Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-19
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly ana
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FIVE deeds OF trust were left Tor recoru
| at Clerk Hooks office, yesterday
The Bellaire police have Just found out
they have houses of ill-faue down there
ANOTHER train load of iron for the new
Island bridge has been unloaded on the
east side of the river.
Tgr well being sunk for the new sewer,
AT the northeast corner of Main and SIX
teenth streets, is down about eighteen
feet.
A POWER of attorney from the Cassell
| Oil Company TO p. B. DobbIns was lett
| for record at Clerk Hooks Office, yester-
day.
THE Etna Iron works, Ironton, will be
sold by the u. S. Marshal, November -.
and no bid less than 800, 900 will be enter
tanned.
ONE of Speidel's teams ran away on
Chapline street, yesterday morning, up
setting the truck at the corner OF Sixteenth
street.
The roads at the Warrington oil field are
so bad that work will be retarded until
SPRING Coal costs 80 cents per bushel de-
/ livered at the well.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Wheeling Park Association will be
held at the office of the Board OF Commits
sioners next Monday evening.
SHERIFF CURTIS, of Hancock county, yes
terday brought the Italian murderer re-
Gently captured in Pennsylvania, down to
the jail in this city for safe keeping
THE caisson for the west channel pier of
the new Island bridge is rapidly disappear
ing under the water, beneath the ever-in-
creasing weight of stone and concrete.
A VERY handsome picture of the men,
bers OF the Board of Commissioners, with
Clerk H. Pendleton, has been hung in
the office of the Board at the Court House.
THERE were but two cases in Police Court
Yesterday morning Frank Former and
John Shefilin were arraigned for disorderly
conduct, and were fined s. and costs each.
ENGINEER WILSON is of the opinion that
the Wheeling and Lake Erie will not be
continued up the river at present, but this
extension, however, is only question OF
| time
A CRAB at the muck mill was broken at
the Benwood mill last Friday, and the pud-
ding department has been off since, IN con-
sequence. They resumed operations last
night.
A WOMAN hailing from Ohio by the name
of Marie Barnhart was arrested about one
o'clock this morning by Officer Stanley for
prowling about the streets i'll an intoXi-
Gated condition.
HENRY BUTLER has for some time past
been having some quiet fun by slapping
ladies' faces. He was caught in the act
last evening by Officer Herbert and was
taken to the City Hall.
ARTICLES have been signed for another
/ moi paNnn and Robert
Edwards, of Martins Ferry, for 800 Il
side, 10 be run on Wheeling Island, Novem-
Der 29-distance will be l25 wards.
MEssRs. Il. II. Cotton and Col Campbell
were in town yesterday in the interest Of
the State Line road. They walked about
town and had talk with Il number of citi-
zens to get the public pulse on the matter.
THE principals of the public schools, ac-
companied by Superintendent Anderson,
went over TO Bridgeport yesterday after
noon TO inspect new system of rapid writ
ing taught by Prof. Michaels, its origina-
tor. All present were much interested in
the system.
YESTERDAY the members of the Metho-
dist Episcopal churches ''in good and regu-
lar standing" and twenty-one years of age
or over, voted on the question as to whether
or not women may go TO the General Con-
ference of the church as active delegates.
How the vote turned out has not yet been
learned.
ELECTRIC motor nina" broke chain
underneath the car at Twenty second
street, yesterday morning, and the electric
fluid was communicated TO all the metal
work throughout the car Sparks flashed
from several points, until the trolleys were
taken down The motor following 'Nn
lowed her around the loop and back to the
| barn.
TIE Board of Commissioners Committee
on Court House and Jail met yesterday
afternoon and approved the plans for the
plans for the alterations in Clerk Hooks
office, and instructed an advertisement for
bids to be inserted in the papers, the bids
to be opened on Tuesday next, at two
o'clock in the afternoon. The Committee
also agreed to ask the Board of Public
Works to lay down sewer in the alley be-
tween the Court House and the new Jail.