Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-08
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithilV Told.

called to meet this evening.
DIsHER PORTER was arrested by Once
| Daum, last evening, for fast driving.
THE Council Committee on Ordinances
and Claims are called to meet this even
ing.
THE scale has not been signed at the
| Brilliant mill, and the establishment has
been shut down.
The fire brick for the McCulloch street
improvement have been distributed along
! north of Sixteenth street.
MARKET MASTER KESNET Of the Second
| Ward, has completed the renovation OF the
market house and has it as clean as new
pin.
OFFICER STUMP found a bay pony run
ming about the Island Tuesday night and
| put it away in the hose house yard, await
| ing an owner.
Tbs Board of Public works contractor
has commenced work upon the sewers IN
the low ground east of McCulloch street,
East Wheeling.
The Cuckos of Martins Ferry will play
| the Pink Carriers or Wheeling on the Ter
minal grounds at Martins Ferry next Sat
urday afternoon.
JACOB DETwEILER of the Eighth Ward
returned yesterday from fishing trip at
Cadiz, Ohio, with one hundred and fifty
pounds of turtle
THEODORE WAGNER, of East Wheeling,
| fell into sewer opening while playing
and had considerable amount of skin
scraped of his back.
THERE was but one case in Police Court
yesterday morning, the victim being Pat
Rouse. He went to the hill for fifteen days
| in Of md "a fOr
A MARRIAGE license was yesterday issued
] to Thomas L. Pennington, native OF
Pennsylvania, aged "a, and Mollie Malo-
ney, native of Pennsylvania. aged %.
NJ. f. GEIsKY, the architect, is preparing
plans for hotel in Moundsville for John
Henrietta. Iii to be of brick, two stories
high and containing about thirty rooms.
Mr.. ALLISON, the wire manufacturer,
has opened an ice cream parlor at the cor
ner of Seventeenth and Eoff streets, and
last night RECALLED the boys at the Atlantic
engine house and the policemen in that dis
trict.
THE members of the John S. Welty
Fishing Club are encamped at Willow
| Springs, and are having a fine time
| Those present are John, George and Albert
Welty, Paul Wingerter, John Heiner and
| John O'Kane.
A TEMPORARY organization for the lorna
ton Of al lodge of the American Union
League was made in the Eighth Ward
Wednesday evening, and about twelve can
| didates for admission were examined. The
( League will meet again Monday night.
BLACK PRINCE LODGE, X. of P, in
stalled their officers last evening, and at
the conclusion of the ceremonies sat down
to banquet which was discussed at con-
siderable length and with much, satisfac-
ton. Several were made, among them one
by Hon. G.. w. Atkinson.
a TELEGRAM to the REGISTER, yesterday,
stated that the Wheeling boys, represent
ing the Island Gun Club, had won a signal
victory over their Eastern competitors at
the Jersey City match. Those shooting
from this city were Messrs. Penn, Scott,
Burt, Lemons and Wright.
LUTER Hess, who escaped from the work
house, where he was serving out a sentence
of one hundred and twenty days, about
week ago, was arrested yesterday morning
by Officer Fahey on another charge of dis
order. He will probably be given another
opportunity of completing his time.
LAST Sunday large dog was killed at
Seventeenth and Eoff streets. The author
tiles were notified 10 take the body away,
but failed TO do so, and boys have put the
carcass under the wheels of B. & o. trains
so many times since that there is but little
of the canine left. What remains, however,
seems to have spoiled"
THE tickets are now on sale at the Office
of the Wheeling Il Elm Grove railroad for
the excursion to Canton and Reymann's
Lake next Sunday over the Wheeling &
Lake Erie railway. The train leaves the
Union depot a o'clock a. m. and Will run
through as special. Returning will leave
Canton at z o'clock p m.
MEssRs. ]. G. HABBREIELD, Geo. J.
Mathison and Col. Thomas O'Brien, arbi-
traitors in the suit brought by Mrs. Sarah
E. st. Meyers against the city for injuries
alleged to have resulted through the extern
sion of North Market street, heard teSti-
mony in the First Branch of Council
chamber yesterday. They awarded the
claimant S5l.
THERE has been quite rush of business
at the hotels this week. an d it looks like
some new registers will have to be ordered
before long. Last evening there was quite
crush of baggage belonging to early au
tumn drummers at the Mcclure, and the
same thing was true Of the other hotels.
The politicians have also been coming to
town quite numerously Of late.
YESTERDAY force of B. & o. engineers
were engaged in taking measurements at
the north end of the stone bridge, at Main
street, with view of making some change
in the location of the Bser Bros. switch.
AS at present located, the frog for the
switch strikes right where the street rail
way line over the bridge will come, and it
will likely be moved about ten or twelve
feet to the east.
From forty to fifty delegates from the
Wheeling district, including Steubenville
and Moundsvllle will leave this morning
for Corning, N. Y, to attend the national
convention OF Glass Workers. Travelling
Passenger Agent o. r. Wood closed ar
rangements yesterday for the transporta-
ton of nearly all the delegates over the
Wheeling q Lake Erie railway They will
leave the Union depot at AS this morning.
FROM the quarterly report OF City
Health Officer Spragg, printed elsewhere,
IL will be seen there were 2S3 deaths in
this city during the three months ended
July 1st OF this number eighteen were
from typhoid fever, one from diphtheria,
two from la grippe, fourteen from con-
sumption and twenty-four from pneu-
monia. There were four cases Of drown
ing and seven deaths from accidents Of
various natures. Five of the deaths were
of persons between so and 90, and one was
over 90