Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-05
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WESTON.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS New Asylum
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Robbsry-Yandalism-The New Asylum
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Special 70 ne Register.
WESTON, August 3.-The people of town
are considerably excited over a robbery
committed at the residence Of Dr.. A. 81.
Kunst, on Thursday night last. The thieves
effected an entrance by one of the windows
of the house. A large amount of valuables
we're stolen. The affair has been kept quiet
up to this time with a hope Of detecting the
eUlprit. No clue has been obtained.
A great deal ofvsndslism exists through
out the county, Ruuors of cattle being
shot in the fields are being circulated, and
unfortunately with some foundation.
A number Of gentlemen residing here,
who belong to the Catholic denomination
have been talking for some time of estab-
fishing a Catholic monthly periodical at
this place, to be devoted to the interests of
that denomination in the interior of the
State. The gentlemen interested are men
of means and cspsbifty, and if they once
make q start the success OF the enterprise
is assured.
| notice that the resident directors
of the Asylum have procured
notices to contractors and full plans and
specifications for the additional asylum pro-
Hded for at the last session of the Legisla-
ture. The contract will be awarded on the
Dist of August. The building is to be of
brick, three stories high, 200 feet long and
80 feet deep. 1t will not be completed until
next year, and its capacity will be about l5O
patients. Should any Of your Wheeling
contractors desire to bid, they can procure
specifications Of Mr.. +. Rslston, Of this
place, one Of the resident Directors.
At q meeting Of the commissioners OF tho
independent school district Of Weston held
on Friday night last, the following teachers
we're appointed:
Principlsl-G. B. Edmiston.
First Assistant. E. Connolly.
Other AssistantS-Mrs. Mary Bland,
Misses Mary TIerneY Abbie Clifton, Annie
Wright and Annie Croghan.
George I. Jones was resppointed princl-
pal Of the eolored school. The schools will
open about the first of September.
l am informed by parties travelling
through the county that grasshoppers are
almost as they were in Kansas q few years
60. but they are doing no damage, Our
proportion of l7-year loeusts turn out to be
g~fasshoppers,
Rev. Fathers Tracey and Quirk, o. Lewis;
Father Reynolds, of DoddIidge, and Father
Fitzpatrick, of Randolph, will attend the
annual retreat of the Catholic clergy of this
diocese st Wheeling.
Patrick ]. Macy formerly Of Wheeling,
but now Of this place, is on q two weeks
visit to friends in the Nail City.
regret to learn that the condition OF
Hon. Z. G. Crscrsft is not at all improved.
Postmaster Aspinwsll, accompanied by
viii. F. Minnieh, is on his way to Coving-
ton, Ohio, to attend the reunion Of the Sth
Ohio cavalry. They go by Cincinnati, Col
umbus and other cities.
Miss Mary Clancy, of Clarksburg, is visit
ing friends here.
Miss Mary Donahue, who has been visit
ing the Misses Tierney here for ONE time,
will return to her home in Grafton to-day.
Mrs. Ella Flannery, of Bslimore, q dsugh-
ter of Judge Henry Brsnnon, will return to
her city home this week.
Misses Ellie Brown, of Parkersburg, and
Cora Carey, of Berlin, Pa, are the guests
of Miss Cora Atcbison.
An infant child of Capt. John Smith, of
the C. A w railroad died Yesterday.