Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-04-23
LOCAL LACONICS.
Various srisf Matters In and About the
City.

Various srisf Matters In and About the
City.
sHAKsPxARs's birthday.
YESTERDAY was perfect day.
PAY day st the Riverside and Top
mills.
KENPLE lecture for the benefit OF the
"N heelink Press Club" at the Opera
House this evening.
SUR. RIDDLE had force at work yes
terday blowing out the water plugs in
the Seventh aud Eighth wards.
TaE shaky walls OF the burned Men.
del furniture factory have been leyeled
to the ground, and there is no more dan
ger.
MATINEE and evening performances at
the Academy OF Music to-day, by the
Howard 4 He's Company, which will
return from 81. Clairsville.
SOME matters OF potent interest con.
corning the Fire Department came up
in council last evening and will be
found in council proceedings
MAY, the little daughter of W. j.
Cots, fell down stairs, yesterday, and
severely cut herself about the head and
face. DIR. Allen dressed the wounds.
FRITZ PErER, o laborer at the River
side, wss engaged in hauling out cinders
yesterday with long iron bar when be
accidentally struck himself with the
end on the forehead, inflicting a bad
cash.
LIZZIE SIEDER swore out warrant be-
fore SQUIRE Philips yesterday, charging
Fred Schick with breach OF the peace.
The case came up at Z o'clock last even
iDg and was compromised, Shiek paying
the costs.
GEO. OTTo, young lad attending
school in the Eighth ward, ran knife
blade into his wrist yesterday and in
attempting to draw IL out broke the
blade off and tainted. DR.. Reed at
tended him and he was soon all right.
TIE case OF G. S. Wilson charged by
his wife with carrying concealed weaP-
ons and assault and battery were before
Squire Philips yesterday and cempro-
missed, Wilson paying all costs. twas
a continuation OF last Sunday trouble.
The telephone exchange will be re-
moved to the third floor OF the Peoples
Bank building Today, so that subscri-
bers will lose the use OF their instru-
ments until about three O'Clock in the
afternoon. Bear this in mind, and don't
waste any time swearing at the central
Office.
tbs team OF horses that Chief Eccles
ords red IN Belmont county Tor the At
lantic engine arrived yesterday, and Il
fine, large, elegant team OF horses they
were, but totally unit for Department
use, as they were too green. Another
search for the proper team will have to
be made.
Talk about your nail cutting feats,
how is this one: William knutt, feed
er Tor p. J. Altmyer, at the Benwood
mill, in days cut 80 kegs OF = clinch,
weighed nj every grind az 10 to the quar-
ter. IL he had worked the full D! days
he would have run the number to loo
kegs. How is this for champion nail
cutting2
The citizens OF the First ward are
anxious b know when that new reel
for the Nigilant engine is TO be forth
coming, and the Eighth ward inhablt-
ants want 10 know when
the house in that ward is to
be fixed in the second story so that 1t
will be rendered a suitable place for the
men to sleep in. At present they sleep
in very bad place. Both matters have
been ordered by council.
To DAY is the birthday OF the Immor-
tai William, otherwise the Sweet Swan
Of Avon" better known as Shakespeare.
lie was born at Strattord-upOn-Avon,
April %, 1854, and died on April %,
1916, at the exact aye OF %. Had he
gone on prospecting until today he
would have been 81 years old. Per
haps it is as we'll he was gathered in.
The Shakespeare Club viii celebrate his
birth and death by literary banquetat
Mozart Hall and feast at the Mcclure
House. At the first, Joseph Crosby, q
distinguished Shakspearean scholar, oil
Zanesyille, will deliver the Grafton and
VIM. Leighton, Jr., OF this city, the
poem.