Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-16
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly aud
Pithily Told.

Minor Matters of Interest Briefly aud
Pithily Told.
THE Committee on Health is called to
meet this evening.
BASE BALI. on the Island Park this after
noon. Wheeling vs.. Dayton.
THE Council Committee on Real Estate
is called te meet this evening.
THE river marks at Pittsburg last even
ing indicated feet rising and still raining.
The union district Democratic sugges-
ton meeting will be held Wednesday even
ing.
THERE were eighteen cases registered at
Police headquarters this morning at :
o'clock.
THE Island Democratic Club is called to
meet this evening at the Virginia street
wigwam.
CAPT. b. b. DovENER, the silver-tongued,
will address the Republicans of Barbour,
at Phillippi, TO- day.
IT was reported there was an explosion
at Reymann's brewery last evening, butno
particulars could be learned.
THE hearing of Melissa McGlumphrey,
on the warrants sworn out by Officer Hell,
will come off before Justice Ankle today.
THE water did good deal of damage
Yesterday afternoon by flooding the cellar
of j. w. Hunters establishment on Main
street.
The work of paving with stone that por-
ton of the bed of Caldwells Run lying
between Chapline and EOu streets is al
most completed.
4 CHARTER was granted Saturday by
Secretary Of State Ohley TO the Little
Kanawha Steamboat Company, with head
quarters NJ Burning Springs, w. Va
The crowd out at the Park yesterday
was something immense. The Elm Grove
road had as much business during part of
the afternoon as it could well attend to.
THERE are four Commencements this
week-the Linsly, Tuesday; Mt De Cham
tai. Wednesday; Bethany, Thursday; and
the Seguin Collegiate Institute, Friday.
La BELLE LODGE No . a. 0. L. w last
week paid - 200 to Mrs. Agnes Muller, in
full of beneficiary Certificate held by her
husband, Theodore Muller, who died April
II, 1880.
WmEELNc's share of the distributabe
school fund is Sll ,S52.59, and Ohio county,
outside of the city, gets =, 1917. The
tabulated statement will be found on the
inside of this issue.
THE commencement exercises of Frank
lin College, New Athens, o., will take
place Wednesday, June p; class exercises
Tuesday evening previous. The famous
Silver Lake Quartette, of New York, Will
furnish music for both. About twenty
will receive diplomas.
The shutting down Of the jefferson Pot
terv at Toronto throws about Sc twenty-five
men out of work. The reported cause Of
the shut down is that the company are
Quarreling among themselves. 1t Is fur
Their stated that the company will never run
under the name of Penn. Co again.
SPEAKING of the rush to the Park yester-
day, and the growing popularity of Wheel
ing as "A resort for pittSburgers on Sunday
a gentleman said: II predict that next
summer the b. Il O. will have a connection
at Elm Grove with the motor line, and b.
x o. trains full of eXcursonists will be
running right up TO the Park gates"
HoRKuErMER Bros, of this city, have
purchased the seven clips of wool accumu-
lated during the life of VIM. Butler, de
ceased. of Donegal township, Washington
county. paying 33 cents per pound The
seven clips weighed G,9O1 pounds, amount
ing to =. 2193l At the same time the clip
for the present season, COB pounds, was
sold, making total weight of 900 pounds
IA NUMBER of the local census enumera-
tors, and probably all of them, have had
their time extended until the 18th inst,
and il looks as though some of them would
not conclude their work then. Nearly all
of the enumerators have been forced to
send for additional blanks. Some instances
are coming to light where people have been
missed In one case, in the Sixth ward, at
Officer Carney's, three boarders were
missed.