The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-25
.OuAL BREYITLRs.
Matters OF Minor Intsrsst in and About the
City,

City,
WHITE's ten.cent show at CRldwells
run this afternoon and evening,
AcANPISo party composed Of Wheel.
ing and Washington, Pa, people will
leave tomorrow for the mountains,
OFFICER CARNEY yesterday arrested
"Blinkey" Robinson, so drunk that he
had to be hauled to the lookup in q
wagon,
TuE supply Of gas at the well on
Wegee continues to increase IN volume,
II the residents in that vicinity are not
mistaken.
THR Wheeling Light Guards will hold
an important meeting this evening, at
which the officers desire a full attend
ance OF the members,
ISAAC ASpoRN, a native Of Germany,
yesterday received his second papers In
Judge Paull's court, aud became q full
Aedged American citizen,
THE Fisher well, on the Hooker farm,
at Holidays Cove, reached the sand
this week, and Is dry. The drill passed
through sixteen feet Of oil rock as hard
as flint.
VINO is attending TO the City Hall
clock? 1t is not keeping correct time,
and strikes twelve at l o'clock every
morning, creating the impression that
there is q fire somewhere,
CLERK HOOK yesterday admitted to
record q deed made June II by Nancy
W. Dement, TO William Foreman, ioI
$500, ITO aCres Of ground known as the
Dement, farm, In Ohio county,
j, H. Riley, who has been sick FOL
some time, was able to be out yesterday.
but was taken with a hemorrhage OF the
lungs on the street, and had to be taken
to his home on the South Side,
CONTRACTOR LRMoN began yesterday
tearing up the unpayed portion OF Mar
ket street above Twelfth preparatory t.
paving It, A little piece on the cas-.
side next to Twelfth was torn up ant
repaved.
THE steamer Bellaire will take an ex
cursion party up TO steubenyille THU
evening. The party will be made up O.
leading society people, and killmeyel
will 60 along and furnish music toI
dancing.
Ed. PEARL, JR., aged 10, a native o
Jacksonville, Ind, and resident o
BenwoOd, w. Va, and Hannah Rem
hof, aged IS, a native and resident o
Benwood, w. Va, were yesterday licen
sed to wed.
Work was stopped on the safety gat,
tower on the Custom House corner b!
tho objection OF Custodian BiCkerton
The department at Washington has beer
appealed to. Work goes on upon thu
other towers along the road.
TIE German Pioneer Society gave 1T
annual reunion and family picnic at tn
, Park yesterday, going out on the II
o'clock motor and returning at 10 las
> night. The Opera House orChestri
played, and everybody had an enjoya
bic time,
!. THERE was q big excursion over thu
i Cleveland, Lorain 4 Wheeling railroad
to Lake Chippewa yesterday. All th,
! Island street car went over In q train
crowded with people, and two bil
picnic wagons also took crowds, anC
many walked.
SEVEN hundred and fifty men are nov
employed upon the Wheeling& Harris
burg railroad inside the city limits o
Wheeling, and about $4,000 per montl
Is being paid In wages, The contractor
say the bridge piers will be put up u
grade by October ].
: NIonr before last a Baltimore & Obi,
track hand named Oscar Kolz was stand
ing beside the track neal BenwooC
junction while freight train No. Il
passed, when q large piece Of coal wa
Jared from q car and fell, striking hin
on the head and inliCting an ugly cash
The scale question is settled at tn
Bellaire Steel Works, and work will b
y resumed Friday morning. This Is glor
= ious news, and will keep q good rount
sum OF money in circulation here. TIL
Bellaire Steel Works Is n OF TIL
steadiest running establishments In tn
Ohio Valley.-lndependent.
THERE were fifteen cases in the polio
court yesterday, fourteen OF them beinI
on charges OF disorderly conduct AM
one for drunkenness. One disorder.
case was dismissed. Three prisoner
went to the hill in default OF their fines
There have been so far this week-thre'
days-seventy.four cases.
ABOUT 0 o'clock last night the rubbish
on the South bank OF the creek near tn
Hempfeld bridge caught fire, probabl!
from a spark from apassing engine, ant
q big, bright blaze was soon burning
The Atlantic engine and reel and tn
Hope reel were sent 10 the spot anC
soon had the flames e%xtinguished.
THE Young Mems Christian Associa
ton Outing Club has chartered tn
steamer Bellaire for moonlight ride OF
the river Friday evening, August 8
Good music aud refreshments will b,
provided on the boat. The young mel
will do all they can 10 assure a happ!
time and they will expect many OF thei
friends, both ladies and gentlemen, Il
accompany them.
JACOB GEORGE, a brother OF Billy, thu
base ball twirler, and formerly a glass
worker in Bellaire, while camping on
at Hollow Creek, stepped on q rusty mai
projecting through a board hidden by
the weeds. Blood poisoning immedi
ately get in, and he was taken home Il
S%teubenyille and has been delirious from
, pain ever since. The physicians believe
that nail, in addition 10 being rusty, wa
covered with the Juice OF some poison
Gus weeds. His life Is despaired oil.
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