The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-06
BRIEF 1IRNrroN1Nas.
Events IN and About the City Give
81 o Nutshell.

Events IN and About the City HlVen
IN a Nutshell.
Matinee at the Grind this afternoon.
Grand to-nighs-The Huniley Jackson
company.
The council committee on accounts
has been called 10 meet next Monday
evening.
wheeling invites First district Repub-
iicaBs 30 hold their congressional con-
yentIon here.
The partnership OF Rose & Graebe.
plumbers, OF $3.50 Jacob street, South
Side, has been dissolved by mutual con-
sent
"Comnittes OF One Hundred" meets
tonight at the 1. o. o. F. hall 20 out
line its programme for the next munich
pal election.
The stone foundation for Father Mui-
lens residence, on Thlrty-slxth street,
is mpleted. and the bricklayers VIII
begin in q few days.
The third squad Of bill posters for
Ringing Bros circus arrived here yes
terJlay. There nre about sixteen OF
them, and they leave town this evening.
The foundation Is being laid for a
three-story brick store and dwelling
for ]. c. Beck, on Jacob street, between
Thirty-sixth and Thlrty-seventh
streets.
Last evening, al the home OF the bride,
In East Wheeling. occurred the mar
rage Of Mr. Edward Custer and Miss
Bertha Genthei. the ceremony being
performed by Rev, Samuel Schwalm'
pastor Of the First English Lutheran
church.
At the Jewish synagogue this evering
memorial services In honor OF Rabbi
Wise. Of Cincinnati. who was perhaps
the most accomplished scholar in Jew
ish America, will be conducted by Rabbi
Harry Levi, who was formerly student
under the dead minister.
A number Of Wheeling Presbyterlans
are in Llttlc Washington attending the
annual meeting OF the Woman's For
eign Missionary Society, OF Washing
ton PresbyterY. Several Wheeling
women figure on the programme. winch
included Thursday and Friday
A boy OF vicious makeup. who ought
to be prosecuted. threw a base ball al
Evangelist Randall yesterday after
noon, while he was reading the Gospel
on Main street The bah struck me
veteran evangelist on the arm with
The boy escaped.
Official notice has been received that
the first semi-annuRl inspection Of
Company A. First Infantry, West
Virginia National Guard. will be on
Thursday evening, April u. Lieutenant
Colonel Charles N. Slmms, Second In
fantry, West Virginia National Guard,
is the inspection officer
The state conciave of the Knights
Templar is to be held in Fairmont, May
8, and Cyrcne CommandcFv No. Z. OF
Wheeling, Is making extensive prepara-
tons to attend in body. The commits
Tee in charge has engaged Heatherlng-
toms band, of Bellaire. to accompany
the knights, and the indications are for
a large turnout. Members Intending to
make the trip are requested to inform
the secretary Of the committee, Mr..
John T. Rankin
Right Rev. w. L. Gravatt, OF Charles
Town bishop coadjutor of the Eplsco-
pal diocese OF West Virginia, makes his
first official visit to Wheeling to-day.
Tonight he breaches at St Luke's p.
E. church, Island, and after the SER
vice there will be an informal recep-
ton in honor of the distinguished cier-
gyman. on Sunday Bishop Gravatt
will officlate at communion services, at
ST. Matthew's in the morning, and at
St Luke's In the evening.
The MoundsviIle Daily Herald Inns the
following complimentary notice OF q
Wheeling merchant: Frank Stanton,
stationery merchant, had added to the
prison library two hundred volumes Of
valuable books, in addition TO his for
mer donation OF one hundred. Mr..
Stanton is certainly prompted by a
commendRhle and humanitarian spirit,
and to him the gratitude Of Warden
Hawk and the prisoners are extended
for his munificent gifts.
The lecture OF John P. d. John, D. D..
LII D., OF Indiana, al Chapline street
NJ. E. church last night, was greatly APP
Ttreciated by the audience. and the lee
turers praises were on the lips Of all
fortunate enough to have been present.
DR.. John spoke on The Worth OF a
Man" and tonight he will give the con-
Guiding lecture. Did God Make Man,
or Did Man Make God?' said 10 be a
mastery disposition OF the principal
agnostic theories, and no doubt It will
be heard by a large audience.
The death occurred yesterday after
noon at Baltimore, OF Benjamin +. Lit
W. SUI " hAAS btANN 4hhhttAt AaitttGt Va
this city. The deceased who left
Wheeling about thirty years ago, was
in the wholesale grocery business In
Baltimore, and he was IS years OF age.
He Is survived by a wife and three
daughters, The half-brother and Sis
tiers. respectively, of the deceased are:
Thomas A. Little, Mrs. T. c. Burke and
Miss Almlra Little. OF this city Mr.
Little Will be inferred in Baltimore.
Black Prince Lodge No, 10, Knights
OF PyihIas. Initiated fifteen applicants
into the first degree last night; there
win be sixteen for the second degree
next Thursday and eighteen for the
third degree on the following Thursday.
on the latter occasion the lodge will en-
terrain a number Of the brethren from
Steubenvills. Toronto. Martins Ferry,
BellaIre and other Ohio-side towns
Black Prince, already the largest Pytk-
ian lodge in the state, Is enjoying
membership boom. It's working team Is
conceded to rank among the best four
teams In the world,