Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-13
FIVE MINUTES WITH THE
NEWS.

REGULAR session of Council tonight.
Mr.. ROBINSON will have charge Of the
Fulton paper mill hereafter.
SQUIRE MIx's mother-in-law died at
her home yesterday morning.
FATHER REYNOLDS has recovered from
the effects of his Sunday runaway.
A FEW cases of scarlet fever and
diphtheria are reported about town.
OUR furniture dealers report business
in their line as being unusually good.
"SIssY" Ross, who was shot in the leg
on Sunday night is getting much better
THE hinge factory will pay off this
week in the legal currency OF the realm.
TUE Ninth Anniversary of the Chill
dren's Home at the Opera House to-
night.
Ir is one of the objectionable sins to
sing PinafOre strain IN the Female
College.
TIE Crescent boys will picnic at an
early date. COckayne will sweep the
harp strings, as it were.
An engine on the Hempfeld last
evening frightened horse and caused
a runaway and smash-up.
4 GERMAN residing in North Wheel
ing was arrested, last evening, for an
unbridled use of his tongue.
THE Paxton Fountain squirted all day
Yesterday to the delight OF bareiooted
boys who had better keep away.
THE legal fraternity are working up
gigantic hoax. We are sworn 10 secresy
and the fun-loving public must wait.
AMELIA KLAPHECK, lunatic, was re-
moved from Jail TO her fathers house iol
her health Proper bond was given.
THE number of persons going daily tC
Bellaire on the street cars is continually
increasing. Drivers occasionally sell out
OF tickets.
THE new Episcopal church of Parkers,
burg will be dedicated on the 10th
instant. An excursion from Wheeling
has been arranged.
THE thermometer ranged way up III
the eighties yesterday, and the average
clerk looks anxiOusly for the pawn ticket
that calls for his buster.
TIE Council Committees on Health
Real Estate, and the Committee on the
Clark and ManiOn claims met at the
city building last night.
Col. MILLER is curtaining his Twelfth
street boudo'r with pea green blinds anC
giving an air of mystery to the military
conspiracies Matched there.
SQUIRE PHILLIPS had several cases o.
peace breaking before him last evening
The sharp tongues of women were a
the bottom of most Ofthem.
GAIT. WIN. ASKEw, of the r. \. f
fishing club, was in the city yesterday
The fish up the creek want to know
when they can can expect him up
THE Brown boat club will hold then
picnic on Saturday, May oath, at Zane I
Island. A full band will be III attend
ance and an enjoyable time is promised
MAHoxY's sprinkler did good work
again Yesterday. The streets III the
vicinity of the New Mcclure are pleas
ant contrast to those IN other sections
\ YOUNG gentleman of the 'melish'
wandered out to West Alexander on
sunday and was doubled up by Squire
Mayes. lie is now counted OIL IN
twOS'
JUSTICE MILLER had negro before
him Yesterday afternoon, on a charge o.
lunacv. The way ne (the negro carried
on soon decided the matter and he was
sent to Jail.
TIE Sheriff will take Louis NOlte,
sentenced for two years for larceny, and
Edward Kiger, sentenced Tor one year
for voluntary manslaughter, to the pen
itentiary to-day.
WV. HAMM, who was before the police
court Yesterday morning will figure
there again this morning Tor SCATTERING
the peace. His motto is: Blessed
Hamm the peacebreakers.
patents have been granted to George
II. Smith, of Webster, w. Va, for a hay
truck, and VIM. X. Walker, ROnesyllle,
W. Va, fora churn-dasher. The letters
were granted through Howard Bros.
d Co.