The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-10
NEAR BY NOTES.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE VICINITY.
Interesting Letter. from Bsllalr, and nound.rlIe.
Two OIL Wells In Progrsn-nOrrs AtAdamS
aRsfOrnsd nsn-Gsneral News Items
From All Over the Vicinity.

The new Board Of Managers OF the Wash
ington Gas Company has reduced the price
Of gas from SIS to SIS per annum, per lamp
for the street lamps.
The sixty members OF the Pigeon Creek,
Pa, Presbyterian Church, who were ses.
stoned for dancing and did not return,
have been granted until March lst to re-
pent.
Adam spece, a young man twenty
years OF age, was lodged in jail ut Wash.
ing, Pa, Monday, charged with stealing
fifty dollars from Mrs. Kelley, OF Canton
township, for whom he had been working.
At the last term Of the Greene County
Court, held at Waynesburg, there was but
one application for license to retail liquors,
and 1t was promptly refused. Greene
county has not had licensed house in her
limits for six years.
The Borough Council OF Washington,
Pa, has granted the Gas Light and Heat
Company the right to lay pipes in the
streets, provided the pipes be laid on Main
street inside Of three years. 1t is the in.
tention to heat houses by steam.
A daughter OF Perry A. Connor, OF Mer-
Ger county, Pa, aged eleven years, was
sent by her mother to the house OF u
neighbor on IN errand. The neighbon
were not at home, and all the doors being
locked the child raised window and was
partly through the opening when the sash
tel, striking her on the back OF the neck.
The blow broke her neck, and when the
mother, alarmed at her long absence,
went TO look for her child she found her
lifeless body hanging in the window.
The borers for oil on the Buchanan farm
are now over 5000 feet deep, and day or
two since more rope arrived. To what
depth they will go without abandoning this
well, no one seems TO know. Mr.. Crocker
states that when they leave where they are
now at work, the tools will be removed to
either near the AIcGugin gas well, or 10 the
Rush farm, mile from West Middlctown,
where q derrick was erected several months
since. Superintendent Crocker has re-
peatedly stated that the field would never
be abandoned and 1t really begins TO look
that way. The Niagara Oil Company is
surely composed Of a persevering set OF
men.
BELLAiRE.
P. Bruner, Superintendent OF the @. & p.
railroad, was in Bellaire yesterday.
The new quarters OF the Tribune arc being
made ready for 1t, on Thirty-second street.
The services OF this week OF prayer in the
churches have SO far been well attended.
Mrs. Gatigny, OF East Liverpool, nee
Bessie Carr, was In town visiting friends
yetterday.
Mayer & Kloiz are putting In an elevator
TO reach their second story. This Is the first
Of the kind in Bellaire.
Vim. Cunningham Is an applicant for Mr..
Bergunthal's place as Deputy Internal Reye.
nue. Collector for this district.
There Is dearth in news just now in Bel.
laire, and even the police cannot find any
thing Of interest to report.
A procession OF teams Is now engaged in
hauling timber from the B. 2. & O. cars
to the cooper shop Of the nail works.
The narrow gauge road is employing a
force OF hands bringing limestone here for
reshipment to the Junction blast furnace at
Mingo.
Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Butte and family, re-
turned yesterday from visit to Chicago.
Mrs. Butte will leave to-day for her home In
Allegheny City.
Miss Annie Crafty, who has been tempo
rarily filling the place OF Miss Webster In the
Fifth ward schools, has been given the place
permanently.
There are some rtimors OF q. change among
our school teachers, not caused by the school
board but In which a blind boy has u hand.
But i've don't know anything"
The Zillman brothers, who lately went from
here to Cumberland, Nd, and started the
manufacture oil glass, will be reinforced by
L. A. Fletcher, late OF the Lantern Globe
Company.
The German immigrants who have been
about town for some days waiting, first for a
remittance from relatives at Portsmouth, O.,
and since Its arrival for a boat 10 take them
to that city, left last night on the Andes.
The ore crusher at the Bellaire Nail Works
broke yesterday, and the pudding depart
ment Of the works will be of this week. This
furnaces will be ut work, however, next
week, while the factory Is idle.
, 1t Is hardly the fair thing to growl al the
School Board for making our taxes high
when the people instructed them to build
the new school houses, which had become
necessities
The satchel, containing valuable maps,
which was supposed to have been stolen from
Gen. Warner when he was here getting ready
for his trip over the route OF the Ohio Valley
railroad, has turned up at the general bag
gage rooms Of the G.. & P. road In Pittsburgh.
1t is probable the satcnel was. taken TO
the Q. Il ?. tain among some one elses bag
gage, and landed in Pittsburgh without a
claimant.
MouHDsyILLE.
The revival Of religion at the NJ. E. Church
still continues without the slightest indica.
ton Of coming TO close soon.
The Masonic fraternity are making big pre-.
parations for their social, reunion and sup
per, at their hall Saturday evening next.
The employees at the Kloman mill were
given TO understand last week, that work
would beresumed at the mill TO day, but the
manager changed his mind yesterday, and
esuntermanded the order for lighting up the
furnaces.
No doubt It will be q satisfaction to Wheel.
Ing people 10 learn that Morris McAdams Ii
reformed man" There Is not a:prisoner In
the institution who conforms more strictly
70 the rules, or works more industriousIy
than he,
Sheriff Hicks has new boarder In the per.
son OF Mr. Williams, who was committed to
wait the action Of the Grand Jury on charge
VI uhs'aAu1t pLclcIEeu ny hlhd mCIhTuIe.
Williams strenuoully insittsthat II was put
up job, "and as he Is married man and The
father OF seven or eight children, II certainly
seems that he ought TO have kept out Of such
complications"
"Dadn Wallace, the venerable Tyler OF the
Masonic Lodge here, was made the recipient
Of service OF fine glass ware, consisting OF a
large tray and an elegant pitcher and set Of
gobletS, at the Lodge-room last Saturday ey.
ening. B. F. Meighen, Esq, made the pre-.
sentltion speech In bis own happy manner,
which was responded to by the Rev. A. Bu-
chanan for dad" he being TOO full for ut.
terance," the whole matter being u complete
surprise 10 him:
The oil well on Gravel Bottom has reached
depth OF 800 ieet, where am told by Il
gentleman In 4 position 10 know that work
will stop unless the land owners In the vi.
cinity will lease their lands TO the company.
The company are willing In case the proper
announcement IA given them hy DfnberLy