Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-17
TIE CITY IN BRIEF.
Matters Of Importance Picked Up
About Town.

1WO MbCElhk6 uCehSco Ncko Ao1u0u yes
The Ohio County Teachers Association
will meet on the 18th inst.
We are indebted to U. s Consul John
N. Birch, for late Japanese papers.
The heavy rains Of yesterday had little
effect in cooling the heated atmosphere.
An express wagon belonging TO Mr..
Sentinger broke down on Eleventh street,
yesterday.
A GOOD many Wheeling people will 60
out to Bethany to-day to attend comm n
ment exercises.
The city ga pipe was broken on North
Main street, yesterday, by the caying in OF
q natural gas ditch.
THREE commandments, namely, Mt. de
Chantsl. Bethany College and the Lindsly
destitute, occur today.
The Ar:on, Germanis and Mannerchor
Singing Societies rehearsed the Saenger-
bund music last evening.
The Committee on Markets advertise
for proposals for making alterations aud
repairs to the Fifth Ward Market
THERE were but two cases before his
Honor yesterday morning. One was taken
under Amusement and heother continued.
THE B. & o. train from Pittsburg, due
here at 9 a. m, arrived five hours late yes
,erdsy, caused by several slips along the
road.
A NEW train has been put on the Pan:
Handle. II leaves it at lilo p. m. and
places VOC in Chicago at 6 o'clock the
next morning.
HUMPTY DUNPTY, as prodaced by Misco's
.>~upany st the Peoples Theatre, is good.
The .rs, "islty business is all excellent, and
the show deserve 5000 nonseS.
THE United Line telegraph c;""nls seros'
the rive. at Steubenyille, which was to-"
from its place during the high water last
winter has been put in place again.
Sr. JAMES Lutheran Sunday school
will excurt to Cressp's new grove this
morning on the Ohio River road. A large
number will 60 down and q pleasant time
is anticipated.
The Ohio County Teachers Institute will
convene at Futon on Juue % The first
x ,Glastiuu Q! sppl cants 10, teachers
certificates will be held at the same place
July Slh and 9th.
WILLIAM O'NEIL was yesterday before
Justice Ankle charged with ssssulting
Hannah Able. He was fined s. and costs
and held in the sun OF 500 for his good
behavior for one year. He furnished bond.
THE Excelsior Athletic Club will give its
first grand picnic on the State Fair
Grounds, Saturday, June 10. A fine pro-
grsmme Of amusements has been arranged
aud e large crowd and good time are as
sured.
TIE Pittsburg train over the B. 4 o.,
due here at 1925, did not arrive last night
until after IL o'clock. A tunnel has fallen
in some place between here and Washing
ton, Pc, and the passengers were compel
ed to walk over it.
The picnic of the Martins Ferry school
at the Wheeling Park yesterday was q very
creditsbls and orderly gathering. The
Superintendent of the Park reports that Of
the two hundred or more children not D
disturbed a flower or plant on the grounds.
THE published statement that a portion
Of the cornice of the Zane Street Church
building had fallen, and the rumor that
the ediice was unsafe from the constant
Earring OF B. & D. trains, has no other
foundation than the falling of two or three
loose bricks from a projecting corner. The
church is substantial and safe.
The shooting conteat for the water set at
The Knights picnic, Monday afternoon,
which resulted IN 8 tie between Messrs. G.
Rumbach, Capt. B. B. Dovener, Lawrence
Heller and Henry Blumenberg, will be
decided on Friday evening at Blumenberg's
range. Each of the gentlemen made 20
out of q possible 10, and the final contest
will be interesting.
The Wheeling and Ohio county Bible
Society will meet next Sunday evening at
the Fret Presbyterian Church. All the
Protestant Churches in the city will psrtic.
ipste, and the event will be enc of unusual
importance. The meeting will be presided
over by Rev. W. II. Cooke, d D., Presi-
dent of the Society, and speeches will be
delivered by Rev. DR.. Mcclure, Rev. r
Rush Swope, Rev. Bsrnitz, and Judge
Oksy Johnson. The most important fes-
ture of the meeting will be the farewell I'D
dress of Rev. DE-. Long, who has for ten
years past been the agent of tins society
for the State of West Virginia. he will
retire from the position, and bis address is
expected to be interesting, as his work has
been.