Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-04
SISTERSvILLE.

special meeting of the City Council
held last evening to elect new officers
for the nesuing year, were indicted in
to Office The old Council held a short
session, during which the new officials
were sworn into Office, after which the
new administration took hold OF af-
| fairs. Practically the only thing done
( by the new administrator was to ap-
point the new police force, which is
! composed of John Ritz. chief. and
Thos. Williams and John Reedy, as
patrolmen. Some routine matters
were considered and disposed of after
which the meeting was adjourned un-
til Wednesday evening, the regular
weekly meeting night.
| Mr.. and Mrs P. ii. Gaffney, who
have been at Parkersburg for several
days, where they were called by the
death a few days ago Of the mother of
| Mrs Gaffney, returned to the city this
afternoon.
! Frank Dinger, a well known black
smith of this city, who has been IN
] the employ of several OF the shops
here, left last evening for California,
where he will enter the employ OF a
| firm which will manufacture oil we'll
| tools. During the past week or ten
| days there have been quite a large
| number of blacksmiths and machin-
lists left here for the California fields,
where they will go to work.
George Mccoy, the well known at
! torney of this city, who has been
spending the winter in the southwest
ern States, principally in Iexas. re-
| turned to the city a few days ago,
much improved in health. Mr.. Mccoy
will remain in this city during the
summer and next winter Will again
! leave for the Southwest. His health
/ has been very bad for the past couple
Of years and he cannot stand the rlsor
of the climate of this section.
Mrs. T. r. Cowell, of Hill street, who
went to Wheeling yesterday witn her
sister-in-law, Mrs. Bradley Barbour,
who was taken to the North Wheeling
Hospital suffering with a severe at
tack of typhoid fever, returned TO the
city last evening.
Miss Minnie Ingersoll, of the South
Side, who has been attending the
Notre Dame Seminary in Indiana dur
ing the past four of five months, has
returned to the city and will be the
guest of relatives and friends here for
a short time.
w. G. Agnew, secretary and treas
urer of the Milliken & French Torpedo
Company, who sustained a severe
sprain of the right. leg while at Hot
Springs a couple of weeks ago, and
who has been confined to his room
since, was able to be about yesterday
and in a few days will be sufficiently
recovered to come up town.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Morrison, of Main
and Elizabeth streets, left this after
noon for Wheeling, where they will be
the guests of relatives and friends for
short time.
Pirl Jarvis, who has been at Clarks-
burg and West Union for month or
six weeks, where he is drilling couple
of wells arrived in the city this after
noon and will remain here for rev
days looking after some business mat
| tiers and calling on friends.
| Mr. and Mrs. George Hockinberry,
who have been in the Haskins Hospital
at Wheeling for month or six weeks
undergoing treatment, have returned
| to the city.
Mrs. George Neill, of Virginia street,
| is reported i'll.
Will Kinney, prominent attache of
the Carter Oil Company, who has been
out in the vicinity of Clarksburg and
! Weston for several weeks, where he
has been laying new pipe line for the
company, arrived in the city this
will ho hn of
parents here for short time before
going out again.
Charles B. Mccoy, of the North End,
returned Saturday night from Detroit,
Mich, where he has been for several
| days attending to some business mat
| ters While away Mr.. Mccoy, as agent,
closed a deal for a handsome steam
| launch which will arrive here about
May list. The boat will be used for
| the purpose of running excursions out
of the city during the summer, and
it will be the finest boat of its size
| and kind on the upper Ohio river.
Miss Nellie Henderson, of Wells
street, left yesterday for New Martins
vile, where she will be the guest of
her sister, Mrs. E. E. Eisenbarth for
few days.
MISS Anna ID. Evans d piOihlHSnI
young lady of Pomeroy, has accepted
the position of stenographer in the law
office of Gregory & Randolph.
Capt A C. Crawford, formerly of
hte steamer Ruth, who has been living
! here for some time, has gone to Pitts
burg, where he will make his future
home with his son. Mrs. Crawford
accompanied him.
Miss Mary McCaulley Waller, of
Martinsville, Va, is the guest OF Mr..
and Mrs A. Bruce Hunt, of the South
Side.
| Mrs. Sills is sick.
Rev. Father Boice, pastor of the
Church of the Holy Rosary, OF this
city, has established mission al ST.
Mary's.
Mrs. Emma Barbour is very i'll of
| typhoid fever.
| The Mckinney, Mark Hanna and