The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-15
LOCAL nREyIrIEs.
Matters of Minor Moment in and About
the City.


A COMMITTEE Of the Island Fishing
Club went down tho river yesterday TO
pick a camping ground.
QurrE number Of American Mechan-
les from this city win go to Cleveland
on the excursion this week.
THE police came out in their new
light summer helmets yesterday. They
are stylish aud comfortable.
The German Workmen's Benevolent
Society gave an.6nioyable picnic on the
State fair grounds Saturday.
JOSEPH +. CHARSocK, JR., Of this city,
died at Weston yesterday, aged thirty.
The remains will be brought here for
burial.
TnE naptha yacht Surprise was sold
Saturday under deed OF trust, for $50.
1t cost $500 not very long ago, but was
wrecked BY fire.
A SPECIAL train will leave the city.for
Mt. de Chantal at p. IN. on distribu-
ton day, and will leave tho Mount at 5
p. m. for the return trip.
THE workhouse gang will go to work
this morning tearing down the old Wig
liant engine house, which was destroyed
by fire few weeks ago.
A COUNTRY woman's child wandered
away from Site, 3 dry goods store Sat
urday and was lost for several hours.
The police finally found her.
A DIsoRDERLY and drunk made up
the docket Of Saturday mornings police
court, and in the afternoon there WIS
q precisely similar list OF cases.
The man with the telescope on Four
teenth street raked in the dimes for
peeps at the moon and planets last
evening just the same rs week days.
Rkv. HAROLD E. MoNsER, the evangel.
list who has been holding meetings at
La Belle chapel, preached yesterday
morning and eyening at Moundsville.
sArYr AGNES GUILD, of st. Matthew's
P. Z. Church, will give Watbeau enter
tainment at the residence Of Mr.. A. j.
Cecil next Monday from to 10 o'clock
p. IN.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad
has almost fnishediits fill as far down
as the Terminal road and expects to be
running trains into Martins Ferry by
July 4.
YESTERDAY the rolls in the Riverside
steel works and plate mill were changed
from fifteen inch TO twenty-five inch,
for use in the Maddock's patent ma
chimes.
A DEAD dog has been allowed to lie in
the alley adjoining Col. George B. Cald-
wells residence for about thirty-siS
hours. It is somebody's business to re-
move it.
TIE Linsly Cadets defeated the
Eighth ward Athletics Saturday by
score Of 0 to 7. Batteries-Cadets,
Waiter and Dougherty; Athletics,
Murrins and Fonor.
AUcTIoSEER HALLER on Saturday sold
ut auction ten shares OF the stock OF the
Wheeling Electrical Company, the par
value OF which is 500 per share. Peter
seybold bought them at $50 per share.
A STILL alarm was rung in at the Wig
liant engine. house Saturday, owing to
blaze in George Burners house on
North Market street, originating from a
defective flue. No serious damage was
done,
WILLIAM BArsoN, employed at Holli-
days planning mill, got his right arm
caught in planer Saturday, and it was
so badly lacerated that it will probably
have to be ampdtated. DR.. Campbell
dressed the injury.
A STRANGER, supposed to be named
Casey or Carson, who has been working
for Mr.. John Fendt, near Greenwood
cemetery for several days, fell dead
Saturday while sitting on the steps OF
his employers house.
A LARGE mastiff created some excite
ment on Fourteenth street, Saturday,
by falling in a fit, supposed to be due te
the extreme heat. Many people suspect
ed hydrophobia, but nothing serious
was the matter with the dog.
POSTMASTER CowDES has made
change in the matter OF Sunday collec-
tons OF mail. Hereafter the Sunday
collection will be made SO that the car
riers will arrive at the office at p. M,
instead Of p. m. as heretofore.
SATURDAY ahorse belonging to Auber,
the Eighth ward timer, ran away at
the Eof street crossing Of the B. & o.
railroad, and the wagon struck car
standing on the track and was badly
broken, while the horse ran on down
street.
A DOG belonging to Smith, the Tenth
street shoemaker, bit Mr.. Morris Hork-
heimer Saturday. Smith would not
consent to have the dog killed, but he
agreed to sell it for SIS, andtMr. Hork-
heimer bought it and then had an Off
Ger kill it.
Mrs. ANNIE WnEppLE, who was &C.
cused OF stealing a. watch from Mrs.
0'Hagan in North Wheeling some time
ago, was arrested by Officer Lukens Sat
urday and taken before Squire Davis,
who sent her to jail in default OF bail.
She acknowledged the theft.
CHARLES HuGHEs, living on Jacob
street, below Forty-ninth, complained
to the police Saturday evening that
Howard Sarver had stolen a gold watch
from his house. At least the watch
disappeared under circumstances which
led him to believethatSarver had taken
it.
GEORGE McMEcHEN has entered suit
by his attorney, l.. S. Jordan, against
the Evening and Sunday MsUs, for libel,
laying the damages at 5000. Nc
Mcchen is q well known colored citizen,
but the exact nature OF his complaint
does not appear in the preliminary
papers filed Saturday.
Long Walking Match.
Messrs. NJ. L. OFT, H. NJ. Russell, W.
P. Heiskell and. Howard Hazlett left
last Friday for q pedestrian trip to