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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1896
Page
4
Chas F Pfeiffer offers money to loan on real estate and personal security with offices at 6 and 7 Bass Block.
Partly cloudy and colder tonight in Indiana with Saturday forecast for fair skies.
Jason McVeigh of Union Central Life Insurance is in the city. Summit City lodge No. 36 initiated new members. Fort Wayne Hive No. 6 to meet at 7:30 PM. Socials at Lakeside Sunday school and Trinity church. Théodore F. Thieme and Henry Cohen spoke. The Woman's Foreign Missionary society hosted by Mrs. James Curry. thimble party hosted by Mrs. H. M. Wilson with listed attendees. Louis Ebert celebrated 21st birthday at Lakeside. Home Telephone deposits 2000 to assure 500 phones in seven months. Ford Zouaves entertainment misreported. some members waived. Y M C A carom results listed. Jefferson Building and Loan officers elected: Hohnhaus president, Herbst secretary, Motz treasurer, directors Hattersley, Bullerman, Scheiman, Kasten, Slater, Kelker. auditing by Hahn, Tiemann, Corcoran, Weber, Thompson.
A. F. Seneca at 414 West Main Street advertises made to measure suits with guaranteed fit and workmanship. Open evenings until 8 O clock and no trouble to show goods. Sterling silver toilet sets and table ware by Damas F. Green are highlighted.
A special meeting of the Western Passenger Association is set for Feb 11 in Indianapolis to discuss extending the time limit on tickets to the G A R encampment at St Paul by the Great Western road. No decisive action expected. roads will decide future steps. Also notes on local industry and staff movements.
A Courier Journal dispatch from Frankfort reports Republicans held a secret caucus with Dr. Godfrey Hunter to guard the legislature’s joint sessions for the U S Senate election. Governor Bradley and Adjutant General Collier attended as plans to oust unseated Republicans and swear in Blackburn allies emerged. Militia may be requested, with action unlikely before Monday when Lt. Gov. Worthington returns.
The city buzzed with updates on the Pearl Bryan case as two young men appear to confess while shielding an accomplice. Alonzo Walling and Scott Jackson implicate each other and William Wood in a deadly scheme tied to an abortion plan and a missing head.
William Wood, brought from South Bend Indiana, appeared with his father Rev D M Wood and others. He claimed no involvement beyond aiding Pearl Bryan and denying knowledge of any proposed abortion. Wood was held on suspicion without bond and released on own recognizance after questioning by Mayor Caldwell and Chief Deitsch.
Walling released a midnight statement asserting Scott Jackson planned to kill Pearl Bryan using drugs or other means. Walling describes Jackson’s alleged plans after Pearl’s January city arrival and notes Jackson’s intoxication and attempts to shift blame to Walling. Indiana Dental College records show Jackson left the school as term ended in March.
A witty episode in a town theater features a near sighted man, a box party, and a cashier who confirms the ticket price of $1.50. The man protests he expects more from the performance and threatens to raise a scene if not satisfied. The rest of the audience remains undisturbed.
A London Church Times excerpt records a civil service exam answer describing sharks with five rows of teeth and their hunting, and recounts a shipboard atrocity where a captain uses a rope to lower a Black slave woman overboard and cut her in half, a brutal historical anecdote.
Court heard testimonies linking a bloody valise to Jackson and a barber shop with a possible involvement by two women. The victim’s death time remains unclear with theories ranging from decapitation to an anaesthetic, while evidence suggests concealment of the true cause.
An amusing anecdote about Edouard Lockroy highlights how, as a boy in Paris, he lived on a street now known as Rue Washington. His father occupied a fifth floor home with certain habits that seem to foreshadow his later rise to minister of marine.
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