Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-21
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Minor Ttstsrg OF Intsrsss Briefly and
PIthiIy Told.

Minor Ttstsrg OF IntsrsTs Briefly and
PIthiIy Told.
FoRTNEY MERRITT was arrested by
Officer Fitzgerald, last evening, for dis.
orderly conduct.
THE employees of the ". & L. E.
Railway in this city are buster than
they have been for long time.
THE firm OF john W. Bsltz & Son Co. e,
OF East Wheeling, has completed the
improvements on the business place Of
Lee Baer, on Twelfth street.
c. RUMBLE, the contractor, will do
the brick work on the fine new resi-
dence for Mrs David Hahne on South
Jacob street Work will be begun on
the fine six roomed residence tomorrow.
THE telephone company is putting
up fine new poles on Jacob street from
Thirty-ninth 10 Forty-thtd street. Il
half dozen OF them we're set yesterday.
The old ones are to be torn down at
once.
PATRICK FAULKNER, well-known
South Slider, has moved his family TO
Benwood. Mr.. Faulkner Will work in
the Wheeling steel works. The entire
family has been Ill, but are all getting
better.
COMPLAINTS are heard of the slip
perry condition of the street at Sixteenth
and Eoff streets. On an average one
horse falls there each day, and the
place has been the scene OF many acct
dents, in some Of which persons were
painfully injured.
YESTERDAY morning q water cock
broke In the cellar of the business
house OF Jaco BIS 81 Elsenberg, the Main
street gents iurnishers. Before the
water could be stopped the cellar was
flooded, and large quantity OF goods
was badly damaged.
HARRY KING, OF the National Road,
celebrated his second wedding anDiyer-
sary few evenings ago in highly en-
1oyabls manner. There was large
crowd there The Hollyhock band fur
nished the music, and the best OF re-
freshments were seFvcd.
THE trackmen of the W. 81 Z. G.. rail-
way began work yesterday on the new
switch at EdgiDgton, which rs being
built for the accommodation OF the per-
sons who are having residences erected.
The switch will be 100 feet long, and
will be completed In about five days.
SUNDAY evening at the Third Pres
byteran church, on South Jacob street,
the Y. P. s. G. L. of that church will
hold meeting. Tnere will be an ex-
celent sacred programme prepared.
All the Endeavorers from all churches
OF the city are invited to attend.
THURSDAY evening, at the residence
of Joseph Freese, on South Wood
street, the Y. p. 5. G. e., of the Third
Presbyterian church, will give grand
lawn fete. There will be literary
and musical programme in connection
with the serving of the excellent re-
freshments.
j. A. MILLER, Of Columbus, Ohio, an
old newspaper man, is in the city with
some excellent views taken along the
Ohio River railway. Mr.. Miller is the
author OF the artistic work. Some OF
the fine buildings Of Wheeling are
shown, among them being those OF Mr..
Anton Reymann, the Wheeling Park
Casino and the City Bank.
Work has been begun hauling orlck
for the paving OF ThirtY-thlrd street
from Eoff TO Jacob. There is no part
OF the city where pavement Is worse
needed than that tho-ougfare. The
pavement will be extended down Jacob
as far as Thirty-sIxth street, II the ap-
preparation for the paving will hold out.
THE painting and other improvements
which have been in progress for some
time at the engine room Of the city gas
works, are completed. The ugine room
is now a beauty, and q gentleman who
has travelled extensively 10 all parts Of
the United States said Yesterday that
the room was as pretty aud model In all
manners as any he had ever seen.
TIE two elegant ice water pitchers
presented TO Messrs. Meuge IL Howley,
the South Side business men, by the
potters Of Wheeling, yesterday were
placed on exhibition in the show win
dow OF the jewelry store OF Lukens 81
Higgins, on Market street The eie-
CANT presents attracted general atten-
ton.
LAST night at its fine new home at
the head OF Twenty-fourth street, the
Silver Globe club, one OF the most pop
ular organizations of the city, gave a
grand blowout. There were forty
couples there, and an elegant supper
was spread at eleven o'clock. Dancing
was enjoyed, and the event was one foil
of enjoyment.
ABOUT ninety uniformed K. OF P's.,
from Ceur de Leon Division No l,
Bernard Stanley No. 2l, and General
J. w. Mather, of BenWood No. %, will
90 By the special train on the Pan Han
die next Sunday morning TO Washing
ton. D. c., to attend the National Con-
vention OF the X. OF p. About two
hundred more persons, many being
Knights, not uniformed, will also go by
the elegant sDecfal