The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-24
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Atisotts OF Local News. aud Gossip from
tho Gins Ctr,

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AtiSotts OF Local Spw. and Gossip from
tho Gins CITY.
Tho city council met last nigh, will,
President Clements presiding. Not
much OF general interest was done, tn,
standing committees for tho ensuin!
year having ONLY been announced n,
this meeting. Thc finance committee
Ia composed oil Rumbach, Carson and
Clements. and the committee on &c
counts Is made up OF Carncs, Rumbact
and Clements. The other nine commit
tees were also announced.
Judge A. J. Pearson returned from
Washington City yesterday morning
aud went to his home at WoodIield.
ie declined the mineral land commits.
sionership because the duties were such
as to keep him away from his family
nearly all tho time. Even il he would
take his family to Utah he could not be
at home hall the time. Judge Pearson
is too much OF a home man for TIM,
kind Of a place.
4 number OF substantial farmers and
others in the vicinity OF ~Frauklia, abou,
Jour or i've miles west Of town. have dc
termined to lease up quite a number o,
farms in that vicinity and make a prac
teal test Of! the territory by sinking
few wells on their " account In this
way they hope to determine whethe,
there ia oil in paying quantities or not.
Frederick Braunlich, an old man pas.
seventy years of age, was fined S95 and
costs BY Squire Mason yesterday upon
the charge OF removing q flower from the
grave oil Martin Schick, in Rose Hill
cemetery. Mr.. Brauulich denied the
charge. but rather than have a ,,ia'
about it he pleaded guilty and the
squire taxed him SIS 20.
Rev. II. A. L King, D. W. Cooper.
esq, Rev. John c. McCracken, William
Alexander. Matthew Darrah, and quite
a number OF Presby.eriaus left here
Yesterday for Caldwell. where the St,
Clairsville Presbytery convened yester
day evening. The session will las,
through to-day.
John Jumps and Miss Laura B. Wiss
were pronounced husband and wife b.
Rev. 0. ". Holmes last Saturday even,
ing. and on Sunday afternoon Daniel 6.
Keenan, and Miss Pauline Czenkusch, o.
Wheeling, called at the parsonage ard
had the same service performed.
The Republican county committee
will meet at 81. Clairsville on Saturday
May !, to fix the time and place for hold
ing the county convention and to selecI
thirteen delegates and as many alter
mates to represent this county in the
state convention.
R. W. Archer, Of this city, has beer
selected as one Of the conference com
mittee for the National Association o.
Flint Glass Workers.
Chris. Murray. one OF the we'll known
firm OF Murray Bros, contractors. is
seriously i'll with typhoid fever, a, hi:
fathers home here. !,
Quite a lot OF Powhatan people wen
to St Clairsville yesterday. Several in,
diclments were found by the grand jury
in that town. :
There is not even a whisper now con.
corning the proposed new scale at the
steel works. The silence is dis,ressipc
TO many.
a. Klotz was excused from Jury duty
because OF physical disability to serve
at this time.
Tho painters arc making handsome
places out Of a number OF houses abou,
town.
Hon. J. P. SprigCs was in town yestcr.
day.
Alex Somcrs, OF Canada, ia in town.