The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-13
BELLAIRE.
All Sorts of Local News and Gossip from
tho Glass City.

| All Sorts OF Local News and Gossip from
the Glass City.
Recently the INTELLIGENcER noted that
the county commissioners were likely
| to DO involved in a novel suit to enioin
| the collection OF pike tax on Pipe
] creek, and now tho suit has been filed
at st. Clairsyille, and the commissioners
have employed Hon. l.. Danford and
George Duncan to assist the prosecuting
attorney, as the case is very compile
Gated one. The pike in question cost
| about $4,000 and was built under the
law to tax the property within one mile
on each side OF the pike. The suit
grows out Of including the property
owners within ono mile from the end
of the pike These people participated
i'll the preliminary work of laying ont
the route and having the pike built,
then exercised their right under the
law to escape paying for it and as the
law does not include the property
within mile OF tho end OF the pike
they are let out on that technicality,
and now all the people along the line
on either sido of the pike seek to escape,
on the ground that the commissioners
erred in building the road through the
petition OF those beyond the end OF it,
with others, and they have employed
able counsel who believe their clients
have chance OF escape. But the gen.
eral opinion is that these people have
slept on their rights too long; that they
could have successfully prosecuted q
suit to prevent the work being done,
but cannot participate in having good
road mado and then escape responsi-
bility after it has been completed.
Rev. John G. McCracken, OF Markle,
Pa, has accepted call to the Second
Presbyterian church of this city. The
congregation has been without pastor
ever since Rev. w. NJ. Eaton resigned
early last spring, but have had tho pull
pit supplied by number of ministers
in the interior, and finally made unan-
imous call for Rev. Mr.. McCracken.
Messrs. A. L. Baron and B. +. Cock
ayne who operate the Ohio lantern
works at Titlin, are in luck. They have
struck oil in a well drilled by them on
a vacant lot adjoining their works, and
a local paper from that town says it
flows more than 100 barrels per day.
AL and Ben were former residents Of
this city.
An effort will again DO made this win
ter to have this county alone made a
common pleas judicial district. The
matter came up in the last legislature,
but with the idea Of redistricting the
whole state, it was put to sleep. The
project has advocates and opponents.
The B. & O. authorities now require
weekly comparison OF the watches OF
the engineers and conductors on the
Central Ohio division, and have ap.
pointed W. G. Bonney inspector OF
watches with headquarters at Newark.
The wife of ]. +. Young, formerly OF
this city but now OF st. Clairsville, has
withdrawn tho third suit she has fled
for divorce and they ere again living to-
gether on farm near the county seat.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lancaster are
receiving congratulations over the ar
rival OF n pair of twins attheir home
n boy and girl. Tho mother was for
merly school teacher here.
Circuit court begins at St. Clairsville
this morning. Judges Laubie, Wood
bury and Frazier came in yesterday.
Messrs. Edward Jones and Chalkley
Dawson are in Pittsburgh on business
for tho Bellaire nail works.
George W. Yost, secretary OF the Bel
laire Bottle Company, left yesterday
afternoon for Chicago.
Ex.Probate Judge @. W. Carroll, who
has been seriously i'll, is now thought
to DO out OF danger