The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-14
BRIEF MENTIoNINGS.
Events in and About the City Given in
a Nutshell.

At Wheeling Park to-night-Park
Vaudeville company.
No business was transacted yester-
day in the circuit court.
The Pan Handle pay car visited
Wheeling yesterday and gladdened the
employees Of the road.
Plans have been drawn for new
house on Fifteenth street, for p. j.
Green, Of the Locke Shoe Company.
The council committee on scales
meets this evening. and that on peti-
lions and remonstrances has been call
ed for next Monday evening.
Squire Rogers last night gave ten
days In Jail to Abe Stokes and Alfred
Neil, charged by Special officer w. NJ.
Johnson, with jumping on Pan Handle
trains,
There was a hot cake walk at the
Second ward market hall last night,
under the auspices Of Prof. Arch john
son and other well known colored fancy
pedestrians.
Notwithstanding the rain last night,
about 300 people attended the Pleasant
Valley Social Clubs picnic at Pleasant
Valley Park. The dancing hall was
taxed to Its utmost.
A big kntydId located on the side Of
trolley pole, at Sixteenth and Chapline
streets, last night, Much rubberneck-
ing was INDUCED in, and the wise ones
swore It was kissing bug"
]. o. Gray and Frank R. Johnson
have been chosen delegates to repre-
sent Morning Star lodge. Colored
knights Of Pythias, at the grand lodge
meeting In Clarksburg, to be held July
Is, 26 and "a.
A good many people are preparing to
take advantage OF the reduced rates to
Mackinac Island next Tuesday, offered
by the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
Railway, and the indications are that
some forty to fifty people will make the
trip.
II is believed the Wood Brothers
planning mill plant on the South Side
will be placed in operation shortly. II
has been acquired by the Consolidated
Building Association, and 1t Is said the
Woods may make arrangements to Sc
cure the plant again.
Fort Henry council No. 2, Grand
Orient, will turn out In street demon
stration in their new uniforms, this
evening on the South Side. The route
Of the parade will extend between
Forty-third and Twenty-fourth streets.
The council will be headed by Meyers
band,
This morning, in the county jail, be-
ginning at 10 o'clock, Squire Rogers
Will conduct the hearing Of Joseph
C'Fatty'O Driller and Mrs. Parker, ar
rested several days ago for their al
legged connection with the death OF
Louis Dlttmore. at West Wheeling.
Driller is charged with the murder OF
Dittmore, and Mrs. Parker with being
an alder and abettor.
Yesterday morning party Of nearly
fifty members of Wheeling lodge NO.
2s b. P. o. E., left via the Pan Handle
for Allegheny, where they attended the
street fair being conducted this week
nv Allegheny lodge. They were accom-
panied by Meister's band Of twenty
four pieces, and made gallant show
ing. The threatening weather cut
down the size Of the delegation at least
one-halE
CAPTAIN w. N. Bonar. OF Marshall
county, who was temporarily dismiss
ed from the local revenue collection Of
Ace, by Collector A. b. White. pending
an investigation OF his conduct In using
n revolver in Benwood, when ne was
set on by crowd OF young men atter
he had patronlzed street car during
the strike, has been reinstated, The
case against Captain Bonar in the Ben
wood courts has been amicably ad-
justed.
The general Labor Day committee
meets this evening at Trades Assembly
hall, when It will be decided whether
the celebration occurs on the last Sat
urday Of August Gas has been usual or
on the legal labor day. the first Mon
day In September. II IL thought the
latter will be decided upon, but II 1t Is
il will not be possible to have the cele-
bratlon on the state fair grounds. ns
the state fair opens on the day follow
ing. Unless the last Saturday In Aug
ust wins out the celebration Will likely
he held nj wheeling Park.