The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-11
IN THE VICINITY.
LIyELoCAL LETTERS FROM LEADING
LOCALITIES.
vexatious Litigation over the nipEo
Purnace-Notes from BeIIaire-what
Is GoIng on In she Classic Seat
of Government OF Bel.
mont County.
THE nrNGo IRON WORKS CASE.
Exceptions Piled by the Counsel FOR the
Stockholders TO the Referees Report.
STEUBRHvILLR, Decemb

SrEUBESvILLR, December 10.
Special Dispatch to the IntsllIseaeer,
The Mingo Iron Works case will agail
be brought into the Court OF Common
Pleas next Monday, that being the day t
which Judge Patrick limited the stock
holders to bring in exceptions to the re
port Of the Referee, James F. Daton. T,
suppose that the case is finally settled b,
that report Is erroneous, as the following
exceptions to that report, filed in tht
Clerks sfice tonight by Walden & Elliott
attorneys for the stockholders, looks al
though the stockholders meant to "6gh
things through on this line, il it takes al
summer"-or probably we had better say
all winter.
The stockholders take exceptions to the
conclusions Of ffactsnd OF law OF the referee
touching their liability as stockholders OF
the shares OF stock known as the "Glty
per cent dividend stock" The referee hold
that "the stockholders are estopped to set
up the defense OF ultra wires in respect to
the issuance by the corporation and ac
ceptance OF SS5,OOO OF stock by the stock.
holders against the creditors in a proceed.
ing to recover the statutory liability
against the stockholders"
The exceptions filed ia the Clerk OF
Courts Office are as follows:
The State Of Ohio, jefferson county,
Court of Common Pleas, NimiCk & COM
pany plaintiffs,vs. the Mingo Iron Works,
defendants: Exceptions to the report Of the
referee. "And now come the said defend
ants, Alexander Laughlin, Thos. II. Brash.
ears, W. 81. Harden and Edward Dunn,
and except each for himself to the report
OF the referee in this cause filed:
First-To the conclusion OF fact by said
referee touching the liability Of the de.
PENDANTS to contribute on the stock known
as the fifty per cent stock dividend" the
same being the paragraph in the conclu.
sions otisct, commencing with the words
"that meeting ofthe stockholders Of Min
70 Iron Works Company was held at La
Belle Hall, " and ending with the words:
twas to treat the new shares OF $50, 900 as
an addition to the capital OF the original
stock Of sl70,O00."
second-Touching the liability OF the
defendants to contribution on the said
"tiity per cent stock dividend shares OF
stock, and being the second conclusion OF
law In said report stated.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. Martha Derry died at her home in
this city to-day, after long illness. A di-
vorce was granted her only last week in
Common Pleas Court.
8. r. Johnson, the Pittsburgh contractor,
who had the contract for building the
Keystone coal tipple opposite this city,
and also the contract for sinking q shaft at
Rush Run, and who was reported to have
abaconded, leaving his creditors in the
lurch, has been heard from, q party living
in this city having received a letter from
him. He says he has not given up the
contract for sinking the shaft, as has been
stated, but that he will be back to finish
1t. He also says he has sixteen months
and one day to complete it. At present
he ia in Canada at his old home, claiming
to be settling up the estate Of his father.
Everything at the shaft Is attached, and
his affairs in connection with the coal tip
pie are also in litigation. ALVIN.