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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1903
Page
8
A testimonial claims Paine’s Celery Compound cured a person after a decade of rheumatism and neuralgia. The speaker praises the remedy as a miracle, noting prior ineffectual treatments and stating full recovery after using the product.
Indianapolis June 19 William Geake assistant attorney general filed a brief defending the constitutionality of the indeterminate sentence law as challenged by Charles Terry. Terry, convicted of hog stealing in Allen County and sent to Jeffersonville reformatory, claims misreading of the term may and infringement on fair trial guarantees. Geake argues discretion lies with reformatory managers and that Terry remains convicted, not on trial, limiting constitutional safeguards. Supreme Court and appellate opinions listed following the brief.
A ten year old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Youls of Columbia City, died this morning in Stroh, Lagrange county. He was visiting his grandfather, who runs an elevator, when he fell into a wheat bin and was suffocated before rescue. The remains were returned home today.
An industrial dispute in Muncie concluded after a lengthy builders’ strike. Details remain fragmented, with sparse names and places, but reports indicate dismissal of several workers and a return to work under resumed operations. Community impact noted.
Government backs Virginia rights as the Galveston matter remains in Attorney General Knox's revised view. Moody refuses to discuss the cabinet decision or department motion and asks Admiral Dowles to honor the president's call for silence. The administration weighs a show of force while legal actions and creditor interventions test government rights in the shipbuilding dispute.
Secretary Root announced Major General S B M Young will be chief of staff effective August 15, with Major General Henry C Corbin and Brigadier General William H Carter as other general staff officers. Brigadier General Tasker H Biles becomes president of the Wircollege. Upon Young’s retirement next January Adna R Chaffee becomes chief of staff. Both Young and Chaffee will be lieutenant generals. Also listed were consular appointments: John G Foster as consul general at Ottawa, Robert Woods Bliss in Vienna, James Varnonong at Patras, Edward Higgins at Berlin.
Mathias Walter, with his wife and one child in isolation for smallpox, fled quarantine to work at the Pennsylvania roundhouse. Neighbors reported him, Health Commissioner Macbeth intervened, and Walter was sent to the isolation hospital after his three younger children were found asleep at home under care.
The Eagle’s carnival committee reports strong progress and high interest for next week’s event at the ball ground after Sunday’s game. Candidate Meek from Woshow begins preparations, with expected large delegations and a notable parade, promising benefits for Fort Wayne and its residents.
In Chicago at 54 Clybourn avenue a bomb exploded in front of Fred Cumming's saloon injuring twenty people, seven severely, and destroying the storefront. John Laxner, who found the device, was arrested. A wagonload of bombs had been unloaded at the dump by a stranger. Laxner then took one home and alerted McNally, who drilled a hole and lit it causing a firework display. McNally lost an eye and may die.
The steamer Mary, adrift in Lake Michigan due to a propeller failure, was rescued by the tug Perfection and towed into Chicago harbor. All 19 aboard were unharmed, though one crew member appeared nervous from the ordeal.
A debate over the Toledo and Murray streets track franchise dominated a contracts and franchises committee meeting. Supporters led by McKim Crestler and several railway officials argued the track would boost shipping and city industry, while remonstrators Bass Barrett Simonson and Zollars warned it would harm property values and local quarries. The session centered on tonnage figures and the franchise’s legal aspects, with the committee adjourned for further advisement.
A Warsaw man, Nicholas Mays, directs a bequest of over 25000 to educate young men for the ministry in South America. The gift, largely from annual accumulations, is aided by the General Missionary Society and supported by Mrs Mays. The recipient region includes Mercedes Argentina and South America, with the aim of spreading Christian influence abroad.
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