Fort Wayne Electric Plant Sold to General Electric
The Fort Wayne electric plant sold to General Electric for 256 400 after court approval. Receivers Worden and Morris disconnect from the company and will be paid in cash. balance of 171 000 to be paid as soon as the deed is executed. A trustee will be chosen by creditors at a meeting next Tuesday and operations may begin next week under Wood and Hunting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
General Electric Company
Baker
United States
Indianpolis
W. L. Taylor
Worden and
Morris
R. 8
Taylor
J. J. Wood
Painful Fall Injures Miss Martin in Bicycle Mishap
Miss Martin of Superior Street sustained facial cuts and a jaw loosening after a bicycle slip on muddy pavement at Harrison and Columbia streets. She declined an ambulance, was treated by Dr. Niswonger at the Niswonger drug store, then walked home with shock but no serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Martin
Superior Street
Martin
Harrison
Columbia
Pottlitzer
City
Niswonger Drug Store
Ethel Jenness
Jefferson Street
Hanna Street
Henry Niemann
Jefferson and
Calhoun Streets
Misa Jonnese
National Baptist Anniversary Trip to San Francisco
The National Baptist anniversaries will be held in San Francisco California from May 26 to 30. Nickel Plate agents have complete information on rates sale dates routes and train times and will provide details to those planning a coast trip at reduced fares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Baptist
San Francisco
Cal
Nickel Plate Road
Terrible lynching of Rev Lige Strickland and Sam Hose
A mob in Palmetto Georgia abducted and hanged the negro preacher Lige Strickland after Hose confessed to killing Alfred Crawford. Strickland was accused of paying Hose and was subjected to an improvised court before being killed and mutilated, his body later found hanging and torn. The crowd also targeted Sam Hose, burning him alive at the tree near Newnan as authorities watched. The scene drew pleas from ex Governor Atkinson and local figures to let the law take its course, but the mob carried on with the brutal mob action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmetto, Gla
Lige Strickland
Sam Hose
Alfred Crawford
Strickland
Newman
Hose
Major Thomas
Strckland
Thomas
Cranford
Thomas Place
Flose
Crawford
Fairburn
Albert Sewell
Sewell
Atkinson
Freeman
Palmetto
Newnan
Hoe
Tam Sam Hose
Linden quartet to sing at Monroeville commencement
Local Linden quartet will perform at the May commencement exercises in Monroeville. The report lists multiple community notices including church events, school activities, and local incidents from the Linden area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linden
Monroeville
H. W. Mordhart
Columbia City
Thomas R. Marshall
First National Bank of
Hicksville
Pater Repp Et Alow
Griffin & Simmons
Bravery and Loss in Filipino Campaign on Calumpit Field
General Hale and MacArthur push toward Calumpit as Aguinaldo and Luna are reported nearby. Colonel Stotsenburg leads a Nebraska regiment assault, falls fatally wounded, amid artillery and trench fighting with Filipino forces. Reports describe heavy casualties, refugee flows from Malolos, and morale impacts on U S troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacArthur
Malolos
Calumpit
Hale
Bagbay
Aguinaldo
Luna
Fourth Cavalry
Utah
Nebraska Regiment
Iowa Regiment
Kunichua
Trences
Wheaton
Montana
Kansas Regiment
Colt
Santa Cruz
Lawton
Manila
Mob Still Hunting After Lynching in Palmetto
A Palmetto telegraph states a mob that lynched Strickland has seized Robert Sewell, a Black man who vowed vengeance for each Black death. The mob is believed to continue hunting and may lynch two more victims before finishing the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Palmetto
Strickland
Robert Sewell
Negrosa
Terrible Tortures Burned Negro Sam Hose at Stake
The article reports that Sam Hose, the African American accused of murdering Alfred Crawford and attacking Crawford’s wife near Palmetto, was burned to death in an open field near Newman, Georgia, on Sunday at 3 o’clock. Hose was captured at his mother's home in Marshallville, Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newnas
Samuel Hoss
Alfred Crawford
Crawford
Palmetto
Newman
Hose
Sarena
Marshallville
Costly Victory for Nebraska Regiment at Quingua
In a Sunday engagement near Quingua four miles northeast of Malolos Manila on April 24 seven Americans were killed and forty four wounded. The fallen include Col. John M Stotsenburg and Lieut Lester E Sisson both of the First Nebraska regiment along with several privates. The Filipinos retreated with small logs after a horseshoe trench encircled a rice field. The fight was disastrous yet considered a success for American forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stotsenburg
Manila
Sisson
Nebraska
Iowa
Utah
Statsenburg
Quingua
Malolos
John M. Stotsenburg
Nebraska Regiment
Sixth Cavalry
Lester E. Sisson
Fourth Cavalry
First
Columbia Buggies and Carriages Ad Promises Quality
D Storvon & Co advertise high grade buggies for Fort Wayne and Allen county with low profits to win trade. They list Hoosier Check Row Corn Planter Case Cultivator Deering Binders and Mowers and Rakes and other farm implements at 61 and 63 East Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Alien County
D. Storvon & Co
East Columbia
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Howard
Howard Alpine
Rod
Georgia
Mob
Lige
Hack
W. 5. MacKay
Styron, Beggs & Co
Newark
Ohio
Lillis Wilding
Michigan State University At
Ann Arbor
August Lange
Miller
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Gross
Emmanuel’s Church
Rictor Schlick
Director Schmidt
Concordia College
St. Louis
Missouri Synod
A. D. Craig
Allen County
Nine Mile
Fairviews
Sheldon
Centlivra
Stisdel
Monty Hilgeman
Frank Laurdier
Academic Station
St. Joseph Hospital
Delphis Martin
Spy Run Avenue
United States Baking Company
John W. Suélzer
W. H. Kendrick
Stephen Ganzar
Lewis Street
Reddy
McGrady
Daseler
Brown
K. of P. Lodge
East St. Louis
T. E. Daniels
Harold Mohler
Hal Wayne
Hare Brown
Braska
Mulford
Epworth League
Berry Street
M. EB
I.T. Simpson
Cora Hood
Ossian
J. W. Sale
Bluffton
Fry
Hoagland
Ida Thomas
E. R. Gesaman
Hugh Beaver
J. F. Schell
Geneva
Columbia Buggies and Carriages
Fountain Head
Evernn Toy
Indiana
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