Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-19
BRIDGEPORT.

/John Koehnline, Of this place, while
working about the chute at the ice house,
| slipped and fell to the ground, which re-
suited in the breaking of three ribs. Drs.
Megrail and Best, of the Island. were
summoned.
| Ex-Sheriff Darby was in town yester-
day, calling on friends.
A young son of Frank Barker is suf-
fering from typhoid fever.
| Howard Dickey, a young man residing
at the home of Joseph Waterman, is re-
covering from a severe illness caused by
pneumonia.
J. Z. Trueman was the guest of reia-
tives at Empire yesterday afternoon. H 5
aged mother returned home with him.
Miss Belle Hail. of Flushing, is the
guest of relatives here.
James Mooney, of Deerfeld, Ohio, was
| in town yesterday
Mrs. Schmidt, the aged widow of Fred
Schmidt, who died several years ago, died
yesterday morning about eight O'Clock
| at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Kate
Schnepp. on Pike street. The deceased
was about seventy years of age and had
been failing in health for sometime past.
The funeral arrangements had not been
made last evening, but it probably will
take place tomorrow afternoon.
]. Brestle is very II at his home in West
Bridgeport.
Mrs. c. C. Cole, who has been suffering
better.
The street crossings were being cleaned
off some yesterday, much to the relief
OF pedestrians.
Owing to the bad condition of the ice
caused by the weather, the ice dealers
have given up filing their ice houses. n.
Kuhn managed to get one of his houses
filed before the thaw.
Yesterday forenoon a bad wreck on the
Cleveland & Pitsburg road was only
averted by the slow speed at which the
train was gong. The mud train was go
ing north and when at the new switch
near the steel bridge, in Aetnaville, the
axle on the front truck Of the engine
broke off close to the wheel, letting the
engine down. The accident was caused by
the guard rail at the switch being too
close to the main rail- and as the engine
was passing over the switch, caused the
axle, which from APP earances was a de-
fective one, to snap off. Fortunately En-
gineer Boyle was not running the engine
at very high rate of speed or more
unfortunate details might have had to
have been chron4cled.
/ H. E. Burns was called to Wellsburg
yesterday afternoon by the serious illness
of a friend.
About midnight Friday night the throw
ing Of the wrong switch in the c.. L. &
". yard was the cause of a small wreck,
in which the baggage and two gondola
cars suffered to some extent. While shift
ing cars about, two sondoia cars were
to be dropped in on a switch. In some
manner the brakeman threw the wrong
swicch, letting the cars IN on the switch
upon which the baggage car was stand
ing, resulting in badly damaging all the
cars.
Mrs. joan stahrs condition remains
about the same.
Wednesday being Washington's birth
day, the public schools will observe the
same in an appropriate manner.
William Henderson, of Scio. was in town
yesterday on business.
a chicken supper and entertainment VIII
be given next Wednesday evening by the
Ladies Aid Society of the Kirkwood NJ
e. church. The affair promises to be UP
to the standard of those given heretofore.
Allen Goodwin, the boy sooisJ, will
sing at the Methodist church at st.
CIairsvilIe this morning Arthur Higgins
Will render the accompaniment on the
organ. The youngsters are eleven and
thirteen years old, respectively, and have
ACQUIRED some local fame by their musical
abilities.
VIII Reed hung his vest containing his
gold watch in Kuhns ice house while he
was at work Friday Upon returning 10
get it both articles were missing, and up
to the present time no clue that will lead