Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-23
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.


Pithny Told.
THE will OF Lewellen Barum was ad-
mitted to probate yesterday and order
ed TO be recorded.
Mrs. THOMAS WHEELER'S residence,
on Market street, North Wheeling, has
been greatly improved.
GEORGE RAYL is greatly improving
his property, between Seventh and
Eighth streets, on Market.
BIG improvements are being made to
Philip Grim's property on Market street,
between Eighth and Ninth.
VIM KINNEY, at Seventh and Market
streets, has very greatly improved the
looks of his business place.
THE Pink Carriers and the Belmont OF
Martins Ferry will cross bats on the
Tunnel green next Sunday afternoon.
THE Commissioners of Washington
county have offered reward OF $500
for the recovery Of the body Of Harry
Il. Lane.
REPAIRS on the Vigilant engine are
progressing well. II is thought that In
four weeks the engine will be ready for
service again.
BOYS congregate nightly near the
corner of Sixth and Main streets, much
TO the annoyance OF passers-by and
business men in that locality.
Tomorrow morning at II o'clock the
corner stone OF new A. M. e. Church,
on Eoff street, will be laid. There
will be an appropriate ceremony.
4 MARRIAGE license was issued yes
terday to Newton S. Drum, a native Of
Marshall county, aged 25, and Marie
Fuchs, a native of Philadelphia, aged
p.
THE Alumni of the Lincoln school
will hold their banquet at the Park
next Wednesday evening. Their COM
mencement exercises will be next Fri
day evening.
SAVE your coupons and get four or
five of the REGISTERS cheap books.
Eight cents in stamps and three cou-
pons will secure you any one OF the
books already listed.
THERE were but three cases in Pc
lice Court, yesterday mOrning-two yags
and drunk. Len Reyolds, the drunk,
was sent to the Infirmary, one vag went
up, and the other left town.
THE friends of Mr.. Louis Steenrod and
wife, Of the Island particularly, are ar
ranging for q carriage ride and supper
next Monday evening, at Mau!town, in
honor of Mr.. Steenrod's recent mar
rage.
WORK is up to date at the new city
water works. The stone work OF the
foundation is completed and the joists
are laid to begin the brick work. The
stone foundation is also completed for
the smoke stack.
GET one of the REGISTERS Coupon
Books before you leave for your sum-
mer vacation. These handsome Scent
books are printed and bound by the
Home Book Company, of New York, by
a new process, therefore their cheap
ness.
THE indications are good for large
crowd on the excursion TO Canton and
Myers Lake, Sunday morning, via the
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad.
Tickets are now on sale. Everybody
Is cordially invited TO spend day at
this delightful resort.
G. MENDEL & Co. base ball club
would like to play the Sixth ward Stars
a game OF base ball on the Chapline
Hill grounds. The clubs should meet
at the corner of Twenty-second and
Market streets on Sunday afternoon at
half-past o'clock sharp.
RESERVED seats are going off rapidly
for the exercises Of the Seguin Business
College and Conservatory OF Music to-
night. The Commencements OF this
college are among the finest held here.
This one bids fair to be none the less
elegant than its predecessors.
THE members of Fort Henry Council
No. 81. National Union, held meeting
last evening and selected I. A. Hall as
representative to the State Assembly
which will convene at Fairmont on
June %. w. j. w. Cowden was elected
alternate.
CHARLES HARRINGTON, OF Berkeley
county, a fve-year-man, escaped from
the Moundsville penitentary, yesterday
morning, and has not been recaptured.
Harrington was "truSty." and had
been on duty iD the hospital. He got
over the wall with the aid Of ladder.
JOHN BARR, Of Butler, o., and whose
family formerly resided in this city, but
for several years past at Warnock. o.,
has been arrested at the instance OF the
b. & o. authorities, charged with sell
ing obscene literature oH trains. Barr
was at one time telegraph operator at
the B., u. & c. station at Bellaire.
THERE are numerous complaints
heard of the bad condition of the ap-
proach to the Suspension bridge on the
Island side. Complaints are heard, too,
of an iron plate over sewer at Tenth
aud Main streets. Very frequently
horses when stepping on the plate tip it
over, in some instances nearly throwing
them into the sewer. People in that
locality anticipate trouble by reason Of
this.
YESTERDAY evening about eight
o'clock, while Dave Grant and friend,
who had been out the creek after tur-
ties, were driving down Sixteenth
street, the horse took fright at motor,
and ran TO and up Main street short
distance at terrific speed. When the
animal was stopped, one wheel Of the
vehicle had been wrecked, but not q
turtla WAS lost