Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-01
SMALL TALa
Minor Matters OF Intersst Brieiy and
Pithily Told

Minor Matters of Intsre,t Briefly and
PithiIy Told
THE brlckIayers have begun work on
the addition TO the Sixth ward school.
THE work OF paving North Market
street, above Seventh, will soon be
commenced.
THE Butchers Protective Association,
Of Wheeling, will hold special meet
ing tonight.
ANOTHER camp of gypsies have ar
rived at Elm Grove. They have rather
a fne turnout.
THE Com missioners' Committee on
Poor House and Farm met at the In
Urinary yesterday.
NONE OF the Courts were in session
yesterday. Judge PAUL will hold a
special term Thursday.
THE congregation of St. Johns
Church. Benwood, will give picnic at
Mozart Park the 18th inst.
STRANGE and impossible as il may
seem, July OF last year was warmer
than the month just closed.
A FINE new brick pavement is being
laid in front OF the improved Atlantic
tea store on South Market street.
A FORCE OF men are at work laying a
new sewer on Eof street between Twen-
ty-fourth and Twenty-sixth streets.
Lucy w. HAYES Circle No 2, Ladies
OF the q. A. E., will give an entertain
ment and social this evening at Hand
lan'S hall.
THE remains of Mrs. Caroline Cooley,
we'll known lady late of South Wood
street, were sent to Cameron Monday
afternoon for burial.
j. FRANK WEEKS was appointed ad-
ministrator OF the estate Of Clark A.
Weeks, deceased, yesterday. Bond
500; w. p. Hubbard, surety.
THERE were eight cases in Police
Court, yesterday morning. Two women
went q Jail and four men to the hill.
James Lightfoot was dismissed.
FARMERS are still looking for that
long deferred ";osking rain" II the
drought continues much longer, prices
of green stuff will 90 up out Of sight.
Mrs. w. ABRAHAMs, station ''B,"
Baltimore, Md, writes the police to
know the whereabouts of Charles Horse
man, formerly Of South Side, Pitts
burg.
A DOG, owned by Daniel Ingram, OF
Thirty ninth street, was run over and
killed by the street cars Saturday, at
Fortieth street. The animal was valued
! at $50.
THE German club. OF the Eighth ward
gave q picnic Sunday TO Glenn's Run.
A dozen couples went in big wagon,
and they report having had delight
full time.
HERMAN CARL, the Forty-third street
barber, has closed his shop, and 1t will
remain closed until the proprietor re-
turns from a recruiting trip 10 the
mountains.
THE Young Mems Society OF the ST.
Alphonsus Church will give big picnic
at Wheeling Park on the twenty-third
Of this month.
MONDAY evening there was lively
scrap at Benwood Junction. NO arrests
have been made. A couple Of fellows
wear very black eyes and badly bruised
faces as the result
WORK on the new sewer in front OF
the First Christian Church, to opposite
the hook and ladder house on Twenty
first street, is completed except the re-
laying of the brick pavement.
A CHILD of Michael Miller, the milk
man OF Caldwell's Run, aged three
months, died yesterday afternoon after
an illness of but three days. Stomach
disease caused the death. The burial
will be this afternoon OF o'clock at Mt.
Zion cemetery.
THE Kelley Institute is being re-
moved from the Hearne house, on
Twenty. first street. The company will
locate in an office alone in some other
part OF the city not decided upon until
fall when the main headquarters OF the
State will be removed here from Charles
ton. They have not given over the
work in Wheeling by any means.
BLACKBURN SCHULTZ, a son OF the
Coroner, Of the South Side, found quite
a curiosity in the river q few days ago.
1t is a piece Of petrified red-oak, just
Ikea stone. The curiosity Is seven
inches long, four and one-half inches
wide and three inches thick, and weighs
five pounds. Mr.. Schultze will have
the curiosity made into milestone.
YESTERDAY the REGISTER made men
ton of a fire at the rear Of Wood Bros.
planning mill, thought TO be OF incen-
diary origin. The stable was owned by
Miss Mary Murphy, and there is little
doubt that it was set on fire. Some OF
the people living in that locality say
they saw some one running from the
building. Others found burlaps, OILED,
where the fire had originated.