Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-03
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graphed for Hasty Readers.
TIE iewelry stores are now kept open in
the evenings.
SIXTEENTH street, between Chspline
nd Market, is being recobbled.
EUGENE ARNETT has been appointed
page in Part of the Circuit Court.
CHIEF DUNNING, of the Fire Depart
ment, is eff on a vacation or two weeks.
THE Council Committee on Streete,
Alleys and Grades, is called to meet this
evening
THERE will be an occulation of Jupiter
by the moon between 6 and o'clock this
evening.
COMPLAINT is made that farmers are
dumping night soil on the Neill farm, near
Mt de Chantsl.
WALTER WORKS was unfortunate enough
to take header on Fourteenth STREET, Sun
day, spraining his ankle badly.
THE entries for the State Fair RACES
closed last evening. They will be duly
announced tomorrow morning.
The regular "summer stop" of the win
dow glass houses has expired, but the
workmen are loafng Just the same.
Mr.. F. Krcgh, of Jamestown, has been
engaged as instructor by the Turnverein,
and will give his first lesson this evening.
THE oil well being drilled on the Abra-
ham Watson farm, near Short Creek, is
down about 800 feet. The indications are
very encOurag ing.
ED. DENIS will open his saloon at Ful-
ton Wednesday night with grand concert
by the full Opera House orchestra, and all
who attend are assured of a good time.
OSCAR SEELEY is about ready to COM
mence work on the contract for the plumb
ing for the Wheeling Ice and Storage Com
pany's plant, on Water street, South Side.
AMONG the trade displays in Saturdays
parade, that of the Red Cross Oil was no
ticeable for good taste and effectiveness.
The big bottle attracted general attention.
LOUIS CARL has purchased the saloon,
No. 1925 Market street, and is renOvating
it and fixing it up nicely. lie sold his
saloon at 1114 Market street TO Mr.. August
Hanke.
IDA WALTON was before Justice Davis,
last evening, on a warrant sworn out by
Melissa McGlumphry, charging her with
profane swearing. A fine Of 81 and costs
was assessed.
IT is understood the Board of Pablo
Works will commence work OF the new
water marks at the wharf at an early date.
Now Is the accepted time, while the river
is practically dry.
Miss VENIEJ. LEE, of Hancock county,
has been awarded the Peabody scholarship
at Nashville University, by Supt. w. h.
Anderson and Prof ROemer. There were
only two contestants.
Thee, L * W. wharfboat was moved
from its usual landing at the foot of
Twelfth street yesterday afternoon, TO the
Belmont mill, as it was no longer sccessi-
bic at the wharf, because Of the low water.
ABOUT the first thing some Of the boys
know, they will be run in for trying to
have fun with the police by blowing BIZ
cycle whistles on the street, along about
midnight. There was an aggravated in
stance at 1 O'Clock this morning.
THE river is going down two inches
day, and the marks last evening on the
landipPregistered ust 20 inches and falling
This can only last about ten days longer,
and then the marks will be useless and the
river nothing more than a brook.
THE question of whether or not we will
have a State Wheel Meeting here this iall
will probably be decided within a few
days. It is to be hoped the meeting will
be held Ii the event comes off, it will be
the first week in October.
ED Tragic, the young man who posed
ss Secretary Morris Of the Standard Oil
Co., at Steubenville recently, is now in
all in default Of 500 bond to await the
action of the Grand Jury on the charge Of
obtaining board under false pretenses.
A DOUBLE team belonging to a farmer
took fright on Sixteenth street, yesterday
about 8 .. m, and ran east to MCOulloch,
where the wagon wss overturned. The
team dragged the wagon bottom up to
Fifteenth street, when some glass house
men stopped the horses.
MRS A. G. EGERTER and a committee of
ladies will be on the State Fair Grounds
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this
week, from l to 5 o'clock each day, for
the purpose of receiving entries and arti
cles in the Ladies and Ohildren's and
Art Departments. The entries clc1e Sep
TENDER Z, at p. m.
THERE wc9 en- exceedingly lively fight
at the corner Of Jacob aud Seventeenth
streets, about seven O'Clock last night, the
participants being Fred BerkhaTd and
mau named Norman. The latter claimed
that Berkhsrd struck him with pair of
steel knucklers. The matter will be in
vestigated in Police Court.
WIN. SAvAGEOT was arrested yesterday
by Constable Lauchlin on complaint of
Myrtle 8anD, who charges him with as
sault and battery and using prOfane Ian
gusSe. He was arrsigned before Justice
Arkle, but the case weJ continued over
until this evening at 7 o'clock, on account
Of the absence of important witnesses.
THE Little Washington Fair, under the
auspices of the Western Pennsylvania
Agricultural Association, will be opened
at Washington, September II, and will
close the following Saturday. The attrac-
tions at this Fair promise to be better this
year than ever before, which is saying a
great deal, and the racing programme is an
excellent one.
IT seems as though Mayor Seabright did
not receive satisfaction through his substi-
tute, who acted in his place in a contest
for silk hat at the firemen's picnic at the
Park some weeks since, and it has been
suggested by the friends of Mayor Mike
Stein and Mayor Ssabright that they run
foot race on the State Fair grounds on
Thursday, the big day OF the Fair. A
contest between these gentlemen would be
great drawing card for the Fair.
If You have made up your mind to buy
Hoods Sarssparilla do not be induced to
take any other. Hoods Sarssparilla is a
peculiar medicine, possessing, by virtue Of
it's peculiar combination, proportion and
preparation, curative power superior to
any other article Of the kind.
About the Rivers Above
Yesterdays Pittsburgh Commercial Ga
zette says: At present the rivers about
Pittsburgh sre in a precariOus condition.
They ore extremely low. and it is darby
limited that il they ge. much lower their
existence as rivers will be at an end.
Thenceforward their name will be mud.
In fact they are 81 near mud now as they