Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-14
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly an"
Pithily Told.

nI,pKrr and Main streets were given
inuch-needed cleaning yesterday.
FIVE deeds of trust were left for record
at Clerk Hooks Office yesterday.
THE brick pavement on Sixteenth street,
in front of the City Hall, is In terrloie
condition,
THE high water in the river has again
stopped work on the west channel span oil
the Island bridge.
THE Pan Handle pay car arrived IN the
city Yesterday and handed out the nlthy
lucre to the employees.
THE REGISTER is under obligations to the
Wheeling Pottery Company for par OF
their handsome adamantine CHINA paper
weights.
THE sleeping apartments at the Hook ana
Ladder house on Twenty-first street, nave
been recarpeted, and now present noOoy
appearance.
OFFICER I.UKENs went out TO Cniontown
Yesterday to bring back the man charged
with robbing Charles Seabright, oil ben
wood, of Sl05.
A MARRIAGE license was issued Yesterday
10 Mac. Crupe, a native OF Marshall county,
aged %. and Mary McGugien, native oil
ireland, aged 81.
\ VAC stole snuff-cOlored overcoat from
Hanna & Clemmans' Fulton paper mill,
Wednesday night, and succeeded III getting
away with the garment.
MANAGER RIEsTER has booked the Bos-
ton Ideal Opera Company for two nights.
Il will be here in about month Inc or
ganization is stronger this year than ever
ONE day last weeks Ed Steele, of the
L,I bic foot cannlt tue
elevator at Geo. s. Feeney's, on Nam
street, MASKING the great toe on his right
foot.
NORTH Wheeling woman is said to
have eloped, during Wednesday night,
with one Of her boarders, leaving the other
boarders in the lurch, rs Regards break
fast.
THERE were three cases in Police Court,
Yesterday morning, James Thomas, for dis
order. got so and costs, and ID. w. Jonh,
son got s. aud costs for carrying concealed
weapons. A vag went to the hill.
Az electric motor ran into buggy,
driven by two ladies, on Market street,
about half-past three yesterday afternoon.
One wheel was knocked of the buggy, out
fortunately neither of the ladies were hurt.
Mr.. PETER BELTz. one of the oldest resi-
dents of Ohio county, died at his home on
Peters run, yesterday morning, at the al,
yanced age of 81 years. The funeral Will
take place Saturday morning attic O'CLOCK.
PRor. KEoGH, of the Turner's, yesterday
received handsome and very useful piece
of apparatus which was on exhibition dur
| ing the afternoon and evening, yesterday.
The new apparatus will be particularly
valuable for children.
THIS evening at 1:45 Rev. Mr.. Afford
will conduct u specially interesting service
for Young men ut the y. NJ. G. a. building.
Subject: knowing what he ought TO do,
out refusing Mark y, l7-22. Young men
are urged 10 be present.
! EDWARD COLLINS, a boy who has already
sevved one term in the penitentiary, was
before Justice Davis, yesterday, on a
charge of petit larceny. He pleaded guilty,
and was sent to Jail to await the action oil
the grand jury, in default of 500 bail.
The Butchers Protective Association
took i'm seven new members at their meet
ing Wednesday evening, and about all the
butchers in the city now belong to the
organization. Hereafter the Association
will meet at X. of II. Hall, in McLain S
block.
A MUCH-NEEDED improvement was made
at the intersection of alley nine and Market
street, yesterday morning, the brick cross
/ ing over the alley being lowered so as to
permit of better drainage Repairs are
also being made to the brick pavement at
Eighth and Main streets.
JAMES GRIFFITH, veterinary surgeon
from Belmont county. and pretty well
known in this county, was tried Tuesday
| for the stealing of valuable horse belong
ing TO Wood johnson, Il farmer residing
between Carlisle and Stafford. The jury
returned verdict of not guilty Gldrel
Republican.
IT is likely the big sewer, at the site OF
the Main street stone bridge, will be COM
pleted to-day, with the exception OF sinking
the well, ut the northeast corner OF Main and
Sixteenth streets. \ force OF men were at
work yesterday driving piles in order TO
complete the Golfer dam AZ the north a0ut-
ment of the bridge.
THERE VIII be "a special meeting of the
Chamber OF Commerce this evening at
half-past seven o'clock, to consider the
proposition TO petition the Board of Com
missioners TO submit an ordinance to the
peOple providing for a loan OF SlOO,OW III
aid of the Pittsburg, CannOnsburg and
State Line railroad.
THE first sale of lots in the new town OF
Kenova, Wayne county, at the point where
the extension of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, now building through West Nir-
giuia, strikes the Ohio river, will com
mence Wednesday of next week, at III a.
m. The advantages which this new town
offer are very marked, and it undoubtedly
has future.
THE Board of Commissioners Commit
tee ON Roads and Bridges met yesterday to
consider the petition Of the Manufacturers
Natural Gas Company regarding changing
the location of its pipe line on the river
road, north of the city. The committee
decided to grant the privilege asked tenn
porarily, the Company to hereafter move
the pipe, at its own expense, as shall be
designated by the Board.
READERS of the REGISTER will remember
that about month ago Officer James ltus-
sell, of Elm Grove, arrested four men, IN a
box car, at Elm Grove, on the charge OF
robbing the store of James II. Noble X Co,
at Claysville. The four were arraigned In
Court, at Little Washington, "Wednesday,
when Charles Johnson and Geo. King, two
Of the prisoners, plead guilty, and Edward
Williams and Charles King, the other two,
determined to stand trial, whichis now in
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