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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1891
Page
2
Black and white polka dot Serge wrappers in all sizes at 1.98, worth that much to make them. Striped Flannelette Wrappers at 1.00, cheap at 1.50. 50 children's cloth dresses all sizes beauties at cost. 2500 dollars worth new muslin and cambric underwear made for holiday sales at popular prices. Wraps of every description very cheap to close them out. Cloth-faced gossamers for ladies and children.
A laborer on the B&O line suffered serious injuries after being crushed between two freight cars near Renwood and doctors say a collarbone fracture will sideline him for weeks. Fred Geralghty, 15, endured a stomach wound from a barrel stump during a jump test near Benwood. Other reports include burns from steam at a sewer opening, mashed fingers at Blach Bros. plant, and a large Nat Goodwin performance at the Opera House plus a piano sale and Christmas decoration display at Lou Swabacker's.
Churches present extensive Christmas music with choirs and soloists from St Josephs Cathedral Second Presbyterian First Presbyterian St Matthews and St Alphonsus plus a large choir from La Hache mass settings and soloists including Miss Emma Yahn Agnes Hess Walter Chapman and Miss Mary Wilde lead diverse services across multiple venues this Christmas season.
Pittsburg papers report Albert Seybert and Patrick Kearns, a Broadford druggist, linked to a systematic heist of B. & C. freight cars and whisky. Whisky moved to Kearns' Broadford drugstore and possibly a Connelsville outlet. Kearns, once believed respectable, may be the accused.
Telegrams report the Supreme Court of Appeals upheld Judge Paull in Watson v Watson et al and Swerengen v Const, sustaining that Coast accepted the option in good faith and that Watson could sell. The matters concern oil leases in Hancock county’s Turkeyfoot field with an estimated value from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars. The decision follows thirteen hundred pages of testimony and weeks of argument, withWatson’s and Const’s purchase money and shares split accordingly.
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