The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-02-28
LOCAL BREylTlES.


Matters OF Minor Mention in and About
tho City.
AT tho Grand to.night-"Devil's
Nine"
EARLE, a little son Of Charles Men
iemcller, is very sick with pneumonia.
A JOLLY CROWD Of bowlcrs spent last
evening very pleasantly at Seibert's
garden.
THERE was but one ease disposed Of at
yesterdays session Of Police Court, and
it was-only a plain drunk.
AT the Opera House to.night-Hand-
somely illustrated lecture on INA.
poleon," by Donald Downie, 3. G. L.
AT last midnight the only unfortunate
recorded on tho blotter at police head.
quarters was one Dan Edwards, who was
run in on a charge Of drunkenness.
PROFESSOR BOWLING, OF Bethany Col.
lcge, will commence Il series OF meetings
ut the Disciples Church this evening.
A large audience is almost certain to BIZ
present.
WILLIAM GARRISON, n brakeman on
the B. 4 o. railroad, had his head badly
cut Wednesday night by falling from u
car in tho Hempied yards. The in.
juries are not serious.
The work OF tunneling Chapline
hill was begun at the Caldwell's Run
end yesterday morning. The cut lead
ing up to the tunnel has not been fin
ished yet, but work is progressing rap
idly.
A SIX year old boy named James Stan
ley, living at Woods and Seventeenth
streets, drank m ounce OF paragorit
yesterday morning. The overdose made
him very sick, but at last accounts the
effects OF the opiate were wearing of.
TIE Ohio River passenger train du;
here ut S:45 p. m. was an hour and Q
half late getting in last night. 1t is un'
derstood to have been detained below
! Parkersburg by small landslide, caused
by the recent heavy. rains and the high
river.
AT the First Presbyterian Church to
night-an illustrated lecture on "Siam
the Land of the White Elephant" by
the Rev. Eugene P. Dunlap. This vii
be found 10 be a very interesting event
well worthy in every way Of a lGrea
patronage.
A GENTLEMAN named Foley, of Pitts.
bureh, one Of the proprietors OF a dime
museum in that city, was here yester.
day trying to arrange for renting the
building now occupied by Donaldson,
Lewis Co, for n dime museum. The
intention is to rebuild the house and ar,
range it for theatre purposes il it can be
rented.
FoR the past two days the Board o.
Public Works has had gangs Of scrapers
at work on the streets in tho business
portion OF the city giving them a much
needed cleaning. Carts followed tile
scrapers pretty close in removing the
piles OF dirt, so that the cleaning was
more etfectual than it has usually been
in the past.
QUITE a number of people thought
yesterday afternoon that Street Commits,
sioner Clark had taken snap judgment
on the City Council. and had decided to
build a new bridge over the creek at
Main street ut once. A careful investi'
CATION, however, showed that Mr.. Clark's
workmen were only removing some o.
the old curbing to use elsewhere.
JUDGE HANcE, in the Common Pleas
Court at Steubenville, yesterday sen.
fenced Sallic Wclch and Lucy Winters
to pay $500 and costa and to be imprison.
ed in the county JUL for thirty days.
Both Of these women arc proprietresses
Of notorious deus. These cases arc
among the first OF the kind that have
been before the Common Pleas Court oil
Jefferson county for a long time. In
case the women so back to their old
business, under the Ohio.law, they can
be hauled before the court on a charge
Of contempt and very spmmarily dealt
with,