Fort Wayne Evening Post (Newspaper) - February 27, 1896, Fort Wayne, Indiana PORT WAYNE EVENING POST VOL NO 237 THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 27 SIX CENTS A M the subject of municipal with anyone The drilling machines in the muc tine depart meat were this morning equipped with a device The new arrangement wi 1 facilitate the work of ng he machines as the self-feeder takes ie place of t in hand oil can does ho work much more effectively Three Wabash engines were this morning taken into the Wabash shops or an ing In addition lo a general touching up each engine will to equipped with a new cab and as many Wabash engineers will be prom of their new road IS THE Consolidated Line As the canal question is understood hero the following are the three principal arguments which enthusiasts will present to the committee in It will give a consolidated line from Toledo to Logansport Ind giving a canal to Lake Michigan und a canal to l o Ohio river the cost of one it will give an abundant water supply at the summit levels of tlie proposed canal at Fort Wayne and and it will give the lowest elevations of land through which to dig tin bed of the canal Abundant Water Supply The abundant water supply which can be secured without supping the lakes in any way is regarded as one of the strongest arguments for the route through Indiana Whenever n canal hus buen proposed the questions have been forthwith Will it drain water from the Will il ower the level of Lake A sufficient at all times is of course necessary to the success of the ship canal Dr Campbell is confident hat the Maumee and the rivers will furnish all the water NEW LODGE at the Westminster Church Pacts the of ilic Gulden Fleece Heine Organized Six Desperate Criminals Freed at South second Westminster concert was given last night before a and audience at Westminster church The work of the orchestra as veil as the selections by Mrs Hoot Miss Graham Mr Hash and Mr Root vere excellent and evoked much Mr wonderful execution on the violin was the subject of much comment At the conclusion of he entertainment Rev Leeper pastor of the church announced that another concert would shortly given the proceeds of which will go for more as Mr Leeper expressed it The concert lust night as well as the former one were highly successful and under the able management of Mr Hush the third ia sure to terminate Are Considering tlie Great Canal Birds Are Arraigned Before is now being organised in this ity lodge of the Mystic Order of the Golden Fleece Many members have SAWED THE IRON BARS Lowered Themselves from the Roof Ity Blanket REASONABLE OF THEM YOUNG close next Thursday evening March All those who desire to join the new rdcr which is a benevolent society can o so by applying itt the lodge rooms at larmony hall over 20 West Berry treet at that time Messrs W H and 1 arts the One That Brings It Through Fort Tracy Imagine He Was Hit By a SHERIFF SHOOTS A CAUSED BY While He Is Attempting to Make His Posse on the That the Way Through This City Is Most Citizens Complain of But the Police Are Court special class in pla n r ornamental will be formed at t ie Business College next veek for the benefit of those who take a regular course One class vill hft held from 4 to 5 each afternoon nd another from to on and Thursday evenings of each veek Terms very liberal For part call at college T L STAPLES and spring styles go at for three days only at D MONAHAN 86 Calhoun SOUTH Bran Ind Feb The boldest jail delivery in the history of northern Indiana occurred here sometime during last night and was discovered when the cells of the county jail were opened at breakfast time Six are missing and are still at large The bold crooks sawed through the top of a cell and gained and then descended by a made of twisted blankets The escaped prisoners Bert and Will Anderson brothers Thomas Clark John Will and Thomas McHenry The former were awaiting a trial for a whole sale robbery and an attempt to murder The others were awaiting trial for serious crimes recently served 14 years in prison The town is greatly excited over the wholesale delivery of prisoners and every man available is giving chase Telegrams have been sent in every direction to head off the crooks aud it is hoped that they will not all escape LAPORTE Ind Feb Sheriff Simons of Noble county shot and fatally wounded James Evans at Millersburg late afternoon Evans was arrested for chicken stealing and attempted to escape from the officer 0 Feb 27 proposed ship canal through Indi ma would destroy the Ohio project for ti similar great watercourse from Toledo to Cincinnati If the canal is built through Evansville instead of will become the port through whici the shipping of the great was criminal day in the court this morning Ed Lauer Cherry and Charles Steadley he three young men who terrorized the east end of town a short lime ago vere arraigned on the charge of riot Steadley pleaded not guilty and Cherry and not plead Their ases have not yet been set for trial As mentioned in the POST yesterday ercy L Everett the young man who t is alleged attempted to puss a forged check on a Harr street butcher was on a charge of obtaining money inder false pretenses but his case was iot set Fred who is charged with was also brought up and his case was set for tomorrow morning The patrol wagon was called out on Sast Lewis street last to take care of John W Tracy who is well mown in this city Tracy claimed to lave been run over by a street car and lis groans and yells filled the air He vas taken to his home 72 Pearl street morning Tracy is busy looking for lis horse which he says has Officer Dora Hardendorf has jeen delegated to hunt up the missing The this morning received a circular from the Tri-County Mutual Protection association of New London O them to be on the lookout for Hie daring burglars who last Saturday into the nf O G Carter at New London blew open the safe and secured large amount of jewelry among which were 21 gold and 40 silver watches two trays of watch chains and a couple of dozen spectacles A reward of has been offered for the capture of the thieves THREE OP A Three drunks were picked up by the police last evening and locked up in he police station They gave their names as Ollie Shoemaker John McKay and Elmer Day Young Shoemaker is Hi years old but can carry as much as a man twice his age He was given 11 days by Mayor Oakley this morning McKay was also found in a beastly slate aud was sentenced for n like number of days Day's experience with the bottle is given in another article OTHER COUNT SOTES The patrol wagon was called to the corner nf and Walton avenues last night to quell a family racket No arrests wore made John Raypole was fined and costs last evening by Justice for assaulting Minnie Yeager Elmer Day who came to this city from Cold water Mich a few days ago was picked up in a back yard on Baker street last night in a condition Day claimed to have been drugged in a Calhoun street saloon and robbed of some money His wife called at the police station later and Day was No credence is placed in his story Henry J Weber a brakeman on the Pittsburg is confined to his home 71 Buchanan street suffering with injuries which he says were administered by some unknown man on Clinton street recently Weber savs he was and then robbed but the police discredit the man's the new spring style hats worth and Go three days only at each See window display D MONAHAN 86 Calhoun will pay you to buy your Hats Dups and Gents Furnishings at 142 Calhoun street They are out to fish and lobsters received da ly at Jackson's 140 phone CROOK AND HE AFFORD TO DO Stoll Picks One Up With Damaging Papers Cutter Al Hobrock is confined to his home by sickness today W H Cour of the Wabash shops mashed one of his fingers yesterday The Machinists union held an enthusiastic meeting at their hall last evening Pittsburg engine 241 which has been undergoing repairs will leave the shops today Hugh Welch of car ma chine shop is still confined to his home jy sickness J H Hobrock of the Pennsylvania company is in Chicago on business for the company A bright baby girl has put in an appearance at the home of Mr and Mrs Kelly Mr Kelly is a Muncie engineer Frank Erickson who has been visit og his brother in this city for some ime will his home in Chicago tonight Arthur Thayer whn has absent from duty in the Wabash shops on account of injuries received has again reported for duty The absentee list in the Pittsburg machine shop this morning shows the names of E G Pearce A J Dawson and J L After tvn absence of a week on count of illness C Ruppel the genial employe of the Pittsburg tin and copper shop reported for duty this morning Instructions were yesterday morning given out in the Wabash shops to construct a new road engine Work has already been commenced on the Palmer and his gang of the Bass shops who were laid off Tuesday while the steam axle hammer was being repaired returned to work this morning Joseph Gansof the is now manipulating the bolt cutting machine in the car machine department He was formerly stationed at the nut cutting machine Frank McFellan a Lake Shore brakeman fell from freight train No 71 yesterday afternoon a mile east of and his left arm was fractured Mr McFellan has many friends in this city It is said a new railroad backed by York and Ohio capitalists will be built from Buffalo to Kansas City and that it will run parallel with the Fort Wayne and Chicago railway through Ohio and Indiana The of the Pennsylvania company in this city are now turning out complete for four cars a day This is considered inasmuch as three cars per day has heretofore constituted a good day's work Ellsworth V Fox of the Electric works was married last evening to Miss Adele Siemon daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl Siemon Wagenhals performed the ceremony Mr and Mrs Fox are now at home to their friends at 39 Wilt street the affable clerk of the Pittsburg tin and copper shop ia now dusting olf his municipal political bat preparatory to donning it for the spring campaign He will soon be ready Result in Hounding Up a Gang of road arrested a man at Warsaw ast evening who may yet turn out to a noted crook He was discovered n the act of stealing a ride on passenger train No S was handcuffed and to the jail at Warsaw As resembles very much those of a crook Doc thinks he has made a clever capture and is holding his man o await further developments At the jail the man gave his name as Fohn Kennedy and said he was beating lis way to New York A letter found upon his person has given rise to much suspicion It was written by a pal of Kennedy's and was post marked Now LIN s Come on back to New York You are the only game one ia tlie gang There is biz here for us In another part of the letter the faithful pal tells of several clever thefts he made recently It is the opinion of the police that the capture may be the initial step to the rounding up of a gang of thieves TO KILL HIM Midnight oil was used in large quantities last evening in trying the case of David Schlatter v Frederick Schoerpf as it was after 11 o'clock before the little coterie departed from courtroom Justice has reserved his decision in the case until Friday morning Schlatter charges Schoerpf with threatening to kill him Both are residents of Leo and it is alleged have been at swords points for a long time 7 d tar good man It won't bankrupt me ML ef r I will deduct it from the wages of Our Dunlap spring hats have arrived Call and see them 56 Calhoun street GULDEN Miss Vora Burpee dramatic reader and reciter at the Y M C A tomorrow THE BOSTON Excellent Program He Rendered at the Y M C A The following is the program which will be given by the Boston Rivals at the Y M C A tomorrow PROGRAM Grand Minuet Sherwood Miss Downer Bourn trom tnc Miss Burpee The Gay A E Harris Miss Othello Ernst Mr A Courtship 1 a Pastoral Verhey h La Miss Downer i a Eyes of Soprano f-b Irish Folk Arthur Foote Miss des Mr Dream of the World's Awakening with musical accompaniment Miss Burpee The secretary of the Boston Y M C A says of this They have been in our entertainment course for the past five years and are to open our course this season We would not feel our course was complete without them They are artists of great ability and our people are always glad to hear 1 be transferred Accordingly muc i interest is manifested in the Indiana the merits of which are to be examined today by a congressional committee at the special request of the legislature That there cannot be two ship cana s between the Ohio river and the great lakes goes without question and it depends upon the place to which thC cana can be most cheaply built whether or Ohio shall be chosen Advices from Washington show that a partisans are confident that theirs is t ie most economical route They ire fortified with facts and figures from Jr J L Campbell a professor in i college at Crawfordsville Ind 10 ias given the subject a patient exam nation Ho claims to prove that a through Ohio would traverse higher ground and thus need more locks ant deeper as they would touch the canal almost at its summit levels 50 eel above the great hikes not one drop of water will be drained from Lake Michigan or from Lake Krie Height of the Land The land along the Indiana route is said to be considerably lower than that n Ohio or Michigan through which a ship canal would pass Nowhere by the Indiana way will an elevation be encountered which is more than 750 feet above sea level and nowhere will an excavation he required exceeding 100 feet This fact it is argued will save the government many thousands of dollars n tlie construction of the canal The following figures showing the of the land were prepared hy Campbell and will be used in the Indiana argument The figures from Ohio Indiana and Michigan points t ie elevation in feet above sea Along the Indiana Cannl 1 ort 750 660 Toledo 570 transport 000 LaU Fugitive from Justice May Be Taken Back to can get fresh fish and oysters at Jackson's plume 314 Feb Frank Hubble of Baltimore a ias Mr Jules of 3144 avenue Chicago who came announced that he was ready o cure all ills by the of lands is under surest as a fugitive from justice He was arrested upon receipt by the police of a dispatch from Baltimore w says he is a fraud and lat he is wanted there for obtain ng money under false fail to hear the Boston Rivals at the Y M C A next Friday evening THIS COUPON OUT I COUPON the new spring style hats worth and SO Go for three days only at each See window display D MONAHAN 36 NIGHT SCHOLARSHIP 1 INTERNATIONAL 1 BUSINESS COLLEGE I FREE to the Boy or Girl 1 sending to the I EVENING POST y The largest number of pons by May 20 1896 JL SUrct t ie ship waterway for lake traffic s ever constructed through Ohio it Graduating Class Entertained by Div Get our prices before purchasing We are here for business DALLAS P Jauin 78 Dr Campbell slates that Wayne s situated at the lowest point along the summit of the great ridge which sep t ie waters of the great lake system from the waters which How into the Ohio and it is the natural gateway or the canal separating the river tine t ic lakes Thai part of the canal connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Erie was firs taken up by the Indiana authorities Dr Campbell then made a scientific investigation and said of this The route I would propose to con Lake Eric with Lake Michigan be gins at Toledo and extends alone the line of the old Wabash and to il point a few miles west of Logans port t by the Tippecanoe am Motion to the at Dunn's bridge and from bridge to Lake Michigan Thu route has peculiar vantages Al Dr Campbell attached much to the canal connecting the but he would now make the branch to the Ohio river the thing i i this trunk line Tor for nn Examination and Were Met With a Feast at Good all probability follow the line of tie Miam canal This would lake it nor I from Cincinnati past Hamilton Dayton Piqua Delphos St Marys to where it would turn down the valley of the Maumee to Toledo The proposed Indiana canal would a so follow the Wabush and Erie canal from Toledo to Defiance thence to Fort Wayne and thence to At diana projectors would join the three arms of their inland waterway 01 e from Toledo by the old canal another coming from Lake Michigan by t ie and Tippecanoe rivers ami a third reaching from the Ohio r ver by way of the Wabash valley t will be seen that the Indiana cana is in reality two cana s one connect Michigan and Lako Erie shortening ihc distance between them sever il hundred miles and the ot ler the grout lakes and the gulf bj an onsy mule at least 100 miles shorter than through the Illinois and hats go at for three days only at D MONAHAN 36 Calhoun you seen the spring They are beauties 56 Calhoun street GOLDEN ng class of of l ie Fort college of medicine were treated to a pleasant surprise last even ing and the memory of the event wil ong be cheris icd in the hearts of t ic 12 young who participated in it Dr M F Porter announced yesterday that us the lina examination of t ie c ass was near at hand a test exam na t on would not be inappropriate ant according in the young men to equip themselves with pencils and be on hand it S o'clock at his residence When the young men shivering for fear of failure arrived at the residence they to their astonishment t tat the examination WHS no more or oss than a banquet prepared for them IV Porter presided as toast master and appropriate toasts re s to by the gentlemen composing t ie class Charles Bessler formerly a brakeman on the Pittsburg but now of Centralia 111 is in the city the guest of his parents Mr Sessler is well and favor ably known in this PRODUCE Feb asked July opening closing CORK May opening clos July opening ctos September opening closing February closing nominal May opening closing July opening closing asked February closing no mi nal May opening closing bid July opening closing nominal February closing 83.37 nomi nal May opening closing July opening closing TO THE EVENING POST MERCHANT TAILOR See the 00 and 00 Bed Room Suite pS Also the Upholstered Colder and Wood W Seat Hookers at 49 and up All marked p in plain figures THE LOWEST na Our Bed Room Suits are as long as they last Anybody can secure them sa at that We are now and always expect to be Jw Headquarters for the best and finest Furniture at the lowest ONE price New Fall and Winter Suitings We are showing some of tlie Newest Neatest AND Patterns Ever brought to the city Rivals at Y M C A tomorrow Agents Wanted I can tench anyone a trade wortl hundreds of dollars to them with m New American Tailor System Cut every garment worn and only Gentlemen as well as ladies learn ant go to work Patterns free Mns LONG 77 Kast Berry to Heyman's 142 Calhoun street for your Hats Caps and Gents Fur They arc selling out to May opening closing July closing bid This market is furnished by Gordon Co margin brokers White THE m mm COM j EAST BERRY STREET g latest hats worth and go for three days only at See window D MONAHAN 36 Calhoun Winternitz the famous violin virtuoso at the Y M C A Friday now on sale at the Y M C A for the Boston Rivals Friday evening the Optician DALLAS F No tl 16 W Berry Street on Jackson 1 10 Calhoun street for fish and oysters Phone
