Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-20
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthiiy Told.

Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithiiy Told.
OTTo HESS has been chosen President Of
the Brewers Union.
A SEWER for the new City Bank building
is being placed in Alley Nine.
THE plasterers are at work on tbs main
stairway in the Public Building.
| The Council Committees on Claims and
Police are called TO meet this evening.
THE Finance Committee Of the Board of
Commissioners is called to meet at p. m.
to-day.
YESTERDAY the street cars began carry
ing the mail to Benwood, Bellaire, Martins
Ferry and Bridgeport.
THE Retail Grocers' Association adopted
their constitution under the new charter
at last nights meeting.
THE Natural Gas Company Of West Vir-
GINA have decided tc advance its rates to
people who have not put in meters.
AN oyster supper will be given this even
ing, between and 9 o'clock, for the benefit
of the st. Alphonsus orphan asylum.
THE walls of the electric power house
are going up rapidly. The excavation for
the boiler house is almost completed.
"WADDINGToN PLACE" the country resi-
dence of Mr.. A. S. Howell, is offered for
sale in another column, this morning.
ROBERT BAIRD and family crossed the
new Island bridge in buggy, yesterday,
being the first vehicle to go over the struct-
ure.
CHARLES MCKEE, sixteen-year-old boy,
living in East Wheeling, was accidentally
cut in the hand, about noon yesterday, while
at play.
HARRY DoNAvIN, of Brooke county, had
an arm broken at Golfers Station, yester-
day morning, by having it caught between
car bumpers.
WILLIAM HEsToN was yesterday ap-
pointed guardian for an orphan child OF
Hanson Blake, deceased. Bond, 200; Z.
p. Venaman, surety.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yesterday
to Henderson Hester, native of Wheeling,
aged %, and Mary Blake, a native OF
Wheeling, aged Is.
Miss GRACE PINNRLL LEE, Of Clarks-
burg, who sings in prominent Baltimore
church, sang at st. Matthew's L. h.
Church Sunday morning.
SEVERAL carloads of brick for the new
barn, sheds, and blacksmith shop of the
Citizens Railway Company at Forty
eighth street were unloaded yesterday.
The walls of the freight house for the
Terminal Railroad Company, on Chapllne
street, will soon be completed. The filling
of the low ground south of the freight
house is about completed.
THE work of connecting the street car
tracks at the Main street approach OF the
new bridge was begun yesterday morning.
The paving of the approach with fire brick
will be commenced In few days.
ABOUT four o'clock yesterday morning a
still alarm called the Atlantic Engine Com
pany to a blazing lumber pile on Sixteenth
street, belonging TO Jacobs 81 Gillespy.
The fire was started by red lantern ex-
ploding.
THE floor of the new Island bridge was
practically completed yesterday. Work
men are connecting the railroad tracks on
the Island end, and the work OF putting up
the railing on the bridge and the supports
for the electric wires is steadily progress
ing.
IT is now said that the owners OF Mollie
Lightfoot the Meadow Lands tfeet-footed
mare, had intended to enter her in the race
at Lexington, last week, but the ride on the
cars from Baltimore 10 Lexington was
terrible experience for her, and she was
unable to make fast time, and was, there
fore, kept in the stable.
THE six safes in the Adams Express car
in the Mingo wreck which were almost red
hot when taken from the fire, have been
sent to the Treasury Department at Wash
ington, where they will be opened and the
money identified by the experts. They
contain thousands of dollars and the one
safe opened showed that its contents were
charred.
THERE will be a lively race meet on the
State Fair Grounds this afternoon. There
are three races on the programmed pace
and two trots The pace comes first and
the entries are steeds belonging TO Messrs
Andrew Sweeney, A. S. List and Charles
Hancher The next race is among animals
owned by VIM. Ellingham, John M. Swee-
new and A. M. Hamilton. The third race.
will be trot and the horses OF Messrs
Charles Hancher, Capt. Tom Heskett and
Alfred Rheinstrom have been entered.
There are two prizes 70 be given for each
race, first and second.