The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-02-25

CITY MATrHHH.
Brief Notes ON Current Events or Minor
LL .tlllL Interest. -llr

80 ~ ttf..rI~If.- Ahtekeets HIf'HuhaLNWUsaeH
f, THE Elm Grove motor line will, Ills expect.
el, DO completed 10 the State Housa In about
one niontb's time.
Tnr hop al Frapzhslm's Hall this evening
will be the last social event OF any promi.
hence until after the Lenlen season.
WnsHr 4 KusxLE's bakery, corner OF
Water and Thiriy.eighth streets, caught fire
Saturday noon, but the blazs was soon gotten
under control by the fire department. Loss
about 500.
Mn. JAcon Wrsr, OF South Wheeling, as lie
waa leaving the beethoven Hall Last night, 10
20 10 supper, fell down a flight Of steps. He
was brutiea a little and cut about the head,
but not seriously however.
MUNICIPAL Court met Saturday, and after
entertaining m order Of ~rcferenc CO In the case
OF Ii. q. shallcross vs.. Thomaa T. Bhallcross,
referring II TO n comnlta i0ner OF the court,
adjourned till to-day al $50 A. NJ.
SWEENEY & SoN and the Centre Foundry
each have conttaoa for furnishing the Top
mill with ten nail machines. When these
twenty machines are In operation, which
will be rs SION no possible, tho Top mill Will
have 1870 machines.
Mn. JonN MYLEs Is engaged on n painting
Of NJ a,ktt street ma It appeared during The
flood, the view being from The corner OF
Fourteenth street md extending TO the Mar
ket street brid 20. When finished 1t will give
a very good conception Of the nature and e1.
tsn. Of the high water.
MIKE CoHnREY created some little disturb.
ance Saturday. night and Officer Reed at
tempted 10 arrest him near the postcifice.
Mike laid down and would not move; assist
auce was sooa at hsnd and no was marched
10 the cooler. He will have two charges 10
answer 10 this morning.
The next entertainment a. the Opera
House Is tho grand concert OF the Opera
House Orchestra Friday night, for
the bentilt OF the food sufferers. Tho
programme IL one filed with musical gems,
and the orchestra bus been practicipg a long
while to make 1t one OF their greeteut and
bes. efforts. A large audience will, no doubt,
meet then, and II will be amply repaid.
SATURDAY evening as Mr.. Thomas Jefferson,
a cigarmaker, 10 years Of age, was crossing
Market strest at Eleventh ho was knocked
down by Il team attached to a hack. He was
picked up In an insensib!e condition aud
conveyed TO Brentliuger's drug store, where
an examination showed, that while nc bones
were broken his chest and limbs were terri.
bly, BRUISED. Mr.. Jefferson has been q resi-
dent OF this city for the past sixty years, and
owing to his extreme old ago, 1t Is feared he
will not recover.
CHARLOTTE TIoMr.oN, who was 10 appear
n the Opera House tc-aieht and tomorrow
night, has cancelled her engagement, aud
will continue 10 play In Pittsburgh for
another week at the Opera House there.
Ford's opera company was to have played at
the Pittsburgh Opera House this week, hnt
getting into leealdiflcutties, Ford disbanded
the company, and thus Manager Ellsler was
LOTT without All attraction for his house this
week. H. therefore made arrangements
With Miss Thompson ind her company 10
remain. Golfers Lights O'London" March
1, S and Q, 10 the next company booked.
YESTERDAY evening about seven O'Clock
Officer DArum entered the house of Ill repute
kept by Llu Ripple, OIL Twenty-hrst street, 10
search for some clothing supposed to be con.
cesled there. Finding the house full, and
complaints OF disorder having been made
before, he telephoned Chief OF Police Bennett
Of the situation. The. orders wero 10 arrest
the whole crowd, but Officer Barum not hay.
Ing force enough aid was sent from other
parts Of the city. By The time the officers
arrived Twenty.tiras street was jsmmed and
the crowd was dispersed with some trouble.
Nine MEN and si1 women we're held to
answer Ut police court this morning.
THAT pond Of water near the German
church, In the Eighth ward, left by the flood,
still remains. 1t is the same pond which hes
caused great complaint on the part OF the
~cit:zsns Of that immediate neighborhood.
The attention OF Council was called to the
matter, and 1t was supposed that the water
would be pumped or drained out by the
Board Of Pablic Works. But The Board took
no steps In that direction, it not being within
Its duties. There it still stands and Is likely
to stand. The people around 1t are made to
suffer all the Inconvenience arising from
such Il body Of water, willis thossin authority
are handling rcd taps as 1t were. Something
should be done and at once.