Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-09
CITY CHIPS.
Facts and Faneies Gathered n and
About the village.

TEE Crockery City and Standard team!
will play, next week, If satisfactory term!
can be agreed upon.
AT the funniest at Pittsburgh yesterday
the second prize for single turning wa!
won by VIM. Schambra, of this city.
The funeral of Jas. Hamilton took place
| yesterday, anu was attended by q large
party of friends. Interment private.
THE DR.. Jenning team, of Pittsburgh, il
negotiating wish the Standard for series
Of games. They want too steep guaran
tee. -
A JOINT COMMITTEES of both branches o.
| Council will meet this afternoon for the
purpose of selecting suitable quarters tor
the city officials. :,
CRoAKERs are progno,ticating rain fol
every day in August. OF course last
weeks auroral display is responsible fol
the wet weather.
TIE rickety old city building is again
coming in Tor q racket. 1t leaks so badly
that the already fearfully torn up archives
will be rendered worse than useless.
LOOK here, Messrs. Councilmen, it is
about time those annual appropriations
were being made. A reference to the
statute will show you are away behind
hand.
MCMECHES, the grocer has laid the city
force of the REGISTER under obligation for
a sample of American ginger ale, which IS
as fine as and much cheaper than the I'M
ported article.
TIE rain yesterday broke up the game OF
ball between the Standard and Riverside.
The formers boys came out in all their
new uniforms, but the falling water etfectu-
ally prevented the game.
The wyandotte Fishing Club have re-
turned home after ten weeks fishing tour
at Bakers Port. They report good time,
and return thanks TO those Powhatan Ia
dies for that elegant boquet before leaving.
The Captain of the Standard base ball nine
received q dispatch, yesterday, from the
Steubenville nine, stating that it would be
impossible for that nine TO play on Thurs
day, as both the pitcher and catcher were
sick.
OFFICER Junkins arrested two young men
last evening for lettering on Market street.
There has been a general complaint pour
ing in to the officers about crowd OF boys
insulting ladies en- that street, hence the
arrests.
JUSTICE CALDWELL committed Mrs. Amelia
Traedle, German lady from North Wheel.
ing, to Jail last evening on the charge OF
lunacy. Three lunatiCs will be sent to
Weston this week from the Jail, and two
will still remain, till further orders from
DR.. Bland.
The attention OF the police or county
constabulary is directed by the Island peo-
pie to the conduct of a man living on
Wabash street. Nearly every day be
shamefully maltreats and beats his wife and
throws her out of doors. Any person
along there will give information to an Of
fcer.
THE remains of the late Sister Mary
Agnes were received from Baltimore yes
terday morning, and met at the depot by
an escort com posed Of Messrs. Col. O'Brien,
Martin Thornton, Thomas Downs and
George s. Feeney. They were taken at
once TO Mt. de Chantal and inferred in the
convent burying ground.
YESTERDAY afternoon two Centre Wheel
ing boys. named respectively BARLEY and
Carney, came to grief by the explosion OF a
railroad torpedo. They found it on the
track and set il off, and the explosion Bart
ley had forefirger badly cut and Carney
had his lip mashed and tooth knocked
oxt. DR.. Edwards dressed the wounds.
The Knights of Labor will meet tonight
to consider the matter OF the lockout at
Hoffman's tannery, as its advertisement
reads. A member of the order said last
night lDdL IlOuludu w
employ no Knights of Labor, and they were
going to discuss it. Mr.. Hoffman once told
a REGISTER reporter that all he objected to
was the having of men who knew nothing
of his business coming in as arbitrator IN
any difficulty which might arise. He had
no objection, he said, to tanners union,
but on the contrary, would assist it. The
men claim he is discharging Knights OF
Labor. one by one, and will tonight dis
cusS il. The case is the first of the kind in
this city, and is attracting considerable at
tentiOn.
THE last public session of the Fourth
Synod of Wheeling will be held In st.
JOseph'S Cathedral tomorrow morning
Bishop Kahn will celebrate Pontltlcal High
Mass at Q o'clock, and a sermon Will be
preached by Rev. Father Ward, S. J. After
the Mass the DEGREES of the Synod will be
read. There will be about thirty priests In
the sanctuary. These have been engaged
during the past week in the exercises Of
spiritual retreat. After the solemn ser
vices of tomorrow, they will return to
their respective charges in different parts
of the State. 1t is expected that the Bishop
will shortly issue a pastoral in which he
will sum up the legislation enacted at this
Synod.
TOMMY BARTLEY and Tom Carney, two
small urchins, whose parents live near
Sweeney'S foundry, in the Sixth ward, had
a very narrow escape from being badly in
jured yesterday about noon. 1t seems that
they found a large railroad torpedo, and
laying it on a rock undertook to bave
miniature fireworks display of their own,
by the vigorous use of a large hammer on
the torpedo This, of course, exploded it,
nearly blowing of Bartley's foretinger and
cutting Carney's face badly about the
mouth. Quite an excitement was created
by the explosion, and the yard was soon
filed with anxious mothers, &c. On the
arrival of DR.. Campbell, who pronounced
the wounds slight, things began to cool
1ou, in tho neivbhorhoO6