Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-11
rHE CITY IN BRIEF.
Matters Of Minor Importance Picked Up
About Tcwn.


About Town.
THg berry season is g; its height.
HURRY Damp:y will be at the Peoples
Theatre next week.
THERE vas but one unfortunate before
His Honor yesterday morning.
The boulders are being removed from
Fourteenth street, below Main and Market
The W. C. T. U. will meet in the Fourth
Street NJ. E church this afternoon to ar
range tor a State convention.
Tue West Virginia Poultry Association
held an interesting meeting at City Hall IN
GAINESVILLE, Wednesday evening.
THERE will be q meeting of the Belmont
County Medical Society at st. ClalrsVille,
Tuesday, the I'D inst, at ii o'clock a, m.
YESTERDAY morning one OF N. Reilly's
wagons, heavily laden with meat, broke
| the front axle at the corner OF Sixteenth
aud Market streets.
The brick arches have been turned up
in the new Court House vaults aud q por,
| ton of the walls carried up to the ieVe! OF
the court room floor.
OFFICERS DUFFY and West arrested joe.
Johnson snd John McDermott about Il
o'clock last night for raising a disturbance
out at the Central glass house.
No INQUEST was held upon the body OF
| the infant found above the Second Ward
school, on Sunday, the Coroner thinking II
unnecessary under the circumstances.
WoRKMEN were engaged in cleaning
swsy the debris occssioned b ythe collision
of two engines this side of the Peninsula
tunnel, which occurred some time ago.
The eighth annual picnic of Local
Union No 9, American Flint Glass Work
ers' Union, will be held on the Fair Grounds
tomorrow. j.. j. Birch's orchestra will
furnish the music, and q pleasant time and
a large crowd are anticipated.
Mr. ]. s. ARMSTRONG, Of the Atlantic,
celebrated his birthday, yesterday, by set
ting up a bucket OF circus water to bis
brother fremeI. Mr.. Armstrong is prob
ably the Oldest fireman in the city, he hsv.
ing Joined the old Rough aud Ready
volunteer company forty years sgo.
Tbs Ohio River road has purchased two
handsome new passenger coaches OF the
Wasson Manufacturing Company, o.
Springfield, Mass. The coaches cost the
sum Of s.. 600 each, and ara the finest o.
the kind. The road was obliged to ado
these coaches to their equipment because
of the coming summer excursions.
CHAs. HErzEL, a former Wheeling CHI
zen, died 81 his home in Davenport, Iowa
on the 9TH mat aged 10 years. He LEFT
Wheeling in 1851, and purchased a hut
farm st Davenport, where he has since
lived, leaves a wife and ten children IL
good circumstances. Mrs. Hetzel is thu
Oldest sister OF Mr.. g. B4yha, Of this city
A CHILD named ArtkEr Wooden, agec
three years. son of William Wooden col
ored. who lives At rs Alley c, died oil
Wednesday night With the whooplng'cough
1t appears that the parent thought the ser
vices of o doctor we're unnecessary; tina
the child would get well without medicine
Coroner Schulizs had to be called upon t
furnish a certificate of burial.
A Lively game Of bsss ball Wa playet
on the old lair grounds yesterday afternoon
oy the "Terrifcs," a club composed OF col
ored boys and a picked nine Of hotel boys
The game was witnessed by about 2OJ
psople who enjoyed it immensely. Afte'
knocking the cover off a ball, Jessie Dixon
vas satisfied and the "Terrifcs" were de
teated by e score of 20 TO II.