The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-20
LOCAL %BREvIrlEs.
Matters Of Minor Moment 10 and tbou
F. fha rtIy. E| re

ths City.
OPERA HOUSE, this evening-"BoccAc.
cio."
Tux GRAND this eyening-"Muggs'
Landing"
A SvEnKn OF young people had mn en-
joyahle bowling party at the Park Inst
evening.
1IiR new Twelfth street sower hos
been finished hall way from Chaplinc 10
EoG street.
OrricEiw LuKESs and Donnclly each
lodged II very drunken man In the lock.
up yesterday afternoon.
RAILS Gre laid on tho Ohio Valley rail.
road rs far down rs Wegee creek, 10 the
large gravel pits OF the company.
TIE Reeves "Faust" company was
! again In the city yesterday, on the way
from Washington, Pa, to Martins
Ferry.
THE electric COR Olive broke down
soon after coming ont on her first run
yesterday morning, and was retired ioF
the day.
IT was Andrew Myles, OF North
Wheeling, and not Jerry Mylcs, who
was fined in police court Monday morn
ing for abusing hia parents.
TIE Mods Run Oil Company has been
Incorporated by Secretary OF State
Ohley, with a capital OF Sl,5C0. The
main office Is 10 be at Warrington.
TIE work Of laying the switch IRON
the Baltimore < Ohio railroad UP TWEEN.
ty.iourth street 10 the Riverside Iron
works and John G. Hoffman & Sons
tanRery has been commenced.
TIE Jefferson Iron Company has de-
cided 10 rebuild Its heating and nail do.
partments which we're destroyed bytire'
The foundations were commenced this
week for n ilie.proof iron building.
TnE ladies who are 10 take part In the
KirHfess In December, for the benefit Of
the Ladies' Hospital fund, met the gem
tleman who is to teach them the dances,
last evening at the Y. NJ. G. A. hull.
TIE Wheeling Natural Gas Company's
well on the Major Work property, at
Buffalo, Pa, is drilling at q depth Of
$500 feet, and should reach the fifth
sand q. 2,74O feet aome time next week
The weather has been peculiar for the
past two dayr. lrl Hicks cold wave
seems 10 have matetialized, although
the sky was clear and the sun bright.
Last night tho sky clouded up again and
q little Tain fell.
TIE Benwood Iron Compsny is con-
templatiug the removal Of the present
nail plate mill and replacing it with @
now and improved train Of rolls, upon
which they can roll not only nail plate,
but also skelp iron and heavy plates.
JOHN PORTER started q large force oil
men at work yesterday in the erection
Of a large brick works above New Cum.
herland. They are located midway be
tween the Globe and Union works, and
the railroad will shortly be extended to
that point.
TIE iiolian Quarte!te, composed o.
r. Ii. Parker, W. Fl. Shafer, E. A. Dunn
and viii Y. Nesbitt, assisted by Mr.
Andy Raymond, son and daughter, will
give Q concert and elecptionary enter
tainment at N~IcAIechen, below Bsnwood,
on Saturday evening,
THE pupils OF the Female College will
give a musical and elocutionary enter
tainment ut the college Friday evening,
;or which q very attractive programme
has been prepared. All who are inter
ested in the college, and the public in
general, arc cordially invited to attend,
TIE Bellaire Nail Works Company is
now selling of all the steel that was
piled up for use in the factory. All o.
their billet steel has been in good Do
mand and now the entire product seems
TO be noyihg. This does not brighten
the prospects Of having the nail factory
started.
"TuE most dangerous custom in daily
use," Gays a well.posted electrician, sis
the habit Of placing the hand oyer the
bell on 5 telephone when q call ia made
10 avoid making q noise. Tho habit is
very common, yet il a line should hap
pen to DO closed, the effect would be
more fatal than contact with an electric
light wire. The hand should never come
in contact with the metal on q tele'
phone"