The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-03
RRLnAIRE.
Ansorts Of Local News and Gossip frsm
the Glass City,

AusortS Of Local News and Gossip from
the Glass Oily,
A street takir obtained license from
the mayor to occupy q street corner
Saturday night aud he did the crowd
up for between $50 aud 500 and crossed
the river before he could be arrested.
He had o lot Of small packages he sold
for q nickel, then scattered tho nlckels
iuto the crowd. Then he sold the
packages for a quarter and then scat
tered the quarters into the crowd, de
made everybody believe that he was
only advertising aud didn't want
money, until he finally sold the pack
ages for q dollar and said he would
scatter them. The dollars flowed into
the chap lively, and some 81 s., and.
$40 bills were passed up to- him. Sud-
denly a telegram came to him, and he
left the carriage to go to his room, leay'
ing a woman to sing to the crowd. The.
fellow passed through the hotel to the
river bank and crossed to Benwood, be.
fore 1t dNwned upon the crowd, and
when the alarm was given all the losers
started in search Of the man with their.
money. The crowd followed and the
woman turned out the lights and drove
of. Now the mayor is being combed
for licensing fakirs.
John Mccoy was arrested and locked
up Saturday evening on the charge OF
furnishing liquor to q child. The little
teu-year.old daughter alexander Givens
was found lying in the dirt near the old.
stamping works. dead drunk, She was
carried home by Albert Long, when 1t
wasknownwhat was tho matter with the
child, a great crowd of neighborS raised
such q hub-bub that Mccoy was ar
rested. 1t is understood now that the
child's father knew Of or had something
to do With giving the child liquor. The
whole matter will be investigated be-.
fore the mayor this morning. Givens
Is the man who was locked up last week
for whipping his daughter on the streets
while drunk. He was fined for drunken
ness.
There was considerable excitement
in the second ward Saturday evening
over an clubhouse collapsing while two
women occupied the place. One Of
them wa plunged headlong into the
| vault pelUW uuu Lu0 Vtlek SauSAV -
cross beam, and her cries brought help.
The woman who went in was almost
entirely covered when help arrived.
she was rescued, and q physician sum-
moned, who worked with her for sew
eral hours, as it was thought she could
not be revived. She was deathly sick,
and is still in a precarious condition.
1rha nnl;ca mazda a raid nm the Ham.
mond ranch yesterday afternoon and
took Mrs. Hammond, Luther Boyd and
four italians to the lookup. II has been
known as a bad place for a long time.
Mrs. Hammond is the woman who
filed a petition for divorce from her
husband a week or two ago.
The state board Of arbitration will
meet at the Windsor hotel in this city
on Wednesday to adjust the differences
between the miners and operators at
the coal works Of the Pittsburgh and
the Belmont coal companies. The diff
ference is only as to the time the min.
ers shall be paid.
A couple Of nice young men got into
a scrap in a Third ward saloon aud OH.
Ger O'Maley was called. While he was
taking charge Of the belligerents some
ono struck the officer. He took his
men but is still looking for the chap
who hit him.
Four bum DRINKS were run in by the
marshal yesterday. Some OF them will
be sent to Jail to do duty OH the stone
pile,
Mrs. John Davis and Miss Kate Da.
Wis came in from Dayton to spend the
Fourth Of July at home.
Albert Lawrence left Sunday morn
ing for Oakland, where his wife iss
spending the summer.
Hall the population Of this CITY will
90 to Wheeling tomorrow to witness
tho celebration there.
w. j. Morrison leaves to-day for
Montreal, Canada, to be gone a week or