Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-14
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
PithuY Told


last evening.
THESE are the days when "little gem"
melons are in their prime,
JAMES DUGAN and John Murray were
arrested last night by Officer O'Brien,
for drunkenness.
THE new street railway trucks have
arrived and will be fitted TO cars as
soon as possible.
The Council Committees on Scales
and Fire Department are called to meet
tomorrow evening.
"SLATHERs" Of tomatoes are coming
10 town 70 be worked up into catsup at
the various factories.
MIKE COSTELLO and John Fox were
arrested late last night by Officer
Trischler, for disOrderlY conduct at
Susan Hennegan's.
THE Kenns Club will meet at Young
Mems Club room Monday, August Is.
All mem ers are requested TO be pres
ent, as business OF Importance is to be
transacted.
A LABGE number Of people will en-
bark on the Wheeling and Lake Erie
to-day for the excursion TO Myers Lake.
The trip will be most enjoyable one,
and all who can should go.
SUPERINTENDENT WEIsGERBER, Of
the w. & E. g.. will go East in few
days to order two fine ladies' coaches
for the Elm Grove road A new smok-
ing car is now in the shops.
OFFICER CREIGHTON last evening ar
rested II. Chapman for vagrancy. The
prisoner said bis age was SO, and he
looked IL. He is probably the oldest
tramp ever seen In the city.
THE directors of the United States
Glass Company have declared 4 per
cent, dividend on preferred stock and
per cent. on common stock, out Of the
operations OF the past six months.
THERE were six cases 10 Police Court,
yesterday morning. Nellie Warner and
Dode Marshall, for disorder, paid SIS
and costs each. Two vaRs went to the
hill, and two drunks paid dollar each.
CIRCULAR LETTERS, setting forth the
merits Of w. w. Rodgers proposed pen
sion bill, are being sent out from G.. A.
r. Posts 10 members OF Congress. The
bill has been published in these
columns.
GEO. CLEPPINGER, Of Salem, O., who
worked IN the InteUigeRcer bindery
here, but who went home July 4, drop
ped dead while there, A request was
received az police headquarters yeSter-
day TO have the dead mans effects sent
on.
WELCOME LODGE No. 6, A. O. U. w.
yesterday paid Mrs. Selena Stewart
=, 900, the amount Of the beneficiary
certificate taken out by her husband,
the late Isaac i. Stewart, who was an
honored member Of the above Organiza
ton.
THE keystone Juniors would like to
hear from the Valley Stars, Labor Day,
on the State Fair Grounds, for game
Of base bail. If challenge is accepted
please answer through this paper or
address Louis Jackson, No. 1924 Market
street.
''BOB BURDETTE fooled the Preston
County Institute. They engaged him
10 lecture, and Bob got full as an
owl and didn't show up."-BelldIre
i1ldeUCndSRt This was about Bob's
condition when he undertook TO lecture
In the y. M. c. A. course here.
:. X. HOLDEN went Into q Sixteenth
street saloon, and asked for beer.
When a glass was set out, he kicked,
and wanted more Of the beverage for
his money, whereupOn the bar-keeper,
Geo. McElrOy, went for Holden In APP
proved style, and literally wiped up the
floor with him. Officer Lukens arrested
McElrOy.
THE big palm leaf fan at police head
quarters bears this inscription in ink:
"Grover Cleveland and an honest tariff;
A. +. Stevenson aud q clean sweep;
w. A. McCorkle and pure State Gov
eminent; I. V. Johnson and no Wood
County jobs; John o. Pendeton and a
Representative in Congress-" The let
tering is very neatly done.
uHENRY DORS CHI, a cOuntryman, had
a bogus dollar passed on him at the
Second Ward market house yesterday
by man who bought a nickle's worth
of vegetables, There were two men at
the stall at the time, presumably
in the transaction, and
other coins Of like nature were prob
ably put in circulation. Complaints
have been coming in for several days
about bogus coins.
THE verdict in the Coyle case at Lit
tie Washington reads: Hugh Coyle |
came 70 his death on Saturday, August
6, 1892, about $50 o'clock p. IN, from
gun shot wound received from a gun or
revolver in the hands OF Martin Reed,
an escaped murderer whom he was as
SiSting to capture, he being concealed |
in the ice house on the property Of
Peter Wacber, Noblestown, North Fay
cite Township, Pa, and we further
find said shooting was done with felon-
iOus intent"