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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1894
Page
9
The scene describes Mrs Frank Dew and another woman hosting guests in a finely furnished house. The article notes china, old glass, and fresh flowers, with invitation cards in a mirror. Mrs Fray sits reading the Morning Post as a horse-drawn arrival signals her husband’s return, altering the mood of the room.
Frank Dashwood visits a dying former lover who implores forgiveness for past sins. Milie, his present wife, urges mercy as Marjorie, the other woman, forgives and dies. a letter from Milie reveals an intertwined past and the couple's final estrangement.
Carl Seger, a master painter, his wife and four children died last night by taking poison. A paper signed by the family states all consented to self destruction. The tragedy followed Seager’s financial failure to collect money due for work on a new building.
The Field Columbian Museum in Chicago opened in the Art Building area as the largest American museum, intended to perpetuate features of the Exposition. It received a Marshall Field endowment of 31,000,000. J. W. Salt, head of Mining and Milling at the Fair, was named director general as the museum began operations.
West Virginia notes cover Logan county county seat plans, Norfolk and Western coal contracts, a Doddridge oil gusher in Little Flint, and mining activity in Parkersburg. Reports include Richard Whiting's Kansas GOP nomination, railroad right of way progress to Sutton, a Bluefields death, and a Blaine era silver question discussion with Reed and Hitt.
The Fremeh political group and allied radicals rally behind M Bourgeois as their candidate to lead the Chamber of Deputies against ex Premier Casimir Perier. State railroad and postal workers seek union rights and follow national union precedents. Parkersburg crime note and distant dispatches appear alongside fragmented transit updates.
The article recounts Alexander Salvini’s plan to live near Florence in Italy, pursuing a theater and academy of dramatic art to present top quality drama. It notes his intention to become a manager to fulfill his life ambition, his ties to American backers, and a Virginian writer’s play he produced for him titled Zamar, seen as promising though not fully realized.
Lennox June 2 Mr Henry Irving hosted an annual Royal Theatre Fund dinner with 250 notable guests including Sir Frederick Leighton and Baron Leopold de Rothschild. Irving ridiculed theatrical depression driving actors to boxing and predicted drama would outlive generations.
Judge in Washington holds AP-Washington Evening News contract inviolable and allows AP remedies under bylaws to restrain copying news. Pending enforcement, court withholds further specific performance. Other captions note rulings on tax collection and local postings.
Mendel Mendilovitz a 13 year old confesses in Yorkville Police Court to being part of a juvenile pickpocket ring run by Abe Solomon on Suff ol e street between Grand and Hester. Solomon and his instructors trained boys in stealing and disposing of plunder with Central Park operations led by Ragafsky.
A fragmented reminiscence recounts a Kansas jockey Curtis of Topeka describing his youth riding in Kansas Missouri Colorado and Texas. He details early fame with horses such as Wass Casino and Bob Ridley, the decision to quit racing for schooling, a staged dramatic race tactic with a whalebone and spur, and a legendary five heat race on Lady Soothing Syrup. The piece shifts to a court hearing note about Prendergast and Mayor Harrison, plus an ad urging Howd's Sarsaparilla and hand made Pita.
A local Charleston case reports the conviction of a male offender for the murder of W. P., a white peacekeeper, following an eye toward December events. The proceedings reflect a racially charged and contested line of testimony.
A garbled Detroit Tribune line presents a dialogue with Mrs Brown noting a "Dacgh organine" likely a misread word and a male reply about cruelty. The exchange ends with "Good evening" and a reluctant disclosure of methods under obligation, reflecting a clipped social interaction.
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