Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-20
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
PithIlY Told.

Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
PithIlV Told
HUNTERS, so far, report squirrels hard to
get.
JUDGE PAUL. will hold term Of Court
Saturday.
TIE Council Committee on Cemeteries
is called to meet this evening.
Next week the Bridgeport NJ. E. Society
will commence work on a 5000 church.
HELLO. Central Give me Chica-
What broke-not the wire, but the boys!
OFFICER MEYERS shot mule belonging
TO mir. Dougherty, of the Eighth ward, yes
terday.
The Georgia watermelons that have been
sold here are the sweetest yet offered In
this market.
The. Bridge of Signs, connecting the
new Jail with the Court House, is looming
up in great shape.
EXTENSIVE improvements are being
made at the Eighth ward hose house. A
new floor is being laid, and two new stalls
built.
WILL MUNKEMELLER, the Thirty-third
street pharmacist, has placed handsome
new Congress stand soda water fountain
in his store room.
THE work of laying the new main for the
Natural Gas Company of West Virginia
has progressed as far South as Sixteenth
street, on Chapline.
ATTORNEY JOIN CoNIFF, Of counsel for
William Maier, will go down 10 PIT. Pleas
ant tomorrow to bring the case to the at
tention OF Judge English.
GAS will probably be turned into the
new pipe over the steel bridge TO the Island
by the last of the week. The connection
has been made at the east end OF the bridge.
Warts vet said to be brewing over the
leadershipin the coming Labor Day demon
stration, and some interesting discussions
are expected at the next meeting OF the
Trades Assembly.
TRIADELPHA LODGE, l. o. o. F., will
give a grand picnic and entertainment at
the grove near Triadelph!a, on Middle
Wheeling creek, Thursday, August Atm. A
grand time is anticipated.
THE weather OF late has been subject to
freakish turns. From seven o'clock yes
terday morning 10 three in the afternoon
there was a rise of fifteen degrees, and the
early evening was quite sultry.
The funeral of Francis de Sales Gille-
gan took place from ST. Joseph's Cathedral
Yesterday afternoon at 40 o'clock Rev.
Father McElliott conducted the services.
The interment was at Mt. Calvary Gene
terry.
The corn fields never looked better. The
cool nights don't seem TO have stunted the
growth of the stalks particle, while the
warm rains and hot sun of part Of last week
brought out the tassleS and blades in great
shape.
WHILE sinking an air shaft to the Great
Western mine few days ago, at Toronto,
the workmen discovered anumber OF pieces
OF petriied logs, at depth OF thirty feet
under ground, and overlaid by at least fif>
teen feet of solid rock
ROBERT SPENCER, colored, got fighting
drunk in the Second ward yesterday, and
when Officer West arrested him. he refused
to 20. He was thumped into the patrol
wagon by Officers Lukens and West, and
landed in the lookup after some little
trouble.
A LETTER from Washington county, o.,
says that hundreds Of buckets Of black oer-
ries are being allowed TO decay on the
bushes, because it doesn't pay to pick them
at the prevailing prices. Even the country
stores refuse them at any price. In this
city splendid berries can be had at from
thirty-tve to forty cents per bucket.
THERE were five cases in Police Court
Yesterday morning. Henry Zercher, for
breaking the big window in the Hawley
block, got s. and costs. Charles Hill,
charged with selling liquor on Sunday, was
dismissed. James Nj. Lull and +. V. Sher-
man. were fined 50 and costs for accosting
women on the streets. The fifth case was
a drunk.
THERE has been rather novel agent in
town for the past week or so. He controls
the southern territory for wooden Indian
factory in New York, and supplies all
cigar stores as desire them. He also re-
paints old Indians, and during the past ten
days he has touched up all the leading
cigar signs along upper Market and Main
streets. These wooden Indians cost from
$3.50 to S175.
YESTERDAY evening between nine and
ten o'clock while big crowd was congre-
gated on Fourteenth street, near Pollock
mill, listening to the harangue OF travel
ing fakir, a man by the name of Clark from
East Wheeling, a carpenter by trade, had
his pocket book stolen containing four dol
lars and a half. The pocket was neatly
cut all around the outside with some sharp
instrument, and the wallet was easily re-
moved. 1t was discovered too late to ena-
bic the police TO obtain u clue of the thief.
AROUT PEOPLE,