Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-18
BITS OF NEWS,
Picked Up Here and There By Register
Reporters.

Picked Up Here and There by hegistef
Reporters.
SUMNER seems to have got there.
The streets were througed, last night.
MAYER's band will play at the Alhsmbss
Palace rink tonight.
Az immense lumber raft has been
landed below the bridge, on the Island
side.
A RSsT.YE colt created considerable ex-
element on Market street, yesterday eve
ming.
THE Western Union Telegraph Co. have
reduced their rate to New York to twenty
FIVE cents.
TINS Bunch of Keys Company leaves for
Psrkersburg this morning, and the Psrkers'
burgers will have q big laugh to night.
THE Chautauqua Literary Circle will
meet at the rooms Of the Young Mems
Christian Association to morrow evening.
RESERVED seats Cor the musical enter
tainment at the Opera House next Friday
evening, can be secured at Banner music
store.
THERE will be literary and musical en-
character at the First Baptist church this
evening.
TONIGHT at the Chapine street rink
comes the tug Of war" on skates. This is
a new thing in Wheeling and will be de-
cidedly amusing and interesting.
BURGLARS attempted to gain an entrance
into the residence Of Officer Watson, on the
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break. This shows something akin to gall
The morning train over the Ohio River
road was delayed about half an hour yes
4 terday morning in the narrows below
McuGdsville, BY large stone falling on the
track.
3 YESTERDAY afternoon horse attached to
buggy which contained two ladies be-
came frightened on the peninsula and ran
of. However, he was stopped in his wild
career before any damage was done.
CONRAD RUEHL, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Fulton, died at his home on Satur-
day night He was born in l779, and came
to this country in 1916, and served in the
late war in the Sixth West Virginia In
tsntry.
Ii the suit Of John d. Boyle against the
Wheeling Iron and Nail Company, at Pitts
burg, Judge Ewing, Saturday, filed an opin'
ion deciding that as the defendant is cor
porstiou OF West Virginia, his Court had no
jurisdiction.
The Wheeling branch of the Indepen'
dent Nail Feeders Union of the Ohio Val
ley, will give its first grand picnic at the
new Fair grounds, on Saturday, June 6.
The affair will undoubtedly be success, and
q coed time is anticipated.
LITTLE Dean Merkle, was buried from the
residence of his parents on South Broadway,
yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock a large
number of sorroWing friends accompanied
the bereaved parents to the last resting
place Of their child, at the Peninsula GENE
terry.
The Trades Assembly of the Ohio Valley,
at its regular weekly meeting, in this city,
Yesterday afternoon, passed a resolution,
after long discussion, to boycott all stock
holders residing or doing business in this
city, who oppose the demands Of the stris'
ing workmen in the over-the,rive glass
, houses.
1--WE we're yesterday shown some steel
nails made by the Belmont company which
had been tested upon an anvil with excel,
lent results. Nails of various sizes had
been beaten out into knives of beautiful
shapes and then ground down to keen
cutting edge, the metal in no case exhibit
ing the least aaw The test was severe
one, and shows up the admirable quality OF
the goods.
The item in Thursdays REGISTER to the
effect that Mrs. Leonard Schwartz had
found her horse and wagon at SteubeuVllle,
and the man was in Jail, is pronounced
misstatement, and we are requested to cor
rect it-Yesterday' Newsletter.
As the item referred to was not printed in
the REGISTER, either on Thursday or any
other day, we hope the Newsletter will
correct it, once more for luck.