Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-29
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

Pithily Told.
ONE drunk made up the list In Police
Court yesterday morning.
IT was pay day yesterday on the
Fourth division OF the b. 81 ..
EXTENSIVE repairs are being made at
the Chapline Street M. E. Church.
THE entries for the bicycle race for
the butchers picnic will close this eve
ming.
n. THoMA, an Italian boy, was arrest
ed by officer Driller, last night, for car
rying pistol.
THE plant of the Mali City Stamping
Company has closed down for an In
definite period.
The plant OF the Wheeling Hinge Co.
will close down to-day in all depart
ments. It's starting is indefinite.
THE first car load OF lumber has ar.
rived for the large new additional
building at Reymann's brewery.
WHEELING Council No. /, Jr. o. q.
A. NJ, will have three mutations for
the Oriental degree at their meeting TO-
night.
TOMORROW will be Ladies' Day" at
the King Fishers camp down the river.
Quite number Of young ladies from
here will attend.
THE Riverside steel works dropped
bottom Yesterday indefinitely. This de-
partment has been running very irregu-
larly for some time.
LAST night large number OF Bridge
ports young society folks went to
Maultown on hay-riding party, and
enjoyed a most excellent time.
JOHN WENzEL, the Forty-third street
butcher, has purchased fast trottlng
horse and will enter the animal at the
butchers picnic in the trotting race.
The mother of Thomas Spellman, OF
! the Niagara engine house, died yeSter-
day at her home on the South Side, OF
old age. She was seventy-fve years
old.
HENRY MANN, son of John Mann Of
| No. 4, 0O4 Wood street, the boy run over
by the street cars on the South Side,
will be buried to-day at o'clock at
Mount Zion Cemetery.
THE Central Fishing Club OF East
Wheeling is encamped on Muskingum
river. A few days ago Adam Wurtz-
| bacher OF the club caught thirty-hve
pound turtle, II is said.
THE meeting OF the Charles Sumner
Lyceum in Wayman Chapel, last even
ing, was very interesting. A large
crowd Of persons were present. There
were debates, essays, recitations, solos,
etc.
THE Whitaker mill will be closed
down to-day, and high authority gives
it that the plant will not resume again
before next September. Difficulty In
the disposing of material Is given as
| the cause.
THE commotion in an East Wheeling
grocery and vicinity yesterday was
caused by huge rat escaping from q
feed dealers trap and running into the
store. The rat escaped, but scared 3
lot OF women.
IT is understood the County Board OF
Education contemplates abolishing the
/ Beech Glen school, on the pike, and
will erect q new schoolhouse at Park
View and build an addition to the
Leatherwood school.
Ex-SHERIFF J. L. Curtis, Of Brooke
county. whose arrest was chronieled
yesterday, has been brought to this
city and lodged in the Ohio county jail.
Mr.. Curtis has retained Hon. j. Is. Som
merville as his counsel
AT 4:3O o'clock yesterday morning
the ore in the Riverside blast furnace
bursted out, and sixty tons Of iron was
| lost. The blast was of for twelve
honrs, and the furnace was again In
operation at haIf-past four yesterday
| afternoon.
CHIEF HEALY with wofkmen began
Yesterday TO change the long span OF
the fire alarm wire ~ the Seventeenth
street bridge. The wire crossing the
bridge will be placed on the electric