Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-08
LocALLAcoHICs.
various Briss Matters in and About the

by Mr.. Charles Senseney u this CiNt'
A QUIET wedding i booked for the
Disciples Church this evening At which
time the Filth ward and the Island Will
clasp hands.
TIE thaw has produced the most hor-
rible walking imaginable. Every cross
ing is q miniature lake and the cutters
are torrents.
LErTkRs remaining in the postCfi lice
unclaimed February Sth: Freeland T.
j Joyce Thos. G., Purdy 5. g., Steele
b. c., Walton w. II.
The four boys arrested Sunday even,
inr for gambling were fined $40 and
cost, each in the Police Court, yesterday
morning, which they paid.
ST. PAuL's German Church, oil the
Eighth ward, is to be refrescoed and
generally renovated, Considerable money
being laid out to beautiiy and decorate.
PHOEBE SIMPSON was yesterday ap-
pointed Administrative OF the estate oil
James w. Simpson, deceased. Bond,
al 900, with Thomas w. Simpson, sure
ty.
TIE street cars started to running
syain yesterday, the Company having
procured green hands. Whet' er they
will be induced to quit or not, remains
to be seen.
PHILIP REPP was yesterday put under
a 500 bond by Squire Philips 10 answer
az court the charge OF selling bottled
beer without license. Mrs. Delhi was
the complainant.
YESTERDAY aiterAo)n freight wreck
occurred on the G.. " z. road at Rainey's
coal works, above Martins Ferry. Two
cars were ditched and the passenger
trains DELAYED three hours thereby.
A general meeting OF all persons IL
lerested in a State fair will be held at
the Court House, tomorrow night. All
persons DESTROYS Of furthering TINS COM
mendable scheme are notified. to attend.
A DELEGATES meeting of mill bank
coal miners was held in North Wheel
inc last night, every mill but the La
Belle being represented. A resolution
to stand firm for q cents was unani'
mously adopted.
TIE Chatauqua Literary and Scientl-
&c Circle held It's regular meeting, last
night, at the Fourth Street NJ. l.
Church IL has engaged the upper floor
of the Franklin insurance building and
will hereafter meet on Tuesday nights.
Tue Republicans OF Council held an
informal meeting, last night, at the city
building, 70 talk over the various candI-
dates for the offices to be filed tonight.
1t was not caucus as there was nothing
binding about it; but it was Just as
secret.
No one can apparently understand
the combination at work at the Com
missioners' meeting, yesterday, which
prevented an election. The apparent
solution is found in the feeling still ex-
listing, which resulted from the organi-
zltion OF the Board.
TIE special committee appointed to
count the votes of the First ward for
Councilmen, met yesterday afternoon.
On motion OF j. G.. Baker, each member
pledged himself to secrecy as To the re-
suit, but it is known that unanimous
report will be made to Council tonight.
ABOUT 9 o'clock last evening an alarm
OF fire was sounded from station No. %,
CITY Building, that was responded to by
the entire department. There was no
fire, some gasoline merely having been
burned in the rear of DIR. Hildreth's res
idence on Chapline street, and the
flames being seen by some one.
Tue Harmonic Maennerchor Singing
Society propose to eclipse anything ever
given in this city in the masquerade
line, with a grand fancy dress bali at the
Academy of Music on the night OF the
18th, the society having secured the hall
for the occasion from Manager Howard.
The Harmonic Maennerchor never fail
to give splendid entertainments.
COMMISSIONER ARMSTRONG wants the
Legislature TO enact law compelling
Justices to keep their offices in the dis
trict from which they were elected, and
the Prosecuting Attorney must take the
necessary steps. Ii is understood such
a measure will be attacked by the law.
yers, who want the Justices near their
offices. Business is business, you know.
The boys arrested for the attempt at
highway robbery on the young man
named Cohn Saturday evening, were
taken from the police court yesterday
morning and taken before Squire Cald-
well who locked them in the county Jail
and set their case for o'clock this even
ing. Later in the day one OF the lads,
Ed Fisher by name was let out on
$1,000 bond, his father going on his
bond.
TINS evening, between the hours OF
$50 at ii 80 O'Clock, Governor and Mrs.
Hezry NJ. Mathews will receive at the
executive chambers of the Capitol. For
NAL invitations have been sent only 10
Senators and Delegates; but the many
friends OF the Governor and his wife are
expected to be present and pay their re-
spects. The affair promises to be I'M
usually brilliant and quite notable So
ciety event.
ALREADY Valentines are commencing
to pour into the postotiice and consider.
able trouble is being experienced by the
clerks owing to the fact that the tender
missiyes are not properly stamped.
Those delivered in the city, provided
they are sealed or contain writing, must
bear two cent stamp, or provided they
are intended for some other locality
must bear three cent stamp. Those
neither sealed or containing writing can
be conveyed anywhere for one cent.
DURING the time that Speaker Wilson
was making his great speech yesterday
afternoon in the House, some one with
a liberal hand distributed q lengthy
printed paper headed Opinion OF Hon.
]. Randolph Tucker Attorney General
OF Virginia showing that the Legislature
cannot interfere with the chartered
rights of railroads on the subject OF
charges for the transportation OF per-
sons and property" Several members
appeared TO be deeply interested in it.
YESTERDAY morning Ed. Scsrry,
young scoundrel OF East Wheeling,
shout fifteen years old, sneaked into the
residence of Mrs. Trimbel, of that part OF
the city, and had captured considerable
jewelry when he was discovered. He
ran and dropped all the articles he had
except gold ring, and that
is missing. Constable Baird pursued
him and caught him. He handed him
over to Officer Lis,on, who had the pris-
oner at Police Court. The case, how
ever, was sent TO Squire Philips, who
put the boy under 500 to answer at
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