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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1896
Page
12
Fragmentary OCR reveals an ornate pledge involving a silk flag, ecclesiastical decorations, and a Brice Club. References to sweet-faced Madonna and stern-faced statesmen hint at ceremonial art and a long list of decorative tasks.
Veirmpitl West Virginia March 1 reports show community events including visits by residents, sermons at Opera House, and ongoing political campaign activity. The court case Pinks Adin versus the Mo anata concerns damages for a death. Local officials and attorneys from Phil Top W. Top Woods, Henry Fleming, and John Basel are listed in related matters.
The article reports a husband named Nomis murdering his wife and attempting to shoot his daughter before turning his weapon on himself in New York. He reportedly found his wife preparing to serve another man, fired, and then killed himself after a revolver shot.
The court inadsged Patterson Dominick O Grady and the defendants were committed to a Longview asylum. The case concerns the sensational murder of Moris Gilmartin and a romance with Kirlie Femanis. The man pursued her when she attempted to leave, resulting in violent events.
The Secretary of State issued a certificate of incorporation for the Jefferson Club of Charleston to promote literary improvement and political literature. Founding partners are James A Thaser Henry Fry P G Rowan B A Wood and Charles Drx eva.
A humorous 1890s reminiscence narrates a man testing canvas wings attached to a bamboo frame to skate over a lake. He soars at 45 degrees then battles a sudden 85 mile an hour gale, crashes into a telegraph wire, and lands amid astonished lakeside onlookers. He then recounts bicycle trials, spills, and comic mishaps as he learns to ride and dismount with self awareness and wit.
London March 14 In discussing a proposed bimetallic league plan Sir John Lubbock told a AP representative that bimetallists must accept a ratio and that practical changes depend on it He notes gold is far above silver and that a 1 to 16 ratio would let foreign countries sell silver at double its cheap price He doubts any silver rise would occur but says silver mines would surge and creditors would try to call debts in gold
In Reichstag the government announced a fresh inquiry into Dr Carl Peters amid Behel’s charges that he caused a negro and a negress to be hanged without trial while imperial commissioner in Africa in 1891. Peters disputed the claims, stating the facts were partly false and partly exaggerated.
Hoffman, a man of means, faced police court charges after a scheme to marry and divide his wives’ fortunes. The story details his seven relationships, wives numbered one through seven, and the legal entanglements as authorities pursued the matter in New York.
A mixed, fragmentary telegraph of global items reports the U S president approving acts in a murky legal tone, Masonry degrees and diplomas in the South, a Bombay lecture and India travel plan, a new Everett post office chief, jealous remarks and Japan Germany warship orders, and Spain concentrating troops for a potential pitched battle.
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