Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-16
BRIDGEPORT.

& W., and c.. A. Kimpton, con-
ductor on the b., B. & M. F. railway,
| got mixed in little fracas last evening.
The trouble is alleged to have resulted
concerning certain party belonging
| to the fair sex. Stone made it his
business TO take up the affair with the
Eesul6 stated above. Although from
all reports it seems Stone received most
| of the "punjrhment,' Kimpton filed
complain before Mayor Neininger
! against Stone, charging him with as
! sault and battery The case will be
| heard to-day.
I "A meeting of the fire department was
pheld at the city hall last night. Uhair
| man Kelley, of the Council Fire Com
! mittee, presided. 1t was decided to
give an entertainment of some kind in
the near future to raise funds to equip
| a reading room at the reel house. Sew
eral improvements were suggested by
/ the members present and they will be
| brought before the Council by Chair
man Kelley at the next Council meet
| ing.
Dan McCloud was before Mayor
Neininger yesterday afternoon on the
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses. He was found guilty and
| fined $50 and costs and sentenced to
thirty days in Jail. Marshal Thomp-
| son took him up to st. Clairsville to
the county Jail yesterday afternoon.
McCloud is only two weeks out of the
| Mansfield reformatory, where he has
been serving an eighteen months sent
ence fer stealing bicycle. 1t was
stated last night that McCloud was not
exactly right. He had two or three
fits While In Jail yesterday. 1t was
feared that he would die after the last
one, it was so severe.
| Beginning with this coming Sunday,
| for the present, the b., B. & M. F..
street car line will carry passengers ON
Sundays from Bellaire to Martin S
Ferry, or from Martins Ferry to Bell
| aire for one five cent fare.
Miss Carrie Leland, of Steubenville,
will be the guest of Miss Mabel Roberts
next week.
Miss Dora Kaiser, of Columbus, is
| visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Dor
othy Heinle n, at her residence in Kirk
wood.
Miss Lula Mangrove, of Proctor, W.
Va, is visiting friends in town.
The first section of freight train No.
! II on the c., l.. & W., in charge of
| Conductor Harris and Engineer Tracey.
met with a slight accident at Banock
/, yesterday morning. A slip in the track,
caused by the heavy rainfall, was the
cause. The engine and seventy-five
cars passed over all right, but the next
five cars were ditched. Luckily no one
was injured. Traffic was delayed for
two hours.
| General Manager Woodford, Superin-
tendent Romoser, General Ticket and
Freight Agent Terry. Road Master Mo-
ran, and Civil Engineer Handler, all
officials of the c., l.. & W., were max
| ing general inspection of this end of
| the line yesterday. A special carried
them back at noon.
c. C. Cochran, wife and daughter
J are spending a few days in the coun-
| try.
| A cigar factory has been opened in
the Neugart building by John Meister
| Mrs. Ellen Giffin is visiting relatives
in the country for few days.
| Miss Eva Coss left for GAINESVILLE
yesterday to visit friends.
| Ralph Turner and James V. Still
we'll left for Cleveland yesterday.
| James Davis went out to the Dewey
fishing club at Brushy Fork yester-
! day.
| VIM. Thomas and Henry Bumgarner
have returned from a couple weeks
visit at Braddock. Pa.
| Newell Kenncn, of St. Clairsville,
was here on business yesterday.
| Harry Marshall, of West End. Sc
verely sprained one of his wrists
| Thursday by falling.
0. Schick and wife are home from
! Ravenna. O., where they have been
! visiting relatives.
w. V. Campbell was calling on Flush
j ing friends yesterday.
VIM. Mathis has returned from Bal
timore and has secured heating po-
sition at the Laughlin tin mill
| Harry Woodcock was expected home
last evening from a southern trip.
The foreign element at Wheeling
| creek had a big celebration Thursday
afternoon They had parade THAI was
exceedingly comical A wheelbaNiM
with couple kegs of beer vas pushed
| at the head of it. Fillowing 80
| man with a ten-pound lard
| which he used for drum. The
wound up with dance, which
until early yesterday morning.