Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-01-30
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
P1thlIy Told


THERE will be masquerade AT the Ra-
vine Reading Room Monday night.
MYRTLE LYNwooD was arrestad nv
Onicer O'Brien last night for drunkenness
"A. TIRE was broken on the hook and ladder
morning. ''0-S
CAIEy McNIcHoL recovered a ring, last
uienN stolen under unusual and peculiar
circumstances.
IhE Board Of Commissioners commit
tee on Court House ana JAN Is called to
meet this afternoon.
q, TIE hackmen win give ball February
- al Schenck'S Hall and there will likely
De large attendance.
JAMES MoRGAN and George Wilson had
eusuI al Westwood's hall, last night, and
We're arrested by Officer Devlin.
FosTER predicts anotherco wave arriv-
ing mere on February , or 3, and this one
VIII De the Seyerest Of the winter.
The home Of Charles Held, on South
Maln street, was the scene OF a very en-
!OyaOIe social gathering last night.
Tbs funeral of Miss Minnie Loring win
J9Ae place at the Loring mansion at Elm
Groye at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
TIE Democratic City Committee is
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tuesday evening. Business of import
ance Will be transacted.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL error Yesterday made
the REGISTER say the Wheeling and Lake
Erie trains would run on Eastern time; il
should have been central time.
CHAT RADER, Of this city, will deliver a
Tree lecture at G.. a. Il. Hal on Sunday
afternoon az o'clock. Subject: "Founda-
ton OF the Heavenly TemDle0
TIE attention Of the travelling public is
called to the change in the time table Of the
Terminal Railway Company IS 1t appears
IN another column OF this issue.
MANY new rules have been made in the
infantry tactics by the War Department.
and the Linsly cadets will take up the
study OF the revised tactics on Monday.
AN axle broke on a driving cart occupied
by DR.. X. II. Billiard, on Twenty-seventh
street yesterday morning, and the Doctor
was unceremOniously dumped into the
mud.
INFORMATION from the residence of Mrs.
George W.. Thompson, at IL o'clock last
night was to the effect that there was no
marked change in the condition OF Mrs
Thompson.
TUE eleventh annual session of the Bel
mont County Farmers Institute viii be
held ia the Court House hall, st. Glars
vile, Thursday and Friday, February Attn
and 9Th, 1892.
The w. x Z. G, Z. r. have placed new
freight car on their road and on yesterday
hauled 20 the city the hrst full load, car
load Of -four from Bedillion * Co. 5 mill for
the Jos. Speidel Grocery Co.
Thomas STICKELs, the suspect arrested
by Ohicers Fahey and Scally, Thursday
night, at Main and Eighth streets, was
taken before Justice Phillips yesterday and
committed for the Grand Jury.
THERE viii be a skating race at Lafay-
cite rink, Martins Ferry, this evening, be-
tween L. q. McClelland, Of Pittsburg, and
j. 3. Sheppard, of this city, for purse OF
500; mile heats best two in three.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY HOWARD and
Joseph A. Henderson, Auditor or Belmont
county, Ohio, are the latest accessionS 10
the Order Of Elks In this city. They were
initiated into the mysteries on Thursday
evening.
ST. VALENTINES Day, which will come
around in few weeks, is the exclusive
property this year Of the girls. The boys
can stand back and look on as the process
sion moves on TO the letter-ooXes or post
office.
The many friends OF DR.. L. D. Wilson
viii be panied TO learn OF the death OF his
son Robert, who died yesterday afternoon
about three O'Clock. Bob was bright boy,
and was loved By all his plsymates. He
was IN his fourteenth year, and member
of the LinSly cadet corps.
The members OF the Washington Gun
club who expect TO participate IN the shoot
with the Wheeling CLUB. February 4th, are
practiCing almost daily for the contest, ana,
from the scores being made, il is very evil
dent that they will hold their own with the
Nail City Washington pa Journal.
OPINIONS are various as to the effect Of
the ice storm on the coming years truit
crop. IL Is thought by some persons that
the fruit germs were killed outright by the
ice bath In which they were for several
DAYS submerged. Other fruit growers say
that we may next year expect an eXtraor-
diuarily heavy crop OF fruit.
WHERE are those false prophets who pre-
dicted a mild and open winter, aud who
were TRYING % explain il on the theory that
the gulf stream was 200 miles or so farther
north than IL used 70 bel Thus far this has
been a fairly good old style winter. The
conditions have not been unusually unfa-
vorable to health, and the roads have been
good.
THE second term OF this session of Beth
auv College begins February l. The new
President, II. McDairmid, is an expert
euced teacher AID popular preacher and
lecturer, and it is expected that quite
number of students VIII be added 70 the
present number, which is greater now than
az anv time in the history Of the institu-
ton.
A STRANGE mania broke out among the
school girls at Mount De Chautel just be-
fore the hOlidays-a perfect craze for calen-
dars and hearts; frail, painted things OF
celluloid or cardboard, and valuable only
for the photographs they held; but the
fancy was as general as the tulip mania or
Holland. A girl seemed ready 10 sacrlnce
her kingdom for heart or calendar
For her. time was without price
THg freezing weather Of the past week
oy tyo has not been hailed by ice consum-
ers with the same qualification rs would
have been the Gaze a number OF years ago.
a greater part OF the ice used in this town
h Jnanufactured. the most OF 10 coming
from Wheeling. Geo. Davis and Hallam
Rros.. the two firms which supply nearly
All an the town consumers, are preparing
~ Law in a far greater amount OF Ice thsn
i'm any former year. - washington ga
Journal
tbs follOvying. The freshmen Of Washing
TON and .Jeffer on College have decided 10
carry canes and have appointed a commit
tea 10 select the proper stick. According
20 ancient custom the freshies must carry
,6,;- canes on or before February %, or
snDounce their intention Of doing so, so
1baf the sophomores can appoint commit
$50 frop the lower classes 10 decide upon
what STYLE Of rush" is desired, or, IN other
,voTis now they would prefer to be done
NJ me faculty is opposed to cane rusn-
i5y and will take immediate steps 70 put
s si 10 it, II possible. Notwithstanaing
sb5s the oracle state that the contest TOT