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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1894
Page
4
Fire at the Glucose company plant in YraLo causes eight story brick building to burn. About eighty workers present. many perish or escape into canal amid collapsing ladders. Insurance covers $535,000. death toll still unclear as rescue continues. Separate note: Senator Dixon plans to resume law practice after declining re election.
A three masted schooner named Jennie Mw Carter with crew from Providence drifted and foundered near Salisbury Beach in a savage gale. Bodies washed ashore while others reportedly escaped in boats. the vessel, stern damaged, was seen drifting before breaking up. Confederate reports indicate missing rudder and toppled masts.
New York April 13 David Dudley Field aged eighty nine died at his Gramercy Place home after returning from abroad and contracting pneumonia. Field spoke of having his codes adopted worldwide and left an autobiography. In Missouri John T Davis richest man in the state died at his home aged fifty two from kidney disease. His estate is estimated at twenty five million dollars. He leaves a widow and three children.
The Lawrenceville district sent over seven hundred foreigners including Hungarians Italians and Slavs to cotton plantations in Texas, with 200 shipped yesterday. An agent gathers workers daily as the city shifts labor from African Americans to cheaper immigrant labor for cotton fields.
An east bound Baltimore and Ohio express leaving Pittsburg at 6 20 p m crashed into a freight train at Tyrone three miles west of Convertsville Pa. The baggage car and a day coach were demolished with several passengers seriously injured and a dozen coke cars wrecked. No fatalities reported. All traffic delayed six hours.
The two men charged in Stephen Geer the dairyman slaying near Jeffersonville have been brought to the Jeffersonville prison. Both suspects are African American. Sim Booker and Marion Pickering are in custody. Peter Mehler is released as a suspect. Pickering’s confession names Booker as an accessory.
Reports from the coke country describe violent intimidation of workmen and mob activity across the southern Fayette County area. Troop deployment discussions surface as Fayette County authorities struggle to preserve peace while strikers mass in strong numbers, with arrests linked to the Paddock death and rioting incidents.
The Wharton County case, moved on venue grounds, led to a depot tragedy where Young Mitchell killed Sutton Gleason and Sparks' brother Benton Puke. HH and Delo later blocked Sparky resulting in both of their deaths.
The New England contingent of Coxey's army will depart Fenner Hall on April 17 led by Major General M. D. Fitzgerald and Brigadier General McCoy with Morey 8. Swift as supervisor. The group, named the New England Industrial Army, contemplates a coal schooner trip to Washington.
A fif teen year old Cresco girl died after a tooth extraction and was found buried alive with a broken coffin glass and bloodstains. Indiana health officers meet in Indianaoplis to discuss infectious disease control and smallpox from Chicago. Charles Wisdom, a colored man, was hanged in St Louis for a 1893 murder. Advertisements tout Dr King s New Discovery and Electric Bitters with local testimonials and a Nickel Plate line promoting service to Chicago New York and Boston.
iJ Taylor a prominent colored Democrat who has long shaped party policy is named recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia by President Cleveland. Born a slave in Alabama in 1855 he rose through Oberlin and Ann Arbor to a Kansas City law career and now edits The American Citizen in Kansas City Kan.
Patrick Walsh, editor and owner of the Augusta Chronicle, was appointed to the U S Senate by Governor Northen after Senator Colquitt's death. Born in Ireland in 1840, Walsh rose from Charleston printer to editor and chief of The Chronicle and Sentinel, later consolidating with The Constitutionalist to form a leading Southern newspaper.
Over a million acres of coffee land were sold last year in Vera Cres Mexico to buyers of diverse nationalities including Americans, Britons, Germans, French, and Belgians. A highway robbery tale is recounted with witnesses debating the seriousness of crime and a girl taken for a child’s ransom, with onlookers arguing about who should act.
Alfred S Franklin known as the Norwegian Skater sails for the North with Walter Wellman’s Arctic expedition. He is a Norwegian-born American citizen fluent in English and Norwegian, likely aiding American and Norwegian crews. Franklin, experienced in Spitzbergen waters, sails from New York to join the planned May 1 departure.
The czar and wife enjoy private entertainments amid danger while the empress shields her children who are educated by daily separate instructors. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in New York state celebrates twenty years with 22 400 members and wider Loyal Temperance dexions.
Wordplay puzzle lists transpositions to spell English cathedral towns from initial letters. Includes beheading clues and hidden-proverb sections with strings of letters to decipher for final answers.
A long Reader feature lists historic residences linked to famous figures such as Andrew Jackson and Washington Irving, followed by word games and puzzles. It includes a "Lost and Found" vignette about a gown and a lost pocketbook, with humorous dialogue and editorial notes.
A woman recalls nearly misplacing money in a purse and cherishing a gown purchase after her partner Albert overlooked the lapse. She hid the slip as she saved face, claiming carelessness would have drawn scolding. The scene unfolds with regret, restraint, and affection.
A Tennessee congressman recalls being an object of curiosity in a rural hotel where a married couple speculated about his identity. The woman jokes he might be a drummer or sewing machine agent, while the man confirms he is the congressman from the district. The exchange ends with the couple surprised by the reveal.
A vintage promotion touts Castoria for every stage from baby to mother and children. It claims bilious colic attacks signal onset and that Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy stops the illness if taken promptly. The ad urges keeping the remedy handy and notes it is sold by druggists.
A column lists candidates for re nomination and new runs in various county offices. Names include judge of the superior court and several county surveyor coroner and commissioner contenders, all subject to the democratic nominating convention decisions.
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