Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-16
BILLIARDS.
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithilv Told.


Pithilv Told.
This has been great spell OF
weather, sure.
Barney Tibbs was locked up by the
police. last evening.
There were five very ordinary cases
In Police Court this morning.
The trouble at the Gaylord mines
has been satisfactorily settled up.
The Silver Leaf club will give a
dance tonight az their hall. Music by
John Long.
The Grand Opera House orchestra
will give their ball at Turner Hall, Fri
day evening.
The Council Committee on
Wharves failed to obtain quorum,
last evening.
Martin o'Neu was sen; up for ten
DAYS for drunkenness by Justice Fitz-
patrick yesterday.
The Wheeling Bridge Company
has declared dividend of one per cent.
on it's capital stock.
The City Gas Board held a meet
ing. last evening, for the transaction
OF routine business.
The Boards OF Directors Of the
Street Railway Companies met at the
! Mcclure House, last evening.
Col. Robert White will lecture at
the Presbyterian Church at West Lib
erty, Friday evening of this week.
The Riverside blast furnace. which
was in danger of being chilled the las
few days, has come around ell rigat
The team which ran away, in alley
B. about l a. m yesterday, belonged to
| Levi Cassell, and not to Burns q
/ Church.
! The Council Committee on Ordi-
nances is called for this evening, and
the Council Committee on Health for
p. m. tomorrow.
Two lost children were reported
10 the police yesterday, one living in
| Belvedere addition and the other on
the South Side. Both were found.
A marriage license was issued yes
! terdav to John w. Smith, q native OF
Baltimore. aged %, and Edna Payne,
a native of West Virginia. aged p.
The cinder dump being deposited
along the river bank between the Riv-
erside steel and iron works and the
Wheeling Steel and Iron Company 5
Benwood plant, has been discontinued
! for the time being.
An attachment was served on The
Harvey gas process plant at the city
] gas works Yesterday, the case coming
I'D in Squire Fitzpatrick's court, by he
W. & L. E. R. R. Co., for freight bill
OF forty-three dollars.
About half-past ten o'clock last
night the city light wire burned off at
Twelfth and Market streets and set fire
/ TO the insulation on bunch of wires
on the pole. The whole circuit was
thrown off for half an hour.
In the Register report of the Arion
TUubador minstrel performance. yes
! terday morning, the names OF the Re
gina Bros" trapeze performers, was
given as Straub and Flagg 1t should
have been Kober and Flagg.
A small fire occurred in what is
known as the brick row." in the lower
part of Benwood. near the Wheeling
steel works. yesterday. The t1re broke
out about eight o'clock and was eXtin-
guished before any harm was done.
The house is occupied by number of
Polish laborers.
VIM. A. Mclaughlin, who died in
Pittsburg Tuesday night, will be bur
led from the Panhandle depot on the
arrival of the train at 1875 a. m. He
was formerly a Wheeling boy, but at
the time Of his death was chief clerk in
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railway
office. He leaves a wife. He lived in
Bellaire, but was chief clerk in the
Wheeling office of the B. & 0. for many
years, and was brother-in-law of
| Charles Sharp.