Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-26
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.


Pithily Told.
PIowrNe is general throughout the coun-
try at present
Two deeds of trust were left for record
at Clerk Hooks Office, yesterday.
THE communication signed 'B' viii ap-
pear in day or two being crowded out
this morning.
THE last will and testament Of John w.
Boring was admitted TO probate yesterday
Josephine Boring was named as eXecutrlN.
THE second hole being drilled by the
Wheeling Bridge Company contractors, at
the east end of Ohio street, is down about
thirty-siX feet.
PHE entertainment given at Union school
last evening, by the pupils of the Grammar
room. was a gratifying success, and was
enjoyed by large audience.
PEDDLERs and falirs will have to pay
from 81 To $40 per day. livery stables from
$40 10 so per year. and express wagons
from 3. 80 TO so per year 10 do business AT
Martins Ferry.
IT seems 10 be the impression in Bellaire
that the PENNSYLVANIA railroad IS furnish
inc about everything necessary for the
building of the new Ohio Valley railroad,
from Belaire south along the river TO Mar
ietta
AN oil lease from John Brownlee to j..
B. Chambers. for 22l acres OF land IN
Triadelphia district, was put on record AT
Clerk Hooks Office yesterday Consider
alton. one-eighth the oil and sou Tor each
gas well.
The Victor Oil and Gas Company, with
a capital stock Of 500, and the Casseli on
Company, with capital Of sl,OOO' nave
been chartered by Secretary OF STATE
Ohley. The stockholders are all Wheeling
capitalists.
Amour noon Yesterday "a union bridge
workman, whose name could not be ascel-
tanned. fell from the bridge and sustained
broken nose and badly distigured face
DR. Garrison rendered the necessary medi-
cal attention.
THERE were eleven cases in Police Court
Yesterday morning. George Meyers, lor
running a poker room at his saloon, was
fined so and costs, and eight players got
~ and costs each. The Pittsburg business
man got $40 and costs for smuggling girl
Jrsr as the clock struck seven last e1en-
ing. an alarm of fire from the Reymann
Brewery called the department TO that eN-
tensive enterprise. where a fire had broken
ont in the roof Of the boiler house Inc
blaze was quickly extinguished, the damage
being nominal
Tar Builders Exchange held a meeting
last evening. but did nothing of public I'M
nortance The situation was talked over,
and member said they were determined
10 keep a stif upper lip and were IN hne
shape. The carpenters also held a meeting
and the same remark may be applied 10
their case.
TuF engineers who have been engaged
in drilling for bed rock for the piers OF the
Wheeling Bridge Company, just below the
Suspension bridge, will anchor a barge IN
the river to-day for the purpose Of drilling
for the location of one Of the river piers.
II is understood the contract for the stone
work will be let next Monday.
The India Rubber World and Electrical
Rsrieir is the name of a handsome trade
iournal published in New York City
nv Nlessrs. John r. Dunlap, OF
this city. and II. c. Pearson.
The paperis devoted TO the caoutchouc,
putta percha and allied industries, such as
celluloid. asbestos. electrical supplies, etc,
and besides being ably edited, has an eX-
tensive advertising patronage and seems to
be in prosperous shape, generally.
TuE new summer schedule on the Wheel
ING and Elm Grove railroad Will 60 into ei-
feet on the 18th The first train VIII leave
the city at $50 a. m. and the next at o;lO'
and the last viii leave az $3.50 p. m. Inc
first train will leave the Park at 10 a. m.
and the last at Top. N. On Sundays the
first train will leave the city at a. III. ana
will run every hour, except the church
train. which viii leave at 9l3 p. m. The
first train will leave the Park on Sunday
at U. m. and will run every hour.
THURSDAY an alligator measuring over
six feet i'm length was found floating in the
river near the ferry landing at Martins
Ferry. II was pulled out Of the water and
stretched ON plank, where II was viewed
bv large number of persons. 1t was
Southern one. and judging fronts appear
ance must have been dead several weeks.
II is supposed TO have belonged TO some
show or museum, and, having died was
thrown in the river at Pitts5urg
or some other point up the river Many
think II grew in the river, and one man
saws IL died from the grip. Others say 1t IS
the sea lion which escaped from John Rob
inson's circus several yeaIs ago.