Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-05-08


ter bad accident on the B. & O.
The musical numbers OF the Van
Dyke Eaton Company are very fine.
The sore arm racket is being used by
the small boy to stay home from school
1t is just lovely to ride ON the street
cars for about every jerk a car jumps
off,
The retail grocers held very inter-
esting meeting at their hall last even
ing.
The C. & p. have placed a sign near
the ferry float about the Buffalo
excursions.
R. " Price. of the voluntary relief
department of the G. G P. was in the
city yesterday.
Dr. Eddy will occupy three rooms in
the new Bippus building on Thirty
seventh street.
| Farmers state that this kind of
weather will bring spring fruits and
vegetables early.
Chas. Amble, OF Peasants county,
W. Va. is the guest of Geo. H. Muth
and wife. of Belmont street.
Several Bellaire druggists will go to
Wheeling to-day to attend the Wheel
ing Druggists Association.
Ed. Test and wife, of Columbus who
have been the guests of T. Meyers and
family, of Gravel Hill, have returned
home.
Mrs. j. A. briggs and Jas. Pierson
returned home from Woodsfield, where
they attended the funeral of ex-Mayor
Ways son.
The postofice department has mott
fed the farmers that if they wish free
delivery they will have to keep the
roads in good condition.
The owners of the hole back of the
! cut are getting it filled in and intend
to prosecute any one caught digging
drains for water to run in it.
Miss Jessie Pickett, of this city, who
Us learning to be trained nurse in
Wheeling, will leave in a few days for
New York to take another course.
Mrs. Greenwood, an aged lady of
Brooks Run, fell off the bridge there
the other night, quite seriously injur-
ing herself. She is in a very serious
condition.
Miss Bessie Lake entertained
friends at her home in the Fourth
ward last night in honor of her friend,
Miss Alva Campbell, of New Cumber-
land, Md.
Mrs. Switzerland, of Steubenville,
who died in Columbus, was brought
from Columbus yesterday to Steuben-
vile. She is related to Mrs. James La
of Rose HILL
The funeral of the late Frank Craw-
ford will occur this afternoon at 2
o'clock from his late residence on Bel
mont street. The interment will be at
Rose Hill cemetery.
A prominent baker on Gravel Hill
got on train at Woodsfield to get here
but he went TO the land of nod and did
not get out of his peaceful slumbers till
he got to Grafton. But he didn't have
to walk back home.
The Heatherington-E band gave
one of their delightful concerts in front
| of the Anderson and Exchange hotels.
They were advertising their coming
fair and festival, which will start on
May 80 lasting ten days.
The Pie Social given by the Ladies
of the Maccabees was a grand success
last night. The u. r. K. of P. band
was in attendance and owing to the
success of the affair will give a straw
berry social later in the season.
1t was rumored around town yester-
day that Dennis Noice, formerly of
Gravel h-.l, was shot in saloon brawl
at Moundsville, but it seems that, al
though as usual, Dennis was in the
scrap, he did not give up the ghost.
The fire department was called to
Rose Hill yesterday, where the house
| of NJ. Daugherty was on fire. The fire
burned the inside of the second story
very badly. The damage is estimated
at about $3.50 on the house besides the
furnishings.
Attorney Tallman went to st. Glars
vile this morning. He is the lawyer
! for Christian May, who is suing the
Wheeling Natural Gas Company for
damages. May fell into one OF the
holes left unguarded by the Wheeling
Gas Company.
The preliminary trial Of Robert Rob-
son, who is charged with the assault
on Miss Lizzie Bonneysteele on Satur-
day evening, was heard in Mayor
Presses court yesterday afternoon.
There was large crowd in attendance,
and the defendant had subpoenaed a
| number of witnesses in an effort to es-
| tablish an alibi. Fred Spriggs, Esq,
appeared for the prisoner, and James
c. Tallman, Esq, for the State. After
hearing the testimony, Mayor FTeese
reserved his decision until O'Clock
when another witness was heard and
gave his decision. He bound the pris-
oner over to the next term of court to
be held in next September, in the sum
of $500 bond