Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-21
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.


The Criminal Court will meet to-
day.
Two deeds of trust were admitted
to record in Clerk Robertson's Office,
yesterday.
Squire Greer yesterday sold the T.
v. ADAMS farm at Glenn's Rock to
Henry Hilbert for 1851.
Work on the improvements tc
lions Lutheran church on South Mar
ket street is progressing rapidly.
"A deed of correction from M. L.
Etzler and wife to F. c. H. Schwert-
feger was admitted to record yester-
day.
H. E. Ashbaugh, of the American
Tobacco Company, last evening pre-
scented the police force with a box of
fine cigars.
Yesterday was a typical March
day, the weather ranging from pleasant
In the morning through various dis
agreeable stages to cold at night.
The Eighth ward firemen have just
completed work on a large handsome
book case, which they will place in
their sleeping apartment at the engine
house. "
The stock of flowers and other
personal property of the Huseroft
green houses, on the Peninsula, has
been sold by Auctioneer Greer to A. G..
Hubbard, for $3.50.
The congregation of the Third
Presbyterian church will hold its an
nual meeting at the church this even
ing for the purpose of electing three
new directors and t~ransacting other
business.
The ladies of the First Presbyterian
church will conduct a shirt waist sale
in the neal future. The affair is a new
departure in the line of church affairs.
The proceeds will go towards the
church improvement fund.
AT st. Joseph's Cathedral, at the
regular Lenten service tonight, the
sermon will be preached by a visiting
priest. The Lenten services on We'd
nesday and Friday evenings have been
attended by large congregations.
The Niagara engine company's ex-
ercise wagon, which has been in the
shops undergoing improvements, was
again brought into service yesterday.
The wagon has been modernly recon-
structed and handsomely painted.
The Eighth ward engine company
was called by a still alarm yesterday
| morning about 10 o'clock to the resi-
dence of w. R. Coeey. on South Jacob
street. A small blaze had started
from a defective fiue. and was prompt
! ly extinguished by the fremen.
The vested choir of the Thomson
NJ. E. church will go to S~teubenville
Thursday evening to give a sacred con-
cert at the Methodist Protestant
church in that city. Excursion rates
are offered by the w. & L. E. and pro-
vision has been made for a special
train returning.
The little plate mill at the Belmont
works, on the South Side, which was
thrown idle Monday morning by the
breaking of a large belt, was started
up in full yesterday morning after the
necessary repairs had been completed.
A large force of men are employed in
this department.
Rev. S. B. Barnitz, formerly of
| Wheeling. now of Des Moines, Ia, who
is here visiting friends, preached last
evening to a large and appreciative
congregation at the new Second Eng
lish Lutheran church on the South
Side. He will speak upon the subject,
Our Country" at the First English
Lutheran church this evening.
j. c. Hoge, of Mt. Pleasant, o.. has
just returned from a trip to Butler
county, Pa. bringing with him the
French Percheon stallion st. Louis, No.
6454. He is a jet black, and weighs
1900 pounds, in fair condition. Good
judges pronounce him to be one of the
finest specimens of a draft stallion
ever brought into this section.
1t is more than ten weeks since
Cecilia Dawson, of South Market
street, while in a state of mental aber-
ration, committed suicide by drowning
herself in the river near the foot of
Twenty-third street, and as yet not a
single trace of her body has been
found, in spite of a diligent search by
the relatives and friends. 1t will be
remembered that at the time of the
suicide the river was high and full of
floating ice, and for this reason there
seems to be little hope that her re-
mains will ever be recovered.
The management of the Bethel
mission, on the South Side. has COM
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