Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-28
NUTSHELL NOTES.
WASHINGTON tonight.

about the Capitol and Court House, yes
terday.
The old gas cases will have some at
tention paid to them today by the Cir.
cult Court.
tbs matters are laying in big stock oil
goods in order to be able TO til! election
bet orders.
EVERY ward organization should hold
a meeting next Monday evening, and
prepare for the great struggle.
The ammo lncement that the roller
skating rink will be opened inside oil two
weeks will be hailed with 10y by TIE
lovers OF that sport.
TnE route OF the procession in Wash
inyton, as published, is very short The
streets are in u splendid condition, IL
they are piked and well drained.
TmgRK is beginning to be demand
for campaign literature from the Demo
cratic workingmen OF the city. The
executive committee should see TO this
TuE directors Of the Greenwood Gene
tery offer enc hundred dellars reward
for the capture oil the villain who sc
desecrate,l the monuments the Other
night.
OK Thursday and Friday evenings o.
this week, tho Foil Street Colored
Church give social and supper in the
Marke, Hall. Every one will be made
welcome.
The best society is beginning &c
frown down on the Racquet, the ne"
dance recently introduced. IL Is de-
scfibed as cross between the can can
and fight.
The hose OF the Vicilant engine was
tested Yesterday and eight out OF twenty
seven sections OF the old hose found to
be- useless. The United company's hose
will be tried to-day.
The Wheeling clubs will leave the
train at Claysville, on the return trip,
aud parade through the town, thus max
ing up for their abscnce from the dem
onstration Tuesday night.
The Ladies Hancock and English
Club will meet this (1hursday) after
noon at . O'Clock at the resilenceoi Mrs
Doctor Allen, on Chapline street. a
full attendance is desired.
KRAMER PLAYED for the first German
of the season last night at the Franz
helm Hall. IL WAS full dress affair,
and was graccd by the preseace OF sew
eral lady visitors 10 the city.
Ir is announced that Col. Ben Wilson
will speak at BenwoDd on Friday night,
and in view Of this TACT the Hancock
club OF that place extend an invitation
to the clubs of this city to lie present at
the meeting.
sTnE Mayor OF SieubCnyillc has ISSUED
| "A proclamation threatening all manner
of punishment TO the bad boys who IN
dulge in rough sports on Hallow Zen
Something OF the same sort might dc
some good in this city.
The last LAYER OF stone is being laid on
the west side OF Jacob street in the
Eighth ward. In few weeks the roller
will be put on and that side OF the i'm
proyemeat finished. The other side viii
probably he completed inside OF Sin
months (?).
THE Jacob street Improvement from
For.y-thir street down 10 the terminus
has been finished, and is very com
plete and satisfactory job. Street Com
missioner Nichols says he would have
had the entire street done, had II not
been for the contractor.
ENGINEER Ell. Shepherd, OF the
Hemptield division of the Ii. Il %. road,
sprained his hand and wrist in hOrri'
BILE manner last week at the time the
train left the track ut Elm Grove. The
physicians say it much worse than if il
had been broken. He is not fit for duty
and will not be for some time to come.
YESTERDAY morning as a stone quarry
wagon belonging to Andy King was
being driven over the Seventeenth street
bridge the hook of the trace caught in
the side rail of the bridge and pulled one
of the horses down. The animals hind
legs went over the side OF the bridge
and in regaining its ieet the horse was
terribly bruised and scratched. Acct
dents OF a like nature are apt to occur
on that bridge at any time.
GAIT. CmAsIIE LIST was out the pike
Yesterday taking q spin behind his last
MAJ. lie had started TO return and was
coming along the narrow strip just be-
yond the SteenrOd place and by the
coal bank when he met one oil those
heavy butcher wagons driven by Ger
man. There was crash, light buggy
broken 10 kindling wood and lively
time generally. IN irate captain want
ell To fight, but did not and rode into
town bareback, leaving the remnants Of
the vehicle at blacksmith shop.
YESTERDAY afternoon an employee uN
Harden 4 Wilhelms, the carpet and
furniture men, was Engaged in putting
dow n oil cloth on the stairs leading from
the second TO the third stories OF the
Stamm House. The place being dark
one to work in, gasoline lamp was
brought and placed on the stairs. In a
few moments in some unexplained man
ner the lamp was overturned and sci
fire 10 the oil cloth. The man picked
both the lamp and the oil cloth up and
going to window. threw them out. In
so doing his hands were badly burned,
1t is understood his name was Combs,
FoE two DAYS past Mr.. Denning and
wife. OF Sixteenth street, have been
very much exercised over the disap-
pearance of their son Harry, q young
lad about twelve years old. They
thought he had run away 10 Pittsburgh,
hut the hoy turned up yesterday morn
ing and stated that lie had been to Steu'
henville. He ran of Monday afternoon
with a young man named Gillespie, who
has figured in the police court, and two
colored bootblacSs. His money ran out
IN SteubenvilIe and yesterday morning
stranger got to talking to him at the
depot and learning his condition bought
ticket and sent him home. Harry
won't run off again.
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