Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-05
NO MORE PRIZES.
THE GLOBE IRA COMPANY RUNS INTO
TROUBLE
In The Form Of Prosecuting Attorney Jordan The
Concern Removed 10 Bsllairs.
How Il Happened.

There will be no more gold watches or
wads of greenbacks drawn in cans Of tea,
at one dollar per draw, at the store-roOm OF
the Globe Tea Company. In fact, there Is
no longer a Globe Tea Company in the
city, the enterprise having been removed
to Bellsire under a pressure brought to
bear upon the proprietor, yesterday morn
ing, by Prosecuting Attorney Jordan and
other officials. There has been trouble
brewing for the Globe for several days past,
through the kicking of people who werein-
duced to expend q greater or less number
of dollars in the place, in the expectation
Of drawing something worth several times
the amount of their investments. Yesterday
morning this trouble took the form Of a
civil suit, brought by a well-known young
man to recover twenty-five dollars he had
spent in the store room Of the Globe, under
the promise that he would either draw q
gold watch or fifty dollars" The young
man finally did strike a watch alleged to
be gold, but the ticker did not meet his
views of what a tea-store watch ought to
be, especially when there was a little un.
derstandiDg between the purchaser and the
proprietor, aud the disappointed youth
hied himself to a Justices Office and swore
out au attachment. A constable took the
papers, and waited until the tes men
had emptisd their three barrels
of greenbacks" into the show
window, the miniOn Of the law walked in
and remarking that money was 81 elegant
thing to attach, followed il up with an exbi-
bition of a decided intention to levy upon
the wealth and carry 1t oil. The pro-
prietor deprecated any such proceeding,
and upon his suggestion that perhaps the
thing could be fixed mp, the party ad-
liourped to Justice Ankles Office. There,
after q general talk, the young man who
didn't like his watch agreed TO be satisfied
with twenty dollars, the tea man TO pay
half the costs, and the affair was ended,
Before the tea man could get away, how
ever, another citizen with q feeling that he
had not been properly dealt with, pat in a
little claim, and the tea man settled that
in the same way. This closed the first
act.
The second opened a little later in the
morning, when Prosecuting Attorney Jor-
dan met the tea store proprietor on Market
street. The tea man accused the Prose
cutor of being after him ut the instance of
several business men. This the Prosecutor
denied, but took advantage of the occasion
to inform the tea man in a way that wa
not to be misunderstood, thai hIs business
was conducted in an unlawful manner
that evidence had just been placed in his
possession, sufficient to warrant his arrest,
in not only n but many cases, and that
if he did not at once cease operations in
the line OF giving prizes Of any sort, and
con6ne himself to the business of selling
tea in a legitimate way, he would be
arrested. The tea man plead hard 10 be
allowed to 90 on until Saturday, when, he
said, he contemplated o removal TO Bel
laire, but the Prosecutor was iDfexible.
He then asked successfully for leave to
run until evening, and until noon, but
both these requests were denied. Nothing
but an immediate cessation of business
would satisfy Mr.. Jordan, who limited
the time to fifteen minutes. This left the
tea nan with no other alternative than to
close up, and before the fifteen minutes
were up, the disposiDg Of prizes had been
discontinued, and the barrels Of money
were being sOrrowfuliy packed away. The
store was kept open until evening, bat
last night the stock was removed to Bel.
laire, where business will be resumed this
morning. The air YVES full Of rumors of
other civil actions for the recovery OF
money, which were TO be instituted to-
day, but thee will probably not now take
place.