The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-22
LOCAL BREYIrIRs.
Matters of Minor Sfonlent in and About
tic city.

llutteFh Oh NAAnoF Wnuteuk III uuu About
tile city.
Col. PooRMAS Mt the Opera House
this evening.
THERE will be no, attraction ut the
Grand tonight.
THERE are five cases on the docket for
this mornings police court.
One drunk and one disorderly were
the only cases in the police court satur'
day.
CONTRACTOR FISHER has Just finished a
handsome new frame house OH Jacob
street for Mr.. Will Bowers.
SUSAN INGLEnARDT and Annie Kelley
were arrested for lettering on the Back
river bridge by Officer LuEens Saturday
night.
A MEETING OF the Junior Piumed
Knights will be held this evening to
consider an invitation from Beaver, Pa,
to so there.
TnE truss bridge to convey the big
city water main across the creek at
Market street arrived Saturday, and will
be put up rs soon MS possible.
RICHARD FoRsYTuE was released from
Jail Saturday after serving his thirty
days sentence for participation in tue
Graebe robbery some time since.
WILLIE KLINE, while tending n SELF
feeder in the LaBelle mill nail factory,
Saturday morning, had the middle finger
Of his left hand badly crushed. The
finger will have to be removed.
JoHS TnIscnLER, the nail.feeder who
was killed on the B. q o. railroad track
in the yards south of the creek on Fri
day, was buried yesterday afternoon.
The employees OF the Belmont mill at
tended the funeral in body.
Tue Democratic clubs otthe city TO the
number OF several hundred, with about
MS many outsiders, went to Pittsburgh
Saturday andtoo partin street demon
stration there that night. The Opera
House band accompanied them.
THERE are authentic accounts Of about
s., 600 put up on the election in various
bets Saturday. The largest single BET
heard OF was $500 on the general result
Another bet OF $500 was made, and
Others OF 500, $50 and various other
sums.
SATURDAY morning, while loading GOA
for the BOggs' Run Mining Company, Z
large lump fell on Thomas Garrity's left
hand, mashing two OF the fingers badly
DR.. Pipes attended the man, and sue
ceeded in saving the fingers from ampu'
tution.
A NUMBER Of Odd Fellows from thi.
city and this portion OF the State left FOL
Huntington yesterday to takepartin the
sessions OF the Grand Encampment and
Grand Lodge, which convene in that
city. The Eneampment opens this morn
ing, and the Grand Lodge Tuesday.
TnE big cannon, "old Hickory" lying
at the b. 4 o. depot, is the property o
the Jackson Democratic Association o
Washington, d. c., from whom 1t was
borrowed by Col. A. A. Franzheim, fol
use here on October 80, on the occasion
OF Judge Thurman's visit here. She i:
said to be roarer.
A YOUNG man named Frank Ulom, NJ
employee OF the Wheeling steel plant
Saturday afternoon was turning thu
crank OF hosting crane when the crank
got away from him, and whirling Will
terrific force, struck him on the LEFT
thigh, crushing the bone badly anC
knocking him down. DIR. Eskey render
ed the necessary surgical aid. The
young man will be laid up for long
time.
]. II. KIRTz, IN employe OF Geo. r
Taylor 4 Co.'s, had a narrow escape iron
drowning at the Centre Wheeling ferry
landing Saturday afternoon. Kirtz wa
on the boat and as it neared the landing
some one shouted, "she is sinking!'
Kirtz made leap for the landing bu
went in the water. He would hav'
drowned, no doubt, had not the hands o
the boat gone quickly to his rescue. a
is was, he got OF with ducking and
severe fright.