Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-31
BENWOOD.
A Chronicle of Yesterdays Events In the
Industrial Town.

Industrial Town.
George Fitzgerald, of Main street, Is
at Grafton on business.
White Martin, an employee OF the steel
plant at the Riverside works, is able
to be out again after being confined to
his home, i'll with grip.
The recently organized club compos-
ed of a number of young society folks
of this city, has been termed the De-
cidental Cub. The organization has is
sued quite a number of invitations for
a select hop to be given at City Hall
on the evening of February End. Prof.
Long will furnish the music for the oc-
casion.
The case of James S. Johnston, the
chief of police of Bellaire, against w.
w. Smith for the recovery of the sum
Of 500, offered as a reward for the
arrest and conviction of the parties
guilty of the robbery of Smiths hard
ware store at Moundsville, will come up
W ANoiAAS eN-uaS III SQulAS ". "a.
Lacey's court.
A literary contest will be given under
the auspices of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, of the city, at the
First M. E. church, some night during
the coming month. A gold medal will
be awarded to the winner of the con-
test. The recitation of various selec-
lions Of a high elias will be the order
of the occasion. Quite a number of
well-known people will participate in
the exercises.
Three cases were up for hearing be-
fore the Mayor yesterday afternoon.
They were Geo. Burkis, Ed. Blake and
a hobo, all arrested for drunkenness.
Burkis vas fined $40 and costs, and
Blake S. and costs. AS they were I'M
aDle to pay their assessments they were
sent to Jail. The former will serve
forty days, and the latter fifteen days.
A hobo arrested for begging on the
streets, with an inclination to be dis
orderly, was fined 81 and costs, and
was sentenced to five days imprison-
ment in the lookup.
The case of William Brady against
Willie Ray, on the charge of felonious
manning and disfguring, was brought
up for hearing before Squire o. A. Lacy
yesterday afternoon at two o'clock. AS
the defense was not ready for trial the
case was continued until Wednesday
afternoon at two o'clock.
The pupils in one of the departments
at the Central school building were dis
missed yesterday morning, on account
of the heating apparatus being out OF
whack.
The negotiations between the Pabst
Brewing Company, of Milwaukee, Wis,
and Louis Hartong, of this city, and
which resulted in the transfer of the
Hartong premises into the hands OF
the Pabst Company, were closed on
the conditions that Louis Hartong re-
tain in his possession the building on
his grounds and remove it therefrom
in order that the company might have
excavations begun for the foundation
for a new building. Mr.. Hartong will
therefore have the property removed to
a lot of ground on McMechen street, for
the purchase of which he is now ne
gotiating.
Miss Viola Lindsey, of Water street,
spent yesterday as the guest of friends
at Glendale.
A man named Born, an employee att
the Riverside works, while proceeding
on his way through the tunnel, towari
his home out Bogg's Run last Sunda
night, slipped on a piece of wet LIN
stone and fell to the ground. AS a
suit he sustained a bad cut on his h
near one of the temples. DR.. Al
was the attending physician. FouI
five stitches were required to closd
wound. The injury, though not
ious, is a very painful one, any
cause Mr.. Born to be laid up for
time to come.