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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Times Post
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1895
Page
3
Louisville brims with visitors for Navy veterans week as 100000 to 250000 travelers flood the city. A naval veterans’ convention opens with Rear Admiral Francis B. Allen presiding and 4000 ex-sailors in good standing. A grand parade is planned with 45000 veterans expected and up to 90000 lines previously reported.
Ten thousand veterans from blue and gray and their wives attended a Grand Army of the Republic reception at Gulf House hosted by the Woman’s Relief Corps to honor Commander Lawler and staff. The event drew thousands daily, with elaborate decorations and a steady flow of attendees, and was led by master of ceremonies Colonel H S Dietrich. Meanwhile unions staged a large parade in Louisville honoring visitors, and Buffalo emerged as the next reunion site with many officials working to ensure success. The Naval Veterans association elected officers for the coming year, with Rear Admiral Samuel Alman presiding as the new admiral and other officers named in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Jeffersonville Indiana hosted a vast patriotic gathering at Warder Park with a 10 000 strong crowd and over 200 ex soldiers on the grand stand. Indiana National Guard units from New Albany Jeffersonville Terre Haute Bloomington Vincennes and Scottsburg escorted Governor Matthews who delivered a lengthy welcoming speech amid illuminated streets and a chorus of glee clubs.
In Westville Florida on September 11 masked assailants fired on a freight car crowded with Black workers near Graves and Beatty’s sawmill. Henry Johnson and Sam Evans were fatally wounded and about a dozen others injured. White workers and Black laborers fled as the mob fled, leaving Black workers terrified and quitting en masse. Authorities suspect discharged white men instigated the attack.
The Illinois weather service reports abundant rainfall and above normal temperatures boosting late corn maturity. Early corn harvests advance, frost risk linger in central and northern counties, ground good for plowing, rye sowing continues with good stands. Wheat sowing slow, fall feed secured as pastures grow. broom corn largely harvested, but sorghum damaged by chinch bugs. some fruit blown by wind though surplus overall.
In Tecumseh Nebraska a suspicious man was taken off the night B and M train by order of Conductor Lawson. He carried two bundles of papers with mining stock deeds from Medoria and Durango in Lawrence County South Dakota and other valuables. Papers are made out to P. H. McNainb Willis A. Barnes and George Doyle. He also had bullion certificates from Kuntz Bros New York and the U S assay office New York. He refused to give his name and had about 3500 in cash and three large bunches of keys and a revolver.
In Danville Indiana Mrs. Hinshaw is said to have cried I am shot as her husband claims. Experts testifying on cerebral localization refute his version while other witnesses describe the struggle and tracks in the snow. Separate proceedings in Indianapolis address the Coffin bank wreck case with defense delay requests.
The Sutton brothers shipped four carloads of stock from Milligan to Chicago valued at 4000 to 5000 dollars paid with Parke bank checks. Checks were protested after delays in Chicago drafts, and banker Mr Stark suspects the Suttons fled the country. Other items: Brinkley and brother reunion after 62 years in Columbus. Mrs. Pitzel testifies about Holmes victims. ex priest Rev D O Donovan reinstate dread. Adams Express cashier Farden and Bob Barnett pursued toward Mexico with a conspirator and possible naturalization papers.
At the Foresters meeting in Cleveland on September 11 a lengthy discussion followed the proposal to drop the word Ancient from the group’s name. No decision was reached before adjournment.
Mercury rose to 96 in Sioux City the hottest September day on record for the local weather bureau. In sports, scores from National League baseball show Baltimore 5 Cleveland 2, Philadelphia 11 Louisville 5, Boston 8 St Louis 4, Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati 1, New York 13 Chicago 2, then Chicago 8 New York 6 in the second game. In Waverly, Rev. John V. Van Fleet married Katharine Hoover at St Andrew's Episcopal Church in a bishop authorized ceremony amid asters and golden rod decorations.
Morristown town records report no licensed saloon after Andrew Denk surrendered his permit amid a remonstrance signed by 330 of 600 township voters. In English, work started on a new county courthouse foundation with plans to move county records from Leavenworth by the June 1896 session.
Greencastle dispatch reports a tramp aboard the southbound Monon express was thrown from the car on a curve near Putnamville and killed instantly. Separate incident at Marion shows Ed Philips, a track walker, killed by a train near Lexington while on duty.
Police Commissioner Roosevelt enforces the excise law on Sunday sales by New York clubs, barring liquor sales to members. The item summarizes a flood of 1890s notices from various locales, including lawsuits, accidents, and notable figures, with a mix of public and social concerns.
New York money on call was easy at 1 per cent with firm sterling and mixed bond activity. Chicago Board of Trade quotes show wheat futures range from 5 64 to 6 40. corn and oats also move, while lard and butter show steady to nominal shifts. In Chicago and California live stock markets, hogs and cattle prices are detailed with receipts and ranges, including heavy packing and shipping lots and varied cattle and sheep values across regions.
Washington reports the agricultural department’s September crop estimates in percentages. Corn 90.4, down 6.1 points. wheat 75.4 including winter and spring harvests. oats 86. rye 83.7. barley 87.6.
Anderson Sept 11 Dr John W Westerfield of this city is believed dying at Petoskey Mich where he went for his health He is president of the Indiana Association of Spiritualists and the founder of amaism in the state.
William Bass, son of Eli Bass, missing since Aug. 8, reappeared after claiming he planned a funeral near the Bass homestead. He sent a casket and burial clothes with $175 and said he would die, but later confessed no death occurred. He traveled to Chicago, then wandered in woods near his home.
A Forest and Stream correspondent describes how a Missouri lake developed a crappie roost after winter brush gathered on ice at one end and sank to the bottom. Wind and spring water then concentrated fish around a fifty foot diameter brush mass at fifteen feet depth, yielding plentiful black bass and other catches.
The article notes mice use their tails during fights among bucks for balance, resembling tripod-like stances. When facing off they stand on hind legs with tails aiding stability, creating a comic prize-fighter image. Smaller mice defend with raised paws. fights are rapid and often inconclusive.
Dr. Louise Fiske Bryson argues style is the crucial factor distinguishing one woman from another. She defines style as an attractive body bearing, graceful motion, and an invisible sign of inherent power, rooted in practiced breathing and muscle use. The idea, likened to a prayer for stylishness, rests on scientific principles and universal merit.
April St. Nicholas describes lively Levant streets from Constantinople to Smyrna with buzzing peddlers, veiled women, and loaded donkeys. Shoppers hawk white grapes peaches vegetables from Bosphorus gardens as figs and melons entice along the Greek Archipelago ports.
A historical note reports Dr. Luderitz studying coffee infusion and its germicidal effects. It claims typhoid bacillus and other microbes perish in 10 percent coffee solution within one to three days, while a harmless micrococcus dies in three to five days.
The passage notes coffee killing cholera bacteria in three to four hours and anthrax spores in two to four weeks, suggesting coffee could be a germicide and potential remedy for germ-induced diseases. It also affirms coffee’s widely recognized reviving effects beyond medicine.
A Honesdale resident uses a complete carpenter’s tool kit with notable skill to create useful and ornamental home articles, including a full set of chairs, showcasing her mechanical ingenuity.
The New York Recorder notes a jury verdict in a brief item tied to the serial Will he Marry Her. The Races section lists dates September 23 and 28 with a program note for the fourth page.
Advertises Corns Financial School by W L Harvey with 150 pages and 64 illustrations and a popular 25 cent cloth 1.00 edition. Also promotes Corns Financial School Continues, 200 pages and 50 illustrations, urging readers to study money history and pay as required.
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