Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-30
bELLA|RE
The News Of Yesterday in Our Neigh
boring Town.
a Bright Resume of the Happen
irWs Of q Day-General News
Notes and Gossip About the
Movements Of Individuals.

MfNH.MM MNr friends, the Misses SteSefs'
seprnd ward
Ntorai Society held a meeting at
/ fas First Presbyterian church last night
Mol aumrlsfcd nM arrangements for their
second @rAud concert. which they will
Elvr on next Tuesday evening. April 9th,
after which, they rehesrsed the new music
which they will render on that occasion.
\ THE society wsll be assisted by Miss An
| W. Morrison. or Milwaukee, soprano. Miss
| Harvey contralto. and MIR. VIM. Glenn
ans. a tenor. both of Wheeling; also the S..
Matthews boys choir Of 60 voices.
| The coal miners Of this city have not
| yet made arrangements for holding
| meeting here to celebrate the Inaugural
/, ton of the eight hour movement and
| other achievements Of the interstate joint
! convention, but a number will attend the
| mass meeting at the Opera House at
| Bridgeport on Friday
number from this city attended the
Ingersoll lecture at the Wheeling Opera
| House last night.
The p. & O. y railroad between this
| city and Powhatan, was washed out by
| the food worse than it was at first re-
| ported, as nearly every mile Of the road
! has one or more bad washes, and in many
places the track Will have TO be moved
+, back or piling will have to be driven. 1t
IS thought that there Will not be any
| trains run over the road for the next
| three weeks.
| Prof A. H. List, the blind pianist and
| lecturer, will be at The First Nj. l..
church on Friday evening.
John Davis went down 70 Sistersville
yesterday to see what condition the re-
-, l.,
firm of Davis & Archer is building
William O'Neale. of Grafton, W. Va, is
visiting the family of Rev. j. I. Foster,
| in the Fifth ward.
Isaac Gorby, Of near St Joseph, west Of
this city. has traded his farm for one
near Antioch Monroe county, and Will
move to it next week
The strike at the Glencoe coal works.
west of the city, which has closed the
mine down for the past ten days. VIII
probably be settled in the next few days.
The men went out on a strike because
they had to work in water, and on ac
count OF the discharging of some of their
! number for refusing to work in the water.
Secretary Lewis, of the mine workers
union, has been at the mines and has had
several conferences with the superntend-
emit anu miners, anu llltIe are Soou pIoS-
poets of a settlement of the trouble.
The board of e. S. pension examiners
will meet in this city to-day.
T. B. Archer, of Davis & Archer, and
II. T. Day and Charles Rosser will so
down to Moundsville this morning where
they will bid upon the laying Of 5000 yards
of street paving.
The township trustees will receive bids
49, IL,
Of a new toll house on the Bridgeport
pike, in place of the one washed out by
the flood
Politics has begun to get warm in this
city since the flood has receded, and the
candidates are all lard at work building
their fences. The Democratic ticket that
has been nominated is the strongest tick
1t that the party has ever placed before
the voters of this city Mr.. Cooper has
filed the mayors office. and is better
qualified than any man IN the city. Ev-
cry one knows John H. Campbell, and
knows that to elect him marshal will in
sure the best order ever had in this city;
SO with the other candidates on the
ticket and a vote for the Democratic
ticket will be a vote for the enforcement
of the ordinances and law and good gov
eminent IN TINS city
The social event of the season in this
city was the fun dress bah which the
Sub-Rosa club rendered their friends at
Armory hall last night. There were near
y one hundred and fifty couples present,
thirty couples of whom were from Wheel
ing Prof. KiIlmeyer Of Wheeling, fur
n;shed the music and the dancing was
kept up till late hour this morning, and
at midnight the club and its guests took
supper at the Exchange Hotel where one
Of the finest suppers ever served in this
city was partaken Of.
Col S. L. Mooney, of Woodsdeld, was
business visitor in the city yesterday.
NJ Lem. Of New York city, the travelling
salesman for the Stewart Enameling com
pany. of this city. is here. Mr.. Lein dis
poses of the entire output of the first
class goods made by the company.
The steel works, Rodefer Bros. and bot
tie factories resumed work yesterday the
first since last Wednesday,
The furnaces of the Enterprise Enam-
cling works, which were partly covered
with the water last week. have been
cleaned out and a slow fire started. and as
soon as they can be dried out that plant
will Be on in full.
The FAIR and FESTIVAL given by the Il. A.
r. and Sons of Veterans at Turner hall,
will be continued on this evening. and all
the contests will be decided them and a
large crowd is expected to be present as
the L. S. Grant Camp Sons of Veterans
Will be present in body
Harry Wilkinson. aged Il years, a son
Of James Wilkinson superintendent Of the
water works, while at work AZ the Stew
art enamelhng works one day last week,
had one Of the fingers on his left hand
slightly scratched. He did not pay
much attention to il at the time but
Monday his arm began swelling and DR..
Mnesnger the attending physician. says
that blood poison has set in and he is
afraid that his arm will have to be am
putated TO save his life.
The grocery store of Charles Henry, at
the corner Of Thirty second and Hamilton
streets, was entered by burglars AT an
early hour yesterday morning and large
amount of flour, meat and tobaccos were
stolen. An entrance was effected BY pry-
ing open the transom over the door at
the rear of the store. There Is not yet
any clue as TO who the thieves are.
DR. w. l.. Davidson, superintendent OF
Mountain Lake Park, one Of the best
known Chautauqua instructors. will lee
ture at the First NJ z. church on Monday
evening April 4th, on his travels through
Switzerland. which will be illustrated
with steriopticon views. The Or. IL one