Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-23
BRIDGEPORT.

There was an exciting episode on the
streets on Monday evening. \ miner at
the Wheeling Creek mines named Chas.
Gontmer came into town with Mrs. Louis
Hooker. the wife of another miner, and
they went across into Wheeling Hooker
followed them shortly and wanted the po-
lice TO arrest them, but the runaway
couple had gotten out of the luris-
diction of the Bridgeport police, and
so Hooker followed the runaways
over into Wheeling. where he found them
i'm saloon. He got an officer 10 arrest
them but. as the crime, if any was com
mitted. was committed in Ohio, the officer
could do nothing. Hooker tried to get his
wife to return with him, but she refused
and he went back alone. He is a hard
working man and his wife leaves four
children behind her.
A colored man named VIM. Baker and a
white girl named Mary Morris were arrest
ed by Oflicer Keller Monday night at Att-
naville for being together for an i'm
improper purpose. the arrest being made
at the instance of the girls father Mayor
Mitchell fined the man 81 and costs, and
the girl 50 and costs, and sent them both
10 ST. Clairsvlle for about a months term.
i'm default. This is the second scrapc Baker
has been in with white woman, and it is
about time for the community to jump ON
him with four feet.
Bull McDonough and Eddie Combs, the
men charged with having held up Mr.. John
Watkins several weeks ago with the inten-
ton of robbing him, were brought over on
Monday by Marshal John Stuff. and they
now repose safely in the St. Clairsville
Jail, because in their hearing before JUS
tice h. r. Howell il was proven very
t,fuftt1r- fhuf fhats mechanically the
men Mr. Watkins and Mr.. Hammer, who
came 10 his rescue, both positively iden-
titled the men. The defendants offered no
evidence, and they were held in the sum Ol
=. 900 for court.
Mr. c. =. Knight, representative of the
Fort Wayne Electric Company, was in the
city again Yesterday, and he closed the
final contract with the Bridgeport Electric
Light and Power Company 10 furnish their
plant IL is expected that Bridgeport will
be lighted by electricity between the LIST
and 10th of June.
VIM Goldsborough, who lives in the
east end of town, and is fireman on the St
Clairsville branch of the b. Il O., was
caught between the bumpers of two cars
on Monday, and badly squeezed. His right
hand was also quit badly hurt
Mrs. VIII Giffen arrived home yesterday
from indianapolis, where she went several
days since. being called here by the sudden
death of her husband. She was accom-
panied home by her sister, Mrs. Jennie
Deeds
The funeral of the late W. T.. GiTen will
take place from the residence of his parents
this afternoon at > o'clock, under the
auspices of Belmont Lodge No. lO1, Is. of
r., of which he was member
An informal meeting of Council will be
held this evening, AT which time Chief En-
gineer G. \. Wilson will submit the plans
of the company for running their road into
Bridgeport.
4 very large lumber raft is lying just
above the G.. " Z. depot and the lumber is
being hauled up TO Scott X McG1w's
yards
Mr. Thomas +. Shelley has been made
manager of the Crystal Glass Works and
assumed the duties of his position ON Mon
day.
Mrs. A. H. Handel is ON her way here
from Alabama TO make Bridgeport her fu-
turc home
4 special train came down ON the G. X
p, yesterday, bearing the inspector OF
bridges
Mr. and Mrs Arthur Walling are visit
mg friends i'm Cleveland.