Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-12

The memorial services held by Black
Prince Lodge, K. of p, yesterday after
noon at o'clock. were well attended
and were entered upon by the knights
with respectful interest. After the ritz
ualistic services at the hall one hun
dred of the knights marched to Rose
Hill cemetery, where the 20 graves of
deceased brothers received their tribute
of flowers. A detachment also visited
the cemeteries at Weegee, Bethany and
Winding Hill and decorated the graves
OF knights with the handsome floral
triangle. The U. r. K. band headed
the procession to the cemetery.
The ladies of Spangler Relief Corus,
w. r. c., have made arrangements to
hold memorial services for the late
Mrs. Ada Porterfield and deceased COM
rades of the Post on next Saturday
evening. The services will take place
in Grand Army hall and suitable pro-
gramme is being prepared for recita-
ton upon that occasion.
A party of Sistersville capitalists at
the head of whom is C. A. Foster. has
leased something less than a thousand
acres of oil territory at Pipe creek and
are putting material upon the ground
for a test we'll The nucleus of the
territory is the land of the Mineral
Hill Coal Company, although the prop
erty of quite a number of individuals
has also been secured for oil purposes.
One Bellaire man who owns land in
that vicinity has leased to the syndi-
cate and the first well is going down
close to his property.
The charge of nitro-glycerine which
the Big Four Oil Company had put in
their Orr well No. at Glencoe Satur-
day, did not explode for some unae-
countable reason. and the we'll will
have to be pumped out again to-day
before the shot can be set off. 1t is the
opinion of some who have seen this well
that it will pump thirty barrels or bet
ter now before it is shot and naturally
it is expected to do much better when
properly agitated. After the pumping
was stopped the oil filled the we'll 400
feet in "a hours Work will be re-
sumed at the well this morning.
The work of Rev. C. M. Watson to in
crease the attendance of the Sunday
school at the Christian Church was
manifest yesterday in very marked
degree. Children's Day was accepted
as an opportune date to make a special
effort to get new scholars into the
school, and the result was the largest
number present Sunday morning that
has ever been recorded in the history
of the school. The roll called demon
strated a total of 537 children in all the
classes with an infant class or l4S,
which is said to be a record-breaker
in this section of the State. The col
lection of the Sunday school for mis-
sionary purposes was phenominai, the
amount netting $3.50, which is exactly
800 more than the collection taken
upon a similar occasion last year. Last
night a programme was rendered by
the children and an excellent sermon
was preached by Rev. Hopkins, OF
CLAYTON, Nd. The church was prettily
decorated through the kindness of Geo.
Mertz, the North End florist.
One of the soldier boys who was with
the immunes relates some interesting
"reminiscences of the trip and the peo-
pie met with on the island. He says
he wouldn't give one Spaniard for
thousand Cubans, Notwithstanding the
prevalence of opinion to the contrary.
He says the men wouldn't eat the Arm
our meat, and when reports became
current as to its unfitness for food an
investigation was instituted and $4,000
pounds of the beef intended for the
Fourth regiment was condemned and
dumped into the bay. The fresh meat
was good, most of the cattle being
brought from Porto Rico in fair con-
ditioD The Cubans did most of the
slaughtering, and popularity of their
method is to kill the beef by sticking
a knife into the back of the animals
neck. No bones are sold with meat in
Cuba. The flesh is all scraped from
the bones and sold separate and apart
from them. The soldier says some of
the bacon furnished the regiment was
badly spoiled and bore government
inspection stamps dated 1891.
Randolph Miller, the Darlington
man arrested by Officer Bahra in the
Fourth ward early Sunday morning,
had to be used pretty roughly before
he would surrender to the representa-
tive of the law. Miller was warmed
up with booze and had made threats
that he wouldn't be taken. He had
32-calibre revolver with him, and
when Bahra approached snapped the
gun twice fair in the latter's face For
some reason the revolver. although
loaded, failed to discharge, and Bahra
escaped injury and perhaps death al
most miraculously. Miller has recent
ly been working at the steel plant.
L. Perry, the we'll known porter at
the Globe, and several other colored
gentlemen have secured the Eliza H."
to run an excursion from Moundsville
to Browns Island. above Steubenville.
on July 3d. The boat will stop at in
termediate points and large number
OF colored people will doubtless avail