Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-18
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MAlINEss a. both theatres to-day.
NANCY & Co" at the Opera House this
evening.
MATTE VIcKERs at the Grand, this
evening.
UNITED STATES COURT is in session at
Charleston.
POLICE COURT was q total failure yes
terday morning.
OFFICER DUNLAP run in . drunk, yes.
terday afternoon.
ONE deed Of trust was admitted to
record by Clerk Hook yesterday.
SEVERAL converts will be baptized at
the Baptist Church, on Twelfth street, to-
morrow evening.
THERE have been, so far, ffty-four &C
c~essions te the Zane Street NJ. E Church,
and more than that many conversions.
A PARTY of Wheeling people will 60 up
to Steubenville to-day to hear the Boston
ians sing FRA Diayola" this afternoon.
A CoLoRED Charlestonian, q delegate to
the Republican Convention, fell in a lit at
the 'Pewiky" depot at noon yesterday.
IN another column will be found q card
from Mr.. John W. Nichols, announcing his
withdrawal ss q candidate for the office OF
| Sheriff.
THOMAS BUTLER, the blind man who
applied at police headquarters for relief,
Thursday night, was sent to Columbus last
evening.
FRANK FREDs, colored, is q candidate
for 8 place on the police force. Chief
Smith has q long petition fayoring his ap-
pOintment.
The ~incorporators Of the Martins Ferry
Construction company will meet Friday
evening, March ID, to adopt bylaws and
transact other business.
WHEELING UNION Chapter No. ], A. F.
& A. NJ, exalted three members last even
ing, and banqueted at YanKeuren's
restaurant at IL o'clock.
IT is understood that the Central glass
works will resume next Thursday, and
some Of the men will go to work on Mon
day setting the pots and getting things in
readiness to begin.
THE musicale for the benefit Of the
Second Presbyterian church will be held
next Tuesday evening, and tickets are
selling rapidly. 1t will be given at F. w.
Banner & Co. g music rooms.
The young men whose names are On the
list as members of the new social club are
requested to meet at Frapzheim's, ut 7:3O
o'clock this evening, for the purpose Of
getting the organization IN shape.
REV. A. l.. JORDAN, pastor Of the First
Baptist church, will preach tomorrow
evening on the following topic: 'Origin Of
the Baptists, and Their Relation to the
Civil and Religious Liberties of the Couu-
try" -
ADAM SCHAFFEE slugged an unknown
man Mt the Second ward market house
about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, knock
ing him down and then kicking him in the
head. Both parties were arrested by OFF,
Ger Dunlap.
THE bearing of the writ of habedS corpus
in the Hatfield Mccoy case, at Louisville
on Monday next, has been postponed till
February 18th, on motion of the Attorney
General OF Kentucky. General Caldwell
will not 90 to Charleston till next week.
THE Rev. NJ. F. Dryden will deliver his
third lecture in the interest Of the Pro-
hibition Amendment, at the North Street
Church, corner Fifth and Market streets,
Il .morrow evening at Z o'clock. Subject:
THE Work of the Saloon and the Eulogy
Pronounced Upon it by an Unfriendly
Pulpit"
Mr.. WM. LEIGHTON, JR, offers his
pleasant residence, No. 22l2 Chapline
street, for sale. The property is a very
desirable one, and it is understood that
Hr. Leighton's object in ~disposing of it is,
that he intends removing with his family
to Chicago in the neal future, which will
be unHelcome news to their many friends.
ANOTHER good audience greeted Miss
Vickers aud her company at the Grand
Opera House, last evening, in "Cherub,
the Pearl Of SERPENT Mountain" Miss
Yickers introduced new songs and dances,
and the performance was a very pleasing
one. The engagement will close with q
matinee this afternoon and q performance
this evening.
FIVE inmates of Morgapza, four white
aud one colOred, escaped from the institu-
ton about one o'clock Friday morning. 1t
is reported that they passed through Ran
kintown on their way towards Wheeling
about 5 a. m. The boys were all dressed
in bl1e clothes, army jackets and round
caps. The police here have been notified
aud are on the lookout for the boys. /
YESTERDAY morning at about eight
O'Clock while a young son of Sam Craw-
ford, Of the Commercial Bank, was hitchiDg
a horse to the buggy at his residence on tie
National Road, the animal started off when
the hitching process was only half COM
pleted and both horse and buggy took a
tumble over a steep embsnkment. The
buggy was ruined, but the horse was IN
injured save a few bruises.