Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-04
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithilV Told

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THE members Of the Hospital Associa.
tiop Of the Wheeling City Hospital VIII
have special meeting this evening at I ;SO
o'clock.
A DEED made June 81, 1892, by 7. l..
Harvey to Charles D. McCarty, for lot 1,
block No. 8, Old Fair Grounds, consider
alton of the sum Of 1925, was left at ClerK
Hooks Office yesterday.
CHIEF HALEY has taken a large consign-
ment of tickets to sell for the coming races
in aid of the new City Hospital. The
Chief has rendered valuable services TO-
ward the Hospital fund.
A DEED made June %, 1892, by Isaac G.
Hatcher and wife TO T. L. Harvey, for lot
| No. 4, block No 3, Old Fair Grounds, con-
sideration of the sum OF 500, was left al
| Clerk Hooks Office yesterday.
SUPERINTENDENT c. c. SHowALTER, Of
the Pruntytown reform school, has issued
a reward of S25 for two boys, William Will
| Hanson and William Atkinson, both OF
whom escaped from the institution on the
night of the oath of July.
THE street car employees will hold meet
! ing Saturday night 10 consider the new
rules which went into effect the first Of this
week The clause in the new rules which
! they do not like is that which makes them
pay their fare on the cars when not on
duty.
The members of the Third Presbyterian
church will give lawn fete and social this
! evening at the home of Mrs. Harry Sey-
| bold on South Jacob street. The affair is
! for the purpose of raising funds 10 carry
on the WORK Of improving the church prop
! erty.
ABOUT Q o'clock yesterday morning
! man by the name Of :. Shaffer met with
! painful accident at the main street bridge.
He was shifting some piles when one OF
them swung against his left leg, breaking
it below the knee. He was taken TO his
home in West Wheeling.
A six-year-old child of Jacob Allen, of
the South Side, was struck BY horse at
tached To a wagon yesterdsT&t the corner
of Alley + and Twenty-tnird street. A
physician was summoned, and it was found
that two ribs had oeen badly shattered
besides other very painful injuries.
THE fuuerai of the late Mrs. Alice Holt,
wife of Mr.. Johnson Holt, will take place
this afternoon from the family residence at
No Fifteenth street at 3 o'clock p. m.
TIL arment will take place at the Pen
!. uetery, following brief services at
L. residence.
HOLIDAY Relief Corps, No. 1, will hold
their regular meeting al O'Clock TINS
Thursday afternoon and this evening at
: 30. They will give free social and dis
pose Of a quilt recently made by Mother
Holiday" in the Goth year OF her age, TO
the Relief Corps The proceeds are to be
used to replenish the relief fund OF the
corps.
ONE of our news agents wants thirty ex-
ira copies OF the REGISTER containing an
-. - Tafa NH a
said would take place next Friday. The
| hanging Of Maier will not likely occur this
year. He has secured an appeal and the
supreme court will likely hand down an
| opinion at Charleston at the fall special
term.
a CORPS of engineers are at work survey
ing for the extension of the electric street
car line in Martins Ferry. The route pro
posed to complete the loop is from their
present terminus at the corner OF Fourth
and Walnut streets up Fourth to Hanover,
! down Hanover TO First, down First to JEFF
ferson, up jefferson to Broadway, where
| they will make the connection.
MARY COLEMAN, who lives on North HUI
ron street, Island, swore out three war
rants yesterday, one rgainst Belle hlger,
! far committing an assault on James Cole
man; one tgaiust James Kjger for assault
/ On L IUuh SOAGlIdl, anu biS -hlAA'e AA'-NNA
! for assault on Mary Coleman. II appears
| to be a sort of a general melee among the
neighbors. The case comes up before
! SQUIRE Gillespie 1T : 80 this evening.
Is police court yesterday morning J. B
| Hale, for indecent exposure, was fined
| s. aud cost, which he paid. Jack Divln-
nifty and Charles Johnson, two disOrderlles.
were dealt with to the extent OF s. and $40
! respectively with costs. Joseph Driller
| was assessed s. and costs for disOrderly
| conduct and the same amount for resisting
an officer. John Coleman, for disorderly
| conduct, got ten days on the hill.
A TELEGRAM received here from Fargo,
! North Dakota. announces that Mr..
| Joseph Devine, formerly OF this city, and
! brother of Mr.. J. NJ. Devine, the we'll
known real estate man, was nominated for
! State perintendent Of Schools by accla-
nation in the Republican State convention
at that place Tuesday. The position OF
| State Superintendent Of Schools. to which
| Mr. Devine has been nominated, and the
/ nomination is equivalent to an election,
pays a salary Of t2,5O0 year.
! o. Tuesday morning about o'clock, Al
/ win Cooper and Herman SChadwecAer, at
| Marys discovered the body OF little girl
! floating in the river Just below towu. They
| towed the corpse ashore at the Narrows
! The girl was about seven years old, and 1t
| was supposed that she was one OF the Doty
/ family that had been washed out in Mar
! shall county on Saturday night A tele-
| gram was sent up the river, and in the af-
| ternOon TWO relatives came down and
| identified the body, taking the remains
/ home with them. The little girl was the
| fifth enc to be fovnd.
HANCOCK Post No. IS, G. A. R, OF Ben
wood, will picnic at Whitmau's grove near
Boggs' Run, Saturday next This affair
promises TO be one Of the most enjoyable
outing parties of the season. The affair
will open at eight o'clock in the morning
and continue until eleven o'clock in the
evening. Speaking, music and dancing
will be the order of the daE No intoxicat-
ing drinks are 70 De sold on the grounds.
Refreshments will be served oy the Ladies
Relief Corps. The speaking will De led By
Private Dalzell, with others Of local repu-
tatlon to follow.
AT the First Woman's Conference OF the
ChautauQua Missionary Institute, held at
ChautauQus, New York, the other day,
Mrs Rev D. A Cunningham presided.
The Assembly Herald says: The opening
remarks 0y Mrs. Cunningham Of Wheel
ing, w Va. touching upon the noble work
of women in the past and the Nistas OF in
! fuence and power opening before her to-
day, were very suggestive. At the First
General Missionary Conference Rev. DR..
D. A. Cunningham presided, and in brief
address laid the subject, Effective Or
ganization in Missionary Work before
the conference. He spoke Of the need and
value of organization, the present organi'
cations for missionary advancement ano
their effectiveness. ard finally methods OF
keeping these organizations thoroughly
alive"
A NArA1 celebration 70 be held in Wash.