Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-08
MARTINS FERRY.

Rather a psculiar robbery was com
mitted on Thursday night. John WICK
era, his wife and one child live in a house
Ia f.w doors below Fifth, on Hanover
street. Mr.. Vickers works In the h,ns
mill, and every other week MS
work keeps him ont till ao04'
midnight or q little later. IL
has bteo the custom of Mrs, Vickers to
leave the key to one Of the outside doors
under a pail, which has a permanent pace
on a bench hear the door, so that MT
yickea. when he came home, might UNLOCK
,he door and 60 in without Weakening the
family or disturbing the neighoo'hcou,
Some thief se us 10 bsve become coSnlzao'
of the hiding place Of the key, for on The
night mentioned the house was en-
tered and articles CT considerable value
taken. Mr.. Vickets came home as usus
and found the door standing open.
feared some one might be inside and &c
make sure, Weakened Mrs. VickeTs before
he entered. An examination showed tina
The thief had opened the door with the Key
and going up to Mrs. Nickers' room,
opened a trunk and bureau and scattered
TIE contents on the floor. A purse Goa,
taiuirg s2O was ts ken from the trunk ano
soma osher small articles Of value were
missing. Mrs. Vickers was sleeping SOUND
" all the time this was going on, enc nav
ing poue 10 bed at ten O'Clock. The thar
was very bold, ~ the perPetrator nau only
two hours in which to wolK.
Yesterday evenings peculiarly sad &C
cidsnt occurred at the Eina mill, whereby
a young man will lose an arm, Wm.
Dreamer, who up to a few days ago lived
at Portland, secured a position at the IL nd
mill pilipg rails at the straiRhtener, a ma
chine used TO take the kinks and short
bends out Of railroad iron. Yesterday
afternoon he slipped by some mis-
chance, and in throwing oat N'S arm
to save himself a fall passed his arm
through the cog gearing OF the machine
The toothed wheels ground the arm OIL,
lust below the elbow, and the arm Will
have to be amputsted ab3ve the elbow.
The unfortunate young man was taken 70
Bridgeport, where the necessary meolcsl
attendance was secured. Kramer Is a SIN,
ole man about tw~enty.one years of age, and
until within the past few days while be
has been employed at the mill, he lived
with lis father on a farm near Portland.
Superintendent John Thomas, L. F.
Loree, Eugineer Maintenance OF Way,
General Agent j. B. Gillespie, Of the
Pennsylvania Company, and General A j.
Warner and Engineer Gould, of the Ono
Valley railway, held a consultation II
Bsllaire yesterday concerning the new &c
Lots end other matters concerning the tWC
roads.
Charles F. Schwing, who has been fol
two or three years on the PIttsburg ano
Bellaire mail car on the u. u Z. Il. h.,
has been transferred to a run on the MAN
line of the c.. & P. His place will be
filled by Mr.. W. S. Brown.
William Moore, of this city, who was &c
severely burned by the explosion of a a
of oil at the Beaver Falls rolling mill a
few days since, is doing as we'll ~ could
BIS expected.
The hardware business Of E. l.. 7.
Thcrngate will be continued az the old
stand Ia the same firm name. Mr. Z. w.
ThOrngate and Theodore Snodgrass Will
continue to have charge Of the store.
Mr.. F.W. Carl is visiting Miss Isabella
Hess, on Walnut street. Mr. CARL GENES
direct from Altoona, Fla, where he has
been held In quarantine for several months
Billy Joy, muck roller at the STANDARD
mill, had MS face badly burned by a nast
from TIE rolls a few days since.
The ladies of the Episcopal Mite Society
have q new rag caIp:t to sell. 1t 10 on e&'
hibilion at B. +. BIady's store.
George FerrelI, Of Cumberland, Md,
passed through the city yesterday on hi
way to Mt. Pleasant.
Mrs. Scott Stewart and family, OF Plta
burg, are In the city visiting friends.
Mr.. J. NJ. Bone, of Martinsburg, VIVA.
was IN the city yesterday.
Mr.. Oliver Flanner, of Mt. Pleasant,
was in the city yesterday.
Thomas Conway was at Bsllaire yester
day calling on friends.
George w. McCleary, of Wellsburg, wa
in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Jas. Y. Patterson is i'll GAINESVILLE
visiting relatives.
A child of Will Conley is laid up wit
measles.
Underwear at Dixon Bros.