Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-03-01
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

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Pithny Told.
THE Board of Commissioners will hold
its regular session tomorrow.
BETWEEN 4 90 and 6 20 o'clock, Yesterday
afternoon, the mercury tumbled Just SIX
degrees.
The police made but one arrest, between
O'Clock last evening and one O'CLOCK tnls
morning.
IxH.E. Hillman x Co.'S watch club
drawing club y, No. 81; club 10, No. :;
club rs, No 3.
MRs TERRELL was arrested early this
morning for drunkenness. She was Iounu
living on Sixteenth street.
THE sale Of the furniture of the Wheel
ing Female College was deferred, yester-
day, until next Wednesday,
THE natural gas supply will be shut of
from the Island between the hours OF elght
and nine o'clock this morning.
WARRANTS were issued yesterday for
Charles Otto and William Coats for driv-
ingon the sidewalk on North York street,
Island.
CHAs. BAKER, manager of the La Belle
coal NINE had finger badly mashed Fri
dav afternoon, by being caught between
two coal cars.
A NUMBER Of Knights Templar will go
ND 10 Steubenville tomorrow TO partake OF
a Masonic banquet. They will leave on
the Phillips at 1 p. m.
MEssRs. Maier and Grimes, representing
the Eureka Burglar Alarm, are in town
and are meeting with great success. See
local ad. in another column.
HENRY Hell, of the Sixth ward, disap-
peared from home, rather mysteriously,
last Monday, and his relatives and friends
can discover no clue to his whereabouts.
A CAMPFIRE. bean bake and literary en-
tertainment was given at G.. A. r. Hall last
evening. The soldiers RECALLED themselves
with bareback and baked beans and good
stories.
THERE was a small fire at the residence
of Charles Miller, No 6l9 Main street, yes
terday morning, cause by defective tiue.
Fireman Fugate, Of the Nigilant, eXtin-
guished the blaze.
AUCTIoNEER HERvEY yesterday sold 329
sacks of beans at auction TO Joseph Speidel
& Co. for 4lic per pound. The beans be-
longed to the Rogers Bros, Produce Com
pany, of California.
A DELEGATION of Knights Templar from
this city will attend banquet in Steuben-
vile tomorrow evening The steamer Il.
(. Phillips has been chartered, and will
leave the wharf at one o'clock in the after
noon.
THE police made 33l arrests during Feb
ruary, which breaks the record, the next
largest month only showing 225 cases. The
month closed with last nights Police
Court. The cash receipts were about
s, POO for the month.
SOME one played a Joke on Frank Long
car clerk of the Pan Handle, yesterday
He was handed very handsome cake by a
messenger. and invited his friends up to
have piece. When the cake was cut il
was found filed with cotton.
THE electric motor service during the
past few days has been, if possible, worse
than before This state of affairs may be
due 70 accidents or the condition Of the
power house, but the fact remains that IL
is not satisfactory, and the public is doing
some vigorous kicking in consequence.
THE Saturday Graphic. conducted by MIR.
William Tucker, and Pen Pictures, the illus
trated weekly just started by Mr.. Alfred
BOYD. have consolidated, and Pen Pictures
will hereafter appear on Saturday. The
staff of the paper will be composed Of VIM.
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and Edward Heermans, business manager.
H. EMsHEINiER, the Eleventh street dry
goods man, is making extensive improve
ments at his large double store rooms. Tho
establishment is being thoroughly reno
waited throughout. changed and improved.
On the second floor Mr.. Emsheimer has
fitted up handsome cloak rooms, where he
will carry a large stock Of cloaks. Every
thing is now admirably arranged for a
perfect display Of goods.
EUGENE HANKE, the roller skater and
circus performer, who has been travelling
over the country under the name Of Frank
Howard. has been canvassing the city for
some time past soliciting advertisements,
which were to be printed on card board,
framed, and hung on the lamp posts about
town. A great many business men were
duped Hanke has defrauded about all the
other printing Offices in town, and this
time he went to the Graphic Office. His
printing bill amounted TO $25. The other
day he left the city, leaving the advertisers
and the Graphic in the lurch.