Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-21
SMALL TALk
Minor Matters Of Intsress Briefly and
Pirsiny Told

SAYS the signal service records.
IN Police Court, yesterday morning, Will
Ritchey got IS and costs for disorder
TIE Council Committee on Police were
to have met last night. but did not do so.
VIRGINIA, infant daughter Of Mr.. j. H.
Long, pressnlan OF the Neirs, died lasteven-
ing.
THE crockery buyers for the spring
trade are beginning TO swarm IN on the POT
teries.
The Mozart Singing Society held well
attended ball in Westwood's Han, SouIh
Side, last night.
BEFoRE Jrstice Arkle, yesterday morn
Ing, Jacob Hodges was lined - ana coSts
for a breach of the peace
The ball given by the South Side Garden
Club, in their quarters, last night, was
well attended and successful
THE planning mill firm Of Wilson Il Chap
man are charging their Office ana making
other general Improvements
THERE are numerous complaints, on the
South Side, Of water pipes bursting, ana
cellar, and streets flooded IN consequences
Tbs pay-car arrived over the Wheeling
division OF the Baltimore and Ohio, last
avening, and many were happy IN conse-
QuenSe.
Tar gymnastic exercises in the South
Side Turner Hall, last evening, were well
attended and the meeting will DE continued
Tonight.
Prominent Young ladies and gentlemen
of the South Side, are arranging for
grand ball in the Cycler's hall, next Mon
day evening
ABOvB the Terminal bridge the boys and
girls have cleared the snow from the Ice,
for a large circle, and have the finest
skating park in the city there.
REv. JOHN DAVIS, a well known citizen
of BOggs Run, lost child, two years ola,
yesterday, by very sudden death. Inc
canse Of the death is not given.
FINK & Brown yesterday sold the hand
some property owned by Mr.. Elmer CHAP
line, on South Penn street, to M. n. Col
Wig. for S6, 500 The lot is 60 feet front.
THE Committee on Court House and Jail
of the Board Of Commissioners met yester-
day and awarded the contract Tor electric
bells for the Jail TO Hicks, Crosby u 20.
The struggle in the First ward over the
Chief Of Police contest ID the coming CITY
election is waxing warm. 10 is the general
belief that McNichol will carry the ward
GEORGE P. MORGAN, 6ookkeeper for
Wilson and Chapman, is having nice
house erected on the Island, and 1t is said
he will soon be installed there with part
ner.
TIE fence TO inclose the incline starting
at the head Of Forty-thlrd street and run
ming TO Mozart Park, will be begun next
week. Work on the incline will be begun
as soon IS the weather shall permit.
The Boggs' Run Literary Society is pre-
- - 3 v,,a ~ fra
TUESDAY night. There VIII be u special
programme, and the capital punishment
question will be debated oy old citizens.
THE cold weather has greatly retarded
the completion Of the buildings under con-
struction in the business portion Of the
city, and plasterers, in consequence OF the
extreme cold, are behind on their contracts.
Word has come to this city, that scarlet
fever is epidemic at Flushing, o. j. A.
Kirkpatrick, the well known druggist,
and personally acquainted here, has lost
his bright and interesting four year old
daughter by very sudden death from the
disease.
THE ice surrounding the steamers Ben
Hur, Andes, Lizzie Bay and wharfooat was
broken I'D Thursday at Parkersburg and
the Hawk towed the Hur and Bay from I'M
der the railroad bridge They are now tied
up back Of the other two boats and are in a
safer position.
TUE Wheeling and Elm Grove Railway
COMPANY received a handsome new car
Yesterday over the B. IL .. 1t was trans
ferred at Sixteenth street to the Elm Grove
track, yesterday afternoon, hundred men
watching the operation.
MINISTERS are warned against couple
who are now on the road with new and
clever sWindle. They-a man and woman
get married. and presenting q counter
felt $50 bill 20 the preacher, tell HIM TO take
out a fee Of s, and receiving the balance IN
good money, depart for another town.
MICHAEL CAIN and family of Jonathan's
ravine, are said 10 be in bad condition.
Mr.. Cain has been sick for some time, and
was at the hospital not long ago He was
removed 10 his home, where he has been
receiving aid from the poor authorities. He
has wife and small children, and the wife
is said to be sick also.
THE next sparring exhibition will take
place next Tuesday evening, in the same
hall in which the opening contest OF the
series arranged by the Pastime Athletic
CLUB occurred. The event will be unusual
lv interesting, as the parties are Ed.
Reilly, Of Washington, d. C., and Nike
Howiey. Of Dewsbury, England. The af-
fair win be a ten-rOund bout for points.
A BELLAIRE grocery man was in ST.
ClairsVllle Thursday on business at the
Court House, and having few minutes
before the train left, concluded to buy but
ter and eggs. He went into grocery and
inquired the price, when be was astounded
at the grocer up there only asking y cents
retail He took all the man had, because
butter sells at SO and 50 cents per pound
at home.
THERE was a spirited series OF games Of
checkers played at VIM. hnoke's place,
South Side last evening. Joseph Kaiser,
Accelerated Wheeling player, came down
and found Jacob Honecker, OF the South
Side. These two persons are probably the
best players in the city. Neither player
was able TO get the advantage Of the other,
and after playing game after game they
parted. neither being victor.
A PIrIFUL sight about two o'clock this
morning was the appearance on Market
street Of a thinly clad young man aimlesSly
wandering along and begging for enough
money TO get a lodging. He had no over
coat, and only thin jacket, and was fairly
shiverlng with the cold. His clothes were
more or less ragged and his face consider
ably begrimned. He said he had just been
thrown OF a freight train while trying TO
steal ride.
A SOUTH SIDE physician stated that he
had in his practice typhoid fever. pneu-
monia, measles and diphtheria. He then
had lust completed round of twenty four
patients. DR.. W. II. Taylor has a severe
sickness in John Webster's family, of 252S
Jacob street. In the family are seven chill
dren, all small. All had the measles at one
tine, now all have whooping cough. In
two Of these cases pneumonia has set 10
and each case is a very critical one.
THERE was at least one animate thing in
town upon which the sharp weather seemed
TO cut no figure. Ii happened at Michael
Friesmuth's barber shop. Ia large glass
lar on the window sill were a number OF