Fort Wayne News, The (Newspaper) - April 15, 1904, Fort Wayne, Indiana Rain or Snow Tonight end Decidedly Saturday THIRTIETH CITIZENS WIN iTHE o be against the Barber company yeaY -Co DECISIONS OF THE BOARD OF WORKS OVERTURNED ON TWO STREETS TO DAY PEOPLE WANTED ASPHALT Board Decided for Brick But Two- Thirds Majority Reverses That Ruling THE FRONTAGE IS COMPUTED Whole Question Taken Under meht Until Next Monday Afternoon J The statements in the News that the of public works had decided against the wishes of of owners on Harrison street between Main and Baker streets Creighton avenue from to tori and East avenue from John to in selecting brick as the material for was borne the over- whelming the board of works midnight The the News claimed knew that a majority of the property owners on these thoroughfares wanted asphalt that they selected brick these open defiance of the expressed wishes of the citizens who are to pay for the improvements The decision of the hoard made it necessary net only for the property owners to get a majority of the front feet for- asphalt but a fuil two-thirds majority There wag no trouble in getting a majority in- a hours after board made its decision owning to the indignation of the property era It more work ever to get the two-thirds but the coterie of agents junior board and senior board of works defeated in their forts to give the property owners what they did what did want this morning Attorney J M Barrett the brick contingent and At- Wilmer Leonard representing the Barber company Barber company to defeat the for brick on Harrison street between arid Wayne streets had to have of owning The feet and overthrow the the of lawyers may technicalities The will of a majority of the property has clearly established against of the board Barber company had to present a remonstrance containing a front footage ct the Harrison street between and Baker streets from brick to asphalt and the remonstrance filed contained the names of property ers who own front feet To overthrow the decision of the board East Creighton ave nue between John street and Hoi ton avenue and get an asphalt the property owners incensed at the decision beard had to get the signatures of property owners owning feet The remonstrance against brick contained the signatures of prop erty over 500 feet more than On Creighton from Calhoun street to Hoagland avenue where the board brick against the wish es of the majority of the property ers it required a remonstrance con taming feet The remonstrants favoring asphalt presented the signa tures of property owners controlling feet These figures demonstrate clearly that the board of works did no endeavor to please a majority of the property owners along these thorough fares They selected brick despit their wishes and the signatures on the remonstrances filed today show conclusively that the decision was made contrary to the wishes of more than two-thirds of the property own ers Unless there are technicalities in some of these remonstrances or with as shown in brick petitions the board of works will be obliged t bow to the will of the property own on block East avenue will not get a single contract as me owners on that street against brick Capture Thief Before He Jumps Former Express Messenger Taken by the Officers I April he was about o leap through a third Story window to scape arrest Arthur S a formerly employ of the company in Cleveland ind now on of ment was m today by At the time Aptin had one eg of his but before he could on the other the detectives forced he door leading to his room at 1806 gan avenue and seized just as he was out of the window The ar- est ended -a search of two months Victory for Victims Judge Decision in Quick Case ST LOUIS April intrusted their money o the E J Arnold Co de- Adams court This decision all of them entitled to a pro where as Walter previously de- investors had no claim He based this on the ground the bankrupt was engaged in an business Ancient Home of the Korean Emperors is News From Far East AN EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK DYE WORKS LETS GO KILLING TWO SEVEN YORK April the sion of a drying cylinder in the dyeing and finishing of William Meister at 56 North First street shortly after 8 o'clock this than was one girl fatally injured and seven other persons burned and hurt During followed many of the from njan Simon Trotter 58 a The iously injured Forest 16 years old Mamie Burns Mae aged aged 21 Bertha Gluck aged 17 Charles aged 29 What caused the cylinder to explode is known Trotter the dead man had been employed In the capacity of dryer for and careful employe window in the factory was blown out The building took lire but the flames were quickly RUSSIANS DENY INSIST THAT PETROPAVLOVSK WAS SUNK BY THEIR MINE ST: PETERSBURG April official denial has been issued to Japanese statement that the Japanese fleet was responsible for the sinking of the battleship An of the general staff in an inter- view today stated that the Russian dis- patches fail to show that there was any naval engagement fought unless the surrounding of the pedo boat designated The with f our others de- were scouting outside bf Port during the night In the course of the operations ithe became separated front her con- and yas tost When day broke to creep in along the shore but was discovered and cut off and soon overpowered and sunk The general staff is of the ion that the was sunk by a mine placed at the entrance to the harbor to protect the inner bay iao battleship sank in full of Ad- miral Togo's squadron Overland Train Goes Into Ditch 1 r JT Two arid Wires Are Down ST PAUL Jlinn April Northern overland train 3 bound ran into a at Idaho Thursday afternoon Two coaches and the engine were derailed meager The general Paul says a report comes over a commercial wire to the that one was injured A heavy rain and snow storm prevails in the west and wires are down mits the farmer on with his work 4 Collections in are behind a year ago This especially where trade has by the late spring or Improvements iri have been thoroughly Estimates -on the total output con- firm what was to the better outlook for general Pittsburg reports the volume of business likely last year's record js alone governing the There has been very little speculation Shrewd judges of the situation are still ad- the utmost the showing of half M f WENT TO DEATH ON THE MEN WHO COMMITTED A BRUTAL MURDER HANGED TODAY CHICAGO Louis Pesant a Frenchman 24 years was ed 19 o'clock this morning for of Mrs the night BURR INDICTMENTS RARE FOUND THAT HAVE GREAT INTEREST BULLETIN WASHINGTON April the senate met today it agreed to the house amendment to the Major Symons to act as consulting engineer in the construction of the New York canal and sent the appropriation to conference A was passed the importation and exportation obscene THE CAPITAL OF KOREA RICHMOND Va April ing been given up for lost the original Burr was tried for treason meanor were found Jn archives of court Each r not of the world's fair is ery of the rare for the United States department of justice came from Washington to papers for the government exhibit and while delving in a corner of the clerk's of- fice found the indictments All the other Burr papers were where they belonged CONSERVATIVE CONDITION OF TRADE RANTS Iron Business Is Improving the General Much Better NKW YORK April Special dis- patches to the International Mercan tile Agency report a continuance of favorable trade conditions in most sections of the country where hns delayed in general average up to in sections even s fins been a late the season is far to warrant predictions concerning crop St Pawl district re- good THREE CH I DEAD GAL SiUTH HADL April The of a are dead the wife is cally ill from sarnd cause The town on Its Parts di the ol of the children and meat from suspected the poison came Have been to Harvard for three ren six four and two years old who ness were were present at Medical LONDON April Paris con respondent of the Exchange Tels graph company wires that news lias been received in the French capital that the imperial palace at Korea has been destroyed by fife and that the emperor has Four Hundred Years Old The imperial palace is a massive four hundred years old It is built on the feudal structures and contains within its walls a constant guard of 500 men Within the the palace grounds retainers live The ace is not the only one of the em- hoirie house another palace in which he lived for many years but one night a snake fell from of his bedroom according to a well circulated story and Yi moved to his ent imperial abode Emperor Has No Nerve Of Emperor Yi Heui or ns it is also spelled little is known outside of his date of birth accession and marriage He wasi born on Sept 8 1353 and succeeded the throne on Jan 12 1864 His been one of constant dread of tion He is snid to reality a nervous wreck almost afraid of his own shadow The ent St n similar report Report Not Examiner Branch chief of Police Buchey of arid Mar jbr state police They are what they suspect GOVERNOR OF AN nor v interview h than war looked and the lipon as f or power of the power of the the of was a h considered so way is He is all right if he in his place Through the Booker and other high-handed has lost the south In Missis sippi with a and votes I don't believe he receive over forty vo in the s don't th hood of i hope i has Bryan ch But I him The not be the saiti are a Mij good wil y for there to be f o St re the cap sight under the black uttered by the young widow the jail n the morning but were to see the condemned man First of Eight to Go Pesant was the first of eight men doomed to die in rapid succession He will be followed next Friday by Peter and Marx the car barn bandits ind shortly thereafter by Mack slayer of Chief of Police of Morgan Park John Johnson of Jaines ind of the car rett in Crime watched a Grand Was Thrown J Sinking Vessel machine crush stone all day Then I went home and killed Mary Spilka I crushed her head like the crusher crushed the stone She never injured me but it gUve me pleasure to how I was to crush her soft head in with my This was Loins con- by the state's at- torney why he killed the wife of a His lawyer in: but the evidence disclosed murderer his little daughter out of the house tory to crime and after killing the woman robbed tlic body of The deliberate cruelty of his plans and Consummation deprived the crime Of extenuating circumstances The man's crushed a ball bat despite her for life was one lobe being larger the other life was regular until the murder of his neighbor's wife STY Duke brand Duke Cyril who have been seriously injured in ship disaster has re- a telegram explaining how hifi sop escaped from the sinking vessel Captain of One of cleverest naval of- Captain Crown was born In New York of Russian and English Captain Crown entage He commanded the Russian gunboat was caught in the at Shanghai toV it to Crown to say that be acted ders be re- quired in ing Ay i tli i is elp forts The be from yards upward apd be unique facilities for observation Many Rumors About ST April is GAUDY LOOKING BUT FLIMSY LATE ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON April house today hour to he by Unanimous consent of April tions Tor the different relatives of the tim's of the Missouri disaster are pouring In at the navy de- up to amounted to are who sent and Mi's wife of the Missouri White in chnrEC United States embassy at London iri the of Ambassador cables the state department as senior naval lord called upon me today to express the sympathy first lord of i the admiralty Iti re- lo the Great Gateway of the Palace at Seoul The telegram says that when the ex- plosion occurred on the battleship Cyril fell to the left side of the bridge and quickly let himself down to the deck Upon reaching a wave broke over the battleship carrying the grand duke overboard He sank a considerable distance from the ship but regained the surface by his own He then caught the fragment of a si earn launch and was finally picked up by the destroyer His aide-de-camp tenant Yoji and his servant were drowned WORK IS DIFFICULT Correspondent Tells of His Troubles at Port Arthur LONDON April Times correspondent on board the steamer who witnessed the last at- tack by Admiral Togo on fleet under the guns of Port Arthur telegraphs by wireless to a neutral ship oh a shore position In the first place is necessary to avoid the fire of the snOre batteries and in the place it is keep the ship absolutely clear of the arc ing Thus on a clear day it is put usual after a disaster either at sea or on land all sorts of rumors are in circulation here is that the Grand Duke Cyril who was said to have been seriously injured in the battleship Petropavlovsk catastrophe and who removed to n hospital in Port Arthur is The reports however has not been officially con- Another rumor is that the famous who was on board the Petropavlovsk when she was torpedoed and that he was lost with the ship the condition of Me Grand Duke Cyril the news received here from Port Ar- thur yesterday he had sustained serious injuries to both legs which menaced his life and that amputation of the limbs was among the possibilities Main Force at here Seoul Korea are to the effect that the fores has arrived at northwestern part of in future the landings of the troops will be made at near the mouth of the river It is stated that a Japanese transport look seventy soldiers home injuries In at in part
