The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-10
LOCAL BREYITIEs.
Matters of Minor Moment in and About tn,
CITY. II. ~

City. 4Nh y.
THE painters are unusually busy this
spring.
TnE GRAND this EVENING". 2. Little
in ''The World"
THERE will be no concert Mt seiberts
garden until next week.
TENNESSEE strawberries Of fine size
and quality were sold in market, yester,-
day, at 50 cents for box holding IN Ill
legged quart.
TO-DAY is Holy Thursday, or Ascen-
sion Day, and will be Observed with
solemn services in the Catholic and
Episcopal churches.
M'LIss McGuMPHREY yesterday gave
bond and appealed the case to the Cir
Judge LETTERS Tuesday morning.
JOHN B. PYLE, formerly of Martins
Ferry, was caught in fall OF slate at the
Wheeling Creek mines Tuesday, sus-
taining several ugly bruises and dislo-
cation Of the hip.
MRs. FOREMAN, who lives at the cor.
ner OF Eof and Thirty.third streets, fell
down stairs last night and broke her left
arm below the elbow. Dr. Ford was
summoned and reduced the fracture.
TIE delegates from the two Com
manderies OF Knights Templar here to
the Grand EnCampment ut Huntington
left for there yesterday. Their names
have been printed in the INTELLIGENcEE'
GOLD Buck" Lewis Buckhannon, the
well known colored gentleman Of the
old school, was again arraigned in the
police court yesterday, and in default OF
81 fine for plain drunk was sent to the
hill again.
PRoF. STRAKoscH, from Vienna, an
nounces a dramatic soiree Mt Arion hall
next Sunday evening, on which occa
sion he will read a number of fine selec
tions in German, including the Forum
Scene from Julius Cesar"
IN Part / Of the Circuit Court yester
day the jury in the case OF Mollie starl
vs.. William Riddle, bastardy proceed
ing, returned verdict OF guilty, and tn
Court adjudged that he should pay he
$50 annually for seven years.
THERE is a movement on foot anon
the merchants on the Main street slop
to secure the paving OF that part oil TIL
street with fire brick. AS now contract
ed for there is gap in the pGyemen
from the st. james hotel alley t.
Eleventh street.
A TEAM belonging to Bony Gardne
ran off in East Wheeling yesterday lore
noon and dashing up McCOlloch stree
collided with n rag mans mule and cart
Both vehicles were demolished, but TIL
team, the mule and the drivers, strang
to relate, escaped without scratch.
In Part II OF the Circuit Court yester
day the verdict OF guilty heretofore
awarded against William Emblem in tn
appealed case of the city against him
was set aside by the court. A motion
was then made to dismiss the appeal a
having been improvidently awarded
This motion will be argued May "a.
BIRDIE ROBINSON, alias Lottie Walters
the girl indicted for grand larceny, ant
accused OF robbing an old resident o
Martinsburg of n large sum OF money
Yesterday Withdrew her plea OF no
guilty, and pleaded guilty to petit lar
ceny, and Judge Jacob sentenced her u
ninety days imprisonment in the coun
ty Jail. ~
TIE attorneys for Van B. Baker me
here Yesterday to consult with their eli
ent concerning the conduct OF the coming
! rehearlng OF the charge OF killing hi
wife and mOther-in-law, which is to TAXI
place at the next term OF court at Wells
burg. They say there was nothing new
developed, though they hint ut new evi
dence to be forthcoming.
TIE special ieaturcin connection will
"Club Night" at the Wheeling Club'
rooms next Monday evening will be pro
gressive euchre. Twenty-Five tables vii
: be provided, SO that all who attend ma!
participate. There will also be music
These "Club Night assemblies are be
coming very popular with the member
and their lady friends.
TIE Wheeling Railway Company ha!
not been running its electric cars for tht
past two days, owing to the fact that it!
track has been torn up at the corner o
Twelfth and Main streets. The switch
that was put in there has been takeE
out and put in ut the top OF Main stree
hill, Just beyond Eleventh street. Tho
paving OF Main street also interteret
with tho satisfactory running OF the
cars.
The board walk leading from McCol
loch street along the graded road to thu
Peninsula bridge, isin very dilapidatet
and unsafe condition, or at least abou
fifty feet of it is liable to upset at almos
any time, and if any citizen should &c
hurt the city would be in again for
damage suit. The gutter on the ives
side Of McColloch, from Fourteenth t
Ninth street, should be cleaned out ant
paved.