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Convulsion of Nature to |schedule.Kill the Hot Spell. j xotes.A portion of tho slate roof of the First Presbyterian church was damaged.The tin roof of the Pape box factory was blown off.•: LIKE A FLASH.is Wind Tears Everything 3 That Lies in the Way*SWAKB CHAR/HER IS BITTEN.Give Lessons in Patriotism to the Youth of Fort Wayne.GUNS ARE DEDICATEDFang* of s Big Rattlesnake flay\ DAMAGE DONE, j Cause Ed Comstock's Death.Mayor Scherer Turns tho City Over to the Voterans.Opening p. no.....i. it o*lCam]) 31’i^*1... Cy'rr.nL T. I iik,’u^Uih^ j:lt;vix ...... cfult;uajin]t . \.. . lt;m«(amp iir, . .KkVuith H uii m s u 'jij ^U! t'y r 41J IicLu„i4\ ..... Cnjur ..I IhoULit ,r, , . , _ SK-* ]jC.tJUphji -ouf.,,Spllmih. in c 15. -i )jilnUiTilp li11 ,iipt PI imatinnAl! are invited, especrLoss Will Prove Heavy in City and on Farm.Mning while perspiring eiti-ed about the streets under s rays of the scorching sun, Perry gave out the blessed it was raining in Chicago torm was coming this way, le took thfs simply as an ex-i by Col. Perry for wearing trovrsers and declined to be-e prophesized storm, t came it was with a rush, is and drivers were totally d for the terrible rush of the blinding storm of dust 3 itself on the unsuspecting a live creature, clawing, and wrestling with eyen-able.minutes there were exciting the crowded streets. Hats, vests, sigH3 big and little,[roceries and provisions, withrs and sundry articles, ponr-ie street in an avalanche.Lima, O., .Sept. 10.—EdLComstoek, the snake charmer with a traveling j show at the fair grounds, was bitten • by the big rattler at yesterday afternoon’s performance. The snake is 8 years old and dangerous. Comstock was taken, to the Myers hospital and was raving like mad last night. The physicians declare he cannot live. His home is in Eureka, Mich.REUNIONS FOLLOW.Mi KjM’ION I.ASfComrades of the 88th Infantry and * Ith Artillery Meet Once More.AN INFANT CR1HINALFive-Year-Old Elmer Davis in Iowa Industrie! SchoolEldora, la., Sept. lb.—Elmer Davis, of Marshalltown, 5 years old, has just been received at the Iowa industrial school here.He stole a horse and buggy, a bicycle, tricycle and some household goods and then set fire to a dwelling house. His parents sent the boy to the school.The veterans of the war for the preservation of the Union never tire recalling the old days in the sixties by reunions and like observances, and young and o’d delight to do them honor.To-day the dedication of the guns recently mounted at tho soldiers’ monument at the entrance to the Horth Side park, and the subsequent reunions of the S8th Indiana and the 11th Indiana battery, will loog be remembered by all who participated. The program for the day had been carefully arranged and went oil without friction.Long before the hour appointed for the parade the streets were Oiled withAt White’s hall last ni Walter presided over a rlt; in honor of (ten. Janiespart men f, commander of Gen. Dodge made an adlt; followed by Col. Briant,ton; Capt. Otto, of theand Col. (\ B Oakley, i been incomplete without Kens ill, and he was indu army songs.N(hj oi the iu: The Twelth llegimeni year and then discharj ganized with Colonel Wj] Fort Wayne, and LieutiRueben Williams andFort Wayne, adjutant, after the regiment was Mr. Link was killed. J the regiment were lulled and the remainder tak The regiment at the tun General Kelson. r K, of that regiment, wen son, captain: John M. lieutenant; James O, Sh lieutenant Those that n the countv ar( .Tnhn H M
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Wed, Sep 15, 1897

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