Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-19
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"a NIGAr IN JERSEY" opens ut the
Grand Opera House Thursday evening.
THE Little Washington Council has
adopted sn electric light ordinances.
Two desdsof trust were admitted to rec
ordsd 1t CLARK Hooks Office yesterday.
THsis good Christmas Weather-that
is to say, il is if il is the same as last even
ing.
THERE was one case in Police Court
yesterday morning. The charge was dis
missed.
APARTY Of MaSors INDUCED in q pleas
ant little banquet at the Hotel Windsor
last evening.
A MEETING of the Board OF Directors Of
the German Pioneer Society will be held
this evening.
STANTON & DAVENPORT have q foe
hue Of diaries and physicians call books
Look at them.
MARIA BAYLEss was yesterday sppoint-
ed administrative Of the estate OF Thomas
Bsyless deceased. Bond $1,000, William
Ii Travis security.
FRANK CHURCH, white, and Nelse Berry,
colorsd, engsged in . lively fight, at Tenth
and Market streets, yesterday ~aftsrnoon.
Officer LukeDs locked them up.
GEO. L. burst has had Elk candy makers
employed for the past two weeks, and
they work until mi o'clock every morn
ing. The candy business is certainly
booming.
A CERTIFICATE from Secretary of State
Walker, setting forth that the charter Of
the Commercial Bank bad been extended
for fifty years, was filed in Clerk Hooks
office yesterday.
THE Office of the receutly-orgaDizsd
Western Cut Nail Association has been
opened ct 1904 Main street. Supervisor
Ed. Hazlett in charge, who is required to
give q bond of $4,000.
PROF. JOHN MULLEN gave q pleasant
hop to his dancing class and former pupils
at Germans Hall, last evening. Quite a
crowd was present aud the party danced
msrrily 10 KillmeyeI's music.
A BOY aged thirteen years, who signs
bimself 81 Know" figures out the prob.
lem about the boy b,by in yesterdays
REGISTER, and finds he is seventeen years
and something over five months old.
THE sidewalks, as lots Of people digcov-
cred, were very slippery aud hard, last
evening, and when a pedestrians feet went
out from under him he discovered that he
was sitting on no sofa, by any means.
RESERVED seats Will be put on sale at
Honse's music store this morning for the
production of Streets of New York" at
the Opera House Friday evening. The
play is q splendid one and will doubtless
draw a large audience.
The Athereum and Sans Pareil Liter
ary Societies, of the Liusly Institute, give
8 musical aud literary entertainment IN
the college hall this evening, and a splen-
did programme will be rendered.
THE dance given by the Wheeling Torn
verein at their hall last evening was q great
succss. A very select sssemblsge was
present and the time wss spsnt eDJoyahly
darciug 70 music furnished by the Opera
House orchestra.
A LARGE number of citizsrs took sd
vantage of the opportunity to witre]s the
operations Of the Bohemian glass blowers,
under the Gr0ni Opera House, yesterday
afternoon and last evening. The exhibit
ton is very interesting and will we'll repay
all who attend. Open every afternoon a2d
evening.
The miuers employed in the Kasley q
Brooks coal works have gone out on a
strike for a change in the name of pay
ing. They demand 2 cents per bushel for
coal as it comes from the mines instead OF
so cents per screened ton, as they formerly
received. The firm refused to concsde the
demand and the men are ont.
THERE wss DO business transacted in
tie Circuit Court, yesterday. Thespprais-
ers in the condemnation proceedings insil-
tuted Dy the Board of Education v. James
A. Henry, made a report, fixing the value
of the property st 81, 400. The defendant
will appeal to Court, and ask for a hearing
before a Jury. John o. Pendleton is cOun-
sci.
THERE is a report cureat through the
county that a flood relief order from the
county committee for 1888 had been re-
ceiyed by John Pfarr, of Pleasant Valley.
The fact is the order in question was
drawn in favor OF John G.. Fsrrer, of Val
ley Grove. Instead Of receiving an order
from the committee Mr.. Pfarr gave them
a handsome contributor.