The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-04-05
LOCAL BRRYrIEs.
Matters Of MINOR MOmgnt In aud About

in the market,
THE GRAND this eyening-Floy Gro
well as PGTthsHiG,
THERE were four very ordinary cases
in the Police Court yesterday,
", NJ, KOPu's wife presented him
with an eleven pound girl baby yester-
VINCENT VAN METER, living near West
Liberty, whose residence was destroyed
by fire a few weeks since, will rebuild at
once,
Tue Italian laborers on the B. 80. R,
r., who recently camped near town, are
at Glenwood on q strike Washington,
Pa, Reporter,
PAT KANE, or King, who was arrested
four times on tuesday and Wednesday,
paid q fine Of " and costs in the police
court yesterday,
BIcE SHEPPARD, Of Wheeling, and
HALEY Woods, Of Martins Ferry, will
skate for q purse Of SIS at the Martins
Ferry rink Saturday night,
TAG first grand ball OF local Union
No. !, Miners n, p, u, will take place at
Arion Hall April Goth, 1t is hoped that
there will be a good attendance,
THg special committee appointed to
provide for the abolition Of the Police
and Fire Board, and the COMMITTEES on
Accounts are calledto meetthise vening,
The wrecked cars on the B. & o. near
the Benwood mill were placed In posi-
ton yesterday and pulled up the bank
upon the tracks, They were not broken
much.
PART OF the Riverside Tube Works, at
Benwood, was shut down Wednesday, so
that the furnaces may be put in shape
10 burn natural gas as fuel again, 1t will
take several days to do this,
THR person fined in police court one
day this week for insulting a woman in
North Wheeling, and who gave the
name OF Atwell, was not William Atwell,
one Of the Top mill puddIers.
DAN GANRRN, q conductor on the cleo
the car A, In adjusting the trOlle wheel,
broke two fingers. The accident hap
pened as the car was crossing the B. & o,
track at the Wheeling pottery,
The West Virginia Natural Gas Com
pany are building a rig on Il, S. Donald
sons farm, Gross Creek township, says
the Washington, Pa, Journal, IT'S sup
posed that drilling will be commenced
next week.
The interest in amateur photography
has considerably increased in Wheeling
and vicinity, and there Is talk OF form
ing an association with a view to help.
ing each other with suggestions, and
perhaps to giving occasional exhibitions,
A TELEGRAM was received from Fair
mont yesterday requesting the police
heret to arrest and hold Wafer Compston,
wanted there for grand larceny. Agood
description Of him was given, but up to
last accounts ho had not shown up here.
, AN italian workman fell from the
abutment near the Top mill yesterday
TO the stony ground below, a distance OF
!. about twelve feet, and his head striking
astone, was badly cut. He was taken to
Williams drug store aud the flow OF
. blood stOunChed.
PRESIDING ELDER Mills was a passen.
ger on Tuesday night on the Cincinnati
express from Pittsburgh, which flew the
} track in u deem cut, near West Alex
ander, Pa. Although the entire train
left the rails. no one was injured.-BeH.
aire Independent.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com.
pany are reducing the nulnber 0 ffreight
trains over the road, and will hereafter
~ CnoIaH, trnnunnnf nu1v uOnh frOiOht
as Is OF a p%erlshable nature. This action
on the part otthe officials will meet with
the approval OF the public.
AUGUST ZoEcKLER, OF Fulton, who re.
Gently injured his left eye seriously, had
1t removed yesterday. Drs. DiCkey,
!. Alderman and Ashbrooke performed
the delicate operation. The eye was
wounded by a fall from Mr.. ZoeCkler's
wagon, his face striking a rock.
Ed. O'DoNNELL, OF tho Baltimore &
Ohio, yesterday arrested a man named
Henry b. Dorsey, who was drunk and
misbehaving about the depot. He Ia
from Ohio. In his pocket was some.
, thing over $50. He raised a big racket
in the lookup, and "wantedto go home"
WORK was begun yesterday and has
already made good progress, on the
demolition Of Capt. MCLure's building
Just east Of the Mcclure house, prepare.
tory to erecting there a iine.four story
building, IN addition to the Mcclure
house, with aCOmmodious store room on
the first floor.
Two men who gave their names as
Thomas Nelson and Almond Joice, aud
claimed TO be potters from Wheeling,
assaulted a man named Manigold at
StCubenvillc night before last. They
were arrested and fined $25 and costs
each. Nelson fired a revolver at Mani.
gold, but missed him.
ASIDE track has been put in at Kings
Creek, up near Toronto, and about III.
teen men are now at work In charge OF
William StraChan for s, Casparis or a
stone quarry, taking out stone for the
Wheeling bridge. Inside OF u month a
hundred men will be employed, 1t being
the intention TO keep u large force OF
men at work oil season.
YESTERDAY was gloomy-Cool, and the
sky threatened rain or snow. Such a
day would do credit to late November or
early December; but the curly trees arc
budding into leaf fast, and the grass
growing greener in spite Of the unfavor.
able weather. The sound Of the carpet
beater Is heard in the land and the
average house smells Of soft soap.
TuE supper and entertainment to be
given at MWnnerChor hall this evening
Tor the benefit Of Baltimore Lodge, No.
o, K. Of T., bids fair to DO n Of the
most attractive affairs Of tho kind given
this season. The proceeds are to be
spent in Identifying the lodges castle
hall, andthe affair ought 10 be literally
patronized.
CLpRK Hook yesterday admitted to
record one deed OF trust and a deed
made March 2S by Charles I. Reed and
wife to John Mehlmann, in c%onsidera.
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