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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1892
Page
2
A school for ladies, gentlemen, and children opens at 996 Main Street offering modern languages including Spanish, German, French, Latin, bookkeeping, and music. Applications for terms begin after August first. classes start soon with meals mentioned as part of an upcoming event.
Rhetostrom announces an season lineup for the Opera House featuring Primrose & West's Minstrels Charles A Gardner The Lost Paradise The Limited Mail Al G Fields Minstrels Masher and Man J K Emmet Jane Coombs Charles Dickson In Incog Yeoman of the Guard Bob Graham in Larry the Lord The Tar and Tartar The Spider and the Fly A Railroad Ticket Tony Farrel In My Ollenn Jed Pronty R D MacLean and Marie Prescott Jonesy Yeamans in 12 p m Danger Signal Linzi Evans In The Title Blackswithh John L Sullivan Lewis Morrison Private Secretary Pete Baker Dutch Courage Holand Rued Carroll Johosen Lillisa Kennedy A Pair Hebel Annie Pixley Gor Williams Clara Morris A Hole in the Ground Wittard Clark Tit for Tat Sliver King Idna Old Homestead Mr Wilkinson's Widows Monsod Women The Wife The Junior Partner The Charity Ball Gloriana and others Jarreus Lewis Rose Coghlan also arranging Bartley Campbell Heroine In Rags Pay Train Sadie Scanlan Piton s Company Mavourneen Underground Ward James Combination Nat Goodwin Donnelly Gas Charles Hanford in Tullos Cesar Frohman's Comedians In Jane Conreid Comedy Company The Past Mail De Bill Ramsey Morris Stock Company Al Zipman By Proxy Robin Hood Opera Company Jeanie Winston Opera Company The Men Making Completed and the Company Ready to Start Operations
Martin Reed, confided for murder, fought officers and townspeople for hours in an old tea house at Noblestown near McDonald. After a dynamite blast and a final volley, Reed’s charred body was found with a bullet wound in the head, ending a tense pursuit and wounding Chief of Police Orr.
In a Pittsburgh tragedy tied to love, Reed, condemned for the murder of Alexander Chappel, set a fire at Grete the ice house to force surrender but shot himself as flames rose. His body burned, bullet hole evident, alongside Coyle. coroner to inquest. Smatt Tate
A new artesian well in the Schmalbach brewery bottling cellar reached down eight hundred feet. Orricen O'Brien found a stray horse in the Sixth ward and housed it at Twenty-third and Market streets. Two police court cases ended with dismissals for disorder. Community notices urged attendance at local club and temperance union meetings. Business changes included Barr & Fraster acquiring West Virginia Stencil Seal and Stamp Works and J Goon entering the hat trade at 1145 Main Street. Bicycle race entrants announced and a train wreck update described wreck removal. Various public works items noted sidewalk curb repairs. Other items covered trips, society notes, fishing club return, a pedestrian struck by a train, and an advertisement for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
The council and committees await Tuesday action on ordinances to reorganize the fire department. Proposals include replacing assistant marshals with full paid officers, expanding engine crew strength, and possibly purchasing a new engine while using the old Atlantic engine until replacements arrive. Chief Healy reportedly has new personnel ready pending approval.
The Garfield Assembly picnic at the State Fair Grounds drew a large crowd with music dancing and promenading lasting into the night. Proceeds benefited the Homestead strikers as Garfield Assembly members praised their efforts. Also advertised are a language school on Main Street and planned excursion tickets from Wheeling to Mountain Lake Park at 4.50 round trip good until August 31.
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