Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-03
FAUANDFANCY.
Minor City News and Pertinent Talk
and Comment

A1nOR C1ty MOVIE no0 EofsAoAs A
and Comment
YESTERDAY was q scorcher.
The Committee on Fire Department will
meet tonight.
CHIEF DuSS1Se will be able to attend to
his duties again to-day.
THREE disorderlies and one drunk were
under arrest at q late hour last evening.
YESTERDAY Mr.. Walter Marshall, ST., was
busily engaged cutting the grass at the Fair
ground.
The sewer on Eoff street, between Eigh-
teenth and Nineteenth streets, caved in
yesterday afternoon.
THE Healy base ball nine left for the
headwaters Of Wheeling creek or a fishing
expedition yesterday.
SUNDAY a sneak thief entered Sweeny &
Sons fountry and carried away quite q
number Of the moulders' tools.
The W. L. & C. Railroad wharf boat at
the foot of Twelfth street is so be thor
oughly overhauled and reprinted this
week.
FOREMAN sYrDEa, Of the Atlantic engine
house, will ~sojourn in the country to 'day.
Paul Porter will act as foreman during his
absence.
The Joint committee which was called to
meet yesterday afternoon at . o'clock fail
ed to materialize, only two members an
swered the call.
YESTERDAY the work of relaying the
pavement, which was diplaced last week
to put in the hose plugs, at the Second
ward market, was completed.
YESTERDAY morning Granville Burkett,
an employe Of the Wheeling & Belmont
Bridge Company, was presented, by his
wife, with a fine 15.pound boy.
THE skiff race between Pat HenDigan and
Chas. Taylor took place yesterday evening,
the latter winning by several boat lengths.
The course was from the water worksto the
mouth of the creek.
THE Regular base ball nine Of the Eight
ward are very anxious to play either the
| Riyersides or Healy mines next Saturday
afternoon. Can either Of the above mines
accommodate them?
LAST evening, about 10 o'clock, Officer
Barnum arrested a man named Fred Miller,
for stealing brasses out of the freight cars
| of the b. *. o.. Railroad Company. The
officer caught the man il the act.
The Turner Association placed a new
Charles Miller, the North End timer,
placed a large oval ornament on the top,
which is to represent a suntiower.
The Junior class at the Fourth ward
school rendered the senior class a picnic at
the Wheeling Park, yesterday. Mr.. Anton
Reymann very generously gave them the
use of the Elm Grove cars and park free OF
cost.
The G. A. r. OF Bellaire will give a pic
mic TO morrow at Rodefers orchard, at
which there will be a pig race, potato race,
for ladies only, greasy pole, silver cup to
the victor, walking match OF 5O yards,
jumping match and a sack race.
THE front Office gang of the REGISTER had
the pleasure, last evening, OF looking at
the handsome piano cover, embroidered
by Miss Mamie Snyder, OF this city, while
at the school at Mt. De Sales, Catonyille,
Md. 1t is a royel piece of work and un
doubtedly the finest that ever came TO the
city.
PEOPLE living along the river front com,
plain OF the long, loud and continued
blowing of steamboat whistles. Several
boats, coming in sight at the north end,
blow for ten minutes without Interrupt
ton and when this comes at l O'Clock in
the morning, it is intensely disagreeable
and should be stopped. 1t is thoughtless'
ness of the worst kind.
THE following delegates were elected by
the different societies last evening to ct
tend the great Sangurfest at Buffalo, on the
10Th inst. Relster, l.. Z. Stllel;
alternatives, c. Apenzenler, II. Blu
nenberg. Beethoven-Julius Lohsa, Rich
ard Henry; alternatives, VIM. Green and
Chas. Fink. Germsnia-Louis Fohr, Louis
Colmo-; alternatives, H. c.. Meyer and Q.
Stensil. Mpnnerchor-T. c. Arbenz, c.
+. Etz; alternatives, Chas. Culauf and
Henry Herzog.
A FRIEND of the lady referred to in our
Steubenville correspondence of Sunday,
called at this office yesterday and stated
that the lady in the case was entirely in
nocent of the charges made, but that her
motherin.law had had some domestic diff
Guilty with the husbrnd, Out of the latter
trouble the whole matter probably origi-
mated and that the gossiping %neighbors
were to blame for the publicity given the
nent citizen referred to was innocent OF the
insinLaIinns made.