Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-01-31
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthlly Told

YESTERDAY was payday at the City
Hall.
The police made 14o arrests during
the month Of January.
The marks at midnight showed feet
inches in the channel and falling.
TIE wooden panels in the swinging
doors at the postoffice have been re-
moved and glass substituted.
NOTICE Is called to the advertisement
In another column increasing the re-
ward for the recovery Of the body OF d.
NJ. Carey. The SUN is now $500.
THE State Fair Grounds have been
leased for May 3Oth to the King Fish
Ing Club, and for June 9th to the
Schweitzer Understandings Verein.
THERE was but one case in Police
Court, last evening. The offender, Joseph
Montmiller, was charged with being
drunk and disorderly, and got fifteen
days.
The Board OF Commissioners Commit
tee on Court House and Jail met yester-
arrangement Of the heating apparatus
in the new Jail.
MARTHA j. BAILEY was yesterday APP
pointed administrator of the estate of
Mary K. Bailey, deceased. Bond, S20,
600, Hannibal Forbes and Charles E.
Bentley, sureties.
THE young folks enjoyed themselves
all day yesterday gliding over the CLASSY
surface of the back river. There were
about fifty opposite Bridgeport during
the whole afternoon.
JESSIE MARTICELLo's house of III
fame, on Seventeenth street, was raided
last night by Officers Carney, Daum and
Desmond, the madame, four girls and
three men being captured.
THE Red Rose Club will give grand
ball at Neuhart's Hall Tuesday evening
next. The Red Rose boys always give
enjoyable entertainments, and Tuesday
nights affair will be no exception.
POLICE OFFICER FAHEY takes the lead
Of the force In the matter of weight,
tipping the beam at ESQ pounds. Ofhcer
Creighton comes next at 260, and officer
Watson bad third at 230 pounds. The
three foot up no pounds.
w. ]. HEBRON, a baker, located at
Fourteenth and McColloch streets, has
disappeared, leaving q number OF cred
itors to mourn unliquidated bills. The
Speidel Grocery Company yesterday
seized his horse and wagon for debt.
Mrs. JULIA IRWIN, wife of E. d. Gill
illan, died at her home yesterday. Mrs.
Gilfillan vas loved and esteemed by all
who knew her, and the announcement
OF her death will be received with great
sorrow by the friends Of the family in
PENNSYLVANIA as well as West Virginia.
JOHN HERCULES, a young man we'll
known in East Wheeling, died at the
home OF his father after q short illness
with the prevailing disease, grip"
He was only twenty years old, and the
family have the sympathy Of all in his
early taking of. The funeral will take
place this afternoon at o'clock.
GEORGE HAEKINs, we'll known as an
attache Of c. w. Seabright'S merchant
tailoring establishment for twenty
years, and A. o. Schneider, late with
Louis Delbrugge 81 Co. in the same bust
ness, have gone into the tailoring bust
ness at 2l63 Main street, under the firm
name OF Harkins 81 Schneider. Both
are popular and competent men.
THE Louisville papers Of the 23d con-
tain very complimentary notices OF Mr..
Frank Hennig, of the Keene Company.
The COluier-JOlundl said:-"Mr. Frank
Hennig did fine piece OF work as Ne
mourS. Manly, self-cOntained and dig
nifed, he nevertheless displayed fine
passion, and did it with entire sppropri-
ateness."
Mr.. E. RUSSELL WARNER, who was
at one time proprietor Of the Mcclure
House, in this city, died several days
since at Windsor, Ontario. Mr.. Warner
was Master Of Transportation OF the B.
& o. before the war, and after serving
in the Confederate army he assumed the
management Of the Hygeia Hotel, at
Fortress Monroe. He was about 40
years Of age.
An 11-year-old Bellaire boy named
Stewart ran off from home Friday and
was captured by the police yesterday
and held for his father. The boy has
made several breaks Of this kind, get
ting as far as Pittsburg on two or three
occasions. He once stayed week at
the home Of Plttsburg policeman, and
says he knows pretty nearly every po-
liceman there"
STATE LABOR COMMISSIONER EDWARD
ROBERTSON has returned from an ex-
tensive trip through the mining regions
OF the northern part OF the State. He
was ali through the MOnongah coal re-
gioa. and stated yesterday that he heard
of nothing tending to corroborate the
telegram from ClarkSburg, published
Yesterday morning, that a big miners
strike was threatened in that local
ity.
The reporter Is confident that though
DIR. Keeley's bi-chloride treatment may
Droye efficacious in America and per-
hans in some other lands, it will never
be able to cope with Chinese jags. This
conclusion was reached when he learned
ON Friday that the five principle intox-
icating beverages manufactured ana
drank by tho Chinese are named re-
spectiveIy Mia Tow, Wal ChOng, LIEN
cling. DUN Qua Show, and In Ga Pee,
and are said by the Chinese to be ten
times stronger than the whisky Of COM
merce.
SPECIAL SALES of Lace Curtain ends
this week, at Henry Jacobs, Peoples