The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-17
LOCAL RRHvITGEs.
Matters of Minor Moment in and about
the City.

row.
Coon apples are in unusually brisk
demand in the Wheeling market just
now.
GRAPES are scarce and high this year,
and do not compare in quality with the
average years yield.
MARKET street from Twelfth to Six
teenth is as dirty thoroughfare as can
be found in a civilized country.
AN interesting entertainment was
given last evening in the German NJ. +.
church, by the Epworth League OF that
church.
SUPERINTENDENT P. BRUNER, OF the
Cleveland, Lorain 4 Wheeling, will on
October transfer his headquarters to
Uhrichsville.
WILLIAM ]. McHUdH, OF Mountain
View, is building fine two.story resi-
dence on the site where the house
burned on July 20. L. NJ. Etzler is the
contractor.
THE sand and dust that blows of the
Main street bridge is serious nuisance
to people living near. The sand ought
to be Kept sprinkled until it Is ready to
be swept oil.
THE Morgantown papers are authority
for the rumorthat Wheeling parties are
about to build glass works in that
town. Nothing can be heard OF such n
project here.
A FINE portrait OF Next Governor
Thomas f. Davis, from the easel OF
Capt. j. A. Faris, is displayed in the
window OF NiCol's art store, and attracts
a good deal OF attention.
SOME good paper is displayed an
nouncing Al. G. Fields mlnstrels at the
Opera House next Thurs day night.
Wherever this company has been seen
everybody agrees it IS great one.
ISAAC SrRonsNIDER q Monongalia
county merchant, is reported to have
disappeared, leaving n number OF
Wheeling merchants, who were his
creditors, out for considerable sums.
YESTERDAY old John Mooney, while
working on the Baer building on South
street, got his hand under log, and
one finger was mashed in a sickening
manner. DR.. j, G. Hupp dressed it.
A LOT OF two.foot crock sewer pipe
has been piled along Sixteenth street
from Main east, and people are wonder
ing which OF the recently laid pave
ments near there is to be torn up to put
the sewer down.
A MULE belonging to Stewart & Ward,
OF Bellaire, fell fiat on his side just for
fun at Twelfth and Market streets yes.
terday afternoon, and the efforts to
make him get up attracted large
number OF people.
THE Cleveland Provision Company
has set up an agency here as u rival OF
the Wheeling Beef Company, furnish:
ing dressed meets to butchers and
dealers. The agent is said to have
Caught on" we'll.
"MAsrER AND MAN" will be at the
Wheeling Opera House the last two
nights OF next week, with Saturday
matinee. 1t has never been seen here,
but made wonderful hit wherever
presented last season.
THE following deed was admitted to
record in Clerk Hooks office yesterday:
Deed made September l, 1892, by John
T. Payne TO Margaret May Robinson Tor
parts of lots No. II and Q in Zilles' ad-
dition, Island. Consideration, $3.50.
CHARLES ELLIOTT, the young man who
was badly hurt on Thursday morning
in the Eighth ward by falling off a roof
and breaking three ribs and being bad
" cut in the back by projecting nails,
was much better yesterday, and expects
- l,o ab1n IN ha al pf1f unpn
A NUMBER OF well known Island soci-
ETY. people gave large bowling party
last evening at Seiberts Garden. A
tempting repast was served during the
contests, which was heartily enjoyed.
They returned on late motor, after
spending very pleasant evening.
WILD ducks line the river these morn
ings, and one or two mornings the
"honk'' has filled the air with its wierd
sound. The fowls are flying southwark.
Smaller birds are also gathering for
their migration to the tropics, all OF
which is sure proof that fall is not far
of.
G. A. R. EXCURSION tickets, Washing
ton and Baltimore; excursion Pitts
burgh and Columbus, mileage books,
Pan-Handle, Baltimore q Ohio, and
Wheeling & Lake Erie, Union Railroad
Office, 1900 Market street, John Bailie,
agent.
HoGE AND WHITE let contract yes
teriay to John Lanehan for grading
roads and laying sewers on the property
Of Mrs. A. G. McMechen. The property
is part OF the Shepard McMechen farm,
and it is the purpose Of Mrs. McMechen
to lay it out in lots. Work will be COM
menced Immediately.
The old and we'll know general insur-
ance agency OF ]. G. Anderson & Co.,
will be removed to-day to No. llGO Main
street, next door to the Exchange bank.
This is the oldest and most extensive
insurance agency, not only in Wheel
ing, but in West Virginia. Major AL
derson has been in the insurance BUSH
ness in Wheeling for twenty-three
years.
Two men engaged boarding at Mrs.
0ldham's boarding house on Main
street on TIL thursday evening, and yes
terday morning Mr.. John Miller, fell
low boarder was minus his vest, two
gold watches, silver watch and razor.
The strangers had disappeared, and
their room will be forever vacant to
them. II the police see them, how:
er, they may have a room without all
the comforts OF home,
Mrs. HELEN RICE, national superin-
tendent OF juvenile work OF the
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
will speak at Wesley NJ. L. chapel this
evening at 1850 o'clock, when Loyal
Temperance Legion will be organized.
gba will aIao oddraoa tho Sabbath