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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1894
Page
4
A client instruction urges booking court and estate notices in The Weekly Sentinel to gain widest circulation at the same price, noting readers can choose their paper for publication.
Dr EB Walter at St James hotel. Benjamin joins from Notre Dame. Hostman child recovers from illness. Mrs Comparet and children visiting Freeport in town. Angotine at Van Wert tending daughter with typhoid. Fire destroys Henry Koehaman barn near Frvidheim. two barns burned. John Mosier, Wilding driver, released from asylum and to Richmond. Dr J D McHenry, Maples resident and former state legislator, died in Payne. J S Ainslie buys 309 West Jefferson home, to move in by Sept 1. S P Haiffrey released from infirmary, not charged with insanity. Warsaw Times notes Bowser family arrival. Labor Day picnic planned at Lanmore’s Lake with speakers. Local improvements planned for Root & Co front. Harmony Lodge party drew 350 attendees with nine coaches.
Misses Rous and Nellie Nolan returned from a visit at Arcos. Ronald Dawson, son of Judge Dawson, left for St Louis. Mrs M F Schmetzer left for Niagara Falls to visit her daughter. Waters to carry the Typographical Union banner on Labor Day. Westminster Sunday school picnic set for September 6 at Swinney park. Several residents announced trips, resignations, marriages, and social happenings across Fort Wayne, Bluffton, and nearby towns.
Otto Hammerle sues John Kennedy and Phillip Kennedy in circuit court for 1000 dollars alleging assault in a West Main street saloon left him with a dislocated shoulder and medical bills. Justice Hays fines forprostitution ties. various deeds licenses and guardians appointed. multiple divorces and civil actions noted with fines and judgments.
A Saturday court fined a man for leaving horse carcasses unburied on his property and another for assault and battery. August Bix seeks divorce from Minnie Bix alleging cruel conduct. Several arrests followed a police raid on a Columbia street house. Marriage licenses issued to multiple couples. A trial for malicious trespass involving a bicycle collision was noted. A saloon assault led to arrests and a mayoral trial.
Rumors swirl around Charles A. Ketchum a jailed felon, once in Nashville held over grain theft now linked to Wells Fargo express robbery. Indictments tied to 236000 package. prosecutors moved to Tennessee for trial after a deal with express firms. Also mentions a racing card with Star Pointer and Highwood as notable entrants and a market sale of Mina Hoem Sol grocery.
County Populists gathered at the Knights of Labor hall with delegates from many townships. C L Drummond elected chairman and Geo E Rhine secretary as 40 delegates attended. Miller chosen for state senator, Rhine Orr and McCarthy named for state representatives, with other county offices filled by acclamation or initial ballots.
Reports from Churubusco indicate a probable smallpox case involving Webster, secretary of the local board of health. The patient was exposed near Warsaw and is quarantined. Fort Wayne health officials are urged to stay vigilant while Dr. Myers could not travel to inspect. The item blends this health notice with memorial and reunion notices from Indiana regiments and local historical sketches.
The man left for the west seeking passage to Buffalo then Toledo, traveled by lake and the Maumee river to Fort Wayne, enduring years of hardship. He rose to own a premier business block and valuable South Wayne property and remains healthy at seventy seven upcoming December.
A 21-year-old Clarence Armstrong deserts his 16-year-old wife at the Randall hotel after registering with her in Fort Wayne. He sends a note of farewell and leaves town. police search fails to find him while the injured bride, daughter of Dr. Carhill of Poneta, awaits possibilities amid local notices and a developing incident.
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