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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1896
Page
8
The poet Will Carleton's mother has died at age 81 in New York. She married a New Englander, moved to the Michigan wilderness in 1833, and founded a home where her husband died in 1872. Also note Finest free lunch in the city at Temple Sample Room tonight.
Chicago market report shows wheat and corn futures with May and July contracts. wheat opens 664 and closes 672, corn May 801, closes 30, July 31 and 38?c, September 321 and 33c. Cars May 21c move, park and lar? prices listed. Margin brokers Gordon & Co. provide data from White Bank Block.
Indiana weather briefing notes clearing this afternoon with fair skies and cooler tonight and Sunday. Dense high pressure moves in, bringing dry conditions and lower temperatures for the weekend.
Miss Rose Carter of 428 East Wayne street lies at death's door from complications. Medium E W Sprague will lecture at the A O U W hall tomorrow. Admittance 10 cents. F A Newton named secretary of Garden City Equitable Building and Loan Assn of Chicago. Ed Cayault becomes graphone agent and will exhibit in northern Indiana. Dr E P Banning will speak on spinal health at Cleveland University to high school pupils Monday. Rev J L Leeper discusses miracles at Westminster church with stereopticon views. Mr and Mrs William Bohn of West Berry celebrate 13th wedding anniversary with a three course supper. guests listed.
Until March 1 you can buy a tailor made suit for 15 dollars with fit and workmanship guaranteed. Open every evening until 8. A. F. Senocs, Tailor, 414 West Main Street. Subscribe for the Fort Wayne Evening Post.
Last evening church parlors hosted the German Emanuel Lutheran youth group forming a social society with officers elected for one year. President Dr. H. G. Murs. Vice President W. J. Lankenau. Secretary N. Busch. Financial Secretary Fred Spiegel. Treasurer Charles Sanders. Board of Advisors Rev. Wamsgans, John Siebold, E. Coehn. Roast beef lunch offered tonight 8 to 11 at White Elephant 10 West Main Street by Chas MuelFeat.
Bradstreet’s reports continued retarded demand for merchandise and stagnant industrial activity. Shoe factories in Philadelphia shut or cut hours. cotton goods makers doubt prospects. steel billet prices fell. fourteen of fifty Pittsburg Shennango pig iron furnaces idle. foreign woolens active while overall woollen output flags. January trade weak especially in central western regions. Chicago spring goods shipments below 1895 expectations. St Louis reports slow spring demand. general trade only fair. US business failures rise sharply this week to 3038 with 63 Canadian failures.
Curiaco Feb 1 McNichols denies allegations of seeking to influence a grand jury and says he will sue Judge Payne for 50000 damages for defamation. Judge Payne reiterates a bribery accusation connected to a murder case and declines personal controversy.
Pittsburg February 1 details emerge linked to Hugh Dempsey pardon. Nearly fifty deaths are alleged to be from poisoning connected to the Carnegie Homestead mill case. Names, death dates, and physicians were compiled for the commonwealth and withheld from the public during pardons proceedings in 1895. Des Morins reports various legislative actions in the state senate and house, including bills on funeral expenses, insurance, cigarettes, and public monuments.
The Commercial club secretary in Josepy Missouri reports a $108 draft from Grand Island Nebraska donated by local jobbers to drought sufferers in 1894. The accompanying letter notes farmers who aided last year raised good crops and plan to discharge obligations. The money was a gift, not a loan, and its return was unexpected. See Frank Klotz’s ad on page 3.
The Pennsylvan ia lines show rapid service with Train No 11 covering Pittsburg to St Louis in under sixteen hours, seven cars in tow, ahead of No 7 percent. officials say through trains could cut six hours off the current Pittsburg St Louis run, a gain greater than the fast mail. A collision wreck near Decatur killed Engineer Rose and injured Conductor Wheeler, while a Lake Shore train collided with a Pittsburg engine near South Chicago with minor damage. Personal notes record various railroad staff absences, moves, resignations, and health status, including Fooks, Kress, Reardon, and Beale among others.
A large sum of money in bills was found and a liberal reward is offered by the Evening Post for the return of the funds to the newspaper.
St Andrew's mission on South Wayne avenue hosts Sunday school at 3 p m. Westminster church offers an illustrated stereopticon service at 7 30 p m. Regular services at First Presbyterian 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m with Sunday school 9 30 a m Y P S C E 6 45 p m Third Presbyterian holds morning and evening services 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m with communion 12 m Sabbath school and Y P 8 C E at 6 30 p m Rev L L Hauser to address men at City Y M C A Sunday 3 30 p m Lost subject. Baptist quartet led by Professor Yost. A M E church quarterly meetings 10 30 a m 3 p m 7 30 p m Sunday school 2 p m Y P S C E 6 30 p m Trinity Episcopal corner West Berry Fulton Rev A W Seabrease morning prayer sermon and holy communion 10 45 a m evening prayer and sermon 7 30 p m Sunday school 9 30 a m
Miss Little of Huntington visits Col City while Solomon Saylor, longtime county resident, dies. James E. McDonald declines congress bid. Bluffton’s James Ferguson travels to see old friends. Fort Wayne guests and local church actions are reported. Dredging contract bid results and telephony expansion at Ossian round out the town news.
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