The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-01
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.
Matters of Minor Moment in and about
the City.

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The dogs arc now wearing their loud
est pants.
A NEW social club is to be formed
soon in the South end.
The Sunday excursions to Chippewa
Lake are drawing well from all the river
towns.
THE Beethoven Singing Society will
give picnic on the state fairgrounds
to-day.
TIE board of county commissioners
will meet to-day in regular monthly
session.
The Sunday trains on the Wheeling
& Lake Erie Railroad arc doing q big
business.
THE poetry of motion may be all right,
but it isn't in it with the prose OF a
good long rest.
MARTIN THORNTON announces that he
will soon retire from the hotel and res.
taurant business.
FEWER people visited the numerous
fishing camps yesterday than usual on
account of the rain.
THE principal features OF the presi-
Dental campaign will be those OF Har-
rison and Cleveland.
THERE'S one thing on the Island that
makes me sore" whats that?'
"Why, mosquito bites"
The Wheeling pottery is running full.
One hundred and forty new men were
added TO the force last week.
SATURDAY colored boy named Burns
was bitten clear through the heel by a
dog. The dog was ordered to be killed.
JAMES GILLESPIE will leave this after.
noon for Greensburg, Pa, where he will
work in the glass house when 1t starts
up.
The band wagon picnic Is strictly in
it these days. Half dozen wagon par
ties. at least, went out into the country
yesterday.
PRESIDENT WEIHE, of the Amalgama-
ten Association, has acknowledged the
receipt OF the $500 sent him by the
Trades Assembly.
THE Fourth street Methodist church
Epworth League has been invited to
the Moundsville camp grounds on
Thursday. Most of the members will
20.
SAID Wheeling man: ~ am a Re.
publican, but one thing does worry me,
and that is this trust business" "All
that worries me-" said another, "is this
no trust business"
GARFIELD ASSEMBLY will give picnic
on the state fair grounds on Saturday,
August 6, in aid Of the Homestead
strikers. The parade in the morning
will be headed by Mayors band.
A YOUNG man about town who took
his summer fascinator to an ice cream
saloon the other evening on the South
Side, and saw a sign on the wall reading
"All Flavors 70 Cents q Gal" almost
tainted.
In spite of the rain and the threaten
ing SKY large crowds went out to the
park on every hourly train on the Elm
Grove road yesterday afternoon and
enjoyed the music by the Opera House
orchestra.
Amour 10 last night one OF the
overhead electric cables OF the street
car company broke between Thirty
fifth and Thirty-sixth streets, and de-
layed travel an hour and half, until it
was repaired.
wendell SHARPER, q plasterer who
lives in North Wheeling, was at work
in Fulton Saturday, when he was pros
trated by the heat. BE was taken to
his home and in the evening was re-
ported all right.
HENRY SrAHL's wagon ran of near
Alley 0 Saturday aud ran down to the
rostoffice, where the driver, young
man uamed Sorg, was thrown out and
painfully hurt. The wagon was some
what broken up.
Nxxr Saturday and Monday W. H.
Harris's Nickle Plate white horse show
will exhibit at the old fair grounds on
the Island. 1t has performing lions,
Arabian steeds, etc. The admission is
only 10 and 20 cents.
AT half past one o'clock this morning
Officer Wilkie captured stray white
COW, which was saunterinR about town,
and tied it up in the yard back OF the
city building. A ROPE was around ita
brass mounted horns.
A WASHINGTON, Pa, sunday.school
VIII come uOWn 70 GLtu 1EOfo Ilo lnSS
OF this week, and there take the Elm
Grove cars and come to the Park, where
they will have a picnic. Transports
ton has been engaged for $50.
SATURDAY Deputy United States Mar
shall q. W. Robinson brought into town
DR.. Calvert, Of Warrington, who Is
charged with violation Of the internal
revenue laws. He was taken before
Commissioner Campbell and held in
$500 bail for court.
FRKD HoRNlCK was before Justice
Arkle, Saturday, charged by Harry
Humphrey with felonious assault After
hearing all the evidence, the justice
held him to await the action of the
grand jury, and Hornick furnished
bond. He is seventeen years old.
The Ohio Valley potters held a picnic
Saturday at Giles grove, about SIX
miles up the river About $50 were
present and dancing was INDUCED in Il
the music Of the Opera House orchestra.
The members Of the Carriage Makers
Union gave picnic near Giles grove