Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-27
LOCAl. LACOHlCs.
Various Briei Matters In and About the

ectticu.
WuEs. oh when, will Council be
warned and get out of that nckety
building?
VAAs' band has been engaged to play
f,r the lOO,h celebration OF the DRUID,
in Bsllaire.
THs new Vigilant reel seems to be in
the neSr future. The City Clerk adyer-
ses for proposals.
Two DRINKS were run into the Eighth
ward station last night by Officers
Steinbeck and Coombs.
The Concordia and LeiderkraDz sing
ing societies Of the Eighth ward are con-
sidering a cons olitation.
The Committee on Finance and Ac-
counts Of the Board OF Commissioners
met yesterday, in regular session.
The Beethoven Singing Society has
decided to excurt to Pittsburgh on the
steamer Diurnal, leaving here Saturday,
the 7th Of May.
TX POLICEMAN BILL MILLER, or as he
was knOHn as the "poplarlst, was III
the city Yesterday. He is on an engine
near Newark at present.
THos. l.. MIcKIE, upon motion OF Col.
Arnett, was Yesterday admitted to prac-
tice in the Circuit Court. His maiden
speech is highly spoken OF.
A BREACH of peace case was before
squire Philips, last night, brought by
Thos. Feely against Charles HllimaE.
A fine OF g and costs was imposed.
CHARLES KLAPPER, a young man who
lives on the Island and works at the
Nail City bottle factory, cut his hand
badly, on Monday, on broken bottle.
tbs Pittsburgh Erening Chronicle now
arrives daily in this city, the evening 1t
is printed aud is handled by the enter
prising newsdealer Rhees, where orders
can be left.
JAILoR DAILY says the boys Frye and
Gillespie are worse than any twenty
men he ever had in the jail. lmps who
would steal from a contribution box
must be pretty bad.
NAPOLEON crossed the Alps and the
feat was considered wonderful III Bon
aparte could take an army along McCol-
loch street it would be dong something
much more difficult.
GEO. ScHAIDT brought breach OF the
peace case against John Rine, before
Squire Felber, last night, which, how
ever. was compromised before coming to
trial, by Rine paying the costs.
SEVERAL OF our Wheeling musiciana,
anon: them Prof Louis Vaas, Mrs. A.
NJ. Sheib, Misses Virginia Hupp and
Lizzie Todd, will assist in a concert to
be given ia Moundsyille, May 9Th.
'SQUIRE SCHULTzs yesterday fined
James Gallagher IS ard costs for com
uniting nuisance and imposed penal
~ OF - and costs for using profanity
during the trial, on Il party named
Diehl.
A YOUNG man whose name could not
be learned, was badly burned about the
legs, Yesterday, at TIE Nail City Bottle
Factory. He was carrying a lamp, and
managed to spill burning oil upon his
limbs.
A LARGE number of the friends OF
Mrs. G.. w. Franzheim called on her at
her residence last evening and congrat-
ulated her on the celebration OF her
birthday anniversary. A very pleasant
social time was had.
The petition Of the Board OF Direc.
tors Of the State Fair Association to
council, last evening, asking the i'm
proyement OF one or more streets on the
Island, leading to the proposed fair
grounds, was referred to the cOmmitte.
Piedmont" Hospitsl(pest house,
is to be repaired and made inhabitable
so that il may be used for the purpose
it was built. Council last evening voted
$500 toward this. At the meeting before
IT was strongly advocated, to abolish and
destroy the place.
The Maennerchor Singing Society has
elected the following officers: President,
r. G.. Arbenz; Vice President, Henry
Wellington; Secretary, Carl Zulauf;
Financial Secretary, John Dick; Treas
urer, Erred Homer; Director, Prof. Wm
Schockey; Vice Director, Albert Nolte.
SHERIFF CuAs. SMITH Of Wood county
has placed in the penitentlary John
Lapsly, young man only 10 years old,
who will live at the Moundsville State
House for IS years having been con-
victed of murder. Editor Horner OF the
ParkersbuTg Se1ltiHSl was guard-a very
good joke.
Mr.. KIMBERLY in his remarks before
Council last evening on the Fire De-
partmeDt, gave it as his opinion that
where men who had violated rules and
were suspepended by the Chief, and
then reinstated by the committee, that
in such case the committee did q
crime; wherenpon the Chief smiled.
QUIrE a stir will be createdin society
circles, to-day, over the recherche we'd
ding in the Fifth ward. At the Second
Presbyterian church, at . O'Clock, Miss
Annie Hearne will become Mrs. Kirk.
b. Armour. A reception will after
wards be rendered the bride at the resi-.
dence of her father, Hon. W. L. Hearne
A WOOD county resident was in the
city yesterday. He wanted to see the
State House and was directed to that
locality, but stopped az the wrong build
ing. He tried for about quarter Of an
hour to get into the ST. Matthew 3
Church and was very much disguised
with the state Of affairs, when an ac-
quaintance found him and piloted him
to the right place.
A WOMAN named Mary Hammond
brought suit against William Pratt, last
night, before Squire Felber, charging
him with using violence toward her
Pratt is steward of the Mcclure House,
and the woman averred he ordered her
out and roughly shook her by the
shoulder, bu; the evidence failed TO bear
out the charge, andPratt was honora-
bly, discharged.
THERE was considerable satisfaction
expressed yesterday over the fact that
the Directors of the Fair Association
had taken decided steps aud settled on
location for the Exposition. Several
promisent gentlemen ordered their sub
scriptions doubled, the Wheeling Rifle
Club thinks OF taking stock, and several
other parties have signifed their inten-
ton Of taking stock, and the general
prospect is lovely.
ABoUr balf-past five yesterday alter
noon, little bootblsck pursued by two
young tough looking citizens, came
charging down Market street, when op-
posite this Office the two pursuers
stopped and proceeded 10 fight. They
were getting fairly down to business,
when police whistle was heard and
the next second the fighters were out OF