The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-19
BELLAIRE.
All Sorts OF Local News AMI Gossip from
the Glass city.

thc Glass Ctty.
The stock OF the Ohio Valley Tele-
phone Company took Il great boom nj
the meeting OF telephone users In THIS
city, and liz OF the 200 shares at sou
ench, were taken at that meeting. The
subscriptions started very cautiously
until Charles Rosser gave 1t q BOOST
and then they came lively. and over
hnlf the stock was soon taken. Then
Il was decided 10 reserve the balance
until other telephone users couIu DC
seen and given an opportunity TO take
stock John RoCkershousen was ap-
pointed to solicit subscribers for the
telephones at $2I per year for business
and SIS per year for private houses and
also for stock subscriptions. The peo-
pie who want cheaper telephone service
are quite enthusiastic and declare the
new company sure thing.
Commissioner George NJ. Wise went
to st. ClalrsvIlle yesterday to have
drawn by the prosecuting attorney the
bills to be presented to the Legislature,
giving the commissioners authority to
Increase the levy for the county fund
and to refund the bonds coming due
within the next few years. The COM
missioner snyS they have no authority
to even refund the debt. which seems
remarkable since there Is n general
Inv authorizing municipalities to eX-
tend the time OF paying bonded indebt-
edness, and counties ought TO have
that authority. They do It in most
counties, at any rate.
The Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
railroad had quite a wreck OF cars be-
tween here and Bridgeport and after
getting ten Baltimore q Ohio cars
Strengthened out and run into their
shops for repairs, they started 10
bring other cars down here and at the
same point five OF them were derailed
and would have been as badly wrecked
as the others but for the fact that they
feared troable. apd were going slow.
The rails spread, causing the trouble.
Bellaire Chapter 1O7, r. A. NJ. will
furnish one of the rooms In the Ohio
Masonic Homo at Springfield; The
committee in charge from the chapter
turned the matter over TO the trustees
OF the home that the furnishings might
be uniform. All Of the rooms in the
home except about fifty are now pro-
vided for in this way.
Judge briggs sentenced young Nc
Knight, who was convicted Of COM
pllcity in the porhntai robbery, to
eighteen months in the penitentiary.
Sheriff Darby will take Mcknight and
Thomas Morrison, who got two years.
to the psnItentIary ut Columbus to-day.
Marshal Eahra VIII accompany him.
The prospect of securing more mt
urnl gas Is all that makes some people
here keep the fixtures in their houses,
for the supply has been so limited since
Sunday that there hos not been enough
OF the convenient fuel TO even warm the
fire plnccs, let alone the houses.
The list OF local candidates still grows
larger as the time for the primaries
gets nearer. It Is wonderful the num-
Der OF perbuns who do not want to let
u chance slip by.
a new school building Is asked for at
Forest hill Just west Of town. and In
needed, MS there In not room there for
those now attending.
Rev. John r. Foster will hold Ash
Wednesday services mt ST. Paul's Pro-
testant Episcopal church IN Martins
Ferry, at 1880 n, m.
The suits against subscribers to the
Hentherington.S hearer Glass Company
will be heard in the common pleas court
on Friday.
The Uniformed Rank OF Knights OF
Pythias give the last dance OF the sea-
son in Central hall tonight.
The thermometer marked 2 degrees
below zero on the hills west OF town
yesterday morning.
The literary society at Rockhlll will
discuss the silver question Friday
night.
The Old Homestead wns presented TO
o good house here last night
The Democrats will call their prlmar-
les tonight.
Part of the pike on Rose hill is slip.
pIng away.