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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1892
Page
4
Political campaigning and public meetings fill Harrison and surrounding counties with Democratic and Republican activity. Reports cover campaign plans, speakers, election forecasts, social events, marriages, travels, and local business shifts, including note of a dairy operetta and a large Wayne County stage gathering.
A humorous 19th century letter recounts a public meeting where tin cups dippers and plates were used to serve ox roast and coffee. Visitors carried away the tinware as a demonstrably persuasive display of McKinleyism, while Republican merchants protested unpaid retail value.
Warre nt on O h 5 reports a burglary aftermath at Rush Run with booty partly returned and another part under surveillance. a child dies of membrane croup. locals travel to Wheeling. teachers ill. misses Everson and Linton absent. Mrs Yost travels to Steubenville. Mrs Lindman summoned to Smithfield. General strike ordered in city. printers not striking. 25 000 workers to be affected. militi a readiness and council meeting planned.
The piece contrasts timetested and modern views on curing consumption, arguing both may be true and false. It promotes careful living and recommends Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as an important part of prevention. An offer to send a book appears from a Boston Street address.
Moe Daniel Love, son of a New York stock broker, pursued Miss Albert at a summer hotel in Delaware, Warren county, New Jersey. He grew angry when she resisted, seized a revolver, and shot her in the forehead. She lay unconscious for two weeks, then slowly recovered but lost all senses except sight, with constant head pain. Doctors failed to locate the bullet after trephining. Future surgery may reopen the skull to search again. experts say the ball likely severed nerves, accounting for the loss of senses.
In Brantronp Ontario at the Assizes Court a unique case concluded with Mrs. Sarah Jane Quick winning 4500 dollars from Mrs. Agnes Church. Quick claimed Church seduced her husband Joseph Quick, a foreman in Woodstock’s barn organ factory, after a tense trial observed from opposite sides of a table. The trial followed a separation and forgiveness pattern before the jury returned its verdict.
Mrs. Mary Geffs charges Joseph Zihlman, superintendent of Zihlman Glass Co in North Baltimore, brought 27 waifs to New York and forced them to sign debts for railroad fares. In three weeks they have received 25 cents. they are poorly clothed, underfed, and beaten. Factory inspector H. Davis has begun an inquiry. Advocate E Burd Grubb links emigration’s ills to women's suffrage.
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