Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-21
NEWS NOTES OFYESTERDAY
A Collection of the Small Events of
Each Passing Day.

J Each Passing Day.
Coal dealers will meet shortly TO
arrange uniform scale Of prices for
! COAL
In Police Court, yesterday morn
ing. three drunks and a vag were as
sessed the usual fines and costs
The runaway boys captured by the
police returned home yesterday in the
custody Of one of their brothers.
! Mrs Fox, an old offender in more
than one sense of the term, was ar
rested last night for drunkenness.
The new hotel building on the Pen
insula, for the W. B. & T. employees, to
contain &c rooms, is almost completed.
"A horse attached to one of the Free
dom Oil Company's delivery wagons
| dropped dead on South street Wednes-
! day morning.
The commissioners of Webster
school district say that they have not
! yet appointed a substitute teacher for
Webster school.
-Workmen on the excavations for
i the new Swift & Co. building, on Six
teenth street, have struck a vein Of
fine building sand.
The residence being erected for Dr.
Hill on Fifteenth street, will not be
completed until next May and will cost
in the neighborhood of $4,000.
Charles Ashley, colored, was sent
to jail yesterday by Justice Rogers for
thirty days ON the charge of stealing
a greyhound from J. L. Bedillion.
The hearing Of Charles Fry upon
the charge of felonious assault upon
! Alex. Hirth, will take place at nine
| o'clock this morning before Justice w.
w. Rogers.
The gold badge found by Chief of
| Police Clemans was the property of G..
r. Conger, of Taylorstown, Pa, who
has written letter to the chief con-
corning it. The badge will be returned
| to him.
Louis Anliker, Ed. and Charles
Salade, rode the East Liverpool century
course Sunday making the 100 miles in
! nine and one-half hours and will ride
| to Cambridge next Sunday and try TO
! break the record for the course.
l. -f1Gl6n 11uSuGS yOuhS
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George ".
Hervey, died of diphtheria at the home
| of her grandmother on South Front
street, Island, last night at 10:45 O'Clock.
! The funeral arrangements will be made
| later.
! An unknown wheelman met with
an accident at the corner of Market
and Twenty-second streets yesterday
afternoon The bicycle caught in the
turn of the car track and was badly
| damaged. The rider was thrown to the
| ground, but was not injured
| in the advertising columns of the
| Register, members of the Masonic Or
! der are invited to attend meeting to
! arrange for participation in the exer-
cises incident to laying the cornerstone
| Of the new public school building in
Wellsburg next Thursday.
The horse and buggy belonging to
| Louis Heiner, and stolen from his resi-
| dence on North Main street, was found
yesterday morning hitched to tele-
graph pole near the water works pump
ing station. The buggy was damaged,
and the whip was missing. No arrests
have yet been made.
Circuit Court Judge Harry c. Her
vey yesterday heard the arguments Of
! counsel in the case in which the West
| Virginia Loan Company is plaintiff, and
| there are between six hundred and
eight hundred defendants. Arguments
were not heard upon the motion for a
new trial in the Pipes will case
III -. 1,ro,ro loo,, c.oxyorol ooporIaiptS
about bad boys disturbing religious
worship at the Church Of the I'M
maculate Conception. Last night Off
Ger Dudley made arrests of boys rang
ing in age from Is to II years. Harry
| Schultz, VIM. Bishop Ensel Parker,
Gus Miller and Clay Plues will appear
before Mayor Sweeney this morning.
The announcement of the death of
Mrs. Eliza Hamilton, relict Of the late
| S. NJ Hamilton, is made this morning.
Mrs. Hamilton was in her eighty-sixth
| year, and was we'll and favorably
known to large circle of the older
residents of Wheeling. She is the
mother of Mr.. Percy Hamilton. The
| funeral will take place from her late
residence, 81 Maryland street, Sunday
afternoon at 8 o'clock.
George Hack, an old respected
German citizen, died yesterday evening
at the advanced age of rs. Mr.. Hack
came to this country in 1854 and work
ed continuously at the Whitaker mill
for thirty years, and for the last fifteen
years has not been engaged in active
work. He is the father of John and
Adam Hack, prominent citizens of the
East End. The funeral will take place
from st. Alphonsus church Sunday
afternoon at one o'clock