Publication of Her Letters Develop an Alleged Case of Bigamy
In Roann Indiana Meda Huiet killed herself after letters alleged her father Henry Huiet kept a second wife. Huiet traveled to Roann to arrange the funeral but after learning of bigamy rumors he withdrew and indicated he would leave town. Neighbors report Huiet and wife two had fled, while Meda’s mother remains in Ohio and is said to have remarried without divorce.
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Wabash
Ind
Wabash Western
Roann
Meda Huiet
Chicago
S. A. Labouteaux
Huiet
Henry Huiet
Meda
Huell
Ed. Lentz
Miamasburg
Ohio
City bans pugilists after town sparring bout at Academy
Ed White and Fred Greenburg clash in a late night sparring match that ends with White knocking Craig out in the fourth round. Mayor Mahler orders police to banish pugilists and wrestlers, calling the activity a disgrace and vowing not to renew the Academy license.
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the Academy
Ed White
Fred Greenburg
White
Do” Greenburg
Craig
Sa Grancy
Mire Van Meter Loses Mer Rensen After Fifteen Years Care
In Union township Whitley county near Churubusco Mrs. Fannie Van Meter, long caretaker of her insane husband, disappeared last Wednesday night. A letter found Thursday hinted she would not return alive. Fifty searchers found her in a corn shack. she attacked rescuers and is now confined at home.
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Mire
van Meter
Mer Rensen
Union Township
Whitley County
Churubusco
Allen County
Fannie van Meter
Riley Madden
Fort Wayne
Mr. Madden
Birmingham Riot Sparks Deadly Lynching Bid
A mob in Birmingham Alabama sought to lynch John Hawes after the bodies of his daughter Mamie Hawse and wife Mrs Hawse were found in a lake. Soldiers and police clashed with the crowd. three were killed and several wounded as the sheriff defended Hawes and militia were deployed following Governor Seay's directive.
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Brruxellam
Ala
Mamie Hawse
Miss
Sheriff Jones fatally shot during arrest of Grant county thief
Special to the Sentinel Marion Indiana Dec 10 The newly elected Grant county sheriff Robert L Jones was mortally wounded while attempting to arrest a horse thief who fired twice at him The first shot hit the shoulder and the second near the heart The thief is jailed and names are not learned The dying sheriff held office only since the election and was widely liked and mourned by residents amid talks of lynching.
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The
Sentinel
Marion
Grant County
Robert L. Jones
Love tragedy ends in murder suicide and a duel reported
Dec 10 reports James A. Martin an engineer in Cutcaco shot his landlady Mrs. B W Merrill fatally wounding her then killed himself after she asked him to leave The incident notes her probable fatal wound It also reports a duel on the South Carolina side of the river near Augusta between Lancaster South Carolina and Philadelphia participants with the Philadelphian badly shot and a train quarrel over a Senator Butler insult with Dr Dulin arrested on suspicion
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Cutcaco
James A. Martin
B. W. Merrill
Martin
South Carolina
Augusta
Lancaster
S.C
Philadelphia
Senator Butler
Dulin
Large Ship Building Plant Destroyed by Fire at Cleveland
Carveiano Ohio December 8 Three quarters of the Globe iron works ship yard on West River street in Cleveland were destroyed by fire this morning. The 700 by 50 foot area held $100000 of machinery as well as offices and models. Five ships under construction on the stocks near the blaze were saved. Loss about $200000 likely insured. One thousand workers to resume Monday. Cxutenco December 8 A mill dust explosion in the Northwestern Furniture factory injured five firemen two seriously.
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Carveiano
Globe Iron Works
West River Street
Cxutenco
Rome
Forum
Neptune
Pantheon
M. Agrippa
Christ
Nicholas V
Trevi
Titus
Benedict XIV
Pius VII
Leo XII
Pius IX
Charles Borromeo
Mercedante
Mustafa
St. John Lateran
Capocci
Moreschi
Miss Kellogg
Eternal City
St. Peter’s Church
Joan F. Lane
Captain of Our Steamship Haytien Republic Stands by Flag
The American steamship Haytien Republic seized by Huaytian gunboat Dorsalines near St Marc will be released after the captain refused to haul down the U S colors. Secretary Bayard and Secretary Whitney authorize diplomatic steps and possible naval action with Rear Admirals Ghordi and Lasee mobilizing ships Richmond Galena Yantic for sea.
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New York
St. Marc
United States
Bayard
Washington
Whitney
Port Au Prince
Hayti
Ghordi
New York Navy Yard
Richmond
Galena
Yantic
Thrown by Chicago Dynamiters An Attempt Made to Destroy a Big Distillery
In Cuaicavo a dynamite attack hit Shufeldt & Co. distillery shaking the neighborhood with a major blast. Investigators found a bomb in a warehouse storing high wines and sticks of dynamite with caps. a lit fuse had gone out.
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Chicago
Cuaicavo
Shufeldt & Co
Shufeldt
Trains Collision Kills Conductor in Ohio Wreck
A mixed passenger train and a freight train collided on the Sharon branch near Youngstown at 7 am. Conductor James Kennedy was killed. fireman James McCoy and brakeman Patrick Riley were fatally injured. Engineer Albert Lindsay badly hurt but expected to recover. Ten cars and both engines wrecked in a $10,000 loss. All involved residents of Youngstown.
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Younesttown
Ohio
Here
Sharon Branch
Lake Shore Road
James Kennedy
James McCoy
Patrick Riley
Albert Lindsay
Youngstown
Bevier Fire Burns Much of Business District
Bevier Missouri suffered a major blaze last night that destroyed a large portion of the business section. Leaders reportedly refused county surrender while Governor Morehouse offered a chance to surrender arms before militia involvement.
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St. Louis
Dee
Bevier
Morehouse
Fire destroys five acres of sawed lumber in Cleveland
Fire at Woods, Jenks & Co lumber yards in Cleveland’s west end, started at 4 o clock this morning by an incendiary, consumed five acres of sawed lumber before crews arrived. Loss estimated at 50,000 dollars with 40,000 dollars insured. The fire followed a week old arson attempt at the same yards.
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Crueeveland, O
Woods
Jenks & Co
Striking Van dalia Railway Switchmen Discharged
In Clay county Indiana a group of Vanda lia Railway Co switchmen demand 2.10 per day instead of 1.70. On Saturday they were all discharged after refusing to return to work. Replacements fled to avoid duty and several small lines shut down.
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IndianaPolis
Vandalia Railway Co
Clay County
Depew Open to England Post If Offered
New York December 10 The Commercial Advertiser reports an interview in which Mr Depew says he would not join the cabinet but would accept the minister to England if such a post were offered.
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New York
Commercial Advertiser
Depew
England
Democratic Gains from Recount in West Virginia
In Crarerston West Virginia the county recount finished last night. Anderson a Democrat for Congress in the Third district gained twenty five votes in the city and now leads by seventeen. Fleming a Democrat for governor gained twenty eight votes, possibly giving Democrats the governorship.
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Crarerston
W. Va
Anderson
Fleming
Letter from Rome on travel and Vatican impressions
Father Lang outlines Italy travel notes from Romer to Fort Wayne readers. He describes currencies, weights, rail travel, wages, and urban life in Milan Venice Ancona Rome and Rome’s ancient sites including the Forum Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum. He comments on Italian industry taxes and church music in Rome.
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Dwenger
Lang
Fort Wayne
Father Lang
Romer
Italy
Switzerland
England
Belgium
France
Germany
Avourdupois
Europe
America
Mr. Barnes
New York
Apenines
Milan
Venice
Ancona
Rome
Eternal City
Bishop Dwenger to Return Soon Amid Clergy Meeting Plans
Vicar General Brammer announced Rt. Rev. Bishop Dwenger and Chancellor Lang to arrive Friday or Saturday with no public welcome. Catholic Knights and Legion prepare uniformed delegations to Lima Ohio to greet him, naming committees from Cathedral and several parishes to coordinate arrangements.
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Brammer
Dwenger
Lang
Rome
Father Brammer
New York
Catholic Knights
Legion
Lima
Killian Baker
Patrick Ryan
Dennis Monahan
E. J. McCsear
St. Mary’s Church
Henry C. Berghoff
J. B. Manning
Andy Kalbacher
Louis Brames
St. Paul’s Church
J. A. Spereisen
Otto Nichter
G. Grimme
St. Peter's Church
John Sulzer
J. Levanburger
Louis A. Fox
John Houser
Catholic Legion
J. G. Noll
Dennis Gorman
Father O'Leary
J.H. Rohan
Hugh Hogan
Thomas Meegan
J. H. Coolman
John Harkenreider
C. J. Sosenheimer
Nicholas Merz
P. T. Welsh
James Lowry
J. H. Franke
State treasurer reports 2 061 900 income and prison costs
The annual report shows the state total income of 2 061 900 dollars. Prisons cost 85 000 for the northern and 77 937 70 for the southern, with combined earnings just under the cost by 3 799 69. Benevolent institutions rose to 707 864 54, due to new asylums. Anticipated openings at Evansville Richmond and Fort Wayne push maintenance costs over 900 000 annually.
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Evansville
Richmond
Fort Wayne
Singular accident fatally harms farmer John Arnold
In Wasasy on December 7 a prominent farmer named John Arnold drank from a jug of washing fluid in his woodhouse. The caustic liquid scalded his throat and stomach passage and doctors plan a tracheotomy as his condition remains critical.
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Wasasy
John Arnold
Daring Fort Wayne Bank Robbery at Calhoun Street
The Fort Wayne robbery at Isaac Lauferty's private bank in the Aveline block occurred at noon Saturday on Calhoun Street. About $2,000 to $2,300 in cash and a package of dollar notes were stolen after thieves gained access to a vault by defeating the internal doors. Police seek clues from a hired man and a stranger who handed over a key recently.
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Fort Wayne
Calhoun Street
Isaac Lauferty
Aveline House
West Berry Street
Lauferty
L. A. Wright
Lecture by Dr. G W Williard at Grace Reformed Church
Rev G W Williard D D president of Heidelberg College Tiffin Ohio spoke at Grace Reformed Church on The Attitude of Infidelity to Christianity and the Bible. He argued humanitys belief in a Creator is inborn and presented a clear forceful case for Christian truths and biblical doctrine. He is noted as a leading western theologian and educator whose visit drew many locals hoping for a return lecture.
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G. W. Williard
Heidelberg College
Tiftin
Grace Reformed Church
Williard
Reformed Church
West
Gray
Fire at Jenney power station narrowly contained
Last Monday night a fire broke out in the Jenney electric light power station between Superior street and the Nickel Plate road west of Harrison. Oil on the floor ignited from a spark and caused a fierce blaze, but night workers and arriving firemen confined the fire to the floor and city lights remained uninterrupted.
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Jenney
Superior Street
Nickel Plate Road
Harrison
Frightful Elevator Death of Erastus Shumann Helper
Charles Ramsey 55, employed at Erastus Shumann's second hand store on East Main, was crushed between elevator floor and third floor while sent to fetch stove pipe. He died Thursday morning. his wife and seven or eight children survive.
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Charles Ramsey
Erastus Shumann
East Main Street
Mr. Shuman
Charles Michaels
Ramsey
Pittsburg Car Robberies Spark Local Shock
A gang attacked pedestrians on Clay street near the overhead bridge and Holman street near McKinnie's barn, stealing a watch and searching pockets. Two Pittsburg cars on the track within city limits were broken into and large quantities of butter stolen.
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Clay Street
Gottlieb Haller
Holman Street
McKinnie
Pittsburg
Death of Fort Wayne Pioneering Miller Mr D S Beaver
The community mourns Mr D S Beaver elder of the Second Presbyterian church and longtime miller who built a flour mill and dam on the St Marys river. He moved from Franklin county Pennsylvania in 1839 and died of pneumonia at 68 in his son in law Marion Webb’s home. He leaves two sons and a daughter.
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D. S. Beaver
Fort Wayne
Marion Webb
Beaver
Second Presbyterian Church
St. Mary’s River
South Broadway
City Marshal Attacked During Saloon Disturbance
Laporte reports city marshal Charles Middeldorf was brutally beaten while trying to quiet a drunken crowd in a saloon. The assailants fled and Frank Dick was arrested in Chicago by Sheriff Reed. The marshal is in very precarious condition.
Pardon Petition Circulating for Sim Coy
In Indianapolis a petition to pardon Sim Coy is circulating and seeks his release on the same date as Bernhimer. The petition is in care of Mr. Spencer and was laid before the governor for signature yesterday.
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Indianapolis
Bernhimer
Sim Coy
Spencer
Hartlepool Wrecked Off Eger Sund Norway
The British steamer Hartlepool was wrecked at Eger sund in Norway with only four of twenty one crew saved. In New York Joseph Glassey and Charles McGinnis fought to a draw after ten rounds on Long Island with severe injuries including fractured jaws and eye damage.
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London
Hartlepool
Egersund
Norway
New Yor
Joseph Glassey
Charles McGinnis
Brooklyn
Long Island
Glassey
McGinnis
Federation Aims to Unite US Railroad Unions
A plan to form a federation uniting the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers Firemen Brakemen Switchmen and Yardmen with an expected 100000 members. Secret talks in Columbus and Chicago have led to a draft federation rulebook including an insurance and strike fund and a rule requiring consent of the federation board before any work stoppage.
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Pierssure
United States
Columbus
Chicago
General Board of Federation
Multiple Deaths and Political Moves Across States
A rapid telegrams in brief report lists Reverend W L Parker's probable death by his own hand in Oswego New York, and notes election fraud cases in Indiana and federal probes in Washington. It also mentions Iowa Senator Allison possibly joining the Harrison cabinet, a Lima oil field pipeline plan via St Louis, and several local incidents including a fatal morphine act in Lafayette Indiana and a railroad collision near Currraco.
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Inpianapolis
Ind
W. W. Dudley
Treasury
Harrison
Sherman
Hoar
Frye
Senate
Lafayette
G. W. T. Adams
Empire Fast
J. C. Tucker
Ilinois Central Railroad
la. O
St. Louis
Lima
Great South
Paroled Waldo Dunham Owes Freedom To Clemency Push
Waldo Dunham, life prisoner for the murder of James O'Brien in Fort Wayne in 1876, was granted parole by Governor Gray after letters from prominent citizens. Accomplice Perry Tracey died in prison years ago. Dunham must stay peaceful and sober under parole terms and may be reincarcerated if he breaches the agreement.
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Gray
Waldo Dunhan
James O’brien
Robinson House
Munson
Hench
Diehl
Fort Wayne
Perry Tracey
Indiana
Dunham
Frank Dunham
Indianapolis
Michigan City
Olds
Frank
Husband Declared Dead Haunts Wife After Second Marriage
In Fort Wayne a story from South Whitley recounts John Galvin an Irish immigrant who wooed Sarah Pecunia and married her. After drift into drinking he abused her, they moved to Ohio, she left, later learned he was killed in a street brawl. She remarried Geo Gooder and now seeks divorce to formalize the second marriage.
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John Galvin
Ireland
South Whitley
Sarah Pecunia
Isifien Uw’ Ance
John
Ohio
Galvin
Sarah
Gallagher
Beware of counterfeit drugs and Pond's Extract fraud
The notice warns against druggists offering counterfeit medicines or substitutes. It urges buyers to insist on Pond's Extract only from the Pond's Extract Company, in its own buff-wrapped bottles with the landscape trademark, refusing any other packaging as counterfeit.
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Pond
Pond’s Extract Company
Indiana bridge worker fatally injured in Denver accident
Wanasz Ind Dec 7 S M Baird formerly of Roann now with Wabash Western bridge force was fatally injured on a Denver Miami county bridge he slipped and fell twenty five feet into the river confirming a fatal fall while at work
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Wanasz
Ind
S. M. Baird
Roann
Wabash Western Bridge Force
Denver
Miami County
Electric Belts Offered For Agents By Brooklyn Firm
A Brooklyn firm advertises $5 German Electric Belts vented by Prof Van der Wende president of the N S Electrical Society US Patent 357647 claiming to cure Nervous Debility Rheumatism Loss of Power. Write to Electric Agency Box 178 Brooklyn today.
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Prof
van der Wende
N. S. Electrical Society
U. S. Pat
Brooklyn
Man Fatally Shot in Domestic Disagreement
Frank Root was wounded in the breast after an argument with his wife Julia at the home of William Peters. Peters found Root and he was rushed to a hospital. Root says he fired the pistol to grab it from his wife and refuses to accuse her of murder.
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Parmapren Phia
Frank Root
Julia
William Peters
Root
Veterans organize Indiana union with 150 join
The Democratic Union Soldiers and Sailors Veteran Association of Indiana held its second meeting at the Hendricks club rooms. Gen. G W Koontz was directed to form a state organization with a district and at large slate. A large muster roll was added and many local charter applications filed. Enthusiasm and growth potential were noted.
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Inpuaxavouss
Ind
Democratic Union Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Veteran Association
Indiana
Hendricks’ Club Rooms
G. W. Koontz
After the Offices The Candidates and the Various Positions
Indiana candidates for legislature positions tighten as session nears with eight contenders for speaker including Niblack Semuck Willard Wilson Conn and others from Knox Marion Lawrence Shelby Elkhart and more Curtis reportedly withdraws Schmuck and Wilson enter race for speaker W J Craig faces Wm Moses for secretary of the senate John D Carter and T W Sunmen vie for assistant secretary Frank Hamilton Cotrell and M H Daniels contest doorkeeper Daniels linked to Koontz movement as Marion county caucus nears to pick local backers for house and senate slots.
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Inpianarouis
Ind
Mason J. Niblack
Knox County
Gabriel Semuck
Marion
James H. Willard
Lawrence
Lee Wilson
Shelby
Charles G. Conn
Elkhart
White
John D. Carter
Orange
T. W. W. Sunmen
Ripley
Senate
Frank Hamilton
Martinsville
Thomas Cottrell
M. H. Daniels
Indianapolis
Daniels
Koontz
Marion County
House
Water Works System to Be Enlarged and Financed
Mayor Mahler and the water works trustees discussed enlarging and improving the city water system. A twenty inch east west supply pipe, more fire hydrants, and a larger reservoir were planned, but funding is lacking and 100000 dollars in bonds may be issued to cover engine, wells, pipe, reservoir, and expansion for industrial protection.
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Mahler
McCulloch
Mofining
Boecker
BR. T. McDonald
Jensey Electric Light Company
Calhoun Street
Fort Wayne
Ayer"s Cherry Pectoral Endorsed For Colds And Lung Diseases
For forty years Ayer s Cherry Pectoral has proven the most reliable remedy for colds coughs and lung diseases. Mild colds should not be neglected as the Pectoral will prevent their becoming chronic.
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Ayer
Deputy Sheriff Kills Horse Thief Near Dearborn
In Detroit on December 7 Deputy Sheriff Smith of Wayne County shot and killed a horse thief named Tasma at Dearborn after the thief fled when ordered to halt. The deputy fired once, killing him.
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Detroit
Smith
Wayne
Tasma
Dearborn
It's Always the Way in a Quack Cure Tale
A street exchange features two men discussing a previous cough and night sweats. One asserts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cured Smith, who reportedly recovered after starting the tonic. The passage hints at a sensational claim that the product rescues consumptives from the grave.
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Smith
Dr. Pierce
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