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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1897
Page
11
A social column details Mrs Campbell Miller and Mrs Grattan Neland hosting at Senator Williams home with elaborate decor and prominent guests from Wheeling society. Lavish entertainments, medis links, and remarks on Miss Josephine Campbell and other notable attendees accompany a roundup of parties across South Side events and birthdays.
PERSONALS recounts a Tyre woman known for dangerous acts on the road to misread signals. Long list of social attendees from seashore excursions across Pennsylvania lines includes Higgins Reilly Jamison Smith Horkheimer and many others. Further notes mention Miss Crisswell of Moundsville and Miss May Paull’s Atlantic City trip, plus local outings at Nichol's Grove and Wheel ing Park Casino social events and a wedding in West Wheeling.
After a two months' strike at the Reading Iron Company the pudding department, employing 18 men, will resume next Monday at an induction to 2 per ton.
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Special to the Register from Hinton West Virginia reports a fatal tunnel accident near Lewis tunnel about fifty miles east of the city. Conductor Edward Bray died after being overcome by foul air while a rescue party including Brake men Sam Hamilton Ed Womack and Fireman Thomas Dainwood were also overcome. Hamilton was fatally injured, Bray died within minutes of rescue, Dainwood and Womack expected to recover.
A sultry spell grips Kansas City Missouri with a string of hot readings from 92 at noon to 101 at 4 pm and 100 at 5 pm. The heat tops a week of extreme weather and a June to July surge with Bert Barker a local teamster dying yesterday from sunstroke.
Wild excitement grips Scottdale Pennsylvania as two non union workers at the local iron works shoot at youths and a crowd. One shooter named Painter fires four to five shots near the Geyer House before being contained by Burgess Porter and strike leaders. A second non union man fires on Pittsburg Street, is knocked down, then rescued by officers. The mob surrounds the station and mill workers fear to venture out.
San Francisco reports retiree Consul General Bille Mills and his wife returning to Virginia. Mills says annexation in Hawaii is universally regarded as certain with intense support and hopes the issue will be settled when Congress meets this fall. Also notes Col. Fred D. Grant resigning as New York police commissioner after clashes over methods and disorderly boasts.
In Pittsburg today strikers from the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company gathered at Turtle Creek and planned to march toward Sandy Creek and Plum Creek to disrupt Oak Hill mines. About 180 campers were joined by additional strikers from McKeesport, with deputies stationed along the routes and a sheriff’s proclamation warning all to avoid gatherings.
Dun's review dispatches from major northern cities report universal improvement in business with strong crop prospects from Detroit to Seattle and Portland. The iron industry stalls on unsettled wages and rising demand not yet lifting prices, while Bessemer prices edge higher. Structural work shows growing demand for plates sheets and bars for agricultural implements and rolling stock due to abundant crops. Weekly failures total 236 in the United States and 28 in Canada vs 281 and 40 last year.
Two boys were arrested yesterday afternoon for attempting to break into Lichtig s store on Union street to steal a bicycle. His Honor has not yet decided their fate. Mr R Jacobs and daughter of West Liberty are visiting here. Maud Corbett and Cora Neal visiting friends at New Metamoras. Mrs Lizzie Zentmeyer of Newark is visiting her parents. William Phillips is the proud papa of a little girl. Albert Clark left the ice cream parlor for a position with Metropolitan Insurance Company. Miss Jessie Henthorne of Cameron visiting friends here. Preaching Elder Osborn of Harnesville district was here yesterday. Joan Sherry will succeed Bob Haase as B O ticket agent here. Miss Kate Deltenberg left yesterday for Elyria. Two drunks at the city hostelry. Letter carrier service will begin.
In Yl July 2 a cyclone hit the A C McDowell farm two miles north destroying the house and barn. Several killed and several injured. Victims named include A C McDowell, his wife, Brownlee family members, Miss Jess Groves. Severely injured are Mrs A C McDowell, her son Charles and daughter Mary.
A speed test on a trolley line between Burlington and Mount Holly reported one mile in 49 seconds. Separate items note a July 6 Amalgamated Association meeting delay affecting Alabama and Indiana operators and a July 30 explosion of a steam traction engine near Upland, W Virginia, injuring a man and setting three farms' crops ablaze. An unrelated exchange from Cleveland Leader appears as a brief cartoon-like aside.
A humorous note questions if juggling dishes improves appearance and asks who is more addicted to the habit than a servant girl. It suggests a dainty dining setup is essential for visitors and claims dainty dishes can be bought cheaply from John Friedel & Co. at 1119 Main Street.
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