Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-09

small Matters Of News Picked Up Here

COUNCIL meets tO-mOrrOW nlRnt-
YESTERDAY was somewhat warm.
The bottom Of the river is coming up.
JOsEPH MIcHAEi.s Is the happy father of
ten pound boy.
DR. J. A. CAMPBELLs wife presented him
with fine son yesterday.
The track Of the Elm Grove Railway
Company is nO~ in first class condition.
KRAMERis orchestra will give a grand con-
cert at Seibert's Garden next Thursday at
ternOOn.
Tux l6-ineh gas main will be completed
to the corner Of Twelfth and Eof streets
this week.
THE Healy base ball nine will give
grand picnic at the new fair grounds on the
18th inst.
The glass blowers and their friends will
hold picnic at the new fair grounds next
Saturday.
TuE committees on city prison, health,
markets and dire department are called TO
meet tonight.
OFFsCER LISTOx, of the Island, was pre-
scented BY his wife yesterday morning with
a bouncing big boy.
The work of laying the discharge pipe
from the new engine at the water works to
the basin, mp alley 1 is completed to the
basin.
The Western Union has reduced its tele-
"raph rates to New York 30 cents and to
Philadelphia - cents This is reduction
OF , cents on each.
SATURDAY afternoon q gentleman waS're-
Eeyed of his pocket book on the wharf by
member of the light fingered fraternity
now IN our midst.
Tax Globes Of Bellaire and the Regular
| ase ball nine Of Ritchietown will play
match game Of ball at the Fair grounds
Saturday afternoon.
Thomas WILSON will have a hearing be-
fore Squire Phillips this morning at 9
O'Clock. on the charge of attempting to kill
his wife. He has retained Col Arnett.
QurrE lively time was witneSsedl BY
those in the first car of the last traiu from
Beaver on the Z. 4 p road. Saturday night.
Several hOtly contested fights took place.
THE noted dog case, tried before Squire
Caldwell some time ago, has not yet been
decided The lawyers on both sides of the
case have referred the Squire to nearly 800
decisions ON similar cases.
SATURDAY evening Vim. Glenn who re-
sides on Seventeenth street purchased
new pair of pants and laid them down near
the window Of his bedroom on retiriSg for
lhe night Upon rising yesterday morning
he discovered the window up and the pants
together with pocketbook containing $3.50
gone.
LAST evening resident of the southern
portion OF the Eighth ward was rushing
around through his own ward and also the
Sixth ward hunting for justice OF the
peace 10 swear out warrant against his
wife for striking him. The man was under
TIE influence ofliquor, aud no squire would
issue a warrant at his instance.
Martin Thornton, of the we'll known
Capital Restaurant" Wheeling, gave us a
call on Thursday The Capital is a sort of
a necessity for Brooke county people in
Wheeling about midday, and few come
away from it without having their inner ne
eesSities comfortably satisfied, and we are
happy to know that our clever friend is so
well Observation-Disclosures Herald
The following cOnveyances were admit
ted to record at Clerk Hooks Office Satur-
dav. A deed made toe eth day of June
| 1884, BY Patrick Rely to John +. He'll, in
in consideration of $l50O 90 for lot No. ),
situated on the north SIDE of Eleventh street
A deed made the 9Th day Of January, 1874
by James p. Rogers, special commissioner
for Alex T. Young, in consideration Of
I $1,000 90 for 10; No. 81. situated at the
corner of Chaplne and Twenty-tourth
streets.
IESTEPpAY morning the Knights of st.
, George. accompanied hv number OF
friends, left via the b. K o. road for Day
ton to participate in the grand prize drill Of
/ the Catholic orders of Knights. which takes
, place there this week The Knights turned
out about thirty strong and headed by
/ Kramer iull brass band paraded the prin-
cipal streets between six and seven o clock
Yesterday morning. They certainly made
good display, and Kramers band also
looked very fine in their new uniform.
Both the Knights and band wore loudly
praised By the large crowd which seen them
off
/ SATURDAY night about 10 o'clock, two
strangensentered Porters grocery corner
Fifteenth and Jacob streets, and one OF
them epping to the back portion Of the
store, asked the clerk to come there, as he
hadsomething to show him. The clerk
started back, but noticing the other man
leaning over the counter close to the money
drawer returned and securing q revolver
/ from behind the counter, walked to the back
portion of the store to see what the man
wanted. The men, upon finding he had
armed himself slid out the door followed
CLOSELY by his companion There is no
! doubt that the men intended to rob the
! money drawer