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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1894
Page
7
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Fort Wayne residents report ailments and recoveries on South Hanna Street and Buchanan Street. Mayor Oakley remains sick at home while Captain James Aveon’s duties continue. Local weddings and visits unfold as clergy, merchants, and city officials attend to public affairs and health concerns.
Frederick Eckart begins a partition suit in the circuit court against Elizabeth Eckart and heirs including Sophia Ober Anna Matilda Henry Henrietta Lucy Bessie Eckart and Caroline Schmidt asking the court to partition the lands and appoint a commissioner to sell and divide proceeds. Also notes marriages divorces and other civil actions and a coroner's report on an accidental death.
Peter S. Schmidt of No 29 St Martin Street dies after a log rolls from a wagon in a woods near the George F Buskirk farm nine miles southwest of town. Schmidt, yard foreman at Standard Wheel works, was loading when a stump and a heavy log struck him. His body lay two hours before discovery. Schmidt was about sixty, left a wife and large family. remains not yet brought in.
The county race heats up as candidates from Democrats and Republicans attend church picnics and social gatherings across Mayaville Pleasant and Lafayette townships. They shake hands, chat with farmers and wives, and court voters at multiple events, including German Lutheran missions.
Charles Leon reports a wide fire outbreak along the Nickel Plate road near Edgerton. He says the blaze began last Tuesday, destroying timber crops and farm buildings including the Boltz barn and residence. About 500 acres of cultivated land and 1,200 acres of woodland were burned.
The Cook County populists met in Chicago and unanimously nominated Joseph H Schwerzgen formerly of this city for county treasurer. He previously lived here before moving to Chicago and entering a broker's office. He led the Allen county central committee during the last presidential campaign and is deemed fully capable if elected. A council tax levy decision is due next month with minor changes from the current rate. The vehicle tax remains $2,000 income toward street improvements and park funding, with a possible 1.15 levy for other needs. Also noted: Peter Raquet of this city showed a record sunflower grown from seeds he found at the world's fair, claiming the Columbian sunflower is the county's largest. In Defiance Ohio a John C Brown, a known green goods operative, was arrested and convicted for defrauding farmers of $500.
A 25 member citizen group holds talks with county commissioners about a 2000 county and 3000 city appropriation. A bill to legalize the action will be drafted for the next legislature session. Meanwhile the committee seeks a 5000 loan to secure the celebration and notes pledges from local leaders to back it.
The Bluffton Daily News reports Mrs. Clarence Armstrong, deserted wife of Tom Flim, to be sent to a boarding school and later seek divorce. Tom Flin, once tied to the affair, fled county before Mrs Armstrong arrived. A $150 sum entrusted to Dr Cassell vanished with Armstrong, the husband failing to return it before the desertion.
The city undertakers list weekly deaths ending Aug 5 with ages from 1 day to 74 years, including cholera infantum and a railroad accident. Henry Meyers’s barn in Milan township burned Monday, destroying grain and hay with $1,500 to $1,800 value nearly insured. The Democratic County Central Committee meets Sept 1 at 1:30 p.m. in No 23 East Main Street. chairman J. M. Barrett urges attendance.
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