The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-05-23
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Matters of Minor Moment in and About the

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Matters OF Minor Moment in and About the
City.
CHERRIES are ripe, and yesterday made
their appearance In market.
NEARLY all the striking boys at the
Laughlin mill have returned to work.
OFFICER CRUIsE yesterday arrested q
countryman for indecent exposure IN
public,
A WAGON belonging to NJ, Reilly and
heavily laden with bacon broke an axle
yesterday,
OpERA HOUSE this eyening-Anniyer'
sary entertainment by Welcome Lodge
A, o, U, W, ..-
R, NJ. GILLELAND has in another
column a notice Of Importance to house
holders and property owners.
A SMALL blaze at l7l2 EoG street was
extinguished before serious harm result
ed, by the AtlantiC's Babcock extln-
guisher,
HARRY LYDECE, a workman At the
Riverside pipe works, let o heavy pipe
roll on his right leg yesterday morning.
breakingit.
THR First English Evangelical Luz
theran Sunday School will take an ex'
cursion on May 80, Decoration Day. 10
Cressap's Grove on the steamer Courier
THREE Island line horse ears were
brought out Of the shop Yesterday, fresh
" painted and looking like new. They
will be a decided improvement ON the
present ones, Il
THERE were ten cases in the police
court yesterday, all from one gambling
room, and the one fine OF $50 and costs
and nine Of S. and costs each netted the
city treasury 500,
The Junior Order OF United Ameri,
can Mechanics Of this place will attend
the State celebration by that order on
Wheeling Island, July 4th, says the New
Cumberland Independent
The rain yesterday eGeCtually stopped
the work on Market street, and showed
that the gutter at Fourteenth street
won't do. The water lay In 1t in pud'
die instead Of running oil.
THE Woman's Benevolent Society Of
the lions German Lutheran church are
10 give festival at Germania hall this
evening. The hall has been handsome
ly decorated for the event.
Mr.. AIKEN, o clever representative g
| the Robinson circus, who has been Will
it for over q score OF years. Is at tht
Hotel Windsor. He lsarranglng for the
appearance Of the show here June $.
SOME tall hustling Is being done by
the Union bridge builders. A steau
hammer arrived from Cleveland yester
day. The dredge boat Is doing gooc
work. The building Of the piers for till
big bridge is already attracting much az
tention. ...
AN excursion OF the Women's Relic
Corps OF Steubenville will arrive on ~
Abner O'Neal this morning. All thI
members OF Holiday w. r. Q. are re
auestcd 10 meet them at the boat. Tit
| G. A. K. Hall will be open all day TO re
ceive them.
TIE weather was still cold enough tQ'
fires and oYerCoats yesterday. Vegeta
tion is delayed and the farmers sprint
work hindered badly by this unseasona
IDLE spell, which Is all the worse, coming
after several days Of unusually warn
weather for May,
CLERK Hook yesterday admitted L
record two deeds OF trust and a deco
made June II, 1888, by Robert Crawiort
and wife, OF Cameron, TO Oliver 2 NIL
Ter, in consideration Of Sl25, for lot !.
on Charles street, in the Buena Vista ad
dition, Second ward. yy
YESTERDAY a lineman threw tele
graph wire over the electrical railroaC
wire, and Officer John Shorts caughl
hold Of the end TO pull 1t over. He re
Ceived q shock which nearly paralyzet
him and preventing his letting go. It'll
simply wonderful. with the number o
minor accidents that have occurred, tina
nobody has been killed.
CORONER SCnuLTzE has received a let
ter from Thomas Lyons, No. ll07 Millei
street, Second ward, Philadelphia, In
which the writer states he learned, two
weeks ago, that his son had been killed
by a locomotive, at or near this city, on
or aboutt the first OF last December. lie
says the accident occurred while the boy
was getting of train, he being struck
by a shifting engine which was passing
at the time. Nobody here recalls such
an accident.
CHRISTIAN scHNErP, the we'll known
Opera Hovse corner druggist, had placed
in his handsome establishment yester'
day, n superb piece Of furniture in the
shape Of a prescription case. The front
Is composed Of a French plate mirror, in
size about seven by three feet, with side
panels OF handsome decorative cathedral
glass. The wood work is Of cherry,
highly finished. Mr.. schnept has alsc
purchased a new pair Of scales that are
inaryels OF delicate mechanism.