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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1896
Page
4
Karn's 9 East Columbia Street offers 8000 copies of sheet music free to every customer who spends $1 or more. The sale of small musical instruments at Karn's is promoted with the slogan Time waits for no man and Midway at the end of Saturday night.
For Indiana expect fair skies and warmer conditions tonight with a rise in temperatures. Saturday will bring continued warmth and increasing cloudiness.
Dr. Barnett returns from Chicago this evening. Mrs Ellen Mannix and Henry Lohmeyer lie ill at home and St Joseph hospital respectively. Christian Endeavor hosts Bethany church entertainment. Miss Myrtle Haines hosts a 5 pm tea for Happy Six Saturday. Miss Laura Bender visits from Noon Rest with friends in the country. Willie Dinnen returns to Notre Dame after visit. Mrs A L Randall entertains friends for Miss Maria Reed of Jeffersonville. Miss Maria Reed to depart for Jeffersonville soon. Miss Goshorn serves warm lunch for school teachers at Broadway. Wayne Street M E Foreign Missionary society plans a literary and musical afternoon. Judge Lowry called to Angola on legal business after returning from Wells circuit court. Ed Rabus ill with pneumonia. brother George travels to Indianapolis. Miss Mattie Graham and Miss Eva LaMater to act in Berry Street M E church entertainment. Patrick J Carroll marries Miss Phoebe Strawbridge in Bucyrus Ohio. Carrolls well known. marriage a surprise. Miss Nettie Epstein returns to Fort Wayne. accompanied by Clara Epstein and Sadie Epstein of St.
In Crawfordsville on February 21 Fountain county grand jury fails to indict Philip Hauk who confessed to killing Grace McClamrock in western Indiana. Hauk is moved to Crawfordsville jail after mob tension and a warrant is issued. Dr Scot fled Covington and Hank seeks mercy from possible vigilante violence.
In Wabash on February 21 800 families faced a blizzard and zero temperatures when a main gas line burst cutting fuel supply. Cold and wind halted repairs leaving homes without heat as farmers ferried wood into town selling at high prices and many faced hardship for fuel.
In Bloomington on February 21 Professor A. P. Foley of Indiana University physics, assisted by F. F. Knipp, conducted Indiana's first X ray experiments. They photographed a key through cloth and cardboard and Knipp’s hand with a stone imbedded, using a two horsepower dynamo to power the current and developing a method to prevent tube melting during long exposures.
In Indianapolis on February 21 a 15 year old, Val Meyers, was brought before Circuit Court by his mother reporting incorrigible conduct and furniture destruction after she refused him money. The judge ordered reform school confinement until age of majority. The boy then cursed his mother and struck her, knocking her to the floor. He was jailed and to be sent to the reform school. Also a note about 3000 copies of sheet music being given away.
The Foster Furniture Co. offers exclusive sale of two great Wakefield baby carriage lines in Fort Wayne with the greatest assortment and lowest prices. If prices are not at least 25 percent lower, they will not ask you to purchase. Features include patent springs parasols brakes and rubber tire wheels.
The Post publishes Mr. S. C. Lumbard's mayoral announcement subject to the democratic nominating convention. It marks his first official intimation of a serious candidacy and stirs the political arena. Also note Arthur Finch, world champion harmonica player, appearing at the Midway tonight for a chance of a lifetime.
A fire at Fort Wayne College of Medicine this afternoon destroyed laboratory furniture and several instruments. The blaze was reported around 2:30 PM and the department extinguished it, with the incident prompting business notices from local shops.
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