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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1895
Page
2
Despite illness he kept his appointment and spoke on Cuba prepared for the Atlanta exposition. The governor praised restraint in policy yet urged humanitarian sympathy for the Cuban people, urging national honor and freedom for Cuba in God’s time. Critics are described as vultures misusing patriotism for narrow partisanship.
Francis Schlatter, the alleged New Mexican messiah who disappeared from Denver, was reported seen riding through a California town yesterday and later found in Chicago at the Wellington hotel. Testimony about his cures grows. thousands waited, yet he refused any payment.
The subject is famed for a mysterious healing power and a refusal of rewards, which has astonished onlookers as he becomes the era’s notable figure in the western scene.
The city reviews street railway franchise value and insists grants be paid for to curb private profit from public property. Fort Wayne favors extending lines under public terms, with no future franchise allowed without proper compensation. New time schedule to Indianapolis via L E W and Big Four offers travel to the state capital in a day.
Sir Henry Tyler reports 1500 workers at the canal site with 800 more under contract and 8000 more to hire. French funding remains active with 200 million already spent and an additional 100 million expected to finish the project. The plan shifts from sea level to locks for large oceangoing vessels. Beethoven's idiosyncrasies noted as he changed lodgings due to bathing habits.
A mix of letters, club notes, and notices includes Thomas Mehan’s critique of a resolution, a Comanche club founder’s fundraising misstep, Talmudic wealth tales, a real estate offer in Ewing's Grove, and theatre ads for Hoss and Hoss and Charley's Aunt at the Temple.
Spectacular production of magic at the Masonic theatre Monday promises an original scenic environment by Bancroft. Elmer Vance recounts The Limited Mail’s rise from a $50 monthly telegrapher to fortune, with 200000 in four years. International Exposition tickets to Atlanta go on sale Sept 1 for 21.05 and 28.30 options. Everett & Doud real estate bargains also advertised.
Still missing 24 year old Fredrick Wendler an upholsterer head of Tiffin’s largest shop vanished last Thursday after telling his parents of a visit to Fort Wayne. Deputy Clerk Willis Souder unaware of planned trip alerted. authorities and relatives search neighboring towns. Wendler is sober industrious and highly regarded with no known troubles.
We do our own dyeing and re pairing of ladies and gentlemen garments. Facilities are the best in the city with lowest prices. All work guaranteed. Panthonium Miss J Haverly Prop No 16 Arcade.
Conductor Pat Magee spotted two men leaving a caboose with dinner baskets. He shed his coat and chased them to recover one basket before the passenger train returned Magee to Fort Wayne under custody until transfer.
A large east side meeting led by Hon. J B White unanimously supported placing a Maumee River bridge at Walton avenue to aid farmers and east city access. The Fort Wayne Land & Improvement Co offered to build the north approach, while Nickel Plate rail officials advised against moving east of Glasgow avenue. A committee including J B White and S D Bitter will present resolutions to county commissioners. Also notice of a big mortgage sale of boots and shoes begins at 20 Calhoun Street tomorrow.
The Pantitorium promotes itself as the best and cheapest repair shop for ladies' and gentlemen's garments, emphasizing value and quality in alteration services.
Fireman Mead Gindelsparger was thrown from a ladder truck en route to a blaze and later struck by a board. Mrs. Margaret Enough slipped and injured her scalp at Calhoun and Main. The Big Mortgage Sale of Boots and Shoes opens tomorrow at 20 Calhoun Street. Joseph Kreis married Effie Comstock after rescuing her from Niagara Falls last summer. Sir Henry Ponsonby died in Cowes Isle of Wight. Lake Erie and Western sells rail tickets to Atlanta on select dates in 1895, good for 10 payments on exposition.
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