The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-13
CRY MATTERS.
Brief Notes on Gurrent Bysnts of Minor
Interest.

hfleI NokoA on Nufftht bNouka VI mihoE
Interest
euxMER Is asserting itself again, but the
days grow pereepibly shorter. ~
jim BELL, special officer at the B. o. depot,
resigned his position yesteiday.
THE westsrn Union Telegraph Company's
money order service will be resumed to-day.
The rolling mills will resume to-day, and
the boys will all have sore hands for week
or so.-
Two drunks and three disorderlies consti
tuted the population OF the lookup Saturday
night.
ESrEarRIsE LoOoE of Good Tsmplars will
giyea neck.te social at Parker Hall this
evening. ..t
The Cleveland excursionists over the O. L:
4 W. road got home Saturday, well pleased
with their trip.
The Committees on City Prison and Fire
Department are called to meet at the City
Building tonight
RlTz. the oarsman Of this city, has with
drawn from tho regatta at Watkins, N. Y,
for which hewas entered.
woRE Is progressing rapidly on the exten::
sion OF Bodley's carriage. factory, corner OF
Eoifand Eighteenth streets.
Mr.. J. A. ROBINSON, agent Of ForepAugh's
show, was In the city Saturday evening. The
show will be here September 20.
MAJOR JOY, boiler boss at the Crescent
mill, had bis eyes badly burned Friday az
ternoon by dash from the rolls.
A SMALL child of Charles Hawley, Of the
Island, was badly scalded Saturday by hay.
Ing cup OF hot coffee spilled over 1t.
Convoy, the young laborer at the Riverside
blast furns see, who was so badly hurt Friday,
died from the effect ofhisinjuries Saturday.
Tue condition Of the Paxton fountain, on
Capitol sauRre, Is disgrace TO the city and
A standing rebuke to the officials who refuse
to do their duty and repair 1t.
SATURDAY evening the work Of roaming out
| the gas we'll at the Central Glass Works was
finished, and the work OF casing to shut out
the salt water will commence this morning..
The well Is down $50 feet. y
The EIson Glass works, which has been I'm.
dergoIpg repairs aud improvements during
| the shut down, will resume operations this
| week with full force. Filling In will COM
| mence the Buckeye to-4ay.
The Riverside Iron company have con
tracted with Cox & Morrison for eight dou
bic -fluted steel boilers, 20 feet long aud a
1 inches In diameter, with connections, fol
their new steel plant at Benwood.
THE Grand Army Post OF this city will &c
down to New MartInsYille on the Telegram
next Saturday evening to be present at the
installation Of new post there. They will
return to the city Sunday morning.
Anew brick pavement has been laid around
the Atlautlc engine house, the bricks being
laid on their edges. This will be q good tesi
OF the fitness Of brick for street paving, al
the engine and hose reel pass over 1t daily.
The piling boys at the Labelle mill struck
Saturday morning for an advance Of ten
cents-trom 50 to 90 centl-when eight heatl
we're made. The heaters only made one heat
10 consequence and the matter Ia still unset
tied. ~ ..
AN excursion train OF six cars filled with
reiidents OF Beech City, Ohio, and vicinity,
accompanied by the Beech City brass band,
came into the city over the G. 4. Il W. road
Saturday, and spent the day seeing the sights
about town.
A LARGE sized crowd attended the sacred
concert given at Wheeling Park by the
Opera House orchestra yesterday afternoon
The Elm Grove cars were crowded all the
afternoon, and the National road was alive
with vehicles.
HARRY sco1r, OF Jersey City, and Pal
Gately, OF Bellaire, ran a foot race for purse
OF $l00 at Benwood Saturday, on which Q
good deal OF outside betting hsd been done
Gately beat by eight yards, and could Just
as easily have beaten by eighty had he want,
ed to.
A MAN with little larger cargo OF CORE
! Juice aboard than his tonnage justified, drop
ped In at the Merchants restaurant, or
twelfth street, Saturday night, and pensiye
" remarked: "Boysh, I'm (hic) sac
might" "What depresses your spirits?
asked one OF the "boysh." "0h, I'm maxim
sichy (hic) d-n fool Y myself, it.makest
me sad"
SUNDAY morning about1 o'clock, Richard
Monkey, a young colored man, died at hi!
sisters home on Morrow street. For mum
Der of yeara he has been In the employ o
Mr.. G. R. Taylor He was always an upright
honest man, and his death causes uniyetsa
sorrow in his circle. He was only sick I
weak. His funeral takes place this morning
at 10 o'clock.
The picnic given by the Healy base bal
club al the new fair grounds Saturday was q
success in every respect. The game Of bas,
ball between the Riyerstdes and Hea1ys re
suited In tie, each club scoring four tallies
Only five innings were played. The fool
race between jacob Reid and Elias Rolls
ON. half mile, was won easily by the former,
who beat Rolls about twenty-five yards. The
horse race did not pan out, owing TO lack oil
entries.
SATURDAY evening, Pen Mason, some.
what notorious individual OF color, wai
elected from Rine's saloon, on the Upper
Market Equare, and becoming boisterous
Officer Belieyilie attempted 10 arrest him.
He resisted, and clutched the policeman by
the throat. The latter applied his club vigor.
outly, and knocked Mason down, after which
he submitted. A colored woman who saw
the sffair yelled murder, attracting a crowd
efmen to the scene.
This evening an excursion party that will
probably number about one hu1dred, com
posed OF members OF the congregation OF The
German Methodist church OF this city, will
leave on the B. & O. at 1i:l5 O'Clock, for the
Lakeside campmeeting near Sandusky: The
camp ground is about ten miles from Putin
Bay and four miles from Kelly's Island
This excursion has ben gotten up BY Rev.
Mr.. Wiedman, pastor Of the church, and
promises 10 be q big success. Taey will BE-
gone about ten DAYS
Mr.. PETER ZoEcKLER, OF Fulton was agree
ably surprised last evening by a call from .
large party OF his friends, who remembered
thai yesterdsy was his sixty.tourth birthday
az we'll as the fortieth anniversary OF bis
marriage. Numerous presents were made
consisting OF silyerware and flowers. Mr.,
lZoeckler Is one OF the pioneers OF Wheeling
having come here In October, 1882, from the
old country. He isa highly respected citi
zen, aud deserved tho testimonials OF esteem
which he received last evening.