Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-24
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithIly Told.
POLICE COURT was whitewash, yester-
day morning.
ONE deed of trust was left at Clerk
Hooks Office, yesterday.
SOME heavy girders for the new City
Bank building were received Yesterday.
BIDS for the construction Of the North
Wheeling engine house closed at 5 p. N.
yesterday.
The second annual picnic of Wheeling
Typographical Union No. 79 will take
place on the Fair Grounds tomorrow.
A BOY named Jacob E. Loeb, aged IL,
son of Mrs. Loeb, of No. 6S Thirty-seventh
street, is missing, and the police have been
appealed to.
THE Department of West Virginia, G.
A. r., in General Orders No. z, just pub
lished, pays last tribute of respect to the
late General B. F. Kelley.
ELIZABETH JEpsoN was yesterday ap-
pointed administrator OF the estate OF
James Jepson, deceased. Bond, $1,000;
Bishop John j. Kahn, surety.
A CALL was to have been issued, yester-
day, for meeting of the Council Commit
tee on Fire Department, but owing to the
absence of Chairman Happy it was post
poned until Monday.
The grocerymen who handle berries re-
port that the black berry crop is coming IN
slowly at present. but next week the ship
ments will be larger and more regular and
the berries will be cheaper.
PAVING CONTRACTOR LENNON has I'm
ished the paving of alley B, on the South
Side, and has started to grade for the new
paving on the extension Of Main street,
from the Ravine to the ferry landing.
CITY COLLECTOR MYLEs is nearly ready
to close up his accounts with the School
Board His city collections will be close
this year, and his department will be in
splendid shape when his term expires
1T is expected the City Board of Equali-
zation and Appeals will appoint the COM
missioners to make the revaluation OF city
property, for purposes of taxation, at their
next meeting, which ought to be this
month
Mr. HENRY M. RUSSELL has contracted
with O'Neil, Funk & Co., OF Sardis, o.,
to erect a handsome dwelling on South
Front street, Island. The cost will be
e. B. Franzheim.
YESTERDAY was scorching day, the
mercury marking 80 at noon and maintain
ing that figure until p. m. A thunder
storm, which broke about 4:30 p. m, sent
the mercury down to about so, and last
night it was cooler.
A Mrs. MCDONALD complained at police
headquarters, yesterday, that her son, AL.
Mcdonald; who had been employed at Bel
mont Park, was missing, she not having
heard from him for two weeks. He is sup
posed to have gone down the river on the
keystone, bound for Louisville.
THE following G.. A. r. Posts have been
reinstated in the Department of West Vir-
ginia: U. S. Grant, No. 3. Harper's Ferry;
w. A. Atkinson. No. IS. New Cumberland;
Josiah Steele, No. GO, Elizabeth; Charles
Morrow, No. SO, Red Mud. Frost Post,
No 100, has been mustered at Smithville.
Richie county.
IT Is now reasonable certain that Major
Mckinley and Governor Campbell will be
present at the next st. Clairsvllle Fair
and deliver addresses. The Fair will be
held on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
S sptember 80, October l and 2. Major
Mckinley will be there and speak on
Thursday, October 1, and the Governor on
Friday, October2 3.
IT is rumored there is possibility that
some time in the near future railroad will
be built across the southern part OF Jeffer-
son county, Ohio, to act as an outlet for the
immense coal fields purchased along Salt
Run, in the lower end of the county, by
Pittsburg capitalists. The road contem-
plated will connect with the Cleveland and
Pittsburg Railroad at Salt Run. Going
I'D Salt Run, it will be extended along Nc
Intyre Run to the Panhandle, connecting
near Gould's tunnel.
A CORPS of government engineers have
been taking measurements along the Ohio
Valley for some days past and are still at
work They are very quiet about their
operations but it is surmised they are
taking measurements to find out just how
much the mills and furnaces along the
river have encroached upon 1t by filling
the banks with cinders and Stag. River
men have made vigorous complaints. and
the result of this survey shows considera-
BILE twisting and changing of the channel.
A SHORT time ago Justice j. w. Schultze
set out a number Of shade trees around his
property. Up to yesterday four OF the
trees had been ruined by malicious persons
stripping the bark off. For years Mr..
Schultze's well, over seventy feet deep,
has been open to the general public, and
has been an inestimable boon to hundreds
in the neighborhood in which he lives.
Some one attempted to put an end to its
usefulness by poking lot of wire down
the pump, and the Justice had to employ
three men for a day to restore the well TO
its normal condition. The Justice natur-
ally feels agrieved.
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