Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-16
TUE TALX OF THE TOWN,
As Heard and JOttsd Down by Our
Reporters.
The Utility Of Rinks---A Med;OiOus House
Bill - Wrongs Of the Miners
The Result Of Re-
ViYals. &c.

In what particular way do they benefit
yoaT was asked.
well, in variety Of wsys. For instance,
they are the means Of our saving many
dollar, which would otherwise be squandered
in our daily and nightly search after amuse-
ment and recreation, and then the change
in the way fellow feels on getting up IN
the morning is worth the entire price OF sd-
mission as the museum folks say. It's
about this way. A fellow can come down
town these evenings TOR q little fun, ana
instead of falling in with the gang and
starting ont for regular fly time about the
saloons, at q cost OF two, or three, or ten
dollars, a. the case may be, he can go to
rink, spend several hours in pleasant way
among respectable people, leave at ten
o'clock or 50 feelEsg tired enough TO
90 home and climb into bed, and
wake up in the morning as fresh
as a daisv, and all at cost OF thirty-hye
cents. Under the old order Of things, ne,
fore the advent of the craze I'd blow in
half a dozen dollars two or four times
week, get home don't know how or when,
and wake up the next morning, feeling ex'
tremely tough, and with a head buzzing like
thrashing machine. knew there was no
money in it, and that It was calculated TO
break fellow up but what's man going
10 do? / can't stand around on the cor
ners, fellow does get tired Of the library,
and pushing the worries around in the Nc
Lure House, and | never was stuck on
prayer meetings or revivals. For this rea.
son, | say the rinxs are good thing, and
| hone they have come TO stay.
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The Legislature ought, by all means, to
pass the bill introduced in the House BY
Delegate Myles, on the 9TH inst, authorlz'
ing the arrest Of persons on suspicion. There
are a number OF young men about the city
who are well known to the city and county
authorities as crooks" but who manage to
evade being caught in the act of com hitting
crime, and therefore escape all punishment.
Talking with an officer day or two ago, he
dwelt at considerable length upon this mat
ter and said law such as was introduced
by Mr.. Myles was almost indispensable to
the proper protection OF society.
10 illustrate my meaning, said he
! those three young men you see across the
street belong to class Of suspicious char
acteIs.' They are always we'll dressed and
| haze money, but | never knew them to do
a davis work in their lives, and they have
| no known source of income. One Of them
Sss concerned in the Sykes robbery two or
three weeks ago, aud beth the others have
been connected with robberies and petty
thefts at one time and another, but, al.
though we know they are of color we cant
/ convict them. With the authority TO ar
rest any person who has the reputation o.
being thief, pickpocket or burglar, who is
| found lettering about without visible means
| of support and maintenance, and who does
not apply himself to labor or other honest
calling-I quote from the bill--we can
| thin out these gentry and thereby prevent
! the commits sion Of many serious crimes
The Legislature should give us the law "
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The last issue Of the Pittsburg Labor Tn.
buue contains the following bit Of spicy cor,
respondeuce under date OF Wheeling Creek
| Mines, Ohio, which mines are located Just
west of Bridgeport:
/ The superintendent of these coal works
has been doing pretty much as he pleases
latsly, and if a man happened 10 look the
wong way he could pack his sticks out.
, The least ofFense would bring about his sus-
pension from work The superintendent
SAYS the company does not allow the EN-,
! p!oyes to belong to a labor organization.
| ALLOW" is good. There was time in his
/ history when he would not receive a COM
mittee, even; but that time has gone by.
/ We are cursed here BY a lot of tell.tale men.
who keep the boss well posted as to what
: is going on, and betray their fellow men for
a smile at his hands. They even go so tar
as 10 carry to him what certain men say in
the meetings we hold Curses on all such
Judases. II they don't quit it III send you
their names to print. We are working only
about half time, at 80 cents per ton. The
man Culp who was SO badly hurt here last
week, is dead and buried. We hold meet
ing tonight for organization.
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The epidemic of revivals which has swept
with unusual violence over the territory be-
tween this city and Parkersburg, during the
past month, has had its ludcrous as we'll a.
lis pathetic incidents one OF the latter o.
which was detailed in the Bellaire hide
pendent Of Saturday. 1t seems that there
1 has been great religious awakening in the
locality known as Wells Bottom, opposite
Clarington, and among those who professed
religion was an old German named Chri
Dongel. Chris got to attending church, g.
did others of his family, and his interes'
seemingly grew with that manifested at the
meetings Finally the excitement ran pretty
high, ard Dongel could stand it no longer
He girded on the armor and, to use the eX
preston of the church people, he seemed
thoroughly saturated with a baptism Of
righteousness. Suddenly he became i'm.
pressed with the idea that upon MIN
devolred the care of the pastor
and that he must see that
the minister was provided for. He
visited the home Of one OF his neighbors.
hard-working renter named Jacob Meiser,
and after asking Jake down to the cellar
Dongel ran out, locked the door, and pro-
ceeded to the house. There, under threat
OF taking her life, he made Mrs. Meiser
show him where they kept their money.
She did, and Dongle took the lions share
for the preacher. Shortly after he lett the
house Meiser was released, and after his
wife had related the strange and incohe
rent talk and threats Of Dongel, Meiser con.
cludsd he would warn the minister that
Dongle was of his base, and notify him OF
What ne had done. He started
but when lie got near to the min
isler's home Dongel emerged, and, as
if clothed with unlimited authority. demand.
ed the object of Meiser's GRAND. and con-
tinued talking necessarily until he became
wildly demonstrstiye, and the German, who
was loser in the game, lest he might sus,
tain bodily injury, turned his steps home,
ward, closely followed by his infatuated and
crszed neighbor. He barely saved himself
from personal violence DongA has since
been taken into custody.
The introduction Of roller skating has
indirectly been the cause Of quite number
ofromsntie episodes and awkward mistakes.
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