The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-03-22
llELIlIAILsE.
All Sorts OF Locnl Now. aud Gossip froiu
tho Glass CITY.


All Sotu of Locnt Now. aud Gossip rro,u
tho Glass city.
II has boen n long time since such in.
terost was stirred up in tho selection OF
mcmbers Of tho board OF education rs Is
apparent this year. Dr.. J. S. Mcclellan
and James i. Millican. two excellent
citizens who wero named by tho Pro.
hlbiuonisis, yesterday withdrew in the
following card: "The undersigned can.
dilates Tor members OF tho school board
tako this opportunity Of making public
their wish 10 withdraw from tho race.
While approaching the honor conferred
upon them at tho recent Prohibition
convention. and thanking the conven.
ton for the courtesy extended to us,
under the existing circumstances We
feel confident that our staying IN tue
field would defeat the object tor which
We were nominated Tho present issue
is in no sense political ono. Tho voters
care nothing for school hoard candi.
dates politics. Arc you for or against
Prof. Jones? That's the question. Now.
Mr. Gilliland and Mr.. Brown have pub
licly and emphatically proclaimed that
they are anti.Jones men. The present
crisis has been approaching for years.
Things are hot. We don't want to
spoil good fight. We politely with.
draw"
Mrs. Daniel Bailey, the wife OF the
man arrested here about ten days ago
for trying TO pass two forged checks OF
50 each, arrived here to-day tton Will.
iamsburg, Pa. accompanied by their
child. She called upon tho mayor and
told him she had cold of everything
they had. paid her debts as far as she
could and was now destitute. She said
her husband worked steadily when no
could find employment. and that he
had only left home because there was
no work. Tho mayor had written her
Of the husbands preuicament and yes.
terday she excited his pity and sympa.
thy go tina. he assisted her to get TO St.
Clairsville, aud some adjustment may
DO made OF the case.
The St. Clairsvilc Presbytery met
yesterday at New Athens in special ses.
sion to dissolve the pastoral relations
between Rev. Leonard Twinem and tho
churches OF Short Creek and Wheeling
Valley, and to grant him dismissal to
the Presbytery OF Washington.
It is now a settled fact that large
number OF the women OF this city will
exercise their privilege OF voting this
spring. Many Of them are quite as
anxious about it as the men and are as
severe in their criticism OF some OF the
candidates.
Mrs. Robert Alexander and D. II.
'Nlilligan, OF st. Clairsville. OF the men,
bers OF tho board of visitors to the
charitable and correctional institutions
OF the county met yesterday aud inspec-
ted the county jail.
Mrs. Dr.. 7. NJ. Wells ia home from
Reading, Pa, where she attended the
funeral OF her brother, who was as
phyxiated by gas, while asleep in his
room.
William Williams, a email boy from
this city, was sent to tho reform farm
at Lancaster, because he refused to at
tend school regularly.
The differences that sprung up at the
Pnltney glass works have been adjusted
and tho plant will resume operations
next Monday.
Mayor Dubois issued his proclamation
Of election yesterday, and the one clos
ing saloons on that day will come next
week.
Joseph Souneborn left yesterday for
the east. to spend n month visiting and
sight seeing.
R. NJ. Gillilaud is in Cleveland on
business this week.