Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-04-27
STEUBENVILLE.

SrrrBENvIlLE. o., April 26-Council
meets next Tuesday evening and the mat
ters of interest that are TO come up causes
everyone TO look forward to that time with
expectancy. The new committees are to be
announced by the President, and the ques-
ton of retaining the services of City Engl-
neer Barclay will also be up for consider
alton. as his confirmation was laid on the
table at the last meeting. 1t is hard 10 tell
what the new Council will do. Some think
the Office of Engineer will be abolished and
the services of a special man secured when
ever occasion requires, while others think
the two offices of Engineer and Street Com
missioner will be merged into one.
The seventy-first anniversary of Odd
Fellowship was observed at Odd Fellows
Hall Saturday evening, April 10Th, by APP
prOpriate ceremonies.
Weddings were the order of the day in
Steubenvile this week. Wednesday
morning Mr. CYRUS Ryan, of Newcomers
town. and Miss Ravena Henry, sister Of
Councilman Geo. n. Henry, OF this city,
were married at the Third Presbyterian
Church by Rev J. \. Cook, the pastor. On
the same day at two o'clock in the after
noon, Mr.. John r. Cummins and Mary =.
Foster were united in marriage ut the
Fifth Street NJ. p. Church by Rev. :. y.
Fisher. and in the evening AT nine o'clock,
at the parsonage, on Ninth street, Rev.
Fisher performed the marriage rite for
Joseph NJ Browning and Miss Maggie j.
Davis On Thur sday at noon VIM. Me
Kee. formerly a well-knOwn and popular
vOung gentleman of Steubenville, now of
Sea View. Washington, was united in mar
riage with Miss Joe Agnes Peters The
ceremony was performed at the residence
of the brides parents, on South Fourth
street. by Rev. Fisher. And still another
wedding is credited 10 Jefferson county TINS
week. for on Thursday morning Thomas
Dunn, of Pittsburg, aud Miss Mary Loft
us. daughter of Simon LOTUS. OF Fern
wood. this county. were married by Rev.
Father Campbell, of Dennlson. Ten per-
sons made happy in one week.
The new upper ferry has only been in
operation a week, but already the mer-
chants of the Upper End are realizing that
they invested wisely when they gave 500
10 the proprietor as an inducement to start
the ferry. The ferry is a cable affair and
works like charm, round trip being
made i'm fifteen minutes. Its cost was
y. 900
The annual meeting of the Puritan con-
ference opened Friday evening last, and
is still i'm session. The series for to-day
Sunday is as follows: In the morning at
y 80 KEY. W +. NlCliillcu VIII AONtulN WI
The Ideal Sunday-sch0Ol; at lO:45. att
ernoon session, presided over by Rev. S.W.
Meek, followed by communion Afternoon
at 30. Our Benevolent Societies. 3:3J,
Revival Methods by Rev. L. =. Thomas;
In the evening at 1:3O Rev :. c. Game
well will tpreach, and the session will then
close with devotional exercises.
The owners of the Steubenville Iron
Works. AT Allekana Lake. have in mind
the purchase of the Spalding mill, at Bril-
liant.
There is a boom in real estate in Steu-
benville. Several desirable pieces of prop
ertv this week changed hands at good
prices
Last Thursday was Arbor Day in Ohio.
But il was too wet in Steubenville to plant
trees
The grand jury completed its labors Fri
day morning - The most important case
under consideration was that of Frank
Smith, Of Wellsburg, charged with poison
ing Belle Simpson, at Mingo Junction, on
the ID Of last February. Prof. Blanc,
chemist, of the College of Pharmacy, Pitts
burg. testified that he had submitted the
ordinary test which chemists consider SUI
| ficient TO discover the presence of arsenic,
and as vet had failed to discover any traces
of that poison The grand jury, therefore,
| failed 10 indict Smith and he was discharged
/ from custody. The indictments returned
are as follows: Elizabeth Ashman, Mt.
| Pleasant township, one for keeping place
in a local option township and one for sell
ing liquor in such a place; Chas. Ashman,
her husband, one indictment for keeping