Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-14
M SMALL ?0N SITUATION.
Two New Cases, of a Mild Nature.
Discovered,
IN a House Heretofore Infected.
Two or Three New Quarantines
Reported-A Frenzied and Funny
Attack by a Sistersville Editor.

JientS being children Of Martin Hell, at
No 29O9 McCulloch street. The usual
number Of suspects were reported, but
at ten o'clock last night Health Officer
JepsOn said no additional cases had
been brought to his attention. The
cases in the family Of Mr.. He'll are in a
very modified form.
The Steubenyille Council last night
adopted quarantine measures against
both Wheeling and Martins Ferry.
The embargo viii not so into effect un-
Ill Sunday, and as there was great op-
position to the measure in Council, it
is not thought the quarantine will be OF
long duration. Official notice was re-
ceiyed by Mayor Caldwell, yesterday, OF
the Bridgeport Martins Ferry Guaran,
tine but permits will be given by the
Martins Ferry health authorities when
ever it suits their convenience or the
circumstances may be deemed sufficient.
Martins Ferry business men still send
beer and other things over here, and
travel back and forth has never been
entirely stopped. The Bellaire Quaran-
tine is a tolerably rigid one. and ap-
plies to Benwood and McMechen as well
as to this city, this proviso being evil
IDENTIFY intended to force those towns TO
quarantine against this city. The West
Alexander quarantine was Unohicially
reported 10 have been raised yesterday.
Last evening the Council of Manning
ton Quaunuued against Wheeliug
Bcnwood and Martins Ferry and the
measure went into effect az midnight
last night. Four special officers were
sworn in
Mayor Caldwell was apprized. about
half past eleven las, night Of the Man
nilgt0n quarantine. and az once serL
word 90 the local ticket Office of Che 3.
Dc o.. appriZng them of the action
taken by the town. 20 the end that no
One might buy ticket for the place on
The 1926 o. IN. train and then find out,
when they got there that they could
not gcl Off. The authorities 90 the
town of Pleasant valley desire it
known that II any one from this city
moves 0ut here they viii bc subjected
90 @ rigid quarantine for the fun pc
r.0d of twentv-0ue days. This action
was taken by The fact that several peo-
pIa from The city have been looking for
temporary Quarters out there.
The Martins Ferry Times is still
promlgating falsehoods about Jhe site
ualiCn here. although it loudly 9sscrts
telling he ruth. This il has not
va. done and until the editor replaces
his present temper with something else,
the paper is apt 10 60 right along mar
rating what is not so. As an instance
proving this statement. the Times last
evening, in the course OF an i'll tempered
criticism Of Wheeling and Wheeling
newspapers. said: The Times has
given the facts as they are known TO
/ exist" Tn the same article the paper
says there are between twenty-five and
thirty cases in Wheeling. which is un-
true. that a bad case is reported north
of Sixteenth street. lin a LEGALITY here
J0f0re free from the disease which is
/ untrue; that the Register has been sup
pressing smallpox news, which is I'M
true and the entire column and a half
article in the Times oil yesterday was
sensational and exaggerated in form,
and tinctured with bad feeling into the
| bargain. The point with the Register
and the Wheeling public, is that it is
neither necessary TO Xeggerate nor TO
state rank falsehoodS. both OF which
the Times has been guilty Of. Neither
is IL necessary for an editor, when
frankly told that me has done these
things. 10 loose his temper and get
himself i'm q position 10 be di5liEed.
The editor of the Martins Ferry Times
can call IN the Mayor or Health officer
Of this city in FIVE minutes time, and
get the facts. if he is unwilling TO ac-
cept the publications OF the city papers.
But instead of taking this or some
other reasonable and easy means OF
getting at the truth. he loses his temper
because he is told of his grievOus faults
during the past week and says tlippant
and unkind things about this side of
the river generally. 1t isn't the sort OF
journalism that does credit to this age
of the world.
And there are others. One other is
The editor of the SisJarsville Oil Re-
view. who "layed a egg yesterday.
This gentleman worked himself up IN
10 fine frenzy because the Ohio River
railroad dumped some tramps off in the
vicinity of the oil metropolis, and start
ed o column article thus:
CAN internal. d2mnable outrage was
perpetrated on the people Of this city
last night" A little further he started
o. paragraph with: "This violent furi>
Gus. excessive. atroci0us and enormous
act should be met with prompt retalia-
ton" He then goes ON 10 advise every
body to boycott Wheeling and the Ohio
River railroad. and raises Cain general
~ i'm the most mdicrous way, blaming
the Wheeling police authorities with
the responsibility for putting the
tramps Off the trains. and saving Jnat
The tramps laying around wheeling
were loaded on these trains and ship
ned down here. without knowing
whether they had the smallpox lor
not"
A coDv of this paper was shown
| Chief of Police Bennett last night, and
that official was greatly amused. He
was asked if the police had shipped any
vam0s ont of the city over the Ohio
River road. and he said they had not
No tramus had gone from Wheeling
over the road. so far as the police de-
partment knew. either by command OF
officers or otherwise. and the whole
matter was in the nature OF news to
7 him. The railroad Company had eX-
pressed the intention OF putting on q
specirl officer here to patrol their
wards. as the b. G. o. has done for Years,
lut outside of this he knew nothing Of
the matter. The smallpox situation
+ has it's humorous side. The Reviews