Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-25
MARTINS FERRY.
News From Our Ohio NeighbOr-Kicked
by Horse, Etc.
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by Horse, Etc.
BASE BALL.
To-day the Red Stocking Base Ball Club,
strengthened considerably by acquisitions
from Bellaire and Wheeling, will play in
East Liverpool, Ohio. The Crockery City
club, of that place. have quite reputation
among the amatuer clubs in Ohio and
PENNSYLVANIA, aud a good game may be
expected. Our club has defeated the
Crockeries this season, and with a much
weaker club than the one they play to-
DAY. The position for to-day: Catcher,
Moreland, OF Bellaire; pitcher, Kennedy, OF
Bellaire; short, Wilson Purcell; first base,
Robert Stewart; second base, Tom Parker;
third base, Will White, of Bellaire; left
garden, Robert Purcell; center, Lsech, of
Wheeling; right, Ed. Mallory.
KICKED BY A HORSE
Yesterday afternoon Will. E. II. Con-
nelly met with serious accident while
attending his horses at his stable on Park
street. Mr.. Connolly has among his horses
which he drives in his city delivery wagons
one rather vicious brute, whose heels have
always been considered dangerous. While
passing behind this animal he let drive
both heels at Connolly, one Of them strik-
ing him fairly in the right side aud knock
ing the breath out of him, hnd bruising
him very badly. He was picked up insen-
sible and suffering great pain and carried
4 L. -. ha otraaf xuhara m pn-
icsl aid was summoned. 1t was thought
at first that he had sustained serious In
ternal injury, bat an examination allsyed
those fesrs.
RUNAWAY.
Yesterday John westherson, who lives
out on Short creek, came to town with q
young team of horses hitched to a spring
wagon. In the wagon he hauled two
calves and few bushels OF apples. When
be got in as far as l.. Ackermsn's slaugh-
ter house, out the pike mack Of Helling's
coal works, he left the wagon and team
with the wheels locked and the lines tied to
the brake handle and went to the slaughter
house to see if Mr.. Ackerman cared to pur-
chase the calves. While he was gone, the
horses took fright, and ran of, coming at
break-neck speed down the pike to the
point where il meiges into Hanover street,
where the wagon upset, smashing the top
to pieces and throwing the calves and ap-
Piles into the street. The horses stopped,
unipj ured, but the wagon is almost total
wreck. The calves suffered probably more
than any thing else, their legs being securely
tied when they were thrown twenty feet
onto the hard road.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
Tonight the Democratic drum corps
from ths city goes up to Tiltonville, where
political meeting will be held. Hon.
Ross J. Alexander will speak, and quite q
good meeting is expected. Several Of our
leading Democrats will attend.
SMALL TALK.
Charley Smith, of Bridgeport, was in
the city yesterday.
DR.. A. J. Heinlein, of Bridgeport, was
in the city yesterday.
L. F. 0xley, Esq of Salem, Ohio, ia in
the city visiting friends.
Ad Burriss and father, Of Mt. Pleasant,
were in town yesterday.
Four rolls were broken at the Standard
mill in the past four days.
DR.. ]. NJ. Blackford snd wife, and
daughter BERTHE, and several Others, re-
turned yesterday from Chsutsuqua.
A force Of twenty-five Italians arrived
in this city yesterday to 60 to Mt. Pleasant
to work on the Wheeling and Lake Erie
r. r. Tweedy & Carter tranferred their
baggage, but the Italians walked.
Henry Gsuding left yesterday for Woods
field, where he pitches to-day for the
woodsfeld club. George Roach, Dick
Psdden and George Feetterer left for
Clarington TO play with that club to-day.