Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-16
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly an'
Pithily Told.

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record by Clerk Hook yesterday.
The police made eighty-two arrests
during the first fifteen days in July.
EoFP street, from Twelfth street south,
is being prepared for the brick paving
JUDGE Campbell will hold an adjourned
special term of the Circuit Court to-day.
THE City Gas Works wagon is out Of the
shops, after being reprinted and repaired
generally
THE Board of Trustees of the Gas Works
met yesterday afternoon and transacted
routine business.
OFFICER GAUs arrested Mat. Doederick
last evening for disorderly conduct in the
Second ward.
THE c. & p. depot and the Bridge Com
pany's dollhouse at Bridgeport have been
embellished with a new coat of paint.
THERE will be requiem mass at the Ca
thedral at 9;l5 this morning over the re-
mains of the late Miss Julia f. Farley.
a NUMBER of Bridgeport citizens leave
Saturday for Canton, o., to attend the
State co. Encampment OF National
Guards.
ANOTHER barge OF stone for the east
channel pier of the new bridge over the
river has been unloaded at the upper end
of the wharf
The funeral of the late Mrs. c. Homer
Wells will take place this afternoon from
the residence of Mrs. +. w. Wells, 23O3
Chapline street.
a MARRIAGE license was issued yesterday
to Gustav A. Mayer, native of Wheeling,
aged q. and Hannah j. Birch, native of
Wheeling, aged 3D.
IT was not Charles Kurt, the druggist,
but George Courts, VINO was hurt Monday
night by falling from motor. The error
arose from transformation.
Mr.. GUSTAV a. MAYER and Miss Han
nah j Birch were married yesterday by
Rev. II. L. Swope, pastor of st. Matthews
y. +. church at his residence.
CITY Solicitor Robert White has the
work of compiling the city ordinances far
advanced. and the book will be ready for
the printer In a couple OF weeks.
Two HORSES attached to n wagon loaded
with furniture, ran away in East Wheel
ing. yesterday evening, and the contents of
the vehicle were pretty well demolished.
OFFICER WEST found a lady's pocket
book at Fourteenth and Market streets
Yesterday afternoon. The owner can get
it by calling at police headquarters, City
Hall.
THE thanks of the REGISTER are due Mr..
K. H. List, the druggist At No. 1910 Main
street, for "a handsome standard thermome-
ter of size commensurate with the hot
weather.
A coLoRED man, working at digging u
well near the head of Twelfth street, was
struck over the right eye by the crank han
die. Monday, the result being a bad cash,
which required two stitches to close.
Coon Roadway is being made on the new
bridge which will span the Ohio between
.Ftnaville and the Island. The work of
eXcavating for the abutments on the lower
bridge was commenced Monday.
ATTENTION is called to the advertise
ment in another column of valuable city
property for sale at 10 o'clock this morn
leg at the Court house. The parcels to be
offered belong TO the MOrrey estate.
CHIEF Engineer Brown of the Wheeling
Bridge and Terminal Company, City En-
gineor HOgc, and Assistant Engineer White
inspected the Seventeenth street bridge,
yesterday, preparatory TO us acceptance by
the city.
R,DpY Johnson. an aged woman. got
drunk Yesterday and went into a house on
Fifteenth street. where she laid down and
refused TO 90 out Lieut.. Frohme went up
with the patrol wagon and took Biddy to
the City Hall.
THE official board of Thompson NJ. f.
Church has very kindly granted their pas
tor. Rev. George w. Grimes, a vacation,
which he is spending in the mountains
His pulpit will be filled during his absence,
both morning and evening.
TIE Finance Committee of the Board of
Commissioners will meet to-day TO consid-
er. among other things, the annual finan-
cial statement of the Clerk. The assets
and liabilities OF the county shows an eN-
cess of assets Of about 81, COO.
INVITATIONS have been extended TO about
100 of Martins Ferry's citizens to spend
Sabbath next with one of the camping
clubs up the river. II is safe TO say they
will all be present, rs preparations are be-
ing made for their entertainment on large
scale.
Mr.. ARCH ZANE, young Island citizen
known to almost every resident of that sec
ton of the city, and esteemed by all for his
many excellent qualities, died at his resi-
dence Yesterday after a long Illness of
typhoid foyer. His death occasioned much
regret last evening when the sad fact be-
came known.
WHILE William Albert, 4 farmer, was
driving through Fulton yesterday morning
with a two horse wagon load of potatoes
his animals frightened at the a. NJ moter
and backed over a twenty-foot bank at Mr..
Yocke's, splitting the potatoes and small
boy who was on the wagon over about an
acre Of ground. Fortunately no one was
hurt.
YRsTERnY'S REGISTER noted the death OF
Mrs John McAndrews. at the residence oil
the family in East Wheeling. Yesterday
John McAndrews, Jr., received telegram
from his wife, who is visiting at ST. Joseph,
Wetzel county. containing the sad news
that their child had died there. Mr.. Me
Andrews left for Wetzel county at once,
and cannot be here to-day at his mothers
funeral.
THERE were eleven cases in Police Court,
Yesterday morning. Sweeney and Norman,
for beating up the man Smith, at Main and
Twenty-frst streets, were both fined, Nor
man getting - on one charge and y on
another. and Sweeney =. Sutton, the
third man arrested, was dismissed. Char
lev Bortey, for refusing TO move on when
reauestsd by an officer, was fined 81. All
the other cases were DRINKS