Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-06
WASHINGTON.

, WASHINGTON, Pa. May 5.-The
students mock national convention
held at the college gymnasium on Tues
day evening was a great success. Will
| liam Mckinley was nominated for
President, and Ernest f. Aeheson, of
this place, for Vice President. The
parade, representing every State and
territory in the Union was over a
mile long, and was a very creditable
one.
Rev. Campbell Jobes, of Claysville,
was a Washington visitor on Thurs
day.
Criminal Court will convene on Mon
day next. with Judges McIlvain ard
Taylor on the bench.
W. S. Campbell, ex-prothonotary, is
visiting relatives at Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa.
Rev. ]. A. Alexander is at Bellaire,
assisting Rev. C. P. Proudft in special
services.
Congressman Acheson spent part of
this week. at his home here.
William Waugh, compositor at the
Observer office, returned on Thurs
day from visit to his daughter at
Montreal, Canada.
The firm of Gardner & Bumgarner
contracting carpenters, has beeen dis
solved.
Miss Winnie Baker, a nurse at the
West Penn Hospital, Allegheny, spent
Wednesday at her home at this place.
o. G. Perrill, the new ticket agent
at the Pennsylvania station, has moved
his family from Coshocton, O., to this
place.
'Humpty Dumpty'' will be the at
traction at the Opera House On Monday
evening
Mrs. o. ]. Dickson has returned from
visit to friends at Cleveland, o.
Constable John Hughes, of Stockdale,
was in town Thursday.
Col. VIM. p. Tyler, president of the
Tyler Tube and Pipe Company, on
Wednesday presented the Tylerdale
school with a handsome new piano,
which gift was greatly appreciated by
both teachers and pupils.
The union carpenters of Washington
went out on a strike on Tuesday be-
cause their demand for higher wages
had been refused by the contractors
1t is likely that the matter will be ar
ranged satisfactory to all parties in
few days. About $50 men quit work.
Mrs. Mary A. Doyle is visiting
friends at st. Clairsville.
The most sensational wedding that
has occurred in Washington for many
years was solemnized by Squire Pres
ton Berry on Monday evening at the
home of the bride, 334 Addison street.
The contracting parties were Miss An
ME B. Logan, daughter of Abner Lo-
gan, well known citizen of this place,
and Robert Hughes, of Fairmont, W.
Va. The story of the courtship and
marriage of the couple savors much
OF the romantic. Mr.. Hughes is a
prominent farmer of Fairmont. He is
n years old and served through the
Civil War as a member of the Sixth
West Virginia Volunteers, and is a
member of the G. A. r. The bride is well
known here, and is just % years of age.
The couple had never met until Mon
day afternoon, although Mr.. Hughes
says he has heard of the young lady,
and had come to Washington to see
her. 1t was a case of love at first
sight, and the marriage ceremony
was performed within three hours after
they first met. Mr. Hughes expects
to stay week or two in town, and
then will return to his West Virginia
home with his blushing bride. The
happy couple were serenaded by a
crowd of at least five hundred people
after the wedding had taken place.
whereupon the house was thrown open
and all were allowed to pass through
and congratulate the newly welded
couple.