Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-29
raErIrY IN sPLIxrERs.
small News Items About Town aud
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vicintty.
The Thomas NJ E. Chapel lost most oil
iis Sunday School library by che food.
HAEPER's WEEKLY and the Graphic hav'
eGIh soms fair Hood sketches from Whsei'
ing .r.
The Committee on Claims met last night.
No business Of public interest was trans
aItSu.
OSx hundred and seventy. one Baskets
we're sled at the oen trail relief station yes
;erdsy.
wBIrKwAsH at the County Clerks office
Yesterday, Lot even one deed Of trust being
admitted 10 record.
WV. II. SYLvIs, the contractor for light
ing the oil lamps during the last year, IS
very I'll with typhoid fever.
IHE Municipal Court met yesterday and
adjourned until this morning at $3.50 with
out trsusacting any business.
SQUIRE My has wound up his business as
keeper of relief store in the Eighth ward.
tie issued 43 rations yesterday.
The Committee on Ordinances met las
night and decided to report favorably to
Council the Island cow ordinance.
A cHILDREN's masquerade ball will be
given at Franzheim's Hall on Friday,
March II, the prOceeQS W ~ W VIC haoAeo
Hebrew Benevolent Society.
SHERIFF w. E. WILxERSoN, OF Writ
county, with Captain Shannon, guard, were
in the city yesterday, having taken James
Huff 10 the penitentiary to serve year
sentence for felonious shooting.
The upper room of Seyeath ward public
school was again occupied by the scholars
Yesterday. Some time will yet elspss be.
fore the scholars of the lower rooms will
be able to u.e them.
The fire alarm boxes throughout the
city are again in good working order.
Chief Cunning has worked very hard to
get them fully repaired and certainly de-
serves credit for his good work.
The Pittsburgh Times of yesterday morn
ing hal a very Interesting article on new
society game called Bean Bag" and-but
then, the same article appeared in last
nights Journal. Very cleyerly yanked.
TIE report that Allie Fresse was the
sport who won $1,000 in Pittsburgh and
then was skinned by the sporting frater
nifty of that city 3 few weeks ago is mis-
take. Allie Freese has been in New Or
leans for the last two weeks.
Yesterday evening the case of the State
vs.. Barbel Schwertzer, on charge OF as
ssplt and battery, was tried before Squire
Peterman. The defendant was fined =
and costs and required to give bail Tor his
good behavior for six months.
The following supplies were received al
4 che central relief station yesterday: From
Winchester, Virginia, via Is. Il y. express
free, one lot of hams; Alliance, Ohio, Wis
Adams express free one case OF clothing
marked G. +. Griffith; Flashing. D., via
American express, free, three cases Oh
clothing.
THE peItinacity with which a mornina
paper adheres TO the story that the grave
Of the late Benjamin Bser was roobcd, in
duces the belief that grave robbers We're al
work in Greenwood. Such is not the CAGE
There was not even foundation TO- tee re-
rort originally, aud the morning paper
knew it from the begi1ning.-Journal
! This m, ans the ILtslligencer and is In
| tended to be tough. But it is mistake.
he agony OF that long midnight drive
| shows it did not know it from the begin.
ng.
The Firemen's Relief Fund Committee,
which was to have met at the Atlantic en-
| zine house yesterday afternoon, failed g
have a quorum. They will probably meet
to-day. Our readers will remember some
lime ago Colonel Charles Shay, proprietor
Of the Academy of Music, rendered the tire,
men of this city the net receipts OF his the
.tre for one week, which amount Of money
was to be used as q firemen's Jeliet fund,
The week comm encing on the 18th inst. was
the time set, but owing to the flood it was
abandoned.
On Wednesday evening Robert Shumau,
the popular cellar boss a. Reymann's
brewery, was married to Miss Augusta
KnEbe at the residence of the brides pa
rents on Seventeenth street. They were
the recipients of many handsome and cost
ly presents but We were unable to obtain
list of of them. The ceremony was per-
formed by Row. Meerwein, OF the st. John s
Church, after which the company partook
of a bountiful supper and made merry till
a late hour. Mr.. Shumsn will reside on
sixteenth street wheas he has house
already furnished.