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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1909
Page
10
Lewis Truhn a Michigan farmer, intoxicated, detonated a building and stabbed relatives while endangering six children. He barricaded himself at home as a posse pursued him. sheriff later captured him and jailed him in Benton Harbor.
In Bloomingdale the judge fined Nora Keever and Frank Harris 50 and costs each, plus 30 days in jail, for illegal liquor sale at the Ross house on West Main. The court, with an appeal to the circuit court, held the jail sentence imperative despite the owner living in the judge’s residence. Witnesses included Charles Chrisman, Joe McCormick, and George McDowell, while Elmer Leonard defended the prisoners.
J Stull, 56, longtime motorman on Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley lines, died after falling from the rear platform of an interurban car in Wabash Ind He had finished work at 6 pm and boarded the car to Boyd Park when the accident occurred His skull was fractured He is survived by his wife Mrs Priscilla Loch who died earlier in Decatur at age 87
A humorous line extols Lane's Family Medicine herb tea as a simple remedy for a woman plagued by headaches and sideaches. The copy suggests thoughtfulness from family and presents the product as a small 25 cent remedy sold by druggists and dealers.
The remains of Mrs. Sarah L. Snearly of Roann were brought to Fort Wayne for a joint state and defense exam. This marks a second exhumation as part of the murder case against her husband Dr. George E. Snearly, with ongoing chemical analyses by Dr. B. W. Rhamy and Dr. G. W. McCaskey. Dreier & Bro.
Five hundred expected at Indiana Pathfinders convention in Marion May 17 to 19 with receptions, speeches by E W Tucker John J Lentz and others, a drill by degree teams, a trolley ride to the soldiers home, and a closing banquet. Dreier and Bro. promotion for Foley products appears in ad.
A Lenox Massachusetts fire in the central business district killed six people and burned three others, with property losses estimated at 200000 to 300000. The blaze started in the Clifford building amid stored turpentine paints oils and dynamite, with four blocks seven structures including two dwellings destroyed. The dead include Edward C Ventres and Mrs Ventres plus four others. several injured. Public library and Curtis hotel escaped major damage due to wind shift. Reporter notes spring health ad for Foley's Kidney Remedy appears in the same column.
Paris April 12 Theodore Roosevelt challenges Le Journal correspondent over a Naples interview claim. Roosevelt says he never met the reporter and denies the interview text as fabrication while the journalist insists on the interview’s truth and offers further proof.
The steamer Admiral carrying ex President Roosevelt passed Suez after a canal stop. Kermit Roosevelt Major Mearns Edmund Heller and J Alden Loring landed at Ismailia to collect bird specimens before continuing to Aden and Mogadiscio. Roosevelt denied an interview claimed by a Paris journalist and waved to cheering crowds aboard the ship.
Indianapolis April 12 Governor Marshall appoints Michael Cain of Indianapolis as chief engineer in the state house custodianship dispute. Cain joins litigation over whether offices are Marshall's or controlled by a state board of secretary and auditor. Judge Carter denied an injunction against using 75 000 dollars in legislative funds for Purdue experiments.
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