Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-04
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthily Told

Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthily Told
LEYrEN toilets are being thought Of.
YESTERDAY ought to have first premium
for nastiness.
BARNEY BRADY and James Dugan were
arrested, last night, for drunkenness.
THE Belmont County Farmers Institute
will begin its sessions to-day at ST. Glars
vile.
The City Democratic Executive Com
mittee will meet in adjourned session TO-
night
%WEAruER-PRopHEr FOSTER seems to
have slipped up on his calculations for this
month.
THERE is a black hound pup, white
breast, at police headquarters, awaiting an
owner.
LEONARD SCHWARTZ, was arrested, last
night, by Officer Frohme, for dlsorderly
conduct
TaE Cleveland Leader puts the annual
average loss by floods along the Ohio Val
ley at 100000
w. H. MARSHALL, the -four and grain
dealer, furnished Professor BristoPs
horses with feed.
above Twelfth, will be offered for sale Sat
urday by Auctioneer Hervey.
WILLIAM MILLER was arrested by Officer
Desmond, yesterday, for being drunk IN
the East Wheeling graveyard.
YESTERDAY was the feast of st. Blazius,
which was appropriately observed oy ali
the Catholic churches in the city.
THE City Board of Equalization and APP
l. 4. III ., 70 mn QUamlnQ
as are the Committees on Police and Gem
etries.
ELECTRIC motor IS" collided with one of
Speidel's delivery wagons yesterday morn
ing, breaking two panes OF glass IN the SIDE
of the car.
THE proposals for removing the garbage
for the next two years will be received at
the Clerks office until p. IN. Two DDS
are already in.
THE decision of the Natural Gas Com
mission was much talked about, yesterday,
and there were many surmises as TO what
would happen next.
ELECTRIC car 60" was burned out at
Market and Eleventh streets, at S:45 last
evening, causing a small panic among the
passengers and bad smell.
THE church extension State committee
of the NJ E. Church will meet at the ONCE
of John Baihe, corner OF Twelfth and Mar
ket streets, Lhis afternoon.
The Chemical got a still alarm, yester-
day morning, to No. 1909 Chapline street.
where defective Hue had started small
blaze. The damage was nominal.
MART DUNNING, Joe Kenney, Dave Ken
ney and Jack McGrath were arrested on
warrants by Officer West, last evening, Tor
i. ~ SnpnnH
last Saturday night.
CONSTABLE Lon. ST. Meyers will sell the
stuff seized at the express office where IL
the old Busby hardware store-room, this
morning, beginning at ten o'clock.
AT the Wheeling Turnverein athletic
exhibition at Turner Hall, on TUESDAY
evening, VIII Staub met with painful
accident. He fell while doing giant
swing and knocked out two teeth.
THE Wheeling hack drivers will give a
ball at Schenk's Hall, Friday evening, Feb
ruary 18th. McClelland's band will furnish
the music. A handsome rattan rocking
chair will be given TO the best lady Walter.
THE protracted services at the North
Street NJ. L. Church are going on with in
creasing interest. Last night an interest
ing sermon was preached by Rev. l.. II.
Jordan, presiding elder Of the Buckhannon
district.
IT is stated that the recent cold spell
proved very destructive to the quails, and
that the birds suffered more from the cold
and the covering of the food supply with
snow and ice than from all the hunters In
the field during the season.
PETER LoEFLER, the man who was re-
ported missing and who was found Tues
day night lying on Sixteenth street, was
Yesterday taken te K. Boyde's, No. 1o4
Eighteenth street. Health Officer Spragg
diagnosed Loeher's trouble as stroke OF
paralysis.
THERE were five cases in Police Court,
Yesterday morning. Henry Eichenberg
and Louise Meier, for selling on Sunday,
got $50 and costs each. Charles Mccain
and Charles Bader, for fighting, got So and
costs each. John Mooney, for drunkenness,
got g and costs.
THOSE who carefully observe the western
sky after twilight during this month will
see a soft, nebulous column OF pearly light
of couical or lenticular form extending
upward from the western horizon 10 point
In the heavens not far from the Pleiades.
This delicate and shadowy phenomenon is
the Zodiacal light. 1t is seen TO the best
duN duAdt5C III 4 OOA 4ti1ANh ehN <hPiAA'
The same phenomenon is also visible in the
eastern horizon before sunrise in Septem-
Der. II is difficult TO determine its limits.
"ELECTRIC JACK" is the name of an ordi-
nary looking canine, who is the pet and
mascot Of every man on the electric motor
line. Jack has made his home for some
time at the Forty-third street office of the
road, and has made several trips day
around the ''loopn and over the other divi-
sions of the road. He selects his favorite
car and when it starts joys along behind
until the Forty-third street station is again
reached, when he will hunt warm place
near the stove until his bones are rested and
he is ready for another iaunt. About a
week ago Jack" was missed by the en-
ployes and it was learned that man had
carried him off to SisterSville. Yesterday
morning a number Of the men were gath
cred in the starters Office, when they were
surprised to see the dog come limping up to
the door and bark for admittance. He was
tired out from his long walk and at once
fell asleep, but viii again be found on duty
this morning.
NOTES OF THE RIVER:
News of the Boats and Boatmen Along