Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-09
BELLAIRE.

The knights of st. John will meet TINS
afternoon in Klotz's Hall. 49,,
Rev. P. A. Cave, of GAINESVILLE, will
preach in the Christian church today,
morning and evening.
Mrs. Edward johnson, Of Findlay, who
has been the guest of her son, Marshal
johnson, the past week, returned home
yesterday.
The County Commissioners were in the
city yesterday looking about the pixies and
other public works.
]. w. Shannon, Esq, of St Clairsville,
returned yesterday from Woodsneld,
where he had been on polltlcal mission. -,
The Young Mems Democratic Club will
hold a special meeting at their headQuart-
ers on Tuesday evening.
Miss Ida Fulton is spending the day with
her parents at Whitney.
Farmers report that in many places the
wheat has been badly frozen out and that
some fields will not produce more than a
half crop. The cold snap in March did the
damage.
ID. II. Darrah has shipped his two thor
oughbred horses TO Kentucky.
The Arcade Clothing Hall has been
beautified with new paint and paper.
The Metropolitan Insurance. Company
has paid to J. B. Seeley $3.50 on the life
policy held by his daughter Hattie: de-
ceased; also sl25 on the policy held by Mrs,
Mary Joyce, deceased.
The Democrats new newspaper press ar
rived Yesterday, and will be placed in posi-
ton in the new location the first OF this
week.
John Davis and w. J. Berry have re-
turned from a business trip down the
river.
Oil prospectors are again in the Glencoe
field irving to lease territory. This is
rather a strange proceeding when it is re-
membered that several wells have been
drilled in that field and each has been
abandoned. But there are many VINO be-
lieye that the wells were not properly
handled or there would have been one or
TWO good producers. Some operators are
credited with the assertion that the Glen
coe field shows as good indications for a
producing territory as can be found IN the
country.
James Stewart, one Of the best young
men in the city, who has completed
course at Wheeling Business College, has
accepted a position as bookkeeper for
Stewart & Ward, wholesale grocers.
The morning REGISTER contains all the
live news of the day before, the county
over. Delivered to your door, lSc per
week.
On Friday evening Agnes Herndon, the
celebrated heroine actress, will present the
comedy-drama that has made her famous.
Miss Herndon gets repeated curtain calls
whenever she appears and our show-going
people are promised a treat by her excel
! lent company.
A stranger was sand-bagged on one Of
the back streets, near the car shops, at
late hour Friday night. Officers Johnston
and Stro5el heard the racket and in going
to learn the cause of it, collided with one
of the men who did the sand-bagging, but
the electric light was not on, and the chap
! escaped il the darkness. The man assault
ed left on the next train and 40 particulars
of the affair could be learned.
Patrick Tucker, an employe at the b. ~
o. freight depot, was returning from work
about ten O'Clock at night, when two men
tried to grab him at the Belmont street
crossing over the B. 81 o. tracks Mr..
Tucker ran and the two assailants started
in pursuit, but they fell over the tongue OF
a wagon and Mr.. Tucker escaped.