The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-25
DELLAIItE.
All Sorts OF Local Nows ami Gosslp from
tho Glass City. !.


tho Glass City.
The Belmont County Teachers, Asso-
citation held All interesting and proflta-
bic meeting here Saturday. The Bel.
laire teachers cared for the visitors.
Some Of the papers read provoked
spirited discussion among the. teachers.
Among those who participated were
superintendent Joseph Rea, OF Barnes.
willie, J.. L. Mannix,' OF Martins Ferry,
and BE. Jones. OF this rity while
Messrs. Albert Dreamer, John. Fulton,
w. d. Portertield. John n. Anderson,
j. L. Forsythe and others held up the
teachers end in good shape. Miss Ida
Anderson, OF st. Clairsville, was secrc-
tary, and MI. Albert d.. 'Creamer pre-
sided.
Frank Sherwood, a youth about
twenty years Of age, got filled up with
whisky late Saturday night, and having
secured an old army sword somewhere.
was playing tho role OF a.dangerous
character until about midnight. The
officers were informed and Officer
Strobel took him in. He was very
drunk andHhadtwo half pints pofli4Aor
in his pockets. lie ran. when he saw
the officer, and it is well that he did, for
had he made at him with the weapon
he was ilour!shing he might have been
shot.
a bum who gives his name as Charles
Vance robbed Il small boy named Fred.
die Hildreth, who had just been paid at
the Riverside steel works, in Benwdod,
and came over here't to make purchases
Saturday. He was sent to Jail in de-
fault OF $500 bail ior highway robbery.
The boy was also sent as the prosecuting
witness. The boy will receive 81 per
day as long as he is held, and this is
probably more than he makes at work.
There was q sharp contest at St.
Clairsville Saturday at tho committee
meeting to arrange the details for the
primaries to select delegates to the con-
igrcssional convention, to be; held=satur-
day, May. !, and some Of those who par
tlcipatcd manifest feeline-iover it thnt
bodies no good for either OF the candi-
dates from this county.
Tha Italian who shot a companion
the other night during n row over Il
small sum OF money is being held still
awaiting the result OF the injuries he in
ilicted, but the wounded man is getting
along all right, not much worse of than
the n who did the shooting. lie will
probably be released upon paying a fine
Tor fighting and shooting.
The city lookup was full Saturday
night, every cell being occupied by from
ono to three individuals, the bulk OF
them being incarcerated for drunken
ness, though Bessie Green and her hus-
band got into an alteration on tho
street, and sho was locked up, while he
escaped.
Tho brickyard tools and machinery OF
J. W. Houston 4 Son, were sold Satur-
day by tho Assignee, James @. Tallman,
and were bought in by Mrs. Thomas
Wetherald, who held a mortgage on tho
place, ut two-thirds the appraisemcnt,
$3.50.
Mrs. Potter, Of Bloomington, Ills, .ad-
dressed q large congregation in the
First NJ. L. church yesterday evening
in tho interest OF Homo Missions. She
is y splendid public speaker and held
tho, attention Of the audience for near
" an hour.
a well attended temperance meeting
was held at the Disciples church yes
terday afternoon. The singing OF the
Ford family was G great drawing card,
Common Pleas court conycney to-
morrow with ISL cases on the docket
and new ones being filed almost every
day.