Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-21
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.
Collection of the Small Events of Each
Passing Day.

A COLLECTION or tho small EVenISNOI Edcii
Passing Day.
Squire Greer held an early morn
ing session Of court to-day. Yesterday
Mrs. Jane Coffey swore out warrant
against Elsie Duncan, charging the de-
PENDANT with assaulting her son. Dun
can was not arrested until after one
O'Clock this morning and was fined So
and costs by the justice.
The Council Committee on Police
met last evening and recommended for
confirmation the changes in the police
force, heretofore published, made nee
essary by the resignation of Officer
Coss.
The sub-ccmmitte Of the Council
Committee on Police, consisting OF
Messrs Baird Otto and Nesbitt, APP
pointed at the last meeting of the full
committee to prepare a list of supplies
which might be purchased by the Chief,
met last evening and perfected the
work entrusted to them, and the result
will be reported to the full committee
Monday.
AT the close of business yesterday
afternoon at the Office of the City Clerk
four saloonists and one wholesaler had
failed to take out the annual license,
and the list was handed to the police for
summary action according to law.
Mrs. Eldread who was arrested last
Saturday and fined in Police Court,
Monday, for refusing to obey the or
ders OF an officer to 'smove on" has had
printed and circulated little poem, en-
titled, 1.-TWO Nights in the Lookup
There were no cases in Police Court
yesterday morning.
The Criminal Court will meet this
morning. No business was transacted
yesterday.
-Four deeds of trust were admitted
to record in Clerk Robertson's office
yesterday.
Yesterday was the last day Of the
German examinations in the public
schools The examination at Lincoln
school was held in the morning and at
the High school in the afternoon.
The attention Of the Commission
ers' Committee on Roads and Bridges
is at present occupied with the removal
of bad slip on the Cherry hill road.
The work of demolishing the old
building on Market street, to make
room for the new seven story hotel
building to be erected by .Mr. z. B.
Potts, has commenced.
The B. & o. tracks at Market and
Sixteenth streets are too high, and some
of these days or nights bad accident
will result to a fire engine or hose
wagon.
Thursdays New York Sun has a
story about the First West Virginia
regiment at Chickamauga, and tells of
tine "mountaineers' from Wheeling
and Moundsville." All! there! Craw-
ford Ziegenfelder, Reilly, Heiskell and
the rest Of EN-. Mountaineers, Ell,
A flag raising will take place at
Gilleland's glue factory, in Upper Ben
wood, on Monday afternoon. An adj
dress will be made by DR.. C. F. III
rich.
Train loads of troops continue to
pass through Benwood Junction on the
B. & o. to the east.
An Italian, who was injured at one
of the Dillonvale mines, was brought
to the city yesterday over the Wheeling
and Lake Erie road and taken to the
Haskins hospital, on the South Side.
His condition is not serious, his injuries
being bad scalp wound
Edward Bearley, John Beltz, Louis
Rust and Michael Riddle returned last
evening from turtle hunt up Dunkard
creek and report that the captured 1874
turtles. They will have turtle soup
from now till Christmas.
The workmen employed at the Riv-
erside plate mill will raise a flag this
afternoon on a steel pipe flagstaff erect
ed above the plate MILL
Tin mills Nos. /, 2, 8 and at the
LaBelle were closed down yesterday on
account of new rolls being put in.
The Maine Club will dance at MOI
art Park this evening.
Postmaster Wise has been advised
that no mails originating in the coun-
try will hereafter be forwarded TO
Spain or any of her dependencies dur
ing the progress of the war, but that
there will be no interference with
closed mails for Spain or her colonies
originating outside the limits OF the