The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-26
BR1EF MENTIoNINas.
Events in and About the City Given
in Nutshell.


Opera House to-night-corinne in
THE Jolly Little Host"
The Jaclsy Arthur base ball club. OF
the East End. viii cross bats with the
strong Tlltonville club. at Tiltonville,
Saturday.
The Red Rose Club will give a pri-
vate hop ut the Central Garden club
room next Monday evening. Prof.
Long will play.
Prisoners from the city workhouse
were engaged yesterday In cleaning city
building offices. and two Of them e!uded
the vigilance Of the guards and made
good their escape.
Squire Fitzpatrick assessed n fine OF
81 and costs on each OF the participants
In n general fight at green row." above
the Top mill. They were: Mary Wiley,
Pearl Wiley and Rose Wells.
Yesterday the contracts for the Inn
provements at the L. S. Good & Com
pany building on Main street, were let,
p. ]. Gilllgan gets the stone contract,
and the woodwork will be done by w.
W. Wood.
The Fred Goldstrohm hearing, on the
charge OF keeping a gambling house,
was again postponed yesterday. by
Squire Greer. this time until next Wed
nesday, on account OF one Of the attor-
neys, Mr.. John a. Howard, being de-
tanned by another case.
Powell lodge. OF the Tin Workers
Protective Association, has been called
to meet Mt walters hall, Twenty-slXth
and Chapllne streets, tomorrow after
noon, to discuss the tin-hOuse strike nj
the La Belle tin mill. The meeting VIII
doubtless result In the end Of the strike.
Eugene V. Dcbs, the noted labor lead
err, win deliver his lecture Labor and
Liberty" at the Fifth ward market
house this evening, under the auspices
OF the trades assembly. Three years
ngo Debs addressed a big gathering
here. and many people will hear him
Tonight
The Wheeling postotiice has received
n supply Of the new pocket stamp
books. Just issued by the postotiice de-
partment for the convenience OF users
OF stamps Books containing twelve
two-cents stamps, twenty-five cents
twenty-four for forty-nlne cents; forty
eight for nlnety-seven cents.
Last night At 0 O'Clock tie fire depart
ment south Of the creek was called to
the corner of Twenty sixth and Chap
the house occupied by John Amick had
Induced the ringing OF an alarm need
iessly. as the blaze was easily e&tin-
guIshed be- &c the arrival of the IRE
men.
Baltimore & Ohio Conductor Harry
Fletcher whose home is at McMechen,
while switching his train In the Rem
wood yards yesterday, was knocked
from the top OF a box car and received
severe injuries to both wrists and back.
II was thought one wrist was broken,
and his back is painfully hurt He viii
be laid up for long time.
Druggist Charles X. Goethe has just
put in $500 Tufts soda water foun-
tain that's beauty II is of Mexican
onyx, marble, mahogany and plate
glass, with mahogany counter and
adjustable stools. A "coZy corner" Is
another feature. Mr. Howard McCol
Tough. of Pittsburgh. has been placed
In charge Of the fountain.
In Squire Rogers court this after
noon at 2 o'clock. Michael Hoe. Of the
East End. will be arraiGned on n
charge Of having mnliciously destroyed
n tree belonging to the Benbout club.
and in front OF Its club house. on Wood
street. East Wheeling. The warrant
was sworn out by Robert Driscoll. one
Of the Beabout boys and considerable
interest is attached to the outcome,
The Food Fair will close tonight and
It will be given next in Washington.
Pa. Last night the crowd In attend
ance was too large for the building and
the managers were forced to turn many
people away because of lack OF room.
The affair has been highly successful
al 9Nn VrInn1Ntu tho n aNgll
Grucers' Association, under whose nu-
spices II was given, VIII realize neat
balance on the right side OF the ledger.
A party OF seven surveyors from
Pittsburgh arrived In Wellsburg yes
terday, and win begin the work Of sur
veying the route az the Wclisburg &
Lazearvilla electric railway, to-day,
from a point a short distance above
LaZaarvilla to Buffalo creek. The work
will b. pushed to completion MS rapid
IL as possible Nothing further has
been heard from the promoters OF the
Wallsburg & Bethany line since the re-
port OF the engineers who examined
the bridges on that route.
DR.. c. f. Camp and his assistant. ].
s. Brubakar. who were arrested on the
charge OF practiclng dentistry without
n state license q few weeks ago, and
acquitted because they had not prac-
ticed. being arrested as soon they open
cd shop. were served With similar war
rants yesterday. and they were held
for the grand jury In the sum OF $500
bond each. The case Is being pushed
by the state dental association. Messrs.
Camp and Brubaker came here a short
time ago from Cleveland.
Public balls for the benefit tO OF the
TvN.a fV, coo aNsFN u
last night. and there has been n pla-
thura Of them for the last few weeks.
The primaries will bring relief to the
festive candidate, although some OF
them have refused to hand over their
pocketbouls to the club" promoters.
and one OF the latter last night said
that such kind OF candidates were af-