Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-21

Ohio River Road. Parker Council of
Ladies of the G. A. II. will also send
representatives to the encampment.
The work of razing the old Blum
residence on the west side of Jacob
street, below Ihirty-sixth, preparatory
to the erection of a new business block,
will commence Monday. The improve
ments VIII be pushed as rapidly as pos
sible. and will cost when completed
about $4,000.
Capt. Carl Reichmann, Of the local
recruiting station, stated yesterday
that in answer to his circulars and pos
tai cards sent to the vicinity of Weston,
he had received quite a number of APP
plications for enlistment into the army.
He will cave on the Sth TO examine
and enlist the men.
Yesterday a number of vehicles be-
came stuck in the mud in attempting
to ford Boggs run. In. one instance a
horse was swept from its feet by the
current in attempting to dislodge a
wagon that had become fast, and the
horse was saved from drowning only by
the narroHest margin.
Upon papers sent from Wood coun-
ty by Mr.. V. B. Archer, attorney for
the plaintiff in the suit of Lysander
Dudley against the Chicago Milwaukee
& st. Faul Railway Co., Sheriff w. w.
irwin has levied upon three box cars
owned by the defendant company. The
cars were on the Terminal tracks. and
have been taken to the La Belle yards.
The West Virginia State Fair As
ISOLATION is preparing a special prem
lum list for the dog show, which will
supplement the regular premium list
which is now being sent out. The AS
ISOLATION is now a member of the
American Kennel Club, and the dog
show promises to be a very attractive
feature of the fair during the coming
September.
The stockholders of the Wheeling
Development Company met Friday
night, and transacted considerable bus
mess in connection with the company's
tract of suburban Land at Norfolk. Va.
IL lies two miles from the business CEN
ter OF the city. 1t is to be laid out in
lots, and the stockholders are consid-
ering names to be given to some of the
new streets.
ALBERT Young, a twelve-year-old
son or Mrs. May Young, of Eleventh
street, was painfully burned at the cor
rugatlng WORKS yesterday morning. At
the request of an employee, he threw the
contents OF an oil can into one of the
heating stoves to start the fire. The
blaze flashed out and badly burned one
side OF his face. DR.. Hildreth rendered
the necessary medical aid.
Detective Mcdonald yesterday aft
ernoon arrested a man giving his name
as Harry Bedford, and his residence as
P~ittsburg, for selling jewelry. A new
brass ring was found upon his person,
Dut nothing else. The police also got
after two confederates of Bedford, but
could not locate them. At the matt
nee session of police court Bedford was
sent to the hill for sixty days.
The King Dramatic COMPANY.
which has been playing all week at the
Grand, is booked for the coming week
in Bellaire, but may have some trouble
in reaching there on o OF the
flood. Yesterday a lot of scenery was
II -. VI. 1uGIN WAS
a 80 foot baggage car to receive it. and
as some OF the drop curtains are 40
feet long, it could not be taken.
Somebody sat down to supper yes
terday evening very much disappointed
or we miss u guess badly. The cause
thereof was one of those p~asteboard
reservoirs, containing a quart of oys-
tiers, suddenly letting go at the handle
at the Main and Tenth street crossing
AS the bivalyes could not remain in
the vessel after such a jar, they affec-
tlonately surrounded it, forming a very
unique circle Of about a foot in diane
ter.
Mozart Park is being prepared for
the opening which is to take place on
May 9th. The incline has been com
pietely overhauled and a new cable add
cd. The summer bowling league will
likely be inaugurated shortly after the
opening of the park. Seven clubs are
assured, but tie only stumbling block
is the K. K. K. bowling club. which
refuses to accept the terms of the Park
Association and the 80 members will
not likely take part in the summer fes-
t~ivities.
Yesterday a number of slides oc-
CURED along the hill back of Benwood
but none of them were of great conse-
quence. In several instances though.
the earth swept trees of considerable
size down before it. One slide, that at
traeted much attention, was opposite
the north end Of the Riverside plant.
The slide started at the very crest of
the hill and came down onto the pike.
covering it two inches deep with mud.
of about the consistency of molasses.
The slide could be traced it's entire
course down the hill by a streak OF the
yellow clay that had been exposed.
A Cincinnati paper publishes a splen-
did two-column half tone likeness of
Edmund A. Yahn, formerly of this city.
n praises him highly In connection
with the announcement that he will be
the soloist for the closing symphony
concert. The notice says. Edmund
j. Yabn will be the soloist. and being a
Cincinnati product musically, needs but
little introduction to local audiences.
lie Is. however, a West Virginian by
birth. and OF German ~parentage. In
1882 he came to Cincinnati, beginning his
studies with Prof. ". S. Sterling. Nat
ural ability aided him in making rapid
progress, and upon graduating in IS he