The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-08-09
BGLLAIRE.
Death of Veteran EnginCer,-Fishers' Run
DOwn-Other News.

Death of u Veteran EnginCer-Fishers' Run
Down-Other News.
Jackey Schindewolf severely sprained
an ankle yesterday.
j. n. Bridgeman has completed nice
nine-room dwelling on Rose Hill.
Miss Minnie Workman, teacher In
the public school, is threatened with
fever.
Mr.. julius Armstrong, OF Armstrong;
Mills, was in the city yesterday on
business.
The hard rain of Tuesday night or
yesterday morning did no material dam
age here.
People in groupsall over the city were
watching the shooting stars Tuesday and
last night.
The Seals baseball club defeated the
Quicksteps, OF Wheeling, yesterday;
score 10 to II.
Mrs. NJ. T. @. Hoge and daughter,
Miss Bessie, are visiting at Mrs, A.
Hoge's, near Belmont.
Messrs. James and r. A. McGregor and
Miller Booth have gone on ten days
hunt to the Cheat river.
Still another plow was broken on the
streets yesterday aud work stopped until
another one can be procured.
Another U. P. Church social will be
held tonight at the residence OF James
Clements, on Guernsey street.
Miss Nellie Jennings hung Just be.
tween life and death all day yesterday,
and ut latest reports she was dying.
The McShane Bell Foundry Company,
OF Baltimore, got the contract for a 1000
pound bell for the new tower here.
Miss Anna Faris and several Wheel
ing parties will spend few weeks in
the Alleghenies above Morgantown.
Several OF the Bottle company's men
are preparing to leave. They go to
Washington, Pa, to work in the new
bottle works there.
Word has been received here OF the
death at Portsmouth, o., OF the twin
children OF Mr.. and Mrs. John White,
formerly OF this city.
Miss Lesa Meulen, n sister OF Mrs. T.
I. Seals, has gone to New York City,
MAClc bllC Will sIeIlu SSNGldl utlb DtlOlG
going to her home in Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. G. II. Dankwerth went on the
O'Neal yesterday to Darlington. Her
little nephew, Charlie HeimbrOd, isvery
low at his home there with typhoid
fever
The following are the Street Fair Ex-
ecutive Committee: Mayor Brown, w.
G. Bergundthal, S. 0. Cummins, L. E.
beavers, G. W. Dickens, +. Archer and
William Reed.
The O'Neal reshipped produce here
yesterday. The steamer Elaine gave her
produce to the Manly wharf boat. Man
ley gets great deal now, havinga mo-
nopoly in the wharf boat business.
Willie Garver's habit of going
fishing in the morning and not showing
up yesterday caused his parents some
uneasiness. He was found in the alter
noon at his grandfather Madden's 0. X.
Robert Chisholm, for thirty-three
years an engineer on the c. 4 =. rail-
road, died at his home in the Fourth
ward with a complication OF diseases.
He was an honest and upright citizen
and liked by all, and especially by his
railroad friends.
Two men fishing below the lower
landing yesterday, Messrs. Bowers and
Zweig, were run down by the steamer
Bellaire, and barely escaped with their
lives. The boat people did not see
thGm, and they were so busy they did
not see the boat.
Thieves have been playing havoc
among the chickens, vegetables, etc, in
the country near here, At Robert Mel
sons, on the hill, they were frightened
away by his son Frank, who afterward
found new revolver near, supposed to
have been dropped by tho thieves.
They have almost cleaned them out OF
chickens.