Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-12-19
BREAKFAsr TABLE talk
Of the Various Small Matters Corraie'
nv Regtster HireiingN.

House on SAtuFuay ulsut.
The bill at the Academy, this week. is
no. nearly so fly as last weeks.
The work of grading, strengthening aad
in o. owing the b., u. 4 {. road goes steadily
on.
Fulton is all agog over the grand ball by
the FaIly. Hos, at Mutton Hall, december
2lst.
YESTERDAY Fred ZIrniiz had his left
AMI badly bruised by being run over by
i wagon.
JOHN NORMAN will be tried before Squire
Petel man Saturday on charge OF disturb
apCe of the peace.
THE Mystic Lodge, No. 81, X. OF p. vii
give an entertainment at their MAJ! IN Elm
Grove on January IL.
PRoF. JAMES f. Morrow, of Allegheny
City, Pa, buried little daughter at Wells
burg cemetery, yesterday.
A FAMOUS Shedding track has bsen made
on Twenty-second street hill. Somebody
will be hurt there, to-day.
The banner school Of Wheeling, Clay,
will give a grand entertainment IN the
school building on next Friday evening.
Irwas Kress' ale wagon instead of the
ReymaDn brewery w9gon, which Iun over
young Terrell, in the North End Monday.
MONDAY morning, Vim. Burke, pUd1ler
at the Belu ont mill, had his left foot bahly
msshsd by apiece Of pig iron falliag on it.
The case OF the State VS.. Winton Schaefer
on charge Of breach of the peace, was con-
;iuued before Squire Peterman yesterday.
Louis +. srIFEL was appointed guardian
of Henry 0esterling, before Clerk Hook
Yesterday. Bond SGO, JOO with A. Reyman
and c. L. Stifel as sureties.
The ladies OF the st. Lukes church will
hold their Bazaar in the store room oppo
site LUken's grocery on the Island. Inc
Bszssr opens this afternoon.
The case of the State VS.. Robert Spencer,
on charge of breach of the peace, was tried
before Squire Peterman yesterday and the
defendant fined 81 and costs.
ROBERT BOND was qualified as executor
| OF the estate OF Mary Baldwin deceased, be-
fore Clerk Hook yesterday. Bond Sl,lVJ;
| no security being required.
A LARGE 24-light chandelier will be hung
| in the Chapel at Mt. de Chantal this week.
\ 1t is ye.y Tlne piece OF work, and was
made at the Scnth Wheeling glass works.
The statement in Monday : issue that the
| chandeliers in the Mcclure House pin'nn@c
room were imported, is incorrect, they
were made at Hobbs, Brockunier Il Co. s
| glass works.
You've Terrell, who was supposed 10 be
injured Monday by being run over by a
wagon in North Wheeling, was getting
along nicely yesterday, and gives prospects
Uf an early recovery.
M. JOSEPH WARNER said he paid his coal
| miners off at % cents per bushel. as per
| contract and that the men struck against
| the IT duCtiOn to cents per bushel after
| they received their pay.
| CHARLEY THOMPSON, an employe at the
| La Belle cooper shops, had the thumb on
his right hand so badly Injured, while
working with a siave cutter, that DR.. Pipes
| Dad to amputate the member.
| YESTERDAY a new patent nail machine
was cast at Sweeny 4 Sons foundry. The
rnyeat-r Of this machine, Mr.. Bailey
claims that it is far superior to any ma
| chine now in use. The machine will be
tried at the La Belle mill.
| YESTERDAY morning a man named Fry
| fell Oft the roof of the water works build
| ing, a distance of about fifteen feet, knock
ing him senseless. When picked up it was
supposed that he was seriously injured,
but except the loss of a few teeth he was
not injured. He was engaged in painting
the stsCks at the water works when the &C.
cident happened.
A CHARTER was issued yesterday to the
Citizens Bank OF Huntington, W. Va, for
the purpose of doing a general banking
business. The capital stock is $4,000,
with the privilege of increasing to, 81 900
OC0. The shares are 100 and are held by
G. +. Miller, J. L. Caldwell, l2j shares
each; b. w. Foster. T. Ii. Harvey, W. ii,
Hagen, J. l.. rhornburg and J. a. En-
mons, all OF Cabeil City, 80 shares each.
THERE was some little excitement oCca.
-. oh ba ~ ht-
port that viii DelapIain had been shot and
wounded by a cowboy in Texas. Col. and
Mrs. Delaplain left for there, last evening,
but at clock came dispatch from VIII,
saving he was not shot aud was alive and
well and about to start for home. A tele-
gram 10 that effect overlook Col. and Mrs.
Delaplain, last night, and they will return
this morning.
To THE average letter carrier Christmas
end New Years are days OF torture-Christ-
mas in particular. Most every one that
has a present to bestow waits for this par
ticular day on which TO give it. The con-
sequence is that on Christmas day the
Postofiice is flooded with this vast accunu
laiion of matter, and the poor, over-worked
letter carrier compelled to perform three
or four days work in one. We think it
would be an excellent idea il people hav-
ing fsvors to bestow through the mails
would forward them few days before
Christmas.
A xuMERoUsLY signed petition by pa.
irons Of the Wheeling and Elm
Grove K. K. will be presented to
the board OF director Of the aforesaid road
at its next regular meeting requesting that
Mr.. Vim. Michels be given a permanent
9, membership on the Elm Grove road.
Mr.. Michels, by his gentlemanly deport-
ment and strict attention to duty has won
for himself host OF friends in the city OF
Wheeling, aud his past services on the
Elm Grove road will soon meet proper re-
cOgnition.
Yesterday morning Secretary Stalnaker
filed the articles of Incorporation OF the
fairront and Shinnston Railroad Compa-
~. The route of the road begins at or
I near the town OF Fairmont, in Marion
| county, and runs TO point at or near the
J lands of the New England, Fairmont and
Weston Gas Coal Company on the south
bsnd Of the West Fork river. The capital
| stock is S25, 600 divided into shares OF 300
| each. The stockholders are II. \. Attrlll,
| of New York, 2i6 shares; w. Z. kimball,
| A. Ross. J +. Mason. all OF Baltimore, one
/ share: II. w. Doune, Falrmont, one share,
YESTERDAY afternoon quite al excite
| ment was created at Reymann's brewerv
by the loud explosion at the gas we'll. All
| the workmen in the establishment rushed
| out 10 see what the matter and found out
| thst nothing of serious nature had trans
| pired. The cause of the explosion, if it
| can Re so called. was that the workmen en-
| gsged at the gas well placed block OF
wood in the we'll to shut Off the water so
that the gas could be used. The block be
| came fastened in the we'll above the gas
| rim, and while they were engaged in Dor
ing the block out the gas, which had sccu-
| mulated under the block, forced the block
out with terrific force, making loud ex-