The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-29
BELLAIIsE.
Ansorts of Local News and Gossip from
the Glass City.

AllSOrts of Local News AMI Gossip from
the Glass City.
The crop and farm statistics Of Bel.
mont county US Just completed at the
auditors office make such q handsome
showing that it Is q wonder there are
any calamity howlers among the rural
portion OF the population, The acreage
OF wheat harvested this year, figuring
on the same basis OF yield as given last
year, will amount to over q quarter Of q
million dollars at 50 cents per bushel,
while the meadow yield, reckoning hay
at $l2 per ton, and it will average more
than that, will bring in over half a mill
ion dollars to the farmers, and the corn
crop at only 80 cents per bushel will
bring in more than another halt mill.
ion. Oats, rye, potatoes, apples aud
other fruits besides the product OF the
diaries add a million or two more to the
returns OF the farming community OF
this county, even at the low prices now
prevailing, according to the official
figures, a study OF which can not fail to
convince any one that the farming CON-
munity OF this county Is very comforta-
bly, provided for, Notwithstanding the
stringency In other lines Of business.
There is Trouble on the Central Ohio
division of the b. 90. railroad just now
that ia beinp examined into, but the
matter is Kept so quiet that tits hardto
get any information. AS tho story runs,
several engineers are having vacation,
and this much is known to be true. II
is stated that u timekeeper at Newark
stood in with some OF the men on the
road, and whether they worked or
PLAYED their time and salaries went oil,
and in season the t%imekeeper reaped
his reward. This Is said to have been
done for q long time, but latterly the
officer in charge manifested such a dis
position to drink that higher officials
could not aolve the problem Of how he
could pay such bills, and quietly set
about an investigation, discovering II
source to be as stated. The whole mat
tor will probable be out In q short
time.
The Democrats have patched up n
truce between A. W. Kennon and w.
V. Campbell, opposing candidates for
the nomination Tor Prosecuting Attor.
ney, and they hope to make II go all
over the county, but there will be u
lively contest here and in other parts Of
the county, except where Kennon's
friends get fooled.
The trolly wire for the electric str ct
railway has been strung In this city
and most Of the way from here to the
power house above West Wheeling.
Some of the curves in the track In this
city are yet TO fix aud no sidotracks
have been put in, so that 1t Is not likely
the cal will DO running for o month or
two.
Tho glass workers. union will meet
here this afternoon to hear the report
Of Messrs. Powers, Archer and Colbert,
the delegates to the national conven'
ton.
Mrs. A. Klotz and son Charles, who
are Just homo from Chippewa lake,
will take in tho Worlds Fair next week.
Frank J. Roemer is now taking In
tho Worlds Fair and will remain In tho
big White City for some time
George Taylor will build for himself
n residence and business room adjoin.
ing tho First NJ. Il. church.
Will Pierson, OF this cEy, is spending
n vacation with his father, ShoriG Pier
sou, OF Monroe county.
Mrs. Elizabeth MOagro has purchased
tho Fred BurkOtt house, on Gravel Hill
Judge Driggs returned from n woOk's
visit III Monroe county yesterday.
a. NJ. Weyrlck and sister, Miss Ada,
nro home from tho Worlds Fair,