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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1899
Page
3
Local notes list visits from ex-sheriff Ed Staley of Paulding Mrs McGuen Montpelier and J L Fulton Naples. Several joins for social calls, business, and family events across the city including a church wedding and court actions.
Attorneys for Mrs. Mattie E Hasenfusa will seek a change of venue when the case is called for trial. They claim extensive newspaper publicity has prejudiced Allen County citizens and prevented a fair jury. The defendant remains unconcerned and reconciled to her confinement as a point in the county jail.
Vice President Wenceslao Figueroa has assumed the presidency after the assassination of Heureaux on July 26 and formed a cabinet including Mo rales as Interior Minister and Tito Palino as War and Marine Minister. The country remains quiet despite a July 27 tornado that wrecked three vessels and cost about fifteen lives.
Washington. The state department will not delay recognition of the new government set up by Figueroa and will extend formal recognition as soon as United States Minister Powell reports that the vice president has assumed the presidency and leads a de facto government. The Machias arrives at San Domingo City today.
In Terre Haute on Aug 1 Rev Fenwick Reed and Rev Shumaker failed in a jury trial against a saloonkeeper for Sunday opening. Testimony was direct. Ministers and churchgoers faced harsh language from saloon lawyers who questioned Sabbath observance. Jury deliberated briefly. Anti-Saloon League had no role in this action.
President McKinley plans a White House reception for Admiral Dewey in Washington upon the latter's arrival. The simple ceremony will place the admiral in the receiving line after the president and Mrs. McKinley, with Colonel Bingham handling introductions. A formal dinner at the White House is anticipated as a later state-level festivity. The admiral is expected to arrive soon after reaching New York.
London police archbishops Freder ick Temple and William Dalrymple Maclagan issued a ritual ruling today. They clarified that while no absolute ban on incense is granted, the use of lights in presiding ceremonies remains under strict guidance, with details to be interpreted in ongoing church governance.
Archbishops state that some adjuncts used with vine worship are neither enjoined nor permitted by the Church of England law. They concede they may sweeten a church but urge clergy to stop using them in services to preserve church peace.
Rev. Gorin spoke on Heaven and How to Get There. Sunday school at 2 next Sunday. Guests Emma Beck and Cora Reiling at Mr Westphal's home. Fortunier ill. Mrs Enma Copeman of Flint home with her parents Win and Mrs Kruse. Narwahl sick. Birthday party for Mary Westphall's daughter with many presents. Supper served around 10. Kruse moved barn and repainted house. Westphall added a summer kitchen built by Hubler and McFinley. Active neighborhood with Sunday school shooting matches and beer parties. Gertrude Ludwick visiting Churubusco. Leonard and Eliza Stolte at Wallen. Christ Roos sick. Gladys Byall badly scalded by kettle lid. Adolph Stolte recovering after horse accident. John Karger plans to ride the goat in Modern Woodmen. We are with you, John.
The vicinity plans a Thursday August 3 crowd picnic with Bot eran band music and speeches by noted locals. More than twenty Sunday schools will offer singing as part of the event while a bicycle outing near Cedarville Robison park and Cork Screw Bend ends with a playful misadventure as a rider tests the road with her head.
Henry Granneman, popular prescriptionist who recently purchased Mordhurst drug store, assumed charge this morning. Friends dropped in to congratulate him as he plans extensive improvements and aims to make it one of the citys most attractive establishments. Granneman is praised as popular and competent and expected to build a magnificent business.
Negotiations concluded Friday with Harry Meyer representing Meyer Cycle purchasing Mohr’s bicycle stock, sewing machines, and repair shop from West Wayne street. Inventory moved to the Meyer Cycle store on West Berry street. Mohr will run the real estate agency in the former bicycle shop building.
Sophie Prange began divorce proceedings from Christian Prange alleging cruel and inhuman treatment and abandonment. Married September 20, 1897, she claims desertion to another state in May and asks to resume her maiden name Sophie Speilman.
Allen county township trustees today present their final school funds reports to the county commissioners under reform laws. After this, county commissioners lose authority over trustees except joint action on roads and bridges. Trustees must file estimates with township councils by the second Thursday in August. Readiness to operate under the new law was discussed in the courthouse meeting.
Mayville and vicinity reports threshing in progress as corn develops rapidly. A surprise birthday party for Mrs. Lucius Palmer was held at the Palmer home six miles east on the Hicksville road. Visits to Robison park and Bluffton excursion friends described. Sunday school picnics at McCurdy’s grove and Tony Snyder’s grove report a splendid day. Rev. Samuel Greenawalt, pastor from Tiffin, Ohio, will preach at Salem church next Sunday. Locals Dolph Fry and family, Cassius Silberg and family, and others are noted. Telephone line now usable. an electric car line to the city is hoped for. Wilkie Gillet and Carrie Milliman stayed with Frances Carrington Monday night.
Marion Township opens with Farmers' institutes led by chairman Marion Smith and a committee meeting to set arrangements. Everett Hubler, son of Frank Hubler, killed a six foot snake and carried it home in triumph. Henry Miland plans to get a bicycle. Mrs. Nettie Hubler took her Sunday school class to Robison park last Wednesday. the children reported a delightful time.
A gasoline automobile driven by Elwood Haines and Edgar Apperson, traveling from Kokomo Indiana to Brooklyn, arrived in Rochester at 8 oclock last night and left for Syracuse at 10 30 this morning. The car has covered a little over 600 miles to this point.
Farmers are urged to send name and address plus the wheat variety grown and acres to be sown this fall to receive samples of new wheat and a proposition to supply seed. Include this paper and address to J A Everitt, Seedsman, Indianapolis Indiana.
With lots of summer left and only a short time to supply needs the store promotes big savings now. An immense Fall stock arrives August 15 and space must be freed to receive it. The offer claims sterling values in clothing hats and furnishing goods as the greatest chance yet.
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