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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1883
Page
1
Debates unfold in Washington as tariff legislation faces House action. Leaders urge reduction of journal taxes and call for decisive administration guidance to Congress amid partisan clashes on tariff policy and fiscal direction.
A detailed congressional session description covers tariff debates, labor conditions in New England and Pennsylvania, and proposals on duties for nails, anchors, iron and steel parts. It notes remarks by Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Becks tobacco tax proposal, and discussions on monopolists and wage issues. The report includes references to river conditions and telegraph company arrangements in February.
A St Louis report details Charles Shores a shop employee who abandons wife and child to marry Miss May Craig owner of a private school. Craig reputed to possess money Shores travels toward New Orleans and Cuba with others believing he is working for the Fairbanks Lord and Od Company. News outlines alleged deception and a dramatic sequence involving a boarding house and a train departure.
A mob gathered near the Jul building after a horrible assault on a young girl on Wednesday night. They buried the corpse, dragged it to a tree, and displayed it in the park after a suicide note. Sheriff Lome faced threats but warned the crowd to disperse as the inquest proceeded.
A boy suffers severe burns after a powder explosion at a home in an early report. A Swedish tramp hired by Juku Schaller’s family is alleged to have placed a flame to powder, injuring the child and prompting a courtroom style account of the event and suspect.
Fragmented OCR reports a dramatic scene with a woman named Mrs T visiting in town. It notes an apparent return of warmth to a tense situation, mentions tripods at a bed, and references a shooting in Charlotte where John Dey allegedly shot a man, with Freeman gravely wounded. The passage blends garbled lines about siege, lovers, and race tensions with unclear dates.
Fragmentary record of legislative sessions detailing Senate actions on a protective bill for fraud cases in pending accounts, concurrent withHouse debates on penitentiary funding, water power, and a mound reservoir project. Includes discussion of weights and measures salaries, petitioned pharmacy restrictions, coal line protections, and ministerial appointments. References to individuals Price Boot Ewith, Williams, Dovener, Wheat, Naylor, and others, plus mentions of Braxton county citizens and miners testimony.
Ten survivors arriving on the Wentphalin recount the Cimbria disaster, detailing a two hour struggle after collision, a child saved from the sinking ship, a lone mast holdout for eleven hours, freezing cold, and rescue by Thetis and Diamond. They describe mass panic, boats lowered in chaos, and stern efforts to save passengers amid wreckage and loss.
A crowded court heard testimony about a violent episode near Isl an Bridge where four men were driven toward Cavendish and Barkeesvee amid warnings as police and investigators pursued the case. Witnesses described a tense scene with a remark about a man named Kavanegh and a sequence ending with four men leaving the Park to Lawton Park then a public house near Leeson Bridge.
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