Locals Highlight Fort Wayne and Nearby Visits
John Welsh guests with the Longs in Valparaiso. Many families visit Huntington and Fort Wayne while fairs at Waterloo and Angola loom. Officials tout centennial events with railroads, police chiefs meeting, and invitations to Ohio politician James E. Campbell.
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John Welsh
W. M. Long
Valparaiso
J. W. Adams
Columbia City
Fort Wayne
Alexander Johnson
Miss Johnston
Chicago
H. CG. Rockhill
H. Brundage
Arthur Hogart
Delphos, O
Henry Knecht
Peter Zahn
Huntington
Ll. P. Eysenbach
Eda
Will Snider
Pittsburg Road
S. M. Foster
Alice
Josephine Harrison
New York City
Charley Howett
Sadie Maxwell
Waterloo
Angola
S. Wagenhals
Chicago Theological Seminary
Bullerman
L. C. Strodel
Peru Chronicle
A. F. Schoch
West Main St
Fort Wayne Y. M. C. A
Railroad Department
Central Board
Frank Titus
New Aveline
Logannsport
Dan
Huntington Democrat
P. A. Randall
Central Traffic Association
Post Office Department
Rockhill
Elmer
South Wayne
J. EB. Miller
Charles FE. Reese
Lake Erie and Western Railway
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania Railroad
Liggett
Terre Haute
Indiana Chiefs of Police
Chief Megher
Thomas Corman
New Albany
George Brown
Lafayette
John H. Kepner
Old Alert Hook and Ladder Company
Kepner
C. S. Edwards
Alert Company
Columbia City Mail
Home Avenue
David Kennedy Creighton
Tracy Guild
Creighton
Miss Guild
Sessions
Misses Moffat
Bond Waldo
Bertha Jackson
Alice Dryer
Mabel
Nellie Lawson
Thomas R. Marshall
McNagny
Lois Kimsey
Kimsey
Steuben County
Marshall
Indiana
Stranger passes bogus check to Lagrange man
Thomas Evans of Lagrange stood at the Pennsylvania depot when a smooth stranger offered a loan and security in a check drawn on the First National Bank. Evans handed over $10 then waited on a train as the man vanished with the paper and the haul.
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First National Bank
Thomas Evans
Lagrange
Pennsylvania
Evans
Centennial reception committee seeks local entertainment hosts
The centennial committee asks residents who can entertain visitors to report to the secretary with their street number, number of guests, and rates for double and single beds. With crowds expected to exceed Fort Wayne’s past, lists of available accommodations will help visitors. hosts will be issued cards, but the committee bears no billing responsibility.
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Centennial Reception Committee
Fort Wayne
The New Corset Foot Bandicoot of Beauty
The article condemns a new foot binding device that tightens around the instep to allow wearing a smaller shoe. It argues this instrument of torture rivals historic corsets in cruelty, offering no relief and enabling extreme compression without the foot bearing body weight.
Speed in Shoemaking Shows Factories’ Rapid Skill
The article notes a pair of fine shoes contains many parts including two inner soles two stiffenings two pieces of steel and numerous tacks nails and buttons. It highlights that some factories assemble these pieces into a finished shoe in under an hour and a half with a single pair completed in twenty minutes as a test of efficiency.
Mystery of Wife and Child Ended in Glasgow Slums
Jacob Keating of Louisville Kentucky hunted for years for his refined wife and daughter who vanished from home. Last week he found them living in a filthy hut rented by an Italian railroad laborer in Glasgow. Keating attempted to reclaim his daughter but faced chaotically hostile Italians surrounding him.
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Association of Surgeons of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Harriet F. Stemen
Mineral Well Sanitarium
Broadway
John E. Miller
Indianapolis
Adjutant General of Indiana
National Guard of
Reese
Miller
E. L. Siver
Warsaw
Seth Baldwin
Claypool
Baldwin
Michigan City
Wilkinson
Jacob Keating
Louisville
Keating
Glasgow
Durrant Case Alibi Builds Defense In San Francisco Trial
The defense in the Durrant case pursues an alibi from April 4 to 12, testing pawnbroker Oppenheim and W J Phillips testimony about a ring pawning on April 12. Four defense witnesses dispute Oppenheim memory. judge sustains a key objection. juror threats prompt contempt concerns.
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San Francisco
Durrant
Oppenheim
W. J. Phillips
Blanche Lamont
I. J. Truman
H. J. McCoy
Young Men's Christian Association
McCoy
B. W. Maitland
Emanuel Church
Martin Curtis
William Cathwart
P. J Naumann
Leonard Everett
National Guard
Signal Corps
John Patton
Patrick Mulvaney
M.J. Murphy
Clarke
Mulvaney
Murphy
A. W. Haihalt
Copper Medical College
Mercy Grants Life Imprisonment Commutation for Clyde Mattox
The president commuted the death sentence of Clyde Mattox of Kansas to life imprisonment after his mother personally appealed. Mattox, convicted of killing John Mullen while defending two colored girls, faced multiple trials and appeals culminating in the clemency decision to spare his execution while protecting society.
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Washington
Clyde Mattox
Kansas
Mattox
John Mullen
United State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Republicans Open Campaign Rally in Orange City Iowa
The Iowa Republican campaign opened with a big rally led by governor candidate General I M Drake and Eleventh District Congressman George D Perkins. Drake delivered the first formal campaign address amid strong supporter interest and attendance.
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Orange City
I. M. Drake
George D. Perkins
Drake
Muich
Public Debt and Government Receipts Reported
The treasury department shows the public debt on Sept. 30 at 941,089,936 with an increase of 1,884,687 for the month. Net cash in the treasury is 185,405,363. October 1 figures compare debt levels and cash balances across 1893 to 1898, with net increases and past year changes noted. Receipts for September totaled 27,659,578 with expenditures 24,820,481, producing a 3,229,197 surplus and a three month deficit of 9,884,659.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Treasury
Decomposed Body Identified in West Superior Plant
A decomposed body found at the West Superior steel plant is identified as Elmer A. Kleve a druggist who had worked in Minneapolis and St Paul.
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West Superior
Wis
Elmer A. Kleve
Minneapolis
St. Pau
Church council proposes radical Episcopal reforms at convention
The 1900 Episcopal general convention in Minneapolis debates a radical proposed constitution and canons. It would reduce diocese representation, rename the general convention to the general synod, and set new quorum rules while increasing deputy quorum and allowing joint sessions.
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Minneapolis
Protestant Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church
House of Bishops
John Williams
Connecticut
Samuel Hart
Trinity College
Hartford
Williams
House of Deputies
Morgan Dix
New York
Charles I. Hutchins
Concord
Mass
Buchanan Winthrop
Hart
Bishop Perry
Iowa
Constitutional Commission
Heber Newton
Radical church charter shifts power to bishops in trial and doctrine
Article III centralizes supreme authority in the bishops, stripping the general synod of doctrinal power and making bishops sole judges. Provisions create a primate system, a final appeal court, and broad provincial structures. Article V changes govern missionary bishop selection and foreign missions. Article VIII requires assent to church doctrine, prompting debate on prelatism with critics arguing against autocratic episcopate.
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General Synod
House of Bishops
Court of Appeals
John Fulton
Church Standard
United States
Massillon Miners Strike Ties Wage Fix Plan
Two thousand miners in the Massillon district strike over a wage rate plan that has been agreed upon. A Chicago superior court receiver, Charles M Stratton, appointed for the Produce Cold Storage Exchange, estimates assets of about 200000 with 500000 in facilities. Reverend T DeWitt Talmage leaves Brooklyn for Ohio to preach farewell at Lafayette Avenue church then heads to Washington this month. Le Forban, a French government torpedo boat, recorded 31.32 knots in a Havre trial, the fastest speed yet for this class. Minnesota Supreme Court sets hearing in the appeal of Harry Hayward against his death sentence in January 4.
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Massillon (O
Superior Court
Chicago
Produce Cold Storage Exchange
Lake and
South Water Streets
Charles M. Stratton
T. DeWitt Talmage
Brooklyn
Ohio
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
Washington
le Forban
Havre
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Harry T. Hayward
Jano
Contempt Fine Repaid and Remitted in Small Town Trial
Judge Smith once paid a $50 contempt fine to Judge Buck Hancock in Quitman Mississippi for leaving the courtroom during proceedings. The next day Hancock could not resist a joke and remitted the fine, but it was never collected. Job printing offered at the Trams-Post job office.
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Smith
Phoenix
Ariz
Quitman
Miss
Buck Hancock
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George A. Merrill
Lick School of Mechanical Arts
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Public Debt Statement
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Daniel C. Madden
M. J. McNamara
Cudahy
Illinois
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Rossville
Converse
East Chicago
Lisbon
Quay
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Matthew Stanley Quay
Miss Quay
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Cleveland
Panhandle Coal Company
Youghiogheny Coal Company
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Goses Andcner Tarsi
Havana
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Cristobal Colon
Cape Antonio
Thinolis W. C. T. U. Meeting
Quincy
Women’s Christian Temperance Union of
Mahone
Mount Vernon
Rev
W. G. Capps
Peron Rein Lee
Church Council
General Convention of the Episcopalians
General Convention
Lucky
Anytule
Trams-Post
Jempee Theatre
Bronson Howard
Shenandoan
Gustave Frohman
Hn & Gh
Miss J. Haverly
Fort Wayne Steam Laundry
West Main Street
W. B. Phillips
Telephone
Washington Boulevard
Geller
W. F. Geller
Romy & Bobilya
D.J. Spencer Cor
Calhoun
Wm. Meyer & Bro
South Calhoun Street
J. O. Caswell
Calhoun St
Hotel Rich
Freese & Ranke
Calhoun Street
Brient Tiome
Daily Times-Post
South Side Wall Paper Store
Kaise
Bohemian
Aaron
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