The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-11
pIrT.AIRr HAPpEliIlas.
Matters q Inteftolt q the Lstrppoli
q Balmunt COUNTY.


Of Belmont County.
The st5ckhoiders Of the Aetna GAS
ina Manufacturing Company have made
q proposition looking TO a revival Of that
industry here. The furnace ana lelrs
are IN fair shape. and can Be started
at once The c5mpany win turn the
plant IN Al $1,000, and take that an IL
stock In the new company. thus permit
ting the subscribers who raise S2s.o90l
or $4,000 now TO control the new en-
terprise. There are number who re-
gard this a. very fair move, as the
operation 81 this plant vim dIstribute
&C least 5000 per month 10 wages here,
and win give employment 70 at least
one hundred and nifty or two hundred
more persons IN town, There are at
least two other projects ON foot that
seem likely to be contaminated early IN
the new year, Sc not this year.
James clifford, fourteen yeaF-old
boy from Columbus. who says he w9s
entlced away from home BY older boys,
has been IN charge Of the police here
for several days. and Efforts to locate his
parents have been made HIS father ia
q railroad man, but the family has
moved since the boy left home.
Henry HerbeF. the young man who
wrote the obscene letters to Miss Anna
Filcaske, Of Wheeling Island. pleaded
guilty 70 the indictment, and was SEN
fenced 70 eighteen months IN the state
penttentiary. He has a young wife here,
having married only last September.
State Senator Frank B. Archer Is oc-
cupying all Of his spare time these days
nV1Tw41VfnR OH11i1N1 WkOl Nata Ft1nFsa1 In the
urganiEation Of the senate. for IN some
Of the state institutions their name 10
legion. Frank % mot pledged 70 any
body in the organization,
Troll Brothers bought the Neff farm,
OF 4QS Gcreg, at sheFfR's sale, last Satuf-
day. for $3.50. These brothers made
large purchases OF wool the past season,
and are holding still some OF their own
purchases. They are the largest buy
era IN eastern Ohio.
Bellaire Chapter 107, R. A. NJ, elected
the following officers for the ensuing
year, installation Friday night: High
priest, II, A. Lichtenherger: king, A. ].
Reitz; scribe. John r. Cow: treasurer,
James 4. Kelly; secretary, W. ]. Kirk
patrick.
The Belmont Medical Society will
meet In the First Presbyterian church
here on Wednesday AFTERNOON. A short
programme win be discussed and the
annual election viii take place.
A saw mill will be stationed at We
gee TO saw up the lumber brought in on
the BellRire, Zanesvllle & Columbus
railroad In the log, and will then be
shipped "a lumber.
The holiday trade opened with Bel
laire merchants last Saturday evening.
and they did a lively business. Even
toys began to go, because II was a good
pay day.
A drunken man on Belmont street att
tracted much attention yesterday after
noon, as the saloons seemed to be more
tightly closed than usual.
Rabbit hunters report plenty Of game
on the bills south and west OF town,
but some Of the farmers are very strict.
There are few cases Of diphtheria in
this city, and one child died with
that disease.
william Campbell had three fox ter
rier pups stolen from his home last
week.
james Kinney. IT,. will begin work on
the government borings awarded him at
once.
Charles W. Rodewig, OF st. Clairsville.
Is visiting relatives here.
Bellaire lodge, A. & A. NJ, will elect
officers this evening.
Circuit court convenes at St, Clairs-
vile to-day