Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-27
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthnY Told

Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthnv Told
ONLY so degrees in the shade yesterday.
What DROP
THE plasterers will ride in hacks in the
! labor parade to-day.
PROF. FOSTER predicts storm wave to
pass over this section between now and
| the 3lst
PATRICK HARRINGTON has purchased the
saloon formerly owned by James Nolan, OF
Benwood.
THE steamer Eliza H. will run between
| Bellaire and Wheeling until the Philips
comes back from the docks.
A FLAG was presented to the Printers
Union last night by Mr.. Tim Dolan: The
flag will be carried in the parade to-day.
The work of paving the stone bridge is
progressing rapidly. The west side OF the
Street car track was completed yesterday
morning.
THE Prohibition people will open their
campaign early next month, and have en-
ployed Mrs w. J. Trego to make speeches
for them.
A largely attended meeting of Wheel
ing lodge b. p. o. Elks was held Thurs
day evening, when Manager Alfred kheln-
SLfOll, OF Juo OpSEd E1OuSCi oAiu ~AA' AASHAJ
! Somehow were initiated.
TEE excursion train to Canton and
Myers Lake Sunday over the wheeling
& Lake Erie railway will leave the Union
depot promptly at eight o'clock a. m Inc
Union Cornet Band will accompany the
excursion.
THE Y. NJ. D. c. drum corps was out
last night in handsome new uniforms.
The drum corps serenaded Hon. William
C.. Handlan, who gave them handsome
donation for uniforms, and upon their re-
turn serenaded the REGISTER.
YESTERDAY morning about O'Clock the
steamer Eliza II. arrived with the Marx
Twain's Fishing Clubs palace boat from
their camp at Cresap's Grove and towed
her into land near the suspension bridge.
The CLUB has been in camp eight weeks.
JOHN TAGGART, the father of W. S. Tag
CART, is very low at his residence, TWO
miles northeast Of st. Clairsville. Since
his sons disappearance he has oeen grow
ing weaker. and now is very near death.
He is 50 years old, and has been a resident
of that vicinity most Of his life.
THE Labor Day parade to-day will be
preceded by platoon Of police IN charge OF
Lieutenant Gaus, followed by Oticers
Devlin, Scally, Wilke, Herbert, Bucn,
Donovan, Trischler, O'Brien, Fitzgerald,
Myers, Minkemyer, Carney, Daum, Con-
rad, Stump, Snider and Desmond.
The operators Of Boggs Run mine claim
that there are several inaccuracies IN the
REGIsTER's statement of yesterday: Iney
say they never tried TO operate tne mine
with non-union men; that neither the
Hungarian nor any one else was employed
to secure workmen, and that neither Hun
garians nor any others were brought 10
| the mine by the operators. The few VINO
went to work and the many who applied
! for work came entirely unsolicited.
THE preparations the colored citizens OF
! Steubenville are making TO celebrate the
! thirtieth anniversary Of the emancipation
proclamation in that city on September y
are very extensive The Militant Rank OF
! Wheeling. noted for its excellent drilling,
will be present and take part The exer-
| cises of the day will be held IN the Az
| lantic Gardens, and besides the Ioca!
speakers there will be present Editor ana
! Rev. j. Frederick Moreland, OF Cincinnati,
aud Prof. J. McHenry Jones, or wheel
! ing.-Steubenrille Gazette.
THE Eighth Ward Democratic Club held
a meeting last night and considerable earn
! estness was manifested in the proceedings.
| The meeting was called to order by Her
man Bentz. The club agreed TO purchase
uniforms, and at another meeting to be
held next Tuesday evening, the style Of
uniform will be selected. The club has
$40 in the treasury, aud much more is
| easily forthcoming from the members and
outside friends of the club. w. G. Hand
Ian contributed $40 for a design. The
! Eighth Ward Democratic Club is one Of
the live organizations of the city.
RI. GODFREY, Supreme Treasurer Of
the Order of Scion, was arrested in Pitts
burg yesterday, charged with embezzling
| the funds of the order to the amount Of
$4,000 The Commercidl-Gdzette says:
''This charge was preferred before Alder
man McMasters by Mr.. w. G. McKelvey,
who is the man who attempted TO prose
cute Godfrey last September, but at the
meeting Of the supreme lodge some time
! later the affair was thought TO have been
| settled. The facts will be read with inter-
est in this city. where branch Of the Or
der Of Scion was recently established. On
! Tuesday night Godfrey and Stricken were
| in Wheeling and made addresses before
| the local branch.