Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-02
NEWS NOTES OF YESTERDAY.

A Collection OF the Small Events Of
Each Passing Day.
"A plain drunk was run in by Chief
Clemans last night
The Ohio County Criminal Court
will be in session this morning.
The official board Of the First
Christian Church win hold a meeting
tomorrow evening.
w. r. Cooey and family have NOV
ed from South Jacob street to Eoff
street, below Thirty-eighth.
The congregation of the First Uni
ted Presbyterian Church will hold its
annual meeting next Wednesday even
ing.
A meeting Of the stockholders of
the Wheeling Wall Plaster Company
will be held Wednesday evening in
room II Reilly building.
There is a hole on Main street at
Alley 8, east side, from the street car
track to the curb, which should be at
tended to by the authorities.
A large portion of the ground on
South Jacob street, where excavations
have been made for the new ]. G. Beck
building, caved in yesterday.
The members Of Washington Coun-
Gil No. /, O. U. A. NJ, will give an en-
tertainment at their hall on South
Chapline street this evening.
The new machine shop of the Nat
ural Gas Company of West Virginia on
Sixteenth street, will probably be
ready for occupancy by May LIST.
F. w. Jiinke has announced him
self as a candidate for County Commits
sioner from Webster district, subject
to the decision of the Democratic pri-
maries.
W. L. Bundick. the temperance
orator, spoke at the Chapline Street
NJ. e. Church yesterday morning and
at the Thomson NJ. e. Church last
evening.
Yesterday was an ideal spring day,
and more people were on the streets
than upon any day in several months.
The street railway patronage was ex-
c~eptiona1ly good.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
Board of County Commissioners will
be held this morning. The annual ap-
preparation ordinance is not ready, and
it's consideration will have to be defer
red until a future meeting.
-Prestley Matthews, who has been
confined to the City Hospital, suffering
from a knife wound, which he sustain
ed in a fight recently, was able to be
removed in the ambulance to his home
at Benwood yesterday afternoon.
The Woman's Musical Club will
give a recital this afternoon at Odd
Fellows Hall. The programme, which
was printed in full in yesterdays Reg
lister, is an excellent n and gives
promise of furnishing all who attend
with a real musical treat.
The young mems meeting at the
Y. M. C. A. building yesterday after
noon at four O'Clock was well attend
ed. A very thoughtful address was
given by the Rev. David w. Howard,
of st. Matthews P. E. Church, and
some excellent music was rendered.
Walter Balzell, who was killed by
the Intelligencer, arrived home from
Pittsburg yesterday, showing no mark
to indicate where the cruel wheels of
the B. & o. freight passed over his
body and "cut it in twain" He has
accepted a position at Gavin's res
taurant.
Squire J. w. Schultze has in his
possession a rather old document. 1t
is a printed contract submitted by the
city of Wheeling to the citizens of
South Wheeling offering certain prom
ises, including gas and water, with a
view of bringing about annexation of
the two places. The contract bears the
date of 1870.
Edmund Randall, the street evang-
elist read Scripture from the North
End to the creek for three hours yes
terday. and in the afternoon conducted
a service at the Second ward market
house, which he says was very success
full, one man who had been drunk for
six years giving his experience and
protesting conversion.
The funeral of the late John J.
Redeker will take place from the res
idence of his parents on South Main
street tomorrow morning at S:45
o'clock. There will be requiem mass
at st. A%lphonsus Church at 8 o'clock
and the remains will be taken later to
Mt. Calvary cemetery for interment.
The Young Mems Society of the church
with which Mr.. Redeker was associa-
ted, will attend the obsequies.
The remains Of Mrs. Chas.
Otte, whose death at Moselle, Mo-, has
beer noted in these columns, arrived
here last night. accompanied by the
husband and two SOM of the deceased.
The funeral will take place Tuesday
afternoon at two o'clock, from the res
idence of the deceased's son, George S.
Otte, No. 1886 Eoff street. The inter-
ment will be private at Greenwood
cemetery.