The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-17
LooAL BREyrrIBs,
Matters of nllaOr NOalsas ia aud About
the CITY,

tho City.
CHIEF HRALY was at work on the fire
alarm wires yesterday, and this caused
the frequent tapping otthe bell
Tue last lingering members OF the
Jack Bass fishing club returned last
night from their camp up Big Wheeling
creek,
A WEEK from to-day Pawnee Bile
Wild West show will DO seen in Wheel
ing, and the boys are Gnxioualy looking
forward to that time.
OFFICER MASON last evening ran In a
disordoTly case from the Island, lie
gave his namoas William Burgess, aud
said he was y coal minor.
The council committee on equallza.
ton and appeals considered Second
ward petitions yesterday. They weTe
few and unimportant. To-day the
Third ward property will DO taken up
THERE 10 a nico pond Of stagnant
water on the open lot north OF the Ter,
mlnal station, 1t ought to DO cleaned
out or the low plncssflled up. 1t is u
first class place for disease germs to
breed,
The story printed in several papers
tho other day Of an alleged attempt to
blow up q party in q fahing camp at
Aiena, o., turns out to BIO q lake,
pure and simple, as might have been
suspected at the time.
PART Of the LaBslle mill was COM
PEELED to shut down early yesterday al
ternoon by aslight breakage OF the ma
chinery. II was 4 timely shut down,
for the day VAS an intensely hot one,
aud hard on tho workmeu.
The resuItofthe recentr rain illustrates
the necessity OF cleaning the debris out
| OF the creek at tho Main strOet bridge.
The creek would have got n nice wash
ing out but ior tho obstruction there,
which acted as q dam aud caught alIthe
filth.
IT is a wonder that somebody 10 not
hurt at Sixteenth street ovpry time a
b. IL o. train passes nm or down. Tho
great danger is not from tho train itself,
but from tho Jam OF vehicles on both
sides tho passage OF a train always
causes.
JUDGE MANSFIELD has ordered in
| court at Steubenville that as $. K. Wall
lace, receiver for tho Jefferson iron
works, has iundSin his hands not necea'
aary for tho operation Of the works, he
pay IL dividend OF % por cent to tho
creditors.
WHAT has become OF tho proposal
presented in council to nut up signs
designating tho streets? This is u
thing much needed, almost n necessity,
but nothing has been heard OF the resoI'
ution since it was referred to somebody
or other by council.
A CmcAGo syndicate has purchased
tho Adams and Palmer farms at Mingo.
about l75 acres OF rs nice lying land rs
one could wish to SEQ, aud will Greet a
large manufacturing plant Of some sort,
tho nature OF which has not been made
known.-ScuJtnriRc GG:dis.
A MEETING OF the Wacht AN Rheim
fishing club was held last night, at
which n number Of committees weto ap-
pointed 10 arraug for tho annual out
ing. Eighteen members Of the club will
leayepn August II for tho camp near
NuzurA's mills, on tho Tygart's Valley
river.
YESTERDAY Chief Marshal Hoaly, Of
tho fro department, discharged Bow
man, who has been on duty at tho
Chemical engine house siuce Bob Cline
resigned, and appointed Joe Daum,
This was tho appointment about which
the chic! and the committee had the
Disagreement,
TIE Order OF the Eastern Star,
Miriam chapter No. l, OF this city, held
n largely attended and enthusiastic
meeting last night ut the Masonic tenn
pie, at which it was decided to have q
private basket picnic at the beautiful
Wheeling park, Friday, August .. for
tho members Of the Masonic bodies aud
their families.