Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-08
IN BRIEFEsT FORM.

IN BRIEFEsT FORM.
local Items Of interest Presented In
Condensed PArasraphs.
South Chapline street was cleaned
yesterday.
The nail department of the BEL
mont mill is off, owing to a shortage 81
gas.
The Drummers' Exchange on Main
street is receiving fresh coat OF
pain.
Several drunks and disorderlies
were fined in police court yesterday
morning.
A representative OF Shook & Co.
was measuring mail carriers for shirt
waists yesterday.
-Waterman's pharmacy, Eleventh
and Market streets, is being repainted
in an artistic manner.
Justice M. j. Fitzpatrick admins
tered the oaIn Of Office to Jere Mead
as Deputy State Mine Inspector.
The Mutual Savings Bank, moved
recently to the Peabody building, will
have the interior remodeling finished
in short time.
Marion Sypher, who was accused Of
criminal intimacy with Rosa Elder, was
arrested yesterday by the police AID
placed in the lookup.
Lawrence, young son of Fl-d
Kunth, of Fourteenth street, had his
toes mashed Thursday by heavy iron
door falling on his foot.
Under the new train schedule Of
the Wheeling & Lake Erie road. pas
senger trains will now leave daily at
$50 a. m. and 2:20 and 4:5u y. n.
Wheeling Odd Fellows are called
to meet at i. o. 0. f. hall Sunday after
noon to attend the funeral of Frederick
Brinkman, OF Weston lodge No. 80.
The building occupied for years by
Mrs. Oldham, 1850 Main street, is be-
ing remodeled. The basement will be
for store rooms and the upper stories
will be used for tenements.
Yesterday morning at 1870 o'clock
at the home of his parents, on South
Jacob street, occurred the death of the
five-year-old son of Thomas Rafferty,,
after an illness of two weeks.
The road and bridge committee of
the Board of County Commissioners met
yesterday and prepared the annual es-
Inmates of work to be done during the
coming year. Bids will be asked for at
once.
REV. Randall says there are nine
teen prisoners in the workhouse, and
half of them seem to be church MEM
'bers. They can sing the doxology equal
to any church goers. Every one held
up their hands for prayer
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas /. Rafferty,
have the sympathy of host of friends
in the loss of their bright young son,
John, who died yesterday morning, and
will be buried Sunday afternoon from
the family residence, No. 1920 Jacob
street. Interment at Mt Calvary GENE
terry.
Earl Craft, thirteen-ye ar-old Nc
Mechen boy, was injured Thursday eve
ming while at work IN the Riverside
plant at Benwood. He was caught in
piece of machinery and before he could
be extrieated had received a number
of severe cuts and bruises. He was re-
moved to the City Hospital, and last
night was resting easily.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad
has issued very handsome folder Civ
ing train schedules for the Pan Amer
lean Exposition, and large number of
very interesting facts In connection
with the big show in Buffalo. The de-
scriptive matter which it contains will
be found very important to the person
who contemplates a visit to Buffalo.
The family and friends of Theodore
Brinkman, who was drowned in the
Ohio river. and whose body was found
at Dillie's Bottom, refuse to believe that
he destroyed himself. They claim that
he was either taken suddenly Ill, and
fell from the yacht, or dropped off on
account of its swaying IN the river. The
body was brought to this city at mid
night.
"A young son of Fred Knuth, OF For
tieth street, had one of his toes pain
fully mashed Thursday evening. A boy
who had been holding up the sewer lid
at the corner Of Fortieth and Jacob
streets, failed to notice young knuth' 9
toes under it, and when he dropped it
the foot was caught. The services OF a
physician were required to dress the
injury.