Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-04
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

THE city is placing big lot OF broken
stone on the streets in the Belveders
addition.
THE will of Aadreas Kress was ad-
mitted to probate yesterday, and ordered
to be recorded.
E. w. FRITZ, the South Side butcher,
is seen on the streets in bran new
wagon Of his own.
O'NEILL, the photographer, will ex-
hibit a new case Of pictures this morn
ing, with tri-color background.
The Frew furniture base ball defeat
ed a uicked nine on the Peninsula, Sat-
urday, by the score Of sixteen to ten.
JUDGE PAUL. yesterday dissolved
the Injunction in the case Of s. A. Par
sons Administrative G. Mendel & Co.
WIN. CURRANs, of South Eoff street,
caught a catfish yesterday weighing
fifteen pounds, in the river off the South
Side.
HENRY STRoUTMAN, OF South Wood
street, fell near his home last evening
and was very badly injured about the
head.
THE Mozart Park Association will
give picnic at their beautiful grounds
to-day. The Bellaire band will furnish
the music.
ST. JoHN's German Church held
picnic yesterday at Whitman's Grove.
The occasion was a pleasing one
throughout.
M. l.. BAKER, an employe at the
Riverside mill, fell twenty feet yester-
day, from an iron beam In the mill, and
was badly injured.
THE report that Jesse Parker and
VIM. Sauderman, has resigned their
positions with the U. 5. Glass Co.,
Factory I'll, is untrue.
NEAR the Eighth ward hose house,
yesterday, street car trolley flew up
and broke an electric light wire. The
break has been repaired.
JOHN A. HOLIDAY was yesterday APP
polpted administrator OF the estate OF
Sarah NJ. Holiday, deceased. Bond,
81 900; James p. Rogers, surety,,
HENRY HAFER wishes it UNDERSTOOD
he was not the ten-year-old boy who
was arrested by the police, Sunday
night, for petty stealing in the Second
ward.
MICHAEL SWEENEY and Bob Smith,
two boys, ran into the wire stretched
along the street at Twelfth and Main
streets, last evening, and both were con-
siderably injured.
A CROWD OF young society folks-the
elite of the city, will go to Wellsburg
to-day, and from there will go by car
riages to Buffalo creek for days fish
ing and picnicing.
THE BertchY Furniture Stars defeated
the Frew Furniture Stars by the score
of 3 to 3. Batteries Of Bertchy were
fairfield and Ries, and of Frew,
Merge and Riddle.
COMPLAINTS are many that the old
board walk on South McCulloch street,
between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth
streets, causes many bad falls, and the
citizens there want it fixed.
Mr.. GEO. L. BURST shipped at three
o'clock this morning three wagon loads
of his famous ice cream to CIarksburg,
Fairmout and Grafton. His entire
force worked all night.
MICHAEL Hoe, Jr., was arraigned
before Jastice Dunning, last evening,
for assault and battery on Lizzie Foley.
He was fined IS and costs, which was
raised to $40, TO enable him to take an
appeal.
PATRIOTIC citizens OF the vicinity OF
Forty-third strest celebrated last eve
pidg with fire crackers and a cannon.
Sam Speidel, well known South Side
man, hauled the cannon himself to the
river bank.
A FEW DAYS ago Nick Abel, OF South
Wood street, went TO take a drink OF
water from his hydrant. He was about
to drink when he saw snake In the
tin fourteen inches long. 1t was water
snake and Nick was scared.
A FEW days ago the House & Herr
mann base bail nine defeated a picked
nine from the South Side on the River
side grounds. The score was to 3.
The nine also beat the Fulton club by a
score of to 2, at Fulton, few days
ago,
THE Happy Six. Fishing club, COM
posed OF John Bauer, VIM. Auth, Hen
~ Topney, HarrySones, Conrod Snapp,
James Early and Jacob Ebbert, will
leave to-day for Cold Springs, Marshall
county. where they will go into camp
until September.
DAVID Brown, who lives on the
Island and is bookkeeper at Sweeney'S
old foundry, got his thumb very badly
cut Yesterday. He was working with
an ink bottle at the Office, when 1t
broke, causing the injury, which was
dressed at Coleman's drug store.
EDITOR C. B. Hart, of the Intelligent
Ger, had rather close call from being
run over by a wagon, at Market and
Eleventh streets, about seven o'clock
last evening. Mr.. Hart was bowling
along on his bicycle, and was almost
run down before he knew OF the dan
ger.
THAT straw pile, the scene OF the
ruins of the fire, caught again last eve
ming, and a still alarm was sent in to
the Eigth ward engine house and the
reel was taken TO the scene. Before
the fremen arrived, however, the blaze
had been put out by the hose Of the
glass house.
DR.. J. R. MANLEY, OF South Chap.
/ line street, performed very delicate
surgical operation successfully few
days ago. Thos. Lumpleter, Of South
Main street, had long suffered from a
large and dangerous tumor On his arm.
This the doctor completely removed In
a skillfnl way.
THE popular South Side pharmacist,
Geo. Fl. Ebeling, gave balloon ascen-
sion at his store last evening. A large
crowd saw the sight. On the balloon