Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-30
SNAIL TALK.
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

be closed to-day.
e. Cook, Of the South Side, is out
In brand new buggy.
THE w. & E. G. Railway this side of
Fulton is being repaired.
A DEAD dog ornaments Sonth street,
near the new church building.
THE South Side Bashful Seven Club
will picnic at Glenn's Run to-day.
A NUMBER Of people will go to the
memorial services at Grafton to-day.
THE Pennsylvania railroad freight
depot 10 this city will be closed to-day.
GEORGE L. BURST is receiving large
Quantities Of cream from his farm every
day.
THE fire department bought a car
load Of oats, yesterday, from Robert
Luke.
THE Knights Of the Golden Eagle
were out on practice drill on Eoff street
last night.
THE Central City Club will give a
dance at Seioert's on the evening OF
Jnne 18th.
THE skelp mill at the Lower Benwood
plant resumed yesterday after a two
weeks shut down.
Room No. Of the Annex school OF
the Eighth ward, will have a picnic at
Boggs Run to-day.
THE w. B. P. c., club have arranged
for a grand picnic to-day at Aelley's
Grove out Woods Run.
Prominent South Side young folks
Of Forty-third street and vicinity VIII
picnic to-day beyond Elm Grove.
TIE Commissioners Committee on
Court House and Jail met yesterday and
audited bills, The Board will meet to-
day.
OFFICER JAMES MINKENIEYBR shot
mad dog yesterday. The animal ae-
longed to Chas. Jones, OF Thirty-elghth
street.
A SLEEPER now leaves the Terminal
depot daily for Chicago, Soing via the
wheeling and Lake Erie and Lake
Shore railroads.
GEORGE LJNE, the well known teams
ter, of Twenty-second street, was
hauling yesterday, and very badly
crushed his thumb.
SHERIDAN Commandery, A. o. K. Of
the Mystic Chain, will meet in an i'm
portant sessian Thursday evening, In
Knoke's hail, for drill.
A DOG, the property of Louis Serig,
was run over by the street cars, be-
tween Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seyenth
streets, on Eof, yesterday.
JOIN BREsT. of North Wheeling, who
is home on a furlouRh FROM the Weston
Asylum, will be sent back, as his mind
is not completely restored.
BIDS have been opened for the erec-
ton of nearly an entire new tiple and
other big improvements at the works OF
the Elm Grove Coal Company.
MICHAEL CLAHAN was before Justice
! Gillespy, Yesterday, on lunacy charge.
He was sent to jail until June 7th, when
there will be further enquiry.
THE Schafer Brothers defeated the
Okerhouse Brothers, Saturday, by a
score to 10 to 6. The feature OF the
game was Sanda Sookup's batting.
The cigar makers of Wheeling are ar
ranging for grand picnic soon. They
will have big parade, and will arrange
for the biggest time ever held by them.
PoPULAR society gentlemen and ladies
have arranged for a driving party TO
Maultown, next Thursday evening. The
party will be served with an elegant
/ supper at the noted town.
THREE strangers tried to clean out
| Hazlett's saloon on the South Side last
evening. They failed, and were landed
/ in the street. Considerable excitement
was caused by the occurrence.
CHAs. KETTLER, OF the Eighth ward,
! will open up his place OF business next
| Thursday. Mr.. Kettler has been very
sick, but is improving. His son will
have charge Of the business for the
present.
JAMES FLANAGAN, the popular South
Jacob street barber, is making great
| improvements at bis shop. When COM
pleted, he will have among the finest OF
the many fine tonsorial parlors on the
South Side.
VIM. MAYER and Chas. Kennedy,
South Side society gentlemen, had in
charge the crowd OF ladies and gentle
men visiting Glenn's Run, last Sstur-
day. The occasion was a highly en-
/ jOYable one.
Two special trains were arranged to
90 bv the b. & o. to Grafton, for the
exercises of Decoration Day there. One
/ OF these trains left last evening at I'VE
o'clock and the other will leave at $50
| o'clock this morning.
NAME DoLAN and Jessie Hercules,
/ inmates Of Nell Whites, were out on
/ the streets yesterday morning at hVe
/ o'clock, in undress uniform. officer
| Creighton arrested them, and they
STAYED in a cell at the City Hall until
Court met.
The contractors who are putting
| down the telephone conduits are having
a serious time with the private sewer
running across Market street and into
/ Alley 9. 1t was with much difficulty
/ that they built part OF 1t, so as TO De
able to work under IL.
/ BLOCH Bros. are still engaged in
/ transferring the stock from the OLD
warehouse TO Bser,s new building, that
work may be begun on their large new
/ warehouse. Five thousand cases are
removed, and il is said the new building
| will be begun in about q week.
DAVID CUNNINGHAM and Louis Zim-
norman, former employees OF Henry
/ Wheeler, the South Side cigarmaker,
/ have opened factory Of their own on
Wood street. below Thirty-eighth
street. Both these men are old at toby
making and are skilled workmen.
NICK ASSELTA. Fanny Preston's
italian lover Objected TO another mans
entering the house, yesterday morning,
and wanted to whip him. Ofhcer
Creighton arrested ASselta, finding him