The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-01
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Matters Of Minor hIomsnt in and About til

Matters Of Minor AIomsRt In and About tho
City,
THE Grand this evsning-"R Ranch TO-"
TUE main span Of temporary bridge
over the creek at Main street was COM
pleted yesterday,
YESTERDAY the weather was wintry
enough TO suit anybody, and last night
. regular blizzard set In.
THE new office Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, TO be occupied
April !, Is being fitted up in most COM
plete shape,
EUGENE MUHLRNAN, formerly an EN-,
ploye Of the Wheeling Beef Company,
has accepted a situation at the hook and
ladder house as driver,
A HOUSE boat which was tied up Just
below the Benwood blast furnace, sprung
a leak and sank, Fortunately the occu-
pant was absent at the time.
WILL FEE, late bookkeeper at Simon
Baer's Sons, has been appointed by City
Clerk Thoner as Assistant City Clerk,
much TO other aspirants' disgust,
Two frail females were fined g and
costs, and three drunken men sent to
the hill for thirty days in default Of s.
and costs, in police court yesterday,
In the obituary notice OF D. 2, Duvall,
OF Martins Ferry in yesterdays lNTELLI,
aRNCRR the name oil William O, Duyall
appeared, by confusion in telephoning
the message,
Tue Baltimore & Ohio railroad Is do
ing an Immense passenger business be
tween Washington and the Taylorstowr
oil field, Coley's Crossing and Taylors
town station.
OFFICER sHoRTs last night ran In
plain drunk who had fallen on Malr
Street and split his head. He said hi
name was W, F, Criter and that he can't
from Canal Dover, 0.
G. L. RODGERS was arraigned befor!
Squire ATkle yesterday, charged viii
embezzling $25 from the ProVident LII,
Insurance Company, and In default o
$500 bail went to jail,
The negotiations between the owner
OF the rolling mill property at Mounds
vile aud George Crumbacker, Of TIL
city, are off, at least for the present
owing to the defective title OF the prop
erty.
TUE Carpenters Union, OF Wellsburg
have decided to advance the price OF labo
to 50 20 per day and reduce the working
hours to nine for every day save satur
day, when eight hours will constitute
days work, to begin April !,
A SMALL girl, aged eleven years, whit
on her way home from tho Benwooi
school on Wednesday OF last week
jumed of OF trestle Of the Ohio Rive
railroad, and sustained injuries iron
which she died Monday evening.
The damage suit Of John Duma
against the city, to recover 500, Tor
broken carriage which he attributed Il
the fault OF the city, was tried beIor'
Squire Ankle yesterday, and he wa
awarded $l4l 90 damages. Tho city vii
appeal.
EDWARD CLARK, Of the Eighth ward
employed on the railroad tunnel in Nortl
Wheeling, yesterday crushed his RICH
foot by letting a heavy stone fall on 1t
He sprained the same foot few days ag'
by jumping from a street car while II
motion.
TIE Board OF County Commissioner
has appointed r. II. Gillespy Justice o
the Peace for Centre district, vice ". i
Miller, who failed to qualify, and W. w
Rodgers a Justice for Centre district
vice William Parker, who has also failed
to qualify.
j. YOUNG, the architect, has prepared
plans and specifications for u dwelling
at Glencoe, Ohio, q brick store ant
dwelling for Jacob Korn, on upper MAR
street, and an Odd Fellows hall, store
and dwelling for W. A. Scott, at New
Cumberland, w. Va.
TnE following well known local talen
has kindly consented to assist the Dis
ciples' Sunday school in their first an
nual concert, on Friday, March l: Mrs
George B. Caldwell, Mrs. Seeley, Mis-
Lucy Robinson, Miss Sarah Sweeney
MIR. Will Day, Prof. Wilkins, DR.. Milf
gan, Mr.. Oscar Seeley, and a quartettt
composed OF Prof. Hammond, r. II. Par
ker, r. Billiard and ". II. Colvig. Th!
chorus will number about 100 voices. A
choice programme will be rendered.