The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-18
LOCAL BREYITlES


TIM GRAND this eyenlps-aT Thrown
upon the World
OPERA Housf this eyening-''Ihe
Quick orthe Dead"
CHARLES oTTo Inns opened q restaurant
at No. 1884 Market street.
'PAssIoX's SLAVE" viii be the attraC-
ton ~ the Grand the first half Of next
week.
A WAGON heavily laden with coal
broke down yesterday on TWenty'third
street near Eoff.
ASSIGNEE THOMPSON, Of the LRBelle
Glass Company, Bridgeport, has declared
q 49, per cent dividend TO creditors,
TWENTY teams are engaged in the work
Of hauling Wheeling 4 Lake Erie steel
rails out TO Mount Pleasant from the
river,
THR only case in the police court yes
teFday was that Of w, Sheterman,
arrested for "plaln drunk" who paid q
tins OF 81 and costs.
CHARLEY EVANS, o boy II years old,
supposed to be seeking employment at
the glass houses in this city, is wanted
by his father, r. s, Evans, OF East Liver
pool,
WHILE h. & o, engine was passing
tile Riverside Steel works "Wednesday
night, the fireman jumped off, He
struck on a pile Of iron, and falling,
broke his right arm,
A DEcKHAND on the Hudson, while
engaged in loading freight at the LaBells
landing yesterday morning Tel, and cut
q bad cash over his left eye, Dr. stathers
sewed up the wound.
TEN THOUSAND dollars have already
been pledged as local aid 10 the new, rail-
road by citizens OF Steubenvllle, and the
protectors feel very much encouraged
I-Seubmpills Gazette.
TnEpointso Of difference that have been
fexisting between the firm OF a, J,
Sweeney 4 Son and their hoilermakers,
have been satisfactorily adjusted and the
men will resume work,
In the Supreme Court Of Appeals at
Charleston on Wednesday, the case Of
tile Central Land Company vs.. Laidley
ct al. from Summers county, was sub
mitted. Adjourned until Thursday,
If the people OF Florida are enjoying
any finer Spring weather than Wheel
ing people did yesterday they are not to
be- envIed, 1t is said by people, who
keep diaries, that the winter oil 1901
was Inst like this one, only uore 80.
A CALI w1s-issued yesterday for Q
special meeting Of Council to be held
this evening, To consider the Wheeling
& Harrisburg Railroad ordinance and
any other business which may legally
come before 1t.
Mr.. JouN W. WooDcocK, an early citi
zen OF Wheeling, engaged at bridgeport
in tho foundry business many years ago
died recently, at New Lexington, Perry
county, o., In his seventy-lourth year
He had voted for both the Harrisons'
TnE Baltimore & Ohio pay car arrived
over the Hempheld division yesterday
afternoon on It's regular monthly cash
, distributing tour, and rs usual, was
warmly welcomed by tho employees here
abouts. 1t will proceed westward this
morning.
A PLEASANT surprise party was given
at the residence Of Mrs. Charlie Mayer
in honor OF her guest, Mrs. Charles Fry
OF Kokomo, Ind, About twenty-five,
couple were present aud all enjoyed
tliemselycsvery much, playing progress
i've euchre.
CLERK Hook yesterday issued q mar
rage license to Osburn Gray, aged 8S
horn In Moorefield, Va, n widOwer, and
RebeCca stratter, aged So, a widow, .
native OF Harrlsonbure, Va, both resi-,
dents OF this city. The parties arc wei
known col0red people.
TuE German Pioneer Society has
elected the following officers: August
Wiedebush, President; Christian Hess
Vice President; Simon Klein, Treasurer
Frank A. Woeber, seCretaryi Col. jacob
Nunge, Banner Carrier; Peter Bonen'
berger, Chief Marshal.
In June next, SEessrs. j. n. shenk
aud Jacob Loos will sail from New York
for Europe, to represent the Wheeling
Turnbund at the great funniest at Nun,
ich. In July. After the fest they Will
visit all the leading cities OF the Con-
tinent before returning home.
BELrz, FIADlNG & Co. are erecting a
new building for the Central Glass
J. Company TO take the place Of the one
recently destroyed by fire. They have
also contracted with Capt. Mcclure for q
new three-story brick In the rear Of the
Mcclure House, on Twelfth street.
THE authorities Of Mechanicsbnrg, o.,
have sent word here that they will pay
500 for the arrest OF Grant and Thomas
Gary, tho two former Wheeling boys
recently arrested there for burglary, and
who escaped from the officers. Wheel;
ing is probably the last place they would
come TO.
The captains and pilots Of tow boats
running on the Kanawha river are on a
strike. They have been receiving from
| SIS to Sl25 a month for their services
but Thursday the owners Of boats were
notified that thereafter five dollars q day
would be required for pilots and six
dollars per day for captains.
MEssRs. THOMAS L. LEWIS and Edward
Hazlelt have gone into business together
under the firm name Of Lewis& Ha1lett,
as brokers in friedrich, Bessemer foun.
dry and mill iron, steel billets and slabs,
sheet, plate and bar iron, iron ore, coal
coke and oils, railroad supplies, cast and
wrought iron pipe, etc. They have the
exclusive agency for a number OF lead