The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-10-31
WORTHWHILE.
Prison, Railroad, Industrial AID Fer
sonaI Gossip.

sonal Gossip.
Elliotts pla 1ing mill is in operation.
Detective Hsggerty, Of Fairmont, was in
town yesterday.
A valuable bull dog belonging to Dick
McFadden was poisoned yesterday.
Robert White and Captain Doyener, OF the
Ohio county bar, were in town yesterday.
Superintendent Webster, Of the Webster,
Wagon Company, returned yesterday from o
business visit to Red Wing, MINI.
H. H. Collett, Esq, of the Knoxville,
Pension ofii:e, was in Iovn yesterday visit
ing his brother.in-law, j. Y. Horner.
II Is reported that Mr.. Mccormick has die
posed OF his liquor store and billiard aud
pool tables To Mr.. Hassnauer, Of Wheeling.
A couple OF swartLy.yisaged Turks, with
two t,alncd bears, attracted large crowds OF
children from 4 to Us years OF age, on the
street corners yesterday.
Col. A. J. Martin will Join his wife in
Allegheny City to-day to take part In the
twenty first anniversary celebration OF their
daughters, MIS-. Viewers, birthday.
Mrs. R7docksr, mother OF William Rodse-
ker, OF the Third ward, died in wheeling
Friday last, at a very advanced age. The re-
on Saturday.
The verdict Of the Jury in the bastardy case
Of Mary s. Gill, OF Benwood, against William
Myers, Of Wheeling: made on a former day Of
the present term Of the Circuit Court, was
yesterday set as de by the Court and new
trial granted.
The Free OIL Company has not by any
means abandoned hopes OF finding oil in this
a I.tA kE,kN Sii IN ahnH hanfa L.
on a second well, which will be put down
/ 600 feet, and should that fail to strike oil, o
third hole will be put dowa 10 even greater
depth II necessary.
Thinking that the reported rayag's Of the
fever ut Rosbys Rock we're like some Of Van.
derbilt's railroad stoCks-watefed to some
exlent-your correspondent addressed q
note OF inquiry on the subject TO one OF the
most reliable and trustworthy oitiEsns OF
that place. re reply is, in substance, rs
follows: The d;s,Rse Is now entirely under
control, there buing but one serious cess,
that OF q siuali daughter OF Francis Bertrand.
The contagion las been confined to three
familiea, that OF Mr.. Bertrand and his two
sons-!n.law, Mr.. McGaiy, whose four chill
dren have all recovered, and Mr.. johnson,
who lost one child, and whose wife has fully
recovered. OF Mr.. Bertrand's family, seven
children were tEuictSu WIN tue utsease, re-
sulting fatally in three caseS, three have re-
covered, and one. as above stated, is dancer:
ously III. Instead Of dying by the scores"
but four deaths have occurred up
to yesterday afternoon. AS to the state
ment that the funeral cortege often
consisted CT only the parents Of the dead
one," and that "fn one case the father carried
his child to the grave he had dug aud pei
formed the last sad rites for his loyed one
alone" There Is not q single word Of truth
in 1t. The remairs Of the dead children
were all hauled TO their graves by Mr.. W. Il:
Lockwood, and buried by the nelghbors, and
the publication Is a gross libel upon the
neighborly and sympeth'Elug people OF the
vicinity. Dr. ". S. Howard was nnt'ring III
bis attentions TO the silltcted sufferers, and
all that medidal skill could do to alleviate
their s1ferings and effect their recovery was
dime