Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-07-19
SMALL TALk
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and Pith'
lily Told

"A band OF gypsies passed through
The city yesterday.
A child of Charles Seabright, of Up
per BenwOCd is very ILL.,
There were three cases in Police
Court, yesterday evening
Rev. Bigger will occupy the pulpit
at the First Presbyterian church to-
day.
Last evening officer Kemple arrest
ed William Williams for disorderly con-
duct.
The La Belle pottery resumed 'ast
Wednesday after the summer stop for
repairs.
Mr.. L. Swabacker, of Main street,
is building an addition to his place OF
business.
The Improvements on the interior
of the Second Presbyterian Church are
about completed.
The grounds owned by the Wyan-
dotte Club, of the East End, are being
approved greatly.
William Olden was badly beaten up
in East Wheeling, yesterday, by two
men, for whom police warrants were is
sued.
There were twenty-four cases in
Police Court, yesterday morning. The
charge Of FAST riding against bicyclist
was dismissed
The streets presented a very ami
mated appearance, last evening, the
crowds OF shoppers and promenaders be-
ing very large.
The congregation of St. Johns
Catholic Church of Benwood will g'be
big picnic and outing all day Monday
at Mozart Park.
Lieut.. Bennett, of the L. S. Re
cruiting station in this city, has received
a government flag with the new forty
fifth star on it.
Mr.. G. II. Gambel, for many years
a resident CT Wheeling, died suddenly at
his home in Marshall county, at two
o'clock yesterday.
Garfield Assembly No. 1721, K. of
L., is contemplating the organization of
a Cigarmakers League TO comprise the
various cities in the Ohio Valley.
People living On Sou.1 Market
street. t-tWeen TWenty-first and Twen-
ty-second are complaining about the
slCWness Of Contractor Carney, who has
the contract for paving.
Mr.. P. Kennedy has received infor-
nation that his son Charles, located at
Aberdeen. South Dakota. was thrown
from a carriage a few days ago, sus-
tanning fractured leg.
The contemplated erection of to
stories on the Hotel Windsor has been
abandoned owing TO the heavy outlay
which would ne caused. The improve
'ment would cost almost $4,000.
A woman ramcd Mrs. Smell vas ar
rested by the police, yesterday, on
luGacy warrant sworn out by her hus-
band. and was locked up to await an
examination. Her case is quite pit
iab,e one.
The B. & o. Relief Department for
January and February, 1896. show re-
ceipts for January of S33. 1852 SO, and dis
bursements of $33,77303. and receipts
for February Of S31, 1920 and dlsburse-
men,s of $34965.42.
A jolly crowd consisting OF TIE Hon.
James Mullarkey, Ollie Reed, Will Lo-
bernstein, Chas Johnke, Geo. Conrad,
are spending Sunday at the well known
Love Letter" fishing camp, down the
river below Darlington.
Lasts night arrests included the
following: H. Jones, Of Huntington.
and Mary Travis, of No. zoos Alley c.,
10y Officer Gardner; Fred Baum, drunk,
by Lieut.. Ingram, and Annie Kelley,
drunk. b. officer Shields.
Yesterday James G. Williams was
fined ten dollars and costs and sent TO
Jail for ten days On each Of TWO charges
Of assault and battery William Caves
plead guilty. to stealing a skiff, and was
given five months in jail.
Yesterday colored woman named
Sadie Jones was arraigned before Jus
tice Rodgers on a charge that she in
tended to leave the city and would de-
fraud several persons. She was defend
ed by Dryden & Robinson, while the
prosecution was attended to by Addle-
man & McCully. The motion to Quash
the warrant was denied, and the woman
is sill in trouble.
The Newport Club has returned
from a fishing expedition on Fish creek.
Among the many FISH they caught was a
70-lb German carp and a Alb. catfish.
The boys~were Clarence Venum. cook;
George Maxwell and Clifford Lowry,
bait diggers; George Venum. fisherman;
John Doyle. huntsman. The boys were
accompanied by music and had a jolly
time.