Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-23
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly ana
Pithily Told.

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TIE marks at the landing last evening
showed feet 9 inches and rising.
Two DEEDS OF TRUST were left for rec
ord at Clerk Hooks Office yesterday
GEORGE SQUIGGINs, of Bellaire, has been
appointed ticket agent for the q. y u III
this city.
THE Committee on Court House and jan
of the Board of Commissioners VIII meet
at ten o'clock this morning.
You've MEMS meetings at Y. NJ. c. A.
building at 5 o'clock tonight and O'Clock
tomorrow. All men invited.
THERE will be a foot race between
Thomas Brannon and William Geraghty,
of Benwood, for Sl0a side, to-day
The sewer pipe for the new sewer on the
west side of the Second ward market house
has been hauled up from the wharf.
THE Bachelor Club had merry dance
on Main street last night, supplemented by
q banquet at Nankeuren's restaurant
PARISH has been awarded the CON
tract for the erection Of two l3-t0ot men
kilns by the Warwick China Company.
| ATTENTION is called to the change Of time
made bv the Ohio River railroad, as indi-
Gated BY the timetable in another column
OFFICERS Gaus and Watson, assisted by
| Northumberland Dunlap, killed two dogs
| in the Second ward. last night. After four
shots had been fired into one of the ours,
stranger killed il with stick.
| WIT. HENRY, Supreme Secretary of the
order of the Shield OF Honor, IS in the CITY,
| He is here in the interest OF the order, ana
several lodges Of this beneficial organiza-
| ton are in process of institution in the city.
THE preliminary examination of David
/ Plate. who attempted TO murder his sister,
I Mrs. William Gibson, about ten days ago,
/ is set TO come of before Justice Davis TINS
morning at ten o'clock. Mrs. Gibson IS
steadily improving.
THERE We're eight cases in Police Court
yesterday. The case of jennie Miller,
charged with keeping house OF i'll fame,
was continued, ON account of the illness OF
/ the defendant. George NARROW, for com
hitting u nuisance was given sixty days.
MURRAY Bros, the contractors for the
erection of the new Court House, were on
the site of the building yesterday, and will
get 10 work the first of the coming week.
They will surround the lot with high
board fence, as preliminary breaking
| ground.
! SECRETARY or STATE OHLEY and State
! Superintendent of Schools Morgan, mem
/ berS Of the Board of Public Works, arrived
at the Windsor yesterday, in readiness for
the meeting to-day Governor Fleming
and wife arrived last night, and are at the
same hotel
ANYONE who has passed through the Sec
ond ward market house after ten o'clock
at night, knows something about the large
number of rats infesting the place. The
other night several colored men got big
steel trap, and caught thirteen rats in about
an hour and half
The opening of the Grand on Monday
evening promises TO be the event of the
season. Dan McCarthy's True Irish Hearts
Company will be the opening attraction
and the company is said TO be the best that
has ever appeared here in that drama. The
sale of seats is now on at Weir's, and every
indication at this writing seems favorable
for large audience. Those who desire
seats should secure them at once as the
standing room sign is sure TO be out on
Monday evening next
Four members Of the Island Gun Club
put in a little practice yesterday afternoon,
and despite the inclement weather made
some creditable scores. The members of
the club practice twice week, and are at
tanning considerable proficiency. II is pro-
posed to have a grand pigeon shoot on the
4th of September, in which well-known
shots from Pittsburg. Parkersburg, Wash
ington. Pa, and other places will partici-
pate. There will be fully twenty-five crack
/ gunners present, and big scores may be
] Looked for