The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-20
BOWLING.
cARRoLL GLUE LEAGUE
LOCAL BREv1T1Es
Mlnorl nIom.nt ln ami About

Matters OF Minor Moment In and About
the City.
M~oundsville Is after the Republican
congressional conventions and Will make
a strong bid for II.
Mrs, James B. fancy will entertain
the Charity Whist Club mt her home,
corner OF Zane and North Front streets,
this afternoon.
Harry NJ. Clark Is expected to arrive
IN Bridgeport with his family. this
week. from Cripple Creek, Colorado. He
Is coming back to stay.
The Epworth League convention en-.
tertainment committee meets this even
Ing at the Fourth Street NJ. E. church..
"A large attendance Of the members Is
desired:
Messrs.S G. Mendel 6 Company have
Just received from the makers o very
handsome hearse, said to be the richest
In design that has ever been seen 10
Wheeling.
The Wheeling Natural Gas Company
has O. force OF men engaged In putting
down new pipe to replace the old pipe
on Wood street, from Thirty eighth TO
T%hlrty.ninth.
The extreme heat yesterday afternoon
Inflicted great suffering among the
men in the mills, and there were Sey-
eral men at the La Belle who 'kno .ked
on as O result.
The Cleveland. Loraln & Wheeling
railway will run a dollar and q half ex-
cursion to Cleveland and return Sum
day, tickets for which are 10 on sale
at their passenger Office In the Mcclure
house block,
The Wheeling Druggists Association
will have its semi-annual outing at
Wheeling Park next Wednesday after
noon. Friends OF tho association have
donated handsome prizes which will be
contested for on the bowling alleys.
"Puddin" Clark, who was sentenced
to eighteen months Imprisonment for
burglarizing Harry McNamee's jewelry
store, on South Market street, about
two years ago, OF 'sllverware, was re-
leased from the state "pen" yesterday.
The Wheeling Pottery Company with
Its characteristic enterprise, has issued
q neat advertisement Of Its celebrated
Cameo China-made in America" In
the shape OF tri-colored lead pencils.
The Intelligencer reportorial force Is In
receipt Of samples. and will use them to
the nations taste.
The pile Of brick, belonging to the
city, near Wood Bros old planning mill,
and which was intended to pave Chap
line street, from Thirty!third to Thir-
ty-ffth, continues to dwindle In size as
the days pass by. 1t is said energetic
South Siders have recently received
some good building material.
Mayor Fred N%einenger and City So
licitor W. v. Campbell. OF Bridgeport,
were authorized by council to act In ar
ranging with the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company for the opening OF a new
street through the Keohnlein property
between Bridgeport and Aetnavllle. 1t
is proposed to buy ground, open the
street and pave 1t.
The Wheeling p~ostoflce Is expecting
to receive a 10: OF the Trans-Mississ-
ippi postage stamps In q few days.
They are issued in the interest OF the
Trans Mississippi Exposition at Oma-
ha. They will be issued from June / to
December 81, and are OF the denomina-
tons Of one, two, four. FIVE, eight, ten,
fifty cents, and 81 and 50.
Mrs. Charles B. Reed pleasantly en-
tertained the Island Ladies' Progress
olFG.IuSIle SAup d. IST tOtle OQ SOuIQ
Penn street, yesterday afternoon. After
much spirited playing, the prizes were
distributed as follows: Mrs. James B.
Mckee, first ladies' prize; Miss Carrie
Brues. second prize; Mrs John II. Nc
Clure, first visitors prize: Mrs. John P.
Glass, second visitors prize.
Two young ladies' from the Island at
tended the high school entertainment at
the Opera House on Wednesday even
Ing, and when going down Twelfth
street to the yacht landing were ac-
costed by three rufflans, who hurled In
suits at them, and one even went SO far
as to attempt to catch the arm Of one OF
the ladies. Islanders think there should
be q larger police protection along the
river front.
Mr.. L. v. Delocke, OF Brldgeport.yes-
terday started Joseph Jear Louis Wat
telet on his way home to Belgium. Mr..
Wattelet Is forty-two years OF age and
unmarried. He has been In this coun-'
try a few years, and while working al
coal mining at Dlllonvale, he received
an injury, being struck by a piece OF
coal In one eye. A doctor was called,
and In attempting to operate, so injured
the nerve that the patient became to-
tally blind He was assisted home bv