The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-24
BURNED TO DEATH,
SAD FATE OF TWO GERMAN chill aEN
A RtllAire--Oas Of THIN Fatally Asd the Other
hvtrslJ Barnsd BY m Aeeidsnt-A Rail.
road'I Drawbacks this WsAthtr--vG
fltus 0thtr Items At Bsilairt.
Mis- Maggie Calhoun 10 alex, threatened

Mis- Maggie Calhoun 10 sick, threatened
With fever. RI -I,l.
The test Of the strength OF the Ohio Valley
bridge was not made yesterday, but will lie
madc to-day.
The road about the Catholic and German
cemeteries, back Of Rose Hill, 10 very bad y
blocked with fresh suowdrii.s. NJ
Mis- Matte Meyer was given the pri.s
silver medal by tho Judges at the skating
'rink a. the most graceful skater.
The long time tina! snow has been lying In
the cutters has implicitly stopped up tile
opening under mott oil the eros sings, and
yesterday many OF the streets were more or
less flooded. - /
There 10 complaint that some parents ALLOW
their children 10 90 on to school when othe r
children OF tho family have contagious dii .
eases. 1t Ia oftAn some time before the
teachers know OF such cases, let them DO ever
so vigilane s ~, go
The Gas Company offers 10 supply the city
with Rss OF seventeen dollars per post for the
street lights, and 10 make the prics per thou
sand leet 81 65 to private consumers, The
Council, however, wants the prics low, red
10 sixteen dollars per post and 81 05 with ten
per cent OIL for cash.
The sleds Of the boys kept constantly at
work, made tho street in Horns addition 30
slippery that the boys came down like can
non balls and doz.ns and ecous together.
some people were knocked down and ono
horse had leg hurt; therefore the NJ arshall
stopped The cossting yesterday.
The narrow gauge train, which did not ret
IN at all Tuesday, got In at dsy light yesier-
day morning, having had to dig through
snowdrift after suowdrift. This same state
OF sitairs has almost blocked up many Of the
county roads, although 1t was not suspected
here, where thore had baen no drifting. The
train brought in few passengers and little
freight, having passed the stations nearer to
town In the might.
Dr.. Harper, Of New Cumberland. /. visiting
bis son, Councilman Harper, Of the Filth
ward. He was q cit sn OF Bellaire when
there were very few others. and KEEP, the irst
drug store oPst ed here, on the coraer where
bium's store now Is. He afterwards moved
TO the corner where Mercsr's drug store Ia
now. and there kept the possoiIics TIL Mrs
blfdsons was appointed. He bought the cor
nef whefe hts drug store was for $3.50. The
annual rental Ia now $500.
A family named Kuhn, living in the little
house on tho top OF the hill Opposite the
Rose Hill Cemetery, bad two children burned
tuesday, and one Of them died yesterday
morning: The mother had left the children
alone while sha came 10 town ate, some
1'ur, and when she returned 1t was TO find
the two children on FIRE from d pile OF wood
and coal which they had kindled in the cen
ter OF the room. She first .eizsd the youngest
child and stripped of the burning c.otnes
but 1t was very badly burned. The older
child was burned all around the body and
died next morning, The family Is very poor,
and the house is a miserable one. The
township trustees took charge OF the case,