The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-20
LOCAL pREyITIEs.
Matters of Minor Moment in and AbOu
tho City.

the City.
TIE Council committee on fire depart
ment is called to meet this evening.
ALL of the iron of the Island channel
span of the new bridge is in position.
Two new ten-wheel locomotives are to
be put on the c. & 2. railroad this
week.
IT is week from to-day that the Y.
P. s. G. +. meets at Fairmont in State
convention.
TIE Washington College team will
play the Red Cross team this afternoon
at Recreation Park.
TIE funeral OF Charles Wright took
place yesterday afternoon. Baltimore
lodge, X. of P, attended in n body.
LAST evening the Young Peoples So;
ciety Of Christian Endeavor conducted
the services at the Disciples church.
LAST Saturday Squire Manion fined
William West S. and costs for assault
and battery on complaint Of Robert j.
Blaisdcll.
THE Germania Pioneer Society is call
ed to meet ut Arion Hall this afternoon
at o'clock, TO attend the funeral OF
Adam Cappell.
Is the police court Saturday evening
Richard Blum, for drunkenness, was
fined 50 and costs, and in default OF the
cash was sent up for fifteen days.
. A CROWD OF young people, married
and single, will drive out to Maultown
this evening on half loaded hay wag-
on, leaving the city about 5 o'clock.
A SMALL blaze in Pollack's cigar fac
tory was the cause Of IN alarm being
turned in on Saturday. The fire was
put out before the arrival OF the depart
ment.
A COW feel into a deep ditch dug for q
sewer in the alley back Of the Warwick
pottery Saturday night and it took a
dozen men four hours to get her out
She was unhurt.
TIE enumerators appointed by the
Board Of Education have finished their
work. 1t shows a population OF 34,2O0
in the city, as against 32,1S1 a year ago
by the school census.
OFFICERS FRouME, Wilkle, .Donley,
Carney and Lukens raided kis Walton's
house of ill-fame last night and found
the landlady herself, four girls and six
men. This swells the total TO thirty
two cases to be heard in police court
this morning.
On SATURDAY Squire Davis fined Flo
Hall S. and costs on warrant sworn
out by Elizabeth Barnes, charging Flo
with assault and battery on her grand
daughter, Alice Thompson. Flo Hall
thereupon swore out warrants against
Mrs. Rine and Mrs. Minerva Capps.
NTEssRs. NIKE AND TON OWENS, Ed.
and John Hansuaner, Tom Collins and
John Memories left Saturday afternoon
for Findlay, Ohio. The union has
granted them special permit to work
during. the stop on account Of nom
union factory which is running there.
FRIDAY afternoon q barge belonging
to the tow OF the Jos. Nixon, ran
aground on sand bar near the Sisters
Islands. In an effort to pull the barge
oft the bar, one OF the deck hands was
severely injured. He was brought to
this city, where DR.. Spragg dressed his
wounds, after which he was sent to his
home in Pittsburgh.
INTELLIGENCE arrived here Saturday
that Mr.. Charles Y. Scott had died sud.
denly Mt Pittsburgh. Mr.. Scott, it will
be remembered, was in charge Of the OF.
fee OF the Natural Gas Company OF
West Virginia, in this city. In the
spring he had severe attack Of grippe.
subsequently he broke up housekeeping
on the Island and moved to Pittsburgh.