Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-20
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MINOR City News and Pertinent Talk
D. and Common.
] "HEARrs or OAK" tonight
D srkAMBoArMKs report passenger travel
very large.
OFFICER FREBoLp ran disorderly case in
last evening.
YESTERDAY was a bloody day for the
Fifth ward.
" anybody likes this kind Of weather
they can have it.
ONE deed Of trust was admitted to record
at the clerks Office yesterday.
ONE marriage license was issued at
Clerk Hooks Office, yesterday.
THE sugar refinery was offered for sale
yesterday. 1t was bid up to $780, and
the sale adjourned.
ALMOST every street car that passed this
office last evening jumped the track at the
southern end of the switch.
IT is thought that a promising young
lawyer Of Chaplin street will be married to
a belle OF Labelle street soon.
WIN. HARRISON, who has been danger
ously i'll with typhoid fever, slowly Con-
yalescing. DR.. Reed is attending him.
GEO. BUTLER, hostler at the Eighth ward
hose house, who has been on the sick list
for some time, assumed his duties last
evening.
Nh. A. NJ. ADAMS and Superintendent
LOTUS left the city yesterday in the inter
est of the Citizens railway company, buy
ing steel rails.
Snow for the 10Th of March is rather IN
pleasant. Spring soils her maiden modes
~ by permitting Winter to take such lib
critics with her.
SEArs went of with a boom yesterday,
for the performances of Hazel kirke TO-
morrow and Thursday nights. 1t is
splendid play, and deserves splendid re-
ceptioH.
The members of the committee for the
Monumental Fair, to be held at Bellaire,
commencing next Monday, were in the
city yesterday soliciting donations and ex-
hibits. They were very successful in their
efforts.
LAST night about ~ o'clock Capt Bennett
and officers Barum, Bellyille and Bird raid
ed q house of ill-fame on Twenty-irst
street kept by Mrs. Ann Wright. Three
women and three men and the madame
were arrested.
Ara meeting OF the Wheeling bicycle
club, held at Hoge & Co.'S store last even :
ing, the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: T. II. Hoge President,
Robert Hazlett Captain and Chas. b. OFT
Treasurer and Secretary.
EVERYBODY should know that the right
of way over our streets should be given to
any apparatus belonging to the city which
is responding to an alarm of fire. Several
very narrow escapes took place Saturday
afternoon, all of which were owing to the
parties driving vehicles not getting out OF
the road.
MARTIN THORNTON, the popular restaura-
teur, did himself handsome by furnishing
gratuitously the fine supper used on the
stage, last night. It's a cold day when
Martin is not found in the front rank OF
those willing TO do a good act. If an &C
count could be written Of AL Martins deeds
of charity they would fill book as large as
q bible.
A STILL alarm reached the Atlantic
engine house about IL o'clock yesterday
morning. A telephone message was i'm
mediately sent TO the Hook and Ladder
house, and the apparatus OF both houses
hastened'to the scene of the fire, corner OF
Eoff apd Twelfth streets, only to ind that
il was q chimney fire, and was extinguished
before their arrival.
LAST evening about o'clock quite an ex.
element was created on the west side OF
Market street, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, occasioned by the tin store OF Jacob
Schelantay being discovered full OF smoke.
Word was Immediately sent to the Hope
hose house and the reel quickly taken TO
the scene OF the supposed ire. The front
door Of the store was bursted open, but no
fire could be discovered. The smoke must
have come out Of the stove, as there was no
other Ere in the room.
LAST evening about 8 o clock an unknown
man had a very narrow escape from being
badly hurt at the corner OF Twelfth and
Market street. He was slightly under the
influence of liquor, and after stepping up
on the platform of the Island street car
caused him to lose his balance and fall on
to the street. A team attached to beer
wagon was coming along at very lively
rate, and before the driver could check
them the horses had passed over the man
and he was lying between the fore wheels
Of the wagon and the horses heads. FOrtu-
nately the horses were very quiet and the
man removed, he having not received a
scratch, and placed on street car.
The funeral of the late Geo. YOckle, OF
the Eighth ward, took place yesterday al
ternoOn. Interment at Mt. Zion Cemetery.
GEORGE HUNGARIAN, SR., miner EN-
ployed at the Riverside co bank, met
with q very serious accident yesterday
about o'clock. He was working in the
coal chamber when a Lar ;e piece Of slate
fell upon him. Fortunate ly it broke into
pieces as he and it struck the floor, which
allowed him to be quickly extracted from
the debris. DR.. Pipes was Immediately
summoned, and upon examination found
that his wounds were not dangerous
though very severe. A large scalp wound
| OH the back Of the bead was the only cut
received, and his foot and back were badly
| hruiarh AZ this writing he Was rastin,