The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-01-17
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BEuLAIRE.
All Sorts OF Local News and Gossip from
the Glass City.

the Glass City.
Frank Brainerd and Charles jenkins
were taken to the county Jail yesterday.
afternoon in default of $500 bail each.
These chaps undertook to make Michael
Murphy, a peaceably disposed chap,
give up some money to them on Sunday
last, and to carry out their plan placed
Murphy under arrest and marched him
to within square of the lookup. There
they let him go, but he continued to
the Office and made complaint against
them, with the result stated. Both are
frequent offenders and seldom work
any. jenkins is married. but some
time ago he went to Coffman's boarding
house. and telling Mrs. Coffman ne was
working at the mill secured board for
week. Every day a nice dinner was put
up for him and he carried it away to
saloon, where he would eat. it, and in
the evening return with his bucket and
get his supper. All this time the wife
got along the best way she knew how.
.Jenkins's pretense was discovered about
the close of the week, and he was sent
to the GAINESVILLE Workhouse. Alter
serving his time he beat J. B. Smith out
of a sum OF money on the pretext OF
fortune being within easy grasp, and he
has been going from bad to worse all
the time. His faithful wife, however,
pleaded plteously for his release
Brainerd is also married man, but
both seemed glad enough to go to jail
and thus avoid work or annoyance in
procuring something to eat.
Hunter s. Armstrong is out for the
Republican nomination for city solicit
tor He is now the law partner OF
James G. Tallman and was appointed
by Judge Kelly to succeed Judge ]. b.
briggs as prosecuting attorney OF Mon
r,hn 1nt
elected common pleas Judge, seven or
eight years ago.
Hon. John ]. Lentz, formerly of this
county, but now of Columbus, seems to
have a cinch on the appointment rs
district attorney for the southern dis
trict OF Ohio, President Cleveland indi-
eating to Harland Cleveland, a Clncin-
natl attorney who was an applicant,
that Mr.. LenN was his choice.
II. D. Dougherty returned from Pitts
burgh, yesterday, where he spent
couple of days on business, and reports
that the great army of men there de-
pending upon charity for something to
eat is appalling.
The stockholders in the old Union
Window Glass Company have received
s3 per cent. out OF the wind-up OF that
company's affairs tho last three per
cent. being paid FL. Roemer this week.
John NJ. Gardener, an ex-mayor and
Justice of the peace, OF GAINESVILLE. and
an old citizen of that place, was taken
to the county inirmary last week, frall
of body and weak in mind.
The board OF trade decided last night
to obtain q charter and make a perma-
nent institution of that organization.
The spelling bee last night between
Wheeling class OF Good Templars and
similar class here, was we'll attended.
Rev. L. Mechlin, of New Athens,
will preach in the Second Presbyterian
church each evening this week.
The steel works. two glass factories
and all the industries of the city are in
full operation this week.
The delinquent tax sale in this county
yesterday was the largest known for
twenty years.
g. Rumbach will go to Jacksonville,
Florida, to witness the Corbett-Mitchell
mill.
Miss Emma Cochran, daughter of ex-
Sheriff Cochran, is dangerously ILL.