Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-27
SMALL TALk
miuor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PIthIIy Told

IT was pay day on the Baltimore and
Ohio yesterday.
SOUTH SIDE business men in general
reported trade better last evening than
since Christmas
THE Alert Club will give dance at
Cyclers' Hall Monday, February Is.
The invitations are now out.
THE senior classes OF the public
schools had their second examination at
the Eighth ward school yesterday.
OUR coal merchants are still ex-
periencing some trouble in getting their
coal hauled by the railroads at present.
IN the Circuit Court the only case on
trial Yesterday was that of Reese V. the
Wheeling and Elm Grove Railway CON-
pany.
HARRY CUNNINGHAM, who was hurt
in the Baltimore and Ohio shop not
long ago, is not the Harry Cunningham
of South Jacob street.
KEoHNLIYR Bros, have put up three
hundred tons Of fine back river Ice,
from ten to fifteen inches thick, In the
ice house near Wood Bros. planning mill
MEssRs. NJ. SHAERAN and D. 5.
Mitchell, the gentlemen sent here as
q committee to solicit aid for the Home
stead sufferers, have finished their
work and returned home.
JOSEPH SPRINGER, who is employed
by the Reymaun Brewing Company in
cutting ice on the creek. fell on the ice
yesterday morning and broke his arm.
he was taker 10 Or. Manley and had 1t
set.
Chades f. Etz and A. J. Seifert have
formed a partnership under the urn
name of Etz & Seifert, and will carry
! on the harness, trunk and saddle ousl-
ness at the stand of the late j. b.
Sheppard.
THE Carleton Circle and the Crangle
Missions OF the Second Presbyterian
Church held a social and supper in their
church last evening. There was GOOD
crowd in attendance and pleasing So
cial time the outcome.
CHAs. Z. Cox, an enthusiastic REGIS
TER admirer, from ST. George. w. Va,
| is a guest OF his brother Richard, OF Mar
ket st. Mr. Co was greatly surprised
on seeing the slight depth OF the snow
here, as it is far deeper In his locality.
THE revival meeting at the Chapline
! Street M. E. Church are still progress
ing and good crowds attend. Last even
ing Rev. Lynch spoke eloquently and
touchingly. Many were the penitents
that thonged the altar. There were
several conversions last night
REV. CHARLES H. CATION, Of Chicago,
| will lecture in the Young Mems Chris
tian Association course next Tuesday
evening. Seats will be reserved at the
Association building Saturday morning
at 9 o'clock. Rev. Mr.. Cation is speaker
Of broad intellect and rich eloquence
and gives general satisfaction to his
hearers. His subject will be "Welling-
ton and Napoleon"
A TRAMP, who had apparently just
arrived in town, called at the new
Office Of the Ohio VALLEY Farmer, on the
South Side, last evening on new and
peculiar mission. He asked for three
papers, saying, they would serve him a
double purpose. He could read them
and then use them for bed. The
tramp stated that three papers made
the ground much softer. He got them.
SERVICES were held over the remains
Of the late Charles Tape at his late
residence on the South Side yesterday
afternoon. The Shield Of Honor and
Butchers Association attended in a
body. The funeral procession was a
very long one and was headed by
Mayors band. From the two lodges
! - h,,,drad and Httv
in the cortege. The remains were laid
to rest in Redmen Cemetery.
IT is expected that the new mission
being built near the Baer structure will
be completed by the first of June. 1t is
the intention of Mr.. Hearne to place an
unordained minister in charge Of this
mission, which will be arranged TO seat
between 500 and 700 people. There will
be some rooms in the block unused by
the mission, and these will be rented
out for the partial maintenance Of the
| same.
! THERE was, apparently, q good sized
| "scrap" aVerted on the South Side yes
| terday, by the intervention Of some cool
headed citizens. Some little boys got
after stranger, whom they termed
"black sheep" Finally one Of the boys
hit the stranger on the back of the head
with portion Of a brick. Others join
ed in, but the affair was allowed to pro-
gress no further, No arrests were
made.
The Atlantic got a still alarm to a
residence on Nineteenth street at a
quarter after nine o'clock yesterday
morning, where a chimney had caught
| fire. The people in the house gotta jar
| supposed to contain salt and threw q
large quantity in the CRATE, and then
gave it to the firemen to take up on the
roof and throw down the chimney.
After getting it on the roof it was found
to be white sugar.
PHILIP MUHLENAN, a huckster, left
his team standing near the South Side
market yesterday, and the animals,
which were attached to two horse
sled, became frightened and ran off
They prOce eded up Market street at
furious gait. Luckily there were few
vehicles on the streets at that time
The horses were finally caught nesr the
Second Presbyterian Church. The ami
mails were uninjured.
THE United States Potters' Associa-
ton, which convened in New York re-
Gently, chose the following officers for
the new year: President, Homer Laugh
lin, East Liverpool; First Vice-Presi-
dent, E. NJ. Pearson, Wheeling; Second
Vlce-President, C. E. Brockman, Gin
cinnati: Third Vice President, Joseph
Burrough, Trentou; Treasurer, james
Il. Goodwin, East LIVERPOOL; Secretary,
Alfred Day, Steubsnville.
THE Y. P. S. c. E. of the Second