The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-14
BEI1A1RE HAPPENINGS.
Matters Of Interest in the Metropolis
Of Relmnnt County.

Of Belmont County
The state council Of American Me-
chanics will meet here tomorrow. The
head officers VIII begin to arrive to-
day and VIII have headquarters at the
windsor hotel. There will be about
seventy delegates in attendance from
all parts of the state. and the first sea-
sion will be held tomorrow morning at
0 o'clock in G. A. R. hall. The election
Of officers will take place Wednesday.
That evening there will be public re-
ceptlon in the parlors of the hotel from
s to o'clock, The Mechanics band Will
furnish the music for the occasion. The
visitors will all be furnished with ad-
mission tickets for the cantata OF
Queen Esther" at the new opera
house, on Tuesday evening. The local
orders, through their committees. have
made all arrangements for hearty
welcome and pleasant entertainment
for all visiting members, They have
prepared badges and other distinguish
Ing roseates for the delegates and COM
mittees, and their fair in Armory hall
will be at its best.
lHt GOLIlIllklSE GCltNlNN " Ep0ubA[A
Post and the Woman's Relief Corps to
arrange q programme for Memorial
Day observance, have decided that
they will attend the First Methodist
Episcopal church on the morning Of the
9th, when Rev. DR.. Z. a. Slmons VIII
preach an appropriate sermon. On
May 80 both orders will meet at their
hall at Q a. M, and will march to the
cemetery, where the solemn ceremon-
les Of the post will be held and the
graves Of sleeping comrades will be
strewn with flowers by school children,
under the direction Of living comrades.
Prof. J. w. Liller VIII have charge Of
the music. H. c. Kemple will have
charge of the firing squad. In the at
ternoon at o'clock, the post, corps
and dii old soldiers, sailors and friends
will again assemble In the g. A. r. hall,
when an grafton will be delivered by
Rev. w. L. Fisher, Of the Christian
church.
There were three lost children in Bel
laire yesterday morning. but all were
fortunate in little while in being re-
stored to their parents. 1t was a
bright, beautiful morning and the little
tots wandered away until they were
finally taken in charge by strangers
hIIu buLUG VI kIlElIl lEu anu EulGA AOAR
while others were found by the parents,
who were quite as anxious us the little
ones. They had simply wandered far
Their away than they thought to.
The FIRE has been going under the
fifteen-ton tank at the BellniTe bottle
works for five or six days and so far
everything is going as nicely as could
be desired. There was slight sinking
at one part Of 1t, but 1t amounted 10
nothing and by next Monday twenty
one additional blowers will be put to
work, twice as many Us have been. 1t
will make wonderful increase in the
product Of this factory.
There was very creditable display
Of the Shield Of Honor In this city Sat
urday evening. They made short
march, headed by a brass band. and
held mass meeting quite late at the
corner Of Thirty-second and Union
streets, where n speakers stand hnd
been erected. There was u great turn
out and much enthusiasm manifested.
Mr.. mud Mrs. f. G. straub. OF Denver,
Col, arrived here Saturday evening,
and are stopping at the Globe. Mrs.
Straub was formerly Miss Katie Nc
Dermott, of this city, and after an alb
sence of fifteen years, she stopped off
with her husband while on their way
east to greet old friends by the score,
Mccain & Co. have contracted with
the National Steel Company TO furnish
stone for the building Of stone arches at
their new plant at MIngo. The two
plants are to be practically united and
large quantity OF building stone Will
be needed.
The ladies' Of the Shakespeare Club
will give an at home" TO NIL the mem
bers at the residence OF the Misses Mil
Ter, on Gravel hill, Thursday evening.
The club will suspend during the sum-
mer months.
John Kllgore. the man hurt by the
flying piece Of blasted Stag Mt the fur
naces, fingered until Saturday night
but he was never conscious. His skull
was badly fractured,
There was some evidences OF too
much booze upon the streets Saturday
evening, and q number OF weary will
les" were locked up.
DR.. A. c. Beetham Will leave in n
short time for New York, where he viii
take q special course for three months