Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-19
SMALL TALK I
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

w NJ. mOONE1 udo COu PiObO0 AiS ASA1S
in the Ravine.
THE Niagara engine has been tested
and found in elegant shape.
GRADING has been begun on the hill
side at Mozart Park for the incline.
THE old street railway poles are be-
ing removed from South Jacob street.
OFFICERS WEST and Creighton ran in
DRINKS last night. One OF the victims
was Mrs. Bresock.
ALARGE bull broke loose on Eleventh
street yesterday, and created q general
panic there for time.
THE D. D. and S. NJ. Club gave a
most highly enjoyable dance in KEN
ple's hall last night.
THE Beabout Club will dance at Bee
thoVen Hall, Friday evening, April q.
Music by Mayors orchestra.
BECKER Bros, the FOrty-third street
BARRIERS, have got new furnishings In
their already beautiful shop.
FREIGHT traffic over the Terminal
bridge was very heavy last week. Last
week beat any previous record.
JAMES G. LEWIS is a candidate for
County superintendent Of Schools, at
the election to be held May 10th.
A. T. RAY, of Thirty-ninth street, in
tends building two-story frame resi-
dence on that street in the spring.
SQUIRE GILLEsPY. who owns the
Brick Row near the Top mill, has be-
gun the improvement OF the houses.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL error in our Police
Court report Of yesterday made the
name Mrs. Ernest read MRS. Emert."
THE w. C. T. U. will meet at the res
Idence of Mrs. George +. Williamson,
No. $3.50 Eoff street, Thursday evening.
THE only case in Police Court, yester-
day, was that of Mrs. Sykes, who an
swered a charge of drunkenness. She
was allowed to go.
Miss HALL, daughter Of Asher Hall,
near Forty-third street, is thought to
be dying. The mother has also been
sick for over two years.
The extensive improvements at the
Union bridge near the Belmont brewery,
are progressing well, some large tim
bers are being put on the trestle.
ALIEN. McCULLoCH had warrant
issued yesterday afternoon for four
teen-year-od girl named Dinger, who
had driven off with his horse and buggy.
AN evening paper yesterday referred
to Mr.. Martin Flynn, one OF the Water
Board Assessors, as the brother-in-law
of Mr.. Fllan. The gentlemen are not
relatives.
THE Jos. Bell Stove Company has
shipped its large boiler TO the factory's
new headquarters in Mnncle, Ind. A
large car load was loaded yesterday,
preparatory TO shipping.
THE Charles Becker, who was ar
rested in the First ward the other Sat
urday on charge OF dsorderly, was
not the Chas. Becker, the well-known
coal merchant, Of the above named
ward.
GEORGE COsTANE, OF Glenn's Run,
the well-known and popular miner, was
married recently to a lady just over
from England. They were married in
Wheeling, aud have gone to housekeep-
ing out the run.
THE Committee on Court House and
Jail of the Board OF Commissioners met
yesterday afternoon and devoted an
hour or two to consideration Of the
plans for the electric light plant for the
Court House and jail.
A SON of Patrick O'Leary, we'll
known in North Wheeling, is very sick.
The boy contracted a severe cold, and
DR.. Taylor is said to have taken nearly
one-haf gallon of water from his lungs
yesterday. The boy is but fifteen years
old.
DR.. G. w. KELLEY, who resides at
Stackyard Hollow, on the National
road, called at this Office yesterday and
left twig of cherry blossoms, which to
all appearances were entirely healthy
and showed no indications of having
been injured by the recent frost.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yes
terday TO David A. Gross, a native OF
Germany, aged 30, and Kate NJ. Helm,
a native of Allegheny county, Pa, aged
%; also TO John d. Foster. a native Of
Pittsburg, aged %, and Katharine II.
Acheson, a native Of Wheeling, aged 10.
HENRY ABEL, aged 13, a son Of Mich
olas AUel, of South Wood street, is suf-
fering from a stiff knee joint and he
may be a cripple for life. Two weeks
ago he ran a knife blade into his knee,
aud but little attention was paid to il.
The wound began to hurt again few
days ago and now the joint is perfectly
stiff.
POLITICAL circles out in Fulton are
somewhat agitated because the Demo
cratic Council has elected Joseph Mar
shall, Republican, Town Marshal, and
A. C. Wagner, Republican, Assessor,
the offices being about the only paying
ones in the town. The Fulton Council
must have caught the disease from the
Wheeling Council.
THE sheet mill and the pudding fur
naces at the Top mill are shut down.
1t is claimed these departments are
closed for about two weeks, that things
may be got IN good order for the spring
run. The furnace will be closed the
first Of next month, when work on near
ly doubling its capacity will De begun.
The departments being off makes bust
ness In North Wheeling rather dull.
Earning His Living.
The tramp had asked the well-to-do
citizen for dime, and had hot succeed
ed in securing it.
"Wny don't you earn your livlng?"
asked the well-to-dO, reprovingly.