The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-18
LooAL nREylTIEs.
Matters of Minor Moment in and About
the CITY.

Matters OF Minor Monlont in and About
the City.
TnE C. &P. freight depot at Mingo
was totally destroyed bytire Wednesday
night,
THg Council committees on real estate
and claims have been called to meet
this evening.
THERE will be music at the Wheeling
Club this evening. Killmeyer WI
play and pleasant time is assured to
those who attend.
LEWIS & HAzLErr, the contractors,
were stopped yesterday by the city
from digging out the Stag on the river
bank at Bloch Bros. tobacco factory.
TIE weather yesterday and the day
before was almost as hot as II became
at any time in tho summer, with the
exception OF possibly one or two days.
Tue city electric light poles were I'M
loaded yesterday and the work of dis
tributing them about town begun. Put
ting them up will begin first on North
Market street.
Is the police court yesterday j. W.
Miller, plain drunk, was sent TO the
hillin default Of 81 and costs. Godfrey
Faatz, charged with interfering with an
officer, was dismissed.
APPRAISERS OF the U. S. Glass Com
pany were here yesterday appruising
the Central glass works, which is to be
sold to that company. II the appraise-
ment is net mutually satisfactory an
appeal may be taken TO an umpire.
CLERK Hook yesterday issued n mar
rage license to Frank Z. McWilliams,
aged twenty-five, nutiye Of Irwin City,
Pa, and Minnie NJ. Detar, aged twenty
one, native OF Carson City, Va, both
now residents OF Harper's Ferry, w. Va.
TnE committee on streets, alleys and
grades again viewed the Objectionable
curb in front OF the Wilkie place on
Fifteenth street yesterday and agreed
to lower it for l57 feet westward from
Jacob street, on the north side. This
job will cost SO or $50.
TIE Caldwell & Peterson Company
have adorned the INTELLIGENcER Office
with large sheet OF American tin plate,
rough finished, for roofing. This sheet
is from the first carload shipment re-
ceiyed in Wheeling OF American tin.
Hurrah for Mckinley!
THERE is much complaint about the
non-observance of the ordinance re-
quiring the poles to be taken out OF
wagons standing in market. 1t is quite
q common custom for drivers to leave
the poles in the wagons, cooked up
barely enough to clear the street cars.
FRED CUSHING has received from the
postofIice department instructions TO
make practical test OF his mail box in
st. Louis. If successful there it will be
adopted by the department. Mr.. Cush-
ing has also an order from Mr.. Wanna
maker for pneumatic tube OF which
lie is the inventor, TO be used in the
Philadelphia store.
NEXT Tuesday the colored people of
these parts will have grand Tri.State
Emancipation elebrationo the Wheel
ing Fair Grounds, and in the morning
there will be great procession OF the
societies, for which ample preparations
are being made, and organized bodies
are expected from Pittsburgh, Washing
ton, Allegheny, East Liverpool, Wells
vile, Parkersburg, GAINESVILLE and all
the towns in Eastern Ohio. Ex-senator
d. X. Bruce will speak in the afternoon,
and in the evening there will be u re-
ception at Turner Hall. 1t promises to
be the greatest celebration ever had by
the colored people in the Ohio Valley,
and every one of them in Steubcnville
that can possibly do so will be in attend-
ance.-IStsubenrile Star.