Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-03-26
SMALL TALK.

THE herdic was put TO work yester-
day and large patronage was the re-
suit.
THE brick dwelling house Of Henry
Morris on Chapllne.street is nearly com
peted.
MARKET street was crowded last
night with pedestrians. The retail
merchants did thriving business.
SAM LOGAN, the Island man who at
tempted suicide by the revolver method
on Friday night, will probably recover.
GARFIELD Castle, No. 3, Knights of
the Golden Eagle, will attend divine
services at the Wesley M. E. Church to-
day.
w. ]. WARDEN has purchased the
saloon formerly owned by F. B. Besse,
corner Twenty-second and Market
streets.
THE Alhambra Club will give their
first ball at Beethoven Hall on Monday
evening. April Sd. Music by Mayors
orchestra.
THE Tube Rose Fishing Club will
give a masque ball at Bishops Hall on
Wednesday evening, April 5th. Music
by Mayors orchestra.
THE condition Of DR.. Albert T. Stiiel
shows no marked change, being still so
critical as to excite the apprehension Of
his relations and friends.
THE Linsly Institute senior class un-
derwent the final examination In trig-
onometry Thursday and Friday last.
The examination was very complete.
ZERA, the magician, whose other
name is Frank Osborne, a Wheeling
boy, has been giving very creditable ex
hibItions OF legedermain at the towns in
this vicinity.
THE pupils OF West Wheeling school
will give an elocutionary entertainment
at their school house Friday, March 81,
at which Andrew Moore, ST., will lee
turelon elocution.
A YOUNG mems meeting will be held
at the Young Mems Christian AsssOcia-
tion building at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
The meeting will be addressed by Rev.
Jacob Birmingham.
SEVERAL OF the FIRE department boys
have received complimentary tickets to
the annual ball of the Fulton Fire
Brigade, to be held at Fulton in John
Koch's Hall, the eveing Of April fifth.
ALFRED DIMMACK, the junk dealer,
24OS Chapline street, has invented
machine for the purpose Of breaking
up old boilers, tanks and other I'M
wieldly vessels, so that the material can
be sold and marketed.
Mr. GEO. B. TURNER, Commercial
Agent at Wheeling, having resigned,
Mr.. A. P. Oxtoby has been appointed
TO succeed him with the title OF General
Agent and with Jurisdiction extending
throughout Ohio river territory.
THE funeral OF William Miller, who
committed suicide Friday afternoon,
will take place tomorrow afternoon at
two o'clock from his late residence on
South Wetzel street. The interment
will be made at Redmens cemetery.
THE many friends OF George Downes
were panied to hear OF the death OF his
wife, nee Maud Forster, on Saturday,
March 18th, at the home Of her sister
In Chicago. Her remains were brought
here for burial. IntermeRt at Mt. Cal
vary.
FRIDAY afternoon and evening Drs.
Dickey and Best performed very in
teresting and important operation at
the instance Of Prof Jones, on Vermont
street, the patient being Mrs. Jones.
The lady is progressing in most salts
factory manner.
A DEED made March 25, 1893, by John
Chrystal to John McClave for 7s acres
and a fraction Of the Chas. i. Hedges
estate, and 10 acres known as the Ro-
land tract, on Short Creek, considera
tion So, 500, was left for record at Clerk
Hooks Office yesterday.
THEY have Jack, the Chaser now in
the neighborhood Of Fourteenth and
Chapline streets. Some OF the residents
Of that section have complained that
this individual frightens them out of
their wits. Still the fact that Jack is
abroad does not deter any Of the ladies
from going out at night.
In Police Court yesterday morning
Albert King charged with disorderly
conduct, went to the hill in default of
fine. Charles Otto for assault was fined
$50, aad he appealed. James Bennett
for drunkenness was fined IS and costs
Five Migrants were then considered and
allowed to depart.
QUITE a number OF local business
men are discussing the advisability OF
organizing a new Telephone Company,
To be run on q basis of $40 a year
to each subscriber. The expiration of
some OF the existing patents has
given an impetus to this matter here
in Wheeling, as in other places.
THE small boy in the neighborhoOd Of
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Byron and
Eotf streets engages in the amusement
of pulling palings of the fences around
private dwellings and defacing the walls
with chalk marks. An example should
be made Of one Of them. Small boys
are not troublesome in other cities.
THE main building scholars of the
Eighth ward school have arranged for
an entertainment which will take place
next Friday evening. An interesting
feature will be the magnificent stere-
optiean views under the management
of Prof Stephenson, OF the Island. The
proceeds Of the affair will go towards
paying for the new piano.
CLERK THoNER is preparing notice
to send out to saloon keepers, request
ing them to notify him as soon as posi-
Bile whether they intend to remain in
business after the close OF the license
year, or whether they decided TO remove
from one place to another, in order that
he will be enabled TO make out the Ii
censes properly.
THE funeral Of William Miller, the
man who committed suicide Friday az
ternoon, at his home on South WetZel