The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-02-28
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Events in and About the City Given in

a Nutshell.
Grand to-night--.'Ivy Leaf"
Council meets tonight in regular SEES.
sion. ~
At to-niehl's session of council, May.
or Sweeney will present his first mes
The yacht ferries between the island
and the city side resumed operations
yesterday morning.
II is said the Reymann Brewing Com.
pany Will appeal from the decision In
the United States court for the south.
ern district of Ohio by which II is or
dered to pay Dow tax for conducting a
branch at Steubenville.
[ Richard Radcliffe. an engineer al
Schenk's pork packing plant, in Fulton,
was severely burned about the face and
head yesterday afternoon by the ex-
plosion of gasoline can The skin on
his face was burned to q crisp.
The county commissioners committee
on court houses and Jail met yesterday,
and transacted routine business. To-
| day the committee on poor house and
farm meets. and on Wednesday the
board meets in auditing session.
Judge PAUL, of the circuit court,
yesterday sustained the demurrer to the
writ. OF prohibition applied for by the
| attorneys for DR., S. K, Hissom. The
young physicians attorneys will now
endeavor to secure his release through
a writ Of habeas corpus.
John Berry, an old and well known
Bridgeporter, fell from ladder while
painting at Bailey's shoe store yester-
Day, and fractured his right leg. Doctor
Hepier was called and reduced the frac-
ture, and to-day he will be taken to
the infirmary for further treatment
Last night. shortly before o'clock.
an alarm from box 80 called out the fire
department. An exploded lamp at the
home OF Thomas Burke. on High street,
on the hillside, was the cause OF the
! alarm. The blaze was extinguished
without the aid of the department.
Squire Greer yesterday held William
Neuman, South Side seventeen-year-
old boy, TO the grand jury, In 800 bond.
which was furnished, on the charge of
robbing Hoffmann's butcher shop,
I South Chapline street. A similar charge
against Bernard Henry, aged ten years,
was postponed for hearing indefinitely.
The preparations for the Elks' street
committee was appointed last night 1t
Will have its headquarters at the office
OF Committee Clerk O'Brlen. city build
Ing. after March Is. The officers OF the
committee are: President, G. C.
Schmidt; secretary. Thomas O'Brien,
jr.: treasurer, John F. Murphy.
The ladies of the United Presbyterian
church will give one of their famous
suppers on Thursday evening OF this
Week. in the lecture room OF the church.
Without disparagement to other church
suppers. it can be truthfully stated that
few equal and none surpass those given
blythe United Presbyterian ladies'. The
bill of fare will embrace all the dellca-
cies of the season.
Yesterday there was a narrow escape
from disastrous explosion at Eberle's
store. on Pike street. Bridgeport. AS 1t
was. Mrs. Cook. daughter of Mrs.
Eberle. was severely burned. Some old
campaign explosives were on the
shelves. and package was taken down
by boy and thrown into the stove.
An explosion resulted, but by prompt
action fire was averted.
Yesterday in the circuit court, in the
case OF j. w. Blatchley's administrator
vs. Earbara 4. Blatchley. ct al. S. G..
Smith,waS appointed guardian ad Item
for the miner defendants: 1t was order
ed that The property in controversy, in
cluding Il To- O. South Eoff street and
s4.S2S II on deposit In the Commercial
bank be turned over to Barbara A.
Blatchley to be hers for life. and TO be
divided equally among the children
upon her death.