Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-07
NEWS NOTES Or YESTERDAY.


back in service.
| The Council Committee on Ac-
counts is called for Friday evening.
i The docket will be called in the
Criminal Court, Judge Hugus, this
morning.
One deed of trust was admitted
to record at Clerk Robertson's office,
yesterday.
The Dewey Day finance committee
report enough cash on hand to liqui-
date all bills.
Whist score cards, in any quantity,
for sale at West Virginia Printing
Company's Office
The Wheeling pilgrims who at
tended the Mardi Gras at New Orleans
are homeward bound.
I'm the Circuit Court. yesterday,
there was an order of sale in the case
of A. G. Hadlicn v. L. w. Barr.
The Senate has passed the bill ap-
! propriating 100000 for site and new
government building in this city.
The citizens of Charles street COM
plain about the garbage collector not
being on that street for three weeks.
The work of tearing down the old
building of Stone & Thomas to make
way for the new structure, is progress
sing rapidly.
The members of all K. of P. lodges
| are requested to meet at the room of
| Wheeling lodge No. ia, l. 0. O. F.
hall, this evening.
| There was a big push of Republi-
can politicians at the City Hall yes
terday morning, a result of the COM
mittee meeting Monday evening.
The sign of the Swift Beef Com
pany, on the new building, at Eoff and
! Sixteenth streets, is the handsomest
thing. Of the kind ever seen in Wheel
| ing.
The c. M. Oliver machine shop
plant has been sold to the Centre
Foundry Company, and the machinery
will be removed to South Main street
| shortly
The funeral of the late George A.
| King will take place from his late res
| iderce, No. 500 National road, at 2
| o'clock this afternoon. The interment
| will be at Mt. Wood.
George Garrison, of Park View,
was fined S. and costs by Justice Fitz-
| patrick for an assault committed on
| Mary Shilling, his step-daughter. He
was also fined 81 and costs for disor-
derby conduct.
The Wheeling Turner's have elect
ed w. A. .Schambra and John NJ
| Schenk as delegates to the district
convention at Pittsburg, April 7th
The alternates are Joseph Weisgerber
and Martin Ruggaber.
| "A musical and literary entertain
| ment, including a one-act farce-com-
edy, will be given under the auspices
! of the Mullen Division and Ladies'
Auxiliary, A. o. H., at st. Mary's hall
on the evening of the 18th inst.
Onsinquiring by phone at the City
Hospital at a late hour it was learned
| that Eugene st. Myers, who was badly
injured by an accident on the PAN
| Handle road, was in precarious con-
dHfon and was not expected Live.
| through the night.
Lawrence Williams, a Wheeling
travelling man, is in Jail at st. Glars
Vile, in default of $500 bail, charged
| with assaulting Mitchell Zimmerman,
an employee of a livery stable, with in
| tent to kill. Too much Belmont coun-
| ty booze appears to be the trouble.
1t is reported that the gross re-
| ceipts from the Loan Exhibition
| amounted to $3.50, less than half
what was expected, and what was de-
| served, considering the amount Of
time, trouble and labor the several
| committees expended On making it
| a success.
| The Belmont County Commission
ers have granted franchise to the
| Belmont Telephone Company, an in
| dependent company which is going af-
| ter rights and privileges in all the
Belmont county towns. The Erie Com
pany has reached Steubenville, and is
coming south.
"A series of evangelistic meetings
is in progress at the United Presby-
terrain Church. Rev. J. w. Martin, of
| Millersburg, Ohio, is assisting the
pastor, Rev. ]. H. Littell The meet
| ings are largely attended and the
| preaching is with power. The time
Of service each evening is 7:45 o'clock.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
st. Johns Church have arranged on
an elaborate scale for an entertain
ment, to be given in the lecture room
| of the church tomorrow evening. An
! admission fee will be charged and
| each person attending will be obliged
! to give a penny for each year of his
! age.
| Information has been received here
of the death at San Jose, CAL, on Feb
ruary 18th, of Miss Rebecca Harris, in
the fifty-second year of her age. Miss
Harris was a native of Ohio county.
and had many friends among the older
residents of the city. The remains
were buried in Oak Hill cemetery at
| San Jose.
The lady managers of the Kings
| Daughters Day Nursery will meet
next Friday afternoon to decide upon
a day to be known as rubber day. for
the benefit of the institution. Their
plan is TO secured as much old rubber
of every description as possible and
sell it to firm that is DESTROYS of
| buying such material.
| The news of the death of Will H.