Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-02
srEUBENvILLE.


STEUBENvILL, April Monday IS cleo
ton day, and Easter Sunday will be OBJ
served by the politicians fixing up their
fences and laying the ropes TO catch the
floating voter. The most OF this vote al
ways goes to the Republicans, and TINS
time will be particularly for "Barkly'
Scott. the candidate of that party Tor May
or. If the good people of Steubenville, on
their way 10 and from church, could LOOK
on the inside of the saloon doors they would
find a molly crowd in nearly every one OF
them and beer will De flowing like water,
while the virtues of "Barkey" viii be eX-
tolled by the earnest politicians VINO nave
the crowds in town. This may looked on
as anticipation, but il is nothing more imam
occurred two years ago on the Sunday I'M
mediately preceding the election, and there
is no reason that il should not occur
this time with increased vigor, for
Scott realizes that he will need all the
votes he can get, and this is the source ne
expects to get them from. But al the signs
of the times 90 te show that his efforts Ia
this direction will avail nothing, Tor the
respectable, law-abiding element predoml-
mates in Steubenville as it does in other
cities, and they have had enough looseness
in the past two years, and Will vote Ior q
change. The boast OF "Barkley" ana MS
friends is that he will get three hundred
Democratic votes, but they reckon without
duo calculation, for there is not half tnat
number Of men in the Democratic party
who are in sympathy with his methods and
can be induced TO vote for him. III is
game Of bluff to scare Republicans from
veting against him.
John Rdpp is now in the Ohio peniten-
tiary. The general feeling in regard to the
matter is that if he was guilty Of setting
fire 10 the building, and the jury was con-
WINGED that he was, the punishment was
not severe enough. BY the act he endan-
gered the lives of I number Of people be
sides destroying several thousand dollars
worth of valuable property AS Judge
Mansfield remarked in imposing sentence,
Rupp had it in his power to prove his lnno-
cence oy showing where he was that night
when he told Bergman he was going out TO
play a game of freeze out" But he reso-
iutely refused to tell, probably because he
could not, and his conviction was the re-
suit. His attorneys gave notice that an
application, would be MADE 10 the Circuit
Court for a new trial. William Byrnne,
Rupp's partner in the saloon business, tried
two weeks ago for the same offense, the
Jury falling to agree, will be retired at the
MAY term of Common Pleas Court
A funny mistake occurred this week In
which Sheriff Opperman was Immediately
concerned. Jimmy Rowan, the prize Tight
err, was sent to jail for illegal liquor sell
ing, and il seems informed the Sherin that
his time was up, whereupon MIR. Upper
man, without investigation, let him out
AfterWard it was discovered that no yet
had thirteen days to serve, and he was re-
arrested and locked up in Jail. Ii is said
the authorities would not have re-arrested
Jimmy, only he commenced TO work for
Medill for Mayor, and the Republican
politicians concluded they had better get
him out of the road again.
Attorney Erskine, of the firm Of Erskine
& Allison, Wheeling, was in the city
Thursday on legal business.
John Blackburn entertained number
of friends at his home on North street,
Monday evening.
Can't. ]. w. Bachelor and wife and Miss
Edith, left Wednesday for Miles City,
Montana.
,Iobn Campbell. manager of the Postal
Telegraph Co.. Pittsburg, was IN the city
Wednesday shaking hands with Steuben-
vile friends.
j. NJ. Hickey is homo from Washington
City. He will remove his family TO Cleve-
land next week.
Miss Laura Young is the guest Of friends
In Martins Ferry.
Mrs. Ed. L. Hammond entertained the
sewing society of the Second Presbyteri-
an church, Thursday, at her residence on
upper Market street.
Hon. K. Sherrard and DR.. a. M. Reid are
here from Washington, Pa, where they
attended a meeting OF tho trustees OF
Washington and Jefferson College.
Joseph Basler. Democratic candidate for
Council in the Fifth ward, is laid up with
rheumatism. He will be elected, just the
same.
Mrs. Frank Lisby, Of Wheeling, is visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. H.Fisher,
at their residence on South Eighth street.