Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-10
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly aud
Pithily Told

STATE FAIR entries are coming IN
steadily.
TIE new St. Mathews rectory is up to
the roof line.
BLOCH Bros. tobacco factory will close
down Thursday for about week, TO make
necessary repairs.
GEORGE WHITE, the colored chap who
stole the SIS from Edith Thompson, was
sent to Jail for sixty days by Justice Pnll-
lips.
The ninth annual Belmont County Har-
vest Home picnic will be held at stewart
Grove, two miles south Of St CIalrSVllIe,
Ohio, Thursday, August %.
CRY CLERK Thomas F.. Thoner has re,
ceived 100 handsome portraits Of Cleveland
and Stevenson, and is distributing them, as
far as they will go, to his friends.
ABOUT II o'clock yesterday morning a
small fire at Newman's dyelng establish
ment, on Market street, called out por-
ton of the department. The damage was
nominal.
THOMAS FEENEY, the railroad man who
was so badly injured in the accident at Tue
Beuaire bridge, Monday morning, was
somewhat better, yesterday, and may uitI-
mately recover.
SUNDAY was Ladies Day at the Mystic
Crew fishing camp, near Darlington. Inc
members took their wives down ana en-
tertained number of young lady visitors
In handsome manner. About torty-hVe
persons sat down for dinner
IT has been currently reported that the
La Belle Iron and Nail Company only
signed the Boilers scale condltionally.
This is a wrong impression, The company
has signed the pu ddlers scale Tor one year
from, INV 1SgD m .IUlV l. 1888.
THE scholars in the Third Presbyterian
| Church will 90 down TO Glendale to-mor-
| row. where they will picnic. Some extern
| sive ARRANGEMENTS have been made and no
doubt they Will all have a good time. They
will go down on the Ohio River train.
THERE were but four cases in Police
| Court. Yesterday morning. The case
agains. Henry Goethe, for selling liquor
| on Sunday, was continued. Fritz Werner,
! disorderly, was discharged, and sam Cole
| ana Harry Goblin got 81 and costs eacu'
! Mr.. II. BEARS, OF Pittsburgh, is here on
| business, and while in the city took occasion
TO look up his old friend Market Master
| Kenney. Mr. Bears and Mr.. henney
| learned their trades together over thirty
wears ago, and they hsve not met until now.
| Mr.. Kenney and his friends are making 1t
| pleasant for their guest
The Arion's Sommernachtfest and social
| and musical entertainment will take place
! this evening on the State Fair Grounds.
| The Opera House orchestra Will make the
| dancing and prOmenadSmuslc. The com
mittee having the affair in charge Will
make il one of the most notable affairs OF
the kind ever given by the Society. A granc
torchlight procession will be one OF the lea
! lures.
JOIN DoU6uERTY, the colored man OF
| Monongaheia Citp, who was shot Sunday
morning near Finleyville, by Luclan Blair,
while riding with the latters wife, was
removed to a Plttsburg hos pital where,
about s a. m. Monday, he died. The body
was taken to Monongaheia City, where
considerable excitement was felt about the
matter as DOugherty was well liked there
! In the evening Coroner Johns was no.
titled and Yesterday morning LETT Tor Mo
uongahela City TO hold an inquest The
charge against Blair will now probably be
| changed TO murder.
CONTRARY to a statement in the evening
| paper there will 90 an exhibit OF fancy
| pottery at the coming World Fair at Chi
| cagO While the other potterles IN Wheel
! ing may be booked for just plain line OF
ware, representative OF the North Wheel-
| ing pottery desires to state that they Will
make special exhibit Of fancy pottery,
and with this end in view have been labor
! ing industroUsly in this line. The North
| Wheeling pottery expects 70 make fancy
| exhibit at the Worlds Fair equal II not
surprising, anything contributed from this
or the OLD country.
II is now denied that Martin Reed sui
| cided in order TO balk his pursuers. Mark
| Douley. Of the Coroners Office, in an inter
view in the Chronicle Telegraph declares
that the position of the wound was such as
| 10 make it improbable that Reed, himself,
| fired the shot that caused it. His hand
would have TO have been lifted over his
| head and the revolver pointed downward
| Also the shot which was supposed TO nave
! killed him did not come from the part OF
| the room in which the body was found. AS
the bullet penetrated the heart Reed could
| not have crossed the room after receiving
| the wound. II seems probable that the
| bullet came from the outside.
For unique marriage contracts the palm
| has at last been conceded TO parties living
| at the little town OF mauleJown as IL Is
| more Familiarity known. Mr.. Smith Hurst,
an old and wealthy farmer Of that place, Is
one of the principals in the contract and the
| lady is also a resident Of the little town.
! The marriage contract so peculiar is as
| follows: Mr.. Hurst is to give his intended
! bride s. coo in cash, $500 year for pocket
money while she lives, and an insurance
policy for large sum is 70 be payable 10
! her at his death. The lady is over fifty
| years Of age while Mr.. Hurst is over lghty,
and is the same gentleman whom two
! sharpers tried to film out OF his money
| some months ago.
This month the new postal money orders
/ will 20 into use. The system has been 80
that there is little or no complication, and
| at the same time 1t is good way 70 send
| money. A sheet calling for amounts from
one cent up to So has been prepared which,
on the payment of one cent and the amount
| to be sent, will be torn off the same as an
express order. There will be no writing
on it by the postmaster, the sender endors-
| ing il as check or draft. The Govern
ment guarantees its safe transportation.
| 1t is thought that the new system will be
used extensively by senders OF small
/ amounts
! The Moundsville camp meeting opens To-
morrow and lasts ten days. Some OF the
| finest camp meeting talent has been Sc
cured and excursion rates viii be given on
all branches of the B. & o. K. K. DR..
Louis Albert Banks, who has made name
4 for himself as one of the leading workers
| in the effort TO abolish the sweater sys-
| temp of working in Boston and other East
ern cities, will preach each evening. and
| his sexnons viii be illustrated by views
/ from a stereopticon. The meetings are
under the direction of the Presiding Elder,
assisted by committee Of three ministers