Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-19
FACT ANDFANCY.
Minor City News and Pertinent Talk
and Comment.

FRANK LuTz and family left for Pitts
burg yesterday.
THE new wheels were placed on the Uni
ted Engine YESTERDAY.
ONC deed of trust was admitted to record
at Clerk Hooks Office Yesterday.
A PRIVATE dispatch from Lewisburg ye..
terdav anrourced that IFS. John S. Price
had been buried there.
Mr.. PETER Zo7cKLER has had his house
out at Fulton much improved and it now
presents handsome appearance.
HANEs & Wilson's planning mill in North
Wheeling, is at present so filled with or
ders that they are compelled to turn work
away.
Mrs. EDWARD NUNS, who has been dan
very rapidly under the treatment OF DR..
Reed.
The May party came OFF at Mt. de Chan
tel or Thursday night, and Miss Jennie,
daughter OF Col. Ben Wilson, was crowned
queen.
CONCERT and Commencement OF the Le-
gum Collegiate Institute at Opera House,
June PC The Opera House orchestra has
been engaged for the occasion.
DR.. HALE, the Scottish physician, deliv.
cred his lecture on Catarrh, bronchitis and
consumption, last night, to good audi
ence at the Academy OF Music.
The committee on arrangements will
meet at Beaver to-day to perfect the plans
for the grand picnic which will take place
at that point next Saturday week.
As an expressman was laklng load down
to the wharf yesterday afternoon the front
wheel caught in rut and broke off close
to the axle, upsetting the wagon, the driver
saving himself by quick Jump.
TINS morning at 10 O'Clock, Joseph Ship
man, a resident of Short Greek, will be
trit before Squire Peterman on four sep.
arate charges. This is the same man the
v terinery surgeon, Robinson, had the en-
counter with.
YESTERDAY Superintendent LOTUS tried
the new route Of the Citizens railway line.
The rar was well loaded with school chill
dren. The Superintendent was very well
pleased with the way the car travelled on
the new route.
MIS-. SOPHIA OTTo celebrated her 10Th
birthday ut her residence on Chapline
street, between Thirty sixth and Thirty
seventh streets. All of her children and
grandchildren attendedE and fine time
was enjoyed by all.
NEXT month force men will commence
the work of arChing the tunnels in the
Hempie!d division of the 3. X .. Railroad.
This is q long felt want, and should De
hailed with delight by the patrons OF the
road who live on this division.
The Il. Il o. Railroad Company have
large force Of men busily engaged rebuild
ing the treStle work west OF the West
Alexander depot, and building new abut-
ments to the bridge Just west OF Triadel-
phia Station of the Hempfeld division.
A MAN named John Collins. while under
the influence OF liquor fell through the
HempfieId bridge yesterday just after noon,
The distance was over 90 feet, and as he
fell upon and among the timbers, his eS-
cape from death was little short of mirac-
ulous. He was badly bruised up as it was.
THURSDAY evening as train No. SIP pulled
by, engine No. 233 of the Hemptield d.
vision, was passing Taylorstown station
about 7:l5 P. NJ, the engine-tender jumped
the track, which delayed the train over five
hours, and did not arrive at Washington,
Pa, until about 2 o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
The committee composed OF members of
the Arion, Germania and Beethoven sing.
ing societies, met last evening for the pur-
pose of deciding which route would be the
best for them to take to attend the San
gerfest at Buffalo. They decided to via the
Z. x p railroad. Round trip tickets s..
and they will ave here July 16.
THE impression which has been in circu-
lation on the street. That Glenn Moore
was arrested for robbing or assisting in
robbiDg young FlaCcus, at Fulton, is not
true. Moore was arrested on charge OF
assault ard battery, not at Fulton, but in
the city limits, on young Flaccus, and was
so fined by Squire Ankle.
The Pansy Blossom Social an orgari2a-
ton composed OF a number of the young
men of tie city, will give their second an
nual picnic at White Pine Grove on the
third OF June, and are looking for a pleas
art time. They have secured Cockayne's
music. The club gave the first picnic OF
the season out at Sycamore Grove.
A GRAND picnic will be held at the new
lair grounds to-day by the Riverside mill
men, assisted by the other mills in the
city. and the revenue derived from it will
be presented to A. F. Jackson, formerly
catcher at the Riverside mill, who was
attacked with paralytic stroke some time
ago. Anton Reyman gener. uSly furnishes
the committee free OF charge.
YESTERDAY afternoon DR.. Pipes had a
call up Caldwell's Run. He hitched the
animal to post near the front of the
residence. The animal never before being
hitched, commenced backing and broke
the hitching strap, and in so doing he
backed over the bank, distance OF ABOUT
10 feet, and badly lscerated his limbs.
The animal and buggy were finally righted
and the doctor returned to the city.
4 PrrTsRURGH soap man, named +. J.
Stout, while boarding the train at the June
ton, on his way to Wheeling, last Monday,
had his watch stolen. He telegraphed to
Wellsburg to have three men suspected of
the theft arrested, two of them being Sc
cured, the other man refusing to get off
the train. The two young men arrested
were brought before Squire Campbell and
searched, but as nothing was found on
them, and the evidence against them was
not sufficient to hold the parties, they were
discharged. 1t was supposed the party
that refused 70 get off the train was the
guilty individual. On the same evening
Mr. Stout the man who lost the watch,
during the storm at Wheeling. was seri
ouSly injured BY a brick which fell from a
building struck by lightning. Misfortunes
never come HeiisbWrg Noes.