Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-19
MoUNDsvILLE.

aewD Notes OF Interest From the NE.
tropolfs Of Marshall County.
D. C. MeFadden has returned from q
business trip to. Sistersville
Harry Chaffee has gone to Barnes
vile, O., to remain some time.
Mrs. Harry Miles, of Sherrard, was
the guest of friends here yesterday.
A Tough, a prominent farmer from
Glen Easton, was in the city yesterday.
California Port and Sherry so cents
a quart at Moundsville Liquor Store,
near depot.
VIM. Schrader and daughter, OF New
Martinsville, were the guests of friends
here yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. D. Barger are at
tending the commencement exercises at
Bethany College.
A number of people from out Of town
are here to attend the Roberts-Denman
wedding tonight.
Mrs. Herman Hess and daughters,
Misses Louise and l4lsie, are the guests
of relatives in Cincinnati.
Miss Gertrude Walker, of Bethesda,
O., is visiting her sister, Mrs. P. Nc
Carthy, of Western Avenue.
Imperial Gin, California Brandy, APP
pie Brandy, Alcohol, etc. for sale at
Moundsville Liquor Store, near depot.
Miss Mary Bruce, who has been en-
gagged in kindergarten work in Chica-
CO. is home for her summer vacation.
Mrs. Catherine Hammond, mother OF
I. G. Hammond of the Third ward, Is
very seriously i'll at her home at Fair
view.
Brady Suter, of this city, and e. B.
fisher, of Wheeling, left yesterday for
Georgia, where they will engage in bus
mess.
Cliff Jobes was run in by officer Lowe
Monday evening and yesterday morning
waA fined 81 and costs on plain drunk
charge
All WHISTLES direct from bonded
warehouses and sold from $3.50 per
gallon and upwards, at Moundsville
Liquor Store.
The trial of Charles Ashley, the color
ed man indicte,. for stoning a B. Il y.
passenger train at Benwood Junction,
is set for the 2Sth inst.
-Four officers from Washington, D. c.,
brought sixteen prisoners to the peni-
TWELVE nf
the prisoners were colored, one being
woman.
The report of gun in the rear OF the
Office of ]. NJ. Ritz yesterday afternoon
caused many persons to think that
tragedy had been enacted, but an IN
vestigation revealed the fact that II
was only G. S. McFadden killing cat
that had been catching his young chick
ems.
James X. P. Barker was arrested yes
terday charged with beating his wife,
No witnesses for the State were exam
ined and Justice Pierce dismissed the
case upon Barker paying the costs.
The evidence of Mrs. Barker was that
her husband had struck at her but did
not touch her.
"a Citizen in the local press makes
some very pertinent remarks about the
secret way in which the school COM
missioners have been transacting the
public business and it is safe propo-
sition that hereafter the public VIII
know more about the work of these
particular public servants.
The Jury in the case of Roger Bergen
charged with attempting to kill Mike
Hardey at Glendale, returned verdict
of guilty of unlawfully but not mali
ciously committing the act charged in
the indictment. The sentence may be
from one day in Jail to five years in the
penitentiary. A motion 20 set aside
the verdict and grant new trial was
made.
Fred Murray, the well known colored
chef appeared at the jail Sunday night
armed with an axe. He asked Jailer
| Conner to lock him up, saying that
some parties we're after him and want
ed to kill him. Yesterday lunacy pro-
ceeoings were conducted by Squire
| Manning and DR.. G. w. Bruce and Fred
was adjudged insane. He will be TAX
| en- to Weston in a short time.
| Elder S. S. Lucas, who lives in Anna
dale just outide the city limits, threat
| ems to sue the city for damages caused
| by the water overlooking his property
during the rain on Monday evening.
He says that the city authorities have
| changed the natural water courses in
such a manner that an unusually large
amount of territory is drained by the
ditch extending through his farm.