Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-12-02
washington.
THE FIGHTING TENTH FOOT BALL
TEAM SEEKING TO WIN THE
CHAMPIONSHIP.
TAKEN TO THE PENITENTIARY
THE lie MoYNE CREMATORY USED
AGAIN AFTER YEARS OF
IDLENESS.

WASHINGTON, Pa, December l.
Howard Kerr and granddaughter, Miss
Martha Kerr, are visiting friends in
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. n Busbey were the
guests of friends in Wheeling on We'd
nesday.
The Fighting Tenth foot ball team,
colored, Of this place, are trying to ar
range a game with the Howard Uni
versity eleven of Washington, D. c.
This game, if played, will decide the
colored championship of the world.
Miss Kate Hopkins died at her home
on East Beau street Wednesday morn
ing, after a lingering illness. Miss
Hopkins was a graduate of the Wash
iugton Seminary, and was prominent
Ior many years in church work.
The game of foot ball between the
w. & ]. and D. c. & A. C. teams, which
was to have been played on Thanks
giving Day at Pittsburg, was postponed
until Saturday on account of the con-
dition of the grounds. This was a
great disappointment to many Wash
ington people, who could only attend
the game on a holiday.
The Washington Business College
closed on Wednesday until Monday,
on account of Thanksgiving. This col
lege has now over hundred scholars.
A number of w. & J. students went
to their homes to spend Thanksgiving.
The following persons, convicted at
the present term of court, have been
taken to the penitentiary: George
Crawford, burglary, three years; Frank
Grayson, felonious assault and bat
terry. five years and three. months; Mar
TN Simmons, burglary, five years and
six months; Samuel Johnson, receiving
stolen goods, two years and three
months; Thomas Taylor, robbery, four
years and three months.
Once more the celebrated LIE Moyne
crematory has been used after lapse
of six years The remains of Mrs.
Mary Scott Booth arrived in Washing
ton Wednesday evening from Welcome,
Marshall county, West Virginia, and
were cremated at S:3e hv her special
request, in the presence of her two
daughters. Mrs. Booth, nee Miss Mary
Scott, died last Monday night at We'll
was born and reared in Wheeling,
where she married the late Capt John
X. Booth, well known steambOatman
The ashes were taken back to Welcome
and inferred by the side OF her late
husband in the family burying ground
This is the first time since 1894 that
the fires in the crematory have been
lighted, the last cremation being that
of George B. Little, a druggist, of
Greensburg, Pa.
Mitchell Carroll, charged with the
murder of Michael Zeazz, has been on
trial in the Criminal Court this week
The testimony showed that Carroll
had struck ZeaZz with club, from the
effects of which he died, the cause of
the striking being that ZeaZZ was in
CarrolPs orchard stealing apples and
would not leave when ordered out
The jury, after being out over night,
announced to the court that it would
be impossible for them to agree upon a
verdict, and they were discharged.
The jury stood eleven for acquittal
and one for conviction of murder in
the second degree.
Caught in the Web" drew large
audiences to the Lyric Theater Thanks
giving afternoon and evening.
Charlie Scheu, while endeavoring to
put a drunken man out of Burroughs
billiard room on Thursday evening,
fell and broke his leg in two places.
George Ward, colored, will be hung
in the county jail at this place on next
Tuesday, between the hours of 9 a. m.
and 3 p. m.
There were numerous fights and
much drunkenness upon the streets on
Thursday, and the police We're kept
pretty busy making arrests.
VIM. Bagiin, who has been the
guest of friends in Ohio for the past
few weeks, has returned home.
The Saturday Supper Table, which
was recently purchased by William
Gibson, viii be changed from a weekly
to monthly, and will be devoted to
She interests OF the school teachers of
Inc county.