Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-03-22
srEUBENvILLE

STEUBENvILLE, o., March 2l.-Ihe union %
service is still in progress, altnoueu a.
will shortly be brought TO close, sunday
to.nipbt,s services likely being the last
nightly meetings having been held all week
| i'm the First PRESBYTERIAN church. Notnlng
new in regard to them can be SAID. Ihat
they have been the cause OF mucn goou III
Steubenville cannot be questioned, LOT tile
beneficial results can be seen on all SIDES
When Major Cole and Rev. Jewett leave
here the best wishes of the entire CHRISTIAN
community will go with them Tor prosper
itv and success in their work;
The numerous deaths that have occurred
in Steubenville this winter causes our peo-
pie to stop and think in order 70 utScoEer
the reason. Our usually healthy little CITY
saen,e 10 have been turned into home Tor
the death reaper. On Monday OF TINS week
the naners contained accounts OF nine
deaths There has been no epidemic, anu
while most of the deaths have oeen the re-
sult of disease. the diseases nave Deen 50
,.a,.;ed that no reasonable theory can be ad-
vanced for their presence. 1t appears that
the time has arrived for our friends 10 leave
ms and that nothing that human power can
do will prevent them from gong Accoru-
ing TO all belief and scientlnc Teaching ti!S
should have been the healthlest winter IniS
vicinity has known for years, as an aounu-
ance of snow has covered the grouhu sle
greater mart of the time, and the honuaY
season witnessed the perfection OF winter
weather. But, nevertheless, the mortallty
has been greater than during any winter
for wears And Steubenville is not alone
in this state of affairs, for reports from
Mingo and other ;.djacent towns are 10 Tue
effect that also have been visited oy death
10 much greater degree than usual. But
spring is about TO open up, and the nope Is
that the coming of the birds and MOWERS
will drive away the unwelcome visitor thaI
has chung TO US so tenaciously through the
long cold months. L..
Only two weeks more until election Jay
and still il is not fully settled as TO VINO
will be chosen to manage the AFFAIRS OF Tue
city during the next two years. II Is con-
coded on all sides that the Democrats nave
an unusually strong ticket in the held,
and if the odds were even there would be
question about the election of them all, out
then there is that big Republican majority
of six hundred TO be overcome. and many
people are so bound by party preludlces
| that although they know and acknowledge
that the candidate of their party Is not tue
eoual. morally or intellectually, OF the can
didate of the other party, they nevertheless
will vote for him. But Notwithstanding
this. affairs have taken different turn IN
Steubenville. for the respectable, thinking
people are largely in the majority here, and
| Oscar Brashear has been tried and found
not wanting, and the chances are he Will be
chosen to serve the people for second
term as Mayor.
Councilman Basler returned this week
from a business trip through Ohio, and IS
! busy making arrangements Tor the new
residence ne Will erect on North Fifth
street.
HI. McFadden was at Columbus this
week attending i meeting OF the Board OF
STATE Charities, OF which he is the Ineni-
Der from Eastern ONO.
Mrs. John S. Burns, Of Chicago, Is a
guest at the residence OF ID. +. Norhes, on
South Fourth Street.
| Mrs. DR.. Moflat returned this week from
a pleasant visit to friends in Cleveland.
Mayor Brashear, Hon. II. Sherrard Hon.
j. Dunbar, City Solicitor Miller, City
Clerk Reynolds, Councilman Burgoyne,
Hodkinson and Morrison, ID. j. Sinclair
and w. S McCauslen, Esq, made up del
egatios that went TO Columbus this week
TO present the claims of Steubenville for Z
reduction in the tax apprasement before
the State Board of Equalization. II was a
strong team
Miss Annie Clark, of Wheeling is a
guest at the residence OF 7. NJ. Hammond
on North Fourth street
President Spaulding X. Wallace, repre-,
scented the jefferson at a meeting OF nal
manufacturers. in Wheeling Wednesday.
Mrs. Marion McGrew, of Martin :
Ferry, was in the city on Wednesday and
Thursday attending the funeral OF hel
brother. John Cuppy