Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-01-13

knight, the engineer who had charge of
the train who carried the Andrews Raiders,
will lecture in Lafayette Opera House for
the benefit Of Thoburn Post G.. A. r.
No. u.
John HssIop, Sr, is seriously i'll at his
home on North Fifth street.
Train No SO, esst bound freight on the
O. & P. r r met with a serious accident
at Cooks Ferry, near Roche ster, yesterday
afternoon. Some section hands had taken
cut defective rail. and in replacing it
temporarily to allow the train to PISS,
did rot eecure it sufficiently. The loco
motive and four freight cars jumped the
track and were piled up in the ditch. The
train was not running fast and no one was
hurt. All trains were delayed, No. 81
arriving two hours late at Bellaire.
The S P. & o.. or more properly the
Cleveland ard Wheeling Ry. Co. has pur-
chased a right Of way through the property
of Henry Helling. west of the alley be-
tween Fifth and Sixth streets The right
is 100 feet wide and cost So, 300.
Miss Amanda Miller will entertain the
Mite Society of the Episcopal Church at the
residence of her brother, John F. Miller, on
Tuesday evening.
John Jayne, Of Pittsburg, wss in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Jayne is jolly COM
meIcial drummer.
D. 7. Blown, of Oregon, is the gueIt Of
bis brother, James W. Brown.
Mrs. c. NJ. Timbsrlake and daughter,
Ids, are both quite i'll with typhoid fever,
The following directors were elected at
the annual meeting of the Peoples Build
ing Association; Dr.. B. o. Williams, B.
Ex'ey, Jr., Thos. Mesrs, Jtsse Selby, B..
F. Brady, Geo. II Smith, T. W. Shrever.
James Ralsion is working in Spears ma
chine shop.
G. W. Baxter, of HOpedale, Ohio, is laid
up at Hotel haywood.
Lafayette Chandler and mother, of tbi.
city, left for PittsbuTg yesterday.
The new Episcopal church viii be ready
for services early next month.
For Rent-TwO store rooms on Hanover
street. corner Second. JaueI FindlOy. =
Oliver Newland, of Wheeling, was in
the city yesterday oliver is one of our
old citizens who formerly worked at the
Laughlin mill.
Miss Era Coneley, OF Mt. Pleasant,
passed through the city yesterday on her
way home from Steubenville.
To The Editor ofue Register:
DEAR SIR Having seen an article in
your publication. of January 9TH with re-
gard to the Scotch Ridge Literary Society,
in which it is made to appear that that
Society has degenerated INTO pack Of
politicians, we, az members of that or
ganizstion, wish yOu to state the facts in
the case.
On Thursday, January Sd, the Society
found the building locked against them,
and from fifty to sixty persons were COM
pslled to wait in the cold until the door
could be opened.
The same thing was repeated On last
Thursday evening, and TO fdrther make
the house secure against MS the windows
had been nailed down. Upwards Of fifty
ladies and gentlemen again waited in the
cold, while committee waited
upon the directors and received tbeir con-
sent to the Society holding its meetings in
the school house. A key wac produced
aud for a second time we held our meeting
in spite Of all efforts 20 keep us out.
In the article which was furnished your
correspondent, it is said that tobacco spit
mud and other filth on the fl 1or were ont
rageous This We declare entirely false
and unwsrranted by fact. We farther
wish to state that tie members of the
Scotch Ridge Literary Society are ladies'
and gentlemen, and the meetings Gre con-
Quoted in such a way that all who have
visited it cay that it IL the banner society
of the Township so far as good order is
concerned. J. 0. Garner, Will Elliffits
Lizzie Thorburn, Committee.
For the benefit of those interested in the
matter l wish to state that Mr.. MoGlenn
had 10 part in the furnishing Of informa-
ton to the REGISTER for the news item Of
January 9TH. The information wfs gotten
from a source entirely remote from any
one directly interested in the Scotch
Ridge school. NJ. F. Cor.