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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1892
Page
8
A flood of notices covers births and travel for local residents. Updates include a twin birth in the Boyle family, doctors and judges on trips and duties, new building occupancy projections, and plans for fall goods in downtown shops. A cholera preparedness proclamation urges cleanliness, weed control, and sanitation, with city officials detailing duties and penalties for noncompliance.
Mayor Zollinger urges citizens to observe Labor Day with rest and parade on the first Monday in September as mandated by law. Also, J A Coy seeks a cash lease for 40 60 or 80 acre farm within five miles of the city for two years, with option to buy.
Wheat and corn futures and cash bids listed for Sept Oct May contracts with prices across 75 to 84 cents and 50 to 53 cents. Pork lard ribs and other meat futures shown with Sept Oct Jan positions and prices. Union Stock Yards reports cattle hogs and sheep receipts with price ranges. New York commodity and grain quotes include wheat corn oats rye sugar coffee pork lard butter cheese eggs with mixed firmness and dullness.
The Fort Wayne Market lists Flour-Spring wheat at 6.00, No 1 red at 5.50, second class family at 4.00 and 4.35, Graham 60c per sack, Wheat New 73c, Oats 9c, Corn 28 1/4c, Rye 5 1/2c, Oil Meal 1.30 to 1.40 per cwt, Corn Meal 1.24 to 1.50 per cwt, Clover Seed 5.0, Timothy Seed 1.25 to 1.0, Flax Seed 90 to 95, Pearley 5 10 60c, Hay 8.00 per ton, Hides Grom salted 4 4c, Tallow 4 4c. An advertisement touts Ffood’s Sarsaparilla for weakness and appetite. Captain Robert Allen of Aurora is dead after losing his right arm at Stone River.
A nomadic reader reports chronic diarrhea lasting a decade found relief after trying Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoeaa Remedy in western Pennsylvania. He promotes it to friends in Cleveland and notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething and diarrhea relief sold worldwide for 25 cents. Ernst Stiles is killed by lightning near Knox while at work.
Testimonial from Ger M B Wharton of Baltimore highlights Simmons Liver Regulator as a universal remedy for indigestion fullness after meals constipation and bilious headaches It claims to act on liver function and to be unfailing and purely vegetable with broad endorsement as the greatest medicine of the times.
Gilbert G. Rice recounts a brutal mob attack by Tennessee miners and illicit whisky men who captured him in a forest near Altamont. He describes being tied to a rolling freight car, the rope’s friction tearing flesh, and his escape with multiple injuries. His weight dropped, hair turned white from shock, and recovery is considered unlikely. Colonel C. E. Bryant and the Bryant family are notified as kin arrive.
Henry J. Auth traveled to Hesse Cassel to congratulate his father Joseph Auth on his eighty fifth birthday anniversary. A longtime Allen county resident since 1824 he helped found Fort Wayne and has lived there through vast changes and a cholera era. he and his wife have eleven living children from a family of sixteen.
Rix County Commissioner Bryant Bryant ex commissioner William H Bryant lay seriously ill at his West Creighton avenue home Friday evening after a paralysis attack. Family found him in the front yard and he was moved inside for medical aid as his condition worsened by noon today.
Officer Murphy arrested Henry Lenneyer on vagrancy charges after a hearing in police court. The mayor postponed verdict to hear George Keplinger as a witness in Lenneyer’s alleged burglary case. Lenneyer’s sister Mrs. McCulloch and Lawrencemen Miller were fined $15.50 for keeping a disorderly house. A jail escape attempt by Henry Hibler, Louis Crance, Koehmann, and “Reddy” ended with a fire that destroyed bedding. the four will serve their remaining terms. Norseinger, once shot for an earlier escape attempt, is linked to recent city burglaries. A ship passenger, Paul Mossman, sails Glasgow to America aboard the Furnessia with Herbert Rowe. Mossman’s two-year absence across the eastern hemisphere is noted.
Elmer Crow, sixteen, of Ossian area, was struck by Lake Erie and Western No 4 near Ossian. Remains found along track between Seldom and Ossian showed the tragedy.ories ranged from foul play to a sleeper on the track. Coroner McBride examined the body and burial preparations began.
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