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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1895
Page
3
Mr F D Homsher of 508 South Calhoun street was robbed in Albany Indiana losing about 75 dollars after burglars broke the ticket office window and took his valise along with a number of tickets and papers the grip was later found half a mile from the depot.
London dispatch says Lord Salisbury declines arbitration of the Venezuela boundary. The American president plans a special communication to Congress to present a clear issue: sovereignty over the area east of the Schomburg line. Venezuela’s Andrade welcomes the message as a forcible statement likely to be well received in Caracas.
Judge Lawrence leads wool growers in Washington as they demand Congress restore the McKinley schedule on wool and woolens as partial relief. A memorial and resolution urge quick action, though some attendees argue duties are still insufficient. The matter is referred to a committee.
A committee advocating a wool industry memorial to Congress is named with Judge Lawrence as chair and members Calvin Cowgill Indiana W W Burch Chicago A K E Shepard Texas and Theodore Justice Philadelphia.
The Turkish government cites a long report from the Sublime Porte detailing Armenian troubles at Trebizond. It accuses Armenian instigators of sparking riots and depicts Muslim casualties as arising from repeated attacks by rioters aided by assertions of Christian inciters.
Reed meets with members to discuss committee appointments amid secrecy. He plans to teet new members first, survey their measures, and act later. In Washington, Hoar backed executive support for Turkey, while Cuban policy and immigration bills sparked debate. The Texas battleship suffered another breakdown during a New York trial, delaying its next assessment.
The Republican senatorial caucus met for about fifteen minutes in Washington. It adopted a resolution by Proctor authorizing Sherman to nominate the committee on committees, with the list to be subject to caucus confirmation.
Ex mayor Hopkins rejects reports of 750000 raised and spent for campaigns in a year or 80 stating only 47000 was collected. He notes 82000 spent on fall efforts and 4000 to 5000 for mailing and incidentals and asserts a full report was issued by McCarthy Crosette and Burke. He says he left the committee in 1892.
Davenport Dec. 5 The annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Iowa adjourned after sessions marked by spirited controversy and little business. Rev Irving McElroy of Waverly was elected diocese secretary after a deadlock spanning three sessions.
Charley Snider, seed 14, was charged in Cincinnati with settling a bicycle. The brief item notes the youth context and legal action without further detail.
The Purdue University mechanical laboratory was dedicated on site of the January 1894 destruction. Ex President Benjamin Harrison and other dignitaries spoke. The facility covers over an acre with a 140 foot clock tower and multiple wings housing pattern shop foundry forge room machine shop and large center laboratory for steam engineering and hydraulics.
Indianapolis December 5 Governor Matthews praises President Cleveland on foreign policy and the Monroe doctrine while criticizing the Cuba section as too conservative and urging arbitration with England. He says sympathy for Cuba is just and righteous and should be expressed without violating treaties.
WaBash, Dec. 5. Hon. Daniel Sayre, nearly 81, is at death's door with doctors giving little hope. He came to Wabash in 1840 and is father of ex-Speaker Warren G. Sayre. Mounck, Dec. 5. Dr. A. C. Jones elected commander of Williams Post, G A R. among the youngest veterans, he fought at Springfield at age 12. Anderson, Dec. 5. James Hollingsworth, 82, hosts dinner for neighbor Phillip Shinkle, 80, with 200 guests. MissTon, Dec. 6. A country schoolboy, 7, cut jugular by glass and died.
Lorenzo Bur, secretary of multiple Philadelphia building associations, is missing and reportedly owes about 25000. A Chicago laborer Zeronica Uricz was killed by an Illinois Central passenger train on Eighty-seventh Street. Rumors about Rev. D W Kenrick becoming bishop of St Louis are unfounded as St Louis is an archdiocese. A six story building at 106 to 110 Attorney Street and 181 18144 Riverton Street New York was destroyed by fire with estimated loss 30000. Chicago saloonkeeper George Stahl shot himself after a prolonged spree. Mount Holyoke seminary girls in South Hadley Massachusetts have organized a fire brigade. The Weather We May Expect report notes for Illinois Indiana Michigan Wisconsin and Iowa with fair conditions and variable winds.
Money on call eased to 1542 percent while mercantile paper and sterling rates moved slightly. Board of Trade quotes cover wheat corn oats park and live stock plus daily produce prices and a St Louis bread relief note.
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