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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1896
Page
2
Five dollars a month to build a home on a payment plan offered by The Land Co in Pixley Block Room 7. Five dollars down and five dollars a month will buy a lot. Mr Howey, Secretary, invites conversations to start saving and secure property now.
Round trip excursion tickets at low rates to Hot Springs Arkansas with through sleeping car service from major Wabash stations and only one car change in St. Louis Union Station. Hot Springs praised as a federally endorsed health resort with 300+ hotels and baths for rheumatic and health conditions. Pamphlets available from Wabash agents or C S Crane in St Louis. Also half rates via Nickel Plate RR March 10 to southwest points.
Advertises first class cottages with all conveniences on East Creighton Ave addition offering monthly payments to buy house and lot. Claims good location for shop and railroad men and offers building on any lot in the addition. Also lists city properties and money loans on personal and real estate securities with contact in Room 1 second floor Arcade.
Indianapolis dispatch outlines March 19 delegate selections for the national convention with Eleventh District race centered on incumbent George W. Steele and challenger Stutsman. Morton faction faces McKinley opposition. Jay county backs McKinley, Shanks for Congress. Hendricks opts for Cumback. Greensburg endorses Cumback.
In Ashersville, March 9, Miss May Stough, 16, the daughter of farmer George Stough, vanished after cashing a $15 order signed by her father. She rode a train to Brazil and then to Terre Haute, while her lover William Gumm also disappeared, raising suspicions of elopement opposed by her parents.
A string of terse notices reports a grave robbed after a vigil, Jefferson Wright fatally injured by a fall from a horse near Brazil, Milton Dobell dead in Greencastle from a loaded shotgun accident, and Leroy Penn sentenced for larceny after a failed jailbreak. Other items note naturalization at Elwood, lockjaw from a rusty nail, dynamite injuries, a mother witnessing hogs devour her baby, and multiple fire and law updates from St Louis, Geneva, and Washington.
The Pacific Mail liner City of Rio de Janeiro sailed February 6 from San Francisco for Yokohama with 156 people aboard and has not been heard from. Officials report no cable updates from New York, while theories suggest a weather or engine problem may have delayed her. The vessel carried nearly $1,000,000 in cargo including flour, cotton, canned goods and sugar for Japanese and Chinese ports.
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