Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-05
LITTLE LOCAL LOTS
Brief lettings OF News In and About
the City.

IT is yet premature for the boys to come
from over the river.
The streets were like young rivers yes
terday after the rain. ."
The repairs to the steps and platform of
the Court House are completed. ..
ONE deed of trust was admitted to record
at Clerk Hooks Office, yesterday.
AL. HALPIN was arrested by Officer Fugate
for disorderly conduct, last night.
ENTRIES for the trial of speed at the fal |
meeting closed at IL O'Clock last night.
Nh. r. H. P. STAuB was admitted to prac-
tice law before the Circuit Court yesterday.
0vER one hundred and fifty witnesses
were summoned for the grand jury yester-
day.
ENTRIES by exhibitors for the State Fair
will close on the evening Of next Monday,
| the first day.
QUITE crowd of citizens seemed very
| anxious as to what findings the grand
| Jury would return.
SOME of the street cars are better adapt
ed to dry season than weather like that
of yesterday afternoon.
ALLpersons holding pink" checks for the
grand stand will be admitted free OF charge
TO the Fair Ground, to-day.
NeIt 20 ueeQS III II ueeOS Vi
trnst and IA marriage license issued at
Clerk Hooks Office last month.
THE relief valves and spray noz zles for
the three engines were received yesterday,
and will be put on and tried to-day.
IT was rumored on the streets, yesterday
afternoon, that some of the mills in the
city would start 10 work this month.
The U. s. District Court met, Yesterday
of hnf aiinnrnaI until this
ing, without transacting any business.
The new addition to the county Jail was
completed last week, and the machinery,
etc, will all be fully repaired this week.
The residents of the Sixth ward complain
that Twenty-fourth street was trying to
rival Niagara Falls, yesterday afternoon.
LAST Saturday was the 18th birthday of
Morgan H. Gregg, of the Island and was
handsomely observed by his many friends.
The thirty.third opening of the Wheel
ing Female College will take place to-mor-
row morning at 8 o'clock. Everybody in
Yited.
The work OF repairing around the Bel :
mont mill and furnace still goes on. Thi S
mill will be in No. order by the time they
start up.
The one horse reel used at the United
engine house broke an axle yesterday
while the men were out exercising the
horse in ii.
YESTERDAY was watermelon day at the
Jail They were literally supplied by
Sheriff Brown. The prisoners enjoyed
them hugely.
A PRIVATE party will be rendered Miss
Sallie Winning. of Steubenville, o., who is
visiting Miss Dora Werner, of the South
Side, tonight.
CAPT. HIRAM YOUNG said yesterday the
indictment against him, found at Parkers-
burg in the SciotO matter, was no surprise,
a. nothing surprised him now.
The North Wheeling glass works started
I'D Yesterday and did large days work.
everything working as if the establishment
had been running all summer.
FRANK MORRIS had the middle finger of
his right hand mashed off, while at work at
one of the presses, at Ewing & Bills Lam
tern factory, yesterday afternoon.
OFFICER CONES arrested a man named
Collier for disOrderly conduct near the La
Belle mill. yesterday, and locked him up
in the Eighth ward station house.
HosrLER BUTLER denies the assertions Of
ex-FOreman Rose as to his being the man
who informed Chief ECcles about Rose, and
that he was only witness in the case.
The painting of the iron gates of the
Suspension bridge was finished yesterday.
This winds up the repairs of this bridge,
which have been very extensive this year.
An effort will be made to change the
Democratic primaries from Saturday, Sep
TENDER IL, as that is the last day of the
Fair and the day OF the Fort Henry cele-
bration.
OoBBS 4 REIsINGER'S steam wood bending
establishment started up again, yesterday,
with new men. This strike did not last
long, as new men were placed in the strik-
er's places.
OFFICER COMBS, in attempting to arrest
Eighth ward, yesterday afternoon, was
badly kicked in the stomach, and the pris.
oner escaped.
A GOLD watch valued at SIS was stolen
recently from the clothing of Mason
Mathews, of Lewisburg, while bathing in
Towards creek, near the White Sulphur
Springs, with a number of his companions.
THE Bryant Literary Society held its
opening meeting for the winter season last
night. The society is in the best OF condi-
tions and resumes under very favorable
circumstances.
A LARGE hurley man snatched q hat-rack
from peg at Mr.. Hopkins grocery, on the
corner OF Fifteenth and Jacob streets, at
noon yesterday, and, though chase was
made after him, he eluded the viglant pro-
prietor aud escaped over the hills to the
country.
THE funeral of Mrs. Z. NJ. Smith took
place, yesterday morning, from the church
of the Immaculate Conception, in the
Eighth ward, and was largely attended.
The interment took place at Mt Calvary
cemetery.
YESTERDAY afternoon skif returning
from the Island was Capsized and four
Young men, Messrs. Ike Ids, Frank
DOnnelly sam Stafford and George Freese.
had a narrow escape from drowning They
chung to the boat, but the sEiff drfted as
far as Whisky run before they were picked
up.
LAST night the well known colored quin-
tette rendered the REGISTER office serenade
Come Where the Lilies Bloom" and
several other selections were delightfully."-
rendered. The boys can certainly make
good vocal music. They now call them
selves the Arion Quintette.
NOAH, son of Thomas Curtis, of the
East End, met with a very serious acct
dent, yesterday. He and crowd of boys
were riding a hand car up and down the
switch at the old Hempfeld yard, and in
trying to stop it, this young fellow stuck
his right foot in front of the wheel, and had
the toes badly mashed by the hand car
passing over it.
The attention of the boy who lights the
oil lamps in the Sixth ward, is called to
the lamp at the corner of Thirty-second
and Jacob streets. Loud complaints have
previously been made by the citizens near
there about this light, and take a lantern
some night and go hunt it up as it is never
trimmed and when lit smokes the chin
ney 50 badly that the lamp is of no service.
The injunctions were yesterday served
on the city of Wheeling and the Board of
Public Works by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company, as notified last week.
The United States Court, in chambers, on
Saturday. granted the injunction until
Thursday, September :, at which time the
argument win he heard. Two sets of pa
Dars vara saryad opa each for the Ralti-