The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-07
MARTINS FERRY.
Personal Gossip aud all Sorts of Current
Comment.


Comment.
William Davis, of First street, is SER
iously i'll.
Dan Reardon is home from New
Brighton, Pa.
John b. Gillespie has returned home
from Chautauqua.
Prof. Will White, OF Mt. Pleasant, is
in the city this week.
Col. G. W. Mitchell is in Wellsburg on
business and pleasure trip.
William Prince and wife have returned
home from two weeks visit in Pitts
burgh.
Mr.. Andy Gottschalk has returned to
the city after an absence OF several
weeks.
A. G. Shaver, the ice man, has just
received car load OF lake ice from San
dusky.
George Robertshaw is home from
Steubenville, where he has been visiting
friends.
The Odd Fellows held very import
ant meeting at their hall in Commercial
DOCK last night.
Harry Hood returned home last night
from Canal Dover, where he has been
visiting his brother.
Mr.. E. W. Swing, mail agent on the
Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad, visited
friends here yesterday.
The rolls will be set in the new hous.
ings ut the Laughlin mill to-day, and the
factory will resume in part.
Bunting and flags at half mast were
put out all over the city yesterday in
memory of General Phil Sheridan.
The Black Diamond club, ofWheeling,
will play ball on the furnace grounds
this afternoon with the Red Stockings
The new Buckeye glass works ware
house is nearly ready for the roof, and
it is thought it will be completed in two
weeks.
"Club" Campbell has opened up n
cooper shop near the ferry landing, in
the place OF his works washed away by
the flood at Bridgeport.
The Independent drum corps was out
serenading last night aud highly pleased
its hearers with nice music. The boys
are getting the beat down fine and will
be in good trim for the campaign.
Sunday evening Mike Boyle and Hen
ry Feterer Collided in their buggies on
Second Street, splitting the occupants
out, and badly damaging Feterers rig.
Neither ofthe occupants was hurt.
Mrs. Strobe, who was released from
the asylum some time since, is again
violently insane. Her residence is near
the Laughlin mill, and people in that
vicinity are very much alarmed lest she
may do some one harm.
The starting OF the third furnace at
the Buckeye next week has brought Il
number OF new residents into the city,
and when the two lower mills are at
work in full the city's population will be
increased at least hundred fold.
A iour-year old son OF John Gabe, OF
Paull's addition, wandered away from
home early yesterday morning, and got
lost. He Travelled to Bridgeport, where
he was taken in by the city authorities
and returned home to his parents last
night.
Considerable complaint has been
heard lately about the practice OF small
boys and men, who put in Sunday play
ing cards and base ball near the old
cemetery, in view OF the public high
way. Residents in that vicinity say the
language and disturbance is almost un-
bearable, and think the practice should
he stopped.
The Red Stockings base ball club is
now under the management OF Mr.. Dave
Ray, who has made an engagement with
the Black Diamond club, OF Wheeling,
to play the Reds this afternoon on the
furnace grounds. The game will be
called at o'clock sharp. Ex-Manager
Roach still retains his title and position
as Captain Of the team, and will, it is
hoped, lead the boys to victory in to-
days game.