Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-19
SMALL TALK.
Minor matters of Interest Briefly ana
TithilY Told.

Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly ana
Pithily Told.
Next Sunday, the 2lst, is the shortest
day of the year.
TICKET No. l23 won the horse ratified on
at the Mark Twain saloon last night.
THE skating rink at Moundsville col
lapsed under the heavy weight oil the snow
Wednesday,
TnE Kenna Club will give their Third
Annual Ball this evening at Arion HAL
All are invited.
THR great snow storm stopped the hands
of the town clock. The Messrs. Heorank
had two men at work yesterday setting IL
TO rights.
AN ingenious work OF art known as the
Automatic City is on exhibition on Twelfth
street under the G. rand Opera House. IL Is
an interesting sight.
THE snow storm only extended west as
far as Cambridge on the line OF the b. " u,
but it spread over good deal OF country
east and north of here.
SOME farmers who managed TO get INTO
town on sleds report the snow IN some OF
the fields two feet deep and in many places
il is drifted as high as the fences.
Is the Police Court, yesterday morning,
fellow by the name of G. Baggett was up
for drunkenness. He got 81 and costs, as
did also Peter PETER and Thomas Mead
for similar offenses.
Owing to the success of Tuesday even
ing's performance Of Girofe Giroiia by the
Gilbert Company, they Will repeat their
ever popular opera with the same cast
for Friday nights bill.
ARSErT's ARTISTS will focalize on Christ
mas afternoon and evening at the Grand
in ''The Boxing Glove" If presented as
admirably as before, ii cannot fail TO draw
crowded house. All should see it.
YESTERDAY morning Alex Garden, con-
ductor on electric motor ~, " received an
electric shock while on the roof of the car
adjusting the trolleys. He was thrown
fiat on the roof, but soon recovered.
Tuos. MONTGOMERY, the milkman out
the WaynesburG pike, could not get in
Wednesday. but managed 10 get in yester-
day morning The snow in some places
covered the fences in that neighborhood.
THE mills and factories are pressing the
railroad companies for cars. AT this sea-
son of the year, as usual, the mills want TO
ret rid OF all the surplus stock before the
/ first Of the year. Hence the demand for
cars.
| WHILE cutting an oyster at COnard's
restaurant, on Wednesday evening, Dick
Rice a colored waiter, allowed the knife
/ to slip and strike him in the left wrist,
severing an artery. DR.. Charles Frissel
dressed the wound.
Ar the close of the grand march at the
Kirmess last evening George Baird, Jr.,
was presented by Sheriff Steenrod and the
city officials with a bouquet OF cabbage,
l 1. 4 Il 1a1 IN N
there was a Garden in it,
YESTERDAY morning the tw0-year-old
child of Mike Hanchumaker, on South
Wood street, got her hand caught in the
wheel of 4 sewing machine and had one OF
her fingers almost torn from the socket.
DR.. j. II. Pipes dressed the finger.
The lecture of Rev. G.. Nj. Shot at the
First Baptist Church. last evening, was
enjoyed by an appreclative audience a
reception will be rendered Mr. Shot ut the
church this evening, when he will deliver
characteristic address. All are invited.
A NEGRo who was employed by Louis
Schwalb to shovel the snow of his saloon,
on Main street, fell from the third story in
the rear and alghted upon the kitchen,
Yesterday morning. He was uniniured,
with the exception of few slight cuts and
bruises.
TuE Sixth Annual Fair OF the Western
PENNSYLVANIA Agricultural Association
will be held at Washington, Pa, Monday,
August 3lst, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, September lst, I'd, Sd, and
4th, 1891. \ liberal premium and speed
list will be published soon.
AT the annual meeting of the Wheeling
Merchant Tailors' Exchange the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year;
President, j. Ellwood Hughes; Vice Pres
dent, c. W. Appenzeller; Secretary, II. &.
Richards: Treasurer, John A. Hess. EX-
ecutive Committee, the above officers and
Messrs. j. Brilles, G. II. Wheeler and
G. L. Schambra.