Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-20
A MINUTE WITH THE NEWS
BoARp Of Education tonight.

BOARD OF Education to-nlguI
To-Day a week will be Thanksgiving
day.
The Committee on Streets, Alleys and
Grades is called for Friday night.
WooDFIELD has been placed among
the common prisoners at the jail.
THE Pittsburgh excursionists returned
home on the P.W. & Ky. road last even
ing.
ANOTHER of the Bethany tirebugs has
been placed in limbo, and still the work
goes on.
A LARGE social and festival was given
last night at the Thompson NJ. L.
chapel.
A COLD wind set in last night, and
there will probably be severe frost this
morning.
CHINEE washee man got heself in
tlouble, last night, and policeman came
and allested him.
THERE was only one case IN the cooler
at midnight last night. A yagrant was
picked up by Officer Maloney.
OFFICER PRICE was on watch at the
city building last night through the
dead waste and middle OF the night.
DEPUTY SHERIFF Mcclure, Of Green
brier county, brought three prisoners,
one woman, to Moundsville, yesterday.
THE Committee on Water Works met
at the city building last night and COM
pleted its settlement with Collector
fancy.
A BEER team belonging to Anton Rey-
mann ran off, near the Postoffice, yester-
day morning, and the new wagon was
badly mashed.
THE benefit ball for Captain W. A.
Lilly, late of the 43rd Ohio, at Benwood,
tomorrow evening, promises to be a
grand affair.
THE CITY Sergeant found a bunch OF
KEYS on the Peoples Bank steps the
morning of the fire. The owner can get
them on application.
JUDGE MELVIN has called a special
term OF the Circuit Court for Brooke on
December Sth, TO try the case OF David
Parkinson, the alleged incendiary.
WE have been informed that Mr..
Charles HOrnbroOk. of our city, has
enlisted in the regular army. We are
unable to say whether it is reliable or
not.
TIE Waynesburg and Washington
railroad is now ballasted with stone
pretty much all the way, and is IN a
good, solid condition for winter.-Re-
publican.
THE Belmont nail factory shut down
on Tuesday afternoon to attend the fun
eral of Mont Copeland, a former feeder.
Copeland went away some time ago and
only returned home to be stricken down.
THE directors Of the Steubenville Iron
and Furnace Company recOnsidered
their action of yesterday morning, in
reference to blowing out the furnace,
and resolved to try the experiment OF
running it while lOnger.-Herdjd.
THE new Methodist Church at
Moundsvilie is fast approaching COM
pletion. They have just finished put
ting on the roof and the GLACIERS will
soon finish their work. Col. Y. L..
COckavne makes a donation OF the glass
Tor the front of the building, and which
will cost about three hundred dollars.
JONI PRoSsER, a mate of the Abner
O'Neal, who was injured last Sunday at
Wheeling by being struck on the head
with a GENDER" of the Mallie RAJ
gon while she was attempting to anchor
by the side of the ONeal, we are in
formed by William Beed, his brother.
ia-law, who was down to Wheeling TO
see him last night, cannot live, as morti-
tication set in this morning about one
o'clock. His death is only question Of
a few hours, but he was not yet dead at
noon % day.-Ga.setle.