Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-13
IN A SMALL WAY.

THERE were two cases in Police Court
yesterday morning.
ONE drunk was registered at head
quarters ut midnight Last night.
Two deeds of trust were admitted to
record in Clerk Hooks Office yesterday.
TIE river marks on the landing last
evening indicated 9 feet S inches and fall
ing.
JENNIE McADAMs was yesterday COM
mitted 10 jail for n year, by Justice
Davis.
THE Riverside factory was compelled to
close down yesterday afternoon on &C
count of scarcity Of natural gas.
Oar "B" of the Electric line ran over
and killed q large New Foundlsnd dog on
the Caldwell run bridge on Tuesday even
ing.
THE members of Wheeling Castle No: 2,
K. of G. E, are requested to meet Friday
at I o'clock in the afternoon to attend tie
funeral of their late brother, John Ash
worth.
THE casrs of Kanswba Valley Bank v.
G. W. Atkinson, and Mary Kee Y. Thomas
Hughes administrator, from this county,
are set, before the Supreme Court, Tor
Friday, January 18th.
Mr.. W. O. CUNNINGHAM, the we'll
known Island shoemaker, has opsned up q
new shop on Zane street, near the bridge,
and placed his son, @. W. Cunningham, an
experienced mechanic, in charge. DE Will,
however, still hold forth at his old stand
A Foor.RACE will be run by David
Scbafsr. of Bellsire, and W. J. Halssll, OF
Terre Haute, Ind, Saturday afternoon at
the State Fair Grounds. The race will be
100 wards and ia said to be for a purse oil
ST. 600. Both men are said to be great
sprintars.
Hon. DANIEL LAMB, trustee of the old
Wheeling Saving g Institution, gives notice
to the creditors Of that concern that the
sixth dividend of one and a third per rent.
will be psid them on application to the
Bank of Wheeling.
To-Day Geo. A. Wickham will conf
mspcs the sale of one of the finest collec-
tons of pictures ever brought to Wheeling
at his establishment, No. 1853 Market
street, including oil paintings, French
~oleographs and steel ~engrsviugs, all hand
somely framed. They make very accept
able Christmas presents, and will doubtless
sell fast.
SEVERAL Wheeling and Lake Erie rail
road engineers were engaged IN making
some surveys in the vicinity Of one of the
sisters ISLANDS. several days since, and it
was reported that the Company contem-
Mated bridging the river at that point.
However, nothing definite was learned as
to the object of their work and it may
have been for some other purpose.
LAST night at 10 o'clock Mr.. j. D. Kur-
uer, who has been i'll some time with con-
sumption, passed away. he was a re-
sptcted citizen and possessed a wide circle
of friends who will be psined to hear Of his
death. He was ffty-eight years of age.
He leaves q wife and a lsrge family Of
children. Mr.. Kurner was a prominent
member Of the German Pioneer Society.
AN Italian, working on the Wheeling
and Lake Erie railroad, near Portland,
had his right shoulder blown of Tuesday
by a premature discharge Of dynamite. He
was engaged in thawing out the explosive
in an oven made for that purpose, when
it exploded with the above mentioned re-
suit. The Injured man was brought over
to the Wheeling Hospital at IL o'clock.
DAN MCDONALD and J. T. Connors, the
men rua in Tuesday night by Officers
Shorts aud West, as suspicious characters,
were released from custody, yesterday
morning, by Chief of Police Smith, al
though it was understood the night before
that there were good CAGES against them.
It is learned that Agent Beymer, Of the
Union News Company, at this point, said
he would be responsible for the men.
LITIGATION has commenced over the
Conart farm in the Turkey foot oil terri
tory, which was recently purchased by
McKeon, the oil operator, for $4,000. 1t
appears that Euoch w. Allison, who owned
the farm previous to his death, had leased
the oil privilege to the Vsndegrifts for five
wears. Tue Vandegrifts, through their at
~torneys, have applied at Wheeling for an
Injunction to prevent McKeon from com
pleting the wells on the land, which are
now being drilled. -SteWbenriMe Gazette.
SAMURL CARTER, of Brooke county, has
RclQ DIS wool 10 lnOn18S DIO"H, VI "elIs'
burg, agent for Mr.. Taylor, of New York,
the price paid being 33 cents per pound.
Mr.. Carter had three clips, about 600 flee
ces in all, and the whole lot weighed about
$500 pounds. OF the whole purchase
made by Mr.. Brown this year, 264 900
pounds, this is the only clip for which he
paid over 80 cents, and he cOncedts Carter's
claim that in doing go be get the worth OF
his monsy.-SteubenriHe Gazette.
SOME time since Geo. Mclaughlin en-
tered suit before Justice Arkls against
Chas. Neumap, to recover an overcost
which he clsimed TO have left at the lat
ter's establishment to be repaired. The
case was continued until yesterday, when
the plaintiff and his witness, Sherman
Kraft, went to the Office Of the Justice in
t~oxiCa'eI. They raised such q racket that
Constable Lauchlin arrested them and
Justice Ankle sent them to Jail in default
of 81 and costs apiece, the civil case b=iug
continued until they sober up and are re-
leased.