Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-03

HAPPENINGS or
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GIVEN IN BRIEF SPACE.

Board of Trade, and Chief of Police
John S. Ritz will enter upon the CAM
paign for capturing the 1902 conven-
ton of the Amalgamation. Both will
be in Milwaukee this morning.
"A new record of internal revenue
made during the month of May. The
total was $106, 1925 !. The previous re-
cord month was October Of 1900, when
the aggregate of the collections was
$102, O66. 65.
The New York Journal devotes an
entire page of it's Sunday edition to an
illustrated article Of the solitary guest
at E. M. Statler's hotel in Buffalo, the
largest in the world. 1t relates the ex-
periences of the first guest in a humor-
GUS vein.
The revised school enumeration of
the city shows a better state OF affairs
than the first census, which was very
unsatisfactory to the Board of Educa-
ton. The new figures show the total
population to be 80, 70e, and the school
population 1897.
Yesterday afternoon at 2 O'Clock,
from his home on South Market street,
occurred the funeral of John Mulvey,
who was killed at the old court house
Thursday. Services were conducted at
the St. Joseph's Cathedral and the in
terment was at Mt. Cavalry.
Yesterday the parks had the largest
Sunday attendance Of the season. There
were. a great many strangers in the
city, and all or nearly all visited the
different resorts. The band concerts by
the Opera House and Meister's bands
were excellent, and were greatly ap-
preciated by the patrons.
The trouble between the girls, some
eighty-two in number, and the man
agement of the, McMechen Preserving
Company has been satisfactorily ar
ranged, and the plant will resume this
morning. During the strike extensive
improvements and repairs were made
to the plant.
AT two o'clock this morning
Roundsman Humes arrested Gus Sohler
and joseph Blues in Ed. Michaels' sa-
loon, on Water street, 1t seems that
the two. men had been visiting various
saloons on that street ordering drinks
and then refusing to pay for them. They
will be given a hearing this morning.
Yesterday afternoon a young man
and lady were driving towards Triadel-
phia in a single horse buggy, when the
horse became frightened and ran of.
The young lady was thrown from the
buggy and received several bad bruises.
The buggy was destroyed, and the
horse received several bad scratches. 1t
belonged to Dumas, the Market street
liveryman.
The seventy-sixth commencement
of Franklin College at New Athens, O.,
will occur June 26th. There will be
twenty-one graduates this season, and
it should be of great interest to many
in this vicinity to know that the bac-
caIaureate sermon will be delivered on
June 23d; address to literary society
June oath, and class exercises June 25th.
The New Athens Opera House band will
furnish the music.
Tonight at the Wheeling Park Ca
sine, the Grand Army Band, of Canton,
will give a concert, followed by dane
Ing Inc aHalr was arranged anu Will
be under the management Of Prof. Geo.
Delbrugge. The band has been heard
before in Wheeling, and is a favorite
musical organization in this city. The
programme to be rendered has been
published in the Register.
Yesterday, at one of the Polish res
licences near the Belmont mill, occurred
a christening and If WAS one of the
biggest events of that kind ever given
in that end of town. Dancing was en-
joyed until late in the night, and during
the day forty loaves of bread, one and
a half Sweitzer cheeses, n lamb, one
salt and six kegs of beer were con-
sumed. The affair was very largely at
tended.