Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-02
SMALL TALK

| Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.
BARNUM g. BAILEY's advance car
came into town yesterday.
THE police made one hundred and
twenty-six arrests during April.
THE King Fishers Club will give a
picnic on Decoration Day at F"i
grounds.
A. w. PAUL., Jr., yeste qualified
as notary public. Rsnd' s2oo' a. W.
Paul, security.
THE COMMUNICATION Of spectator"
will receive attention If the name Of the
writer is given.
Arr WELLS was arrested for disor-
derly conduct at his home, last night,
by officer Buch.
THE new force of Water Board en-
ployes went to work yesterday at the
Office and works.
FRED BIsCHoFF, a popular South Side
gentleman, has opened saloon corner
Thirty-6ith and Jacob streets.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yes
terday to Ward w. Smith, aged 80, and
Kitty Jones, aged 35, both OF Steuben-
Vile.
SUNDAYS storm blew a large amount
of the corrugated iron from the steel
casting house at the furnace Of the Bel
mont mill.
The South Side officers were kept
busy last night notifying persons having
teams standing on the streets, to re-
move them.
THE regular monthly meetings Of the
W. U 3. Society and the Woman's Hos
pital Association will be held tomor-
row afternoon.
HARRY MENKEMELLEB, the popular
South Side shoe dealer, is again in his
store after a most delightful wedding
trip through Pennsylvania.
THE Water Board met yesterday az
ternoon for the transaction OF routine
business, aud the Board Of Public
Works last night for the same. purpose.
THE commanding chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Gen. A. g. Weis-
sert, Of Wisconsin, will make visit to
the State department OF the GA. L. and
w. R. G. in the near future.
THE oil tank at Factory a." burst
last night about ten o'clock, and the oil
caught fire, making quite blaze for q
time. Several OF the workmen in the
vicinity had narrow escapes from being
burned.
THE Niagara boys captured beauti-
full mastiff dog yesterday near the hose
house. Afterward it was found to be
the property Of Mr.. George Flaccus, of
the Island. The animal was restored to
Mr.. Flaccus.
The Wheeling Bakery team ran of
and created some excitement on Market
street, yesterday afternoon. At Four
teenth street a man raised an umbrellas
in front Of the frightened animal and
brought it to stop.
FIFTY of the A. o. U. w. from this
city left last evening for Moundsvilie,
where they met with similar order Of
that place. The object was to encour-
age the sister lodge to greater activity.
A most interesting time was had.
THE lady members of st. Paul's Mis-
sion at Elm Grove, are jubllant over
the result of their entertainment and
festival, given at the Town Hall in Elm
Grove on Friday. After paying all ex-
penses the congregation cleared S121.
THERE was an exciting runaway on
Sixteenth street yesterday afternoon.
Charles Miller's horse broke loose and
ran at furious gait past Seventeenth
street, where the animal was caught.
The horse received slight injuries, but
little other damage was done.
THE most annoying thing to the OPP
orators of w. & +. q. railway is the
nuisance OF cows on the track. Some
days, nearly every trip, sudden stops,
Earring passengers, have to be made on
account of some old cow walking on the
tracks. The men are thinking Of some
way to abate the nuisance.
SEVEN car loads of materials for the
oil wells, three miles east of Elm Grove,
on the old Shepherd farm, have been
taken from the Elm Grove station. One
we'll is being drilled there which Is
down $50 feet. Gauging between the
Mcdonald and Sistersville oil field, ex-
perts say the oil outlook is very encour-
aging.
THE establishing Of graded school
at Pleasant Valley is being agitated by
the most prominent citizens there.
There is no school in the rapidly grow
ing settlement, and as result, sixty
scholars or over come to Wheeling to
school. A public meeting Of citizens
will be held in few days and the mat
ter considered. 1t seems almost cer-
tainty that new school house will be
built there in the near future.