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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1896
Page
13
A long recap of yesterday’s events from heat waves to minor disturbances. Reports include crowd activity, street conditions, police movements, vandalism, arrests, and weather impacts. Notable items mention a disturber at the cathedral, a planned park event, and pavement work in progress.
Special to the Register lists numerous short notices from New York and Boston. Names include P. J. McCannon Wheeling CV Harding H. Ge l Tinker A Steuder J D Borden Frederick Nau Mrs August Brot Hubert Meads Joephine Warsbacher and many others. Updates cover registrations visits travels illnesses and upcoming trips to Europe with brief, uncertain details and local social notes.
Hillman and Cool Mulart Park hosts a Sacred Concert by Kiran at 2 34 pm. Attendees urged to travel for the day and secure seats in advance. Prof Levitt and the Dillon Wheat and Hancher Co offer properly fitted spectacles.
Pleas of guilty to two hundred and fifty-one indictments filled the Criminal Court yesterday with substantial box office receipts. Four hundred eighty-four dollars in fines and costs were imposed on saloon keepers for selling spirits under a short license, with numerous specific defendants listed and many pleas of guilty to loitering in houses of ill fame followed by five dollar fines and costs. Edward Payne, previously pleading guilty to robbery, was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Other circuit court actions and demurrers were noted, with writs of quo warranto refused in one matter and amended petitions allowed in others.
Ice prices in the city remain unchanged from last season as breweries refuse to join an advance plan. Local manufacturers circulated a proposal for a five to eight cent hike, but the plan collapsed after the breweries declined involvement. About two hundred tons of ice are produced daily, serving a fifty mile radius.
New York stocks mixed with gains and losses across several issues. Notable entries include Atlantic Refining, Armour, Canadian Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio, and Northwestern. Several utilities and railroad stocks show fluctuations amid broader market activity.
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