Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-09
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithUy Told.

Washington, Pa, is to have a new
tin mill.
"A plain drunk was run in by Off
Ger Knabe yesterday.
Grand Opera House to-night-"Out-
casts of a Great City"
The La Belle tin mill partially re-
sumed operations last Wednesday.
B. S. Baer has leased the Larue
farm of fifty acres, near Sistersville.
To-day and tomorrow will be the
last days for discount at the gas office.
A woman named Boring, from al
ley c, was arrested by Officer Walker
yesterday.
Mr.. w. B. Lewis, of the South Side,
has been allowed a patent ON brass
journal bearing.
Most of the stores in the retail dis
trict will be open at night from this
time until after the holidays.
The JEFF Woods who was arrested,
was not the person of that name who IS
waiter at the Hotel Windsor.
A small child of Councilman David
Hahne, of South Jacob street, died yes
terday morning at nine o'clock.
The oil fever has gained a good foot
hold in Wheeling, and the contagion is
spreading at an alarming rate.
The Special Council Committee on
Natural Gas and the Committee on
Markets are called to meet tonight.
The Teachers Association of Union
district, Marshall county, will meet at
Paw-Paw school house on the 18th inst.
Mrs Nevil, of Benwood, who was
so badly burned last week, is getting
along nicely, and Will probably re-
cover.
The amount realized in the bazaar
in the basement of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception was between
$1,000 and $1,000.
The statement that Miss Klaproth,
formerly nurse at the Haskins hospi-
tai, had accepted a position in the City
Hospital was an error.
The election of officers in the Trades
Assembly, which will take place at the
first meeting in January, promises 10
be very spirited, as there will be num-
Der of candidates.
The Cigarmakers' Union will hold
an important meeting next Wednesday
night. Among other important matters
to be considered Will be the controversy
with Henry Seamon & Son.
The many friends Of Prof. and Mrs
Henry Arbenz will be panied to learn
of the death of their infant daughter,
Alberta, which took place at nine
O'Clock yesterday morning. The fun
eral will take place Tuesday morning.
james Muldoon died at six o'clock
yesterday morning at the North Wheel
ing Hospital, and will be buried at two
O'Clock this afternoon at Mt. Calvary
Cemetery. Deceased was in the twenty
ninth year OF his age, and was well and
popularity known.
The Polander who was struck by a
train on the b. & o. railroad at Boggs
Run crossing, on Friday evening last,
died early yesterday morning Of his
injuries. The man was a laborer at
the Riverside steel works, and was gen
orally known as Mike"
Yesterday was the Feast of the
Immaculate Conception, one of the most
important Roman Catholic holy days of
the year. The Mother of God is the
patroness of the Church in the United
States. The services in all of the Cath
olic churches of the city yesterday were
OF a very impressive character.
The Federal Court will remain in
session here until Thursday OF this
week. Judge Jackson's Court will con-
yene in Martinsburg Tuesday. 1t is
very unusual, and probably without pre-
cedent, to have two United StateJ
Courts in session in West Virginia at
the same time.
An error occurred in the Register
report of Saturdays proceedings in the
Federal Court. The jury in the Mas
ters case failed to agree upon a verdict,
and did not return a verdict Of not gull
ty. The failure to agree w due to the
opinion of the minority that there was
a conspiracy against the defendant.
The Christian Church held very
interesting services yesterday. There
were eight additions at the evening
lervice. The evangelist, A. NJ. Harry
not, announced that the series Of meet
ings would close tonight, when those
having confessed Christ would be bap-
tized. He will deliver a prelude to the
regular sermon. The subject will be
the "Keeley Cure"