Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-08
TIE CITY IN BRIEF.
matters of Minor Importance Picked Up
Ahout Town,

Matters OK MINOR importance Elckoo OP
About Town.
TaE churches were well attended yestes-
day.
BURR OAKS at the Academy of Music
tonight.
The Western Nail Association meets in
Cincinnati, on Wednesday.
HIS HONOR will have quite number OF
cases before him this morning.
THE trial of Elmus Gump will De re-
sumed in the United States Court to-day.
A LIGHT snow began to fall about II
o'clock last night, which melted rapidly.
The Committee on Buildings of the
Board of Commissioners will meet this
morning.
Dr.. T. Il. LOGAN will give "a plain
talk to young men" at the Y. N. c. A.
rooms to morrow evening.
The weather yesterday wss lovely, and it
brought out large number of pedestrians,
both ladies and gentlemen.
Mr. JoBS MCKEE, the Island grocer,
will leave for Philadelphia, April let,
where he will enter business.
A HEAVY train Of sheet rolls at the Cres-
cent mill, which we're laid off the past wee k
on account of an accident, will resume this
morning.
A LITERARY SOCIETY has been organized
BY q Rumber If young Hebrew people and
they will hold weekly meetings in Peter
sons Hall.
EDWIN q. PRICE and wife (nee Miss
Fannie Davenport took drive about th'
city and suburbs yesterday, taking In tai
prominent points OF interest.
An amateur minstrel company vii
start ont from this city some time in April
The company is composed of good msteria
and should meet with success.
The Capitol Rink Skating and Dancing
Club give their first skating and danclns
carnival st the Capitol Rink tonight
Mayers band will make the music.
BARHLEY has served formal notice upol
President Mcknight, of the American AS
sociatioD, that unless he IS reinstated IT,
Association will bs sued for damages.
OK Friday night at the North EuC
Rink. Burkett and Shepherd skate the hrs
of their series of races, for the chsmplon
ship of West Virginia and the Ohio Val
ley.
THE North End Rink will celebrate it
first anniversary in fine style the coming
Thursday evening. A programme Q
amusemeDts has been arranged that
sure to please all.
The publishers OF the IntelligeEcer ar
making extensive Improvements 10 thei
establishment on Fourteenth street, on
being the enlargement OF the country
room to double It's old size.
TaE Chestnut Minstrel Company wheI
last heard from was within two miles Q
: Wegee, in the woods huntiug hickory nut:
having counted the cross ties as Tar az Be
laire, where they left the track.
A STILL alarm was sentin tothe Magyar
engine house ABOUT $50 o clock, yesterda
morning, caused by chimney lire at tn
residence of Mrs. Newburger, Oh Twenty
J third street. 1t was extinguished withou
any damage.
The fine weather of the past few day
has been stirring up the bicycle boys an
several of them have been taking shor
fl,es out the pike. Bicycling promises t
become a rage the coming season, and
would not be surprising to see some OF GU
young ladies take 10 tri-cycliDg.
ABOUT 2:3U yesterday morning the pc
lice made descent upon Madame Ship
house of illrepute and arrested the mad
anne, six girls and two male visitors. III
madame and tre men paid out and tn
balance were locked up. Four OF the girl
secured bail yesterday and two still remai
in the cooler.
A CRUCBLE filed with pieces OF brass
was placed in farDace az Beck y Son
brass foundry Saturday morning, when
terrible explosion occurrei, which lifted ID
2OO.pound furnace lid and cracked tn
masonry. u is thought hollow piece @
brass which had been filed with powder
was among the pieces. No other damag
was done.
THE grandest ball of the season will b
given tonight at Arion Hall by the sc
ciety. 1t will be masquerade affair an
the costumes, it is said, will be unexceE
tionally fine A great programme c
amusements has been arranged wbic
starts of with minstrel fret part, to b
followed by bewildering array OF the fines
performances imaginable. Kramer 8 tuI
orchestra will play.
YESTERDAY afternoon the Opera Hous
was filled with an audiences OF bon ton co
ored people assembled to listen to a sci
mon by Prot. Jones, Of the colored publ
school. The occasion was the annua
celebration OF the lodge OF colored o.
Fellows, and the sermon, which was a,
unusually 6oe one, was appropriate to IN
occasion. The members of the lodge wer
eli present IN full uniform.