The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-12-17
BELLAIRE
an Sorts Of Local News anb Gossip From
thu GLASS Clly

the GlhAA NlN
The state labor Commissioner VIM.
RaehrNeiR, Ia his annual report lays
bare some OF the causes OF miners
troubles in this state, chief among
which is the introduction OF machinery.
In speaking Of machine mined coal he
says II has been the undolng OF the
miner, and wherever II has succeeded
IN obtaining foothdid the old and
skilled pick miner has become a thing
OF the past and in his stead has come
the living, moving nntomatoA, the
loader without incentive and without
hope. The use OF machinery has almost
entirely supplanted pick mining in the
counties OF Athens, Hooking and Perry
And this mode OF mining is being eX-
tended The Guernsey county mines
ure now being provided with electrical
machinery and some or the mines IN
Belmont county viii be operated in the
same way in short time, thus swelling
the number OF miners displaced by ma
chinery. The labor commissioner
touches upon another thing, however.
that he prOnounces the rLnkest Kind or
injustice He says the miners without
homes, and they number more than
fifty per cent, are forced 10 pay eXor-
bltant rents for houses tnat did not cost
SEQ and which are on the tax duplicate
at n valuation or only S25, but that the
miners who live in these structures are
compelled to pay from So to IS per month
rent, and the money Is Kept out OF their
wages.
VIM. Grandstaff, youth only is years
OF age, secured a position as mail car
rier and ran what is called star route
IN Noble county for time, He was
II, a mil
and this week was sentenced 10 one year
In Jail by the United States court, He
found a hole IN sack one day, and go
Ing through the letters extracted from
the sack through that hole. he found
two with money in them one contain
ing $40 and the other SG,S5, When ar
rested the boy broke down and con-
fessed the crime. His father made good
the amount distracted from the letters.
but that did not save him from the
clutches OF Uncle Sam, and he Is now
doing time in jail for the crime,
Miss Julia Leeke. the GAINESVILLE
school teacher who about six weeks ago
underwent an operation for q tumor, al
which time she was relieved Of 26I
pounds, or thlrty-four and one-ha1f gal
Ions OF fluid, Is now in Il hospital at
Columbus under treatment, With pros
poets of being permanently cured She
had been connected with the Barnes
vile schools so long and successfully
that the board of education regarded
her as almost Indispensable, and I'M
usual interest is manifested in her case.
The Circuit court, in session at st.
Clairsvllle, only had seventeen cases be-
fore II, and the three judges, Frazier,
Lauble and Burrows, found time hang
Ing heavily upon their hands The
Chronicle remarks that the fact is
there is not nearly so much litigation in
this county as there was a few years
back. There has been too little bust
ness to make 1t worth while to 80 to law.
The marriage OF MI Ross Reed, tray
cling salesman for the Bellaire Stove
Company, and Miss Minnie Johnston,
daughter of Robert Johnston, manager
of that works, is announced to take
place at the home Of the bride next
Wednesday.
The Baltimore & Ohio conductor who
found baby on his train with no
parents and only nurse bottle to conf
fort II, had the child placed In kindly
hands at Cambridge
This afternoon appropriate exercises
WIFI be held In the high school. Music
will intersperse the Rotations. essays
and debate, and the school will close
for two weeks.
Theo. Cochran Is now messenger for
the Adams Express Company. and he
has been learning the route and the
work for week or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Yost pleasantly
entertained the Gravel Hill literary and
social club at their home on theshiIl last
night.
Walter Wise, OF Yankton, s. D., is
home to spend Christmas with his par
ents here.
c. W. Dickens, cashier OF the Dollar
Savings bank. is at Columbus on bus'-
ness.
Frank O. Gill, OF Muncie, Ind, former
~ Of this city, is mlngling with friends
here,