The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-12
CRY MATTERS.
Brief Notes on Current EVontn OF Minor
TnfeFeat.

NOhN HAnAtNhb 81 ShtAs
rural districts.
TnE commencement OF the public schools
will be held June %.
TaE South Side Singing 5ociety danced at
Arbenz Hall, Eighth ward, last evening, and
as usual had o good time.
YE7ERDAY was pay day at the LaBelle and
| to-day the employees at the Belmont and Pot
terry will recsiveltheir stipends.
The members Of Simpson N. r. church.
colOted, OF this city, are making preparations
for a grand "Queen Of the May festival
which will take place on the thirtieth and
thirty.frst insts.
SQUIRE PnILLiPL, Of North Wheeling, had a
Mn. DoIAn before MIN last evening charged
by Ida Miller with using abusive language.
SirS. DOlAn was put under bonds to Keep Inc
reace, aud then swore out q warrant against
Ida.
liz April the Collector Of Internal Revenues
at this point received 1915 10 on nccount Of
take. on tnbaGcO, $3.50 IS for beer and ale
stamps, "a, AGO 80 Tor cigar EtHmps. $ll,lll 69
for license stamps. and $l6i AEON assessments,
making 4 total OF S22,SiO ~.
TuE motors on the Elm Grove are not run.
ming US fast NOW as they will after the road is
thoroughly ballAsted and some OF the heavy
grades reduced. This fact, Secretary Rutter
says, accounts for the poor connections at
present made with the street cars.
RATHER q formidable row took place last
night at the ball at Labor Hall, In the Eighth
ward. -Four or five arrests were made by
| Officers Combs, kennedy and Mute, and the
bows will have an opportunity TO explain the
matter to Judge LETTERS this morning.
A BALL was given at Labor Hall last night
that was largely attended. The proceeds are
10 be used 10 build a boat house for billy
BricsIahd, the Eighth ward oarsman. Billy
has q host OF friends and many behave that
he will yet do some splendid work with the
spruoes.
A NUMBER OF the friends OF Mr.. George
Bordeaux, manager OF the Belmont nail fac.
tory, principally nailers from the Belmont
and Riverside mills. serenaded him, and bis
bride last night. The occasion was made
such a pleasant one that the men will not
soon forget It. .yIl
Ar the annual meeting OF the Ohio River
Railroad Company, which was held at Par:
kersburg on Thursday, the following named
gentlemen were elected directors: d. X.
Neal, G. II. shattuck, w. N. Chancellor. Il.
G. Jackson, W. F. Peterson, Septimus Hall,
R. Il. Brown, r. S. Brown, C. sehon.
T~HEslander suit OF Dionysius Epple against
William Stewart Is now on trial IN Judge
Jacobs part Of the Circuit Court. Dionysius
claims that William called him a thief and
used other approbrious epithets In reference
TO him, falsely and in~jnriously, and be de
mends $500 as r~eparation for his injured
character. - '
In the Circuit Court, Part II yesterday,
the third baslArdy case this week was heard,
and the result was the same as in the former
cases. The last one was that Of the State
rersus William Leasure, on complaint OF
Sarah Jane Snyder, aud the jury, after being
ont about six minutes and q hall, brought in
a verdict OF notgutlty.
HoRNREooK's PARK has now passed into
other hands. Yesterday Nj. George Hook.
for himself and others. being the present
owners, paid over TO Mr.. Alexander Bone,
the agent for the heirs Of the HOrnbrook es.
tate, The sum Of twenty.tour thousand eight
hundred and fifty dollars, the price the pro-
perry sold for, u week ago to-day,
YESTERDAY Mr.. ]. E. Umstot left this city,
where he has made his headquarters for the
past thirty.eight years, for sardis, where he
goes IN open q general merchandise store.
For the past seventeen years he has been
with BOYD & Co., and there Ia not a drummer
in the State that Is better liked or more
warmly received than Jake was. He is a
red hot Republican and q royal good fellow,
with a heart 'as big as all out doors he
hiss a host OF friends in this city who are
sorry 10 see him go, but who wish him sue
cess.
A LARGE skiff Is en- route to this city from
Pittsburgh, having left that place last satur.
day. containing a party OF printers ON q 1alnt
down the river. The party consists OF Col.
Law and VIM. o Bradbury, OF the indiana.
| Iii. G..IE..l 80 Ar" NnnkhAnRn nf PIfIa-
burgh, all printers. They intend TO travel TO
New Orleans In this way, their object being
pleasure and exercise, and expect to make
abouttwenty miles per day. Their boat Is
about IL feet long, and they are supplied
with cooking utensils, camp equipsge, and
everything In that line. They expect TO be
In Cincinnati in time for the printers con-
vention there on June 4.
ANEW Building Association has been or.
ganized In Bridgeport, called the Bridgeport
Building Association, one share represent.
ing$l50, with dues OF % cents per week. The
object OF the association Is to give It's stock
holders the best possible advantages that can
be secured by any association. The orRaniza.
ton OF the association is o complete.
The fist payment OF dues will be made Sat
urday May 20. Mr.. Bags, the secretary,
says that only o few OF the shares remains TO
be taken. PERSONS ueslIlrB 10 secure nnhIes
should not loose tins iu.securing them. Tho
association has been carefully organized un.
der the last amendmen, OF the Ohio State law.
THURSDAY evening, Mr.. Charles Miller, one
OF schulz's drummers, went TO his home, No.
81 Alley Nineteen, and satdown by a second
story window to have a smoke before retiring.
The window sill was low and a bar OF wood
was nailed acroSs the sash to preventany one
from falling out. Mr.. Miller leaned against
this and soon fell asleep. The bar OF wood
was an old one and rotten. About two
O'Clock Yesterday morning 1t gave way and
Mr.. Miller, who bad not awakened. was pre-.
cipita,edt to the pavement below. His mother
hearing his groans went TO his assistance.
His law was dislocated. several gashes were
cut In his face and a few teeth knocked out
While not serious, his injuries are severe and
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