Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-18
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Small News Iteas About Town and
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Vicinity.
COUNCIL meets tomorrow night
TIE Cormittee on Fire Department
meets to night
FouRrxxs cases will be tried in police
court this morning.
Two very interesting cases will be tried
before SQUIRE Arkle this evening.
The February term of the Municipal
Court commences at o'clock this after
mon.
WILLIAM GUsxY was fined S. and costs
for assault and battery BY Squire Arkle
Saturday evening.
The work of repairing the houses in,
iured by the food is being pushed along as
rapidly as possible.
Mr.. L. N. MANN, of the Toledo Blade,
his sccs pied . position on the local staff
of the Evening Journal.
The Western Union telegraph wires be-
tween here and Marietta were In good
working order again last night.
THERE is q proposition to come before
Council TO- morrow night, to appropriate
5000 to the general relief fund.
FIRE alarm boxes "a, DC, q. SO, AZ, 46, 5,
&. So. s. GA, IS, Z, IL. ~ and 70 are still out
of order and will be repaired as soon as pos
sible by Chief Dunning.
The case of the city VS.. John Norman, on
charge of assault and battery, was tried be-
fore Squire Arkle Saturday, and the de-
fendant fined $40 and costs.
The Opera House orchestra will give q
grand concert at the Opera House on Fri
day evening, February %, the proceeds to
be devoted to the food sufferers.
YESTERDAY afternoon Captain Bennett
ralded q poker loom at No. 1900 Market
street, kept by Charles Daub. The proprie-
tor and six players were captured.
The public schools will all reopen to day
except the Island school. At the Eighth
ward school, neither the basement room
nor the annex in the church can be used.
The cars on the Citizens Railway are
unable to run as late as night as usual on
account of there being no lights IN the
southern portion Of the city and on the
Island.
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON will perform at the
Opera House two nights, commencing
Monday, February 25. She will give US
new play, il being performed for the hrst
time at Pittsburgh this week.
The Wheeling City Boat Club will give
grand ball at Turner Hall next Friday
evening. This club proposes to buy q
barge with the receipts of this ball so that
the press and referee can be carried over
the course and see the race from beginning
to end. II is hoped big crowd will.attend
the ball.
Col. JAKE KENPLE's regimentals did not
it him quite quick" last Saturday night
ss an auditor said. In one of his touching
little pictures of the war he got this of;
And that mother watched and waited.
And when the vernsl brightness had
touched the prairies and the autumnal
stars looked down." when one man said
those seasons were too quick for him, and ne
wilted.
On next Thursday evening song recital
will be given at the Second Presbyterian
church for the benefit OF flood sufferers, in
which the following well known vocalists
will take part: Mrs. Nellie Palmer, Mrs
Chas. W. Eoff, Miss Flora Williams, Mrs,
A. N. sheib, Miss Forsyth, and Messrs. R
V. Ankle, Thomas H, Carson, w. b. Day
and Jos. Hall, assisted by Prof: Hermann
Schockey, Mr.. Charles W. Eof, and Miss
u Waryood, organisS. With such al
array of talent We can be assured OF q
musical treat. The object of this enter
tainment alone should fill the house.
YESTERDAY afternoon, a son OF a widow
lady, Mrs Stanley, net with q very severe
sccideut while playing on the Capitol steps,
The boy with number of companions
were racing up and down the steps and
jumping over the sides, and unfortunately
for this urchin he fell of the steps breaking
his right leg. He was Immediately taken
home and the proper medical attention
procured. 1t is great wonder that q
number of boys do not get hurt playing
on these steps. 1t is regular rendezyou
for boys ranging from to Is years of age
to play on every Sunday afternoon.