The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-05-17
LOCAL BRByFTIEs.
of Minor moment in and About tho

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CITY.
A REGULAR meeting OF the Board Of
Education will be held this evening.
MARIE PREscoTr and r. D. Mclean at
the Open House this evening in "As
You Like It."
THERE was another whitewash in Po-
lice Court yesterday morning, making
two in succession.
A PLEASANT party was given last even
ing at the residence Of Mr.. Stein, on the
South Side. Spears orchestra was in at
tendance and IN enjoyable time was had
by all.
THE Arion Society has arranged to
have an excursion to Cresap's grove next
Monday. They will spend the day in
the woods with music and sports and
good things to eat, and anticipate having
a very jolly time of it.
ONE marriage license was issued by
Recorder Hook yesterday and that was
about the only business OF any kind
transacted in his office. 1t was issued
to Michael Collins, aged 20, and Maggie
BREEDING, aged 81, both natives and res
idents this city.
TIE Arion and Germania Singing So
cieties Of this city have agreed to sc, to
the st. Louis SengerfestA together and it
is probable that they will get one or
more OF the other societies to join with
them in this excursion. It has not yet
been decided by what road they will go.
The last issue Of Hdrper's Weekly con:
tains full page, full length, free hand
pencil sketch OF Hon. William L. Will
son, the member OF Congress from the
Second district OF this State, that is q
very handsome and very life-like por-
trait. 1t represents him in the act oil
speaking.
JENNIE MCADAMs, q woman well
known in the courts here, was yesterday
committed to jail by Squire Davis in de-
fault OF 500 bond, to answer to the Cir
cult Court a charge OF petit larceny pre-
ferred by Watson Gray, who charges
that she took from his house q pair OF
gold mounted spectacles and other pro-
property. :.
In Part / Of the Circuit Court yester-
day, Judge Jacob heard the arguments
in the eiectment suit OF the City OF
Wheeling vs. Andrew Thallman, which,
after the arguments had been made, was
submitted. The arguments were then
heard on the motion for new trial made
in the damage suit Of Jane Ankle vs. the
City OF Wheeling.
THE alarm OF fire sounded about $3.50
o'clock last evening from boxes IL and
IA was occasioned by the discovery that
the building at the corner OF Water ana
Fourth streets, used MS n cooper shop by
Wilson & Dunlevy, was on fire in the
roof. The blaze was extinguished before
water was put on and the damage done
will only amount to few dollars.
A PUBLIC sale Of valuable suburban
property is to take place on Saturday
next on the premises OF the late resi-
dence OF John Morrow, deceased, ut Nc
Mechen Station, five miles below this
city. on the Baltimore & Ohio and Ohio
River roads. The property consists oil
ten acres OF second bottom land above
high water, on which stands ten-room
brick house. So
MAJoR VINCENT G. CROMWELL, n
prominent hOrsemarf OF Lexington, KY,
who recently made the sale OF Mr.. Will
bur Brockunier's fine blooded horse,
"Wheeling Wilkes" to gentleman in
the Northwest for $40, 900, is expected to
arrive here to-day. Ithas been suggested
that it would be u good idea to have the
officials OF the State Fair Association see
Major Cromwell and arrange to have
him exhibit some OF his fine trotters at
the coming annual fair.
SUPERINTENDENT JAMES RIDDLE, OF
the water works, yesterday completed
the laying OF 3,4O0 feet of 4-inch water
main. Seventeen hundred feet is on
EoT street from Forty-fifth to Forty
eighth street, and up Forty-eighth street
to Jacob, to connect with the main on
that street. The other LOO feet has
been laid through the old fair grounds
property for the benefit OF the people
who are building on the lots recently
laid out there. Both jobs have been
done in the very best manner, and fine
plugs have been put in at frequent and
convenient points.