Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-17
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly ant
PithilY Told.

AT GRAND OPERA HOUSE Melville Sisters.
THE Committee on Police will meet this
evening.
THAT three white frosts forerun a rain
has just been demonstrated.
BILLY GEORGE gets great send-of in
Sporting Life for his good ball-playing last
summer.
THE Ariou Singing Society will give a
Kahee-Visite and Conversation party at
Arion Hall tonight.
Mr.. AUGUSTUS PoLLACK yesterday sent
several boxes of his Justly celebrated
stogies down TO Police Headquarters.
THE Council Committees on Petitions
and Remonstrances and Streets, Alleys
and Grades are called TO meet tonight.
HEINRICH KOCH was yesterday appoint
ed administrator OF the estate of John
Koch, deceased. Bond, 800. Lewis
Steenrod, surety.
ETo-DAY the remaining dispositions in the
motion for new trial in the Garrison case
viii be taken, and the papers sent up to
Judge Campbell, at New Cumberland, as
soon as possible.
THE police were notified from Bellaire,
yesterday, that f. G. Husband, Of the
Windsor Hotel, had been robbed, it is sup
posed by a colored man named Morgan
Brooks of the city
The retail merchants of Ohio are work
ing hard to secure law whereby they may
hold under garnishee 10 per cent of the
weekly earnings OF any person who may
become indebted to them.
TIE firm of Kraft Bros. 81 Rosenberg
has been dissolved, Mr.. A. +. Kraft retire
ing. The business will be continued by the
remaining partners, Samuel Kraft and
Victor Rosenberg, under the name Of Kraft
& Roseaburg.
PREPARATIoNs are said to be making for
the Pipes-Huffman murder trial at Janu-
ary Court, though it is thought by some
that tbs deeply interesting case may be
continued uatil future term.-WGyneS-
burg Messenger.
HARRY p. STEVENSON, of Washington, Pa,
is the Composer of new waltz, under the
title of'Royal Purple" It is said to be a
popular air. Mr.. Stevenson is now a stu
dent of the Mccormick Theological Semi
nary, o. Chicago.
THERE was an obstruction in water
pipe at the residence Of w. A. Isett, yester-
day, AID plumbers were called in. They
cut the pipe and found specimen OF the
eel tribl about ten inches long and two
thirds # an inch in diameter.
1t is If substantial rumor that the Cleve-
land AMI Pittsburg Railroad Company will
soon put a force OF men to work double
! trackins the llne from WeilsYiiie TO Sell-
aire, AMI the work will be extended within
a year u Pittsburg.-EGst liverpool CRISIS.
THE Council Committee on Railroads is
called ior Friday night, together with
numberof Baltimore and Ohio officials, the
officers of the English Lutheran church
and otter citizens interested in the Six
teenth street track nuisance.
JAMES FALLoURE, SR., an old and re
spected citizen of East Wheeling, died at
| the family residence, No. So Eighteenth
street, yesterday morning, aged 64 years.
The funeral will take place this morning
az ten o'clock, the interment being at Stone
| Church Cemetery.
s. r. RoUK, corner Of Sixteenth and
Jacob streets, has been compelled to give
up his present occupation on account OF
| iii health, and has accepted the agency OF
the Banner Laundry Company, OF Column
bus, Ohio. He will receive on Mondays
aud deliver on Thursdays.
A NEW idea of raising money has been
brought out in the First NJ. Z, Church In
Bellaire At this church IL is suggested
that the members give 80 per cent. or what
they spend for Christmas toward liquldat-
| ing the balance on the beautiful church
edifice they have, and the congregation is
taking hold of it apparently with will.
DIR. ACKERMAN, of this city, assisted in a
surgical operation in Bellaire on Tuesday.
Some tine since Mr.. Reasbeck had his leg
| Injured by collision of two filled beer
kegs which he was unloading. The in
| iured limb increased TO an alarming size
| Ii is thought that with proper care the
! limb will heal up. Reasbeck is Reymann'
agent in Bellaire.
The decorations of a number OF the Main
and Market streets store windows eclipse
the similar efforts OF previous holiday
seasons. The old ways were crude and
shabby in comparison with the present.
The arrangement Of goods and decorative
materials in big show WINDOW nowadays
is literally work of art, which requires an
artist to perform.
As PER usual custom, the rainy weather
it is said, will be followed by douole-oar,
relied. seif-acting blizzard in this section OF
the country. Sergeant Stewart, Of Pitts
I burg, booked another cold wave, aud the
! following synopsis gives an explanation
The low area has moved rapidly toward
| the northeast, deepening as 1t proceeded,
and Yesterday morning was central over
Michigan. This disturbance has caused
rain over a large portion OF the United
States with snow along Lake Superior
Rain and warmer weather generally pre-
walls east of the Mississippi, while clearing
and decidedly colder, with occasional
SHOWS west Of it.
OF the many people on the streets Sun.
day night between the hours Of and IL
O'CLOCK. the few who CHANGED 70 look up tC
the skv above were enraptured by the
| sight OF a small but bright halo that sur
rounded the moon. The lunar rainbow
was double, and as gorgeous as many Q
sun-formed bow seen in the day time; Tne
clouds in the armament appeared TO oe col
/ lected into round disc OF width OF hun
dreds of times the moons diameter, beyond
which the stars twinkled unobscured, but
| across the halo itself measured only few
degrees. 1t is not uncommon to see a
| large faint halo around the moon high IN
the heavens on night partially ciouded
hut q halo so small, compact ana bright Is
rare sight.
A WOMAN by the name Of Calvert was q
passenger on the B. & o. evening train
| from Wheeling on Tuesday, who landed in
the Washington, Pa, cooler by reason Of
her disorderly conduct at the depot in this
CITY. When the train arrived at the Wash.
ington station a man who had accompanied
her suatched her pocketbook and ran out
upon the platform The woman followed
him and. as the train pulled out, the man
Jumped on one of the cars. When the wo
man attempted 70 n, however, she
missed her footing d.. was dragged sew.
enty-five feet before the porter, who had
flushed to her assistance, could free her
from her perilous position. The Calvert
woman was arrested aud sent to jail IN de-
feult of costs.
WIRE TENDERS, all styles, at Allison's
Wire Works, 1907 Eoff street.
Manufacturers loss-over 500 Cloak'
about half price. Come to-day for choice