Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-14
SMALL TALE
Minor ItsssrI of INTEREST BrIeoy and
Pithily Told

Minor ItsssrI of IntsrsSs Brleoy and
Pithily Told
The LaBelle factory is of again. No
materials.
LAST night few people attended the
meeting OF the Republicans at the
Sixth ward headquarters.
HENRY RIEs, the we'll known painter
of this city, has new boy at his home
and ha is about wild with JOY over it.
SCAKIITISA and cholera infantum
among children is quite bad in South
Wheeling and Upper Benwood.
TIE County Board OF Health is en-
deavorng to stop the hauling Of city
garbage to the country, to be fed to
hogs.
THE young people OF st. Johns
Church will give lawn fete Thursday
evening at the home Of Mrs. LOwey, on
the Island.
Or the 9th of next month the Teu-
tonia Singing Society will give grand
ball in its hall at Thirty-third and
Jacob streets.
BEFORE Justice Gillespv, yesterday,
the State case against William Fal-
loure, for threatening TO Kill Officer
Scally, was dismissed.
THE report comes from the Ohio
side of the river that the Clemens dive,
on the Bridgeport pike, is to be broken
up. Wonder II this is correct?
SAM SHREvES, while driving In a
cart on Twenty-second street Sunday
night, was kicked in the face by his
horse, cutting cash in his face.
ONE week from next Thursday the
Y. P. 5. C. e. Of the Third Presbyterian
Church, will give a lawn fete at the
home OF Joseph FreeSe, on South Wood
street.
GEORGE w. ATKINSON, OF this city,
will address the Republicans OF the
Eighth ward and Benwood Saturday
night at the "Drovers' Home" in Up
per Benwood.
THE street car company is troubled
much these days by cars burning out.
One burned out yesterday afternoon at
Forty-thsd street and had TO be taken
to the barns for repairs.
A BIG improvement is under way on
the north side of Sixteenth street, be-
tween Market aud Main. The curbng
is being reset and fine new brick pave
meat is to be laid. Few parts of the
city needed the Improvement more than
at that location.
THE Council Committee Cd Petitions
and RESPONSIVENESS last night reco-
mended that saloon license be grant
ed TO B. F. Dunlap. at No. 927 Marke.
street. The application oil William
Falloure, to keep at 1917 NJ arket street,
was laid on the table.
Two women OF Benwood had scrap.
They were arrested and were TO have
beer given a hearing last evening be-
fore Squire Henry Riddle. Some wit
nesses were not present, and the hear
ing will be held Friday evening. The
case promices to be racy one.
SATURDAY, Officer Thomas Sprouts,
OF the Benwood police force, found a
boy, aged Is years, named William
Metzner, at the Junction. The boy
was placed in the lookup, and he will
oe sent 10 his father in Uniontown, Pa,
this morning. The boy had run of
from homo.
THE sad intelligence comes from
Larned, Kansas, Of the death there, on
the 9th inst, of Mrs. Martha Ncoll,
wife Of VIM. Ming Nicoll, for many
wears business man in this city. The
family have many relatives and friends
in Wheeling, who remember Mrs.
Nicoll as most estimable lady.
A PARK in front of the street car
barns is surrounded with an electric
wire, which can be charged at any time.
Several children have been shocked, but
none seriously. People are kicking
about it in that locality. A cow went
to look into the park few days and was
shocked so that she didn't know Where
''she was at" for some time.
JUST after dinner yesterday there
was rather sensational incident at
| Forty-eighth street. A Wheeling COL
lector for big firm was down that way
collecting. He called at lady's house,
and evidently did not know the husband
was up stairs. Any how he said some
thing TO the woman which the husband
overheard. The collector left but the
husband followed. A fight ensued, and
the collector was Knocked down and
banged in a lively manner. The collec-
tor has a badly beaten face and the last
seen Of him he was in search OF teaches.
nv the poIice.