The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-12-01
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R. y: wilkins, Of St clairsyille, vas in
town Wednesday.
Council was in session Tuesday evening
long enough to adjourn.
Mr. Johnson, OF Pittsburgh. one Of the bot
tie works men, waSln town Wednesday.
Mr.. VIII Irwin Is down with the typhoid
fever at his home on Noble and Thirty-eighth
streets,
Judge Carroll, ]. W, Shannon and ]. N.
Riley, were down from the county seat We'd
nesday,
Neither General Warner nor an audience
put In an appearance at City Hall Tuesday
evening,
The ladies Of the Methodist Aid Society
will have q social at the house OF A, L,
WetheTald on Friday evening,
The United Presbyterian Church has Sc
cured City Hall for services again next Sum
day. Sunday School will also be held there,
The meetings at the Disciples church are
attended with US much interest rs ever. An.
other member was admitted Tuesday even
ing.
George Mcclellan, Of the Baruesyille Enter
prise, was In town Wednesday, on his way TO
join the editorial excursion from Youngs-
town.
The members OF the Grand Army OF the Re.
public are requested to ,meet ut their ROOMS
at 1880 o'clock sharp, to-day, to attend the
funeral Of Thos, Sheets, deceased,
The Monumental Association has not given
up the idea OF having skating park out Of
the Public Square, by any means, It seems
now altogether likely that Council will in
terpose no objection,
Philip Long is regreting the loss Of a fine
skitf, stolen from near his home. II Is
thought that Bob McMullen, who lately es-
capped from the police here, paid q clandes-
tine visit to his home and took the skif as
the best means OF going back. Therefore II
Is likely he is down the river.
A chair peddlGaT made bis appearance here
with his wagon, Tuesday, and both he and q
female companion who cannot tell straight
story about herSelf-Or will not-got 50
drunk that they made dlSgraceful spectacle
Of themselves. They were arrested, but Mr..
Miller, the peddler, refused to be fined with
out trial.
D. W. Sheets, who has been lingering In q
prccarious state since his fall from the scat
folding in the United Presbyterian Church.
died Tuesday evening. He leaves wife and
children, his wife being daughter Of VIM
Wise, OF Rock Hill. The funeral will be on
Thursday at one o'clock and will 60 To the
Rock Hill Cemetery,
ISFANTICDE OVER THE RIVER.
News was received OF this place late Wed
nesday afternoon Of case Of infanticide
which occurred In Kirkwood township about
two miles north Of Hendrysburgon last Mon
day but which was not discovered until
4 Tuaa1av ptOht tha nm ri inuIaPa Df which mrs
as follows: On last Monday Mrs. Margaret
Henry who has for the past two years beer
separated from her husband, TOWNSEND
Henry formerly Of Bridgeport, has beer
living with maiden Aunt, named Margaret
Rankin, of KirkwOOd township. About siA
months since Mrs Henry gave birth to an Il
legitimate child On last Monday she lef
her Aunts, taking the child with her, and IN
the morning returned minus the child, and
upon being questioned as to the disposition
nude OF II, stated that she had given It to IL
father who had that day departed with 1t fol
the West
This explanation only increased the Slls
piClon OF foul play and quiet search was In
stituted Immediately, which resulted In find
ing the body Of the child OH Tuesday about
dark, In an unused well upon the farm oil
James Shepherd, Squire Jonathan Perkins
was notified Of the fact and proceeded to hold
an inquest upon the body OF the child found,
when Il was fully identified as the child Of
Mrs Henry. A warrant was placed In the
hands OF an officer and Mrs. Henry arrested
and recognized to the Court Of Common
Pleas, and in default OF bond for her appear
ance was committed to the jail Of the county
to await the action Of Grand Jury.
FAIRviEw, HANCOCK COUNTY
Smallpox Is prevailing to an alarming eI-
tent in East Liverpool, o., and rs a great
many OF our citizens and people from this
county are in the habit Of visiting that city
quite often, our people are very. much
alarmed for fear It will be spread IN our
community this winter.