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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1890
Page
1
War Department bulletin from Washington dated August 5 reports 7 am indications for twenty four hours showing warmer conditions in northern portions and stationary temperatures in the south with a wind shift to the south.
Susie Anderson, 14, daughter of a prominent Columpus resident, vanished from her home after expressing a wish to visit the world’s great cities. With less than $50 she boarded a northbound Chicago train last night, and authorities along the line were alerted but she remains at large, believed likely to be in Chicago.
The Powna, from Newfoundland to New York, faced a near catastrophe off Farge Head when a 150 by 169 foot iceberg broke in three. A 200 foot piece surfaced beneath the vessel lifting it from the sea, resting on the ice cake for minutes before the sea released it. Captain Ash calls it the most perilous moment of his career.
Northwestern Miller figures show Minnesota and nearby states reduce visible wheat supply by 1.2 million bushels last week. Minneapolis totals public and private stocks fall to about 5.55 million and 104 thousand bushels respectively, with Duluth and St Paul also down. Country elevators report 317 thousand bushels, bringing the overall grand total to 28.968 million bushels, down 1.206 million from the prior week.
Misberg Agents of a Chicago building were remanded on $1,900 bail each amid a conspiracy to defraud patrons. Messia, Sefton Datin, two clerks, and associates linked to the National Capital Building at ten Association face further hearings as more evidence is expected.
Rev Joseph Cook electrified a Northern Indiana audience of about 2500 at Island Park with a defensa of America as future world leadership. He framed promises and perils including population growth, racial equalization, universal suffrage, temperance, city corruption, and civil service reform, urging preparation for the vote and reform to curb executive abuse.
Yesterday's downpour marked the region's heaviest storm, tearing up trees and fences, destroying buildings, and killing or injuring several. Winds reached sixty miles per hour, devastating areas including the Kago Axe company site and the Lutheran church roof. The Wolflake ice house near the Hammer company was lifted and destroyed, with multiple injuries and possible fatalities reported.
Campbell sends a challenge to an editor offering 400 dollars for source proof of his claim that the governor would mobilize the state militia if the Lodge bill became law. The editor agrees to provide information tomorrow. W H Neff of Cincinnati dies suddenly of unknown cause while seated today.
A railroad accident near Poneto eight miles north of here left a man from Indiana with injuries to his right arm and another with an unspecified condition. A flat car derailed and struck a group of workers under care, with an impact injuring the man’s elbow area.
A Great Army of Oddfellows and Patriarchs Militant occupy Chicago in a display cantonment. Lieut. Gen. Underwood leads the visiting order with drills and merit contests. Cantons from London Ontario to Columbus Ohio compete as crowds watch parades and dress formations.
Yesterday's games report weather affected schedules with a Pittsburgh Brooklyn Brotherhood contest postponed by rain. Players Baldwen Farrefi O'Brien and Sutcliffe are listed among Cleveland and other league battery names.
Inpranapouis August 4 The biennial convention in session with President John A Penton of Detroit presiding. Sixty delegates attended as committees were appointed. The convention continues until next Saturday.
Cuatcano Aug 5 George W Harris longtime Chicago & Alton railway post office clerk is a fugitive in a registered mail robbery. He allegedly helped his four teammates drain one pouch while the rest slept on the train from Chicago to St Louis. The missing funds amount is undisclosed. Harris has a wife and child at 3825 Stanton Ave. Authorities pursue him across states.
In Lafayette Indiana on August 5 Robert Ball Edward Fahnestock and Douglass Dobslbower faced a preliminary trial for forging Simeon Coy’s signature to aid Hard Auber’s pardon. Coy testified his name was forged and he knew none of the men. Bail set at 875 thousand. all remanded to jail to await grand jury action amid accusations they planned to share the proceeds.
The second trial of Phelps Perrin for the Hurley bank robbery was called at the Municipal Court special term in Ashland Wisconsin on August 5. Perrin’s attorney moved for a venue change claiming prejudice, but the court overruled it and the trial will proceed. Attorneys Gabe Bouck of Oshkosh and G W Cate of Stevens Point along with Lennon will conduct the case.
In Peru Indiana this morning around 1 o clock professionals bound and gagged Night Engineer Lewis and assaulted Night Watchman Bell. Bell was left unable to recover after a brutal beating while burglars attacked a safe believed to hold the weekly payroll. Bell crawled to a neighbor who summoned help, and the suspects fled after the alarm was raised. Officers with descriptions of two men are scouring the area and expected to arrest them today.
Root and Company offers linenettes flanelettes cambric lawn percales and friars black sateens and wool flannels in cream white and colors. Twenty white suits trimmed for ladies and misses to be closed out at half price. The little Buzzers mocquitos canopies on hand or made to order in many sizes and colors.
In Roex Island NL Aug 5 about forty liquor dealers from the Twenty first District met and named twenty delegates for the State convention in Joliet in September They also urged formation of an insurance auxiliary as insurers refuse saloon risks due to higher death rates. Compelled to Abandon Their Boats in Galena Ill Aug 5 river men report large river traffic halted by low water with rafts stranded log jams clogging bays and sloughs from Hannibal to Lake Pepin predicting a surplus of logs over demand this season.
Mapriston Wisconsin August 5. Martin Ohyus living near Mount Horeb reportedly nearly lost his mind after his wife's death. He wandered the woods for several days, appearing naked at times and creating alarm in the neighborhood. He was captured today. His flesh is torn and he is emaciated from hunger.
Amaella Kerhoff twenty, living near Humboldt, died from a self-inflicted gunshot while attempting to remove a forty eight caliber revolver from her brother's coat pocket. The accident occurred in Fort Doper Iowa on August fifth.
Manitoba storm reports set the wheat crop damage at over fifty million bushels with four township-wide belts of destruction and up to 100000 acres ruined. Delays widen the eastward path as the hall belt narrows to a mile and a half, reliving destruction from St. Pavy to Minn province.
News in brief reports several fatalities and injuries. Pault Gav er, 72, committed suicide in Kansas City and was Hungarian by birth. Jour Hamer died from a shooting in a Ogden saloon quarrel in Kentucky. Gil Dickerson was killed by William Kelly who was badly hurt. Jour Gummax, a pauper, was run down by a train on the way to Menard county house. Perexa Dorry and Henry Krause fatally cut in Louisville by Al Bush. The three qu...
Isaiah and George Roberts, brothers-in-law of Ed Robeson, were arrested in Mannox for complicity in Robeson's attempt to murder Lewis Young at Van Buren last Saturday. The Roberts brothers had Robeson s team ready for flight the moment the assault occurred.
Denver August 5. About two weeks ago Dr. Kunkleman of Trinidad wandered from a fishing party in the mountains while under liquor and vanished until last night. Searchers found his body face down, evidently fallen and dead from exposure.
Ferris town council in Carthage Illinois voted to license a saloon despite a majority veteran sentiment. George W. Thompson president of the council refuses to acknowledge Richards bond sufficiency, mandamus issued to compel action. Citizens vow to oppose any saloon opening.
Town marshal tried to arrest a black man named McDowell in Rutherfordton on a Saturday but was beset by a mob of over twenty negros armed with stones pistols and clubs. The clash prompted intervention to quell the attack and restore order.
St Louis Aug 5 Merchants Exchange members protest a request by the Chicago Board of Trade to shift the Department of Agriculture Statistician crop condition report from 4 to 8 pm A number of grant and commission dealers want the report withheld until midnight so all may meet on equal footing the next day
Montgomery Aug 5 The state election occurs tomorrow with little opposition to the regular Democratic ticket and expectations of a larger Democratic majority. The legislature will choose a successor to United States Senator Pugh. Gov Thomas Seay and ex-Gov Thomas M. Watts are contenders, and Senator Pugh seeks re election.
Me John Fulford reports her Monroe county farm wife has born a child with the sign of a tongue. The report appears in Neville Indiana dated August 5.
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