The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-01-14
MARTINS FERRY.
iInps md niIshaps In tho Thriving city
Across tho River.

business on Saturday night. All wero
present except Mr.. Barr. An ordinance
was passed declaring 1t necessary 10
procure sufficient real estn to to erect an
electric light plant, purchase machin.
cry, dynamo, ctc.. to furnish power Tor
not lc,a than 1900 inCandosconts o! ut
loust sixteen.candls power each, the on.
tiro plant to coat S3O, 600 and council to
have the right to rejocl any and n u bids.
Tho city solicitor was instructed to IN.
vestigato, tho question as to tho repeal
Of tho ordinance granting to John NJ:
Sweeney x Co., thor successors anu
assigns tho right 10 conduct an electrical
railway In tho city and ii deemed nd.
visablo that no draw up mn ordinance
repeating 1t. This company refuses to
pay Sl,4G0 tax, rs its share Of street
paving, claiming that In the ordinance
granting It right OF way nothing was
said about Successors and assigns being
required to do so and so. The clerk
was instructed to notify the NJ. f.. b. &
i. railroad to Tx up tho crossing on
Jefferson street at Second and n com.
mittoe was appointed to look after tho
strengthening OF tho O., l.. 4 W. railroad
near Centcr street. The Terminal 10 10
DO notified to repair It's crossing on
Walnut street. The bill OF Cochran
and Duncan for SIS for defending tho
city In the SapD case was allowed. A
committee was appointed 10 look up tho
matter Of purchasing aud maintaining
city scales and the matter Of the city
printing. Resolutions wero passed Tor
sewerage on several streets in tho Third
ward. Sanitary Engineer L. J. Millar
submitted IN estimate giving the up.
proximate cost Of sewerage.
W. II. STEELE, tho Guernsey county
man, arrested on the charge OF obtain.
ing money under false pretenses In con.
nection with purchasing Il thrcsher out.
ct from Spence 4 Son, was given Il pro.
liminary examination on Saturday
night aud bound over in tho sum OF
$1,000. He WAS brought to Martins
Ferry on Saturday. lie was at church
when the officers arrived at Birming.
ham. lie expects to get bail to-day.
The Louis Frick property, corner
Fourth and Jefferson street, was sold at
public sale on Saturday to @. W. APP.
ponzcIlar at 1854. The five houses in
Etnaville were sold to the Reymann
Brewing Company ut $1,000.
Mrs. Wooster died ut her homo at
Don yesterday morning at 1880, aged 81
years. The remains will be taken 10
We!lsville this morning on the G. & 2.
railroad ut ll:20, where they will be
buried tomorrow at ESQ.
Mrs. David Neal, who was burned by
her clothes catching fire some weeks
ago, died on Saturday at her homo in
the First ward. The remains were
buried at Riverview cemetery yesterday
afternoon.
The sale OF personal property at Judge
| C0chran's residence on Saturday was
largely attended. Many persons secured
great bargains. Refreshments were
served at noon.
Thieves entered the saloon OF John
| Tierney on South Second street at an
early hour yesterday morning and car
ried OF quantity Of cigars, whisky,
etc.
Mrs. William Dixon, sr.. and her con,
Alex, left for Washington, D. c., on
Saturday. where Mrs. DR.. Gatchell. nee
Miss Jennie Dixon, is dangerously Ill.
At a meeting OF the iron workers on
Saturday afternoon W. s. Morris was
elected delegate TO the conference to
be held at Pittsburgh to-day.
A five hundred candle power incan.
descent electric light has been placed
in the new galvanizing building at the
E!na'Staudard mill.
Stephen Pettits, who was SO badly
hurt In wreck on the Louisville &
Nashville road on Christmas, is able to
he out again.
Richard Padden and Thad Troy, two
crack PLAYERS OF the Martins Ferry
club, have received offers from several
clubs.
W. r Ratc!if, cashier OF tho Pee.
pies Savings Bank. sp.ained his back
yesterday and will be laid up few
days.
Mr.. Zonaeiser, n we'll known business
man OF Washington, Pa, spent Sunday
with his brother on Third street
The monthly meeting OF the Juvenile
Mission Society OF the u. E. church was
held yesterday afternoon.
The Thermometer ut Darrah's drug
store registered four degree, below zero
at q. m. yesterday.
Communion service was held in the
Presbyterian church yesterday. There
was ore accession.
A girl baby was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Morgan, OF West Washington
street, yesterday.
Roy Simpson, of Dayton. is visiting
his grandmother, Mrs. A. Rals,on. OH
Fourth street.
Edward McComb, ]. r. Pickens and
L. X. lIose 20 to St. Clairsville this
morning.
David Friedman. esq. attended tho
marriage OF his sister at Chicago ycstei-
day.
Twelve Wheeling & Lake Erie Rail.
road linemcn are at the Hotel st. Clair.
Mra. J. B. Longlcy, OF St. Cairsville,
is visiting Judge and Mrs J. S. Cochran.
The G. A. R. will give bean bake and
: entertainment on January - and 20.
those who went out sloshing yes,e .
day found no pleasure in it.
Mrs. II. G. Pratt returned yesterday.