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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1896
Page
5
Engine room report for the week shows substantial activity with the Wabash and Nickel Plate rail lines affected. Sickness sidelined several workers while repairs and closures, including the Wabash shops, reduced operations. a derailment caused three hours of track clearing and a delayed local passenger train.
An old Fort Wayne ad promotes the Bicycle Infirmary at 54 East Columbia Street. It claims to repair any wheel style from England or France, with skilled work despite towns filling with shops. The piece encourages readers to stop by for quick, thorough repairs to ride again.
Ox Joint Soup offered at Frank Bel chins located at 54 East Main Street on Saturday night drawing diners to the downtown eatery with its signature dish and late hours.
An advertising verse extols Frank's Choice nickel cigars as the best stock and a reliable pick. The poem promises easy enjoyment after meals and constant availability, inviting readers to lay a nickel and choose Frank's Choice wherever cigars are sold.
Last evening featured games and dancing as amusement. Ed White returns to duty after illness at the Pittsburg car machine shop. Al Hettler promoted to single-spindle drill. L B Brown to receive a Valentine baby in the morning. Weekly Pittsburg locomotive report lists engines repaired and in repair, plus ongoing work and awaiting repair. John Wilhelm of the Pittsburg planning unit has bad luck, with prior hand injury and a heavy timber crushing his foot. A small freight wreck occurred at a location damaged in the report, with no injuries reported.
Many area churches list worship times and activities. First Presbyterian preaches 10 30 a m with no evening service due to union charity meeting. Trinity Episcopal offers 8 a m Holy Communion and 10 45 a m sermon with 9 30 a m Sunday school. St Andrew's Mission holds 3 p m Sunday school. Heidelberg Reformed hands 10 30 a m service and 9 30 a m Sunday school. Third Presbyterian preaches 10 30 a m with no evening service for temple charity meeting. Sabbath school at noon and Y P S C E at 6 30 p m. Westminster Parson Haines speaks at 10 30 a m with no evening service due to union meeting at the Temple. A M E church East Wayne hosts 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m services with 2 30 p m Sunday school. All are welcome. G W
Washington Feb 15 The final vote on concurrence in the Senate free coinage amendment shows 215 to 90 against silver, a record tally with 37 of 356 members unaccounted for. The debate featured ex Speaker Crisp for silver and Turner for Democrats, with Dalzell urging protection and broader fiscal growth. Huntington commented on Union Pacific consolidation and regional railroad interests.
C P Huntington testified before the Senate Pacific railways committee February 15. He argued the Pacific lines were built for policing the nation and linking east to west, noting past ridicule and later gains in land values and reduced Indian hostilities. He claimed the Central Pacific carried a majority of through freight and passenger business, denied collusion with Union Pacific, and defended the Panama railway arrangement as fair remuneration, denying campaign influence.
A sharp exchange erupts in the U S House as Hardy of Indiana savagely assails Talbert of South Carolina over union loyalty and pension bills. Talbert rebukes the attack with humor and quotes Canada, while other members laugh at the spectacle. In a separate note, Interior Secretary Hoke Smith skates at a rink, falling once as a 280 pound figure on ice draws a seismograph reading.
From El Paso February 15 Quinn reports Peter Maher’s eyes 25 percent better and ready for Monday. Concessions are made for a major bull fight in Juarez tomorrow while other bouts risk forfeits if delayed. Stuart will prioritize the Maher-Walcott event. fighters remain under surveillance as authorities restrict movement.
A Guayaquil fire killed five firefighters and wounded forty as over 131 houses and public buildings burned, including the cathedral and convent. Loss estimated at 4 million dollars, with further fatalities possible. Nearby reports note ongoing legislative activity in Des Moines and Hillsboro.
The passage records Mrs. E. Monroe's illness at her home 20 Murray street. It also notes property purchase by EH Cutler at Euclid Avenue, and a series of city public works actions including openings of Brookside street and Organ avenue, plus a garbage contract awarded to Jacob Hess for south of the Pittsburgh tracks and west of Hanna street. A request from D Nestel for an alley from Scott street to Broadway is read, with plans to be prepared by Engineer Randall. A social event honors Miss Sophia Kelly of Sand Lake with several local guests.
A. K. Hurst announces purchase of the Globe clothing house stock fixtures and book accounts from Heller and Franke. Debts to be collected and patrons urged to settle. Also an advertisement for 8000 copies of sheet music given away with $1 purchase at the music store on 9 East Columbia Street in Fort Wayne.
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