The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-06
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All Sorts of Local Now, and Gossip from
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All SORTS OF Local. N1Na am bohNp AEN'n
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The trustees OF tho water works met
last night and had the final statement
OF George VI. Wise, WHO has completed
the investigation OF the accounts. The
actua, amount Of the shortage Is S., 6i2.
Nothing has been heard OF II. G. Will
son, tho missing secretary, since the
morning after the shortage was dis
closed to him. He went to Wheeling
on the first boat the next morning and
has not been heard from since, though
there was no disposition to prosecute
him, and he was assured OF this at the
meeting at which ne was confronted
with the condition OF affairs, out THE
guilty fec when no man pursueth" and
Hal Wilson has taken himself hence, no
one knows where. The theory OF sui
eide is gaining more every day OF his
absence. He had little money when he
left. 1t would hardly last week.
James @. Tallman, of this city, has
fled suit for $4,000 under the Adair
liquor law against Martins Ferry saloon
keepers. The Adair law is designed for
the protection OF those who arc injured
by reason OF sales of liquor to persons
in the habit OF getting intoxicated, and
gives the Jury bounds to measure the
damage wife sustains in the loss OF
the company and companionship OF q
husband, and the same rule applies to
mothers and sons.
Mrs. stearms, an old colored lady in
her eighty.eighth year, died at her
home here Sunday. Sometime during
the past summer she stepped on q piece
OF glass. Blood poisoning afterwards
set in and it became necessary to ampu.
tate the foot and part of the limb, and
she was too old to stand such severe
operation.
The Dollar Savings Bank, whose an.
nual meeting was recently mentioned,
presented statement to the public yes
terday which shows handsome in
crease in business during tho past year.
The deposits have almost doubled.
Newton Warnock had his right arm
badly lacerated by n bursting emery
wheel at Warnock's station last Satur-
day, but he is glad that ho is alive, as
the bulk OF the stone barely missed his
head.
Isaac Luchs, who has been in Denver,
COL, for moro than year, in hopes OF
Incorporating his failing health, will be
home tomorrow, not much improved
by the trip.
Mayor MCGOWAN and 'sQuires D. W.
Cooper and +. S. Mason were kept busy
yesterday filling and signing pension
vouchers. There is quite sum OF
money obtained here each quarter in
this way.
Thomas Hays, formerly a contractor
here but now OF Muncie, Indiana, is in
the city seeing old friends and acquaint-
ances. His wife and daughter are also
visiting here.
Gabriel Drys and wife entertained the
Turner Society Sunday evening with an
exhibition in legerdemain. The hall
was well filled with turner's and their
families.
G. A. Shepherd, who had been a
brakeman in the B. & o. yards here for
some months past, died of typhoid fever
and will be buried this afternoon.
Robert NJ. Metz, an operator in the
general Offices OF the G. &. p, is now in
the office OF the general superintendent
of the 3. & o. railroad at Chicago.
Andrew Tolmie will DO buried this
afternoon under the auspices Of the
Masonic lodges, OF which he was an
honored member
The First NJ. E. church was well filed
last night to hear the literary program
rendered by the .Epworth League.
Hon. r. G. Horr will on Thursday
evening discuss, "Has it been proven
that the Balloon is our Cousin?"
The German church realized over
500 from the festival given in city hall
tho latter part Of last week.
Tho remains Of Andrew Long, the
mailer who died here, were sent to Ash
land, KY, for burial.
A barn belonging to farmer Miller,
near Warnock's was destroyed by fire
Sunday evening.
A musical will be given at the home
of ]. l. Fawcett in lower town this
evening.
Louis Pelky purchased the Ward
property, on Crangle's bottom, for
81 1926.
The Mercantile club will give q ball
in Turner hall on tho l4lh.