Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-23
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

Pithily Told.
JUDGE PAUL. will hold special term OF
/ the Circuit Court Friday.
THREE deeds of trust were left for record
by Clerk Hook, yesterday
The street. sweeper was at work down in
the Eighth ward, yesterday.
THE Barnyard Oil Company yesterday
declared dividend of u per cent.
A CALLED meeting of the Ladies Hospi-
tai Association will be held tomorrow
evening.
THERE were sixty-two arrivals at the
Mcclure House yesterday, nearly nifty oil
whom took rooms.
IKE SMITH, who was sent up 10 jail by
Justice Davis. in default of three fines, was
released yesterday
\ TUNNEL employee named Milton John
son had one of his arms badly Injured yes
terday, while at work.
THERE was > feet 10 inches in the chan
mel at Pittsburg yesterday. Here there IS
about - inches OF water.
SARAH REILLY was yesterday appointed
guardian for Anna ErmOn, aged Il, orphan
of Charles ErmOn, deceased.
THE annual examination of public
! school teachers will take place at the room
Of the Board of Education on August 4.
The attention of paving contractors is
called 10 the advertisement of proposals
for work at Little Washington. published
/ elsewhere
THE steamer II. X Bedford, of Nash
vile, worked her way up to the wharf,
yesterday, with considerable amount OF
| live stock on board
SEVERAL DRINKS were gatheredup by the
patrol wagon, Yesterday afternoon. one
of them was j. f. Brettner, a member OF
Fort Wayne Union No. =.
\ MARRIAGE license was issued yesterday
to Peter NJ. Fraser, native of Nova
Scotia, aged u, and Maggie Z. Wound, a
native of Nova Scotia, aged u.
Az old horse belonging to Ike Smith fell
down in Alley IL, yesterday, and was al
lowed TO lie there all day, in the hot sun,
with about Z barrel of flies on 1t.
The iron bridge to be erected by the
Wheeling Bridge and Terminal Railway
Company. at Twenty-eighth and Woods
streets, has arrived and will soon be IN
place.
ALI. former students are invited by the
students of the Wheeling Business College
to picnic with them AZ the Park, Friday
afternoon, July 18th. The party will leave
on the - IN motor
THERE will he bicycle races on the Both
of this month at the State Fair grounds for
gold medals. There will be one ordinary
and one safety race. All information re
garding the races can be obtained OF
/ Charles GOetze.
THE frame work for the coffcrdam to be
put around the excavation Tor the west
/ channel pier of the Wheeling Bridge Com
pany's bridge over the river, is being set
up at the Ohio street wharf II Will be
/ tOwed out in a few days and sheet pillng
driven around IL.
THERE were seven cases in Police Court,
Yesterday morning Josh Kline, Tor selling
! iiuuor on Sunday, got so and costs. Bel-
| tie Chase for keeping house OF Ill Iaine'
/ cot so and costs, and in default swent 10
iail The men found in her house got the
usual - and costs.
THE millers at Bridgeport still complain
/ of the scarcity of wheat There is said to
/ be plenty here and other places. from the
/ fact as is reported, that they are paying
some T. on 10 cents more n bushel Tor IL.
/ Many of the farmers are holding Tor rise.
-Bclidtrc Independent.
/ SOME of the out-of-town papers have the
/ idea our school census was taken lin the
expectation of showing the Federal census
was wrong" Nothing of the sort; the
school census is required to be taken every
/ wear by State law. and il would have gone
right on had this not been 4 Federal census
/ year
The pickup" train on the b. X o. run
/ into the local freight at Loudcnsville yes
terday morning and smashed things up
generally. but luckily no one was injured.
/ The extent of the damage was smashed
caboose. gondola loaded with an oil well
derrick. boilers, etc, and two box cars.
| All Of the morning trains were greatly de
layed.
Ir wouldn't be bad idea, while the
river is low, TO clear away the big mass OF
cobble stones and cinders lying along the
outside edge of the paved wharf The
end of the river marks are foot deep IN
the cindcrs. and great masses Of them are
scattered all along the wharf's edge. Max
ing cinder dump of this part Of the river
ought TO be stopped.
TIE attention OF the members OF inc
/ Ladies' Hospital Association is called to
the notice in our advertising columns
of a special meeting to be held ON
Thursday evening for the purpose OF Sc
tnctine, "a site for their hospital.