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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1909
Page
2
President Taft delivers remarks to congressional leaders drawing favorable comments from lawmakers. Some compare his tone to former President Roosevelt as he speaks on national policy and party unity.
President Taft's congressional message, read to both houses, draws focus on Nicaragua crisis and tariff reform. Critics note vigorous rhetoric on the Zelaya incident and department spending, while committees prepare to examine recommendations on tariffs, labor, savings banks, and maritime policy amid broad legislative uncertainty.
Washington reports the sixty first Congress begins a long session with both houses in routine work. The president’s annual message awaits, to be read tomorrow, while galleries fill with officials and social figures as Vice President Sherman and Speaker Cannon prepare to convene.
Indianapolis dispatch reports Governor Marshall warning of suspending civil laws and establishing a military court if state troops are deployed to Bedford to quell mill strike unrest. A carload of strike breakers arrives amid fears of violence as 55 strikers desert the mills.
Sheriff A M Reichelderfer announced this afternoon he would destroy the two slot machines seized in a raid on the Hiser road house around 3 30. He has not received an order from the court in the Jimmy Nac nan case.
New York officials say the Phoenix Insurance case will proceed. George P. Sheldon lies ill in Connecticut, but the investigation remains active with the Abstrict attorney and former state department officials handling the matter.
Williamstown Kentucky reports a 300 member mob surrounding the jail and threatening to hang a Black man named Earl Thompson accused of assaulting Mrs. Margaret Roberts of Dry Ridge three weeks earlier. The suspect was moved to Lexington for safety as the grand jury convened.
Beatrice Henderson of Fort Wayne Indiana, 19, was found unconscious in a taxicab in Chicago after taking poison. She was revived at a hospital and refused to explain the circumstances. Her mother Ida Henry runs a boarding house at Wells Street and Fairmount Place. Her father lives in Huntington. She had left Fort Wayne a year ago to work as a Borden's condensed milk demonstrator.
William Astor Drayton, son of J Coleman Drayton and nephew of Col John Jacob Astor, was assaulted and robbed early today on East 57th Street while returning from a social event. He was knocked unconscious and subdued by a robber.
The United States orders the Albany Yorktown Vicksburg and Princeton to Corinto with 280 blue jackets on the Albany and 150 aboard the others. The Buffalo sails with 1100 marines as the Prairie carries 700 marines to the canal zone. A large force ready to deter threats to Americans in Nicaragua. Marine units and field pieces aboard the Prairie. Zelaya situation prompts this rapid deployment.
In Philadelphia on December 2, seven hundred Marines are equipped for any eventuality. The unit stands prepared for rapid deployment or domestic emergency response as needed.
A heavy snowstorm with a forty-five mile per hour wind blankets Chicago and surrounding areas. Three men die from exposure and being hit by trains while dozens of wrecks and delays disrupt rail and street traffic. Snow totals reach four inches in the city and up to fifteen inches elsewhere with bitter cold forecast to follow.
Danville, HL reports a heavy snowstorm starting midnight, six inches of snow blanketing the area and bringing widespread traffic delays as of early December.
Washington reports the Nicaraguan chargé d affaires Filipe Rodriguez awaiting President Zelaya's instructions after the American secretary of state delivered the passports. Insurgent forces remain maneuvering in Nicaraguan tanks as the situation continues.
Fort Wayne awoke to a thick snowfall with heavy gusts and a white earth. City crews kept traffic moving using large snow sweepers as the storm persisted through the day.
In county commissioners court, W. L. Benedict's bid for a saloon license on Wells Street at the north end of the bridge was refused following a remonstrance by Dr. N. Mason declaring Benedict unfit. Benedict sought to review the paper but lacked an attorney and said the only path forward was an appeal.
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