The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-06-07
LOCAL BRgvlTlEs.
Matters OF Minor Moment In and About
tho City. s.s t

tho city.
EUGENE Ron,NsoN's floating palace
show will BIO here next Friday.
OFFICER HERBERT shot a tramp dog on
Twenty.eighth street yesterday. 7
THERE was not a case for the police
court yesterday, the first "white.wash"
for many u day. '9s. I
TnE Y. NJ. @. A. Athletic Club had its
weekly outing on the Bridge Company's
park last evening.
AN leo wagon belonging to N. Kuhn
upset on Main street above Twelfth
early yesterday morning and was
smashed. atf !,
TIE Liberty got caught In the wind
storm Thursday evening at powhatan
and had TO tic up. She lost part Of her
gang plank and crane. ,
THE hardware store OF james McCul.
Tough, on the corner Of Main and Four.
tecnth streets, has been closed by Con.
stable Lon st. Myers on suit for rent.
TIE nail factory At the Top mill has
resumed work. Tho sheet mill OF this
company IL 80 rushed with orders that
on Monday 1t will go to work with
three turns.
TIE E,na and Standard mills shut
down last night TO allow their employees
to attend the Amalgamation picnic at
Rock Point today. The mills will re.
sume operations OH Monday.
JONI SMITH was arraigned before
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selling adulterated honey, and was sent
to Jail In default OF 5000 bail. Mrs. An.
ME Parker was the complainant. "
WILLIAM ANDERSON, alias "Red Bird
Dick" was sent to jail by Squire Arkle
yesterday in default OF $500 bail on the
charge of stealing n watch from J. J.
Mcbride on Thursday morning.
Lors OF people are getting rich harry.
est OF coal from tho wrecks OF the
sunken barges below the Union bridge.
They 90 out In skiIs and scoop in large
quantities Of the very best quality Of
coal.
County CORONER SCnuLTzE was called
yesterday to hold an inquest on col.
ored infant six months old, named Ell.
eanor llarris. lie found she had died
from exhaustion, due to inability to ex.
lat on artificial food. Her mother was
Ill and unable TO furnish nourishment
THE ice factory OF tho Wheeling Ice
and Storage Company has been shut
down for Me past two days, connecting
up their new No. machine. They ex'
! pect 10 start up again to-day, and will be
In good shape to make at least sixty tons
Of their pure artificial ice every twenty
four hours.
THERE was an amusing rat chase on
Fourteenth street yesterday during the
: heavy rain. The street was flooded, and
q rat washed out Of its hiding place and
down the gutter. Men waded in the
: deep, muddy water after it, but it would
have escaped had it not struggled &C
that it drowned.
THERE is a good deal Of complaint, and
just complaint, too, about the loafers
who congresate each evening on the
south wall OF the postoilice premises
: Custodian Bickerton says he proposes
to break up the habit. II he succeeds
: he will have the thanks Of every lady
who has to pass there.
The work OF digging out holes to re-
ceive the stone work for the new bridge
which is to be erected between E.na
: vile and the Island, is progressing very
nicely. Two holes have been dredged
ont in the bed OF the river and will be
filled with heavy casing next week
ready for the stone layers. The hole iol
j. the abutment on this side has been put
! down about twelve feet, and will be sunk
a few feet deeper, when concrete
foundation will be laid.