Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-08
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.
Council this evening in regular session.
The Mystic Crew Fishing Club left last
Saturday for Woodlands.
ETHE Board of Directors Of the State Fair
Association will meet Thursday.
THREE deeds of trust were admitted to
record by Clerk Hook, yesterday
THE reservoir will be subjected to its an
nual cleaning Saturday morning
Tuos. DOYLE, of South Eoff street, wishes
Us TO state that it was not he who was ar
rested, on Sunday, for fighting.
IT was stated yesterday by the physi-
clans attending Mrs Chas. Bryson, that
her death was not sudden, she having been
i'll for two weeks.
THE first of a series of ten games Of ten
pins, between the "All Americas and
Wheeling Bowlers, will take place at the
Park this evening.
AN important meeting Of all the census
enumerators Of this city will be held at
Dnger's hat store on Twelfth street at ;
o'clock this evening.
FREDERICK BAKER was yesterday APP
pointed administrator of the estate OF Fred
erick Baker, Sr., deceased. Bond, SiOO;
Joseph II. Force, surety.
The telephone system was put in opera
ton yesterday for the first time since the
big electric storm. The old-time jingle OF
the bells was welcome sound.
THERE have been hotter days than yes
terday, but very few during which the heat
was felt more by suffering humanity.
Workingmen all over the city suffered
greatly.
The picnic to be given by the Brother
hood OF Carpenters and Joiners, at the
Fair Grounds, Saturday, will be biz sue
cess, if one can judge by the present indl-
cations
YESTERDAY Andrew Groves, a quarry
man, employed around the hill' and llv-
ing on Market street. near Seventh, was
overcome by the intense heat, and had TO
be taken home.
THr following officers were installed in
Franklin Lodge No. 3, /. o. O. T., yester-
day: \. c., John l.. Taylor: Y. G., II. \.
Floto; Secretary, G. X. Smith, Treasurer,
b. f.. Caldwell.
MIR. HENRY BLUMENRERG, a former well
known citizen of Wheeling, died at Mingo
yesterday afternoon. The announcement
of his death will be heard with sincere re-
greet by large circle of friends.
A CROWD Of small boys who had been
PLAYING ball in Wheeling on the Fourth
succeeded in getting their hides pretty well
soaked with beer Some of them had never
INDUCED before. Beliairc Independent.
THE work of tearing down the old Bore
man house, at Fourteenth and Chapllne
streets, began yesterday. The building
was erected in 1909, and was a fine resi-
dence in its day, witha lawn sloping across
Market and Main streets 10 the river. y
block of modern residences will be erected
on the site.
THE work of driving piles for the false
work of the channel span of the Union rail
road bridge was commenced yesterday. and
will be pushed by the contractors with tie
utmost dispatch. This is the third time
they have begun to set up the false work
for this span, and it is to be hoped it will
now 90 on to finish.
RakNHILI n SIMMONS are making large
steel platform fol the Mingo steel works.
The work on the two large steel convert
ers is being pushed rapidly and will soon
be completed. They received the contract
Yesterday morning for large tubular boiler
from East Liverpool. Their force has been
doubled the past week.
AT Banesville about midnight Saturday
night, Emmett Perry, u well-l1nown charac-
ter. was shot and probably fatally wounded
| bv a man named Van FOssen. 1t is said
| that Van Fossen intended the shot for au-
other man. Perry served a term in the
| Ohio penitentiary for forgery. He was
/ living at last accounts.
/ a TELEGRAM from Madison, Ind, an
nounces the fact that the floater found
there, last Tuesday, has been identified as
Z the body of Adam Coleman, OF this city.
who was drowned of the towboat Acorn,
( two miles above Vevay, Ind Sunday, June
/ %, The remains were bupied and viii not
be brought back to the city.
A SAD death yesterday morning about 8
O'Clock was that of DR.. S. b. Mccormick,
who expired at his residence on the Ma
tioual road, about two miles east of the
city, after an illness of about three weeks,
| from typhoid fever. a week ago DR. Nc
Cormick bid fair to make a rapid recovery,
but a relapse set in, and the patient stcadl-
/ ~ sank until death claimed him.
THE effort to get -p boat race between
Henry He'll and John Muth died the usual
death. 1t is perhaps as well. There has
been much blowing between these two
sports for some time and each season brings
out a challenge from Hell, but fails to
bring response. Most people are as wei!
satisfied with this solution az they would ha
with any other Bciloiro Independent.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yesterday
| 10 James McNail, native OF New York,
AGED 80. and Barbara Auth. ii ma
tive Of Wheeling, aged %; also TO Samuel
/ ID. :. Salkeld. a native Of Bedford county,
Pa, and willamette Sife. native Of
] - Do al 20 I.f1n
Fessler. a native of Fulton county. Pa.
aged 30. and May NJ. Salkeld, native Of
Fulton county, Pa, aged 30.
I FHERE We're sixtcon cases in Police
Court. Yesterday morning. George Ridge
ley, tue colored piano FOUNDER got $40 and
costs George livingston got 81 and costs
for disorder. Malev and johnson. for be
ING ont with Kate Schell and Mrs. Turner,
cot 81 and costs: Bessie Allen and Nellie
Smith cot the same fines, and the Judge
scored the officer for not arresting the men
who were out with the two women. The
other iisorderlies got - and $ and costs
eao'.
If YOU have made up your mind %
buy Hoods SarSaparilla do not be In
duced to take any other. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla is a peculiar medicine, possess
ing. by virtue of its peculiar combina-
ton. proportion and preparation, cura'
tive power superior TO any other article
Of the kind.
July 1St to July 9TH, inclusive, the
b. x o. will sell excursion tickets from
Wheeling TO st. Paul at one fare for the
round trip, good returning until July
18th. BY depoSiting the return portion
of ycur ticket with a. +. Merrill, join
agent of the terminal lines At st. Paul
before July 18th, the return limit vii
be extended to September 80.
2I,2.A6,7,s.
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