Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-14
THE CITY IN BRIEF.
Matters OF Minor Importance Picked Up
About Town.

Matters OF Minor Importance flcAou W
About Town.
One marriage license was issued yes
terdsy.
Two weddings occurred on the East Side
last night. g,
The mail carriers have adopted broad
brimmed straw hat for summer wear.
ONE drunk, By Officer Grubler, was the
only case registered at police headquarters
last night.
WP. HUBBARD, Esq, has been appoint
al attorney for the Natural Gas Company
Of West Virginia.
A PRrvArE dance was given last evening
At Westwood's hall By number OF well
known South Side young folks.
THEODORE acRNBROoS, OF Powhstsn, Tor
many wears prominent merchant OF that
town, will travel for Hubbard Paul. OF
this city.
HoRsEBACE riding is q most delightful
and healthful exercise and it Is likely that
riding parties will be quite popular the
coming season.
THrs afternoon Prof. B. 7. Jones Super
iu,endent Of the Bellaire schools will ad-
dress the teachers of Divisions c and ID, at
the Union school, Fourth ward.
MARIA K. KALTERBACH was yesterday
appointed Administrative of the estate OF
Michael Kalrerbach, deceased. Bond
81 900, August Noterman surety.
FRED SPEERs and John ONeil, the
chaps charged with cruelty to animals,
we're held in the sum of 500 each, oy
Justice Ankle, for their appearance at
Court.
The Nail City Oil and Gas Company Of
this CITY has leased the McBurney farm Of
thirty-nine acres, near Washington, paying
SlC0 bonus, 800 for each well and one
eighth Of the oil.
/ MOTHERS meeting is being held By
the City Missionary Society every Friday
evening at 7:3O o'clock in the building &C.
cupied by the Mission Sunday school on
Eighteenth street.
Tue wholesale grocery firm OF 5. Baer
Sons will on Saturday, insugurste an esrly
closing movement by disseminating ousl-
meas at o'clock p. m. tits thought other
wholesale grocers will follow.
ENGINE No. 2O2, on the B. & O., which
has been in the shops at Grafton for some
ZINE, is once more on the road, being fitted
with all the modern Improvements. En-
gineer Willhide has charge OF her.
A LITTLE sensation is on the tspis, and
will probably be sprung in several days.
An illegitimste child that seems to have
been buried without permit, will assist Ia
giving the snap away, and some Interesting
developments may be looked for.
IT will be but short time until the st.
Clsirsyille narrow gauge railroad will De
laid With standard ties and IN extra rail.
This will then be the best route from this
city and Bellaire to St. Clsirsville, as pas
sengers will go through without change OF
cars.
WM C. HANDLAN, ESQ Secretary OF the
Ohio Valley Life Company, has purchased
a new No. 3 Remington Standard Type
writer, the first one sold in the State. II
tak.s in paper fourteen inches wide and
points line twelve inches long. 1t is a
fine machine and just suited for the insur-
snce business.
Nh. NEWTON BEERS, the actor, who will
open q weeks engagement at the People 8
Theatre next Monday evening, comes With
o high reputation. The supporting COM
pany ia powerful one, and the dramas 10
be- presented, Only Womsns Heart,
aud Only Farmers Daughter, are in
tensely interesting.
The funeral of the late Felix Laferty
took place yesterday morning at 10
o'clock, and was very largely attended
The services were held at the residence OF
Mr.. VIM. Frazier, one mile west Of Bridge
port, and the interment took place at the
Peninsula Cemetery. The Young Men's
Democratic Club turned out in fall uni
form as an escort to the remains.
THERE were but two cases before His
Honor in Police Court Yesterday morning
One OF the untortunstes was Toby Vance,
who had Just been released from. pro-
longed term in the workhouse. Toby was
assd $40 and costs, but execution was sus
pended on condition that he leave the city
When last sesa, Toby was making tracks
for Washington county, Pc, where some OF
the pipeline trenchers have engaged him
as cook.
YESTERDAY morning a drunken iudivid'
ual was making a nuisance OF himself on
Market street, and Officer Grubler finally
started to take him to tics lookup. A dog
belonging to the unfortunate resented
the liberty taken By the blue-cost, and
made dash for the leg Of the public guar
dian. The officer, finding that he was
being seriously intsriered with BY the
canine, wss compelled to shoot it before
its master could be lugged of.