Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-26
SMALL TALK.
Minor. Matters of Interest Briefly ane
Pithily Told.

Pithily Told.
! I,UCY BELMoNT's house was pulled yes
terday morning and she and one man wer'
captured.
The Council Committees on Streets, Al
/ levs and Grades and on Real Estate ar
called to meet this evening.
ST. GAINESVILLE people are thinking
/ improvements. An engineer has been nNihl
grades for the streets and electrl lghls'
are talked of.
JOHN DICKEY, who went upon the Iurne
excursion TO Steubenville, was left behind
He was arrested up there for using pro
fame language.
THE Mark Twain Rod and Gun Clul
picnic on the State Fair Grounds, May 80
promises to be great success. The Doy'
will show everybody fine time.
j. Milf LEWIS of the GAINESVILLE glass
works, states that they have struck a prett!
good flow Of gas, and propose to turn II lnt'
their works.-Bclldire Independent.
LITTLE Jouy RITcmIE, of South Broad
way. aged about seven years, fell from I'M
fence around the base ball park, couple
of DAYS ago, and fractured one of his arms
President II. G.. Moore, of the Edgemool
Bridge Works, Wilmington, Del, was II
IOWu NtslcTudl, anu saw liiS NhuH -
of the Union bridge go down. He left las
evening for the East
EDITOR p. II. MOORE, of the ohio Manu-
fdoturer, had the misfortune TO fall into IN,
river in front of the wharf, yesterday al
ternoon, while boarding boat to see th'
wreckage from the Union bridge go by
TwENTY-sIX cases are registered at 20
lice headquarters for trial this morning, as
follows: five DRINKS; one fast driving
nine disorderlies; two for keeping house:
of i'll fame: seven inmates OF mousse. ah'
twelve men found in houses.
THE Turner'S excursion up TO Steu6en
vile Yesterday on the steamer Liberty
was great success, about three hundred
people going up. The Opera House orches
ira furnished the music. The boat go
back about ; 80 last evening.
TIE friends of David S. Nesbitt, Jr., one
of Neill & Ellingham's popular statesmen
will regret TO learn of the death OF his VIE
Yesterday at noon, of typhoid fever, after
short illness. Mr.. Nesbitt has been very
unfortunate, his child dying about two
weeks ago.
THE West Virginia Building Company
has been Incorporated for the pur
pose of manufacturing and dealing in
portable houses and all kinds OF building
material. The capital stock is $50, and Is
held in Keyser, Mineral county, where the
principal Office is TO be kept
THE social and supper given by the
Kemple class at the Zane Street NJ. r.
Church was a brilliant success. About ~,
was realized. which will be used to re
plenish the Sunday School Library. The
Young ladies who had this in charge de
serve credit for the efforts put forth Il
make this the success II was.
An employe of the steamboat Horace
came near losinghis life at the foot Of Thir
tv-eighth street last evening about iv,
o'clock The boat had just landed pile OF
lumber from the union bridge wreck, anC
the man was out in il when it parted, drop
ping him into the water, from which h'
was pulled when he was just about gone
THE Opera Company left for Washing
ington Yesterday morning at l2:O5 on
special car over the b. * o. They open {
six weeks summer engagement ut Wash
ington under the name of the Lamont
Opera Company. Miss Helen Lamont
owns the company, and she was not mere
during the engagement. Her underStudy
however, was very satisfactory su0su
tute.
SINCE the new pottery compact was
have begun to realize the results of the
combination by the new rule of living VI
to schedule prices. They find they cannot
manufacture and sell as low as the larger
concerns, and their orders are consequently
dropping Off, and the factories running OF
reduced force and time. II is probable
that some of these firms will risk the pay
ment of their fines and retire from the com
pact.-EdSt Lirerpool Crisis.
GEORGE Brown, "A great big Pittsburger
raised row at the B. & O. depot last even
ing Just before the Pittsburg train pulled
out. He was arrested and resisted Hi:
brother, Joseph, attempted to help him and
he also got in the soup. The two mer
caused the officers great deal of trouble
on the way to the lookup, especially the
former, who had to be dubbed somewhat
before he was subdued. He asserted that
all the policemen in Wheeling could not put
him in the lookup, but he is there just the
same.