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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1875
Page
2
A notorious anecdote from New Orleans depicts a cemetery transport driver joking with a body that is not dead. He knocks the lid shut and suffocates the man, prompting arrests and a courtroom laugh by judge and lawyers before bail is set.
The piece attacks Ohio’s inflationist party platform linked to Governor William Allen and the Cincinnati Enquirer. It traces Allen’s political shifts from hard money advocate to inflation ally and notes echoes of past battles with hard money factions.
A heated exchange questions Calhoun street repaving while supporting other projects like Clinton street bridge and fire alarm. The reform movement seeks funding from park sales but critics accuse it of extravagance, urging economy and suggesting the park sale would finance the bridge.
A London Standard report details tests aboard the tug Re known Greenhithe where the pyrolytor extinguisher was used to combat staged shipboard fire. The apparatus generates dry carbonic acid gas to smother flames within minutes, with four operators and potential cargo safety advantages noted.
A jumble of domestic notes from Galena and a St Paul Pioneer Press item spews slips about a mother’s goods, a bonnet, powders, and a harsh quip. It shifts to mock reflections on the Tilton Beecher trial, promises of volumes, and a grim imprecation on theft and deceit in a Logansport anecdote.
The Fort Wayne common council invites sealed proposals by July 18 1875 for a slows truss bridge over the S J Mary's river at South and Clinton streets with a twenty foot roadway and east foot path. Also for a trestle or pile bridge over Duck creek on Clinton street and grading of approaches. Plans and specs available at the city civil engineer's office.
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