Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-06
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters or Interest Briefly and
PithIlY Told.

Minor Matters or Interest Briefly and
PithilY Told.
JUSTICE w. w. ROGERS lost an overcoat
yesterday.
THE new stairway in the Public Building
has been completed.
TIE west wall Of the new Jail is up above
the top OF the big windows.
A SLIDING pole was put up in the hook
and ladder house, yesterday.
JUDGE PAUL. went down to Mounds
vile, yesterday, on Court business.
THE roof is being put on the Terminal
Company's freight house, at Chapline ana
EOf streets.
THE brick-work Of the new Vigilant en-
CINE house is about completed, and the roof
will soon be on.
The Circuit Court Clerks are getting up
their docket for the November term, wnlcn
convenes Monday week.
Tbs Committee on Buildings and
Grounds of the Board Of Education Will
meet this afternoon at O'Clock.
JOHN A. ELLIOTT has started confec-
tionary store at No. ~ Main street. Mr..
Elliot has had large experience in his
line.
THE Grand Opera House programme has
made its appearance, and is under the man
agement of Messrs. William Lash and Lee
COen.
MARY FELsINe was yesterday appointed
administrator of the estate of William
Felsing, deceased. Bond, $50; Louis j.
Felsing surety.
THE Council Committee on Lights will
be called tonight to consider the proposed
Of no
Electric Light Company.
A WOMAN at GAINESVILLE has just COM
pleted quilt containing fourteen thou
sand, eight hundred and seyenty-slx
squares. The squares are not quite one
inch long.
The Council Committees on Cemeteries,
Accounts and Real Estate are called TO
meet tonight, the Police Committee TO-
morrow night, and the Committee on FIRE
Department Monday.
Francis K, the brigt little daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Regeler, aged only
eleven, died Of typhoid fever yesterday
afternoon, after q sickness or less than two
weeks. She was the only child The
funeral will probably take place Sunday.
A DISPATCH was received yesterday
from James LAWN, of Parkersburg, stating
that the boxing match advertised TO come
off at Turuer Hall, on Saturday mig ut,
would be postponed on account OF his OPP
ponent, John Clark, fracturing his arm IN
Washington.
PARTIES living in Benwood and Bellalre
COMPLAIN about the charges on the special
trip made by the Bellaire and Benwood
ferryboat ''Charon" last Tuesday evening.
IL was announced in the theatres that the
boat would make the trip, and many board
ed it, and were compelled TO pay nifty cents
for single person.
A HORSE attached to a wagon and driven
by a small boy, the team belonging TO Mr.,
Freismuth, took fright on Fourteenth
street, near Eof, about one O'Clock yester-
day afternoon, and the animal ran to MAN
street, when the boy was thrown out For
tunately he was not hurt and no damage
was done TO the outfit.
THE Panhandle Railroad is putting air
brakes on all freight trains, and an expert
enced engineer commenced TO show up 1or
the Cadiz Junction tunnel and put the air
on too suddenly, stopping the train almost
instantly, throwing the trainmen on their
feet and everything on the train out Oh
shape, creating much confusion.
A MEAT wagon belonging to Mr.. Zoekler,
the North Wheeling butcher, met with
mishsp yesterday afternoon while crossing
the electrical motor track at Tenth street.
In some manner the wheel became en-
tangled in the track, the horse giving
sudden luuge broke the shafts and COM
pletely demolished the wheel.
CHRIST. HOFFMAN, of Fulton, was pre-
sented last Sunday by his friend, E. j.
Kreuter, with box OF delicious strawber.
ries. Think of it, The delicate fruit OF
early June being eaten the first day of No
vember. Mr. Hoffman had them Tor Sun
day dinner. The fruit was raised on the
Van Pelt farm, or Ferryview as itiscalled,
hack of Martins Ferry