Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-18
sNALL TALk
NInor Matters o. Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told

NA0ANA ANAA lAo WAuAAs
DENNIS CLEARY and Frank Coyle
will answer charges OF drunkenness, in
Police Court, this morning.
A NEW fire alarm box, No. 46, has
been received by the department. for
the Whitaker mill. The box will be
put up to-day.
A LARGE crowd Of young men attend
ed the meeting yesterday afternoon al 4
o'clock at the Y. NJ. c. A. building.
The meeting was Of unusual interest.
CHRISTIAN REMHoF. Of Wetzel street,
died last evening after short illness OF
typhoid pneumonia. The deceased was
4S years Of age and cigar maker by
trade.
THE high wind Of last Saturday night
blew a large piece Of sheet-iron from
The side OF the Belmont blast furnace,
The iron was blown into Twenty-sixth
street.
IT was reported last night that boy
had been run over at Eighteenth and
Wood streets, and badly hurt. A visit
TO that locality did not verify the
rumOr.
LODGE 10. X. Of P, will give big
blowout after the holidays. The seven
new members were not initiated yester-
day, owing to the hardness Of some OF
the members.
THE Martins Ferry foot ball team is
trying 10 arrange game at Martins
Ferry with the Washington and Jefer-
son team for next Monday. If the
game is arranged, 1t gives promise to be
a great one.
OFFICERS ScALLY, Wilkie, Creighton
and Habbeffield raided the disorderly
house kept by Anna Tice sc No. 70
Fifteenth street, yesterday morning,
capturing Ella Tracy and Charles Green.
The prisoners were locked up.
TIE Knights OF Rest, Of the South
Side, held a meeting last night and re-
organized. The Knights disbanded
when times got better, about thEee
mouths ago, but now they thought it
advisable to get together again. About
twenty-five young men belong.
JOHN COURTNEY, Edward Hldebrand
aud Samuel Parks, workmen who went
down 10 the Jacksonville bridge wreck
at Louisville, KY, last Friday, were
known in this locality. They had
worked on the new Back river bridge
of this city. Mr.. Courtney was killed,
and Mr. Hildebrand'S injuries will like
lY prove fatal.
NEXT Tuesday evening the Silver
Leaf Club will give dance at Mozart
Hall,and il promises 10 be quite grand
event. Richards & McElroy have In
their show window a fine pair OF ladies
slippers TO be awarded the most oeautl-
fully dressed woman. The man most
c0mically dressed will also receive a
gift. Mayors orchestra will furnish
the music.
HEALTH OFFICER Mccoy states that
bur ten cases Of scarlet fever have been
reported TO the Health Department, and
he thinks all have been reported. He
says there is no occasion for alarm, as
the form Of the disease is mild, that no
deaths have resulted, and that the cases
are all isolated. Or. Mccoy stated that
thus far there had been twenty-fOur
cases Of diphtheria which had proved
fatal.
THREE large ice houses are being
placed In the cut near the &. Il o. rail-
road at McNecben. The REGISTER
mentioned that the B. & o. ice houses
from Beliaire was being moved there.
A western beef company is also erecting
a large building for ice, and the Swift
Beef Company, Of Chicago, is having
erected a structure, which will hold
about one hundred and fifty car loads.
During the ice harvest many workmen
will be given employment.
A BLIND lady from Parkersburg came
to the Behler hotel last Saturday night
penniless. She was sent the North
Wheeling hospital for a few days,
when she will be sent back TO her home.
She is a lady Of talent in elocution,
but about seven months ago she went
blind. Her husband deserted her then,
and she heard he was In Cleveland, o.,
whittier she went. Failing to find her
husband there the authorities sent her
10 Wheeling
Mrs. AMANDA L. MURDOCH, Depart
ment President Of the Woman's Relief
Corps OF this State, will leave this
week to organize a Relief Corps, auxil-
larry 10 Andrew Mather Post, No. Il, OF
Parkersburg. The new Relief Corps is
20 be instituted on Thursday afternoon
and public installation Of officers in the
evening, December 81. Mrs. Julia A.
Burtt, Department Secretary, will as
sist in the organization. J. 5. Piggott,
of Petersburg, member Of the Council
OF Administration Of the Department,
G.. A. r., has completed all necessary
arrangements, sending to department
headquarters Woman'S Rslief Corps 25
names Of energetic ladies, thereby Sc
curing a Woman's Relief Corps charter
for this new corps.