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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1883
Page
3
A long, archaic-sounding tribute traces the Rothschild family's vast influence and the loans they supplied to nations, portraying their wealth as a public treasury. It discusses their capital channels, global reach, and the moral questions raised by such private power.
A fragmented travelogue style piece describes a French writer Edmond Planchet Jo and a large crowd in a Majorca gambling setting. It paints feverish scenes of roulette, beaches, moonlight, and moral tension among young married women, nurses, chaplains, and spectators in an atmospheric critique of vice.
A grave burial tale unfolds as a man near Tichanoff is mistaken for dead, buried alive, and later dies. The widow sues the priest and authorities claiming failure to permit timely rescue, while police and archimandsite dispute who bears responsibility. The incident highlights local ritual, police inaction, and legal battles over burial procedures.
A village tale tells how two long separated brothers reunite when one, a tramp in Engiewood, is aided by a generous host. The wandering brother finds sudden fortune after meeting a Montana kin, then returns to help his benefactor and secures a new life, while choosing to continue a modest tramp existence.
A U S agent T V McGillycuddy reported a lost wallet containing about $1000 in currency and negotiable paper. Witnesses say the wallet was found and returned by Ho Rowand whe Fi js Stu,900 with & Bet Sherry, while other locals recall a cordial exchange and gratitude. Police and office staff, including Clerk Willard, confirm the event occurred at the Pine Ridge Agency desk before McGillycuddy departed for Washington.
In the Medicine Bow region near Lite Pass creek Farley James Wilson and Jake Stultz were on a mining trek when a grizzly attacked their camp. Wilson was fatally mauled while Stultz and Farley escaped but vowed revenge as they pursued the wounded bear into the beaver dam country.
A narrative fragment describes a bear attack killing Shull or Shultz with a fatal chest wound as others recover remains and bury two bodies. It then shifts to a bizarre column about inheritance in Milwaukee, a list of old oddities, travelers’ misadventures, and a satirical verse on a masher, all in a jumbled newspaper montage tone.
The piece reports on Dublin's police and the so called informers peril with the Crimes Act trials, arrests of sixteen suspected conspirators, and a description of the harsh, secretive inquiry methods in Castle Dublin. It also notes emigration pressures from Ireland due to potato failure, poverty, and economic distress driving men and families to seek work abroad.
Fragmented text discusses how various diseases and causes of death induce fear, despair, and mental distress. It catalogs reactions to cholera, yellow fever, drowning, and other afflictions, noting how observers perceive pain and the dying process. The prose is medical-ventral with scattered scans of emotion and physical decline.
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