The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-11

The Board OF Commissioner to-day.
The Fourteenth street cuts progressing
slowly.
A LARGE crowd visited the Peninsula
Cemetery yesterday.
Tng diphtheria still aflicts the children
In the Fourth Ward.
TnE North Wheeling Glass Co. are hay
ing their works repaired.
FRANK McADAM and young Linch re.
Gently escaped from the w%orknouse.
Trrg explosion oithe Iron Valley caused
great excitementtntheci city Saturday night.
A PORTION OF the wreck Of the steamer
Iron Valley ilOated down past thecity yes
terday.
OPpIcgR MrLLER arrested that noted
feminine Mollie Mclaughlin on Saturday
night for disorder.
TnE property Of Mr., h. johnson on
Main street, above Ninth, Is undergoing
some extensive improvements.
THE Robinson Glass Company will
shortly erect q new glass house in the
Eighth Ward on Wezel street.
TIE crafty VIII Moore, Of T~iltonville,
Ohio, took on q new pilot last week. lts
weight Is something like II pouads.
THE members OF the Bonanza Fishing
Club have returned home from the wilds
OF Monroe after several weeks absence.
ALARgE temperance meeting was held
In ParKer's Hall yesterday afternoon.
Good music and speakers were on hand
THR citizens OF the Fourth ward say
they are determined to break up the
house kept by Julia Chisel, in that ward
A LADoRER at the Crescent mill, whose
name we did not learn, had his hand bad
" hurt while repairing his furnace yester'
day.
SEVERAL interesting lectures by noted
Hebrew divines have been given In the
Synagogue, in this city, in tho last day OF
two.
MRs. KLEvIs, while in the Eighth Ward
u day or two since, was badly bitten by q
feroCious dog. officer Asmus shot the au'
imal.
TnR Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charles.
ton Railroad filed n $2,0OO,0OO mortgage at
Washington, Pa, aday or two ago, a6GinsI
the road.
SOME mischievous person threw a stone
through the window Of the residence o.
DR.. Mccoy in the Eighth Ward, on Satur'
day night last.
CHRIS. HEDRtcE and John Foose ran {
foot race in West Wheeling, Saturday, fol
a purse OF 5000, which was won by FoOse,
by about three yards.
The old German Ioefler, who attempt,
cd suicide on Friday lust, is recovering
slowly, but refuses to take food, declaring
1t is his purpose to die.
Mrs. SALLIE Warren will celebrate her
birthday at her residence on Jacob stree
below ForLy-Rfth, this evening. iNieweg's
Orchestra will be present.
A FOOT race was run at the Fair Grounds
on Saturday by "Steve" Warehouse ant
John Gray, for q purse OF SIS o side
which was won by Waterhouse.
The weekly meeting Of the German
will take place at Mt. Belleview Hotel, on
the pike on Wednesday evening. Vieweg'i
Orchestra will furnish the music.
A RUNorF took place on Eighteenth
street on Saturday last. a milkman lef
his team standing to 60 into a house, ant
when he looked foritit was gone.
TmE Mcrs-Leaer Company has purchase
a steam propeller, by which they deliver
their papers to their down-the;riyer custo
mers. She is called the Z. R. Dale.
THR grave OF Rev. Solomon Spaulding
who wrote the "Book OF Mormon" is a
Amity, Washington county, Pa. He dice
in 1916. The book was written for pas
time.
Two furnaces in the Central Glas7 Work
have been taken out, and it will be some
time before they AN be replaced, but
force is at work constantly putting in new
ones.
TIE reunion ofthe Adams family and tn
celebration OF the Goth birthday OF thei
mother took place at the residence OF a
j.. Adams on Saturday. A large numbe
OF the family was present.
IT has been suggested that Council taxi
immediate measures to place nu alarm bel
on the new Eighth Ward Hose House 70
the purpose OF summoning the extra mer
and as a general benefit othnt house,
THE Strobel homestead, consisting O
one aero and q quarter Of land up Cald
wells Run, was sold at public sale on SIT
urday last for $2,035. Mr.. Henry. Seamou
the Water street tobacconist, being til
purchaser.
TIE Changers picnic to be given a
Buchanan's Mills, up Wheeling Greek, o.
the 10Th of this month promises to 10
large affair. Marshall, Washington
Brooke and Ohio counties will send Iarg
: delegations.
a c%oUNrRYMAS, while driving his team
across the Peninsula Oh Saturday last, haC
the misfortune to get one OF his horse
entangledi in the harness, and in its effort
to extriCate itself hurt both itself and tn
driver severely.
YESTERDAY was one Of the most pleasan
Of the season, and the crowds OF people il
the city and in the country around tool
advantage OF it TO the utmost. The Elm
Grove Railroad did n big business takin
out excursionists.
WI. L. WILHELM. WHO owns a vinegar
on the east side OF Wheeling hill, inform
us that his present crop of grapes bids fai
, to be ono OF best he has had for years
The same report comes from all the Crap
growers in this vicinity.
We called at Hornbrook's Park on Sat
urday last and were shown its beauties b,
the proprietor, Col. Thomas HornbrooE
The Colonel is as active as ever, and /
constantly adding to the already beautiful
appearance OF things out there.
A COW fell into an unoccupied vault il
in the old Catholic Cemetery ycsterda,
evening. She got into the cemeter;
through q break in tho fence and walkct
upon the board covering over the vault
} which was very rotten and broke through
tallinga distance Of about twelve fee
Mr.. Fred Happy, assisted by severa
others, succeeded in getting her out ate
J considerable labor and trouble.
! New LAMP GLoBE.-We were show
yesterday at this Office a new lamp glob