Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-18
SMALL TALE.
Minor Il sstsrs OF Tntersst Briesy and
PithiIy Told

THE Potomac Fair takes place Wed
nesday and Thursday of this week.
IT will take week yet to get the new
washer at the city gas works placed.
TIE Fulton base ball club gave big
dance last night at Koch's hall, in the
town.
THE City Board OF Equalization and
Appeals will take up Sixth ward petit
tions to-day.
AFTER an eight weeks stay, the big
camp OF gypsies left Elm Grove yester-
day morning.
A NEW stone pavement has been laid
10 front of the lower incline office at
Mozart Park.
FRANK JACKSON, OF the firm Of George
! X. McMechen & Sens Co., has made the
purchase of fine new bicycle.
A CHILD of William Kindleberger. OF
! Caldwelrs Run, was buried Yesterday
| afternoon at o'clock at Mt. Zion.
THE boiler making firm of Cox & Co.
has force OF men making repairs for
the Bridgeport Electrical Company.
AT 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
child OF Charles Bloom, of Upper Ben
wood, was buried at Boggs' Run ceme-
terry.
THE boat OF the Mystic Crew fishing
club will be brought to-day from near
! Darlington, where it has been since the
twenty-sixth Of last May.
SUNDAY evening on Chapline between
Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
streets, street car jumped the track.
1t took half hour TO get 1t on.
A SLAUGHTER house in the Forty
third street locality is causing num-
Der OF com plants in that vicinity. The
Health Officer is asked TO come around.
A NUMBER of complaints have been
made about the quality of tea sold by
house to- house peddef, who uses pic
lures as an inducement to buy his
goods
THE hearing OF Charles Gillespie,
charged with cutting Harry Bowers,
Sunday morning, will take place before
Justice Gllespy at two o'clock Wednes-
day afternoon.
THE Epworth League o. the Wesley
NJ. Z. church held meeting at the
church last night. There was an inter-
esting programme in connection, ana
officers were elected.
OWING TO the low water the fish out
Wheeling Creek are dying in great
numbers. A wagon load OF dead fish
can be seen at Sycamore Grove. Some
are bass about two feet long.
CHARLES POWELL OF Forty-frst and
Wood streets, whose bad accident was
reported exclusively in the REGISTER
Yesterday. was little better yesterday.
The boy is conscious about hall the
time.
SUNDAY night the eight.inch main at
Fulton was turned into the creek and
kept running all night to wash out the
creek. 1t did little good, as the water
was about as bad yesterday as the
day before.
CHARLES REESE, Of Benwood, the b.
| & D. brakeman who suffered the accl-
dent three weeks ago by having cou-
ping pin pierce his abdomen, has been
| given up by his physicians. He has
been at Grafton since the accident.
! p THERE were twenty-seven cases in
Police Court yesterday morning. Seven
vsgs went TO the hill, and two women
were sent to Jail. The charge OF selling
beer against Josephine Boyd, was dis
missed, but she was fined for keeping a
house.
A. B. LooNEY, of Tariff, w. Va, the
| driver hit by the n-Handle engine at
Twenty-first street, Sunday night, was
better Yesterday. He is on safe way
toward recovery. Word comes from the
hospital that he will be able to be re-
moved TO his home in ten days.
YESTERDAY was the twenty-frst an
niversary of the date when Martin
Thornton opened restaurant In this
city. Mr.. Thornton's career as ca
terer was remarkably successful. until
| he leased the Hotel Brunswick to the
present proprietor, Mr.. Roessler.
YESTERDAY morning a jolly crowd OF
| Wheelingites left for Fish Creek, where
they will spend two weeks hunting and
fishing. They are Hermann Hoffman,,
Henry Nolte, George Confer, David
Brooks, Nick Miller, Charles Welsei,
Charles Reister and Seward Butts.
DENNIS GARDNER was arrested on a
police warrant yesterday. sworn out by
Hattie Underwood. who charged him
with striking and abusing her. At the
! City Hall Dennis denied the assault and
| in the same breath threatened the COM
palnant that he would "beat her
again"
In another column City Collector w.
II. Shafer gives notice that city taxes
will be due and payable at his office on
October 1st. Persons paying their
taxes during October will be entitled TO
a discount. Taxes on real estate will
bear interest from November lst, at ten
per cent.
EVERY Democrat Of the city should
not fail to attend the meeting OF the
Young Mems Democratic Club at its
new quarters at Odd Fellows Hall
Thursday night. The meeting is to be
| called TO order at at 1880 o'clock. and it
is hoped that there will be great out
pouring OF the city Democracy there.
YESTERDAY afternoon about half-past
four o'clock a steer grew cranky, at
Market and Twelfth streets, and ran
under an express horse, lifting the AMI
NAL from its feet. The horse got free
aud ran on TO the sidewalk at Goetze's,
where 1t was stopped after knocking
down one man, The steer trotted OF
down Twelfth street.
A MAN was driving down Jacob
street, near Fortieth, in his buggy Sun
day evening about 7:30 o'clock. He
went 10 drive from the street car ttacks
because a car was approaching, and
L. dninr en- hia hnnnY WAS badly