Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-28

Minor Matters Of Interest Briefly an'
PIthiIy Told


-Four straw hats were seen out yester-
day.
LARGE shipments OF coal are going down
on this rise.
SIMON BAER,s SoNs Grocery Company
organized yesterday afternoon oy eiectlng
officers.
TIE will of Elizabeth Richter has been
admitted to probate. Also the will OF Jane
Gibson.
TIE race course at the Fair Grounds
will be opened up for pleasure driving next
Saturday.
AT THE Cyclers' Hall tomorrow night
the young ladies of the Blue Ribbon Social
Club will give hop.
IT'S expected the new Peoples Church,
on South street, TO be built by MI W. +.
Hearn, will cost $4,000.
Rev. Joseph Lee, OF the Wesley M. E.
Church, has been given leave OF absence
of six weeks for vacation.
THE Lunsford homestead, on the line Of
the Elm Grove railroad, was sold yester-
day to J. n. Vance for tll 600
THE ID. Cristy benefit ball will take
place at Turner Hall tomorrow evening.
Mayors orchestra will make the music.
MILTON MASTERS has been appointed
guardian for the orphans of Carrie v.
Masters, deceased, Jesse G. Luch, surety.
The benefit ball for David McCracken
will take place tomorrow evening at West
woods Hall About 800 tickets have been
sold.
HEINRICH RoMEN, from Emmerich, Prus-
STA, who emigrated 10 America In the year
1867, is urgently requested to SEND woro 10
his old mother.
ALL Jurors who have been summoned,
but who have not responded, are requested
by the Sheriff to be at the Court House ae
nine o'clock this morning
Mrs. KATE MICHEL FITZGERALD will sing
Thursday night at the musicale to be given
by the Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Soclety
at the Mercantile Club rooms.
The Council Committee on Petitions and
Remonstrances will meet tomorrow even
ing, to consider the rejecSed licenses. They
request all interested parties to be present
Miss BESSIE PAUNER, of South Huron
street, Island, had tunor removed from
her foot yesterday. She is out Twelve
years DID, Drs. Best and Myers performed
the operation.
WIN. V. BRAGUR, an employe OF Morrls's
box factory, on Chapline street, ACCIDENT
ally cut the four fingers of his left hand on
rip-saw yesterday morning. The fingers
were badly lacerated.
MARY GREEN was arrested yesterday al
ternoon by Officer West for drunkenness:
Mary refused to go with the officer, and
quite a scene ensued at Eleventh and Mar
ket streets. A crowd of several hundred
people gathered to witness the fun.
WE note with pleasure that Shorthand
;,,f, fntf
the Seguin Collegiate Institute this spring.
This department opens with every pros
pect Of doing excellent work under Miss
Pauline II. Seguin, Benn Putnam writer.
A MEETING Of the fire and paving brick
manufacturers of the Beaver and Ohio
Valleys will be held in Rochester on next
Friday, when it is expected an organization
will be effected, among other things, TO pro-
mote legislation favorable to manufactur-
ers, and establish uniformity in the size OF
the bricks.
A TELEGRAM was received at police head
quarters Yesterday morning from Andrew
Tracy, No. 176 Blackstone street, Boston,
inQuiring if VIM. E. Tracy, who was killed
in Saturdays riot at Fairmont, answered
the description sent. 1t is supposed the
dead man is the inquirer's brother. lie
was referred to Fairmont.
The Wheeling Cyclers have made ar
rangements for a tifty-mile wheer race,
which will take place on May 80. Inc
wheelmen will run to Brownsville on that
day. On their return to the city, the mem
bers are expecting TO prepare banquet, 10
which the Wheeling Press Club and all the
cyclers in the city will be invited.
An unusually large number Of electric
lamps refused to flicker when the current
was turned on last evening. Among those
dark were two on Penn street, two on the
river bridge, one at Eleventh and Main,
one in Market alley, one on Market be-
tween Eleventh and Twelfth, one at the
Stamm House, one on South Main street,
etc.
Speaking generally Of the flint glass
trade there may be said to be an improve
ment taking place This is especially true
of the blown ware lines. The decline in
the demand for tableware has come to an
end, and it is holding its own steadily, al
| though the volume Of trade is not great.
| Chimneys have recovered from the slight
depression noticed in the early part OF the
present month, and are now holding their
| own. As for bottles the outlook is no more
promising than for months past. While
the factories are toleraoly well employed
they are pillng up stock, which is already
of large proportion.
WILLIAM II AMProN, OF Cincinnati, Ohio,
who has been working, on the Keystone
| State, took sick when the boat was in Pitts
burg They put him on the Andes to take
him home, but when they got to Wheeling
| he was so bad that they told him TO go TO
the hospital. They did not give him any
papers, and he could not get in, because
there was no room. He started away but
only got a short distance when he sank
| from exhaustion. The police were notified,
and he was taken TO the Custom House In
the patrol, where papers were made out,
and he was taken to the Marine Hospital
by Lieut.. Terrill aud Officer Moran.
THERE was a meeting Of the Board OF
Commissioners yesterday morning tocon-
slider the matter OF opening up certain coun-
ty roads. There were some i've roads IN
question, one of which, the Bell road, is 10
DO contested, and the first OF June IS nxed
for the hearing. The matter OF definitely
deciding upon the other roads has been
postponed until written agreement is re-
ceived from the land owners that they Will
give the right of way. The West Virginia
Natural Gas Company was given the priv
ilege to change the oue.inch pipe to S-inch
pipe on the Bethany road. 1t was also
regular auditing day, and quite number
of bills were scrutiniZed.
In Police Court yesterday morning John
Briggs, for selling goods without an auc-
! tioneer's license, was fined $ll and costs.
An appeal was taken by Capt. Dovener.
The case Of John Wentzell. charged with
maintaining a slaughter house in the city
limits, came up. and at the request OF the
complainant, Mrs. Fisher, the case was
continued until Wednesday morning, as
her lawyer, Hon. J. B. Sommerville, could
not be present May Williams for keep
ing a house of III fame got SO and costs,
and three inmates got IS aud costs. Mary
Burk was arraigned for intoxication but
judgement was suspended. Harry Capps
and Louis Schell were up on rules for not