Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-04-02
Small TALK.
Minor NJ alters of Interest Briefly and Pith
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The Bellaire Edge Tool and steel
Casting Company has given a power OF
attorney to John A. Howard.
One deed Of trust was admitted at
Clerk Robertson's office yesterday.
The Board of Commissioners Com
mittee on Finance is called for to-day.
The Council Committee on Police
meets this evening, and lively session
is looked for over the city prison mat
ter On the question of new prison
or lodging the prisoners in jail, both
sides are ready for the fray. If q guess
is in order, the Register guesses that
the new prison people will win at least
the first round.
Robert Cline has purchased the
saloon and restaurant on Market street.
lust above Twelfth. formerly owned by
NJ. Hearn. and will bring the restaur-
ant feature of the establishment prom
inently TO the front.
None of the Courts were in ses-
sion yesterday.
The Y. NJ. c. A. Bible class, con-
Quoted by Rev. J. II. Littell, Will be
LelO lIlS tNtullS at q NACNR
-"Morg." McCulloch has fine
string of Hambeltonian horses at Mitch
ellis livery stable. Fourteenth street.
Lime stone is being spread in alley
c. north of Tenth street.
Repairs are being made to the
street railway track on Ohio street.
The weather man continues to pre-
dict rain with each passing day. He'll
hit it bye-and-Dye, if he keeps on, for
its pretty sure to rain, same time or
other.
And now we hear an objection from
the large consumers of ice, and there
is the old talk about a cooperative ice
company.
People are still talking about the
little Court House job.
j. ]. Hillenbrand has opened up a
new hair cutting and shaving parlor at
the corner of Market and Fourteenth
streets.
A young son of George Hillman, of
Twenty-eighth street missed narrowly
being run over by one Of the "dinky'
engines Of the Riverside bar mill yes
terday. The engine struck him, but
luckily he was thrown to the side Of
the track instead of under the wheels,
and got off with only few bruises.
Andy Marshall has been appointed
pipeman at the Atlantic to succeed
stephen Waterhouse. The other recent
appointments at the Atlantic and at the
Niagara were mentined in yesterdays
Register.
H. S. and J. E. Cunningham, well
known contractors of the South Side,
drew the plans for the two-story brick
warehouse being built for Fred Blum,
on Thirty-sixth street. This was their
first work in architecture and was en-
inently satisfactory.
The remains Of John Clark, young
man who died Of typhoid fever at Has
kins' Hospital. were shipped to mis- par
ents' home at Cameron yesterday by
Undertaken p J. Altmyer.
A small fire in the roof of cottage
on South York street Island, occurred
about eight o'clock yesterday morning.
1t was kept under control by buckets
Of water being dashed upon it until the
arrival of the Island hose company,
which extinguished the blaze finally by
the aid of the chemical fluid.
Last evening a smart young man
with lot of iodoform made himself
very conspicuous and unpleasant. at the
Grand Opera House. by throwing the
stuff on various people. 1t isn't at all
remarkable that his actions led to a
scrap.
The Wheeling and Elm Grove Rail-
way Company is making active prepar-
ations for the contemplated change in
its line. by which the electric system
will be extended from Elm Grove to
Wheeling Park, and steam confined ex-
clusively from the Park to this city,
on a half hourly basis for the running
of trains
The wind blew half gale for a
time. yesterday morning.
Up to last evening. no word had
been received from Detective w B..
Lukens. who went TO Chicago after
Eaton. the alleged incendiary. Mr..
Imkens was at Springfield, H.. yester-
day afternoon, getting his requisition
papers signed UP.
Mrs. Nora Fox. wife Of Thomas
Fox. Sr.. aged II years, died Yesterday
morning at the family residence or
South Main street. The immediate
cause of her death was paralysis. The
husband and five children survive her.
The deceased was a highly respected
lady and had many warm friends.
The Riverside tube workers are
called to meet tonight at Myers hall
on South Eoff street. Eighth ward
SATURDAY.
100 doz Ladies' Black Hose, extra zine,