The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-18
CITY MATTERS.
Brief Notes ON Current Events Of hino

LARGE quantities OF ice about eight inches
thick Is being gathered from the back river.
KIMBERLY's coal bank is still in such con-
dition that fire Is liable TO occur at any
moment.
The Muldoons Picnic Fishing Club will
give ball At Turner Hall on Friday even
ing next Music by Mayors orchestra.
WILLIAM Mills, the man who took that I'M
fortunate tumble from the Hempheld bridge
on Monday last, Is rapidly convalescing.
sAuIsBuRY's "Troubadours' will render
"Champagne" and Screen Room Fun At
the 0pera House, Saturday night, jan
uary 9th.
MUNICIPAL Court met yesterday morningat
$50 aud there being no business Of impOrti
ance TO transact, adjourned until next Sat
urday at 9:SOA. ".
The Cecplian Choral Society meets in
Mennerchor Hall this evening for the pur-
pose OF looking over some music. All mu-
Sicians are expected.
TIE annual statement OF City Clerk Bowers
concerning the financial affairs OF the city,
appears on another page this morning, and Is
an interesting exhibit.
Hon, SErTlMIUs HALL whose sudden and
alarming illness was noted yesterday morn
ing, was pronounced convalescing yester'
day by his physician, DR.. j. A. Campbell.
TUESDAY night, after the conclusion OF the
services ut the Thomson N. Z. chapel, the
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Rider, fell in sw0on, from
which he was resusCitated with difficulty.
Over exertion was to blame.
TIE Council Committee on Equalization
and Appeals will meet this afternoon at
l. nat KNNanttnn NJ this
Committee and persons having business to
transact with 1t should be on hand to-day.
Mn. LOUIS CoLxAE, editor OF the Deutschc
ZeiiunD, is about the happiest newspaper man
In town now, His youngest daughter (aetal
one day. is pronounced by those who have
made her acquaintance, q charming young
lady.
AT the time OF the adjournment OF Judge
Boyd's Court, last evening, the friends u
Michael Lane had not procured the bond
S, 600, required by the Court for his release
from Jail, where he Is now contined FOL
murder.
The Board OF Managers OF the Wheeling &
Belmont Bridge Company have organized BY
re.electing the old officers, as follows: Rober
Crangle, President; James Maxwell, Vict
President, and Joseph Lawson, Secretary ant
Superintendent
The only conveyance Of real estate admit
ted 10 record yesterday was deed made an
uary Is, 1883, by William p. Hubbard and
wife to Nathan D. Scott, OF parcel OF lane
fronting on the north side Of Fourteenth
street; consideration s. 600.
YESTERDAY as r. N. Gilleland, OF the
Eight ward, was crossing the trestle neal
Rogr's Run, on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati 4
a. Louis extension, he slipped and fell
through 10 the ground, distance OF twelve
feet, sustaining severe injuries.
Mr., SEYMOUR DuyLEyY has been chosen al
the Secretary Of the La Belle Glass Co. Mr.
Dunleyy has for come time been represent
ing the Company on the road, and his ap
poIntment as Secretary Is considered very
wise change, although the loss OF his servioei
on the road will be felt:
LAST evening, the sports OF the city had a
ROYAL time OF IL on the South Side. At well
known sporting cockpit seven fights were
fought, the cocks being owned by Bridgeport
Centre and South Wheeling parties. A very
large crowd was in attendance aud good
sized pile Of money changed hands.
Ara meeting OF the Eighth ward Demo
Gratis last evening O Council ticket wa
adopted consisting OF the following names
For First Branch, Mr.. Charles BiDgell. For
Second Branch, Messrs. VIM. Waite, Adam
Stoker, VIM, Dlcsman and Charles Gibson
Mr. W. Waite presided oyer the meeting
with Mr.. Henry Schultz as Secretary.
YESTERDAY morning Flank Donely, OF Cen
ire Wheeling, while attempting TO arrange
something about q second story WINDOW "
his house, received very severe fall. DC
had placed ladder against the house with
Its foot on the Icy pavement, and when he
had reached the top 1t stood from under, u
dropping him on the pavement beneath.
PETER LOWRY, of No. As, Twenty.sixth
street, was taken sick yesterday and doctor
summoned, who discovered that the man
was suffering from small pox; He recently
came from Philadelphia. where be IS sup
posed to have contracted the disease, Or. I.
b. Edwards, City Health Officer, was notified,
and had the house properly quarantined,
and there Is no occasion for alarm.
liz Judge Boyd's part Of the Circuit Court
yesterday the Prosecuting Attorney asked
for an answer on the motion made for new
trial by the attorneys Of John Beal, convicted
OF voluntary granddaughter. The Judge
named Saturday morning as the time ior the
Arguments, and promised to reserve sentence
III lut CdHb uuLll t4l1t Va AsaAAt eAiu
Elias Beal, as the defense wishes to use John
as witness.
TIE Board OF Directors met at the Peniten.
tiary at Moundsville yesterday. Il had been
the intention to relet the. contracts for tbs
labor OF number OF the convicts, whose
contract terms expire shortly, at this meet.
Ing but In accordance with the resolution OF
instructions passed by the Legislature, the
letting OF the contract was deferred until
February II. MOTHER business but matters
Of routine character was transacted.
An ISrELLI0EcER reporter stepped into the
St. James Hotel yesterday and examined the
FIRE escapes In the way OF ladders, bridges,
etc., that have recently been placed in this
house. The Guetts can now retire with q
feeling OF security and dread no such holo-
causts as lately afflicted Milwaukee aud s.,
Louis. The credit OF this enterprise Is co.
tirely due the gentlemanly proprietor, Mr..
George Scranage, who has placed these I'M.
provements In at his own expense.
The arguments In the case OF the State VS..
B. F. McAlechen, indicted for grand larceny,
were finished about o'clock yesterday after.
noon aud the jury instructed by Judge Boyd.
In about fifteen minutes the jury returned
with verdict OF mot guilty as indicted
duu mIs hlGplCthth wac Ahu SSAAb
room was packed TO OVERLOOKING with specta-
tors. The case has been on trial for two days
and the particulars that led to the suit being
instituted, are very well known by this time.
TnE next attraction at the Opera House will
be Madame Janauscbek, on Monday and
Tuesday evening In MARY Stuart" and
marie Antoinetlc." Janauschek needs no
praise 10 create general desire 10 see her.
Everybody endorses the statement Of the
New Orleans Piedyine that "Janauschek Is
one Of the leading lights Of the stage to-day.
She has comprehensiyeness, grasp, power
and talent. In some parts she is without a
rival, but In no character Is she other than
brilliant"
Frank GILES, in, OF the Eighth ward,
while In company with some boon compan.
ions q few nights since, imbibed little too
much hair curler aud his mind became lit.
tie mixed up, so much SO, that he was led to
believe that he was special officer, and he
ought to arrest one William Strollmeyer. No
sooner had this idea seized him than he seized
William by the throat, and waliZed him oil