Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-23
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
P1thily Told.

MINOR Matters or Interest Briefly and
P1thiy Told.
The Island fire plugs were blown out
yesterday.
Apples and potatoes are slowly coming
down In price.
ONE deed Of trust was left for record in
Clerk Woods office yesterday.
CROCK sewer pipe have been distributed
In alleys and L, on the Island.
The Wesley M. Z. School will give a
picnic at Creasaps Grove to-day.
THERE was big thunderstorm south of
tnis city at 10 o'clock last night.
The Pink Carriers will give a ball at
Schenk's Hall next Saturday night.
THERE will be meeting of the German
y. A. X. at Schenk's Hall next Sunday.
The Third Presbyterian Sabbath School
will picnic at Ridgeways Grove to-day.
THE regular Thursday evening excur-
sions on the steamer r. Z. Phillips have
been discontinued.
SOME small alterations have been made
In the elevation on the Fifteenth street
front Of the new Jail.
The work Of driving piles for the false
work OF the channel span OF the new
bridge was commenced yesterday.
WAsHBURN & ARLINGToN's circus will
appear in Wheeling on the Slst. The ad-
vance corps Of bill posters were at Hotel
VanKeuren yesterday.
ONE hundred thousand fire brick, deliv-
cred at Steubenville for paving purposes,
have been condemned, after they had been
hauled out on the streets.
THE Board of Public Works has cut
new road at the south end of the wharf, to
facilitate the hauling of paving brick, ETC.,
from barges landed there.
THE excavation for the south abutment
Of the stone bridge is about ready for the
first layer Of stone. The track has been
laid on the tramway across the creek.
THERE were but two cases in Police
Court yesterday morning. Frank Will
liams, (hctitious), for refusing to move on,
got 81 and costs. A drunk was sent up.
THERE were quite a number of bidders
at the City Hall, yesterday, figuring on the
plans for the new North Wheeling engine
house. The building will be model one.
A car of MELONS made the run from
Macon, Georgia, over the East Tennessee,
Virginia 81 Georgia, Cincinnati Southern
and the Pan Handle route to Wheeling, in
4s hours. This is quick freighting.
ANNOUNCEMENT of the death of Mr..
George w. Higgins, of Olmstead, is made
this morning Mr.. Higgins was formerly
a resident of Wheeling, having left this
city in 1867, and is brother Of B. +. Hig-
gins.
SOME person placed two-inch oak plank
on the Pan Handle track. night before
last, a short distance below Wellsburg. A
freight train which passed up later had
narrow escape from being thrown from tie
track.
THIS afternoon and evening the Teutonia
Society will give picnic at the Park, and
it Is expected there will be large crowds in
attendance. There will be excellent music
and in the evening there will be dancing in
the pavilion.
NEXT Saturday the printers will give
their annual picnic at the State sstalr
grounds. A variety of amusements has
been arranged for by the committees in
charge, and there will probably be no more
enjoyable out-of door festival this season.
THE old ball park, on the Island, or rath-
er that portion of it which has not been
built upon or fenced in, has been trans
formed into regular playground, and is
thronged every day and evening by men,
women and children. A game OF ball IS
going on about all the time.
ENGINEER of Maintenance of Way FL
well, of the Baltimore and Ohio, accom-
panied by Supervisors Adams and Spangle,
and Photographer Morrow, will start out
tomorrow on tour. All the buildings
and points of interest on the division are to
be photographed and the photos used for
reference in the engineers Office. The
buildings on the Wheeling branch will first
receive the attention of the camera. A dark
room for reducing the negative has been
prepared at the division station here
Washington Observer.