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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1893
Page
5
The Wheeling Register reports on a mix of local crime and politics, including a plan to fund police and a debate over school taxes. It notes praise for a comedian at the Opera House, a Chicago medical tip, and regional unrest in Colombia with looming martial law.
In New York on February 11 John Ward to play second base and captain the Giants. Officials from New York and Brooklyn completed a deal that brings the popular player back to New York. Presidents of Cincinnati Cleveland Boston and Baltimore clubs attended the meeting. Kelly will also be signed by the New York club. A separate dispatch from Washington reports Tsui Kwo Yin’s replacement as Chinese minister to the court is Yang Yoab, with Yang serving as customs collector at F Woth.
Cameron Cameron McMechen notes recount a busy week with weddings, travels, a measles case, typhoid fever, a large dance, construction plans, rail delays from a landslide, a nighttime debate on the post office, and school institute activities. Gov Fleming visiting, and local business shifts amid public interest in growth and health concerns.
The St Clairsville area reports the O U A M will perform By Force of Impulse on February 22 with solid rehearsal progress. Local happenings include civil cases, marriage licenses issued for Geo W Peddicord and Mary Yost among others, indictments for shooting, concealed weapons, pocket picking, assault, and ten liquor charges.
The Territorial Legislature in Guthrie protests to the U S Attorney General against deputy marshals who arrest men for cutting timber for fuel or housing, drag them long distances, and jail them for fees. They cite arrests of travelers with whisky, cold weather timber cutting in the Cherokee Strip, and the wrongful prosecution of Indians unable to understand English to obtain deputy fees.
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