Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-31
SMALL TALE
miner Matters OF IutsreIs Grisay and
PithflY Told.

miner Matters OF InteroJe BrieAt eao
PIthlly TOLD
THE Council Committee on Health Is
called to meet this evening.
THE Elite Club will give dance al
Menge & Howley's Hall this evening.
THE old bowling building at Mozart
Park will be repaired and made into a
neat sitting room.
THE long looked for helmets for the
mail carriers arrived yesterday and
some of them will be worn to-day.
This afternoon the Sunday school of
st. Pauls German Church, OF the South
Side, will give picnic at Mozart Park.
nTHE parade OF grocers picnic day,
the 2sth of next month, IS changed
from 9 a. m. to l o'clock D. N. on that
day.
CAR No. 81, one OF the new summer
cars of the street car company, was
given a trial yesterday, and gave the
best of satisfaction.
THE scenery at the Park Casino is
nearly all in place. and the building is
being pushed towards completion with
surprising rapidity.
THE Kings Builders Of the Third
Presbyterian Church will give an enter
tainment and supper at the church on
the 29th of next month.
THE entertainment to be given by the
Kings Daughters, at the Fourth Street
M. E. church, Friday evening, should
attract very large attendance.
AN excellent picture of the South
| Side bowling team is seen as one OF the
adornments on the walls of the build
ing at the foot Of Mozart Park incline
The Board of Directors OF the Wheel
ing Island Ferry and Packet Company
has authorized the president to receive
bids for the construction of new ferry
boat.
wFoR the information Of two or three
persons, it may be stated that j. g.
Williams, the awning man, is in no way
responsible for the article in yesterdays
REGISTER
YESTERDAY morning the drivers OF
the Boggs' Run Mining Company left
the city in a big wagon for the locality
of Washington, Pa, where they will
hunt turtles. They say they will be
| gone until the strike is settled.
YESTERDAY afternoon about o'clock
a cog wheel at the bell weld furnace at
the tube works broke, laying off thirty
men. They will go to work again this
morning. This department only went
on yesterday morning after break in
one Of the shaftings.
A LINE of shade trees on the east side
of Jacob street, between Fortieth and
FortY-frst, is being killed by some kind
Of worms eating at them. The trees
are fine North Carolina poplars, and is
one of the incest rows in the city. 1t
looks as II they would all be killed.
THE Kings Daughters of Fourth
Street Nj. T.. church will give another
OF their delightful suppers and enter
tainments Friday evening. Supper
served from $50 TO 7:45 o'clock. Liter
airy entertainment at o'clock free.
Refreshments served after the enter
tainment.
LAST evening there was a peculiar
occurrence on one OF the uptown street
cars. Conductor William Smith was
about to take a five-cent piece from one
of the passengers. Just as be touched
it both were visibly shocked. A couple
of hours later Mr.. Smith had not alto
gether recovered from its effects. 1t is
thought the wet made 1t possible to
form a circuit between the two men in
some way.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WATTS, OF West
Virginia, has sued the telephone COM
pany at Charleston for damages because
his dwelling house was destroyed by
fire that was started from the fire on
the telephone wire during storm. His
claim is that the wire was not properly
protected and clothed to arrest the
sparks. The suit will be watched with
interest. -BelLGire Independent You
mean u. S. District Attorney Watts.
Hon. T. S. Riley is Attorney General Of
West Virginia.
CONSIDERABLE excitement was Gre
ated in upper Benwood Tuesday night
over the report that Mrs. William Hop
kins, who was reported dead, on the
authority of two physicians, was In a
trance. Underwriters went to the house
In the evening, but were afraid to lay
the corpse out, as they thought 1t was
still warm. Many of the neighbors in
that locality went TO the house, and
some OF them thought the lady not dead.
There was no doubt yesterday morning
that she had expired, and the remains
were prepared for burial. This Is the
lady who died so suddenly while clean
ing house, an account OF which APP