Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-15
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Minor Matters OF Interest Briefly and Pith'
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Minor Matters OF lnsS4 SSN
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The Council Committee on FINANCE IS
called for Friday evening.
There was but one case in Police
Court. yesterday morning.
The will of Joseph Amrein was ad-
mitted to probate At Clerk Robertson 5
office. yesterday.
No application for reduction Of tail
has yet been made in the Eaton case but
something may be done to-day.
The Eastern Ohio Medical Association
will hold their eighteenth meeting II
Steubenville on the 29th of April
The police are looking for slick col
ored man. who obtained money from sew
eral citizens on bogus checks, last sun
day.
The Metropolitan Club, of the East
End. will give their second bali tonight
AT the Democratic hail. Music by Prof.
Miller
A street car jumped the track at Main
and Fourteenth streets II eight o'clock
last evening and delayed travel on the line
for half IN hour.
A marriage license was issued yester-
day TO Harry l.. Pultz, native of Wheel
ing, aged %. and louisa Snider, native
Of Wheeling, aged y.
Elmer Thompson, in jail on the charge
Of embezzlement. was released on his own
recognizance. yesterday, TO answer before
the next term of the Criminal Court.
Yesterday the advertising booth re-
moved from Market and Twelfth streets.
under orders Of the Mayor and police was
attached for debt and Is held by Con-
stable ST. Meyers.
w. +. Sauer, who has for many years
been q conductor on the Pittsburg and
Wheeling division Of the b. & o.. has de
cided to resign and will open UP shoe
store in Washington, Pa.
The computation Of work done by city
prisoners. published yesterday. was fear
full and wonderful. The item of work
done at the city Hall is an example, but
there are others. The whole - ticle was
ridiculous.
-Rov. DR. r. r. Swope will leave next
week TO take charge OF his new parish at
Biltmore. n. G. His household goods
have already been shipped. Rev. DR..
Swope will preach his last sermon on
Easter Sabbath.
A hve-year-od daughter of J. Becker,
living at the east end of Eleventh street,
near McColoch. died yesterday morning
of malignant diphtheria. The remains OF
the child were Inferred the same after
noon At Mt Calvary cemetery.
Yesterday afternoon bullet crashed
through one of the windows of the Han
nen cigar store. near the Market street
bridge, and narrowly missed a gentleman
inside the store. The ball came from the
vicinity of Market and Twentieth streets.
Lee Stewart. the young man charged
with obtaining goods under false pretences,
was fined $40 and costs by Squire Greer,
Of South EoT street. The defendant APP
poaled the case to the Criminal Court
and furnished 800 bong for his appearance
for trial.
Extensive Improvements will be made
along the W. * L. L. railway between
this city and Steubenville this summer.
The company will fill up the greater por-
ton of their river trestle and viii move
the station at Warrenton into the centre
Of the triangle.
The funeral Of Mrs. Harry Wallace,
formerly of the South Side, took place
yesterday morning at McMecheen. The
interment took place at the Stone Church
cemetery at Elm Grove. The funeral was
largely attended. many persons from
Wheeling being present.
"A young man named Morgan Donahue
whose grandparents appear to nave lived
in North Wheeling. during and shortly
after the war, is in the city examining
property records in the hope of ascertain
ing something regarding real estate of
which Morgan Donahue. Sr., was the
owner, a generation ago.
An effort has been nlaGC to patch up
the differences existing between the two
ice assoc atoms. \ member of the Con-
sumers' Association stated yesterday that
a committee of the Wheeling Ice EX-
change had met them with this end in
view. but that there was no probability
Of the Consumers Association withdraw
ing from their determination to secure
cheaper prices.
John Klari. the Market street drug
gist. has one of the finest soda-water
fountains in the State. Il is a beautiful
onyx front with marble side and is sur
mounted by a handsome wood-carved
cherry cabinet. with an inclined mirror at
the top and elegant plate glass mirrors at
the side Of the fountain. The cabinet work
and the fine wood carving was done at
the Wood Bros. establishment.
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Americans are the most inventive