The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-23
RELLAIRE.
All Sorts OF Local NsWS aud GOIIIp from
thB Glass CItJ,

tho GIaSs CltI.
It develops that the Belmont Oil
and Gas Company, that was organized
here some ysRrs ago and put down an
oil well at Bethel that flowed fora time,
holda twenty year laaaoa on some OF the
farms ia that section, That company
waa composed Of q. RumbaGh, ]. Nj.
AIaring, A. l.. Baron, Adam Faupsl, DR..
Mcclure, George W. Keller, /. j..
Jahnke, j. +. Smith, D, @, Kelly and N.
Somehow, who owned q ons.half int0r-
est in tho territory, two oil men named
Robinson and Steele owning tho other
half but their interest was afterwards
assigned to 8. WINNER aud James O.
Tallmau.
The property Of tho Pittsburgh coal
works. lust south Of the city, IL 10 be
offered for sale by the sheriff next
month, Il il q valuable property, and
includes q largo tract Of land. Over
S75,00 has been spent on improve
mants and in keeping tho Worka going,
but it is all appraised at about one'thlrd
that amount
George w. Yost, secretary Of the Bel
lairs Bottle Company, was bitten by a
dog at his home on Gravel Hill Sunday,
The dog was FeproVOd for something,
when il made at Mr.. Yost and bit him
on tina right arm. The wound IL not a
deep one, bus it Ia more than a man
wanta these days.
Theo. Seals came in from BRrueSville
Yesterday with a bottle Of heavy crude
oil from tho we'll at that place, The
Pittsburgh Dispatch seems TO think the
we'll 10 not worth working, but tho upar-
atora arc still drilling it aud expect to
90 down about eighteen to nineteen
hundred feet.
Thieves tried to effect an entrance to
sonneborn Bros. store early yesterday
morning, but were frightened away.
They Wer0 Mt work IN the rear and had
about pried q panel OF door out, when
some OF the nOighhors heard the noise
and made such a racket that tho thieves
Lett.
Z. ]. Lewis, tho Cleveland & Pitts
hurgh engineer who went to China with
the Westinghouse Air Brake people two
years ago, secured u lease gu oil land in
Monroe county through a friend that
PROMISES to ba valuable. It is q thirty
acre tract not fur from the Lewis we'll.
The butchers here have got IN a wal
on tho prices OF meat, and a meeting OF
the local organization will b0 held this
evening, at which time thsv arc aG'
pected to make tho fur fly. In the
meantime tho public ia enjoying the
u on prices.
a party OF Pittsburgh capitalists and
contractors came down Sunday evening
and early yesterday morning they went
with G. Rosser to the Monroe oil field
to get the lay OF tho land aud some
leases adjacent to the guahers.
John N. Beckett came in from Co.
lumbua yesterday. Ha Is Interested in
the leases OF n large block OF coal IN tho
southern part OF tho county, and also
some oil leases about BealIaViile.
Manager VIII White, OF the Wheeling
ball taam, spent Sunday with Bellairo
friends. lin has stirred up moro inter
est in base bal matters hero than was
ever known before.
D. II. Darrah began to put in tho fix.
lures in his new drug store yesterday
and sxpecta TO move his family aud put
his stock in the new building next
week.
Frank B. Archer came in from Wash.
iggsou, lad, yesterday aud will spand
this week with his family here and in
looking after business at home.
j. D. Shaw, OF tho MoundsvillO Echo,
was here yaIterday. He is now dabbiing
in oil leases.
Mrs. j. D. Baker and children, Of
Findlay, arc visiting relatives here.
Miss Clara Robinson loft yesterday
Tor Findlay.