Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-04
NEWS NOTES YESTERDAY
A Collection Of the Small Events Of
Each Passing Day.

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| The Criminal Court and Circuit
Court will be in session this morning.
The G. A. R. drum, fife and bugle
corps will give dance at Beabout hall
Tuesday evening of next week.
| The Cathedral bazaar opens next
Monday evening in the Carroll Club
| Auditorium.
! The automobile advertising vehicle
has attracted a great deal of attention
on the streets.
| The special service for the North
Street Epworth League tonight, will
| be led by VIM. Morgan.
The next rehearsal of the Opera
House band will take place at the
Arion next Sunday night.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Board of County Commissioners
will be held this morning.
The next lecture in the Carroll
Club course will be upon Athens" and
will be delivered Tuesday evening.
Bloch Bros. tobacco works will re-
sumo operations to-day. after being
closed down for necessary repairs.
Yesterday was dark, gloomy, dis
agreeable day. and few people were
upon the streets, unless of necessity.
No person has authority to make a
canvass for the Doddridge sword fund.
Contributions are entirely voluntary
The shop windows are beginning
to assume a holiday appearance, but
the holiday trade is backward this sea-
son.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the entertainment and supper
to be given at the Y. M. C. A. Thursday
evening.
The new addition to the Haskins
hospital on South Eoff street has been
completed, and is now ready for
patients.
Police Court will be very light this
morning. The number of arrests in
the last week or ten days has been re-
markedly small.
The work upon the new convent
building for the Sisters of st. Joseph,
adjoining the Cathedral, is rapidly ap-
preaching completion.
james A. Tolbert has leased the
building formerly occupied by Milligan,
Wilkin & Co., and will equip it as
billiard and bowling room.
Wheeling Lodge No. Z, Shield or
Honor, will celebrate it's fifth ami
versary at Holdermann's hall, in
North Benwood, next Saturday night.
The Council Committee on Health
will meet tonight to consider the
crematory question with representa-
tives of the United States Fertilizing
Company.
1t is understood that we'll known
citizen is in New York for the purpose
of trying to purchase from w. A Brady
the West Virginia rights for the pic
lures of the Jeffries-Sharkey fight.
The bazaar of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception will conclude
tonight in St. Marys hall A number
of contests will be decided, the Shet-
land pony contest among the others.
The funeral of the infant daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Hebrank
took place yesterday afternoon from
their residence On Mt. Wood road. The
interment took place in Mt Wood
cemetery.
The recent good citizenship meet
ings have caused newspaper CORE
spondepts in this State to send out
sensational and untruthful reports con-
corning the prevalence of crime in
Wheeling.
The electric arc lights in No. dis
trict. embracing the business portion OF
the city. were off last night, due to
crossed wires, which cannot be RENE
died until daylight The patrolmen
were more than usually vigilant upon
their beats, owing to the darkness.
The funeral of Jacob Kruser, an es-
Unable citizen of Triadelphia, who
died Saturday afternoon at the ad-
vanced age of Is years, will take place
from his late residence this morning.
The remains will be buried in Stone
Church cemetery.
Yesterday the Catholic church COM
memorated the feast of st. Francis
Xavier, the patron saint Of Christian
Education. Special services were con-
Quoted in the Cathedral. At musical
vespers last evening, the choir was as
sisted by Prof. ]. NJ. Evans. violinist.
The Methodist Ministers Associa-
ton of Wheeling and vicinity will meet
at the Fourth Street NJ. E. church this
afternoon at o'clock. The subject,
"Our Resurrection Body" will be in
PRODUCED by Rev G. Blakeley, and
thoroughly discussed by the members.
Wheeling is evidently profitable
field for Mr.. and Mrs. Rice. They an
nounced that they would leave Wheel
ing last Monday, then the date was
changed to Thursday. Last night they
were still singing and talking at the
corner Of Market and Fourteenth
streets.
Robert Holmes, driver for Geo.
s. Feeny. was kicked in the jaw by a
mule while he was engaged in his work
at the firms stable in alley c. last Sat-
urday. Mr. Holmes had his cheek bad
" cut. A physician was summoned,
and it required about seven stitches to
close the cash. The injuries were quite
painful.
VIM. Hahne, a mill worker Of Act
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