Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-26
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithiIy Told.

.uAuOr Matters OF AhtcAS9N N'ANA-J $500
PithiIy Told.
Officer Knabe arrested drunk, last
night.
There were no cases in Police
Court, last evening.
Joseph HOFFMAN won the horse
ratified by Milton Mabis.
George Foster, Of the Island, will
erect a fn5 new frame residence.
Several new residences are going
up n the orchard district Of the Island
The Council Committee on Build
ing Ordinance is called fer tomorrow
evening.
The Board of Commissioners Com
mittee on Court House and Jail Will
meet Monday.
The Criminal Court mel yesterday
and adjourned until Monday without
transact.ng any business.
Yesterday Officer Mason recovered a
valuable pin, stolen from an Island
child Thursday, by a boy.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders cs the Wheeling Pottery Com
Officer MCGEE arrested Sarah Wat
kins. last evening, for being on the
streets for improper purposes.
Rev. Roberts, of Wesley NJ E.
Church. will preach for the American
Mechanics to-day at p. M, at D. OF L.
Hall
Fresh tomatoes made their first ap-
pearance in this city yesterday, at A.
Stole & Co.'S. They had very Ape
Jizing effect.
The Jessamine Club will give a
select hop al their hall, corner Sixteenth
and Chapline streets, Tuesday evening,
January 2Sth.
There were eleven cases in Police
Court. yesterday morning. The usual
fines were assessed, all the defendants
being gamblers.
The crap game run by George
Cooper. on Eleventh street, was raided,
last night, and the proprietor and three
men were arrested.
The Opera House orchestra will
play for the Morgantown University
military ball on February 14th. The
full orchestra viii go.
The Original Mantell Social Club
will give a dance at Central Hall, cor
ner Market and Twenty-third streets,
next Tuesday evening.
The Postal Telegraph Company
will remove to the first room north OF
the Market street entrance to the Nc
Tura HOusp Anril 1St
Rev. P. Hummer, OF St. Johns
congreg cation, Martins Ferry, will be
installed to-day by Rev. p. J. Hob,
who Will conduct the morning services.
The government signal service Of
ficers made an awful fist OF their predic-
tons during the past week. 1t came
pretty near being clean score CT
misses.
The Young Mems Sodality of ST.
Alphonsus Church have resolved 10 get
new society badges. Thy have also
purchased an outfit of clothes for con-
cert purposes.
In the Registers police news Sat
urday morning, the name of Lanahan
was used as one OF the men arres ed,
when the name should have been Ian
nan. The latter name IS SAID TO be fic-
titious
Walter Burke, of the Eighth ward,
had the misfortune to burn his eft hand
very severely at the Wheeling hinge
factory. He was sanding in front Of
stove when flash of natural ga
caused the painful injury.
1t is stated that Capt Bay, of the
Bay line of steamers, desires to pur-
chase the Island ferryboat Charleston.
A meeting of the Directors of the Ferry
Company will be held next week. at
which the matter will be considered.
AT the congregational meeting OF
lions Church, TO be held the first week.
of February, a resolution allowing the
minister, Rev. p. J. Hon, an advance
from $500 to $1,000 per year and free
rent in the parsonage will be voted on.
Mayor Caldwell will be unable to
visit Washington, with the Committee
of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce. owing to the i'll health of Mrs.
Caldwell. The Committee, which goes
N the interest of the Ohio river i'm
prcvement, will leave Cincinnati Mon
day evening.
There were some anxious enquiries
al yesterdays meeting Of the stockhold-
ers of the Wheeling and Citizens Rail
way Companies as to who had been try
ing 10 sell the road while no one was
looking. BY unanimous consent the
guilty party was adjudged to be a re-
porter of the evening paper, as none of
the stockholders knew anything of the
matter. Hereafter the road will be
tied with a clothes line, nights.