Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-28
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CRY COUNCIL this evening.
ONE marriage license was issued yes,
terday.
THE Black Hawks" at the Grand Opera
House this evening.
OFFICER DUNLAP run in o couple oil
vags yesterday afternoon
WoMEN's EXCHANGE entertainment at
the Opera House this evening.
THE Board of Commissioners met as a
Committee on Finance yesterday.
OFFICERS Junkins, West and Dunlap
run in vags and DRINKS, yesterday.
The police had alively race after a yag,
on Market street, yesterday afternoon
The Grand Central Theatre has a good
attraction TINS week and drew a big house
last evening.
THE recently ordered repairs and i'm
movements at the Custom House were be-
gun yesterday.
The ministers of the Protestant
churches met yesterday morning and
agreed to have union meetings during the
week of prayer, which begins next Mon
day.
THE Fifth ward school building yester-
day was supplied with natural gas pipes
and the gas will be used all over the house
to-day.
Mrs. ZIEGENFELDER contributed to
make Christmas a merry one tor the
orphans at the Hospital by q liberal gift OF
ice cream:
LETTERS remain unclaimed in the post
Office for Charles II. Fry, John Burton,
Mrs. Dunlap, L. d. Brown, and Rev. A. j..
Cowles, ID. ID.
JAMES ARMSTRONG was yesterday ap-
pointed administrator of the estate OF
Nancy Armstrong, deceased. Bond Sl,2OO;
John P. Biehl, surety.
YESTERDAY afternoon at 2 o'clock SIS
ter Philips gave o very pleasantht party
to the school children at Convent Hall,
which was hugely enjoyed BY them all.
THE Democrats of the Fifth ward will
meet ut B~onenberger's Hall on December
3Oth, to select candidates for Council, and
delegates to the convention to be voted for
at the primaries on January 8.
YESTERDAY afternoon a colored man
named William hill attempted to steal
some stuff from the peanut stand at the
corner of Market and Eleventh streets, and
when demonstrated with by the proprietor,
hit him. Officer Dunlap took Hill In.
THE Ohio Valley Trades and Labor As
sembly met Sunday, and besides transact
- ~ -..A.,n hnsfpoS1 tho fnllnNglnE ntl-
GERS we're elected W. S. Meek, president;
W. II. Orr, vice president; John Ehman,
secretary; Thomas H. Irwin, treasurer.
As q remarkable fact it is announced
from the CannOnsburg gas region that the
wells show an increase in pressure OF one
hundred per cent in three months. One
well tested three months ago showing a
pressure of 200 now shows a pressure Of
400.
YESTERDAY morning some wall paper
which had been pasted over the front oil
an unused fireplace in Justice Ankles
Office ignited from a spark and blazed up,
and would have probably caused a eontia-
grafton had not the Squire discovered 1t
in time and distinguished the blaze.
THE Belmont county Farmers Institute,
under the auspices Of the Ohio State Board
of Agriculture and the Belmont County
Farmers Club, will be held in the Presby-
terrain church, st. Clairyille, Ohio, We'd
nesday and Thursday, January D and o:
An excellent programme has been arranged
and will be carried out.
YESTERDAY afternoon, as a small boy
was passing a coal hole on Market street,
into which a load of dusky diamonds was
being shoveled, he was surprised to suddeniy
fnd a shower Of coal rafting down over
his head and shoulders, knocking hin al
most senseless. He was 80 small that the
driver did not notice him