Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-12
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RaIEY weather.
THksE are equincctial storms.
No PRESENT danger Of high water.
YESTERDAY was another white wash at
Clerk HOOKS Office.
THx druggists on the South Side report
business very dull.
ISLANDERS may preserve their equinimity
for Some time TO come.
TIE moon was full last night and the
weather has apparently changed.
VIZ only want thunder, now, to open
spring in the highest style Of the art.
BETTING will be very lively on the wrsst-
ling match, which comes Oh next Saturday.
Tbs Muldoon's PicRic Combination, at
,he Academy Of Music, Is drawing large
houses.
Jos. s KNOWLES was committed to Jail
yesterday by Squire Schultze on the charge
of lunsSY.
TURNER HALL has been secured for the
wrestling match, which will come OF at
o'clock on Saturday night.
Two CT Cleyeland's sharpest detectives
are taking in the sights, in this city, under
the guidance Of Capt. Bennett
WM. CURTIs was reqRired to give $50
bond for his good behS6oe for six months
yesterday by Squire Peeefmann.
]. n. LITTLE will soon open restaurant.
He is now engaged in handsomely furnish
ing the room in the Miller block.
The Bridgeport transfer wagon broke
down yesterday morning on Market, be-
tween Tenth and Eleventh streets.
john r. HANDLAN sold his bay mare,
Lady Forrest, q well known trotter, yester-
terGay, to Lou Franzheim for $500.
DAVID BRADLEY was required to give
$50 bond for his good behavior for six
months before Squire Petermann yesterday.
The case Of the State vs. Richard Gard
per, will be tried before Squire Ankle TO-
day. The defendant was arrested on
peace warrant.
The case of the State VS.. Edward Baker,
on 9 charge Of disturbing the peace, was
tried before Squire Petermann, yesterday,
al d the defendant dismissed.
The A. o. II. of Bellairs, Ohio, will have
a grand parade on March IL. The Ben
wood, Wheeling, Bridgeport and Martins
Ferry divisions are invited.
A few men with carts are at work on the
hArrlSDUTK nQQ "cctcTh IoAAAOaAf Oh AAiN
farm, near the Pennsylvania line, not far
from West Alexander. This is probably
done to secure franchise.
Mrs. J. n, VANCE yesterday had the mis-
fortune to fall and break her wrist. She
was descending the stone steps on Eleventh
street about noon, and slipped on the Ice,
with the result mentioned.
A COMMUNICATION, signed Citizen" on
the subject of the Petticord case, has been
received at this office. II the writer will
send his name, some attention may be
paid TO the matter, but anonymous letters
never pass current in newspaper office.
A REPAIR gang came from Wheeling yes
ere ay to rebuild the broken telephone line
between this point and Marietta. Assist
INT Superintendent Mooney has charge OF
he force. The work will be done as rapid.
y rs Notwithstanding Journal.
The Ohio River railroad authorities ran
A special train over the line on Monday.
IL carried the attorneys who are in attend
4nce on court at st. Msry's. All the en-
gines snd cars are now employed IN the
obstruction and the work IS being rapidly
pushed.
YESTERDAY morning, about haltpast
O'Clock, a very exciting setto took place on
Market street, near Tenth, between dude
and German about the ownership OF .
dog. The German dressed his opponent
ID in style and carried of the prize-a
little dog.
AN incident during the food which
escaped the eagle eye and telephone ears OF
the reporters was q sousiDg received by
Louis Heckle, Jr. In his endeayors to
reach q bundle of floating valentines, he
became oyerbalsnced and fell head first into
the seething torrent Although his young
life was not endangered, yet he relates 1t to
his friends as q funny susp.
The Bellaire Independent says: It was
developed in the preliminary examination
of George Boettner, on q charge Of murder,
at Wheeling, that the accused will set up
4 case of selt.defense. Boettner claims that
Dick assaulted him in the saloon, struck
him twice and then followed him out the
door, wherenpon he shot him. The fact
probably is that he was just drunk enough
TO shoot any one who came out Of the sa-
con at the time Dick did. He had no idea
who struck him, and was ready to shoot
any body, and he should be given the full
extent Of the law.
The popular sport, in Washington couu-
~, is rafting parties. A large one closed at
Ten Mile, on the 7th inst. James Smith,
Jr., and VIM. Hughes were the respective
captains, each with twenty assistants. The
Judges were n. b Evans, DR.. ]. w. Moore
and Z. Z. Kelsey. The count showed
1926 tails, the Smith party furnishing
$500 and the Hughes men 7,947. A stump.
tuous supper was prepared by Bower Rees,
which cost $500. The citizens raised
Sl3 90 towards paying for the supper, the
balance being paid by the defeated party.
While the count was in progress, Rev. n.
D. Johnston addressed the people who had
assembled, and suggested that the yearly
destruction of the rats would soon make
saving equal to the national debt.
ABOUT 9 o'clock last evening, George
Clifford threw bis arm lovingly around
officer Bird and requested him to drive q
man out of his room. Clifford and his
wife are janitors Of the building at No.
1925 Market street and the former was
probably drunk when he accosted the
officer, as no one was in his quarters. How
ever, Bird went and satisfied him. When
the pair had departed, Mrs. Clifford began
great act. She pretended to have taken
poison, which she did do, about ten days
sgo, and made the air musical with her
sroans death is sweet" she moaned,
varying il occasionally with: ~ will die
tonight. I wiH die" 0ficer Bird re-
tnrned and yanked her off to the lookup.
On her way up, she insisted it was useless
20 lock her up, as she had taken that which
would compass her death before morning.
This was probably q bluff. as she was all
light at last accounts.
HUNDREDS write they owe their life and
present good health to Acker's English
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