The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-30

PERSONS changing their place OF
residence April will confer favor
BY notifying the Intelligencer ONCE,
SO they may get their favortte paper
without interruption.
opera House to-night-"The Dairy
Farm"
Grand this evenlng-Macauley-Pat-
ton company.
The board OF county commissioners
committee on finance met yesterday AZ
ternoon and audited bills.
Rev. John McCue will hold a series
of meetings at the Bethel Mission
10 Twentieth street, beginning tonight.
All are invited.
A marriage license was issued yester-
day, by Clerk Robertson, to John a.
Fife, aged twenty-sevcn. and Abbie Z:
Melville, aged twenty-five. OF Fife OF
Ohio.
In another column, Postmaster Wise
advertlses for bids for furnishing the
government building with fuel. lights.
water. Ice, etc. Bids will close April
20 at 2 p. m.
Yesterday was visitors day at Ritch-
le school. The pupils made O fine eXhi-
bitlon of their school work. To-day a
similar exhibition will be given at the
Richie annex.
The criminal court was not in session
Yesterday. Next Monday the trial OF
Sam Miller. charged with robbing w.
II. Anderson. OF Harrisviiie, Ohio. Of
$S4. will be on.
An oil lease from E. R. and G. A.
White to the Short Creek OIL & Gas
Company, for lis acres in Liberty dis
trict, was recorded yesterday In Clerk
Robertson's office.
The snow retarded traffic to a slight
extent on the Benwood line OF the
Wheeling Railway Company yesterday.
but everything worked smoothly after
the snow plow was given n whirl.
Centre school children entertained
with a Ene programme of exercises
yesterday afternoon, and Visitors
day" will be observed this afternoon at
Webster school and the high school.
There will likely be large congrega-
tlon at st. LuEe's p. z. church this
evening, to hear the sermon by Arch :
deacon b. NJ. Spur, Of Moundsville,
Rev. Mr.. Spur is an earnest and In.
terestlns speaker.
Yesterday, at Grafton, Pa, occurred
the death OF Mrs. A B. Daily, ST., in the
seventy fourth year Of her age. The
deceased was the mother Of Mr.. A. b.
Daily. jr., general manager OF the
Wheeling Natural Gas Company
officer James Larkins earned the
gratitude OF Market street peGestrians
yesterday. for the service he rendered
in removing the snow and slush from
the Fourteenth street crossing, from
90 p InRVsVVI Rn'd He
handled the shovel like veteran.
subpoenas were issued yesterday for
the witnesses In the case Of state VS.,
Mooney and Friday, charged with the
murder OF James Hervey, near Elm
Grove recently. Twenty-Five witnesses
are called. The trial opens April 8, and
will attract general attention through
out the community.
Yesterday afternoon, from the resi-
denCe OF Mr.. L. ]. Bayha, South Broad
way, Island, occurred the funeral OF
his son, G. Eugene Bayha, who died
this week in New York. The services
were conducted by Rev. Samuel
| Schwarm, OF the First English Luth-
| eran church. There was n large at
tendance Of friends Of the family. The
| interment was private.
The many warm friends in this city
OF Mr.. Edgar r. Stewart, Of Morgan
town, are greatly interested in the
race ne is making for the Republican
nomination for prosecuting attorney of
MonOngalia county. Mr.. Stewart pos
sesses three things his friends are
banking on him ms a winner-energy.
| ability and ambition. His legal quail
acations are beyond question.
Next Monday will open bright for
several trades, owing to the Increase of
| wages which goes into effect on that
day. The tin workers will be benefited
to the extent Of per cent advance,
the house painters viii get SO per day,
Instead OF 81 10. and the carpenters
| 10 to work under n new scale, which
stIpulates that the average wages OF
4 their craft shall be 81 30 a day; pre-
viously 1t was all the way from 81 10 to
| 81 %. a pleasing feature about the i'm
proved situation is that II WIS brought
about without any clash, except In the
| case Of the painters. who were on strike
| for the brief space OF two days. The
| advance to the tin workers Is due to the
| increase in the selling price Of the pro-
duct. by which their scale is governed.