Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-14
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THERE was oDe case in Police Court
yesterday morning.
TIE Council Committee on Health is
called to meet this evening.
The river marks on the landing last
evening indicated 9 feet and falling.
THERE wore no cases on the blotter at
police headquarters up to midnight last
night.
PROSPECTIVE bidders are busy looking
over the PLAYS for the improvement Of the
Custom House and PO3tOfice.
The Executive Committee Of Natural
Gas Consumers met at the room Of the
Chamber Of Commerce, last night
THE Louis A. Sherley is due up from
Cincinnati this evening ard will leave Sat-
urday afternoon at 5 o'clock for that port.
THE Whitaker Mill Company has a force
OF men driving piles in front OF the mill,
along the creek bank, 10 protect the bank
from washing.
THE grOcers OF Bellsire met last evening
and took steps to perfect their organization
fer mutual protection from people who at
temp. to beat them.
A B. & o. FREIGHT train was backed
through the big bill board, on Sixteenth
street, yesterday afternoon, making q
racket which almost scared the City Hall
officials to death.
IT was reported yesterday that a freight
train had run into a pickup" on the
3. & o. al Board Tree Tunnelat 10 O'Clock
yesterday morning and smashed several
cars to flinders, but not delaying traveI
much.
A MAN named Jack Gsllaher was ar
rested in Bellaire yesterday on suspicion o.
knowing something about the murder ofar
Irish peddler several days since. He bat
q hearing before the Mayor and was dis
charged.
Mr.. NIMAN BEALL, one of Ohio county
most successful flOck-mssters, sold his cliI
of Ssxony wool last week. 1t amounted
to l, 700 pounds. Price paid, 40 cents
This ID less, Mr.. Beall says, than he evel
sold it before.
WEATHER PROPHET HICKS, Of st
Louis, predicted that within f0rty-eight
hours of Wednesday poon would be exper
ier,ed the coolest weate7 Of the season
Mr.. Hicks seems to have been rightly in
formed. LIS: evening was 1.-THE coolest, }
to a certainty.
HENRY ROSE, the welt-known carpente
employed at Holiday & Sons planning mill
had the last three fingers of his lsfG hant
badly ls(erated, yesterday, by getting then
in one of the machines about which he wa.
working, and he will be jncapacitated from
work for ONE time.
OFFICER Killeen found a ten year oil
girl, named Florence Wilson, Of No. IA
Fifteenth street, at Twenty-ssventh sn(
Market streets, last night. The girl hat
just got off a street car, and was completed.
lost. The officer took her to the City Hall
and later she WAS sent home.
THE Belmont County Farmers Club ha
decided to hold an Institute at st. Clairs
Vile on the S:h and oh days of February
MeSsrs. B1nhsm and Hickman, of tn
State Board of Agriculture, have been as
signed 10 that county, land the Secretary o
the club is corresponding with othe
speakers.
AT a special meeting of the directors Q
the X ]. Bsggs & Sons Lumber Company
held ut their office in Bridgeport, o., De
cember II, 1888, Andrew J. Bsggs wa
unanimously elected vcs president au'
msnager of the company, to fill the vacsrc.
occasioned by the death Of J. Thompson
Bsggs, and w. W. Bsggs was ~appointe'
Superintendent Of the operating depart
ment of the company, under direction Q
the manager.