Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-11
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

| Minor Matters OF interest brieuy anu
Pithiiy Told.
THE Ladies Aid Society OF McMechen
will give picnic at Jefferson Grove to-
morrow,
TIE Films" wish to play the Flea
| Bites" on the tunnel gree on next Thurs
day afternoon.
THE engineers of the Wheeling pot
terry received instructions yesterday to
shut of all power.
Gus NULTY is putting up a six.room
frame dwelling house on the corner OF
Thirty-seventh and Eoff streets.
JOHN MULHoLLAND was arrested by
Officer Desmond, Yesterday, for disor-
DERBY conduct in North Wheeling.
Mrs. ALBINeER, of Thirty-frst street,
was badly bruised last Saturday by fall
ing down the steps OF st. Aiphonsus
| church.
THE crossties and rails are being laid
on tho inclined railway 30 Mozart Park.
| The boilers for the motive power were
put In yesterday.
AT five minutes OF nine o'clock last
evening lively fight come of in front
of the REGISTER Office, a large crowd
being attracted.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yes
terday to Henry Koehn, native OF
| Wheeling, aged %, and Leah Lemast-
ers, a native of Marshall county,
aged 81
GEORGE ALTMEYER, a Southsider,
succeeded 10 landing hve'pound oass
yesterday just below the steel bridge
1t is the largest caught near here Tor
several years.
Mrs. W. Il. HALLER, who has been
III for some time, was reported 10 DE 10
a very precarious condition at midnight
last night, and her death was expected
before this morning.
THERE we're three cases In Police
Court, yesterday morning. John Inom,
as was dismissed, and Thos. Klaus and
| Louis Frederick, for disorderly conduct,
got 81 and costs each.
THE $4,000 barrel oil tank at Zedl'
ker's Station, Washington county, Is to
be emptied in the search for the body
OF Harry E. Lane, the young huckster'
who disappeared so suddenly on the
| night or June lOJn ldSt'
| ADA EIKEY, the interesting f ve-yeaI
old daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Eikey, OF Elm Grove died at l1:40 oclocE
Yesterday morning Of diptheria. The
afflicted parents have the sincere SYM
pathy OF large circle Of friends. The
funeral will take place Saturday morn
ing.
IT would be well tor the police to lay
for a crowd OF boys who have q criminal
practice of continually piling scantling
upon the Terminal switch at twenty
ninth and Woods streets. An accident
was barely averted the other day by the
Qateman at this point discovering the
lumber on the track and removing II
! Just before train came by.
AN interesting game OF ball was play
ed at Elm Grove yesterday between the
Elm Grove nine and nine picked from
the Flea Bite fishing club. The score
was 7 to 2 in favor Of the Flea Bites.
The batteries were, for Flea Bites,
Coundry and Shelley; Elm Groves,
Chambers and Winterholter. The Tea
lures Of the game was Patsy Cullen''
home run.
SOME OF the fishermen encamped up at
Short Creek played quite practical
Joke on one OF their number few nights
ago. The victim was going alont the
railroad track, when he discovered the
BODY OF a man lying on the rails. lie
attemp pied to remove the body, when
two men sprang from some bushes along
! the track and demanded that the oody
be let along. The party OF the first part
yelled "murder!' and other things aud
attracted a crowd, when 1t was dlscoy-
the ''corpse" consisted Of stuffed suit
| OF old clothes.