The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-14
BRIEF 1rENT1onTNas.
Events in and About the City Given.
IN q Nutahell.

In . &UIAueLAA
Miss Mabel BuIlard very charmlngly
entertained u number OF her youHs
friends Saturday evening, at her home
on South York street. Island.
Reports from out in the country say
that the frost last week will do no little
damage TO the fruit. II Is not thought
the peaches are injured. but plums ana
cherries Will suffer.
Special Baltimore & Ohio ofiicer
Short and Constables Darby and Metz
yesterday made another haul OF train
jumpers, who will be tried before JUS
tlce Dunning to-day.
Tonight at s o'clock, there will be Q
children's May party at the Carroll
Club, for members of the club only.
The programme includes fancy Dances
a cake walk and tableauX. There is NO
charge for admission.
The hearing of Frank McGee, the
young man who killed George NC
Cannon, at West Alexander, last fall,
viii occur at Washington. Pa, on May
q. The defendant win fight the charge
on a self-defense theory.
Rev. T. ]. White. who has accepted
the cnll to the passionate OF the Second
Christian church, on tho Island. deliv-
GIEu Ills AhTEWNll lAAluAl " AAip NNAAElA@
CATION at West Liberty. yesterday.
Rev. Mr.. White is taking post-gradu-
ate course at Bethany college, which
he will complete next month. III
Last night at $3.50 o'clock, still
alarm called the Atlantic TO the corner
of Nineteenth and Wood streets, where
boys had fired rubbish heap. For O
time the fire looked dangerous, and It
was feared houses nearby would be
attacked, but the flremen did good work
and soon had the blaze extinghlshed:
Yesterday morning occurred the
death of Mr.. ]. c. Land, OF % Vlrglnln
street, In the elghty-hrst year OF his
age. The funeral will take place from
the family residence, Tuesday afternoon
at Q o'clock, to which friends are In
vited. Mr.. Land, who was one OF
wheellng's Oldest citizens, was former
ly tailor.
At the Instance Of residents Of Leath-
erwood, Constable Darby yesterday az
ternoon arrested four boys, who were
swimming in the creek there. The
boys names are Stephen Blatchley.
William McCurdy, James Marquis and
Edward Helfer. They were placed In
jail for a hearing before Justice Dun
ming to-day. Three were released last
night upon giving bonds.
West Alexander had prospects Of Sc
curing a glass factory, a location at
that town having been considered by q
company, In which Mr.. ]. c. Brady, OF
this city, is interested, but the company
has decided on n site at Clarksburg.
West Alexander's chief advantage Is
the new gas line passing through the
town from the Cameron field, owned by
the Ohio Valley Gas Company.
Saturday evening, 1000 members Of
the Wheeling lodges Of the Shield Of
Honor went to Bellaire on steamboat,
and paraded over the streets OF the
town, accompanied by the new lodge Of
the order there. At the corner OF
Thirty and Union streets, an
open air meeting was held which was
addressed by Messrs. W. p. Robinson
and Charles ]. Schuck, Of Wheeling.
Fitzpatrick and Corporal Harry B.
McGrane, both Of Company A, First
Infantry, West Virginia National
Guard, have enlisted for the regular
army at the local recruiting station and
left last week to Join their regiment in
the Philippines, Both were In Company
N, First West Virginia Volunteers, and
had excellent records, and 1t has been
their ambition for some time to 90 to
the Philippines.
Last night Mr.. L. NJ. English recelv-
ed telegram from his sister, Mrs. NJ.
P. Wright, of Milford, Ind, telling OF
the death OF William T. English, after
an illness OF several months. Mr. Eng
llsh went to Indlana in the hope of re-
stored health, but unfortunately with
out avail. He ls survived by q wife and
one child. The deceased was we'll
known in Wheeling; for many years he
was connected with the Smith Brewing
Company, and later was an assistant in
the Office Of Collector Of Customs Schae-
fer.