The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-29
BRIEF MENT1oNINGs.
Events In and About the City Given
IN a Nutshell.

in Nutshell. n.
Grand this evenlng-ElrOy Stock
Company.
opera House tO-nlght-"under the
Red Roba."
The county commissioners meet to-
day in auditing session.
The poor house and farm committee
OF the board Of county commissioners
ct yesterday and transacted routine
business.
Officer Wells yesterday arrested VIII
liam Butler, Of the Eighth ward. on a
lunncy warrant, Squire Rogers COM
mitted Butler to jail for an exaninu-
ton,
The opening Of the Arctic ice skating
rink has been postponed on account OF
the Inability to get the building ready
in time. The opening was scheduled for
Thanksgiving.
A sneak thief entered schmeicnel's
furniture store, on South Market street,
last evening about Z o'clock, and got
away with q black macintosh. He
made good his escape.
Among arrests by the police last
vel, drunk, by Lieut.. Devlnney; John
Martin, Frank Scott and Sam Pritch-
ard, vagrancy, by Officer Shields.
The council committee on fire de-
partment will meet this evening to
omen bids for the construction Of the
Fort Henry engine house, in the East
End. Bids close this afternoon at $3.50
o'clock.
Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock a
Wheeling & Elm Grove car ran into
and killed a COW, near Hugus' culvert.
between Wheeling Park and Elm
Grove. The motorman and conductor
were blameless.
The Bessie Shaw mission band, of
the Stone church, Elm Grove. assisted
by the woman's Society and other
bands Of the church, will give a mis-
slonary tea at the church, December z,
1890, from 2 to p. m.
The Wheeling newspaper men Will
shortly be the guests Of the Ohio River
and Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia
railroads, on trip to Cincinnati
where they will be entertained by the
Cincinnati Press Club.
+ Yesterday, IN the circuit court. Judge
Melvin. the trial Of Wayt VS.. Helfen-
bIne, began before jury. The trial
was not completed. and court adjourn
ed in the afternoon until this morning,
when 1t will be resumed.
Elder John M, Whitaker, of New
York, Mormon missionary. who spoke
at Moundsville last night, will shortly
hold a meeting in Wheeling to defend
the tenets of his church. BE is sent
out by the church's governing body.
The Belmont county commissioners
will go over the proposed route of the
electric railway from Bridgeport to
CadIz next Friday. II the route is con-
sIdered satisfactory the franchise may
be granted at Mondays meeting OF the
commissioners.
The new Mt. Olivett NJ. p. church,
three miles from Wheeling. on the pike
leading to Sherrard. Will be dedicated
December 8, at 2 O'Clock p. M. by Revs.
]. J.. Sooy, D. D., and A. Moore, D. D.,
and others. The public Is cordially in
vlted to attend this service.
In the criminal court, Judge Hugus,
the application for the release of Con
McDermott and Seymour Dunlap on
writ Of hnbeas corpus was denied, and
the men, who are fugitlves from JUS
tlce, were turned over to the sheriff Of
Indiana county and taken to that state.
The council committee on health was
to have met yesterday afternoon at the
NeIbergall slaughter house, on Forty
fifth street, South Side, to investigate
the place, which persons in the neigh
borhood claim Is a nuisance, but no
meeting was held. owing to the fact
that only two members Of the commit
tee, Messrs. Waterhouse and Fox,
turned up.
In Squire Rogers court yesterday.
Fred Knapp was defendant to two
charges, preferred by his wife, Caro-
line Knapp. On profanity charge he
was fined 81 and costs, and asked to
give a peace bond OF 500. He did
neither and was committed to jail in
default of payment. He VIII finger
there a year unless he llQuldates.
The death occurred yesterday morn
ing, OF Mrs. William Hall, at the family
residence, 1882 Jacob street, after an
illness that has been regarded as crit
Ical for some time. but her demise was
a great shock to a wide circle OF
friends, nevertheless. The deceased
was the mother Of Rev. Father Hall. OF
the Cathedral, and Miss Mary Hall, OF
the Washington school teaching force.
REV" Sam Jones delivered one Of
his vulgar lectures" before Wheel
ing audience last night, under the au-
spices Of the Womhn's Camp Ground
Association. One Of his elegant ana re-
fined ~ expressions was: IT you
can't boss your kids you should 90 out
of the kid business" And yet Jones IS
tolerated by people who claim to be
something. -Steubenville Herald-Star.