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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1907
Page
15
Tom Reeves of the Colorado and Northwestern railroad held as a suspect in the Boulder freight depot blast last Saturday has confessed. Frank Keyser is also arrested. Five killed, fifty injured, half a million dollars in damage as extensive destruction and shattered glass swept the city. A mob formed, Reeves taken to Denver to avert lynching after his confession.
Contractor Jacob W. Keller survived a thirty foot fall while working on a gable at Boone and Osage streets. He suffered two fractures in the right arm and one in the left, alongside internal injuries suspected but not confirmed. He was hospitalized at St. Joseph and expected to recover within six weeks.
Dr H A Duemling performed a rare Caesarian section at Lutheran hospital. Patient Mrs Ford Beckeweg of 2440 John Street delivered a nine pound baby girl. mother had prior appendicitis surgery. Assisted by Dr L P Drayer and Dr B Von Sweringen, this marks one of few local successful procedures in Allen County.
Gustave Selle, long associated in his brother-in-law L. F. Curdes’s real estate office, will leave this region for Phoenix Arizona citing health and business reasons. He previously went to Phoenix about a year ago for health and found opportunity in new passions. He will depart soon for the desert city.
Indiana Harbor Ind Aug 14 John Scerran 22 employed at Indiana Steel Co plant in the hold of a vessel was caught in an ore grappler lowered into the hold to pick up ore The grappler carried his dangling body to the deck sixty feet above He clung to the grappler but a jerk tore off his leg He fell onto the ore pile and died before aid could be given.
Prof. T. M. Miller, longtime principal of Jefferson school and respected Fort Wayne educator, resigned effective immediately to devote himself to business interests in Sidney, Ohio. The school board accepted the resignation without naming a successor, noting the new building had just opened near term’s end.
Waterloo Ind August 1 The town council approved a franchise for the Waterloo Home Telephone company to build a new independent system in the city, opening the territory to competition with the Bell company. The Waterloo venture is led by Popp Spake Strouse and Stroph, with Fort Wayne based Home Telephone and Telegraph Co. backing the project and expected service for about five hundred residents.
An advertisement extols glycerine as a superior solvent and medicinal ingredient in Golden Medical Discovery. It claims glycerine enhances Black Cherry bark and herbal roots, supports digestion, builds flesh, and aids lingering coughs and bronchial conditions. It cites Dr Finley Ellingwood praising glycerine for stomach ulcers and heartburn and notes the formula contains no alcohol.
Huntington Aug 14 The Catholic Benevolent Legion state convention concluded with officers elected for a two year term. President D D Coffee Decatur. Vice President F B Rosenberger Fort Wayne. Secretary John Langan Tipton. Treasurer W J Margowske Delphi. Marshal Peter D Smith Logansport. Guard Henry Coleman Fort Wayne. Orator Philip Young Huntington. Trustees John Zwessler Richmond M D Brorder Lafayette Anthony Geraghty Elkhart. Representative to Supreme Council John Langel Tipton alternate D D Coffee Decatur. Spiritual Director Rev Anthony Henneberger Tipton. Tipton will host the next convention. Evening session at Knights of Columbus hall featured a social program.
Kalamazoo dispatch details how Miss Nellie McDonald, a Fort Wayne nurse, received a telegram wrongly stating her mother Mrs J Beans was buried. The message caused shock, but proved false. the nurse later collapsed from strain and is treated at home while her mother is alive. A second telegram misattributed to Mrs Schwartz compounded the error.
The elevators in the new Marriott on East Main Street have been let to Warner Elevator Manufacturing of Cincinnati. Two elevators will be installed, a passenger and a freight unit, powered by electricity and of the most modern type. The freight platform measures 10 by 14 feet and top safety devices will be used during installation.
London reports St Ledger Goold son of an Irish gentleman and noble lineage confessed in Marseilles to murdering Emma Levin, a wealthy Swedish woman killed in Monte Carlo for her jewels. He died by his own action in prison at Marseilles.
Vere St Ledger Goold admits killing Emma Levin at Monte Carlo and dismembering her body with a saw and knife. his wife Violet Goold corroborates, revealing motive tied to money and her own plan to aid a friend. They claim a third party killed Levin, while authorities trace their voyage to Marseilles and the trunk’s grisly contents.
William Marvin, removed last Wednesday from 125 Baker Street to isolation hospital with a well developed smallpox case after arriving in Cedarville days earlier. He had exposed many people before seeking care as Dr. H. O. Bruggeman and health officials vaccinated contacts and fumigated the house. Also reported a scarlet fever case at 1404 Hurd Street involving Lydia Weigman.
The article notes that Wife selling persisted into the 1880s in England with three conditions: no double sale, price above one shilling, and delivery with a halter. It cites Thomas Hardy’s novel and reports 1887 Wakefield halter sale for half-a- guinea and York cases from three years earlier.
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Heart Cure as a powerful tonic for weak hearts and early heart disease. It cites a testimonial from 8 H Dunnam of Livingston Texas and asserts rapid relief, with a money back guarantee if the first bottle does not help.
Allen County Indiana mourns Matthew A Ferguson former county commissioner. The court house closed 1 30 to 3 30 pm last Wednesday as officers and deputies with present and former boards attended his funeral. Resolutions praise his faithful honest service from 1894 to 19 The board commends his public duty courteous listening ear and steadfast integrity noting his role in building the Allen County courthouse and gravel road program. Ex county commissioners also endorse the resolutions and copies are sent to Ferguson’s family.
Chicago August 14 Judge Landis postponed until September the grand jury investigation of charges against the Chicago and Alton railroad over rebating related to Standard Oil. The move follows a report from Attorney General Bonaparte that the railroad was promised immunity, raising questions of justice and potential protection for those involved. The grand jury may recess until September 3 while records are reviewed.
John Snyder a 60 year old retired farmer living at 535 Huffman street dropped dead in a corn field on his Goshen road farm two miles northwest of the city at noon on August 14. He was with his wife when he spoke I can't see and collapsed before the buggy could be brought. The coroner viewed the body and undertaker was summoned. Snyder had lived on Huffman street twenty years, owned a valuable farm he rented, and leaves a widow and two married children.
At the National Reform association meeting in Winona Lake delegates discuss lax marriage laws and rising divorce as Rev. J. S. Martin points to government statistics showing worsening conditions. He cites tainted rites and so called trial marriages among actors and actresses as examples of faulty laws. Hart Schaffner & Marx suits advertised at half price during a sale.
New York Aug 14 The second trial of Harry K Thaw for the murder of Stanford White in July 1906 has been postponed again and likely will not start before January 4 Thaw grows impatient for the retrial District Attorney Jerome had set October after the first trial ended in a hung jury E E Israel and family return home from Milwaukee trip
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