Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-23
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

CHILLY.
TH1s weather will put a check on
swimming.
FrTY-EoUR degrees in the shade yes
terday morning.
The Justices seem to be doing very
fair business at present.
BILLY MAYER plays for the military
ball at the armory tonight.
The Mathew Light Guards held a
weekly meeting last night.
OUR rag dealers are struck by hard
times, and are complaining.
OFFICER DAVIS arrested some small
boys for swimming yesterday.
PAY day to-day at the LaBelle mill
and tomorrow at the Glass Works.
OUR neighboring farmers are bringing
in large quantities OF wheat and hay.
SQUIRE PHILLIPS sensational case did
not come off last evening as was eX-
pected.
ALARGE window pane in the Mcclure
House saloon was broken yesterday
morning.
THERE is a general smell OF paint in
the Fifth ward. Everybody is repair
ing property.
A SIGN in the Sixth ward reads; ere
pairing netely dun" And customers
will be netely dunned.
CocKAYNE will play for the first an
nual ball OF the Emerald boat club, at
Koch's Hall, tonight.
A LARGE number of Wheelingites
will excurt to Steubenville on Saturday
TO see the Loan Exhibition.
FRED. WIENER, of Fulton, is building
a stone wall, 200 feet long, on his prop
erty at the creek. Schwartz is doing the
work
LIEUT.. MCNEIL yesterday shipped
thirty stand of arms to the Martin
Guards and thirty Canteens to the Car
rett Rides.
CAPT. GODFREY MUHLEMAN is in the
city attending to business connected
with the completion OF his new boat Tor
the Parkersburg trade.
WoRKMEN are busily engaged in fit
ting up the interior of the South Wheel
ING hose house. 1t will be ready for oe-
cupancy in a few days.
OFFICER DAVIS arresting a drunken
stranger with a country gripsack in his
hand, attracted a crowd 10 Twelfth
street, yesterday morning.
The Nail City boys have made great
preparations for their ball tonight and
it will be quite success. Nlewlg S
orchestra furnishes the music.
The Whelan Literary Society is
making preparations to adjourn until
the warm weather is past. It's too
fatiguing to think in July and August.
THERE will be a temperance meeting
at Parker hall tonight. The speakers
will be Messrs. Benjamin Stephens,
John Burd, VIM. Griffin, VIM. Miller,
Barney Brady and John West.
SCARCELY a day passes that some one
doesn't want his name suppressed; he's
been before the police court and didn't
want his mother to know it. Don't be
be at the police court, that's the best
way.
COMMERCIAL travellers along the river
say every town will send a delegation to
the city on the thirtieth. The railroad
towns will do the same, while Washing
ton county claims the banner Tor the
largest excursion party.
THE students of Washington-J efierson
College are prepared for big day to-
morrow, on the occasion OF the Olympic
games contest between the Junior and
Sophomore classes. Pulling, racing,
wrestling, jumping and throwing will
be the order of the day.
JAMES JOHNSTON, the negro who at
tempted to rob Mr.. Staub, of the Sixth
ward, was before Justice Miller yester-
day, charged with playing the same trick
upon Madame Lagarde. In default OF
1000 bond, he was sent to Jail to await
the action of the Grand Jury.