The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-19
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Va 4. TRAINS D. H. boring for Gns-A
Strange Story g
Loa Bsttells lie shut upat home with a dis
abled hand. .sI-EG -
"A lesp.year psrty will bs given at J. D
Barnhill's tonight.
Is mud In piles any better than mud sp,eac
out, as far as disease gots? .2F.
The @. VI. depot hs1 been fitted with new
platform; the Old ones have gone south.
Misc Bessie Battolle, who ka. spent thi,
winter at an art school In Pittsburgh, has re
turned home.
The Cleveland & Pittsburgh trains com
menced running through, over Beaver creek
10 Pittsburgh yesterday.
1ud'an run bridge will be bull. at once b.
Du Bots Il Mccoy. The delay was caused b,
the Iecess! y-of advertising the contract, nc
cording to law.
Tho skat'Eg rink will be opened here agail
next year, unless something turns up to ate,
ne plans Of Mr.. Rex, who has managed tn,
rink the past sssson.
The parts Of the Ohio Valley switch tha
rest on filled ground are found to be no
very safs Tor the Weight OF loaded cars, until
some repsira are mado.. -
T. s. Tsppan and D. W. Sellers both mad,
a number RI pictures OF submerged houses If
different parts Of town, aud have on erhib:
ton some photographs.
a large lot of the cement lost by tie Ohio
Valley Cement Company we1 stored on the
lower floor Of the Buckeye Lantern Factory
the old Tobacco Warehouse.
T.B. He'll ia one OF 4he heaviest losers BIZ
the Hood, and cannot afford to lose 80 much
not being able to rebuild the slaughter house:
on which his businss1 depends.
The boring for gas here will be resumed
frederick wr1 overthrown, but not carried
lar away by the water. Ropes and other new
material are being got ready again for, work.
Mrs. Lem Batte1le died at her hu.band's
home, on birty.si1th street, yesterday marn.
ing. She Ind long been aninvalid from cor,
sumption. The body will be taken 10 Ia.
cine, Wisconsin.
The Fourth ward schools began yesterday
morning. When the water wei still rising
and 1t WINS decided to throw open the schools
10 the people, a large blackboard wrs put
out at this building announcing mo school
TILL Monday" One Of the boys, In his
cramped hand, added two weeks" and be
hit 1t exactly.
There Is danger that those holding tickets
for Dr. Wille'J lecture will be cheated out oil
the lecture yet. Lfst month a mistake was
made, and, although we arc informed by tbs
managers for the Young Mems Christian As.
ISOLATION that the date Is Thursday OF
this week, February q, ono OF our evening
papers has announced 1t for the 2O!h and
nov changes i. to Friday the 22i.
Many have besn talking of plans for get
ting tho most benefit out Of the money an.
propriated for the relief fund. The c,unty's
appropriation OF fifty thousand dollars
comes too late to bs applied in a hurried
way to prevent actual stlrvation and fresz.
Ing, and yesterday u p!aa was mentioned by
one who will bs one OF those In authority In
this matter. 1t looked 10 come way Of re.
placing those houses overturned, repairing
those damaged, and doing such work r. that,
90 condition that the money 50 spent be re.
paid in five years With but TWO or three per-
cent interest. /;
e MARVELLOUS tToRY.
A gentleman who read Of the strange pht.
nomenon OF the geyssrs at Powbatan, says
be knows a farmers wife at that point who
has for years done her washing at q fire made
BY touching q match to a stream OF gas tina,
came up through some rocks. When done
she took away her katie, threw a stone owe,
the place and left it till next week. Prob
ably the weight Of the water pressing 'dowr
through one crevice forced the res out al
another In much more than the ordinary
quantity. y SD b Esr4 IyE-ID'