The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-05
.0uAL BRRYlfIEs.
bIAitsra OF Minor, AIomspt In and About the
CIty.

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. few people lighted their natural gas
ares,
No, 5 plate mill at the Standard will be
to-day and tomorrow for repairs and
stock,
TnR Council Committee on Fire De-
paFEment and that on Police Department
are calledtomeet this evening.
FIRE has been put in tue l6-pot fur.
mace at the Buckeye Glass Works, az
which glass making will be commenced
next Sunday,
]. Il, sroRER qualified on Saturday as
executor OF the will Of Adeline Nc
Donald, deceased. Bond, $1,000 !, +,
Jones, surety.
RRBEcCA ROACH was again locked up
Saturday evening, having been looking
on the flowing bowl, or more probably
the ioaming can,
on Saturday Clerk Hook issued q mar
rlage license 10 Henry Custer, aged IS,
and Rosina Myer, aged q, both natives
and residents Of Wheeling.
THERE was about as large q crowd as
usual at the Park yesterday, In spite. Of
the threatening weather, and the day
turned out after all 10 be very COM
Portable,
THERE were six cases in the Police
Court Saturday, and eight arrests were
made Saturday and Saturday night, A
drunk was also hauled In ina wagon
yesterday afternoon.
WIooISs' prophecy that the first four
DAYS OF August would be the dryest Of
this summer proved to be away of.
They were quite as wet as the average oil
this uncomnonly wet season.
A STONE yard for the Terminal Rail.
road has been located on First. street,
between Hickory and Locust, In Mar
tins Ferry, and a derrick has been put
up.
The last will and testament Of Louis
Filmer, Sr,, deceased, was admitted 10
probate Saturday, and ordered to be
recorded. Caroline Fllmer was made
e%xeCutrix.
WoRx will be commenced to-day on
the retaining wall between Main street
and the Pewiky track at Jonathan's run,
for which Council recently made an ap'
preparation.
IT rained yesterday forenoon, and Just
after midnight last night a very heavy
shower fell for some time, tapering then
to q mllder but steady rain which lasted
for some time.
w. s. CLrvRLAND's Mlnstrels, formerly
the Haverly troupe, will open the sen
son at the Opera House August 10. Mr.
Cleveland Is an experienced manager,
and bis troupe Is said TO be aine one.
TuR B. & o. passenger train due here
at 10 q. IN. from the East over the main
line was delayed considerably Saturday
by q small freight collision at Board
Tree Tunnel at an early hour In the
morning.
TIE exterior Of St. Joseph's Cathedral
Is being painted by David Kurner.
Probably the stone porch in. front Of
the Cathedral will be extended across its
entire front, aud two additional en-
frances made.
A FRANKLIN, Pa, dispatch saysthat M
oil tank was struck by lightning q night
or two since, and the top Of the tank
blown up into the air fifty feet. The oil
took fire, but the top Of the tank came
down on II and smothered 1t out.
MIR. McCARTY, a member OF the arm
OF contractors having the Job Of Preparing
the Custom House, arrived in the city
Saturday. The progress so far made has
been slow, ON account Of the delay In
the arrival OF material, 1t is said.
JOHN LoNAsNE had q hearing before
Squire Davis Saturday on a charge Of
striking Phineas Babbett on the head
with an iron coupling pin ten days or 50
ago, and was required To give bond IN
500 for his appearance a tcourt.
SATURDAY Iafternoon while Jesse
HukilI, a farmer living near Wellsburgl
was moving on a down grade he raised
the cutter bar, when the breast chain oi
the near horse broke. The machine
shot forward, cutting the animals hind
legs of.
CAPTAIN CoopER Is having the Andes
o%yerhauled from stem 10 stern during
the time she Ia laid up. Beds, bedding
and everything else Is being turned over.
The Katie stockdale passed up last even
ing, several hours late, with o big trip
on board.
CAPTAIN HENRY SEANoS, Grand Treas.
urer OF the /. o. o. i. Of West Virginia,
has received IS from ST. Mary's Lodge,
No. 20, for the Johnstown flood fund.
This makes u grand total Of 1851 raised
by the Order In West Virginia TO date
for this purpose.
RECENTLY the family Of VIM. Lodge,
who lives In the alley Ia the cal oil
Balls shoe store, on Main street, were
away from home In the evening, when
thieves entered and transacted the house.
They were evidently after money, and,
finding none, took nothing.
HATTIE GRANrHAM, the colored cook
who recently returned from atour over
the country in mems clothes, was ar
raigned in Squire payis's court Satur-
day on a charge Of stealing $500 from
Ellen Barnes last January, She was
sent to Jail in deialt OF 800 bail.
HENRY A. BoDRSsrEix, q well known
German resident Of the Eighth ward,
Eho has been lying III with typhoid
fever for q month or six weeks, died Sat.
nrday. II was his boy, Willie, who was
killed on the b. 4 o. road at the BoggS
Run crossing about amonth ago.
TnE shipments Of wool from the Char.
tier depot up 70 and including the last
day otJuly aggregated 46,645 pounds.
Shipments commenced about the mid.
die Of June and have not been as heavy
as last year, About 1900 pounds have
been shipped since July Slst.- Washing.
ton, Pd1 Reporter,
THERE were a number OF sopSot Yet.
Grams In the city Friday evening ttom
Wheeling. Amongthem wenotlced Capt,
Charles Schultz, First Lieut.. William I.
Marsh, q, n. Sergt. L. =, Bowman,
S6rgt. Guard, Burr Watt. The boys are
members Of W. s. Hancock Camp, and
presented a handsome appearance Ia
their new uniiorm.-Belaire Tribune.