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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Evening Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1895
Page
2
A dated column jokes that threats to Abdul Hamid are misplaced and that the sultan handles matters of state as private family affairs. It recalls a 19th century anecdote of a former grand vizier who hanged himself after a rope incident, noting how imperial "family" matters are treated.
The article compares the old streetcar firm’s stance to a dry goods landlord blocking a rival, arguing that the city as owner of franchises must extract fair value instead of granting extensions. It criticizes incumbents for depressing competition and warns extensions should be paid for, reflecting public ownership and business ethics.
A Bilt bill in Georgia makes charging interest over 18 percent a felony. The piece notes the odd necessity of such a law and mocks shylocks, while praising safety in the Yale-Princeton football game and reflecting on political recollections.
Ex Governor Shepherd reports 80 percent of Germans seen in fields were women while 4,000 troops marched in Berlin and he compares them to western forces. English Cycling Club boasts 20,000 members with hotel discounts and a metal id chip. Miss Anna White joins the club advocating rational bloomers. A sensational crime tale from Australia inspires a banker's murder of his family. German artist Bumgarts trains dogs for battlefield ambulance work, testing canine rescues with troops hidden as wounded.
The report notes a 39 year old senator with a slaveholding background raised on a plantation, who has reached Washington to seek winter quarters. A timetable update via L E W Ry and Big Four Ry shows Fort Wayne to Indianapolis travel times for the new schedule effective Oct 20, plus a real estate ad for a lot in Ewing's Grove and a Christmas piano stock arrival at Arcade Music Store under I H Cassz management.
Indiana Republican national committeeman J. N. Huston said he has not decided the convention location and will vote for the party’s best interests. He noted Indiana’s Harrison support and suggested Harrison would be strongest if others are out of the race, while the Indianapolis conference was not significantly significant.
Muncie faces a crippled fire department after council committee discharged Captain James Shepp and two hosemen. The rest quit, leaving only the chief and captain, with no criminal action yet and the matter in grand jury hands.
A report notes a remarriage after a Muncie flirtation and says the couple will live there. In Rockville Parke county, Daniel Kellar and relatives face trial for Clare Shanks’s murder. Other items cover coal miners, a murder by two thieves, a strange theft of a house in Muncie Navy, persistent arson near Geneva, and a fatal Indianapolis house fire.
Eugene V. Debs arrived in Terre Haute and spoke at the armory denouncing Judge Woods as knowingly false for saying courts restrain strikes. He called federal judges tools of corporations and accused the court system of conspiracy against the people. The piece notes pro labor sentiment and includes a railroad ticket offer and a Haviland dinner set promotion.
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