The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-01-18

BEILARE ITEMs.-At a quarter Pas5
10 Friday niRhtour citizens were aroused
Inv the cry Of ERE. 1t proved to DC .
tenement house belonging 70 Mr.. y. a;
Mooney, situated on the western part u
Gravel mi. Three tenement houses
were burned. One Of these houses was
occnpied bya widow lady and another BY
y colored family. The third house was
nnoccupied. Both FIRE companies we're
an hand a short time after the alarm was
given, and worked nobly until about .
o'clock in the morning, when the hre was
extipVuished. The loss was about wv
The families lost the greater part OF their
Goods, We understand the houses had
Seen insured but short time ago. Inc
origin Of the FIRE is not known,
The entertainment given Friday night
by the Bellaire Amateur Dramatic so
ciety at the School Hall was certainly q
fine afIpir, and the play was rendered in
an excellent manner. Each member
nerformed his part in a style difficult to
surpaH, The Hall was filled with one Of
the finest audiences We ever saw there,
and we doubt not every person present
spoke highly OF the entertainment.
The case Of the City rs, Anthony Sheets
came of before the Mayor Friday after
noon. Mr., Sheets was charged with not
having his pavement cleared OF snow Us
required by the ordinance, He was lined
S. and costs.
Mr.. I, w. Gardner has removed his
family 10 our city,
The new wharf Is not in such bad con;
dition after all. A few extra stamps and
some more extra engineering, and the
thing Ia done. So mote It be
The son Of A. Yaus, who died Friday
night, was buried yesterday. His death
was attributed to fright at the alarm Of
Are that night, he having been afflicted
with heart disease.
The Council appropriated $500 for the
poor Of our city, Now, Council, we Tor
get thine iniquities.
Billy Moore, the young man who was
badly hurt by falling of freight train
| in the b, & o. yard few nights since,
left the city for home yesterday, much
better. ... !,
Don't forget the "BGnefit for the Poor"
tomorrow night, by the B, A. D. A.
Mrs, McYay, wife Of James McVay, an
employe Of the b, & o. R, R, Co, Of this
city, was buried In the Bellaire cemetery
Friday, She died Thursday,
An opportunity was given to try the
new fire reels Friday night, and to use
the language Of one Of tho firemen, "they
The B. A, D. A. repeat their play at
the solicitation Of large number Of our
citizens in the School Hall tomorrow
night Their most laudable object Is
to give to the poor Of our city the pro-
ceedS Of the entertainment, 4,
Three accidents occurred Friday after.
noon In our city. A boy named squig'
gins had his arm broken while playing
around the school fence. His arm was
caught in the fence and broken. Ahorse
attached to a cart being driven by
Robert Sherry, ran away, throwing Mr..
Sherry out and seriously injuring him.
A team belonging to Mr.. Il Crozier be:
came frightened during the funeral Of
Mrs, McYay and ran away, breaking
the buggy and harness badly, but injur'
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com.
puny have filled their large Ice house
near the d. & o. shops with lake Ice,
Other Ice houses In the city are filled, or
nearly filled, with river ice.