The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-27
LOCAL. RREvITIES.
Matters OF Minor Moment In and About
tho City.
TnG State Fair opens to-day.

tho CITY.
TnE State Fair opens to-day.
THE promise for the State Fair this
week il bright.
Two deeds Of trust were admitted to
record Saturday.
TIE Benwood mill will start on full
to-day in all departments.
TIE GRAND this evening-Ezra i.
Kendall in "a Pair of Kids"
OFFICERS SHORTS and Deku were of
duty Saturday OH account Of illness.
AFTER a chilly spell, the weather yes
terday became excessively warm again.
An immense lot of fancy stock was
unloaded at Bridgeport on Saturday for
the State Fair.
THERE are sixteen cases on the docket
for this mornings police court, but only
two prisoners spent Sunday in the lock-
up.
MASTER MALcoM BRIcE, OF the South
Side, has an excellent Crayon OF Presi-
dental Candidate Harrison in NicolPs
window.
A BGNwooD man found his sister in
Sadie Tracy's house Saturday night, and
after some difficulty induced her to so
home with him.
Cry ASSESSOR BLANcuARD came home
from Atlantic City Saturday, suffering
from sore foot, which lie cut on apiece
OF glass while bathing.
AMONG the fine displays to be made at
tho Fair will be one by the Wheeling
Soap Company. They have Just sent
their first salesman out on the road.
THE Cockayne property, on the M
tional road, between Sixth and Seventh
streets, was sold by Auctloneer nervey
Saturday to W. II. Robinson for SIPS.
TnE public sale OF Island lots OF the
Fink estate, which was to have taken
place ut the Court house Saturday, has
been postponed until Saturday, Septem-
Der l..
TIE members OF the 6. A. r., assisted
by the Ladies' Relief Corps and Sons OF
| Veterans, will hold n camp fire at their
hall on Main street, on Wednesday
evening. Everybody will be welcome.
BURGLARS and thieves, believed to be
from Wheeling, are working the small
towns OF this section very industrlally.
The postoliicc and store OF Mr.. Heryey,
at Roney's Point, was the last place
robbed.
A LARGE swarm Of bees settled down
yesterday in the window Of Schnepfs
drug store, and made it entertaining for
the proprietor and his clerks. They
were gotten rid OF gradually, many OF
them dying.
TIE Plumed Knights will hold a
regular meeting tomorrow evening at
Lincoln Club. Captain List is very de-
sirous that there be full attendance.
The cloth for the uniforms has arrived
and parade may be looked for shortly.
OFFICERS DUNLAP and Watson raided
the house kept by Jennie Lee Saturday
evening, capturing the madame, two
girls and five men. Officers lukens,
Watson and Dunlap raided Mollie VIII
liams's house OF ilI-fame, capturing the
madame, three girls and two men.
THERE was a good deal OF excitement
in the Second ward yesterday, caused by
n drunken row in an Eleventh street
residence. The impression prevailed
that wholesale murder was being com
mitted, but the police found only q
drunken man and hysterical woman.
TIE following transfer OF real estate
was recorded at Clerk Hooks office Sat
urday: Deed made August "a, 1855, by
j. W. Detibaugh and wife to Mary Agnes
Amdt, wife OF David Arndt, for part Of
lot No. 80, on the west side OF Main
street, North Wheeling. Consideration,
$500.
A BLOODY fight occurred in the old
Hempiield yard between 10 and II o'clock
Saturday night. Five or six parties
were engaged. Knives were pulled and
one man was cut so badly that he was
not expected to live. Another was also
cut, but not badly. The whole party got
away.
A MEETING OF machinists, stationary
engineers, machine blacksmiths and
pattern makers was held in Trades AS
sembly hall yesterday at 2 p. m, for the
purpose OF forming preliminary orga-
nization OF these trades. The Trades
Assembly also met yesterday, but the
business was OF n purely routine char
acter.
A STATE examination of public school
teachers will be held Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of this. week for the pur-
pose OF granting State certificates. In
addition to the regular common school
branches, those presenting themselves
will be examinedin physics, physiology,
rhetoric, elementary algebra and ele'
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