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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1892
Page
2
A compact listing of ready made department items including suits wrappers gowns house dresses infants wear waists underwear wraps jackets hosiery mitts and curtains advertised for shopper interest. The brief item set highlights a broad range of apparel and domestic textiles available through the department.
A damaged OCR yields notes on a new Schaefer and Drieborst building at 15 Main Street with steam heating and a passenger elevator. The article extols their wine and whiskey stock stored from cellar to roof and praises the firm as a growing, respected local business in the city. Also mentions retail offerings and advertisements for shoes and eyewear.
Dr George L Garrison was sentenced by Judge Paull in the Circuit Court to seven months in jail and a $250 fine for involuntary manslaughter, with an appeal planned to the state Supreme Court. Defense counsel argued no penalty existed, while Paull maintained common law punishment applied, prompting motions for discharge if no statutory penalty.
An application for clemency on behalf of Marry Seybold was sent to Governor Fleming seeking executive mercy to commute a two and a half year sentence for embezzlement of $20,000 from the Bank of Wheeling. The petition, signed by many citizens with Judge Paull and Prosecuting Attorney Howard's signatures added, cites Seybold’s declining health and a remaining year of confinement.
Six year old Fred Zarnitz Jr. pushed a bean into his nose and required Dr Ackerman’s care to remove it. Benjamin Ikin, age eighty two, longtime Wheeling resident, died after forty years in the city leaving a wife and four daughters. Decoration Day brings relay race plans by Wheeling cyclers and a big parade by the Grand Army Post with decorations and a hunting flowers appeal to citizens.
The Patriotic Orders announce a Fourth of July program with a street parade and evening ball at Lute II on Market Street. The event aims to draw crowds, with police fire department and city officials invited and municipal businesses closing for the day. The American Hospital will receive a donation during the event, and music will be provided by the American cornet band with other societies possibly contributing.
Deeds recorded yesterday show a May 14 transfer from L A Rolf to C K Smith for Lot 26 Work View valued at 250 pounds and a May 26 transfer from H F Rehrens and others to Johann Otte for Lot 21 in Behrens Speidel addition valued at 450 dollars.
Cumberland's extensive railway links and canal access position it as a top investment site. With coal fields, sulfur free fuel, B and O shops, major brick works, mills, breweries, and papers, a growing industrial network supports vast output. Public sale of Cumberland lots urged by Humbird Land Improvement Co. in June 1992.
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