Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-17
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.


A Collection OF small Events OF
Each Passing Day.
The cleaning of the iron work of
the suspension bridge is now in pro-
gress.
The laying If the new loor in the
Atlantic engine house has been COM
pleted.
Sam West has resigned his position
on the police force and Vim. Scheeble
appointed to the vacancy.
The chief of police yesterday re-
ceived a letter of thanks from the Ger
man Day general committee.
In Police Court yesterday morning.
Buck Tyler and Thomas Rix were each
fined SIS and costs for drunkenness.
The old Hague residence on Six
teenth street is being razed to make
room for a commodious modern dwell
ing.
A benefit ball will be given on the
evening Of the 18th at Pythian Castle
for Austin f. Megrail, of the South
Side.
! III. o. Perry, who was arrested in
company with Nellie Grasch, refuses to
go back to Mingo without ~extradition
papers.
WIFI Seabright, of McColloch street,
had both mis- eyes painfully burned in
an accident Monday. Medical aid was
summoned.
The Atlantic company were called
out to Wood and Nineteenth streets
/! yesterday by a bank fire. The blaze
was quickly put out.
The Council committee on streets,
alleys and grades has been called to
meet this afternoon to inspect Coal
, street. between Third and Fourth.
Rev. E. Randall, the evangelist,
preached at the work house last night.
Several prisoners held up their hands
for prayer. He will preach there on
Thursday night
Chief Clemans has received a letter
from Joseph Miller, of Huntington,
making inquiries about his wife, who
Is believed to be here or in Manning
ton with another man.
The work of putting down a private
sewer in alley 8, to connect with st.
Joseph's school on Eoff street, is about
completed. The sewer is laid at a
depth of nearly twenty feet.
Yesterday the contractors began
the work Of removing the earth that
had been piled in the creek, and began
pulling it In behind the retaining wall
OF the new B. & O. bridge on the south
side of the creek.
The Intelligencer printed the story
OF James Adams, the Tucker county
Klondike speculator who returned
home in a special car, under a special
HEAD, yesterday morning. 1t was
printed in the Register Sunday mora
ing.
The new building of the Natural
Gas Company of West Virginia on
| Chapline street and alley 9 is about
ready for the roof. The handsome
carved stone and gray pressed brick
front will make it n of the most
handsome buildings in the city.
-ll6 IuuGIdl vi UNITS. 0dIuc1 INC Ailu-
mer took place yesterday morning from
her late residence in the East End.
Services were conducted by the Rev.
William Ulfert, and the remains were
followed to their last resting place in
Peninsula cemetery by a large con-
course of sorrowing friends.
"A force of workmen commenced yes
terday the task of removing the old
Leasure homestead from the corner of
Thirty-eighth and Jacob streets to the
southeast corner of Thirty-eighth and
Eoff streets. A large three-story bus
mess building will be erected on the
former site of the old building for Au-
gust Meyer, OF the South Side. The
Leasure homestead is one of the Oldest
buildings in South Wheeling, having
been built in 1882.
Architect Forney is working on
| plans for a new Second Presbyterian
| church in Bellaire. The plan now under
| consideration is something similar to
the First Methodist Episcopal church
In exterior appearance, except that 1t
Is smaller and will be built of stone
The interior appearance of the new
church is entirely different, being all
on one floor and being so arranged that
the church auditorium and Sunday
school room can be thrown all in one
room.