Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-30
BELLAIRE.

O. T. CorSon, State Commissioner OF
Common Schools, has issued letter to
school directors, with the information
that Township Boards of Education will
have entire control Of the management
of schools, including the employment Of
teachers for their township. 1t also
states that if the three local directors
now in power employ a teacher TO- the
spring or summer term, which is ID be-
gin prior to the third Monday Of April,
then the contract will be valid. Ii the
term is 10 begin after the third Monday
In April the contract will not be valid.
The new Workman law, which lro-
videS for this change, is vigorously )p-
posed by the Farmers Alliance AID
quite a number Of school teachers, ald
the present Legislature may repeal, Or
at least modify, the measure.
Robert Walters, an aged gentleman
who is lodging at the Porterfeld Hous
on Guernsey street, IS minus brani
new overcoat. Yesterday afternoon
while he was peacefully mapping be
hind the stove in the sitting room, 81
stranger came in who had spectecles foi
man, smooth-faced, who said he lived
in Ritchietown, and was dentist. Mr..
Porterfeld went out to get bucket OF
coal, and when he came in the stranger
was gone. Mr.. Walters walked from
his nap and went TO his Overcoat to get
O chew of scrap, and the overcoat was
not there. He made complaint at police
headquarters, but the dentist and over
coat was not to be found.
A bad accident occurred at the rail
road bridges at the mouth OF McMa-
hons creek yesterday morning. John
McNabb, an empoye at the BellaIre
stove foundry, who is we'll known as q
Of teakettles, was cross
ing on the b, u. & c. bridge, and at
tempted TO walk over a narrow timber
to get on the Ohio Valley bridge. He
slipped and fell distance OF thirty feet,
among a pile OF stones. He
was picked Up and carried to his home
in the First ward, and 1t was found that
no bones were broken, but he was Sc
verely cut about the head and sustained
a number Of bruises. McNabb is about
fifty years OF age, and has q family OF
several children.
The ice in McMahon's creek broke
up yesterday morning and came crash
ing down against the ice in the river
with little effect. After awhile il be-
gan working its way under the river ice
and breaking small space of the river
ice. Then another part Of the gorge
in the creek, fifty or hundred feet in
length, would break loose and rpn down
into the opening al the river and be
crowded under the river ice. The creek
ice kept going in this manner during
the remainder Of the day and was Gag
erly watched by large crowd Of spec
tators.
The boats laid up at the bridge piers
at the coal works, and the ferry and
wharfboats were busy all day cutting
the ice loose about their boats, TO be
prepared for the general breakup.
Last evening the towboat Joseph Wal
ton. which has tow OF empties at the
bridge piers, broke up the Ice for quite
a distance above its barges apd far out
inta the river; so the crafts lying near
it are more secure than they would 9TH
erwiSs have been.
Rev. VIM. Wallace, late pastor of the
{. p. Church. who resigned to accept a
charge IL another denomination, will
leave to-day with his family for their
new home 1t Calumet, Mich. They will
be followed ~ the best wishes OF host
Of friends.
Any reports, which the newspapers
NAV print doesp allay the apprehen-
sion of food which exists in the
minds of the people on the lowlands
who carry vivid recolectlons OF the
floods OF $ 4 and 81
The new flag pole will be raised at the
CITY park on Washingon's birthday, at
tended by appropriate services by the
American Mechanics and other socie-
ties
Helen. little daughter q J. E. Jones.
OF the Second ward, who las been sick
for two weeks with pneum'nis, was ~
ing at the point OF death last evening.
Word came from Pittsburg yesterday
that twenty feet of water wa coming,
and many people began at onceto make
preparations for 1t.
John Thomas, a passenger brakeman
on the Pennsylvania railroad, is whiting
his brother, Theodore Thomas, in this
city.
One plain drunk was registered at