Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-28
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.
A Collection Of the Small Events of EacI
Passing DAY.

The funeral of the late John F.
klett took place yesterday.
The Wheeling & Elm Grove cars
ran on schedule time yesterday.
The Council Committee on FL
nuances is called to meet tonight.
The remains of Joseph Weidel, of
Benwood, were inferred yesterday.
Many persons spent the entire day
Sunday in cleaning up the premises.
The street cars succeeded in get
ting through to Benwood yesterday.
A meeting of the Inter-Cite Base
Ball League will be held next Thurs
day night.
The flood is gone the mud is dis
appearing, and the Baltimore & Ohio
depot still stands.
An enterprising collector might
secure a job lot of rubber boots now
at great sacrifice.
A fine song service was given by
the choir at the Chapline Street NJ. E.
church last evening
There will be an auction sale of
household goods at No. 1887 Market
street Wednesday morning
The Board of County Commission
ers Committee on Court House and
Jail will meet this morning.
In another column the Board of
Public Works advertises for bids for
paving brick, sewer pipe and curling.
There were but two cases on the
docket at police headquarters last
night. Both arrests were made on Sat
urday.
Arrangements are being made for
supper and social to be given at the
Chapline Street NJ E. church on
April s.
The churches were all we'll attend
ed yesterday. The crowds on the
streets about nine O'Clock were as large
as on a Saturday night.
Chief of Police T. D. Bennett feels
very much gratified over the fact that
no robberies have yet been reported
from the inundated districts.
The Wheeling steel works at Ben
wood will not be ready to operate I'M
til all the water is removed from the
pits, which will be done by syphons.
George w. Brunswick, of the Riv-
erside iron works, had nearly all of his
household goods lost by the recent
flood. The greater part of his furni-
ture, kitchen utensils and his clothing
are lost entirely.
A.
of the flood situation to charge extor-
tionate prices for ferrying and trans
ferring goods. Happily their number
was very few, but all will be remem-
bered by their victims.
The frequent slips and landslides
at the Boggs run cemetery, emphasize
the necessity for removing all the
bodies from that old burying ground.
or the taking of steps by the proper
authorities to prevent further slips.
John Schnelle died early yesterday
morning at his residence on Sixteenth
street in the forty-eight year Of his age.
The funeral will take place Tuesday
afternoon, and the remains will be bu-
ried in Peninsula cemetery.
There will be no scarcity Of candi-
udleS lOl SHiSl VI pOliCC tuC uSAI
municipal election, on either the DEM
ocratic or Republican ticket. 1t is
probably that several announcements
will be made during the next few
weeks.
Charles U. Frank, we'll known
and highly esteemed citizen of the East
End, died yesterday morning at his re-
sidence on McColloch street, at the age
of 70 years. The funeral will take
place Tuesday afternoon. Interment at
Peninsula cemetery.
Work has been started upon the
alterations in the business house, of
Hibberd & Son. The plumbing estab-
lishment will be continued in the rear,
and the front part of the store room
will be occupied by w. J. Lukens,
jeweler.
In anticipation of an unusual de-
mand for the Sunday Register, yester-
days last edition was much larger
than usual, but it was almost exhaust
ed. The Register is the favorite news
paper of the people of Wheeling and
vicinity, and maintains its prestige by
Hill h n oil tho ppUc tho fiIr1o