Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-17
SMALL TALK
MInor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
fithuV Told

SOUTH street, between Market anu Ola
teeuIh streets, Is busy place these days
ALLEY B. between Twelfth street aud
alley 9, was given much-needed cleaning,
yesterday.
J. C. MARBLE yesterday qualified as a
notary public. Bond, $3.50; John A. How
ard, surety.
THE Engineers Union will meet August
Is and 20, instead Of next Sunday, as IOr-
merly announced.
TIE orders for the pay for the late extra
men in the fire department will be ready
at the Office Of the City Clerk to-day.
Work has not vet been commenced on
the South Penn street street car line. Inc
iron has been ordered, but has not arrived.
THE Albinger property, corner Wood
and Nineteenth streets, will be offered Tor
sale at auction Thursday morning al ten
o'clock.
A MEETING Of the stockholders Of the
Wheeling Bridge Company has been called
for the 10Th inst. at p. m, to elect d.
! rectors.
CAPTAIN B. B. DovENER and Hon. G. w.
Atkinson left for Clarksburg, Yesterday,
and addressed a Republican meenng there
last night.
ROBERT ANDERSON left yesterday for
RavenswOOd, Carthage, Washington y. h,
/ Columbus and WeIlsyille, IN the interest OF
the State Fair.
THE law wasn't fractured in a single
place. yesterday, so far as could De aScer-
tanned, and consta0les and police had an
easy time Of It.
TIE Baltimore and Ohio railroad tele-
! graphers are asking for an advance IN
I wages. said 10 be about equal to ten dollars
/ q month all around.
THE new firemen are being rapidly brok-
/ en- into the routine Of active duty, and are
anxious for an alarm try their skill at eX-
tinguishing blaze.
Hon. LEWIS BAKER, formerly editor of
/ the REGISTER, now of the ST Paul (Mlnn
/ Globe, has been elected Chairman OF the
State Central Committee.
MARGARET PORTER was yesterday ap-
pointed guardian for Fannie Porter, or
p1an of William Porter, deceased. Bond,
/ a. 900; Noah Zane, surety.
ROGER ATwELL, of Marshall county, COM
planned 20 the Eighth ward officers yester-
day that some person had stolen fifteen
/ chickens from him the other night.
Tue next Of the popular b. q o. Atlantic
I CITY excursions Will leave this city on the
25rh inst Those intending going can take
either the early morning or evening train.
/ ParlOr cars and sleepers will be run.
Tx city was flooded, yesterday, with
copies OF the Nation, H., star, containing
a notice the reverse OF complimentary OF
Sells Bros. 1t was written by B. b. Wal
lace, manager Of the Cook & WhitOy circus
AHACE containing two women figured in
a runaway in Alley &, near the worKhouse,
/ last night The horses started down at
L q md of
/ thrown out on her head and badly shaken
/ up.
PEOPLE are getting back from their va
| cation trips. Every once in while You
meet some one who has been missing for
| two or three weeks or a month. Another
I TWO weeks will see the tourists nearly all
I back.
TUE street railway force is again mauip-
ulatiny the electric railway track across
/ tLe stone bridge Otherwise, the situation
down there is unchanged The bridge will
I be opened for vehicles in the sweet by and
I by-Or later.
TaB new Ahrens engine was given an
other test at SChmulbac brewery, yes
/ teriav morning and at Reymann's IN the
| afternoon. Water was thrown over the
big buildings with ease. Engineer Dixon
was in charge.
QUITE general have been the comments
upJa the lunch so admirably served oy
/ Caterer burst at the Speidel affair at the
Park Mr.. burst well understands the
art Of tickling the artistic eye as well as
the palate, both OF which were well met.
TOMATOES have taken sudden drop
A short time ago they were selling at sixty
cents a dozen, and were luxury only 10
be INDUCED I'm by newspaper men and
other people well or. Now they are sell
ing at thirty cents per bushel, placing them
within the reach Of all.
FRANK Tape who was arrested on
charge of stealing chickens on Sunday
morning, called at the REGISTER Office yes
terdav aud stated that he was innocent Of
the charge, and that the two men asked
MIN 70 allow them'to put the buudlesin the
buggy. He claims he did not know their
contents.
"a MARRIAGE license was issued yester-
dav 10 Jacob 3. Siegfried, a native OF
Westmoreland county, Pa, aged 81, and
Eleanor Arnold, q native OF PlttSburg,
aged %; also 70 Joseph Mccoy, native Of
/ Allegheny county. Pa, jagged %, and Bell
johnson, a native Of Allegheny county,
Pa, aged %.
Tue announcement that the Democratic
campaign In this county would be opened
September Sth, created a good deal of in
terest and no little enthusiasm yesterday,
and there is every indication that II Will be
one of the largest political demonstrations
ever seen in Wheeling. The clubs will
turn out strong.
Is Police Court, yesterday morning,
Garbage Contractor Lawrence Clark was
fined s. and costs on one charge, another
charge was continued, and the third dis
missed Pat. Maloney got $40 and costs
for beating up Thomas Burk. Ed. West,
Chris Cline. Il. Chapman and Steve Marks
AN went TO the hill. Guy Baldwin was al
lowed 70 leave town.
Rr. REV GEO W. PErERRIN has pur-
chased the Germania Hall building on Ann
street, Parkers burg, and 10 Will be fitted up
as "a coffee house, reading room, nursery
for children and a chapel II Twill be mag
uihceut charity, and when in full opera
tiOu will be one OF the institutions OF Par
kerSburg and a monument 70 the pnlIan-
thr0py of Bishop Peterkin.
THERE is talk of forming a syndicate for
| the purchase of Browns Island, and the
converting of IL into pleasure resort, and
the building of magnificent hotel thereon.
Ito is said the island can be purchased for
$4,000, and several Wheeling capitalists
have sigui6ed their willingness to 90 into
company for the above stated purpose. 1t
is understood the movement viii be pushed
forward theoretically, SO as 70 have the
hotel and grounds completed by the sum
mer of -SteubcUrijs Gazette.
THERE are some unpleasant things on the
camp grounds at Bufr's Mills as well as
/ elsewhere. Persons on pleasure bent are
said % have INDUCED in some rather ques-
tiouable conduct. Last Friday some OF the
Young people thought il would be very fun
nv 10 catch Elder Mills with a Kodak
while he was asleep in a hammock They
caught him sleeping and then thought 10
catch him as he woke up. 4 boy bursted
a paper sack near him, the Kodak snapped