Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-18
FACT AND FANCY.
M,ner CITY News and PertineAt TalE
and COmmenG


n,nsr CITY NEWS ana Pertinent raIL
and Comment
HAMLET tonight
The first branch Of Council Is called for
this evening.
A LITTER box has been placed on Main
street. at alley S.
TIE Creek Mill win start up this morn
ing, excepting mill No. 5.
SECRETARY Hook is paying out the pre-
miums awarded during the recent fair.
THERE Was booming police court yes
teIdAy. Thirty-six cases were disposed OIL
Me- SNYDER, is having new front
placed N his residence on North Main
stleet
soxE amusing caricatures on the Mosaic
Art Society are on exhibition at the Audi
tors Office.
The Board of Public Works is making
some needed improvements on Twenty
second street.
Amos ERWIN, George seybold and Charles
ClappTotb, polderS, returned from Pitts
burg yesterday.
Why don't the street car company do
something with that abominAble turn-tAble
on Market street?
GEORGE Z. BURKErT will organize q lodge
Of the United American Mechanics in Mar
tins Ferry this week.
CHARLIE Stays theatre is doing good
business and the large crowds seem de-
lighted with the bills.
The tools have been recovered at the
Central glass works gas we'll and the boring
was resumed yesterday.
Arthur GARITY left for Wheeling, Ala,
yesterday, having accepted q position at
Woodwsrd's blast furnace.
RICHARD KERwAIN, driver on the Bridge
port division Of the Citizens road, is con-
fined to his bed with sickness.
QUIrE q select gathering of old Germans
was held at Mr.. Bishops resiiddsslce on
Eighteenth sheet, last night.
TaE citizens Of The Eighth ward would
like to know whether the street railway
company intend to use their old line to
the ferry or not.
The case OF the State vs.. Z. J. Hope,
charge Of disturbing the peace, was tried
before a jury at Squire Ankles, last even
ing, and the case dismissed.
The ship upon which Mrs. J. n. Camden
and daughter sailed to Europe, arrived
at Queenstown Sunday afternoon, so the
Senator was informed by cablesram.
OFFICER DUNLAP found q key Of copper
tacks, at the north terminus Of the Clti-
zen's railroad last night The owner can
receive property by calling on the above
officer.
SEVERAL citizens were complaining about
the street railway company not keeping
the streets up inside of their track, claim
ing that it is almost impossible to cross the
track in its present condition.
The case against George McAdams for
stealing chickens in the Eighth ward Was
compromised yesterday between the owner
of the chickens and McAdams, by the lat.
ter paying 81 apiece for the chickens.
A YOUNG man from Maryland was in the
city, yesterday, looking for his sister,
Annie Morgan, who had disappeared from
home. Captain Bennett made a tour OF
the porting houses but failed TO fiud her.
TIE school children are very liberal in
their ueDunciatiOn OF the members of the
school Board who kept them out Of hOli
day last wePk.-JOurnal. And the mem
bers now acknowledge their error in 80
Going.
p L KIMBERLY sold his large gray mare,
Fora, to gentleman from Cad for 500
cssh. The gentleman seen the mare at the
Far ard being informed Mr.. X. would sell
concluded to purchase her fJr orOoi
mare.
LAST evening the Water Board were
bu>ily engaged removing the new pump
from Bridgeport to the water cribs. BY
the time the paper reaches our readers the
pump viii be in place and the work OF
sinking the crib commenced.
PROPERTY owners along Cbapline street
should see that gas and water connections
are made before the new brick street is
laid. The Board will not permit the street
to be- torn up when once it is down. The
Gas Trustees will put down gas extensions
upon application.
ABOUT $3.50 O'Clock last evening the coal
pile st the gas works canSht fire from the
furnace. Word was Immediately sent TO
the Allan tic engine house and the reel re-
SpOr ded prom pity, and IN a few mioutes
bad the ire drowned out. Two sections of
hose were left at the work to use in case
the pile should again ignite.
A NEW ferry company has been estab.
lished at Charleston, known as the Peoples |
Ferry Company. The incorporates are s. !
Straus b Bser J. JelenkO, G. Jelenko. p |
II. NOyes L. C.. Lewis, Charles Capito, n. |
Burlew, Geo. Davis, Phi. FrankenberSer, |
Chas. Loeb, Vim. Jelenko, w. J. Cakes, ". |
5. Hanna and C.. S. Morgan, all of Charles. |
ton.
SEVERAL young men had a very narrow |
escape from being crushed TO death Just |
below the B. & o. railroad shops yesterday |
sftt moon. They weIe playing cards at the |
toet of the tresIle works and a couple OF
freight cars fell over the embankment,
lighting on the spot lately occupied oy the
boys; they having heard the cars coming,
get out Of their way.
YESTERDAY afternoon the following gen.
tlPmen, members of the Board of Couuty
Commissioners, inspected thC..n route OF
the Elm Grove railway through Fulton
and along the pike, and unanimously de.
cided to grant them the right of way asked:
MessrS CUmsford, Stoker, Belbrugge,
Woods, Nichols, Maxwell and Boring &C
cOmpsnied by Surveyors Smith and HOge.
LAST evening quite a large crowd was
attracted to the corner of Fourteenth and
Market street, by hearing loud words ne
tween the Italian confectioner and 40
GOulde, captain of the steamer Pacific
officer Reid happening to be near arrested
Houide and DISPERSED the crowd. Just
who is to blame for the disturbance we are
unable to say, but the tact will be ascer
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