Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-05-14
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters OF interest Briefly and
Pithily Told

THERE we're no cases in Police Court,
last evening.
THE Kingfsher Club will give a pic
mic at the New Fair Grounds Decora-
ton Day.
THE South Side Full Bloom Club will
give a private dance in Cyclers' Hall to-
morrow night.
THE ~excavting for the new residence
OF John Wenzel. OF South Jacob street,
is well under way.
THEoffce of %ex-Sheriff Steenrod has
been removed to the Office OF the Clerk
of the Board of Commissioners.
HENRY BRISKMAN's e house on
Forty-third street will soon be ready
for the painters and plasterers.
THE plate mill at the Lower Benwood
mill is shut down. The puddlers there
will resume tomorrow at single turn.
WATSON g. LARKIN. OF South Main
street, have had their saloon refur-
nished. 1t presents . handsome ap-
pearance.
THE "F. B. B. B. c." will give a dance
at Kern's Hall, Fulton, on Wednesday
evening next. Music by Bachmann's
orchestra.
Work has been begun on the founda-
tion for a handsome new residence Tor
John Remick on Wood street, near
Forty-third.
A BLIND man fell against a plate
glass window in VIM. Gruber's Market
street cigar store yesterday afternoon,
and broke the glass.
THE Bethany College base ball club
IL anxious for a game with the Steuoen-
Vile boys. They have offered to pay
expenses both ways.
THE fair and festival given In G. A.
R. Hall by the ladies Of the Zane Street
Church, last Friday, was successful.
Over $500 was cleared.
THE dance at Whitman'S Grove to-
morrow night, given by prominent
Wheeling colored people, gives promise
of a large social gathering.
THE office at the old B. 6 o. shops
was loaded on a car yesterday and re-
moved TO Benwood Junction. The
building was Is feet square.
ED. SYLER, formerly of the South
Jacob street, has moved to n OF the
new houses at Mozart Park. Mr.. Syler
will have full charge of the bar there.
In our report OF the racket In the
Commissioners Committee on Court
House and Jail, yesterday, Mr.. Yelling
er's name as chairman should have read
Chairman Fritz.
The Imperial Club, Of the South Side,
will give a private dance, on the South
Side, In the near future. Extensive
preparations are being made to make 1t
a grand success.
IN the civil suit before Justice Ankle,
brought by Charles D. Smith against
Frank p. Ross, for $3.50, there was a
verdict for defendant. A motion for a
new trial was overruled.
SEVERAL boxes and spindles near the
rolls at the La Belle mill gave out yes
terday, and that department had TO lay
of till the break was repaired. The
machinery will be repaired by this
morning.
LOCAL UNION, No. 9, glass workers,
are making big preparations for the
picnic, on the State Fair grounds, June
10th. The affair promises to eclipse all
previous efforts in the same line by this
organization.
TIE Alhambra Club. OF the South
Side, has arranged for a dance next
Saturday evening 10 South Side Turner
Hall. Mayors orchestra will furnish
the music. A large number Of invita-
tions are out.
ABOUT hali-past three yesterday
afternoon a horse attached to a buggy
became frightened at an electric car,
on Market street, just north OF Alley 9,
and reared around On the sidewalk at a
great rate, being prevented from run
uing away with difficulty.
WM. RICKETTS,, a boy employed at
the La Belle pottery, had a narrow es-
cape from bleeding TO death at the fac
tory yesterday. His nose started to
bleed and continued to do so for nearly
two hours. When it was finally checked
the lad was greatly exhausted.
LAST week was one Of the most
prosperous for the Monongah Coal Com
pany that its branch in this city has ex-
~Derienced. The miners strike In Ohio
CAUSE an increased demand. The b.
g. o. Railroad has been greatly crowded
to furnish the transportation neces-
sary.
Two OF the largest grindstones made
were taken by the B. & o. from the old
Riverside nail works on Twenty-fourth
TO the Riverside mill, yesterday even
ing. The two stones weighed two and
a half tons ahd were six feet 10 diam
eter. 1t was not a light task loading
them.
ALL differences between the men and
EMPLOYERS, which threatened q strike
at the La Belle pottery, were settled
yesterday afternoon satisfactory TO all
concerned. The new shape proposed
was so changed that by a few conces-
sions on either side the dispute was
settled.
ALTHOUGH considerable machinery
has been shipped from Sweeney's foun-
dry TO Harvey, ILL.,, there are yet over
twenty-five car loads there. This will
give some idea OF the vast amount Of
material there. Work on the tearing
down of the buildings has not been be-
gun yet.
THE street car company has placed q
new signal box on South Jacob street,
near Forty-third. The box contains
three incandescent lights. The box is
to be used to signal the street cars.
When the light is on there is a car be-
low. The signals were started last
night and work we'll.
BLOCH Bros. began yesterday to re-
move 5000 cases OF tobacco from their
old ware house to Baer's new building.
The tobacco is to be kept there for stor-
ana FIJI tha new ware hnnse. snnn tn be