The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-04
BRIEF lGENT1oNINas.
Events In and About the City Given
in q Nutshell.

Lfa;ia5e AZ TIC Grand skis afternoon
Grand tonight Huntley- jackson
Company.
The North Main street euchre club
was entertained yesterday afternoon by
Mrs. w. A. Isatt.
A number OF postofIice and counter
telling cases Will come before the uni
ted States grand jury to-day.
The trial OF Mooney and Friday for
the murder Of James Hervey will open
in the criminal court next Monday
morning.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Wheeling Union Benevolent Society
will be held at the Y. II. c. A. building
this afternoon, at $3.50 o'clock.
The test oil we'll being drilled near
West Liberty. Is down now about $50
feet. and the prospectors win sink the
drill until the Berea grit is reached. In
terest in the venture does not lag.
The hod-rarriers OF Local Union No
5026, a. +. OF L., arr on strike for 81 %
day, an advance OF twenty-five cents.
Some Of the contractors have acceded
to the demands OF the hod carriers, but
most OF them are holding out.
Last evening at the Carroll Club,
George a. Feeny defeated NJ. Henry
Jamison In match OF billiards, for the
amateur championship Of the Carroll
Club BE- three points. George has held
the championship for the last two
years.
Chief Clemans yesterday completed
his report for the month Of March, as
follows: Arrests, 81; white males, 30;
colored males. 6; white females, 2; coll
ored females. ;; males to city prison,
%; females TO county jail, i; fines as
aessad, S2SS 40; fines collected, $3.50 49,
To-day at New Philadelphia, Ohio,
there will be a conference of eastern
Ohio miners and operators. to act on the
demand VI the miners for the indian
apolis scale Of eighty cents ton.
Wheeling district mines will be gov
erned by the eastern Ohio agreement
At the city clerks office. l2S appllca-
lions for liquor license have been re-
ceived; last year there were 1872. The
bonds OF six saloonists have been re-
ceived, and Clerk O'Brian deSres the
bonds OF all other applicants to be In
his hands not later than Friday after
noon.
A motion for a new trial in the case
of the state vs.. Miller. the colored man
GbUNltNtu III lIt' CTlIlllIlsLl Glult VI 49,
bling FSrmer w. H. Anderson OF $S4 Will
be argued to-day before Judge Hugus by
Attorney II. c. Caldwell, and the mo-
ton VIII be opposed by Prosecutor
Meyer.
A special term of the circuit court,
Judge Melvin presiding. was held yes
terday, at which the following new
citizens were turned out: Paul Muhar
and John Stripanowich. natives of Aus
tria. both under age and Marko Merz-
geik, native Of Croatia. All are OF
Benwood.
A fourteen year-old boy named Fish
err. while playing on the city hall steps
last night, Slipped and fell over the
steps to the ground, sustaining frac-
tured wrist and cuts on his head. The
city ambulance was prepared to remove
him to his home in the East End, hut
the boy preferred to walk.
County Clerk Robertson has dug out
one of the first photographs ever made
by artificial light 1t Is u photograph,
showing the audience in the Opera
House that attended the performance
of "Dagmar" by the Louise Bale COM
pany, about seventeen years ago. a
number OF prominent citizens, including
Messrs. Richard Robertson, +. II.
LanGe and George Hook, figure in the
picture.
The North Glade Fishing Club. of
Wheeling, whose fishing preserves are
located in Garrett county. Nd, Will
have the best trout preserve in the
country two years hence. In their
seventeen lake were placed 10000
young trout some time ago: $4,000 are
now ready TO be put in and 10000 more
are to be secured from the fish commits
sioner Of Maryland, making 10000 in
all. Before all this was done the fish
ing was good, so 1t will be seen the
North Gladers have in view q p!scator-
ial paradise in the near future.
Yesterday. in the Unietd States court
Judge Jackson on the bench, in the
cases of the United States VS.. Police
Officers Gateley and Fisher. Of Ben
wood, charged with interfering with
deputy marshlls during the street car
strike last spring. argument was had
on q demurrer to the indictment. Col.
George b. Caldwell appearing for the
defense. The court sustained the de-
murrer. and the indictment was
quashed This, however, docs not dis
pose of the matter as the district at
grand jury to-day
inc committee HaNlHE lnt lTlp vi
Osiris Temple. Ancient Arabic Ord.r OF
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, to Wash
ington, D. c., May % and %. In charge,
reports meeting with great success and
viii take the largest crowd out OF
Wheeling that has ever attended n
meeting of the imperial council. Flat
taring and substantial replies have been
received from all parts of the state
Osiris Temple will 70 by the Baltimore
81 Ohio railroad, by way of Falrmunt.
Huntington and Grafton. and will
gather Mobiles and their friends from
all points on the line. The committee
having the matter In charge is compos-
ed Of Mobiles James Il. Mckee. W. w.
Irwin and Clarke Hamilton, jr. The
railroad rate from Wheeling has been
fixed at $40 for the round trip. The Col
Onial Hotel has been secured as bead |
quarters. and Osiris Temple win be
by the addition OF the No
bles OF Drui Kedim Temple, OF Charles.
ton.