The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-16
LOCAL BRBYITIEs.
Matters Of Minor Moment In and About
the City,

Matters OF minor moment IN ana ADout
THR GRAND this evening "silyer
Bird"
Tue Riverside Company's bar mill
went on double turn this week.
The Benwood nail mill has a large
shipment Of nails on the wharf.
A VALUABLE draft horse owned by
Isaiah Warren died yesterday from OBJ
struction Of the bowels.
The product Of the Mingo Junction
steel plant during 1890 ia reported to
have been over 5000 tons.
FRANK ARKLE, Of Shady Side, near
Bellaire, who died on Wednesday, will
! be buried at Rose Hill cemetery to-day.
ALFRED NJ. DAVIS, aged "a. and Anna
B. Chambers, aged IL, both OF Ohio
county, were yesterday licensed to marry.
Jous CRIswELI has resigned his posi-:
ton as foreman at the Riverside steel
plant, and will remove his family to
Bellaire,
The Crescent Star Social will hold its
first grand ball at Germania hall this
evening, The music will be by Mayors
orchestra.
LAST night the O. & P. local freight,
No. 81, consisting Of thirty.nine cars,
broke In two just below the Martins
Ferry passenger depot, and the engine
and ;frst half ran down below IEsna-
vile before the discovery was made.
TaE County COMMISSIONER Finance
Committee met last night and appro.
priated S668 rs to pay the expenses oil
the special election for State Senator,
and set aside 5000 for the general con-
tingent fund.
WEDNESDAY evening Amelia, wife oil
Joseph scnrilla, aged thirty, was taken
suddenly i'll at her home, and before q
physician could reach her she was dead,
Heart failure Is supposed to have been
her trouble.
| SOME children playing with matches
in the residence OF Mrs. Tolber, on
Thirty.third street, yesterday set fire tc
a curtain and for q time the danger OF Q
serious Ere was imminent. The loss
was only about $40.
A. Fl. HANDLE, miner employed al
tbs Wheeling Greek mines, back o.
Bridgeport, was seriously hurt yesterday
| by q stone falling upon him while ht
was at work in an entry. He received
several bad cuts on the head and bsck
and is thought to be injured internally
Work was commenced yesterday re-
modelling the building on Market street
adjoining the German bank, Tor the use
OF the Mutual Savings Bank. The ole
house on the lot on which the Peabody
Insurance. Company is to erect its band
come block, above Twelfth street, is bs'
ing torn down.
THE producers at the Wheeling steeI
plant have been torn down and will be
rebuilt; the soaking pits are also 10 be
) repaired and all the machinery over
hauled. 1t is understood that operations
will not be resumed until the price. Of
steel has advanced to such a figure thai
1t can be sold proftably.
YESTERDAY morning as Charles Mel
bergaii, q BeRwood butcher, was driving
wagon loaded with meat across the b
4 o. track at that place, q train struck
the wagon and horse, MASKING the
wagon to pieces and iniuring the horse
so badly that he had 10 be shot. Nei
bergall was badly bruised.
THE Caldwell & Peterson Manufacture
ing Company has contracted to do one
Of the largest Jobs in the line Of theil
patent fancy metal ceiling they have even
had. The contract is with the firm o.
. George E. Stiiel & Co., and embraces al
J the ceilings in their new six.story gran
ite building now in Courke Of construc'
| ton on Main street. The first floor cell
ing will be especially elaborate, ahead
of ANYTHING vet done.