Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-13
MARTINS FERRY.


MARTINS FERRY.
The law suit of the Terminal Railroad
Us. Joseph MediH will be tried next Tues
day.
Harry Northwood while in Pittsburg
purchased a fine Arabian steed.
The Oil Well Tool Works. formerly the
HOyle-JOnes Machine Co. are enlarging
their plant and making other necessary re
pairs
Mr.. Robert Johnston and family will re
move 10 Bellaire on Tuesday. where Mr.
Johnston takes charge of the new foundry
that he has stock in.
Joseph McHenry leaves for Alabama to-
morrow night.
The Martins Ferry Gun Club are out
practicing two or three times week.
They are thinking Of having a grand
shooting tournament in the near future.
A man by the named of Joint, Of West
Wheeling. had his head badly cut while en-
gagged setting pots at the Northwood glass
house
We are told that the present Township
officers hold over until September lst,
when those elected last Monday will be
sworn in, according 10 the new law.
Yesterday was payday at the Standard
MIN Morris will leave tomorrow for
Pittsburg 10 join Walter Mains circus as
musician.
Landreth's garden seeds in bulk and by
the papers, al J. Williams, Washington
street.
Thomas Stroup will commence running
an express wagon tomorrow morning be-
tween Wheeling and Martins Ferry. Par
ties leaving orders at Lem Busby's IN
or h. 4
Die will receive prompt attention Iele-
phone No. 81
Geo. Robinson and W \. Hunt, Of the
St. Clairsville Chronicle, are stopping AT the
haywood.
Mrs DeHass left Yesterday for her fu-
ture home i'm New York City.
Mrs Hannah Wright and Prof. y. White
left for Mt. Pleasant yesterday.
The German Lutheran Church are fres-
Going their walls in a beautiful manner.
Pittsburg parties are doing the work.
Dave Burns, Of Colerain, was IN town
Yesterday.
There is u great deal Of dissatisfaction
in the way the mills have been working
lately. on account of the poor supply OF
gas, the men having 10 lay OF through the
day and working AT night We understand
that they refuse 10 work that way any more
and il may lay the puddlers of until the
supply is stronger.
- Daugherty will open tomorrow with
new line OF goods in the way of Wall
Paper. Stationery, etc
Rev. d. b. Updegratf, Mayor +. B. Jones
and DR. j. r. Finley. of Mt. Pleasant. was
in town yesterday.
The Steele school viii close with an eX-
hi5ition on next Thursday evening.
The city was full of farmers yesterday.
The ward engine had a car of the track
and il was hard work TO get il on again.
c. f. McKim. train dispatcher OF the {.
X p. is in town visiting his parents.
The managers of the Opera House Will
give q free concert every night next week
by the new band in front of the Opera
House.
Geo Weber, our genial livery man, has
just received very finelcab from Ravenna.
Ohio
Aunt Jane Beazel is on the mend
The Methodist Church will be lighted
with electricity tonight, for the first time.
This is the only church in town lighted in
this manner
Prof. J. y. Richardson, of Mt. Pleasant,
is in town.
\ workman had his hand mashed on the
bridge Yesterday.
The { o'clock train yesterday was de-
laved AZ the Sherman House on account of
parting one of the hose that connects the
air brake
The festival given By the Martins Ferry
Cornet Band was success in every par
ticular The BOYS are deserving Of success
AMI ought 10 be encouraged by the citizens.
Mr. Robert DUFF had charge of the door.
while the different tables We're presided
over by the following persons: Supper
table. Mrs y j. RObertshaw and Mrs.
Elizabeth Duff; refrcshment table. Miss
Flora BlankinsOp, Jeanette Humphrey
vile and Ella O'Donuel peanut and
lemonade stand. Elmer Robertshaw and
Robert Duff 4 gold watch was contested
for between Miss Hattie GOsney and Miss
Carrie Lucas a ring by Miss May Lyman
and Iva Wilson. and a cane by Edward
Bender and a Wheeling gentleman. The
Band discOurced some excellent music on
the streets and enjoyed by all.
A COMPLAINT FROM TAXPAYER
To Hs Eif0r OIL SVndGy Register.
SiR:-At a meeting Of the County Com
missioners Of Belmont county held al St
Clairsville April TO- they gave % the Mar
tins Ferry Bridge Terminal Railroad Co
a width Of twenty feet on the east side aud
running the entire distance through the
lands Of Mrs. William huckuck, OF the old
Burlington road. for railroad purposes
As this road was originally forty feet this
viii leave twenty feet for the use of the
travelling public The c.. l.. * W Rail
road Co. now occupies twenty feet Of the
Martins Ferry and Burlington pike from
the Benwood furnace extending north %
the corporation line. and have built this
road so close 10 the travelled track
that il has stopped travel with safety over
this thouroghfare Now cOmeathe County
Commissioners and give 20 feet Of the old
Burlington road 10 another corporation and
extending clear through the land Of Mrs.
Kuckuck, the only thoroughfare that the
farmers and travelling public had left 70
reach the city with safety from the North.
Is IL not time that the taxpayers and the
travelling public should petition our Courts
10 cause the County Commissioners 70 show
what right under the law they have 20
give away the public highways to corpora /
lions 10 the detriment of the travelling pub /
lie. and without their knowledge or con- F.
sent. IANPAfEE.
Germany Requested His Expulsion.
BERLIN. April lit is stated here
that the action of the Italian Govern
ment, in eXpelling from Italy Herr
Gruenwald. correspondent of the Frank
furter Zcihmq was taken at the in