Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-26
TIE CITY IN BRIEF.
Matters Of minor Importance Picked Up
About Town.

ABOUT TOWns
BoARD Of Education this evening.
YESTERDAY brought out oyercosts. !
SrEUBENvlLLE is to have electrict lights.
A Muck roll was broken in the Top mill
yesterday.
The annual class of sweet girl graduates
viii toon be ripe.
Armidnight last night the prospects tor
frost were very favorable.
THE Wheeling Oil Company will elect q
Board of Directors tomorrow
PIPE laying was begun at Elm Grove
Yesterday, on the West Virginia Natural
Gas CompGnys hne.
CATHERINE r. BARR was yesterday ap-
pointed guardian OF Edward and Easle
Barr. Bond, $4,000, George E. snfei,
surety.
A LITERARY and musical entertainment
viii be given at the Island rink tomorrow
evening for the benefit Of the Thompson
NJ. Z. church.
OFFICER DUNLAP last evening arrested
an intoxicated Indian who had strsyed
away from the wild West" and locked
him up in the cooler.
The Board of Commissioners to-day ad-
vertises for bids for the purchase OF S25,'
900 of the Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Ken
lucky bonds held by the county.
Steps are being taken in the city to es'
tablish an employment office and wo'
mans exchange. 1t meets with the hearty
approval OF the ladies in general.
Ms. AND Mas. T. W. PHINNEY pleasant
" and informally entertained number o.
friends at Stamm's, out the National road
last evening, where they are quartered FOL
thesummer.
FrFrY-FIYE bushels of strawberries were
received in one shipment, by Messrs I. A
Morris & Co, from Meigs county, Ohio
the largest shipment ever received at one
time in this city.
The demurrer in the matter Of the peti
ton Of sundry citizens, praying for the sn
milling of the Police and Fire Board OF
dinsrcs, will be argued in Judge Jacobs
court tomorrow.
WILLIAM BURGESS and Thomas Heath
natives of England, Yesterday pre-
seated their papers and were sworn in be
fore the Circuit Court as nsturalized clti
zens Of the United States.
MICHAEL OKEEFFE, brother OF Cit.
Solicitor O'Keefe, and well know
, blacksmith, died yesterday of heart disease
The funeral will take place from the Ia
thedrsl this morning at I o'clock.
The old established plumbing firm Q
Thompson & Hibberd was dissolved yester
day, Mr.. Thompson retiring. Mr.. Hiboer
has associated with him his son, Harry
and will continue in business at the oil
stand.
, IT is understood that the concert to b
given by the Wheeling Lodge B. P. Q
. Elks, has been postponed until Saturda
|. evening, A foe programme has been al
ranged aud the affair will be an UNUSUAL
iRe one,
The crowd in the grand stand at tn
Fair Grounds, yesterday. would not Il
spond 10 the inVitsuon of Manager Rict
: mond to throw out half dollar to be mt
tilsted. The only reply was the anxiou
inquiry of youth to; Make it quarter
cant your
A HUMOROUS lecture, entitled THE Idea
Marriage" will be delivered at the Thir
Presbyterian church, Friday evening, b
Rev. William Smith Thompson, pastor G
the Ann Carmichael Presbyterian church
Philadelphia. Mr.. Thompson is said to b
= an eloquent and bright tslker, and his LEI
ture contains q medley of fun, fact AM
fancy that makes it unusually interesting
We understand that the heirs of tn
Samuel B. Carter estate have sold to som
prominent Jewish citizens the piece
ground on the National pike next to an
vest of Mt. Calvary cemetery, for 81 80
al acre. Ii is probable it will be used a
a cemetery for our Hebrew citizens. Thi
is a good illustration of the spprecistio
in value of desirable property out the Nc
tiunal Pike st short distances from tn
I CITY,