The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-05

Brief Notes on Current Events OF Minor
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lhk Dohlu VI Souuky SoulIulasiuueI bitet
to-day.
THE pewiky road will take at 'e1oursien
party 10 Wellsburg next Saturday evening to
see the gas wells.
THE pottery will resume work to-day after
a reat OF several days on account OF u slight
trouble among the men. -.
A srAax from q Pewlky engine last night
made u biz blszs over on the West VirginiE
hill.-Sleubenruh Gazette. df .i' l3t
THERE was q decided fall In bread Saturday,
ShalIer's bread wagon breaking down on
Main street, near Tenth.
AK old.iAhioned thunder Atorm occurred
last night, and the rain fell freely. 1t was
much needed by vegetation.
The Council Committees on Railroads and
Ordinances will hold another Joint meeting
vt the City Building this evening.
The Windsor Mining Company met In this
I'residsnt and Il. G, Ulrich Secretary.
MoSr LEwI,, Of East Wheeling, md John
CLARK, Of the South Bide, will run a hundred
yard foot race on Saturday, May 81, for 500
q side. John sheeky is stakeholder. A for
felt Of $40 was put up by each man.
Two new engines, No. @ and7 for the Ohio
River road are now at Marietta. AZ the
Hartman bridge Is down, in order to reach
Parkersburg they will have 10 be taken TO
Bellaire and ihencs 10 Parksrsburg over the
Balt!more& Ohio.
A. HORSE belonging 10 Kocler I.ros. and
hitched to q delivery wagon created u asnsu.
ton by running OF on Centre Market Square
Saturday. He WIS caught befor5 hssucceed.
ed In his apparent aim OF enterlnga saloon
through the plate glass winkow.
Josnru BERo, u well Known South Slider,
will to-day open the old South Wheeling
House, corner OF Jacob and Thirty third
street. He has had 1t handsomely renovated
and It presents q fine appearance. A clam
lunch will DO served all day, and Tonight
Mayors full orchestra will give q concert
there.
JAMES GIVEN, driver OF Citizsns' line oar
No. IA, was on d spree Saturday, and drove
bis CIR up and down Market street III a most
reckless manner, colliding with a ( In
which were d number Of children. Fortu.
| nately none Of them were' hurt. Constable
Lauchlin arrts!ed him, finally, and 'sqnire
Ankle sent him to Jail for a hearing today.
THE laying Of the new 10 inch rus main
from the works to the westside OF Main street
will bs commenced this morning, under the
supervision OF Superintendent dillon, The
route Is as follows: From the works to Jacob
street, up jacob 10 FoufteentL; on -Four.
teenth to Eott, up EofT TO Twelfth, and down
Twelfth 10 Main street.. p
THE Water and Gas Works Construction
Company, Of Pittsburgh, with a capital OF
$1,000, was incorporated by Secretary OF
State btalnaker Saturday. The intention Ia
TO build railroads, water works, etc. The
incorporation are W. B. E~carife, William
Thaw, Jr., Bepjamin Thaw, Icahua Rhodes
and Others, Of Pittsburgh. and Hugh Nc
Mahon, Of New Cumberland.
PALMEE's Dramatic Company presented
"rhe Dantiesh at the Opera Houss Saturday
afternoon and Saturday evening to small
houses. The play ia one that ahould draw,
md this company Is above the average, but
the management ives enough TO wreck Il
disbanded here and the members will leave
for the East to-day.
RICHARD FoRsYruE, who is confined in Jail
on the charge cf robbery, appeared before
Judge Jacobs Saturday, plead not guilty to
the charge, and asked that no be admitted Ia
bail. The Judge took the case under advise.
ment until thia morning. In Part | the-csse
OF Eliza Bowman vs.. Simon bowman, on a
$3.50 W. SOL1iiOAiloGN Wy kHt
defendant giving bond for the payment Of
fifty dollars annually for seven years. for the
support OF the infant.
THERE is TO be a plate glass works at Wells
burg. Thia Is what gas doea. steubenvillc
mus! have more holes. That We are in the
gas belt is evidenced by ths H,w secured at
the Jefferson Iron Works. II was a small
flow, but It is big enough TO make q saving
Of. nearly $40 per day in the manufacture Of
nails. People who have bigger gas wells
may saeer OF this. but We are not in tho hsbi,
Of despising. small things Of this kind up
here.-SteuLenriM Gazette.
CONSTABLE Wilcox attempted to arrest
"Jsmix" O'Brien, q well known tough. Sat,
urdsy on Market street near the Opera
House, for theft, when O'Brien objscted,
aud struck the Constable q atinging blow or
the face and ran up the alley by the City
Bank. Officer Reid headed him Of, and be
was a%rraigued before 'equirs Ankle, who
committed him 10 Jail for a preliminary e1'
animation to-day, on the double charge OF
stealing a watch and ~fsslult!ug an officer.
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