Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-25
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

Pithily Told.
The Council Committee on Police is
called TO meet Monday evening.
Az iron bridge is to be placed over
Long Run at Peterson's place at Leath-
erwOod.
a DECIDED improvement Is being
in the street pavement at Market ana
Fourteenth streets.
COUNTY ASSESSOR BLANCHARD has
completed the listing OF all the I'm
provements in the city.
The Niagara boys are one ahead.
Their new fire gong is the finest thing
Of the kind in the city.
THE contractors who are taking down
the old main street bridge have tough
loo. The bulk OF it is TO come down
yet.
The Lutz Bros. and Caldwell & Pet
erson new fronts improve the lower
part Of Market street near the postot-
fee wonderfully.
A MARRIAGE license was issued yes
terday 70 Hermann Schwartz, native
Of Wheeling, aged 30, and Mary IoecK-
Ter, a native OF Fulton, aged @l.
THE venerable Charles Nichols, OF the
Island, died at his home on South Penn
Yesterday afternoon at half-past four
o'clock. aged 81 years. The funeral
will take place Sunday afternoon.
JOHN COLEMAN, the South Side drug
gist, corner OF Twenty-siXth and CHAP
line streets, is improving his handsome
store with new apartment counters con-
tanning French plate glass fronts.
JAMES CRAFT, Of the South Side, was
badly burned about the hands and arms
Thursday evening by the explosion of
can Of carbon oil, with which he was
attempting TO kindle wood fire.
Fred SroETZEB, an Eighth ward
plaSterer, fell from a Scafold while
working at Glendale yesterday after
noon, and broke his left arm. The
fracture was reduced by DR.. L. Baird.
THERE were four cases in Police
Court, Yesterday morning. Dan Cady,
for disorder, got SO and costs, and
Dave O'Neai. for disorder at Mrs. Da-
Wis, also got SO and costs. The other
two cases were DRINKS.
ONE OF the workmen engaged in re-
moving the old Main street bridge across
Wheeling creek fell from the scatfold,
about thirty feet high, into the water
Yesterday. He received an impromptu
ducking but was not hurt.
YESTERDAY Mrs. John Foose called
at this office and said the item publish
ed Yesterday that John Powers had
been accidentally struck in the head by
a hammer, while her husband was at
work, was wholly without foundation.
The information came from source
considered perfectly reliable.
Tom LITTLE, the plumber, construct
ed and sent out TO the country at Woods
Run, fifty feet foot bridge, made en-
tirely Of gas pipe. IL is quite an ingen-
iOus and unique affair and attracted
considerable attention while standing
on the street ready for transportation.
II goes across the Woods Run al George
Wise's residence.
THE ten Y. NJ. C. A. boys returned
yesterday afternoon from their visit to
the Washington, Pa, branch Of the
same society. An exhibition was given
at the latter place by the two clubs
Thursday night. II is reported to have
been very fine. After the exhibition
the Wheeling boys we're entertained in
a social way by the Washington branch
and express themselves highly pleased
with the reception they received.
EXCELSIOR Lodge No. 40, l. o. o. F.,
on Tuesday evening conferred the sec
ond degree on two brothers and received
the application Of two candidates TO be-
come members. There were a goodly
number present, and so let the good
work 60 Oh, and all the officers and
brothers interested in the good of the
order should attend regularly so as 10
be enabled to complete the work right.
Or Next Tuesday evening the third de-
gree will be- conferred on three broth
ers. The Ball Committee is hard at
work and all who attend the ball on the
3Oth will have good time.