Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-28
FAUANDFANCY.
Minor City News and Pertinent Talk
and Comment.

ANhAN
ONE more day Of school.
LAST evening was decidedly cool.
THE Opera House band has returned.
Hon. B. Wilson was in the city yester-
day.
The Committee on Fire Department will
meet tonight.
TIE Committee on Claims met last night
with closed doors.
The Hook and Ladder house is receiving
q coat OF whitewash.
J, P. ROGERS, Esq, presided over Police
Court yesterday morning.
OFFICER RApFoRD arrested Peter jacob
tor being drunk on the Island.
The Greene county, Pa, Fair will be
held at Waynesburg October I'd, Sd and ith,
Prof. d. W. Shields, principal OF the
Keyser schools, was in the city yesterday.
TuE North Street NJ. Z. Sunday school
goes out TO Little Washington this morn
ing.
PRoF. BIRCH was busy yesterday prepsr,
ing The diplomas for the public school
graduates.
A DROVE of cattle and sheep passed
through the city last evening going 10 the
cattle yards.
The directors of the Wheeling Park As
ISOLATION held a meeting at Clerk Hooks
office yesterday.
John w. r. Reed, county superintendent
OF Marshall county, was at SuPt. Butcner
office yesterday.
STONE for a new crossing has been
dumped at the intersection OF Fourteenth
and Eotf streets.
An irate Island gentleman has purchased
a rifle and says he will kill the first COW ne
finds on his premises.
ISLAND gardeners complain Of the depre,
dations Of small boys, who raid the orchards
in quest of green apples.
The Eighteenth Street Presbyterian
Mission ~picniced at the Martins Ferry
walnut grove, yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Pa, citizens are trying to
induce the Gas Company at that place to
SINK q well for natural gas.
A NEW flooring was laid in the United
engine house, by the boys belonging to
the house, and it is . very neat job.
The excursion Of the Excelsior Band, OF
Martins Ferry, to Steubenyille, will leave
our wharf on board the c. W. Anderson
this evening.
MR. AL. RoHEY. OF West Alexander, had
a horse stolen from his stable at hat place
Tuesday night. Capt. Bennett was not-
ned OF the lnelL yesterday.
Hon. II. A. Yeager, member OF the last
House Of Delegates from PocahOntas coun-
ty, and Levi Gay, sheriff OF the same Coun'
". were in the city yesterday.
THERE is much complaint regarding the
condition Of the crossing on the west side
of Market street, at the intersection OF
alley 9, Just south OF this office.
The stone step and sill at the United
- l,,,sa lpAr Waa taEnn nnt nv the
men YESTERDAY, and the door swung on a
level with the street and floor OF the house.
IT is said that Beirne and Elan, the
belligerant Virginia editors, crossed over
into West Virginia Tuesday evening, and
were TO have had a hostile meeting yester-
day.
THE Wheeling Park Association will give
q grand sacred concert at their Park next
Saturday. A big time is anticipated. All
parties wishing to hear good music will at.
tend.
TBE funeral of Mrs. John Baker, who
was burned to death by an explosion OF
kerosene at her home on North Main street
Monday morning, took place yesterday
afternoon, and was largely attended.
Miss Ellen Fostor, who will arrive in
this city on Monday next on her way To
the great temperance meeting at Mounds.
Nllle, Will DC lut guest u MASS AogAOA az
the college during her stay in the city.
THE H. +. social will excurt to Steub-
enyille on the steamer c. w. Anderson
next Sunday. The boat leaves this wharf
ut : A.. NJ. and will arrive on her return trip
at9P. NJ. A big time is anticipated.
The Committee on Real Estate OF the
Board Of Education has purchased the
I Sheppard property, adjoining the Seventh
ward school. for $4,000. The building will
be remOdsled and used for school pur-
poses.
YESTERDAY morning at : o'clock Mr..
Henry SChenk and Miss Elizabeth Warren
were married at the Cathedral, Father
McElliott officiating. The happy couple
left on the II o'clock train last evening on
4 bridal tour TO eastern cities.
We acknowledge the receipt OF an inyi.
tation TO attend the picnic of the Germauia
Singing Society, at the new fair grounds,
on July 18th. The Society have spared no
pains to make the occasion an enjoyable
one, and that q large crowd will be present
is an assured fact.
CovxcIL should order the erection OF one
or more gas posts along the board walk on
Fourteenth street, from the top OF the hill
east of Jacob street TO MCCullOch street.
The locality is dark and lonely, and offers
every facility Tor fOOtpads TO get in their
work.
\ ~coUNTRYNAN'> team took fright at the
cars ON the T., W. X Ny. road yesterday
and started off at a breakneck speed, jOst-
ling the produce out of the wagon at every
Jump. Fortunately the team was captured
b tfore any material damage was sustained
to them or the wagon.
GEORGE FLODING, Esq, celebrated his
silver wedding yesterday. Mass was sid at
| ST. AlphonsO's church in the morning, and
in the evening he was visited at his resi-.
denCe on Eighteenth street by a large
number OF friends, who bestowed upon
him several handsome presents. During