Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-28
MOUNDSVIllE.
Court Notes-News OF the Mound City in
General-Personal.

General-Personal.
Specia! 10 the Sasaay Register.
MOUNDsvILLE, June 2E.-The Circuit
Court has finished the cases requiring juries
for the present term, and will soon close for
this time, as to all other cases.
Powell and Clark, who were indicted and
tried for a felony at the present term for
burglsriziDg the store OF w. W. Smith, were
honorsbly acquitted and discharged.
1t is understood that the Prosecuting At
torney is to have the dog hat was mixed up
in the Powell Clark case, if he cannot
convict any one charged with crime in Mar
shall, and he failed in every case before the
Court. Not even in a whisky case was he
successful the present term. He al always
claim his attendance as witness in court,
and have it charged up in the cost bill, and
that is something.
Richard McFadden, who was indicted for
an assault and battery Of Micajah Cats at
q former term of the court, was tried and
acquitted, the State failing to make a case
and the defendant never called o witness.
Mr.. Tucker Anshutz says that he is re-
covering his memory slowly touching the
assault and battery, and his abuse of the
team, which was mixed up with the McFad-
den indictment.
Mieajah Cats says the next time he is
invited to ride with Tucker Aushutz he
longs 10 McFalden or some gentleman who
has some respect for Tucks contracts and
the rights of other persons.
In the case of Ellyson vs. Thomas Dorsey
the Jury found for the plaintiff, and Mr..
Eilyson recovered his horse, but how much
Ben Meighen received as a witness while
actirg as attorney for plaintiff, and whether
he charged mileage or not, your ccrrespon-
dent cannot tell. For further particulars
reference is made to A. o. Baker, Clerk Of
Circuit Court.
The switch from 3 & 0. railroad to coal
works and camp grounds completed. There
is q large number of persons at present st
the camp ground enjoying themselves, and
indeed it is o place for enjoyment. 1t Is
fixed up in good style for the sccommoda-
ton OF visitors.
The Board Of Directors of the West Viz.
ginis peniteutiary met at the Directors
room in the Warden's building, on the 2Sd.
The session continued for two days. The
Board did a large amount Of official bust
ness and fully established the working ca
pacity of its members, but they failed, as |
was informed by the clerk, to make an
order authorizing the Superintendent to
subscribe for the State newspapers, and to
obtain a sufficient number of copies for the
use of the convicts, to be paid out of the Wis
itor's fund which fund is to be used
for the purpose of furnishing a library for
the convicts, surely the newspapers OF the
State would be as useful to the inmates OF
the prison as any books that could be fur
nished, and ! think the Board ought to
select such papers as in their judgment
would be proper, for the convicts to read, at
their next meeting, and authorize the Su.
perintendent to furnish sufficient copies OF
said papers to supply the demand for such
among the conyicts; it would most certainly
be 3 very good thing, and the
money would be as ~judiciously OK
pended as in the purchase OF books.
Hoping the Board may think it proper and
right at some future meeting to expend
part of the visitors fund in the purchase OF
state papers so that the convict will still be
able to hold some intercourse with the
external world, and especially with his "
State in his isolated condition l would sug-
rest the same and if not adopted it can do
harm, and if adopted it will not take long
for the Board at Its next meet to preparethe
proper order and have our newspapers read
even in our penitentiary, as / think they
ought to be read in ever State Institution,
the intelligence of what is transporting
around Us, can do, surely no harm. am
informed that the Board viii at Its next
meeting issue proposals for furnishing the
prison with 10000 bushels Of coal.
The contract for vault was awarded to
the Barnes Loek and Safe Company. Of
Pittsbprg.
There were new guards appointed for the
p~enitentiary amounting to ten in number.
and the other eight we're selected from the
old guards, the names of those appointed BY
the order of the Board 10 a follows, to wit:
Henry Keissl. Fritz Bauer. from Mason
county; James r. Ferguson and Samuel
Ferguson, from Wayne county; Thomas ].
johnson. Charles G. Reynolds. from Kan