The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-08
LOCAL BRgYElRs.
Ma'''F'ot Minor AsMspt In and AbOuItho

saturday, all toF common otfenses.
Characterization at the Opera House
will be "Around the World" q week
from this evening,
Tue Hobbs glass works will start up
In full this morning. The prospects for
a steady run are good,
A YOUNG man complained to the police
Saturday night that he had a S. gold
piece stolen in a South Side saloon.
john MoNAHAN, a B. & o. employe,
fell from a a near SChmulbaCh's brew
cry Saturday, and broke his right ankle,
A BRIcHYGBD hand named Fletcher
was arrested by Officer Daum in East
Wheeling yesterday afternoon, awful
drunk,
Two well known characters undertook
to rob an Irish tunnel employe OF SIS in
a Water street saloon Saturday, but were
prevented by the proprietor.
THE sale OF the shrlver property was
continued until this morning at 10
o'clock, The sale will take place from
the front door OF the Court House,
CAfEy OF Police DRLRRuddE, while
running to answer q call in East Wheel
ing Saturday night, fell, badly bruising
his side aud perhaps breaking a rib or
two,
A WORKMAN named Taiiel, employed
on the railroad around the hill, fell from
3 trestle about twenty-three feet high
Saturday, and seriously hurt his head
and face,
THR Council Committees on Claims
and Accounts are called to meet this
evening, That on Real Estate had a
brief session devoted to routine business
Saturday evening.
FLOYD RODGERS accused a well known
colored man Of robbing him Of SOL, but
after ahearingln the matter Squire Davis
discharged the accused, The evidence
was that Rodgers never had SOL.
TIN DoNAvlS, a self.constituted pc.
liCeman, arrested Ben Lewis, a colored
man, in theSeCond ward, Saturday night,
On the way to the lookup both were so
disorderly that Officer Shorts put them
behind the bars.
ABOUT five o'clock Saturday afternoon
Ben Frazier, Tom Coffee and Claud
Devinney engaged in a fight in Alley 4
In the rear ofthe Register office. officer
Jack West scattered the pugilists, and
Frazier was arrested.
W. +. KELLY, an oil man, who was
"dolng the town." claims TO have been
robbed OF $50 by W. +. Sheridan, a news
agent on the Baltimore 4 Ohio road,
Sheridan was sent to Jail by Squire Da'
Wis for the grand jury.
An electric motor jumped the track
opposite the Riverside Steel works Sat
urday, and came near going over an EN-
bankmpnt. Travel on that end OF the
line was delayed about five hours, until
the car was gotten back on the track.
Miss FLoY CRowELL closed her engage
ment at the Grand Saturday. The mat.
nee audience was fair, and the house full
at night. "May Blossom was given in
the afternoon, and "Oliver Twist" al
night. The company is at Newark, o.
this week.
PAT CoNNERs, who stole a crate Of
eggs from W. j. MCClelland, at the Sec
ond ward market house, Saturday morn
ing, was arraigned before Justice Daylt
about six O'Clock that morning, and
committed to jail in default Of 5000 fol
the grand Jury.
joins Grossly, an employee Of the Riv'
erside Plate Mill at Benwood, while
working about the rolls Saturday morn
ing, was very severely burned about the
right side Of the chest and arth by Q
flash from u billet OF steel as il passed
through the rolls.
TlE weather, which was exceedingly
wintrish Saturday morning. became bet
ter late in the day, and yesterday,
though the air was chilly, was u beauti'
full spring day. There was quite Q
hegira Of people to the hill tops and the
Park. The Elm Grove road had on itE
summer cars.
CApr. JouN McLURE is understood Ia
have purchased the lot adjoining the one
on Twelfth street on which he Ia pre-
pairing 10 build a house OF modern flats,
and will make the new building twice
the size originally intended. Squire D.
q. Philips, who thus loses his Office, will
move to 1919 Chapline street.
SATURDAY evening a blaze was discov.
cred under tho hearth OF a bedroom
in the residence Of James Waiter, in
stonetown, Island. A still alarm was
sent to the Island hose house, aud the
reel responded. The fire was extin-
vuished after some little trouble, the
probable loss being about sis. Natural
gas oyerheated the joists under the
hearth and caused the fire.
TIE funeral OF Mr.. Emery Morris, Of
Benwood, who died Wednesday even
ing, took place from his late residence
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and he
was buried by the Knights OF Pythias
lodge OF that place. Mr.. Morris was m
old and we'll known citizen, and Ben.
wood looses one Of her best citizens. A
number OF relatives and friends from
this city attended the funeral.
TIE music charts recently purchased
by the Board OF Education, by which to
teach music to- the children OF the
schools. have arrived, and Clerk Hall has
received notice that the company will
send on Mr.. @. II, Bell to instruct the
teachers, until they are sufficiently fa-
miliar with the method To teach the chill
dren. Mr.. Bell has taught music In the
Boston schools for sixteen years, and Ia
a thorough instructor.
ELIZABETH O'BRtRS, an old lady who
was found to be Of unsound mind last
July, and was released on bond, became
very violent Saturday, and picking up a
chair struck her daughter.in.law over
the head. As tho woman had a child in
her arms at the time, she could not do.
fend herself, and by tho time she got the
chlldin the cradle the old lady had her
by the hair and began dragging her
around the room. Mrs. 0'Brien was ar.
rested and placed In jail, and papers will
be made out for her admission TO the
Weston Asylum.