Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-02
FACT !lNDFANCY.
minor City News and Pertinent Talk
and Comment

MhuOE Wy NSnS anu
and Comment.
WHEELING did not celebrate May Day to
any extent.
OFFICER FusArE ran a couple Of "yags"
in yesterday.
SQUIRE Mix has removed his office to
1904 JACOB street.
HAyERLY's Mastodon Minstrels are the
next attraction at the Opera House.
SENATOR DAVIS new road, the w. Va.
Central, began running trains, yesterday.
The Kimberly suit drags along in the
Circuit Court. It will go to the jury to-
day.
TnE B. & o. railroad company have q
large force engaged in filling just south OF
the passenger depot.
SIxTY-FouR deeds in fee, sixty deeds Of
trust were recorded and twenty-three mar
riage license were issued by Clerk Hook
during April.
TIE horse attached to Greer & Laing's
dray ran of on Sixteenth street, yesterday,
scattering the load over the street Officer
Fugate stopped him at the postotf1ce
corner.
The funeral OF August Kryer, member
of the Opera House orchestra, took place
yesterday morning. The band turned out
in full uniform and accompanied the re-
mains to the cemetery.
THERE will be a meeting of the First,
Second and Seventh Ward Merchants
Protective Association this evening at "a
o'clock at Mrket Hall Second ward mar
ket house, for organization. A full at
tendance Is requested.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, who robbed Punk
Jennings Of q diamond cluster pin, was
Yesterday convicted of larcsny and SEN
fenced to nine months Imprisonment in
the county Jail. He has already been there
four months and half.
The old Benwood case of sending indie
cent matter through the mails is over and
through with. Yesterday VIM. Steele was
discharged by Commissioner Forbes, and Is
honorably acquitted. Steele is q transfer
conductor on the B. & o. at Benwood.
YESTERDAY afternoon, while the foreman
Of the Atlantic Engine Company was ex-
ercising a horse in the reel, the axle broke,
letting him down suddenly. The old reel
has been sadly in need of an axle for some
time. 1t was Immediately taken to the
shops for repairs and a substitute placed in
the house.
A SAD accident occurred Monday even
ing at West Wheeling; a once happy fam
| lily now mourns the loss of bright son.
George, the S-yesr-old son of Samuel Quill
ley, while playing on a barge fell off the
upstream end, and before assistance could
reach him was drawn under the barge and
/ drowned. The body was recovered yester-
| day morning.
IT required a special Waterman at the
| Custom House last night, to guard the
| large sum Of money-Considerably over
| $5O,0O0-for cigar and LIQUOR stamps, taken
| in at General Duyaps office. The clerks
| nm aor1y- tho in ipafiAn
| Of the boom, and were rushed with work all
day, though everything moved along qui-
| city and smoothly. An immense cigar
business was done yesterday, over 100000
having been shipped away.
TIE following cases were tried before
| Squire Petermann, yesterday: The State vs..
| Clara Heilmeier, charge OF disorderly con-
| duct; defendant required to give bond in
the SUM of $50 to keep the peace for six
months. The case of State vs.. Bombay
Gartner, charge Of using loud and angry
words; defendant placed under 800 bond
| to keep the peace for one year. The case OF
| State vs.. Mestiu Kleinhans, charge of as.
sault and battery; defendant confessed
| Judgment and was fined SIS and costs.
A $50 bond was given and case appealed to
! Circuit Court.
| CLERK HOOK yesterday admitted to rec
| ord q deed made April 80, 1888, by John
Parks and wife 70 Mrs Jacob A. Britt, in
consideration Of 800, for 81 feet of ground
! on Mccullough street. Also q deed made
| May l, 1888, by Theodore Schneider and
wife TO Franz Laupp, in consideration of
| 81 400, for the undivided half of lots To- IL,
| l2and -, in square =, on the west side of
! North York street. Also deed made 0c-
| tOber Is, 1882, by James H. Crow and wife
to George w. Lewis, Sr., in consideration
| of 81 800, for five acres of ground in Lib
erty district, adjoining said Lewis lands.
THE st. Lawrence reached Cincinnati at
4:3O o'clock on Monday. The EaquUer
says: mo gayer party ever visited Cincin-
| natl than that which came in on the st.
Lawrence last evening to grace the OPEN
| ing night of the Dramatic Festival, under
tine watchful chaperonsge of Mr.. and Mrs.
| J. d. Dubois and Mrs. DR.. Hildreth, Of
| Wheeling" Among its list OF guests the
| Enquirer enumerates: Mr.. Andrew Patter-
son and his beautiful wife, whose loneliness
and charming grace has made her such q
| belle in Washington" aud Misses Minnie
and Lucy, the charmingS daughter OF Major
/ InriDg