The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-26
MARTINS FERRY.
Big Jobs of PumpInE-PersonAI, Industrial
ma Other Items.

BIC JOBS OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. uuubnIuA
ana Other Items.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph BIrdA are visiting relatives
In Pennsylvania.
The BELMONT Medical sOclety VIII meet at
Bridgeport Mach y.
Plate mill No. 4 In the lEtna was or last night
on ReGOHnt Of the illness OF two Of the men.
A large number Of reserved seats have been
tAken for Reagan illustrated lecture at heOpeTA
House tonight for the benefit OF the y. N. Q. a.
Ragan's illustrated lecture Thursday, Febru.
airy %. Pictures highly coiOTed and entertain.
ing. All school children should attend.
Auspices y. n, q. A,
MGnn's foundry will resume this morning.
The fitting shop at spence, Boggs & Co.'s fonn;;
dry will start this mOrnIng and the molderS viii
Z J to work next Monday.
The meetings at the Y. 81. c. A. yesterday al.
tetnoon and last evening were very interesting.
tured on "Dlet and It's AntidOtC."
Mrs. Alice, wife Of the late Thomas Parker, nee
Miss Hanson, died yesterday at the family resi-
| dence corner second and Monroe streets, Of con-
sumption. aged twenty four years, She was OBJ
bIlgGd TO go 10 bed The day OF her husbands
funeral.
The EOrthWoOd glass works, which was obliged
| to smut down on account Of the shutting oil Vi
tho natural ga! during the flood, will probably
tesIme next Monday. The ten new pots Will
be placed IN position TO day, aud II Is likely that
iite will be started tomorrow.
Gas CousunCn were glad when It was turned
on yesterday. Ia the afternoon many OF tkem
were seen cleaning out their stoves, In which
they had been using coal, preparatory 70 turn
| Ing on tho gas. one man When asked for new,
SAID, "the natural gas has been turned on"
A large number OF men arc engaged In differ
Ont paris OF East Martins Ferry III cleaning ou
CeiiArS, and end Il hard work. Most OF them us,
pumps. Two COl0Eed Lnen, for the small sum ofstI
dolhTs, contracted TO clean out one small cellar
and they worked hard with wet feet for two
whole days. AtRnOther place two men had beer
pu Dplng for tMo whole days, and there Is almOS
as much water In II now Us when they started
the water runs in from the other cellars, ant
this Is hard on tho bumpers, especially whci
they Hgrce 10 remove the water for stated sum
Some funny things have been told about thest
cellArS, AT Exley's planning mill the cellar l
nine feet deep and there were four and Oue.hal
feet OF water IN It when the 6yphon pump wa
started on Monday. This was kept going al
day Monday aud until II O'Clock that night aus
from ia. N. until II p. N. on Tuesday. An e2
! animation was made yesterday mOrning, wbe
II was discovered that the water had riEen ~
inch and half, much 70 the surprise Of Nj
EXley, but the pump was started GgHin and
still at work. The wafer Is running In from Gel
lars and yards In that vicinity aud the Hipkin
Lake, three blocks away. Similar experience
ara reported elsewhere. Mr.. Benjamin Exile
says that is any people in town have any cellar
or yards TO pump out TO bring them 10 him a1
! he will do the work FREQ OF cost, One man say
he has already pumped out SIX cellars throng
an opening at the end OF his building.