Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-23
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
PithIly Told.

OPERA HOUsE-Irene Kent in THE Child OF
/ Destiny"
GRAND OPERA HoUsE-New Peck's Bad Boy.
THERE were no cases in Police Court,
/ yesterday morning.
| THE Council Committee on Claims IS
I called to meet this evening.
BROOK SIMS, Of the South Side, was
badly bitten by a dog yesterday.
TRAINS on the Elm Grove motor line, be-
Shining with to-day, viii DO heated Win
/ steam.
DIR. H. T. FoRD's new a, 500 dwelling in
! Speidel & Behren's addition, Will soon DC
ready for occupancy.
/ Mrs. CARNAHAN and her FIVE children
were sent 10 Parkersburg by the authorl-
| ties, yesterday afternoon.
A. ]. SWEENEY and son are casting the
I iron boxes, IA in number, for the super
I structure OF the new bridge.
/ TIE contract for constructing the rail-
road from Salem TO Washingtonyllle mas
I been awarded 70 Paige, Carey & 20.
THE new ratings on the Chapline and
/ EOff street bridges, over Caldweu'S huh'
/ have at last been placed IN position
FRANK WOODs' estate was yesterday
\ committed to Lewis Steenrod, Sherlu, To
/ administer the same according 70 law
EVERY department of the Belmont Iron
\ Works is running to its full capacity, WIN
/ the exception Of the pudding department.
! AN Italian employed on the new Nam
/ street bridge had two fingers badly maSneo
| yesterday morning. They were dressed aI
\ EOeling'S pharmacy.
JOHN J. PLANT was yesterday appointed
| guardian of Ida May Bender, orphan Oh
I John 7. Bender, deceased. Bond' $SOO'
/ Henry SchmUlbach, surety.
/ Isaac Quiglin ran against buggy frame
l at the Belmont mill yesterday morning, IN
/ juringhis nose and face. His wounds were
/ dressed at COleman's pharmacy.
/ GATE towers for the Terminal Company
\ have been erected at Chapline ana EoII
/ streets. Work will commence IN snort
/ time upon the new waiting station.
/ ERNEST ECHOLL, an employe OF the
/ Wheeling pottery, had his right arm
I burned by escaping steam, on Monday, anu
/ was forced to lay of work for the week.
JAMES FULLY. of South Wood street, an
/ emDlOye Of the Hobbs Glass Factory, was
| severely cut on the forehead with piece
| of glass while at work yesterday morning
/ THE chairmen and secretaries Of the
various committees Of the Charity ball are
| requested 10 meet the Executive Commit
/ tee at the rooms of the Wheeling CluO thls
/ evening al o'clock.
DURsT's newly remodeled store is daz-
\ zler People VINO visited mere from larger
\ cities during the past few days say IL
/ rather eclipseS those they have seen, out
\ side of metropolitan centres.
/ A PORTION Of the Wheeling pottery was
/ Off Yesterday, on account Of the shortage
/ Unnatural gas. The La Belle pottery and
\ Hobbs glass factory have also been incon-
\ venienced lately, from the same cause
/ ACCOUNT Of leaks in the boilers in the
/ forge department of the La Belle mill,
/ causing a shortage Of material, the factory
/ was compelled 70 close down Yesterday,
\ but will go on again this morning.
| THE complaint about the manner In
which vehicles and pedestrians are held at
/ the b. & O. crossings Is as loud as ever.
/ Yesterday a motor was held at Sixteenth
street for almost twenty minutes.
WILLIE VANCE, son Of Mr.. j. n. Vance,
/ is something of numismatiSt de has
very creditable collection Of old scrip
money, from the three-cent scrip upward.
/ They are most excellent specimens.
THE sports are now on the war path. c..
II. Tracy the other day bagged seventeen
| SQUIRRELS and TWO rabbits, which made
rel 70 keep out OF the range OF Tracy s
gun.
GRANT FRANK MALBY, son-in-law of Dr.
John Cook. of Bridgeport, died in Wichita,
| Kansas. His remains will arrive here this
morning at 8 80 over the 3. b .. railroad,
/ and will be taken 10 DR.. Cooks residence
in Bridgeport.
OTTo SCHARF. a butcher employed by
John Vented, disappeared mySteriously
| Wednesday evening, and has not since
been seen. He ordered a setOf tools, in his
| employers name, and without his author
I ity, which are now at the depot.
ALL trains from the east over the B. &
/ o. road were late yesterday, on account OF
/ the Cumberland accident. Ii was report
/ ed that the train due at 11:30 o'clock was
/ further DELAYED on account of the tender
| jumping the track at ROsby's Rock.
| Work upon the new blocks of dwellings
/ at Chapliue and Twenty-ninth and Eof
\ and Twenty ninth streets, being erected
/ for Mr. ID. NJ Carey by Contractor Jacobs,
/ is progressing nicely. The Chapline street
block viii soon be ready for the roof.
An attachment for s, 800 was yesterday
/ placed on the stock of Thomas Caulield,
| by firm of piano manufacturers. There
| are now TWENTY-FIVE attachments in all, on
I the stock. Caulfield got about four suits
of clothes and two watches before he left
The Wheeling Corrugating Company has
commenced work upon the 6OxSO foot ad-
ditiOn 70 its plant, near the Whitaker
mill 1t is understood that the company is
negotiating for another tract Of land, ad-
Joining its property, upon which it is pro-
posed to erect larger plant.
IT has been well suggested by a number
of the patrons Of the Opera House that the
electric lights along the rim Of the balcony
be turned out while the curtains up. 1t
is very trying on the eyes of those in the
family circle, while il detracts some from
the scenic effects on the stage.
MRs. TRUsCHEL has made application to
the Board of Public Works TO lay the new
sewer now being put down in alley so as
to put in a branch sewer, preparatory to
putting up a handsome five story building
on the site of the one now occupied by the
United States Bakery as soon as the lease
expires.
&c. HoGE. the owner Of Kentucky Bird
the fOur-year-Old hRlf-brother of Allerton,
2:O9ll, refused $4,000 for his speedy colt.
Great things are expected of Kentucky
Bird next year, and II he is handled care
fully no doubt he will come up TO expecta-
fions. His breeding is said to be even
more gilt edged than is Allerton's-es-
pscially on the dams side.-WeIlSrillc
Union.
Miss JULIA MARLowE's repertoire in
cludes the following roles; Viola in
"Twelfth Night" "RosaHnd,n in "As You
Like It;n pauline in 1.-The Lady Of
Tvons;n "Imogen," in "Cymbeline;"
"Juliet, % in"Romeo and juliet" Julia"
in The Hunchback;" Charles Hart " IN
"Rogues and Vaga6Onds;" 'Galatea, IN