Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-18
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
PIthily Told


Chantel held meeting yesterday.
ALARGE portion of the Belmont nall
factory IS closed down indefinitely.
THE scarcity of strawberries on the
market is causing very many COM
plants.
JUDGE G. L. CRANMEE will deliver
the grafton at Dresden, o., on Decora-
ton Day.
THE Commissioners Committee on
Poor House and Farm will go out to the
Infrmary to-day.
WIN. EMBLEM. OF Eighteenth street,
lost very valuable dog this week oy
some one poisoning it.
DIR. ARMBREcHT, OF the South Side'
has purchased an excellent tFotting
horse from DR.. Haskins. of Benwood.
THE Ancient Order OF United Work
men. of this city, are contemplating the
erection of fine hall here to cost ABOUT
$4,000.
john STEAD was arrested by Otilcer
Fitzgerald. and Moss Carroll by Officer
West yesterday for fighting at the La
Belle mill Tuesday.
LAST Tuesday evening, the GOOD
Templars, at their hall on Iwelith
street, initiated six members and mad a
most pleasing social time.
TIE Wheeling Mold Company are en-
gagged in putting up the cupola IN con-
nection with their new foundry. a
large amount of new machinery arrived
yesterday.
IT is stated that an electric clock will
be put in the La Belle mill soon. ms
Improvement will be made so that the
Waterman may register in eight dlner-
ent places in the plant.
Jos. FISHER, of the Sixth Ward, who
made such q narrow escape by run
away on the South Side a few days
ago, is better. He is the man who
drove Zarnitz Bros team.
f. WALTHERs, at the corner OF
Twenty-seventh and Chapline streets
will soon have erected a two-roomed ad-
dition of brick to his business place.
Wood Bros. have the contract.
THIS evening in the English Lutheran
Church there will be an entertainment
and social will be given by the young
mems Bible class. Arrangements are
made for a pleasing social time.
MARTIN Hartmann, of Thirty-third
street, while rolling barrel down an
incline, Yesterday, very badly mashed
his fingers. The injury was dressed at
Will Menkemelller'S drug store.
NJ. E. DRYDEN will remove his office
to No. 1417 Chapline street this week.
and occupy the room adjoining that OF
Atkinson 81 Flick. Persons having
business with him will note the change.
THE large bear kept at Mozart Park
has escaped. Yesterday morning when
they went TO feed the animal they found
it had broken the cage and was gone.
Twenty-Five dollars reward Is offered
for It's capture.
WoRKMEN are hustling hard to get a
big wall where it will do the most good
on the east side of the threatened Coll
per building, on Eleventh street. A
large amount OF masonry was put to-
gether yesterday.
AN eleven year-old boy named VIM.
Daily ran off from his home yesterday,
and was found in Martins Ferry by
Officer LukenS. This is the fourth time
he has ran away, and he may be sent to
the Reform School.
THE social club, The Colts, Of the
South Side, will change the name OF the
organization to the Blind Robin Club.
One week from tomorrow grand bowl
ing party will be given by the CLUB at
Fetty's Hall, CaldwelPs run.
The addition to the electric room at
the Riverside mill is about completed.
Work on the new warehouse will be re-
sumed as soon as the weather will per-
nit. A new engine for the tube works
department arrived this week.
THE Council Committee on Petitions
and Remonstrances met last evening
and recommended a saloon license for
Louis Bachelli. at No. OPT Market street,
and the transfer Of Joseph Green's IL
cense, at No. 1912 Market street, to u.
L. Wharton.
THE w. c. I. U. will meet this even
ing at the residence of L. L. HutchiS-
son, cornar of Twenty-frst and Market
streets, for the purpose OF electing del
egates to the State and National Con-
ventions OF the order. All members are
urged TO be present.
YESTERDAY, for the first time, the
new power house furnished all the
power for the street car company, with
two engines and four dynamos run
ming. The machinery all works well.
The old power house in the Eighth
Ward did nothing yesterday.
Two prominent Sixth ward gentle
men are home from Chicago, having seen
little of the Fair. They went there
10 work all summer, but state that they
saw five hundred men cornered up by
the police on street, and they became
disguised and returned home.
CONTRACTORS TOWNSEND 81 BROWN,
who have the contract OF the double
track street car system to Benwood,
have secured a contract TO build four
miles of street car track in Syracuse,
n. Y. When the present work is COM
peted they will put their forces to
work there.
HENRY GRIsT, a mill man, jumped
from rapidly moving street car BE-
tween Twenty seventh and Twenty
eighth streets last evening. de got a
very bad fall and was considerably
bruised. The man laid on the street for
so long that people thought he was Sc
riously hurt.
READERS of the REGISTER who are
looking for nice investment in real
estate would do we'll to look at the ad-
vertisement in this issue announcing
the sale of desirable North Main street
property, belonging to the Pannell es'
tate, on Saturday morning next In front
of the Court House.
ALL the machinery has been taken