The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-01-05
FROM FAR BOHEMIA.
FovR ORPHANS sENT5To seLLalaE.
A Burden for Belmont County Tixpiyrt-An T..
Gaping Prisoner shot--Hei y,rslniA Town
Elietions--natural Gas at Wa.hiuEton.
5f55 Accident al a " tll,burg Fuusral.

FoIs ueer were recently Killed In one day
The track layers Of tho Ohio River road OK.
pecs to reach slssefsyiiis BY Taeadsy.
The coming city election In Parkesaburg
promises 10 be lively one. There will be
four tickets In tho fleld-Republicau Demo.
| crat, Greenback and Prohibition. The cleo.
ton tskes place Oh the 18th. -
Last Saturday evening the Ninevch NJ. L.
Chnrch, IN Greene county, Pa, WINS destroyed
by lire. It cost about S. 600 to build II four
Years ngo aud 1t was insured for $I,SOO. A
detective Hue was the cause OF the con agra
The D. { 0. employees, Trans.o Ohio Division,
were notitsd Wednesday evening that @, J.
Foraker had been appointed General Mana.
ger Of the Trans. Ohio Divisions, including the
central Ohio, Lake Eric, straitsville and
ohicaso Divisions, with headquarters at New
AT the corporation election held in West
Grafton, Thursday, tho following officers
were eiected: Mayor, Samuel 7. Meteor.
miek; Recorder, John II. Holt; Councllmeu,
William u. Macktn, Samuel Shackeiford, DR.,
u H. Wilson, u. X. Bradford aud John AZ.
Thayer. 3. I'll n - 'T-iTl =, ~ =
Tho two daughters Of the late Rudolph
steiiep, who reside near Londonderry, Guer.
nsey county, Ohio, received word that their
stapumother had died in Germany aud left
them $4,000. Their father dug coal In
SuStnsey county, and was accidentally killed
In New Orleans short time ago. :.
1t Is reported that quite serious riot oc.
cured N Petersiown. Monroe county, during
Uhr,stmas week, IN which Tom Appling, Bob
ballard, John Jones, one Raikes, and Jim
Scott, were all asriously hurt. The row was
begun by JonaH, 1laikes and Scott, who had
been drinking freely. AL OF them succeed
county, Va. r ~ =. -
The ceal property OF the Atlantic and
Georges Greek Consolidated coal company il.
Mineral county. W. Va, on tho West Virgi.
MIA Central u Pittsburgh railroad, Is 10 he
opened earlyih the spring. Il 10 to be work.
ed In common with the present. mines OF the
company located at Pekin, Nd. The pro.
perry In West Virginia includes 70 acres OF
the II foot vein. ~, '!f.'1 +, 2 ~ -
The town election at Keyser on Wednesday
wa1 holly contested one, the Issue being
license or no license. License carried tho
day by abolt 10 majority. Tho following
officers were elected: Mayor, John Miller;
Recorder, D. q. Arnold; CoIncllmen, I, u.
Davis. L. A. Nzsr, II. w. Baker, s. NJ. al.
| Eins, fnllltp Mines. Last year the majority
for the Temperance ticket was 40. 8,
The Hinton Herald Gays: On last Friday,
at Princeton, man by the name OF Champ,
under arrest for violation OF the LIQUOR law,
attempted to escape, and was shot aud killed
by the guard. Our informant saws that
Champ had been examined on the charge OF
violating the liquor law, ana held to answer
IN indictment In default OF bail he wa1 be.
ing taken to all, and on the way broke from
the guard and ran some eighty yards when a
shot from pistol in the bands OF the officer
having him in charge cut short his career.
The Peoples Light, Hea! aud Fuel Com.
paay, OF Washington, Pa, has a. length been
organized under its charter, and the pros.
poets are that q test gas well will bs sunk at
IN early day, n the vicinity of the borough,
providing leases OF land can to obtained on
such terms Us will insure reasonable pro-
lection to the stockholders who run the rist
Of finding gas. For the town and vicinity the
procurement OF gas for heating aud manu-
featuring purposes would In time be inyalus-
BILE. The following officers have been chosen:
President, A. B. Caldwell; Yice.Presidsut,
James kan'z, jr.; Secretary, J. B. r. Stfestor;
Treasurer, Samuel Hazletl; Executive Com.
mittee, Jacob Miller, ]. B. Z. streator, A. ].
Montgomery. SO