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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1909
Page
11
W D Owen also known as W W Fowler is held by Augusta Georgia police for Boston authorities. He is charged with involvement in a Mexican plantation development company that caused many New England stockholders to lose investments. Chief promoter F B Borges sits in state prison.
William D. Owen, once a congressman and Indiana secretary of state, is reported arrested in Augusta, Ga, linked to Mexican bonanza land schemes that drew over 2 million dollars from investors. The Ubero Plantation Companies, led by Owen and Borges, collapsed in 1895 amid fraud charges. Borges faces arrest. Owen had been abroad.
Augusta Georgia April 2 officers from Boston said W W Fowler now in custody was not W D Owen former Indiana congressman sought in Boston on fraud charges Fowler released and sent to hospital for glaucoma operation Inspector C Armstrong and A F Luther witnessed Fowler Luther said he knew Owen Fowler's attorney called police custody a damnable outrage and said he may sue the police chief individually not the city
Final general order by Major General Thomas H. Barry ends the army of pacification in Cuba. Transports Sumner and men take the last American troops from the arsenal dock near Havana bound for Newport News.
At Leavenworth government inmates faced a blaze that destroyed four central buildings of the federal prison. Eight hundred prisoners were led from cell houses as fire squads and 1200 soldiers formed a security ring. Guards held back inmates with rifles while the structure burned.
The Pottawatomie Potawatomi protest Senate Bill 284 in the Illinois House, challenging state sale of submerged lands along Lake Michigan to Illinois Steel. They cite 1795 treaty rights and argue they retain ownership, urging that the state and any corporation cannot claim their lands or waters. The protest, presented by the speaker, goes to the house committee investigating submerged land rights.
New York editors report department store managers imposing a ban on rat pompadours and puff spinnakers. A store manager cites extreme styles as excessive while urging girls to return to natural hair. The piece notes burlesque influences and predicts a quick shift back to simpler grooming.
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled the railroad commission's authority to set binding rates in specific cases is constitutional. The decision involved Southern Indiana Railway and Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway challenging an order enjoining a joint rate above 50 cents per ton from Linton mines to Lehman cement mills.
The dam built by the Chicago Cincinnati Louisville Railroad at Bruce Lake near Winamac Indiana was blown out early Thursday by unknown persons. The lake was raised several feet flooding nearby fields and washing out highways, with farmers opposing the project. No culprits have been identified or caught.
Sylvanus Burnham, held in Tulsa Texas on Indiana requisition for a Terre Haute murder, says he is not the Burnham indicted thirty-two years ago. He was arrested at his ranch twenty miles from town and remains in sheriff custody awaiting developments. Members of his Mason and Odd Fellows lodges have opened an inquiry into the claim.
The fifty seventh annual session of the Indiana conference of the Evangelical association opened at the First Evangelical church in Elkhart Ind Bishop S C Breyfogel presiding The Missionary society elected Levi Newmann president G B Kimmel vice president J W Metzner secretary P L Browns treasurer S H Baum gartner delegate to the general board The Sunday School union named P L Browns president W E Snyder vice president M W Sunderman secretary-treasurer.
The Sylvan Lake Improvement association held a meeting at Mayor Hosey's office. John Jennings was appointed to office as police man deputy game and fish warden health officer and trash collection supervisor. He will serve during the upcoming season.
Dr Charles Eliot retiring Harvard president will succeed Whitelaw Reid as ambassador to Great Britain. Taft announced the selection at a Harvard alumni dinner in Washington with Senator Root endorsing the choice. Taft praised Eliot as a scholar American gentleman and sage and pledged to back Root’s tribute and expectations for his future service.
Rev Father William McMahon filed for voluntary bankruptcy in U S district court with liabilities listed at 1 5 million and assets at 75 000 The insolvency is linked to the Fidelity Funding Company of New York promoted by P J Kieran He is said to have been a director and endorsed many of its notes
New York April 2 Reassessments of duties totaling 1 239 000 on sugar imported by American Sugar Refining at Havemeyer Elder refinery between 1901 and 1907 ordered by Collector Loeb on grounds of fraud The move follows a government verdict awarding 134 000 and cites further litigation led by ex US Attorney Stimson The government seeks to collect about 1 000 000 tied to Havemeyer Elder and Jersey City refiners with about 100 000 already paid
A heavy dynamite charge exploded at 3:15 AM near Willow avenue in Hoboken meadows, ripping out a steel viaduct pillar and shattering windows within a quarter mile. Several residents injured by glass and plaster but none seriously, with damaged tenements and panic-stricken locals. Separately, Miss Iva Young of Mishawaka learned she inherits $20,000 from Aunt Mrs. A Emmerson of Ironton Mo.
The Zeppelin airship landed safely near Dingolfing at 3 PM after eleven hours aloft. The rear motor failed and the forward motor alone could not overcome the strong wind, making parts of the journey perilous.
The Zeppelins airship with Count Zeppelin aboard struggles in strong winds and drifts across the countryside from Friedrichshafen toward Munich. Soldiers and cavalry pursue by road as the vessel, unable to land, climbs and skirts toward Freising with the crew including Major Sperling and engineers aboard.
Governor Harmon reprieved Harry Edward Crooks, the Darton wife murderer, from electrocution set for April 13 to June 1 to give Montgomery county court time to hear his appeal. Crooks claimed he was a plot victim and had no chance to testify.
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