Robbery at South Whitley Victims Bindings and Theft
Mrs Shirley and Mrs Merrill were tied and robbed at their South Whitley home before dawn. Two men flashed a dark lantern, forced key from a woman to open a safe with eight dollars and a gold watch. Earrings were taken, handcars vanished, suspects named by police, five men jailed for vagrancy pending further inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Merrill
Shirley
South Whitley
Nickel Plate
Nickel Plate Railway
Wilkinson
Merrill
Coling
Nickel Plate Road
Scherer
Cyclone Strikes Guadaloupe Island Wrecks Vessels
A cyclone hit La Pointe a Ptrie Guadaloupe at 7 am and lasted until 4 30 pm causing roof loss floods and multiple demolitions with no fatalities. In the harbor twenty three boats sunk alongside schooners and steamers at other sites. The Cecilie cruiser remained undamaged. Interior communication was cut off and plantations sustained heavy damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort de France
Martinique
la Pointea-Putrie
Guadaloupe
Hirondille
Alcyon
Cecilie
Saintes
Parole Granted to Old Indiana Prisoner Known as Daddy Wall
Governor Mount granted parole to James Baker and Daddy Wall ninety seven years old, the oldest inmate freed from an Indiana prison. Wall, a former slave convicted of fatally stabbing Morgan Cronk in Arcola, has served since 1876 and was urged for release since 1882. He is described as a long trusted prisoner with consumption symptoms recurred over years. The article notes Wall’s release follows a long campaign and mentions a 1889 letter urging mercy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount
Allen County
James Baker
Josiah Wall
Daddy Wall
Indiana
R. S. Robertson
Fort Wayne
Hovey
Wall
Morgan Cronk
Arcola
Telegraphic Cutoff Amid Cuban Storm Reports
Washington reports telegraphic communications cut off east of Santiago Cuba. Hurricane center appears to move toward Puerto Rico. H E Williams Acting Chief United States Weather Bureau notes the developing weather warning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Santiago
Cuba
Porto Rico
H. E. Williams
United States Weather Bureau
Mated in Marriage at Collingwood Church
Miss Orpha Barrett wed C A Arnold at Salem Reformed Church thirteen miles north of the city last Thursday at 11 o clock. Rev Chenowith officiated under a decorated arch with Miss Irene Schwartz leading the wedding march. Bridesmaid Miss Gladys Fitch and best man M W Arnold attended as white satin and gandie outfits stood beside the couple before more than a hundred guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpha Barrett
C. A. Arnold
Collingwood
Salem Reformed Church
Irene Schwartz
Chenowith
Gladys Fitch
M. W. Arnold
Wife fatally wounded at home. husband arrested
Mrs Annie Kronman died at Roosevelt hospital after two hatchet wounds were found at her New York City residence. Nathan Kronman, her husband, was arrested as a suspicious person and remanded in the west side court by Magistrate Meade this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Annie Kronman
Roosevelt Hospital
Nathan Kronman
West Side Court
Meade
Resolutions of Hoagland W C T U on James Votrie’s death
The Hoagland Woman's Christian Temperance Union adopts resolutions mourning the death of James Votrie after a nine month illness. It offers sympathy to his widow Alice Votrie and their children, and to his parents Mr and Mrs Charles Houser. The group praises his public spirit and asks the resolutions be recorded and shared with the families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Christian Temperance Union of
Hoagland
Providence of God
James Votrie
Alice Votrie
Sisters of the
Charles Houser
Hoagland Union
Telephone line to be built from Auburn to Butler
Superintendent Trier of the National Telephone company told The Sentinel that a crew will start work tomorrow morning to construct a new Auburn to Butler line via Waterloo. The work will be rushed to completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trier
National Telephone Company
the Sentinel
Auburn
Butler
Waterloo
Former Governor W. Y. Atkinson Dies in Newman Ga
Former Georgia governor W Y Atkinson died at his home at 8 52 this morning after a ten day illness. He was a prominent leader of the Democratic Party in the state and his physicians had given up hope for recovery several days ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newman, Ga
W. Y. Atkinson
Atkinson
Democratic Party
Irregularity in Wheat Markets Hits Liverpool Break
Chicago reports show irregular wheat trading with September options weak and a %gd drop at Liverpool since last Friday. Local and Northwest selling offset by slight rallies, while December steadies. Corn and oats trade dull to firm as hogs depress pork values. prices quoted for futures and cash in broad detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Liverpool
Fair Commission House
Northwest
Chicago Market Report On Hog and Cattle Prices
Chicago market news shows hog receipts today at 19.00 with 30,000 tomorrow and 5,167 left over. market strong to steady. Hog categories priced from 4.35 to 4.85 for mixed, good heavy, rough heavy, and light classes. Cattle receipts 2,9000 with steady trend. Beeves 4.50 to 6.00, cows and heifers 2.00 to 5.00, Texas steers 3.75 to 5.25, stockers and feeders 3.25 to 4.85.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Texas
New York Produce Market Report Aug 8
Butter receipts total 10,104 packages with market firm bids for western creamery and western factory products at about 15 16c. Cheese receipts 4,309 packages with large white and colored varieties trading around 21 22c. Eggs receipts 10,646 cases with firmer market and western ungraded at 10 14c. Sugar raw firmer around 4 1 9c and molasses sugar 37c. Coffee dull at No 7 53 4c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Western Creamery
Western
Fort Wayne Markets Grain and commodity prices listed
Fort Wayne markets report shows Fleur Spring Wheat at 4.40 to 4.60 per barrel, winter wheat 3.75 to 4.00, second class 2.00 to 2.25, Graham per sack 0.30. Wheat 0.73, Corn Meal 1.00 per cwt, lifted 1.25, Oats 0.23 to 0.24, Rye 0.50, Corn 0.28 to 0.30, Oil Meal 1.25, Flax Seed 1.00 to 1.15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Graham
Market price list for farm staples and livestock
Timothy Seed one dollar twenty five cents per unit. Clover Seed three twenty five. Wool unwashed fifteen to nineteen cents per pound. Wool washed twenty two to twenty four. Hides green eight cents salted nine. Calf hides green ten. Calf hides salted eleven. Tallow three fourteen four cents per pound. Rags seventy five cents per hundred pounds. Butter fourteen fifteen cents. Best butter ten cents. Lard four fourteen five. Eggs eleven twelve. Chickens seven eight. Honey thirteen fifteen. Potatoes forty cents. Onions new forty fifty. Cabbage forty cents per dozen. Beeswax twenty twenty three. Feathers live geese forty five. Bran ton fifteen fifty. Hay Timothy seven fifty eight. Hay Clover six to seven. Shorts fifteen. Middling ton fifteen. Pork on foot four. Dressed beef forequarters six sixty one. Beef hindquarters seven seventy one.
Talk on Sunday Schools by J C F McMahen at Hubier's Union
J C F McMahen, superintendent of Banner Union Sunday school, will speak next Sunday at 2 30 pm at Hubier's Union chapel on the Goshen road. He will discuss Sunday School and Its Purposes. All are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. F. McMahen
Banner Union Sunday School
Hubier’s Union Chapel
Goshen Road
Mrs N W Slater Visiting Indianapolis Friends
Mrs N W Slater of Indianapolis is in the city as a guest of friends, visiting and staying with local acquaintances.
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Peradoes
Mrs. Shirley
Mrs. Merrill
William Davis
Michael Bechtel
Albert Bener
Charles Wilcox
Frank Miller
West Indies
Island of
Devas
Morgan Crone
Mrs. Arnold
Broadway
Arnold
Wayne Township
E. McIntosh
J. McIntosh
Chicago Livestock
S. Bush & Co
School of
Kien
East Berry St
Fort Wayne, Tnd
Ber
T. L. Staples
Ind
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A. K. Hurst & Co
FE. M. Kahn
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