Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-22
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THE river is feet inch aud rising slowly.
The local packets made their usual trips
Yesterday,
BYRog street, between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth street is receiving some much
needed repairs.
YESTERDAY Al Shsllcross lost valuable
horse through distemper. The animal was
valued at $500.
A LARGE and very orderly crowd attend
I'd the regular weekly hop at Seiberts Gar
den last night.
Nh. BES HARDEsrY has accepted posi-
lion as receiving clerk on the platform at
the B. & o. freight depot
The broken shaft Of the engine in the
Belmont nail factory having been repaired,
the nsilers will go on this morning.
THERE will be a meeting of the Jefferson
! Glee Club tonight at Sheibs music store for
prsctice. A fun attendance is desired.
THERE is bad hole in the crossing az
/ Twelfth and Market streets, caused By the
slight cave in of the sewer at that point.
WEDNESDAY, evening Mrs. Isett gave an
elegant entertainment to number OF her
/ friends at her home on North Main street.
The heavy shower yesterday morning
! had the effect of lowering the temperature
Is or 20 degrees and rendering life bear
able.
WoRE will be begun on Monday Of decor
ating the buildings at the State Fair Grounds.
Constable Will Love will have charge Of the
work
The Healy drum corps will take part in
the festivities at Seibert's Garden this even
ing, the Mayors brass band giving grand
picnic.
WEDNESDAY, evening a small terrier be-
longing to Mrs Kitzler was shot on &C
count Of its having bitten a gentleman on
Sunday.
Tue Eighth warders blessed the rain of
YESTERDAY, fervently as it released them from
he annoyance occasioned by three inches
Of dust
WEDNESDAY evening Miss Helen Brown
gave a recherche little reception at her
home Oh Fifteenth street, to a select circle
Of friends.
tbs hot nail machines ct the Top mill
went on yesterday morning, the cold nail
machines will probably be put in operation
by Monday.
A LITTLE son Of Leonard Hshnness, of
Thirty-6rst street yesterday, inflicted bad
cash in his lett foot, while cutting wood
with an old axe.
MAMIE JOHNSON charged with keeping a
house Of prostitution and two plain DRINKS
were the only cases at police headquarters
up to midnight.
THERE was q bad washout yesterday
morning at Thirty-eighth and McColloch
streets, an immense hole in and around the
sewer being made.
The cutters on Eleventh street are in
very bad condition, and should receive at
tention Immediately, as there is very
large quantity of filth in them at all times.
YESTERDAY barrel of tar fell Of Of one
of the drsys belonging to Bells foundry on
North Main street The driver patched up
the cssk and managed to save most of the
fluid.
The ditch for the new sewer at the inter
section Of Thirty-ifth and Jacob streets
csyed in yesterday morning all along the
line of the work. The damage done by this
accident will be heavy.
IT is rumored that one of the popular
conductors of the B. & 0. rord Fourth
Division) is soon to be appointed assistant
TO D. +. Marroney, manager car record Of
fee at Baltimore.
The September Century has been receiv-
ed BY Messrs. Stanton & Davenport Among
The many interesting productions is pro-
fusely illustrated dissertation concerning
the spots ON he sun.
JOIN f. THOMPSON formerly with Geo.
Hess, has opened up first class grocery
and meat shop, on Eighteenth street John
is well liked in the East End and will no
doubt meet with good success.
Tue Junior jefferson Club will give
a grand dress parade this evening.
! heir uniforms are neat and nobby, while
even the Republicans acknowledge they are
the best drilled organization in the city.
REcEnrLY Byles, the bill poster, erected
a large billboard against the wall of the
city building, intending to ask permission
of council The Board Of Public Works
decided it must come down and so notified
Byles.
EDDIE WIsSEKE, a little fellow of eight
years OF age, yesterday afternoon ran a
splinter thick as a mans little finger, two
and half inches in his left foot. DIR. Reed
removed the sway and dressed the wounded
member.
CONSIDERABLE damage was done to sew
ers by the heavy rains Of yesterday. The
majority Of those in South Wheeling beng
choked up with debris. The sewer at Twen-
tv-third and Market street burst and will
cost considerable for repairs.
The work on the Sixteenth street pave
ment was somewhat retarded BY the rain
esterday. Supt. Creighton stated yester-
cay to reporter, that but for the rain one
square of the pavement would have been
finished by Saturday night
The Fifth ward Cleveland and Hendricks
club elected the following officers: Thos.
Stanley, Captain; Mike Whealen, First
Lieutenant; Frank Yierheller, Second Lieu
tenant; Andy Stoetzer, Third Lieutenant;
Cbss. Stanton, Standard Bearer.
The foreman of the gas well at the La
Belle mill, said to Democrat he intended
TO top the derrick with the Blaine colors
aud was met with the rejoinder that it
would be appropriate, as the White Plumed
Knight was more than half gas, anyhow.
YESTERDAY afternoon B. F. Caldwell pre-
scented the State Fair Association with a
life like image Of horse ten feet long,
made of galvanized iron. Artist Dardine
painted the image bright bay and mount
ed it over the Judges stand. Good enough.
WEDNESDAY morning Messrs. Gene
Hildreth and Harry Robinson returned
from a two weeks overland trip to the
mountain resorts, and return. The gentle
men report the trip as q success in every
particular and one Of the finest that anyone
who is fond Of the picturesque and beautiful
in nature could possibly make.
A WE'LL dressed stranger from Parkers-
burg visited several sporting houses in
East Wheeling last night in an alleged
search for q missing sister, whom he had
heard had come to the city and entered on
life of shame As the police had received