The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-17
BRIEF MENr1oN1Nes.
Events in and About the City Given
In a Nutshell.

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in a Nutshell.
The Pleasant Valley Social Club will
give hop this evening at Pleasant
Valley park.
Last night, at the North Street M, E.
church parsonage, occurred the mar
riage of John Schacht and Miss Bessie
LlewelIyn. both Of Elm Grove.
There is no clue to the identity of
the baby found in the river, opposite
Benwood, Monday morning, but the
authorities of that town are OF the
opinion that the mother is a Benwood
woman.
In this months issue of the West
virginia School Journal there appears
an Interesting and instructive article
Mature and the Child" from the pen
Of Mr.. James C. Lewis, of the Wheel
the high school faculty.
At a meeting of Wheeling Typograph-
ical Union No. f9, yesterday l. ~.
Wykoff was elected delegate TO repre-
sent "seyenty-nine" at the annual
convention Of the International TyFo-
graphical Union, to be held In Milwaul-
kee, in August.
Census Supervisor C. A. Helmbright,
in charge OF the taking Of the national
census in Ohio county, had received tine
outfits of the thirty-seven enumerators'
and they will begin their work prompt
Nv on the first day Of June, and COM
plete 1t within fortnight.
Yesterday morning at o'clock, a
small building of the Wheeling Bridge
q Terminal Railway Company on the
Peninsula. used as waiting room, was
burned to the ground. the Atiantle
engine was sent out, but arrived TOO
late 10 save the building. The loss Is
about $500.
The West Virginia University, whose
| representative won the inter-collesiate
oratorlcnl contest at Bethany, recently
has decided to withdraw from the as
ISOLATION, which numbered seven col
ieres In this state and Pennsylvania.
| The association Is six years old and
| three of the annual contests were won
by student OF the university me
latter will Join more pretentious as
ISOLATION.
There were no new developments
Yesterday that could be learned
Of IA relation to the sale of the
La Belle plate mills to the American
| Tin Plate Company. but 1t Is generally
believed that the deal is go. The TN
plnte combine needs more room at It's
La Belle plant, and at present the d.
vision between its mills and the plate
| mills is represented by nothing stouter
than frame partition.
Charles Gorgestos and George Pautz-
opodas, or words to that effect, yester-
day Instituted suit for 500 in Squire
| Rogers court. against Squire Max
| srolowitz, and his bondsmen, A. NJ. Rice
and e, Buchanan. The case was set for
Monday morning. The plaintiffs con-
| duct a fruit store one door south OF the
| Masonic temple, on Market street, anu
they claim they were done wrong 10
the amount named. by the defendants
special constable. who In serving an
| execution, locked up their place Of busl-
ness, in which there was perishaole
fruit.
John Mahoney is in the county jail
awaiting the result OF the Injuries ne
inflicted on William Sherlock, Monday
afternoon, near the Warwick pottery
Sherlock Is at present confined to his
home, in the East End, under the care
of Dr. Osburn, and his condition Is con-
sidered precarious. His wife swore out
an assault and battery warrant for Ma
honey, and a more serious charge may
| be entered II developments warrant It,
| Mahoney broke SherlOcks jaws and In
| tured him internally by kicking him In
the body. Yesterday Sherlock was
splitting up blood. The case will br
heard by Squire Rogers at date to be
set later.