Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-20
SMALL TALK
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Plthily Told.

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THE Board of Education will meet
this evening in regular session.
THE Council Committee on Real Es-
tate is called for this evening.
REDMAN & Co. have about completed
extensive repairs at the city crematory.
HEINZ SwIcKER's new brick block on
Seventeenth street is about COM
pleted.
F. WALTHERs, of the South Side, is
making big improvements at his place
OF business.
ALBERT SHENK g. Son are having
three tanks built at the VIM. M. COX
81 Co. boiler works.
THE tail end of cyclone must have
struck the town. last evening, between
seven and ten o'clock.
IT was necessary at the Allison wire
works this week to put on force OF
new hands permanently.
THE tanks at the City Gas Works are
being painted. Large amonRfs OF SAND
are being hauled there for use.
ENCHANTING has been begun for the
three-story double brick house to be
owned by Miss Caroline Juergen, on
Sixteenth street.
DAVID A. GRIMES was yesterday ap-
pointed administrator OF the estate OF
William Grimes, deceased. Bond, $500;
Samuel Abercrombie, surety.
A HORSE from the Eighth ward en-
CINE house is now in use at the Niagara.
This change makes the Niagara have a
much more finely matched team.
YESTERDAY was very quiet day in
the Circuit Court. Beyond verdict for
defendant for $40 in Bedillion Iron
Company v. Keller, nothing was done.
BEFORE JusticeJ. A. Ankle, last even
ing, Franz Hennig charged Joseph
Beckey with threatening to do him bod
lily harm. A bond OF $50 was required.
THOMAS BARTLEY, Of Twenty-sev-
enth street, while at work in the Bel
mont mill yesterday caught a finger In
the machinery and very badly mashed
1t.
HERvEY Bros. are drilling an artesian
we'll at the La Belle mill. They have
the contract Of sinking well at the
new LANCE block when it shall be
completed.
FRITZ CoFFENBAUGH, an employe or
the Labelle mill, had his finger very
badly mashed yesterday while at work.
He had the injury dressed at VIII Men
kgmiller's drug store.
THERE were four cases in Police
Court, yesterday morning. Mrs.
Bresock got 81 and costs for drunken
ness, and q drunk and two tramps were
allowed to leave town.
Ed. MITCHELL, Of Grafton, left his
home Friday night last and is supposed
to have come to this city. j. A. Nc
Cutcheon, OF Grafton, was in town yes
! terday looking for Mitchell.
A TORPEDO was exploded under the
wheels of a street car at Thirty-third and
Eoff streets, yesterday evening. The tor
pedo was an extra large one, and good
deal OF commotion was created.
FIFTEEN car loads of -four are being
carried over the w. q l.. K. through
! this city, from Toledo for export TO
Liverpool, England. The flour will be
transferred 10 the b. & o. road.
JOSEPH MILLER was arrested by the
police, last evening, on q warrant
sworn out by Miss Emma Watt, who
charges that Miller was dIsorderly and
used abusive language towards her.
THE police have been notified that
5000 reward is offered by Dauphin
county, Pa, for the arrest of James
Bell. colored, wanted for the murder OF
woman on the night of April 10th.
A FEW days ago, Henry Granmor,
of Beltz and Flading's planning mill,
severely sprained his ankle. He was
on board pile and jumped from II
sustaining the injury. He is not able
yet to be out.
THE nine summer cars are being rap
idly put 10 shape at the street car
barns. They will be started in few
DAYS. All the old double wires at the
barn have been taken out and new and
improved single wires have been substi-
! tututed.
A BOARD Of U. S. engineers will meet
in this city April gath to consider the
matter of harbor lines in frontof Wheel
ing. Martins Ferry and Belaire. The
Board, which will be- presided over by
Major Stickney, will probably meet in
one Of the Council chambers at the City
Hall.
AMONG the most pleasing of social
events In Bridgeport for some time,
will be the Ghost party, given by Miss
Daisy Fisher and the "At Home" given
by Miss Bennett. Both are on next
Friday evening. Large numbers Of
guests will be present in each case and
| both events are looked forward to with
considerable expectancy.
Fon three days the Atlantic dremen
had their hose In play at Nineteenth
and Wood streets, putting out fire
among the rubbish at the dumping
Mace. The water was turned of and
| the hose removed. The fire is burning
but slightly now. There is fine for
casting rubbish there, but II seems To
GET there and always causes consider
able trouble.
IT turns out that the statement pub
| lished in this city Tuesday that an Ital-
| ian woman had starved to death In q
Bridgeport boarding house was almost
without foundation In fact. An Aus
trian woman, Mrs. John Lesac, died
| from a cold contracted q short time
after child birth, but the lady was never
in any danger Of starvation, as the fam
fly were always able to provide Tor
themselves comfortably, and were In the
best OF repute with their neighoors.
THERE was a great number Of COM
plants heard last night, as TO the way
the street between Twenty-sixth and
Twenty-seventh on Chapline had been
! left by the Street Commissioner. The
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