Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-11
SETTLING Up.
Thousands of Dollars Held in Wheeling as
Stake Money
on The PRESIDENTIAL RESULT
Being Turned Over to the Lucky Win
ners.
SOME NOVEL WAGERS TO BE PAID.

begun to settle up, and yesterday q sood
many Thousand dollars were turned over
by stockholders 10 the lucky individuals.
A sood deal of the money, however, will
not be paid out by those having isin charge
until Tomorrow, while in q few instances
tie money will BIZ held for several days
longer.
There is no means Of asceItlining just
what sum of money was bet in this city,
but it was in the height orhood Ct $4,000.
One man alone held $l2, 600 Of stakes, and
another hflf that much. In q number Of
localities money was re,eipted for by
thousands of dollars, but mary
folks are not DESTROYS of having
their connection with betting known,
even though they are only holding money.
About the largest sum wage:ei in the city
in the city in one bet, was 81, 600 a side or
the general result. There were three or
four bets Of this SSH. There We several o.
5000 a side, and $500 was quite a f~syo.ite
sum, about a dozen or fifteen wagers OF
that amount bsing made on the Presiden-
cy. OF bets of $3.50 a side there were a
score or more-ju,t how many no one
knOws-and almost az many of 800 a side
Bets of 500 a side were made by GOz ns,
and of wsgers of smaller amounts, $50,
S25 etc, No man can enumerate them. One
| stakeholder has six thousand dollsrs on
his books, made up If bets of S2CO ard
less, and rs per cent. of it is in bets OF
$50 and lesq. This shows how general the
betting fever was this year, ard how many
folks will 2, broke for sn indefinite time
10 come, while others will be rolling in
wealth.
Several classes of bets are bling given
no. o. the Presidency there was in the
ntighboIhood of ST.. 900 turned over yes
terday, scso:d ding TO the best information
obtainsble. OF this about $4,000 was
turned over at the Mcclure House, but there
is still a very neat tum lying there which
was wsg,red upon the sucasI OF Cleye-
land or Hsrrison. Al Mclaughlin & NC
Ginley's about 81, 900 was turned over on
the general r, suit yesterday, and there are
still more than half a dozen thousand dol
lars on hand, which will be paid over to-
morrow, wherever pTa.ticable. At Bru-
bakers, a good deal of cash is bsing turned
over end q coed deal more is still held
One gentleman hsrdsd over the stakes on
a 81, 600 bet.
There was an astonishing number Of
bets, generally of $50 or les', wagerei by
Democrats that Ohio would net give
q, 900 majority for Harrison, and this
money will 20 a long way toward evening
up things GA the Presidency. Bets on the
Congressional election in this district are
still brig held, while there IS no thought
on either side Of paying over the les on
the State, nobody WHO has money on this
particular Issue being willing to coIcede
that they have lost.
Some of the lets made by partisans on
each side, on the general result, are very
amusing, and are decidedly n;vel. Two
vel known young ladies mlde a wager on
the Presidency, the terms Of which were
that the one o3ipg was to wheel the othtr,
in q whe harrow, fom the head oil
Twelfth street to Main street, on q sunny
afternoon, when the streets were crowded.
DR.. Garrison has 10 turn out In
the Republican jolli6ca ion pa
rade, during the coming week, &C
coIdirg to the terms of o bet with q well
known resident Of the upper end OF the
city. Dawn in the Eighth ward, Chnle
Rohrig has to wheel Louis Carl around o
square in a wheelbarrow, and arother we'll
known gentleman has to sit on a fre-plug
two hours q day for three days, with O
Republican stare ard strips handkerchie
pinned around his hat.
Yesterday afternoon rather a queer pro-
cession drifted over the river from Bridge
port. 1t consisted of two ~wheslbarrow'
ard four men. The bRrroNs were dtCkeC
ont in red, while AID b'ue bunting, and
presented a picturesque appearance. In
the frs! was e lted John Patterson and
in the other John Powell, two
Republicans, Of Blaine postcffc.,
Belmont county. BetH esn thu handles o
the first barrow was Louis Handle aud IL
the oth:r William Griner. These twt
gentlemen had wheeled the Republican,
clear from the foot OF the big hill, five
miles back of Bridgeport, to the river
across to the city, and down street to tb'
postofice. They created quite a ssnsatiou
1t is underetooi that DR.. Pipes is en-
titled 10 a ride in a wheelbirrow propelled
by Mr.. ZIrnitz, of the Eighth ward. Thert
are quite a number of cthtr lets CT thi
sort.
Bets Of hats, suits Of clothes, overcosts,
bottles of champaign, kegs Of bier, boxeI
Of cigars, dinners, It; are innun erab'e
snd the laiies viii have q good man,
boxes of cindy and neckties, and pairs oI
gloves, TO purchase during the e~1tuirl
week.
Tom Dobbirs, Of Martins Ferry. yester
terdao wheeled 6 gorge Parish down tn
Narrower street grade in q w~he,lbarrow ii
payment of an election bet. They wsr,
headed by a drum corps and created quit'
a sensation.
l The funnie:t sight, however, was to SCI
John UlIicb, of Bridgeport, who is a larg'
/ heavyset man, wheel Jack Stiggins frog
: Bridgeport to Ae!naville in q barrow
|, HEADED by the Unicn Comet Band. A
Unich is not used to running a wheelhar
, row, he was pretty well winded when h
reached the end Of the journey.
a, Wonderful Cures
". D. Hoyt & Co, Wholesale and Be
( tail Druggists of Rome, Ga, say: We hay
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