Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-06-30
MARTIN,s FERRY.
Local Matters Of Interest-News Notes and
Personals

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Personals
Tire case Of the Ohio Wine Company
versus the Martins Ferry Terminal Rail
wav CompauT wherein the Wine Company
asks damages on account Of the jarring Of
The Wine Compsny's buildings sud grape
mice in state of fermentation, was con
tinued in 81. Clsirsvilie yesterday. Up TIL
the time Of adj auroment bat one witness
had been examined, and court was al
iourned till one o'clock p. NJ. tomorrow.
/ The case is q very tedious one, and the
testimony will b. that Of expert witnesses
almost exclu lively. Il may consume
about the whole Of next week.
Mrs. II T bert, who has been laid up
several weeks with typhoid fever, was
able to be out little while yesterday.
A very pleasant little social party was
given at the residence Of VIM. Dixon, on
Friday evening, in honor Of his son, Fed
Dixon, who returned from Fort Meade,
Oak A pleasant evening entertainment
was supplemented with ice cream, cake
and other seasOlable refreshments. Those
pres Mt were Misses Edith McKlm, Bsrtis
and Emma Ke5ser, S. B. Thomas, Matte
Exley, Kate RslstOn, Maggie Haywood,
and Messrs. Albert Marshal, Joe Penning-
ton, Charles and Lewis Keyser and Joseph
Haywood.
Rev. John B Knox, of Topeka, Kansas,
called on John D. Spence yesterday. John
and John did toe Holy Land together in
the capacity Of the Two Johns" tTo years
ago.
The Martins Ferry Ball Club played
gam of ball with the East Liverpool Club
yesterday. a full report of the game will
be found In the base ball column.
Miss Claire Scott, S. K. Coburn and the
Martins Ferry Dramatic Club presented
Galatea to large and .appreciative audi
ence in Mt. Pleasant last night
Mr.. Rider, of PomerOy, o, is the gueet
of his sister, Mrs. T. H. Heslop.
Half a dozen fishing clubs left yesterday
for their camps on the creeks and streOms
within half hundred miles of this city.
w. H. Ball, of Portland, was in the
city yesterday.
George E. Medill and Prof J. A. White,
of Mt Pleasant, we're in the city yesterday.
The United Presbyterian Sunday school
will picnic at Sidwell's sugar grove, in
COlersin township, on July 4.h.
The Catholic picnic at McSword's or
chsrd on July Attn will be pleasant event
and will be we'll attended.
Joseph Mckee, prominent politician Of
Warren township, Jefferson county, was in
the city yesterday.
Miss Lizzie He'll has returned from two
weeks visit with friends at Hendrysburg-
Chris He'll and family leave TO morrow
for Cooks Ferry to visit friends
A walking race has been made between
Louis Hastings and BERTHE Lawrence. The
race is go-ss-you- please thirty-six hours for
Il purse OF two hundred dollars
Three Etnavillians INDUCED in fight
yesterday afternoon and SIS a consequence
now line in the cooler. Officer Wagner
made the arrests
Yesterday evening about six o'clock,
Mrs LANG discovered smoke issuing from
the cracks in the boiler house of B. Exley
& Co.'S Planning Mill, corner of Second
and Hanover streets. Mre. Leing imme-
diately gave the alarm, and in two min
utes, the whistles were blowing in every
quarter. In five minutes, crowd
of several hundred people gathered
but some gentlemen sitting in the vicin-
ity, who got to the point of danger first
had put out the fire Def re the fl depart
ment had time to respond. The First and
Second ward companies got almOet to the
scene before they could be notified, and
the First company concluded, after their
run to give the thing squirt anyway.
Attachments we're made, and the boys in
obliged in little practice. The Messrs.
Exley have been very fortunate, this be-
ing their Second narrow escape in few
months.
Til after September 1, links furniture
store, on Hanover street, will close at p.
m, Saturdays excepted.