Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-01
SMALL TALk.

EASTER Sunday falls on April 3.
WILL you be detained from home by
business tonight?
CALDWELL a. PETERSON will start up
in full this morning.
BUILDING operations are being re-
sumed all along the line.
THE Elk's benefit will take place
April and z, at the Opera House.
EASTER eggs have put in an appear
ance in the confectioners' windows.
TO-DAY the new firm Of McLure &
Mcclure will take hold Of the Mcclure
House.
JUDGE PAULL's term of Court has ad-
journed. Judge CampbelPs Court will
meet to-day.
MEssRs BUCK & BoTr have moved
their saloon from Eighteenth street to
1922 Main street.
IT is said boys have committed depre-
dations in the Musee Theatre since it
has been closed up.
SPRING goods make the show windows
in the dry goods district look very at
tractive, these days.
Rev. N. B. JOHNSON, Of the Kansas
Conference, has received call to the
North Street NJ. E. Church.
CHARLES GRIsT was find So and costs
and put under $50 bond by Justice
Manion, for beating his wife.
THE weather yesterday ran the
gamut, from an awfully bad morning
to a remarkably fine afternoon.
WINTER will soon be thing OF the
past, and ere long the noise of the lawn
mower will be heard in the land.
THE regular meeting Of the Woman's
Union Benevolent Society will occur at
the Y. NJ. c. A. building this afternoon.
JUSTICE ScHULTzE yesterday COM
mitted Mrs. Mary Blake, OF the Eighth
ward, to jail on the charge OF insanity.
THE city election officers can get
their money by calling at the City
Clerks Office Saturday morning at 10
o'clock.
Miss CORA DAVIS, of Twenty-third
street, painfully burned her left wrist
while preparing the evening meal few
days ago.
THE Women's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday evening at
Mrs. A. B. Rickey's, No. 80 Virginia
street, Island.
GEORGE ELLSWORTH has been appoint
ed to fill the vacancy at the Eight Ward
engine house, rice Rudolph Brandt,
elected Superintendent Of Streets.
The scholars of the Eighth Ward
school have purchased a handsome
krakaner piano of F. W, Banner & Co.
for the school. 1t is very handsome
instrument and rich in tons.
The Bell foundry property was sold
yesterday by Auctioneer Halter, being
bid in for $4,000 by Joseph sll. The
TASKS, patterns, ETC., were lrchased
by the same gentleman for 1850.
HARRY VoITEL and John Ponelt, en-
ployes of the cutting shol department
OF factory H." United States Glass
Company, were badly cut while carry
ing box OF rough glass Monday morn
ing.
Mr.. ROBERT C. CORNELIUS, OF Pitts
burg, will deliver an address under the
auspices of the Brotherhood OF st. An
drew on the subject Of Christian man
hood, at ST. Luke's Church. Island, to-
night at 1880.
ALL the wounded men burned at the
Riverside blast furnace are doing well
except William Kelly, who was said to
be delirions at times from the combined
effects of pain and opiates and to re-
ouire one or two men to hold him In
bed.
THERE were six cases in Police Court
Yesterday morning. Pat MCKAY was
dismissed. Three DRINKS went to the
hill, and John Duffy was dismissed at
the costs of Dons Russell, who went up
for ten days because he couldn't settle
the costs.
JAMES F. LANTRY. OF the Eighth
ward, is in Washington In quest OF
fitting re ward for good political deeds,
and sends back encouraging reports.
Mr., Lantry is deserving OF good ap-
pointment, and host OF friends here
at his home hope he will get one.
A DRUNKEN six-f ooter, crying ike
babe, with a nymph holding on to his
coat-tails, and both going az run, was
a sight on Main street at o'clock yes
terday morning. The couple made
lap around a block In good time, and
then the man broke away and disap-
peared into saloon.
r. C. O'NEILL has leased the photo
graphic studio formerly operated by j.
A. III. Parsons, and will take charge OF
the place April LIST. DE has made ar
rangements with an Eastern house to
furnish the gallery complete with all
modern appliances known to photo
graphic art. The entire place will also
be refurnished with new carpets and
furniture. M. FL. Sykes. who has made
an enviable reputation as photo
graphic artist, will have charge OF the
operating department..
WELL, said prominent oil man
Monday, oil is q better investment TO-
day at &C, than 1t was two weeks ago
at sec, and for this reason. AT that
time IL had been in the rut for months.
selling along In the lower fifties, and
there was no apparent prospect OF bet
ter prices. but to-day, with the market
at 62X, and making gain almost
every day. there Is no telling when 1t
NAV stop. In two weeks from this time
it ought to be at roc, anyhow" This
seems to be the general impression
among people connected with the oil
business, and some say that the compe-
tition now threatening the Standard,
and The decrease IN stock 10 the fields,
is going to bring dollar oil.
SPRING is almost here with Its balmy
air and sunshine. and already bright
fishhooks and silken lines. with painted
corks, are bobbing up in many shop
windows. At the anglers homes the
old cigar-boxes which for many win
terry months have shut from view the
fancy tackle are being opened and