The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-06-04
SEVERAL NEW BRIDGES
Arc 10 Bo Put Up by tho County
tho Coming Senaon.
ONE ON MARSHALL COUN1YS LINE.
A Now Idea IN Bridge Structure TO DC
Introduced Here, Doing Away With
tho Costly Masonry of tho Adult
monts-Tho Annual Reports Of tho
Ovorsccrs Of tho Poor Submitted.

Tho county commissioners mot in reg.
ulnr session yesterday. On recon.
mon dation OF tho court house and jail
committee bills for Sl32 81 wero ordered
paid. Tho board authorized tho com.
mittOe to purchase now heating boilor
ior tho court house and jail, 10 that II
tho old ones give out thorc will DO ono
in reserve. Tho committee lot tho con-
tract tor leo for tho year TO tho Wheel.
Ing leo and Storage Company ut fifteen
cents n hundred pounds.
Tbs finance committee recommended
bills for payment aegregatins S3Ol.
Sheriff Franzhoim returned county
orders for 81 ,34l T2,with which amount
DO wns credited. Tho poor house and
farm committee had bills OF S6ii 10.
llIore were sixty.iout white males,
eighteen white females, three coiored
males and throo colored females In tho
lniirmary in May, total OF eighty.
eight. The bills on tho contingent
poor fund reached S63l 20.
Tho road and bridge committee ap.
proved bills for $22,932 81. This commit
too awarded several minor road con.
tracts that had been passed over before.
Tee committee reported the making OF
an agreement with tho Wheeling &
Elm Grove Railroad Company by
which tho culver. and retaining wall at
Wheeling Park ia to DO rebuilt 30 as to
widen tho National roud there fifteen
ieGt. Tho county is to pay the RAILROAD
company 5000 when tho wall Is done.
The committee has lot a contract for Il
bridge over Big Wheeling creek on tho
Marshall county line. just above Co.
daI rocks, zach county to pay half
OF the cost, which 10 .l52. Each coun.
~ also makes its own fill. A similar
bridge is to be built across Short creek
below Waddell's mill, at n cost Of 81 400.
These bridges arc to tie put up complete
By tho Canton Wrought Iron Bridge
Company. The foundation at each end
OF the middle span, ono hundred feet in
length, vii, consist OF two iron tubes
ioriy.two inches in diameter, filed with
concrete. and iorty-fve foot span on
each side will rest on sound locust
piles.
The committee also asked authority
to contract Tor TWO steel bridges on the
National pike. which was granted.
One is at Barney Crows and the other
at Sundays.
Health Officer McGrail's and Librarian
Bcymer's reports were received and
filed. There arc 3,l79 volumes in the
library.
4 petition from the town OF Elm
Grove, asking 10 be relieved OF the pay.
inent OF county road taxes, was granted.
They also ask fair proportion OF tho
B. & o. and W. < L. Il. railroad taxes.
This WAS filed. Tho assess nent for this
year will be 80 apportioned.
All but Two OF the district reports OF
overseers Of the poor were presented,
the two lacking being Union and Rich.
land. Tho reports showed the follow
ing:
Observation-Disclosures. etc. S2,06G;
loads OF coal, 1873; Shoes, 6S pairs; bur.
ials I.
acknowledgements, SIT; loads Of
coal. is: shoes. 3 pairs: burials ).
Clay-Groccries, S53l; coal, % sh ocs,
pair; burial. l.
Cen.re-Groceries. s8G7; coal, A.;
shoes. IS pairs; burials 8.
Web,ter--Groceries, Sl,4S6 81; coal,
So; shoes, 70 pairs; buriaIs Is.
Ritchic-Groceries, Sl.0lS %; coal,
20; shoes. pairs; hurials l.
Observation-Disclosures, $i6O; coal,
1G; shoes, pair; burials, !.
Liberty-Groccrics, 500 20; coal, I;
shoes, none; burials, 8
The total amount OF money expended
tho past year shows IN increase over
the year before. This was largely duo
TO the unusually cold winter, which
made an unprecedented demand for
coal.
Madison district has the smallest OK.
penso in proportion to population and
Washington tho largest. Mr.. Kinnlc.
berger. Of Washington. explains that
his big items accrued in the winter, and
for the past three or four months tho
monthly reports have shown gradual
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