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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
1
Balkan allies and Ottoman plenipotentiaries at London adjourn negotiations as Greece has not signed the armistice protocol. Delegates will report to their home governments and reconvene late Thursday afternoon. Bulgarian leader Dr. Daneff confirms no profovol decision yet.
South Bend authorities say further arrests in the alleged arson trust are anticipated within a day or two. Federal and Chicago police are pursuing additional members with headquarters reportedly in Chicago. Ben Kahn and Ben Franklin remain in custody under $20,000 bonds, with J. G. Funk to rule on bail redactions tomorrow.
Washington December 17 Hearst gave the senate campaign funds committee photo copies of letters linked to the Standard Oil Club and campaign financing. He identified the photostatic facsimiles and said he may have seen originals, naming John Eddy of London as the source of several articles.
In East Columbus public school a teacher's vigorous paddle discipline on an unruly boy triggered a pocket matches fire on the west side of the boy's trousers. The blaze was quickly extinguished with only a slight burn to the student.
In Lisbon on December 17 a plot to establish a military dictatorship was uncovered. Armies were mobilized and warships stood ready while troops loyal to the cabinet were kept under arms. Rumors spread of conspirators assembling in Campo Grande intending to seize government buildings.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid accepts Britain's offer of a warship to bring her late husband’s body to the United States. The Foreign Office and State Department will finalize arrangements. Queen Alexandra sent a wreath to Dorchester House as hundreds seek Westminster Abbey memorial seats for the ambassador’s service Friday.
Woodrow Wilson, returning to the New Jersey state house, urged voters to block politicians who opposed his progressive agenda. He warned those who seek to retake control of state government after his term as governor. Ty Cobb led a Georgia delegation inviting the governor to spend winters in Augusta, but Wilson offered no definite plan.
Indianapolis December 17 John T Butler Buffalo New York vice president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers testified as a defendant in the dynamite conspiracy trial he is charged with Jan. to be the most prominent union official after President Frank M. Ryan Butler faced questions as a defendant in the case highlighting the union leadership amid the trial proceedings
Butler testified about funding an allowance to J J McNamara for explosions including those in Los Angeles and Buffalo. He described four Buffalo blasts tied to open shop contractors and said dynamite was not discussed by the union councils. He faces charges over an April 1911 Springfield municipal building explosion meeting in Hartford with Michael J Young and others.
Hartford City Indiana December 17 Frank Rogera aged two years a young farmer living east of here died today from ingesting arsenic he mistook for medicine He had been ill for some time and the tragedy underscores local dangers of poison exposure in rural homes.
J Pierpont Morgan left New York for Washington on a special Pennsylvania Railroad train to testify tomorrow before the money trust investigating committee. He is accompanied by J Pierpont Morgan Jr Thomas W Lamont of J P Morgan Co and counsel Joseph F H Choate and Richard V Lindaburny.
Washington December 17 Samuel Untermyer prepared to Question Frederick Lewisohn of Lewisohn Brothers again after he refused to answer profits from the California Petroleum stock flotation. The committee adjourned as Lewisohn and counsel conferred with syndicate partners. John Aspegren president of the New York Produce Exchange testified on incorporation limits.
Duluth Minnesota and nearby areas are buried under one to five feet of snow in the worst blizzard in ten years. Temperatures are not extremely cold but strong winds hinder relief as the storm shows no sign of abating this morning.
President Taft sent to the Senate nominations for nine members of the newly created industrial commission to study labor capital relations. Representatives include Senator George Sutherland, George B. Candler, and Austin B. Garrettson, with labor and capital figures such as John Lennon and James OConnell named. Also noted is Ware J. Flynn named chief of the secret service, succeeding John F. Wilkie, and Bailey declines to discuss rumored resignation. A contest against Thomas S. Butler’s Pennsylvania seat is filed by Eugene Bonniwell alleging fraud and interference.
Per Indiana, December 17. The Tell Telephone company's service, crippled by an operators strike yesterday, was resumed in full today. The girls protested Sunday shifts, and after a pay conference with Manager Beebe, it was agreed to alternate operators so each will serve one Sunday each month.
Professor John H. Ungemach longtime St Pauls Lutheran parochial school teacher died suddenly at 69 in Indianapolis. He taught forty years and remained active Monday despite a back pain and a premonition of death. The 310 Madison Street resident suffered apoplexy, with funeral details to be announced.
Fourteen representatives from Central Electric Traffic association affiliated interurban roads gathered at the Anthony hotel for the regular monthly meeting. Attendees included officials from Fort Wayne & Northern Indiana Traction, Indianapolis & Indianapolis, Ohio Electric, Dayton & Toledo, and others.
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