Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-12-27
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Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and Pith
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Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and Pith
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Council will likely meet Tuesday
evening, in special session.
The Beabout Club will dance al
their club room on New Years night,
There were four cases in Police
Court, last night. All went to the hill
"A child of Robert Holmes, OF
Twentieth street, is very i'll with ty-
phoid fever
Mrs. Robert Finney, of Toll Gate
Ohio, died Saturday morning at the
age Of 70 years.
The Office of Clerk Walton in the
county building is tastefully decorated
with Christmas holly.
The LaBelle mill will start up Mon
day again, excepting mills Nos. 3 and
in the tin department.
Bids for the work to be done on
the Germania Half-Dollar Bank build
ing will close Tuesday.
The boys are enjoying the fine
coasting on Eleventh and Thirteenth
streets these old-time winter nights.
The police arrests were J. S.
Keefer, by officer Bauers, for drunken
ness, and Philip Coville, by Officer
TrOutwine, for vagrancy.
Mary, wife of Philip Fletcher, VINO
formerly lived in Wheeling, died yes
terday morning at ElwOOd City, and
will be buried in Wheeling.
In the Circuit Court, Judge PAUL,
last Wednesday, Homer Prayer was
granted d divorce from his wife, and
given the custody Of their child.
There were fifteen cases in Police
Court yesterday morning, all but two
being vags and DRINKS The large ma
jority were dead broke and went to the
hill.
Yesterday Sheriff Franzheim
showed Sheriff-elect Richards through
the Jail and explained the operations
of the institution and the mode Of con-
Quoting it.
Prof. Henry J. Arbenz and family
have moved from their summer resi-
dence in Pleasant Valley TO the Con-
servatory of Music building on Fiji
teenth street.
Officer Gardner, Of the Second
ward. fell heavily on the icy pavement
on Eleventh street early this morning
and was so badly bruised that he had
TO 20 OF duty.
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fracture of the arm from fall on the
icy pavements Wednesday last. she
is improving rapidly her many friends
will be glad to know.
In Clerk Hooks Office yesterday
a deed was left for record dated Deem
Der 24th. 1896, from Geo. r. Boyd, Jr.,
special commissioner. to Agatha Auber,
conveying a lot in the Eighth ward.
Consideration, $1,5l5.
1t was stated last night that three
or four Wheeling young men had dis
played railroad tickets for Key West,
Fla. and had said they were off for
the war. The identity of the would-be
soldiers was not learned.
The market in the Fifth ward last
night was a very thin affair. There
were no tradesmen there excepting
few butchers. Both markets were re-
markably fat yesterday. as is usual the
day following Christmas.
A handsome present was that given
Manager A. J. Hare. of the Natural Gas
Company of West Virginia Christmas.
It was a splendid satchel. filed up with
combs. brushes, and all toilet REQUESTS,
and was donated by the Office force.
-"Yank" Kennev, the well known
prize fighter, and an old Wheeling boy,
is now on the police force of Cleveland,
O. Kenney bears a striking resem-
blance to James J. Corbett, and has
frequently been mistaken for the cham
pion.
Those who have the impression
that the Essence of cinnamon drank
with such disastrous effects by the Ben
wood oil men. came from the drug es-
adjustment of !. T. Goodwin, are re-
ferred to an advertisement in another
column of this issue.
The police were called yesterday
afternoon to a residence on Twentieth
street to Quell a wicked husband who
was endeavoring to beat his wife's
brains out with a brick She had big
cash on her head and bled terribly
from the wound. The husband was
not arrested.