The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-12
BELLAIRE.
All SorA of Local News aud Gossip from
tho Glass City.

All SortA of Local News aud Gossip from
tho Glass City.
The withdrawal OF John II. Fimplc,
Of Carroll county, from tho con2ression-
al contest leaves that county solid for
Judge ]. II. Taylor, who served ono
term in tho Congress when that county
was in another district than the present
ono. He is q fno-looking, digniiicd
man, who makes u favorable impress.
sion. but he will hardly be tho nominee
unless there should become n very do
cided deadlock in the convention, in
which event he might be named in tho
belief that he could be turned down
sooncr than ONO Of tho others. Capt.
Fimple, who withdrcwfrom tho contest,
was q warm friend Of Col. Poorinan, and
is the mRn to whom the colonel gave an
appointment In tho land office at Wash
ington that was rendered to him after
President Harrison's Inauguration. His
withdrawal at this stage OF tho contest
cuts of the hope that was well founded
for ut least q portion OF that delegation
coming to the colonel in tho event he
developed the strength his friends hope
lOr IN tue
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com.
pany for several days has been holding
about four hundred cars OF coal in the
yards here. They received orders some
days ago to hold all and at once began
spiking the switches after a coal train
was in. Thursday night they began to
let soms OF it 20 out over the Cleveland,
Lorain & Wheeling to tine lake port, but
they keep from three hundred 10 Jour
hundred cars there about all the timo.
The object is to keep on hands a supply
OF coal in the event OF n disagreement
that will p%rolong the strike and cause q
general scarcity Of coal. They are only
letting 60 train loads from here as
othera come in to fill the yard up.
Judge briggs yesterday appointed
the jury commission ior this county
under the new law passed last month,
as follows: L. E. Dent, OF GAINESVILLE.
Thomas A. Welsh, OF Armstrong;
Mills, Republicans; David Wagner, OF
West Wheeling, and A. C. Darrah, OF
St. Clairaville, Democrats. These gen.
tlemen will select tho Jurors for the
county hereafter and tho old manner is
abolished.
This morning Marshal Bahra will take
to the ST. Clairsville Jail Anthony Gala
CHER, who bit tho ear of Grammar
Bridgeman, as he has failed go far to
furnisha $500 bond. He will also take
Joe Mcmillan and Henry Rock, the two
boys bound over for breaking into Bal
timore & Ohio cars.
Hon. J. Q. Heinlein came in from
Columbus yesterday morning and ia
greatly elated wei the passage OF the
bill making this county a separate
judicial district. It received the vote OF
every Republican member present in
the house.
Martin Gro2au was taken TO Woods.
field yesterday for trial for running n
speak.easy. Tho deputy sheriff would
not surrender him to the sheriff of this
county, as be had been arrested on a
warrant from Woodsfield.
Tho Knights OF Pythias May festival
will close this evening with n special
programme. The st. Clairsvillo and
other delegations crowded the rink last
night and the affair will net tho boys
$500 or $500.
JohnA. Gallaher and vito and Miss
Lura Dickens returned yesterday even
ing from Columbus, whero they had
been attending o meeting rs represent
ativea OF the Episcopal church, this
week.
Tho jury in the case OF Charles Gratz
against W. S. Mccullough, for damages
claimed for assault and battery, yester.
day returned q verdict for $3.50.