The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-29
MARTINS FERRY.
An Alleged Attempted Suicide Denied
Child Bitten by n Dog, Etc.

An Alleged Attempted Suicide behleu'
Child Kitten by n Dog, Etc,
Benjamin EEley Is on the sick list,
The new Catholic church Il enclosed.
Mills No, l and . at the Etna will go on To-
morrow,
delphiG,
John Roberts returned on Saturday from
Cleveland,
The ARnueFchOr plcnIcEed at seabFlght'l
orchard yesterday,
The eolored camp meeting at Broadway Park
yesterday drew wen,
MEs. @, Z, shrevC Is entertaining her sister
Mn. sAxon, OtChicago,
Ralph Cunningham, Of CadiE, Il the gueSt0 oil
his tFlend Ernest q, smith,
Misses Josie Cochran and Flora NGCOrd are
Waiting tflendSRt Brilliant,
Mr.. and Mrs. william Jump buried an eighteen
months old child Yesterday,
Jacob Good Is the gust OF his brother, Joseph
Jacobs, et the Hotel Haywood,
Leave your orders for Job printing ut the
branch Office Of the lSTILLldEScER,
The family Of David Simpson have rs their
guest Sherman Dale, Of Yellow Greek.
Lewis Hastings says that his race with Berthe
Lawrence will not take place before September,
Mr.. @. W. ThOEngate returned GU Saturday
night from q pleasant visit to his parents Al
Kent,
Miss Lulu Williams, Of ZsnesyIle, Is visiting
the family Of I, u. Ednonds, In the Standard
addition,
The picnic given BY the Junior Order Of Amer.
lean Mechanics at broadway Park on Saturday
was largely attended,
Communion services were held In the Presby-
terrain church yesterday, ten persons uniting
The attendance was large,
Mr.. John Henderson has returned from u SIX
weeks trip through Indiana, Illinois, Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Michlgan,
The Board. Of Health should hustle, The
streets aud q lleya are In . terrible condition, aud
there Is considerable sickness,
Miss Mar, Thomas and Miss Jennie peyeFeau,
Of Sharon, Pa, are tho guests Of Miss ElvilR
Lewis, In NeWlAnds new addition,
Miss Mary Davidson has returned from u
charming two weeks visit with friends Ut
liaFneAVllle, MorriStown aud Lewis Mills.
Some ilne paper has been put up for tho West
Virginia State Fair aud Exposition. 1t always
draws, well from Martins Ferry, She Will have
exhibits this year.
Thomas ConowAy and Miss Lizzie Jones, well
known young people OF this city, were married
quietly 1t Cleveland last Wednesday, and have
gone TO hOuSekeeplngOn Hanover AtTeet,
A picnic will DO held at LAzcRr''s Grove, near
ut. Pleasant, next Saturday by the Methodist
Sunday schools OF MI, Pleasant, Smlthlleld, New
Alexandria, Rush Run aud WRTrentOn. The
grove iSR beautiful one.
The MingO club defeated tho WellSbug GrayS
OF the MlngO grounds on Saturday, by u score Of
II 10 !, Padden and TetleVGF, OF the Martins
Ferry club, were the battery, A large crowd
witnessed the game, including many ladies'.
A iouryearOld child Of Lewis seabrlght, &c.
siding on Penn street, was severely bitten on
the cheek by large dog belonging 10 Martin
llAnuker, who lives on tho same street, on Eat
urday. Tho dog was ordered killed by Marshal
Burns. Seabright thinks Of having HRnukCF
arrested.
George Mentz, u machInist residing on Second
street, near Hanover, swallowed an ounce Of
laudGnRIn on Saturday, aud fora time his TO
COYery was doubtful, lie. had been suffering
from cramps 10 tho stomach, and went 70 Ong's
drug store where he purchased the landanuln,
Returning home he swallowed I'LL OF 1t to ~.
licye his suffering, not knowing that II would
kill him. DIR. J. n, NaGkfOrd was summoned
and administered the proper RnlldOteS, He OF,
.dered Mrs, Mert1 and those present to walk him
about the room. This they had been doing, also
giving him strong coffee ut intervals, and II
looked like he could not live, After Dr. Black
fOrd's visit he improved, and Is now believed 10
DO out Of danger, II was reported that Mentz
swallowed tho laudanum with suicidal Intent,
but this he denies, aud says he had no reason for
doing II. lie formerly worked ut l., Spenee'S
Agricultural Works, and Is now employed ut
Means In SteubGnvlllc, Tho report that he
tried to shuttle OH created considerable excite
lnent.