The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-06
LOCAL nREylrIEs.
Matters Of Minor Moment in and abeu
the CITY

h4ntteFn OF MINOR momone In and ABOUT
the City,
THE new flag on the City hospital inn
proves tho appearance Of the big house,
and tends to distinguish 1t as a public
building.
THURSDAY evening the Wheeling oy-
road races. A lantern parade will be
arranged for.
WHEN the boys began yesterday to
count the cost OF their celebration they
were honestly glad the Fourth comes
but once year.
A SPECIAL train was run on the W. &
L. E. road yesterday, but is believed to
have been done as an experiment for
the new time card.
ATs o'clock yesterday evening Mr.. I.
G. Dillon took a party Of friends up the
river in one OF his naptha yachts. The
party enjoyed the moonlight voyage.
THE Wheeling and LaBelle potteries'
are having their annual shutdown and
will resume in two weeks The heaters
at the LaBelle mill will go on to-day.
Two lots in the Peabody and Eskey
addition to McMechen were sold yester-
day to Mrs. Margaret Riley, for Sl40
apiece, by Nesbit & Devine, the real es-
tate agents.
JIMMIE CRorr, the old man who
broke several ribs in a fall at the
Wheeling Mining and Manufacturing
company's brick yard few weeks ago,
is out and around,
SEVERAL members Of the Fortnightly
club with their ladies took buggy ride
to Mauletown last night, and enjoyed
one Of the Wayside inns hot wattles
and fried chicken suppers.
OFFICER o'BRIEN yesterday arrested
Charles Merchant and John Ryan for
disorderly conduct, and Special officer
Confer arrested William o'Brien, q
drunk, at the Terminal depot
THE laying of the new natural gas
main on the west side Of Chapline
street from Fourteenth to Tenth is now
almost completed. 1t is to be contin-
ued on down to Nineteenth street.
THE excursion to be given by Wheel
ing City Castle No. 2, K. G. T., July II,
having been declared off, those holding
tickets will have their money retu nded
by returning them to the committee
The Boggs Run Valley Band has been
organized, with John Neidemyer as
president, Mr. Schambra Us secretary,
and August GeoTgestetter as treasurer.
+. w. Banner & Co. furnished the in
struments.
ALL that remains to be done on the
Main street bridge now is to connect up
the street car tracks at the ends and lay
the brick pavement. The proper COM
pletion Of the approach at the northern
end is rather serious problem.
The ironworkers hereabouts are anx-
iously awaiting the result Of the confer
ence between the AmalSamated Associ-
alton and the manufacturers. Harry
Hawkins will leave this morning for
Pittsburgh to attend the conference.
IT was chilly and foggy enough at
daybreak yesterday morning for 'an IN
clement day about Thanksgiving time.
The fog that rolled down over the town
in clouds was SO dense at times as to
obscure the view from Market street OF
the City Hall clock
OFFICER CARNEY last night shot
dog which had been removed from
Fulton by its owner who was afraid
it would be killed for having bitten a
boy. The mayor and the marshal OF
Fulton located the brute and had Oh
flcer Carney kill it.
THERE were eighteen cases in the po-
lice court yesterday. Two girls went to
Jail and man to the hill, while the
rest paid pretty stiff fines. After adj
iourning court the Mryor continued the
celebration by shooting of pack OF
dynamite crackers in the court room.
There are eight or ten cases on this
mornings docket from the Fourth's
Offenders.