between Thirty-fourth and Thirty
fifth streets.
Ina HoLLrDAY's ranch on Market above
Tenth street, was pulled By the police Satur-
day evening, and the madame, three men
and three women arrested.
ANDY Ray. former popular boiler at
the La Belle Mill, has cheerfully yielded to
the inevitable, and accepted a position as
driver on the main line Of the Citizens
Railway.
SEVERAL weddings are booked for the
South Side during the next two weeks One
of these includes the union OF q popular
North Main street gentleman with South
Side belle
The new steamer Niagara was visited at
the United engine house by numerous per
sons; the old rattle-trapformerly in use has
been run into the side yard and covered up
with a tarpauhn.
THE Central Stars" of East Wheeling,
defeated the North Wheeling "Bummers
in a game Of base ball, at the tunnel green,
on Saturday afternoon, BY score OF 10
to s.
SATURDAY afternoon the wife Of Henry
Hanke fell down the cellar stairs at their
home on Sixteenth street. fracturing her
right wrist Dr. Hoge attended to the IN
jury.
The Plumed Knights will shortly excurt
% Cincinnati on special train; series OF
these excursions have been proposed and
will doubtless cause an irresistible attrac-
ton TO young RAIDS to join the Night Shirt
Brigade.
The Captain Prince Boat Club returned
Saturday afternoon from their camp near
Marietta, o. The steamer Belle Prince
towed the boat UP. The bows have been
absent for two months, and report most
pleasant time.
The Hobbs 4 Brockunier Glass Works
will start up on full time next Monday.
Two furnaces have been lighted up. 1t was
originally intended to use but one but it
was found that one would be inadequate to
supply the demand.
The low stage of water in the creek has
exposed the bed below the stone bridge.
This is Uttered with filth and refuse OF all
description, and will prove an undoubted
drawback to the proposed etfectual SAINT
tary arrangements OF the city.
A LARGE delegation of the glass house
bows of East Wheeling are encamped at
the foot of Mt. Morris, near Taylorstown
! Pa. and still another near Elm Grove. The
| latter party have been in camp for the last
three months, and intend to continue their
fun till late in the fall.
| The shut down of the improvements about
the city has excited lie disgust Of many
residents in various portions OF the city,
particularly those on Thirty-fourth street,
! The entire street for over square being
rendered impossible by huge piles of gas
pipes and numerous excavations.
A BLOODY fight occurred in front Of the
! Elm Grove r. K. Office Saturday evening,
/ about 10 o'clock, between two East End
[ toughs. Both men were badly used up, one
of them having his nose broken. The
pavement in front of the Office was Uttered
/ with blood till it looked like slaug liter
house.
The Salvation Army attended the jubilee
/ at Martins Ferry yesterday in full force,
marching to the wharf headed BY the brass
| band, and excurting to the grove on the
! steamer Princess. During their progress
ND the river the Army brought the entire
/ North End to the river bank by their en-
thusiastic hymns.
THE Buckeye fishing club returned
home Yesterday They have been fishing
! in Darlington, and have caught some very
! large fish. One of the members, Will
Brennon, caught cat fish weighing ninety
eight pounds. The following composed the
club: John Curtis, Lewis Both, Will Drls-
coll and Win Brsnnon.
The lower portion of the city was well
nigh depopulated yesterday afternoon, owing
to the exodus caused BY the numerous out
of town attractions, namely: The Saliva
ZION Army reunion at Martin Ferry and the
concert at Wheeling Park, while the camp
grounds at Moundsyille were popular with
many Of the pleasure seekers.
The attention of the Board Of Health is
called to blind alley in the rear Of DR..
Bates residence on Twelfth stree:, it is open
TO Eoif street. the drainage from the cutters
washing down in the alley and forming a
pool of stagnant water. sewer which is so
arranged as to carry off the drainage is
blocked up with filth and will not discharge
its duty.
Two large store buildings will be erected
on the site ofthe old Disciples Church, No.
2l27 Market street. They will be occu,
pied on completion By Mr. John Reed the
Market street pharmacist, and J. B. Carns,
hans shoe store This building is one Of
the old landmarks of Center Wheeling and
was abandoned as church when the new
one was finished. Since then it has been
used as a private dwelling.
YESTERDAY afternoon Marshall county
farmer applied at the Hook and Ladder
Company for an officer to aid him in recov,
ering mule which had strayed or was
stolen from his place and which he had
heard had been seen strsying loose on the
South Side. After diligent search the ami
nal was found on Chapline hill in charge
of a crowd of boys, who were quickly re-
heved fthe mule, which was turned over
to its owner. Ii was believed the animal
was ridden to Wheeling BY unknown par
ties and then turned loose.
FoR some time past, Tom Murray, a
married resident of East Wheeling, has been
paying attention to Mary Cooper. a negro
wench living in that notorious locality
known as Castle Garden, situated on Wood
street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets. His wife failing to coeree her hus,
band from bis wicked ways by moral sua,
sion, swore out warrant for the arrest OF
the woman. Yesterday about 2 o'clock
officers Reed and Morris descended on the
rancho and captured both the woman and
! Murray. Neither being able to furnish
bail, they were locked up in default
| THERE is q bad cave in the Top mill coal