Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-07
HAPPENINGS OF ADAY
GIVEN IN BRIEF SPACE.

-Four more days of the discount
period in the city gas office.
The sporting editor of the Register
has letter for G. S. Hopkins, addressed
in his care.
DR. E. c. Armbrecht has removed
into his new residence, which was re-
Gently completed.
Yesterday the B. & O. extended the
platform of their new depot about fifty
feet further south.
The workhouse gang was engaged
yesterday in cleaning the corridors in
the city hall.
Che Linsly field day will occur this
year ON the 31st of the month, on the
Fair grounds.
The Board of Public Works had
force of men at work yesterday clean
ang South Jacob street.
"A large party of Wheeling Shriners
leave to-day to attend the initiatory
services at Martinsburg.
Yesterday a handsome likeness of
Mr. VIM Dillingham; was placed on ex-
hibition in the Hub window.
The tool house on the Peninsula
was broken open Saturday or Sunday
night, and rifiea of its contents.
The Ohio Valley Prohibition Club
held its regular meeting last night in
w. C. r. U. hall on Market street.
The recital by pupils of Ricardo
Ricci at Arien hall this evening, prom
Uses to be a genuine musical treat
An incipient blaze in the Royal
Blue Cafe Sunday night was extin-
guished before doing any damage.
There. is on exhibition in Stifel &
Co. 8 window handsome life-size pic
ture of T. w. Bliss the veteran Mason.
Last evening the Woman's Relief
Corps held a meeting at their hall on
the South Side and transacted routine
business.
COMMITTEES in charge of various
phases of the street Carnival work, are
actively engaged in mapping out and
perfecting their plans.
An ice cream social is to be given
by Harmony Council No. 10, D. OF A,
at l. o. o. F. hall Thursday evening,
May 9Th.
In another column the flower COM
mittee of the Carnival celebration adj
vertises for 500 bushels Of paper flow-
ers
james Laughlin, an employee of the
Terminal, had his left hand badly
mashed Saturday night, while working
about the yard engine.
There were six drunks and disor-
derlies in Police Court yesterday, in
addition to the cases growing out of
the Saturday night raids in alley c.
&C. II. Miller, OF the sheet iron
works, wishes it stated that he is not
the Miller who signed the petition to
grant the fake hotels a license.
Yesterday the city had force of
men at work on Twenty-ninth street,
filling it with refuse from the Wheel
ang pottery, and improving the drain.
The Niagara engine company yes
terday pumped out the cellars of the
houses on South Main street, below
Twenty-third, owned by Mrs. Franzell.
Typographical Union No. 70 will
hold called meeting this afternoon at
4:30 o'clock to take action for the re-
lief of printers in the fire at Jackson
villa. Fla.
Sheriff w. W. Irwin tells an inter
esting story about stream near Mar
tinsburg that flows up hill. Clerk T. G.
Meffat furnishes an explanatory version
of the tale.
j. c. Strobel has broken ground for
six new dwelling houses to be erected
On Twenty-ninth street on the site for
merly occupied by the old Caldwell
homestead.
Thursday evening E. M. Stephens
Corps, g. A. r., will meet in the A. o.
u. W. hall at Thirty street, and
Decoration Day.
The Mozart Singing Society, of the
South Side, is making arrangements for
their annual excursion to Cleveland on
the 9Th of next month. The train will
leave the city at Z o'clock in the morn
ing and will go via the W. & L. E.
"A new carpet has been placed on the
floor of the private Office of the Chief of
Police. The railing in the front office
has been moved forward and hereafter
all the ordinary business will be trans
acted in the front Office.
The unusual sight of man riding