Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-05-18
SMALL TALA
Minor Matters or Tnterest Briefly ana
Pithlly Told

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WHEELING bankers who were at the
Charleston convention, got home last
evening.
HARRY TEMPLE found new bonds
men, Yesterday, and was released from
custody.
RI. HUBEL, the grocer, Of South
Market street, is making Improvements
at his store
THE confectionery OF Joseph Vogler,
on South Market street, is being great
ly improved.
&c. Frank is receiving bids for
fine six-roomed brick residence on Ihir-
teenth street.
EXTENSIVE fills are being made below
the Riverside iron works for the Ter
minal extension to Behwood.
GEORGE MAeERs was arrested by Or
fcer Watson, at 1870 this morning, for
being drunk and abusing the othcer.
SAMUEL BoGARr, who owns the hotel
near the Wheeling steel works, is
remodeling and repainting bis stand.
A VERY clever imitation Of the Brook
Ivn bridge, made Of furnishing goods,
adorns one OF D. Gundling 4 Co.'S win
dows.
HENRY BRIEKMANN, formerly in the
saloon business on South Eof street,
mas gone into the feed business at the
old stand.
MARY MYERS was before Justice Gill
espy Yesterday on I charge OF profane
swearing, and will be given hearing
Monday at p. m.
THE street railway is looking for its
eight elegant summer cars most any
time now. They are Of the latest pat
ern, and are beauties.
SLACK is being burned at the power
house of the street railway. Thls fuel
is secured at factory az" and not
much more of it can De gotten.
N Police Court, yesterday morning.
George Ronner and William Craft, for
disorder, were fined 81 and costs each.
A drunk was given the same penalty.
JOSEPH PARKER, charged with steal
ing 4 bicycle in this city Monday, was
arrested at Litteton last evening on a
police telegram, and will be brought
| back TO town this morning.
Ir seems children are getting more
veuturesome every day on the South
! Side Ia getting in front OF and on Jump
ing on the street cars. There are mar
row escapes there every day.
THE Nellie Bly, Fishing Club, OF the
South Sida, is about ready for its sum-
mer trip down the river, The club now
ho nd fbp q N will
be pitched at Suffers Landing.
TT. HANDLEY, of PIttsburg, repre-
senting the Handley Automatic Fire
Extinguisher, will give a public e1hi-
bition at 7:3O o'clock this evening, in
the Hempteld yards, opposite the City
Hall.
THE city was threatened with big
storm, late yesterday afternoon, but the
| bulk OF both wind and rain missed the
town. At Wellsburg the rain was very
heavy, and considerable damage was
done.
MEMBERS OF the Uniformed Rank,
Knights Of the Mystic Chain, of the
South Side, will 60 TO McMechen to-
morrow night TO visit some OF the mem
bers there. A pleasant social. event Is
being planned.
ONE week from to-day. on the Fair
| Grounds, the field day of the Linsly ca
| diets will be held. Prof. George Mar
shall is getting the boys in fine trim for
the long series OF athletic contests to
| constitute the exercises.
The Messenger appeared yesterday.
! II is quarterly publication, and Is
| brim full of advertisements, notwith-
standing the pending depression OF bus
! mess. 1t represents in It's columns the
! leading citizens OF the city.
Mrs. JAMES BAKER, of Caldwell's
Run, while going home yesterday
afternoon, took very sick near the toll
gate. Medical aid was called. She had
an attack OF heart trouble and is thought
10 be in q serious condition.
THE wind storm OF last evening blew
one of the old landmarks OF the South
! Side down. 1t was a poplar tree over
eighty feet high which stood in Archi-
bald's Grove, near Forty-third street.
The tree fell on fence, badly damaging
it,
THE remains OF William Niedemyer,
late of Thirty-eighth and Eof streets,
will be buried this afternoon at O'Clock
at Mt. Zion. The Harigari Lodge, to
which the deceased belonged, will turn
| out in body TO do honor 10 his memo
ry at the funeral.
Now the street car conductors on the
| summer cars have whistles. These ar
ticles are d great attraction TO crowds
of small boys who run after the cars
begging for zone" The street car man
feels that he is Gueyed, and his Sfare
gets red as a result.
THE last Pentathon contest Of the
season at the Y NJ. c. A. will be held
in the near future. Prof. George Mar
shall, who has charge Of the gymna-
/ stun, has the members under better
| physical training this season than ever
before in the history OF the institution
in this city.
LAST night at Zion Lutheran Church
/ on the South Side, there was pleasant
entertainment. The event was given
| by the scholars Of the day and Sunday
schools Of the congregation. good
| crowd attended and the exercises OF
/ the scholars consisted OF dialogues,
speeches, singing, etc.
CORONER SCHULTzE received q tele-
gram yesterday from Pittsburg asking
! il the man drowned Off the Ben Hur
last Monday evening was JuniCs Dove.
The Coroner telegraphed back that it
was, and that the remains OF the man
were now buried. 1t is said that some
of the relatives OF the drowned cOlored
man live in Pittsburg.
JOHN Rock, aged sixteen years, OF
| this city, was arrested last Wednesday