Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-04-29

ne people eeneTaIly look upon This
with favor.
The Republicans hold their county
convention june and primaries May
81.
Lynn Osborn has been commissioned
second lieutenant and has charge of
Company K, of the National Guard.
He secured eight recruits a few days
ago. The company will be thoroughly
reorganized.
Our people were glad to learn the
fallacy of the report spread here of his
death in Washington City Latest adj
vices from his bedside say his health
is much improved. His ailment is
muscular rheumatism.
The Wallace oil well gusher is a
marvel and a veritable gold mine.
John B. Whitman has a one-sixteenth
interest, from which he derived 1882. rs
in twenty-seven days, or at the rate
of $1S,6S5.97 a year. 1t averages 440
barrels day.
James Bailey, Esq, aged IS years,
died Sunday. He was an honorable,
upright man, widely and fayorably
known throughout this section.
Nelson Armstrong, Of Butler, Pa,
aged AZ years, and unmarried, filled
up on Wolf Summit oil field booze"
a train send him off into eternity.
Railroad Conductor John K. Hurst,
who was killed at Grafton by falling
from train, was an employee In the
yards here last summer, where he
made many friends who were sorry
to hear of his untimely death.
Madam Dowd wears a gloomy look
and thinks of the governor with many
sigh He sent her word that she
must serve her sentence out, as he
could do nothing for her.
John W. Davis will address the
State Bankers Association at Graf
ton on the Uniformity of Law on
Negotiable Paper"
A thief robbed Colonel Luther Hay
mond's stable of his family horse.
The animal was recovered, but not
the thief.
The people are with Roy Randolph
in his trouble in the United States
court, but there's no telling what
Uncle Sam will do with him. He is
indicted for tampering with mail in
his postal car.
The application for Vale Bough-
mans pardon is in the hands of the
board of pardons. They are expected
to act within the next ten days
Colonel John Ross had a race horse
shipped from Ontario. A jockey
started with the animal. The horse
arrived all right, but the man showed
up my3teriously missing.
"Sanctification" will be Rev. Will
lam Anderson's subject at Goff chapel
this morning. 1t is an interesting
theme that the average man knows
very little about.
Former superintendent of City
Schools J. L. Corbly is mentioned as
a suitable successor to -President Ray
mond at the university.
The state Sunday school workers
think well of Rev. L. E. Peters and
reelected him president of the State
organization.
Rev. C. P. Marshall breaches this
morning the anniversary sermon at
the First Presbyterian church. The
organization is about half century
old.
Judge John Jackson has ordered a
resale of the Koon Marble Company
real estate, situated in Harrison, Bar
bour and Lewis counties. A creditor
complained of having no notice of the
former sale.
Clarksburg ladies are exercising an
unusual interest in municipal affairs,
and honor the council with their pres
ence and advice. They express them
selves as well pleased with the way
things are going.
The council has decided to sewer
and pave the business square of the
city this year without resortlng to a
bond issue.
The Short Line theater will be
closed after Mag /. The council re-
fused to license it.
The meaning of the term minerals"
is to be determined by a United States
justice. Hon. John Basel and w. P.
Hubbard, Esq, as counsel, have in
stituted a suit for that purpose. Two
hundred acres of fine oil territory is
involved Their claim is that the word
minerals" does not include oil and
gas This is the first case of the kind
in the Jurisprudence of West Vir-
ginia.
Mrs. James Elliott died in Johns
Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, Monday,
where she went to undergo an opera
ton for liver trouble. Her remains
were brought home for burial Thurs
Jay.
Mrs. Maria Knight, aged 6S years,
died at Mt. Glare this week.
Freight Engineer John Murray
saved a small child's life at Adamston
by stopping his train within few feet
of the little one, who was standing on
the track apparently unconscious Of
danger. He deserves a gold medal.
Visitors this week are: R. G. Linn.
Glenville; A. A. Crawford, Clearfield,
Fa.; 6. a. Young, Cumberland; J. T.
Carter, West Union; H. C. Bartlett,
Parkersburg; Miss Hall and Miss
koblegard, Weston.
Our people out of town are: c.. F.
Holden, Baltimore; Mr.. and Mrs. Blair
Virgia, Norfolk, Va; Miss Fannie
Stahy, Washington, D. c.; Squire
Camp, New York; Miss Alice Shain.
Smithton; c. l.. Hickman, Fairmont:
Major A. c. Moore, Moundsville; Mr..
and Mrs. John S. Ruhl. Springfield,
Ohio.
The Grand has an orchestra COM
posed of home people. They show
much talent.
Judge Edwin Maxwell is in Parkers-
burg.