Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-09
NEWS NOTES Of YESTERDAY


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Each Passing Day.
No business was transacted in the
Courts. yesterday.
The Committee on Cemeteries
failed to obtain a quorum last even
ing.
Work has been commenced on the
retaining wall at the foot of Ninth
street.
The paving of North Chapline
street. north of Eleventh, is making
good progress.
Three deeds of trust were admit
ted to record in Clerk Robertson's Of
flee, yesterday.
The wagon way on the steel bridge
has been covered with cinders, to pre-
vent horses slipping.
The Eoff Street Stars Jrs. will play
the Rag Times on the stockyard at 10
O'Clock this morning.
The Street Railway Company is do
ing some paving between its rails on
Ohio street, west of South Penn.
III. L. Turney, Singer sewing ma
chine agent, has removed from Mar
tins Ferry to No. 50 Twenty-fifth
street.
The work of laying the new gas
main into Belvedere addition, on the
east side of Wheeling hill, has been
completed.
The Council Committees on Petit
lions and "Reminiscences, Ordinances
and Finance are called to meet Mon
day evening.
A select hop will be given by the
Emerald Club at the Central Garden
club rooms Friday, December 10Th.
Music by Killmeyer.
Charles Danley, of the Seventh
ward, is suffering from several cuts on
his face, received by broken glass,
while at work at the Central, Thurs
day.
-Waynesburg business men have ap-
pointed a committee to take charge OF
the interests of the town in the pro-
posed railroad from Uniontown to this
city.
The Council Committee on Police
met last evening and recommended for
payment police bills aggregating
$1SS.24, and City Prison bills to the
amount of $146.08.
The J. G. Clanfield Construction
hoo oo,,n ~, an cod tbo work nf
laying the 24-inch sewer from alley j
through the land of the West Virginia
Steel Company to the creek.
The Sunday school of the st. Paul's
German Reformed church, on the
South Side, will give an apron social
at the church next Thursday evening.
The proceeds will lie added to the
church fund.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Eliza
beth Wolyington, wife of William VOL
vington, will take place from the fam
lily residence on Thirty-third street,
this morning at $3.50 o'clock. The re-
mains will be taken to Cameron for in
terment.
The funeral of Timothy Flanagan
will take place from his late residence
in alley B, in the Fifth ward, this morn
ing at $50 o'clock. Requiem mass will
be held at st. Joseph's Cathedral at 3
o'clock, and the interment will be at
Mt. Calvary cemetery.
All the Spanish-American war vet
Grams of this city and vicinity are
called to meet at Police Court room.
City Hall, on the evening of December
18th, to arrange for their participation
i'll the Dewey parade.
1t was learned from an unofficial
source yesterday that mills Nos. 8, 3
and 10 at the La Belle tin works will
resume operations next Monday morn
ing. The other seven tin mills of the
plant will not very likely be put on
until about the first of the year.
Yesterday morning Owen Palmer,
of No. 1877 Market street, brakeman
on the Panhandle, was brought to his
home suffering from broken collar
bone and other injuries the result of
an accident Thursday near Pittsburg.
The funeral of Thomas Brannen,
the aged employee of the Panhandle
road, who died from the effects of in
juries which he received in an acct
dent Thursday morning, will take place
from the residence of his brother on
South Market street Monday morning
at 9 o'clock. The remains will be
taken to Mt Calvary cemetery for in
torment.
Miss Alice Shirley, the deaconess
of the local Methodist churches, and
Mrs. F. B. Ridgeway, who are actively
engaged in benevolent work, have re-
eeived a number of calls from the de-
serving poor class of the city for old
wearing apparel. All sorts of cast-off
garments will be thankfully received
at Mrs. Ridgeway's residence, No. S32
Market street. During the past week
about a dozen calls for aid were re-
ceiyed by the ladies from those in des-