Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-21
SMALL TALA
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithiIY Told

Minor Matters OF Interest," D11o"J ~
PIthily Told
THERE was an active demand for nat
ural gas yesterday.
WEDNESDAY, Friday and Saturday OF
this week are Ember days.
BUILDING operations have again been
stopped by the cold snap.
KELLAR, the great magician, appears
at the Opera House this evening.
THE Public Building pavement would
have made an excellent skating park
Yesterday.
Mr.. II. X. BROWN has retired from
the real estate firm Of Fink & Brown,
and w. f. Brown succeeds him.
CHARLES (. BEANDFAss was yester-
day appointed executor OF the Will OF
William WiedcbuSch, deceased. Bond,
$500; Peter MUM, surety.
THE police were informed yesterday
morni' g that an oyercoat had been
stolen from IN. Office of c. w. McChes-
ney, No. 1918 ChaIsiDe street.
A MARRIAGE licenss vas Issued yes
terday TO Richard Combs, h,rr''9 OF
Wheeling. aged p, and Mary r. Shafe-
O native Of Wheeling, aged 10.
A BOY named Walter Nixon ran into
o post while coasting at Nineteenth and
Wood streets, yesterday morning, and
was painfully hurt about the head.
CoUNCII. was not called last night for
tonight, rs was expected. The Repuo-
hcan leaders seemed little uncertain
yesterday as to what they would 90.
Mrs. AMELIA a. TERRELL, wife OF
Mr.. j. n. Terrell, OF Sixteenth street,
and a lady widely esteemed, died at II
o'clock last evening, after Z protracted
illness.
THE Musee TheatOr building, tOgeth-
err with all the personal property OF the
late firm OF Scotield & Sorjere con-
tained IN it, will be sold March 25th by
the trustee.
TIE maugled remains Of umbrellas,
broken bill-boards. limbs OF trees, shin
giles, etc, on the streets, yesterday
morning, attes;ed TO the severity OF
Sunday nights wind storm.
SAMUEL LETzKUs, the weliknown
saloon keeper, died at his residence on
Market street, near Sixteenth, at one
o'clock yesterday afternoon, OF o COM
plication OF typhoid fever and heart
trouble, aged So years.
THE little son OF G. \. Leibtag, who
disappeared from his home last August
after school closed, and OF whom no
tidlngS had been received until yester-
day, has at last been located at Deer
Park, Nd. lie came in last night and
was met by his father.
WILLIE OCHERNAN, of the Eighth
ward, met with an accident ~ his home
Sunday evening. lie was about to close
q door during the blizzard, when it flew
back. 4 large glass broke, and the frag-
ments striking the boys right hand Sc
verely cut that member.
The city gas Office force had big
owl on exhibition at the City Hall, yes
terday OvertureS were made to Clerk
Thoner to transfer the bird to his just
II celebrated collection OF beasts, birds,
fishes aud insects, but Tommy sized the
Gy-by-night up as hoodoo and firmly
declined.
YESTERDAY young daughter OF Mr.
Fred Ocher, living at No. 2Gt2 Market
street, was badly burned, or scalded,
rather. She. with some other children,
were standing around the stove, and in
some way pulled n pot containing oat-
meal over her, and her eyes were espec-
tally injured. 60
ELLA MILLEG'S house of i'll fame in
Alley c was raided last night, the
madame, three girls and two men being
arrested. Lulu Burkhart's house OF i'll
fame on Tenth street was also raided,
the madame, two girla and three men
bong arrested. The raids were made
by Officers Scally, Herbert and Watson.
OFrIcERs O'Brien and Fitzgerald
found 4 horse yesterday morning about
. o'clock on the bridge just south OF the
lower Terminal tunnel in the Sixth
ward. The animal had started to walk
across, when his forelegs went down
between the ties and he was made a
prisoner. The officers succeeded in
getting the animal out, ana he was
found unhurt.
Mrs. l.. NEWMAN Of the South Side
called at the REGISTER, yesterday and
said: The man who was attacked by
my dog, did not complain to Officer
Fahey, but it was the neIghbors who
complained. The man was at my house
this morning and said ho did not cam
plain to the officer. The alley where |
live is dangerous place, both day and
night, and as | am a widow, | kept the
dog for my protection. II the neigh
borS would mind their own business,
my dog never would have troubled
them"