Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-05
CITY CHIPS
Facts and Faneies Gathered I'm and
About the village.

CITY CHIPS
Facts and Fancies Gathered I'm and
About thc village.
Charles Hirsh and wife left for Baltimore
yesterday. TX. % 0.-
THE. Board Of County Commissioners
| meet on Monday.
TIE Scioto case will come up for argu-
| ment on Monday morning.
Two deeds of trust were admitted to re.
cord at the Clerks office, yesterday.
PoE LITTLE was arrested by Officer Fu-
gate for disorderly conduct. yesterday.
The ST. Johns German Church will pic
mic at Memminger's grove, on August IA.
The Third Presbyterian will have services
at the German N. Z. Church, on next Sum
day week. .-..
THE new gong for the Seventh ward en-
CINE house was put up and tested, yester-
day, by Chief Eccles.
THE Diurnal, on her last trip. brought up
IFS buckets Of blackberries. The trip
was the largest she ever had.
CONRAD KURSER yesterday received a
very handsome gold and silver mounted
trombone, the finest ever in the city.
TUE North Wheeling glass house cart was
broken down while attempting to cross the
street car track in the North End, yesterday.
The excavation at the United engine
house was completed yesterday, ana John
Boring will commence laying the bricks to-
day.
ATTENTION is called to an assignee's sale
of drugs. advertised elsewhere. Formule
of value and fine line of drugs will be
sold.
A WARRANT was issued by Squire Philips,
Yesterday, for Cooney Combs, charged with
assault and battery on Jennie Black. The
case will be tried this morning.
REPORT was in circulation yesterday,
TO the effect that young merchant, of this
city, was married at Deer Park, but upon
investigation it was found to be untrue.
The Street Railway Company had por-
ton of their men at work, yesterday, fill
ing a very bad mud hole opposite DR..
Bruce's drug store, with broken stone. Let
the good work continue.
PARsoN ARMSTRONG foreman of the Hook
and Ladder house, met with very painful
injury Thursday afternoon. In stepping
ont of the back door at his residence in the
East End, he ran a large nail through his
right foot. The nail was finally extracted,
after working with it for some time, nd at
this writing the inflammation has about sub
sided.
NIGHT before last, when the regular
round was made at the Jail, it was discov-
cred that Isaac Beals had been working at
the floor of his cell, and had the centre
stone about ready to be removed. He was
taken out and yesterday force OF men
placed iron plates over the aperture. This
IS the same place through which ConnerS
and Stanley escaped.
YESTERDAY Mr.. A. II. Beach formally as
sumed the duties of Surveyor OF Customs
of this port. He is a genial, clever gen
tleman and will so be found by all who may
have business connected with his office. As
becomes an official of the government, he
will courteously impart information 10 any
desiring it, We feel sure. Mr.. Surveyor
Beach, tOUCRe=-lG!
LAST night a complaint was received at
this office that there was no red light
burning at the northwest corner OF the
Market street bridge, where a piece OF
scantling is stuck in a hole in the ground.
From the position the stick is now in,
should the fire department respond to any
alarm over the creek, and they not know
of the obstruction. a serious accident
might happen. The proper authorities
should attend to this.
LAST week Mr. Joseph Zillmar, practi
cal glass manufacturer from Bellaire, Ohio,
spent several DAYS in this place looking for
a site on which to erect glass house. He
was introduced TO n number of our promi-
nent citizens and received some encourage.
ment for his enterprise. Like all other
manufacturers, he thinks the land neceS-
sary to erect the house on should be dOnat-
ed to him, and we don't FnOw but what he
Is right in this respect.-Pt Pleasant Reg
lister.
A FELLOW who was on the Inflated Scioto
was Boosting to his girl, to whom he was
engaged to be married, and who acCompa-
MED him on the excursion on the fatal
Fourth, that he could swim ashore and car
~ her easily, but when the collision came
he deserted her and took care of himself
She was also saved, and when he came to
congratulate her upon being still alive, she
refused TO speak to him and handed back
the engagement riHg-ScubcHraie Press.
A HORRIBLE accident occurred yesterday
afternoon near the La Belle coal works, by
which Fred. SeamOn, n boy of nine years,
and a son of George Seamon, will be Grip
pie for life. He with several companions,
where playing about the coal cars, when
he crawled beneath one. In the play, the
car was started and the wheels passed over
his left leg breaking 1T in two places be-
low the knee and tearing and mutllatlng
the flesh horribly. DIR. Ford. who dressed
the wounds, thinks the limb may be saved,
but in a crippled condition.
SOME william is determined to burn Sheriff
Browns stable. Yesterday morning, at
2:3O O'Clock, a neighbor awOke Mr.. Brown
and told him his stable was on fire. He
fastened out and found a brisk flame
burning and several neighbors at work on
it. The horse was removed, and by dint OF
severe labor, the flames were eXtinguished
without serious loss. This is now the fourth
time this stable has been fired and it is
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reward of 800 for the conviction of the in