Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-15
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithiIy Told.

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PithiIy Told.
Two or three DRINKS were run in. last
night
THEE deeds of trust were left for record
at Clerk Hooks office, yesterday
OFFICER WATSON called out the patrol
wagon last evening, for two DRINKS.
TIE Franklin Insurance Company has
declared a dividend of three per cent
THE new addition to the Hotel Windsor,
on Twelfth street, is up TO the fourth
story.
MARKET street was sprinkled and swept,
last night and will be as clean rs a new
pin, this morning.
THE Ohio Valley Railroad may be called
the Cleveland and Pittsburg, Bellaire and
Marietta branch.
THE old Democratic County Executive
Committee met last evening, but transacted
nothing but routine business.
Two barges of fire brick arrived for Con
tractor Lemons yesterday and are being
unoaded at the lower end of the wharf.
The attention of Council is called to the
condition of the gutter on Market street,
between Twenty-1ifth and TwcntysiXth
streets.
ALEXANDER PARROT was arraigned be-
fore Justice Ankle, yesterday, for striking
John Grant with stone. He was fined
- and costs
ONO RIyERR. IL. trains leave city time,
at u. H., II 81 a. IN. and 30 p. m, and
arrive at II a. m. 3:4j p N. and p. IN. on
the new schedule.
JoHN J. JACOB was yesterday appointed
administrator of the estate of James Ridge
ley, deceased. Bond, 5000, \. X. Jacob
and Horace Ridgeley sureties.
CHRIS CARnEERY stole a flannel shirt
from G. Pfefferman Yesterday afternoon
He was arrested by Officer West. and was
committed to Jail by Justice Davis, in de-
fault of 800.
Miss JULIA FARLEY, daughter of Mr.
John Farley, and a young lady possessing
a host of friends, died yesterday after
long illness, of typhoid fever Her death
will occasion widespread regret.
Mrs. c. HOMER WELLS died at an early
hour yesterday morning, at the residence
OF Mrs l.. w. Wells, on South Chaplie
street, and the sad event will call forth the
sympathy ola large circle of friends.
ONE hundred shares of Wheeling and Bel
mont Bridge stock changed hands Satur
day and yesterday at 81 per share, par
being 50. The stock was sold by gentle
man who desires to make large real estate
improvements, and was eagerly snapped up
al the figures given.
Mrs. JULIA MCANDHEWs, wife of John
McAudrcws, died at the residence OF the
family on Thirteenth street, Just before
noon Yesterday, aged e. years. The funeral
will take place tomorrow morning at hali-
past eight, requiem high mass being SAID at
the Cathedral at nine o'clock.
l.. hoe IooY e,,,.rrot-ivor
q railway line from UniOntowu TO Wheel
ing, and has completed the work. IS the
b. s; o. contemplating another short line
or is the Pensie going to secure western
cut of via Uniontown. Waynesburg and
Wheeling: -MonongdhclG Republicans
THE b. q 0. employees west of the Ohio
river are in a perSpiring state Of uncer
tainty over the action of General Superin
tendent Edward Dickinson of Newark,
where he discharged fifty men out of the
shops at that point Saturday. 1t was his
first official visit to Newark since his ap-
pointment
THREE men were arraigned before Justice
Davis, yesterday, on warrants charging
them with beating up Walker, the colored
man. out the creek, Sunday, but counsel
for the defense .aised the point that rs the
alleged Offensc took place in Marshall
county. there was no jurisdiction in Ohio
county, and the cases were dismissed.
THE b. X 0. have issued orders that all
engines must be equipped with steel axles,
side and main rod and crank pins. The in
creased weight TO be hauled by the engines
necessitates this change and the safety of
the public demands stronger material
than wrought iron. This is good move
and although expensive, will put the b. X
o. in the lead.
MEssRs. SWEENEY X SoN started up one
of their new wire nail machines, yesterday,
and il worked in the most satisfactory
manner turning out inch and a half nails
al tie rate of about $50 per minute. Nail
manufacturers and others interested are in
yited 10 call and inspect this machine in
operation. and look at the product. The
machine was described in detail in the
REGISTER, couple Of months ago.
THERE were nine cases in Police Court
yesterday morning. Len Barrett got -
and costs for committing "a filthy act, and |
McGraue, one of the men arrested NJ the
Fair grounds Saturday night was sent 10
the hill. Theodore Seagrass had his case
dismissed After Court was over and Me |
Crane was brought outside the City Hall
for transportation to the work house, he
broke away, and ran clear out to the oil re-
finery before Chief Delbrugge, who was in
pursuit, could capture him.