Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-04
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithuy Told

Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithIy Told
KEEP off the grass.
The calorifc season is with US.
The first game of tennis for the season
was played yesterday on the Island
Four new ten-wheel passenger engines.
IL is said, will be put on this division OF the
Pan Handle this week.
The reserved seat sale for Little Lord
Fauntleroy" commences at Houses music
store this morning.
ONE of the young society gentlemen
about town has had pictures taken In thir-
teen different attitudes.
TIE North End Literary and Athletic
Association will give dance at their cluo
rooms Thursday night.
WV. BRIoELAND, OF Benwood, has pur-
chased the saloon formerly owned by JACOB
Wilhelm at 1929 Market street
THE freight shipment over the B. Il o.
railroad is quite heavy at present, and the
bows are all making excellent time.
IDA PEBLER reported to the police yester-
day that she had lost gold watch some
where between Eighth and Twenty-third
streets.
Ir was Director Spell who taught his
son Alfred the mysteries Of the violin, and
rot Prof Schockev as mentioned IN yes
terday's paper Prof. Schockey is giving
him lessons on the piano.
The Ohio River train due in this city sat
: As O'Clock p IN, was delayed one hour
and a half by freight wreck which oc-
Cured Monday night at Murrayyllle,
few miles below Parkersourg.
Mr.. JAMES B. MCKEE. the popular Mar
ket street cigarist, has placed on the mar
ket fine five cent cigar known as the ..
w. l.. Club brand. The cigar is special
brand and is manufactured by H. G. Nolan,
Of Philadelphia.
Mr. PETER WENDLE, of Neosho, Mo,
was elected Mayor of that city by large
majority about one week ago. He was
formerly a Wheeling boy, and has many
friends in the city. He has been absent
from this city but four years.
SAMUEL LOGAN, Thomas Duffy, Joseph
Whaen and Jack Timmons were all arrest
ed Yesterday afternoon and last evening,
for disOrderly conduct A disOrderly war
rant was also sworn out for Martin War
ner. Three DRINKS aud vag were also
run in.
Is Police Court yesterday morning John
Kreiter, for drunkenness, got fifteen days
on the hill, and in the case Of Jack Duourn,
for the same offence, judgment was sus-
pended. Ella Stewart, for same offence,
was fined Sl00 and costs. Thomas Duny.
who was similarly afflicted, will take the
hill for fifteen days.
WORD was received at Police Headquar-
tiers yesterday morning that the postofice
at New Matamoras had been robbed, and
to arrest a certain man on the steamer
Hudson The man was arrested here, but
shortly after a telegram was received say
ing he could be released, as he was not the
man wanted.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Wheeling Bridge Company met at
their Office on Bridge Place yesterday
afternoon. There not being a majority of
the stock represented the meeting adjourn
ed to Tuesday, June 14th. Between seven
and eight hundred shares cut OF total OF
say 3,l00 were represented.
AT a meeting Of the official board of
Thomson Nj. r. Church, held last Monday
evening, the pastor Rev. j. A, Fullerton,
was granted a vacation to visit Europe,
and especially to spend few weeks with
his aged mother. Dr. Fullerton will sail
for Ireland June 10th, in company with
Rev. Joseph Lee, of Wesley Church. He
will return in the early part Of August.
YESTERDAY morning about II o'clock the
principal officers of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie railroad arrived in town. The gentle
men were Messrs. A. +. Blair, general
superintendent; Judge j. L. Terry, general
eastern agent, and G. a. Wilson, chief en-
gineer. The object of the visit was to in
spect the line and terminals and make ar
rangements for special freight rates and
new time table.
VENUS still remains the most attractive
celestial body in the evening skies. The
beautiful picture that was so striking TO
those who were fortunate enough to observe
it on the evening of the Doth of last month
will not be repeated this month, for when
the planet and the moon are at their near
est, on the 9Sth Of this month, two days az
ter the appearance Of the new moon, al
most two degrees will separate the two.
Frank Ferguson, the man who was shot
in McKeesport while doing the "William
Tell" act, about two weeks ago, is MEM
Der of the Josephine Woodruff Company,
which closed an engagement at the Grand
last night He was managing their mu-
scum in McKeesport when he was shot in
the head and the municipal authorities re-
voked his license. The shot was not as bad
as reported by the newspapers. II did not
enter the forehead, but passed through the
scalp making an ugly flesh wound several
inches long