The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-16
LOCAL LAcoxIos.
sri.i note aud Comment on Current CIT
Events.

Events.
YrsrEspAY was payday at the LaBelle
Mill.
Couscrb and the electors are the absorb
ing topics just now.
To DAY will be payday IN the Creek
Mill, Hinge Factory and Gas Works.
swEKSEY & sox cast new cylinder yes
,a,dsv ior The steamer John A. Wood,
which is lying at the docks.
The new iron bridge over the creek at,
Bridgeport, will be ready to drive over
and lay The street car rails on early next
week.
'soutRE ScnuLrzE has purchased parrot
and ia engaged in teaching 1t TO talk. he
SAYS the only word 1t can speak yet Is,
Wait.
CHARLIE sr1LwAoos, son OF n. /. Still.
wagon, OF Cluysyille, bad one Of his arms
broken last night in two places while
at play with acompanion.
TIE citizens OF the South Side had their
cannon out yesterday on the river oank,
al the foot OF Tweniv.ninth street, ce!e'
brating Indiana and Ohio victories.
Tar rehearsals for Mrs. Whittaker's
November concert are going on, and from
tie names OF those who are engaged IN
he project we may expect musical treat.
In view Of the recent calamity to the
Democratic party IN "1uieany" i has been
snooesied that the Grape around the hats
oftRe "mourner's" club might be Widened
few inches.
DAY or two ago little son OF Hugh
Royd while playing with pair OF scissors,
ieli upon them, and they penetrating his
body near the heart produced very dan
gerous wound.
JACOB street from Thirty.third south, is
practically useless at present on account
Of The gross neglect Of some parties, aud
who they are, Council should take meas
ures to discover.
lurHER RRADYoRD, who had his arm
crushed while coupling cars on me
"Pwiky," day before yesterday, had that
member amputaied yesterday at the hos
pital, by DR.. R. S. Harvey.
A uoEsE belonging to Robert Holmes
Ifell over an embaukment 40 feet high
near tbe Whitaker Iron Works into the
cTeek day or two ago, bat strange to cay
the animal escaped with few scratches
The Eighth ward improvements are
s,;Ii in .1an unfinished condition. 1t il
likely from the tone OF the people
down there that those who are csustng
lthe DELAY will not have an opportunity o.
doing SO again.
ONE Of the new FIRE alarm boxes which
has lust been put up, was struck several
tines with club by misChievous boy
Thursday, and the delicate. machinery IN
il disafraneed. An ordinance Ia being
prepared which will protect these boxes
The Wheeling Telephone Exchange has
inst issued a new card containing the
names Of one hundred ard 6Ity.four sub
scIbers A new switch board is now on
he wsy from the mandatory, and will
he added 10 those now IN use, increasing
the capacity OF the exchange by htty In
struments.
Our information in regard to to the
reason why the Young Mems HancocE
and English club did not go to washing
ton. Pa, Thursday night, proves 20 be To-
accurate. The collision at Point NILS pre-
clnded the possibility OF trains passing
until TOO late an hour for the club to ar
rive at Washington, and hencethey stayed
OF home.
A p,y came 10 the City Building last
nioht and represented TO Mayor Sweeney
that Prof. C. E. Dwight had about fifty
cans OF gun powder stored in the stable II
lihe rear OF his (Dwiyht's) drug store, on
lChapline street, near Twenty.tourtb. Inc
ib1y eaid he didn't care so much Tor the
powder only he slept nearly under the
room in which II was stored, and he
ldidn't feel exactly safe. The Mayor prom
ised the lad that he would interview ffo'
Dwight concerning the matter.
TnE ladies on the Island presented the
Hancock aud EpgIish club OF that precinct
with a beautiful Gsg last night. q: b
Ferguson, EsQ., representing the ladies'
and Frank P. Mcneil responding for the
club. John o. Pendlston, Eeq:, also
made short address. A very pleasant
jIitile incident OF the occasion was the
nyesentatiop OF beautiful cane tn
lieutenant Harry T. Black, Of the EegisteT
Inv Mr.. Mcneil, who represented MI.
Zimmerman OF the Island. Mr.: Black
made q very graceful little speech in re-
ply
TuE Tuscarawas road has purchased the
West Virginia landing oil Wolis ferry,
and are now seeking permission 70 erees q
tres,lo from that point to the old Detwi!er
warehouse, on Water, below Twenty.third
street. The ides is to use the second
story OF the warehouse as receptacle Of
freight. To this story the tretle will run,
cars will be brought over in fats, loaded
and unlosded, and rettansleried TO the
other side. Freight is already being re,
ceiyed at the warehouse and transferred
| 10 The other side. This arrangement viii
afford our merchants and shippers yaiua'
BILE, additional facilities.