The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-31

actor received the compliment Of being
called before the curtain three times.
4 EfuEI Of imposing proportions Is reported
% have occurred IN the Eighth ward yester,
CHARLEs DEIBRooE was somewhat bruised
6y the bursting Of bosh At the !Etua Mill
Saturday.
LAST nights rain thoroughly washed out
the tlth that had accumulated in the alleys
and CUTTERS.
No business OF public interest was trans
acted At saturdays special session Of Judge
Boyds court
The police force donned its winter suits
yesterday and presented very neat and
nobby appearance,
ALICE LEVERAGE and Carrie Coleman, two
notorious "hAbitualS" were both run in by
the police Saturday
OS and after to-day the tirst car on the Elm
Grove railway will leave the city at G \. ".
Cars will leave At hourly intervals till 8 P. n.
THE miners at the Elm Grove coal works
are out on a strike for an advance Of twenty
cents per ton for mining. They have been
getting eighty cents.
THE Bryant Literary Society contemplate u
number Of exercises and supper at their
hall next Wednesday evening, In honor OF
the anniversary OF Bryant's birth.
Tux managers OF the MoundSville rolling
mill have engaged two puddlers for each Of
their furnaces, and will run the mill double
turn from the start, This looks like business.
MRs R S. SAVAGE, widow of the late Maj.
Savage, was awarded tint premium BY the
State Fair for her fine Plymouth Rock chick
nd q
| the finest shown.
KISG WILLIAM Lodge No. ,, A. p. A., on
Saturday night elected the following officers;
! W. NJ, Fred. RetIer, d. NJ, Christ. Lipke;
Secretary, Michael Stuck; Treasurer, Ernst,
Barthe; Chaplain, Chas. WOster.
\ PRACTICE match was shot at the range Of
the Wheeling Rifle Club Saturday, in which
Dick Stewart made lO7 and lO4 Vim. Cox l0S
and lO?, and John Moore 100, out OF posi-
BILE 10. The shooting was at 9OO yards, of
hand.
THOMAS SWEENEY charged with shooting
Frank McAdams, was sent to the Work
house Saturday for thirty days by Judge JET
feB, A warrant is also out for him on q
charge OF violating the State law in regard tc
felonious shooting.
HENRY KILvER and Henry Johnson, cabi'
net makers employed at Metzner's furniture
factory, ran foot race on Water street.
South Side, Saturday afternoon for SIS side
The distance was one hundred yards, and
kilyer Won by q couple OF feet
A Man named Springer, an employe OF the
Crescent Mill, was knocked down last night
on Eighteenth street by two men, whose evi
dent intent was robbery. Springer had nc
money with him, however, and so the
rutIians went unrewarded for their deed,
4 ooLoRED man who had been employed BY
J. G. Hoffman for some time ran off Satur
day with horse and buggy belonging to that
gentleman. Mr.. Hoffman pursued, and re-
covered the rig ut Bellaire. The darkey wa
allowed to 80 after being somewhat fright
ened,
ABOUT II o'clock Saturday evening two
men, one fleeing and the other In close pur
suit were seen to issue from an alley oil
Market street and run down TO Fourteenth
There the pursued turned toward the river
when the follower gave up the chase, tirinl
his revolver, however, after the man. VIVA
it meant nobody could explain,
A REFORMATION FEAST was yesterday heli
in the Evangelical Protestant Church Of st
John. The church was well visited and thu
choir sang several beautiful songs, while tn
chief songs, praise the Lord and "a Stronj
Tower is Our God were accompanied by tn
orchestra OF Prot. Was in excellent style
The sermon by DR.. ShafIreneck was very ap
prOpriate to the feast,
MILES 0RroNS circus tented on the lslanC
last night, The last exhibition OF the season
was given at Moundsville Saturday, ant
many Of the performers and other employee
left for the east the same night The circu
travels IN wagons, aud is Ell Route TO MCCon
nelsville, Ohio, where It will go into winte
quarters One OF the wagons broke down Of
Market street. near the Mcclure House, las
evening, and for time the air was blue To-
two squares,
SATURDAY Mike Fllan, OF this city, wht
recently performed the feat OF eating tiiteeT
dozen raw oysters, received the following OF
u postal card from Thomas Mccormick, o
MOundSville: "There Is man here thu
thinks he can eat more oysters than you.
do not think he can, but he will bet $50 OF
It.. II you make match and beat him yol
will-nake nancy, as NOundsYille will bacl
Its man" Filan says that II the purse 4
made 800 side be Is ready.
FRANZ WEsNILLER, Hawaiian laborer
was crushed by falling bar OF iron at tn,
Crescent mill Saturday afternoon, and 81
badly injured that he died the same evening
The iron bar, which weighed about half
ton, had been elevated with block ant
tackle, and was held suspended in the air
In some way the rope slipped, and the mar
was caught BY the falling bar. It first strucI
his breast, knocking him down, and tallinl
upon his abdomen. Weismiller had onll
been in America six weeks, and was unmar
RED. He boarded at the corner OF WoO(
and Nineteenth streets.
A FATAL accident occurred on the c. 0
division Of the B. & o. road, about two mile.
west Of Bellaire, Saturday morning abou
half past six o'clock. The uhelper,n {
freight engine which assists to pull trains III
the grade from the river to Lewis Mills, wa
returning at lightning speed, when Il collidet
with the engine OF the local freight, gonI
west. Both engines and two freight cans werl
thrown from the track. James Mcdonald
engineer on the train, was badly cut abou
the head and had one foot scalded George
Rouse, his fireman, was horribly scalded froir
head to foot, his injuries being Of necesSa
rily fatal character. James Lyon, who wa,
on the same engine, was also badly scalded
and severely bruised. Engineer Myers and
Fireman James Long, OF the helper, were
slightly hurt the former being somewhat
bruised and the latter receiving q seriou,
scalp wound and Spn,e ugly bruises. The
responsibility for the accident has not vel
been fixed.