Local notices and upcoming social events
Birth announced for Mr and Mrs John Petgen at 58 Melita street. Mrs Elizabeth Knight ill at Spy Run avenue. Engagements: Tom Golden to Julia Pas Sino. Bertha Rockhill to Herman Miller intends November 6 wedding. Various travels for business and visits to Chicago, South Bend, Goshen, and Richmond. Church social planned Friday 2 30 to 5 at Plymouth Congregational church parlors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Petgen
Melita Street
Elizabeth Knight
Spy Run Avenue
Tom Golden
Julia Pas Sino
Bishop Rademacher to visit Peru for confirmation
Bishop Rademacher of Fort Wayne will arrive by 5:30 train next Saturday and administer confirmation at the Catholic church on Sunday. The first official visit since his elevation, he will be greeted at the depot by the Peru band and church societies in uniform with badges. A parade to the church will form at Broadway and Fifth Street, joined by schoolchildren at the intersection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rademacher
Fort Wayne
Catholic Church
Peru
Deaths and Funerals in Polson and Dunifon
Deaths listed for Annie Polson aged five at 36 Force Street from membranous croup with private funeral. Mrs Abigal Case at 36 Colerick Street died at midnight from nervous prostration. recent loss of husband and grandchild in same casket. Willma Dunifon aged five died from membranous croup with suspected diphtheria. quarantine placed. private funeral tomorrow. Joseph Gephart Jr two weeks old died of marasmus. funeral to be held Friday at St Marys Catholic Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willma
George Duniton
Joseph
Charles Gephart, Jr
Marasmus
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Ed Schell Is Taken Across Country for Peru Perjury Charge
Ed Schell has been in the city jail since Monday night awaiting Peru authorities on alleged perjury. Attorneys Colerick and Ryan prepared habeas corpus and notified police. Officers drove Schell to Roanoke for transfer to Peru amid threat of suits. Also notices on commodity prices and livestock receipts and a Young Men's Christian Association meeting in Terre Haute with a Lake Erie & Western sale noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Schell
Peru
Colerick & Ryan
Schell
Young Men’s Christian Association
Terre Haute
Ind
Lake Erie & Western
Fort Wayne Street Railway Franchises Scrutinized by Council
The Fort Wayne council debates a 1895 contract with the Fort Wayne Lake Everett and Columbia City Street Railway Co. and a plan to charge urban and suburban lines tolls. A board of public works review seeks terms used in other cities, with residents filing protests on Harrison and West Superior streets. The council approves a resolution to study franchise terms and protect city interests while Everett’s deal draws public interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Streets
Board of Public Works
Fort Wayne
Harrison Street
Pearl Street
Main Street
Department of Finance
City of
Ind
Public Works
Lake Everett
Fort
McDonald
Railways
Times Post
Everett
Times-Post
Council
Fort Wayne Diphtheria Fear Spurs Health Board Talks
Fort Wayne physicians pressed city leaders to act as diphtheria cases threaten the town. The board of health met this morning with unclear cause or initiative. A council claim of 76 cases was disputed by a board member who cited no more than about two dozen reported cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Diehl
Ashtabula
Pittsburg
Jacob Henry
South Ham Street
J. K. Miller
Fort Wayne
Board of Health
Marriage Licenses Listed for Four Couples
Marriage licenses issued for David Newhauser and Mary Short, Richard Kelley and Louisa Miller, Alexander Oberly and Emma Barton, Charles E. Robinson and Mary Marguerite Hofer. Hunter’s Rates to points in Michigan and Wisconsin offered by agents until November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Newhauser
Mary Short
Richard Kelley
Louisa Miller
Alexander Oberly
Emma Barton
Charles E. Robinson
Mary Marguerite Hofer
Hunter’ S
Michigan
Wisconsin
Sphinx at Temple Delights Fashionables Yet Lacks Catchy Airs
The Masonic Temple crowd enjoyed the operatic Sphinx last night with Ed ward Stevens Oscar Girard and Tal madge Baldwin praised for their comic roles. Marie Millard pleased, encores famed. Clara Morris heads to Temple on Oct 25 with Raymond. Lotta's PawnyTicket 210 draws strong notice with new acts, Miss Edit as Mag impressing the crowd.
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Masonic Temple
Edward Stevens
P. Papyrus
A. M
Oscar Girard
Talmadge Baldwin
Pummins
Marie Millard
Clara Morris
ITER
Temple Theater
Raymond
Lotta
the Temple
Edit
Mag
Corbett in Custody after Arkansas prize fight ruling
The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed Chancellor Leatherman and upheld the prize fight law. Corbett is remanded to Harlan county sheriff custody as proceedings reopen. Also notes Lake Erie & Western ticket sales to Atlanta for the International Exposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Erie & Western
Atlanta
Durrant Trial Rebuttal Evidence Focuses on Notes and Ferry Visit
In San Francisco a key rebuttal in Theodore Durrant's murder trial centers on Dr. Gilbert F. Graham and Durrant seeking to see notes of a lecture to bolster an alibi. Trustees of Emanuel church deny Durrant asked for sun burner repairs, while witnesses place him at the ferry with a woman matching Minnie Williams before her body was found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Theodore Durrant
Durrant
Gilbert F. Graham
Graham
J. 8
Dunnigan
Emanuel Church
Emanual Church
Blanche Lamont
Minnie Williams
Alameda
HE. A. Glaser
The
Medical College
Cheney
Glaser
Durrant Case Testimony Prompts Court Outlook
Dr Thomas Price testified on breathing time over a sun burner raising questions on unconsciousness within five minutes as alleged. Witnesses Morrison and Cooper disputed timing of Durrants church arrival and denied seeing a shoe print cor set in the belfry. Local notes report Mayor Pingree’s plan for a 100 acre agricultural park, a jail break probe in St Joseph, and a prairie fire near Foray North Dakota, with damages and yields noted.
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Thomas Price
Durrant
Professor Price
Gibson
Charles Morrison
J. H. Cooper
New Paper
Morrison
Cooper
Marshall
Blanche Lamont
Barnes
Mrs Willard Re elected W C T U President At Baltimore
In Baltimore on October 23 Miss Willard was re elected president by an almost unanimous vote. The convention adopted resolutions urging total abstinence, opposing liquor revenue, supporting unfermented wine in the sacrament, and endorsing female suffrage. It also condemns bird shooting tournamentslynching and military spirit in schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Clara C. Hoffman
Kansas City
Frances J. Beauchamp
Kentucky
Miss Willard
Prohibition Party
Boiler Explosion Kills Two in Lomax Factory
A boiler blast at Lomax Illinois destroyed the picket fence factory injuring two visitors who escaped. Proprietor John Holmes and laborer James White were killed instantly as debris and steam wounded others. The frame building with iron roof collapsed and a brick from the stack flew 250 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Lomax
Ills
John Holmes
James White
L. H. Coleman
A. S. McGee
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Frank G. Klotz
Chicago
West Main Street
A. F. Seneca
Will Gouty
South Bend
Laporte
Goshen
Viking Bicycle
F. H. Kleekamp
G. Kleekamp
Fort Jennings
J. H. Kleekamp
Rabb, QO
Post Office Department
Weil Bros. & Co
Loveless
Penn Chronicle
Dunifon
Chicago Market
Curiaco
That Bhdy
Sphinx
Arkansas Supreme Court
Leatherman
American Missionary Association
Detroit
America
First Congregational Church
van Swyck
Washington
van Wyck
Nebraska
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Inland Daily Press Association
W. R K. Jewell
News
Danville
Ill
A. H. Lowrie
Elgin
Church Militant
Lexington
George Mills
Charles Clemens
Chalybeate Springs
Clemens
Mills
Fom” Ewing II
Waspixeton
United States
Thomas Ewing
Sage
Alta
Crescent Linseed Oil Company
Goose Island
Rev. Gibson
Theo
Mayor Pingree
Pingree
Gardiner
Nineteenth United States Infantry
St. Joseph, Mo
Adriano
Pat Crowe
Thresher
Foray
N. D
William Linse
Here
Mrs. Willard
Jones
Kansas Mutual Coupon Investment Company
Kan
Chica
O. Lis
Cleveland
John Haw-kins
Niagara Falls
Haw-kins
Altgeld
Springfield
Atlanta, Ga
Greensburg
Muncie
Big Four Ry
Pemple Theatre
J. M. Colville
Raymonde
Damas
Monsieur Alphonse
Temple Theatre
Createst Success
Paar
David Belasco
Clay M. Greene
Edith Ellis
Comedienne
Broadway
Washington Boulevard
Geller
Telephone
W. F. Geller
AER
Wm. Meyer & Bro
Calhoun
Miss J. Haverly
W. B. Phillips
Miller
AL Remi
Calhoun ST
J. O. Caswell
Calhouns St
Hotel Rich
Brieatt
Darmy Times— Post
Freese
Ranke
Calhoun Street
Rae
Acioa
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