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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1906
Page
7
A president describes observations from a recent Panama Canal trip and outlines recommendations. The account highlights issues noted during the visit, including administrative and logistical matters and the proposed courses of action for improvement.
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt transmitted three special messages to Congress on the Panama Canal and its administration, public lands legislation, and naval personnel law changes. He will also send further messages on San Francisco Japanese affairs and the Brownsville discharge case. Senate read the lengthy Panama message with illustrated progress details while House delayed for pension day.
President Roosevelt transmits to Congress the Panama canal visit report from November. He describes inspecting Colon and Panama, the Zone sanitation progress, housing and care of workers, and noted the challenging timing during the rainy month. He met Panama’s president and canal commission officials aboard the USS Louisiana and observed ongoing engineering work amid harsh conditions.
Roosevelt urges vigorous action to recast public land laws in a message to Congress. He cites recent developments and the timber and stone act as evidence that current rules fail to fit the present situation, calling for immediate reform.
Preparations are under way for a $35,000 church edifice by the English Lutheran church of the Redeemer at Washington boulevard and Fulton streets. The congregation, about 145 voting members representing 250 families, has recently erected a pastoral residence and owns 100 by 150 feet of real estate. The present old frame building was the Plymouth church home until 1892.
M J Kehoe, long time chief engineer for Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction, has been designated superintendent of power. The new Spy Rum avenue station is not yet open. visitors must obtain passes from the company offices or the superintendent.
Boston reports raise in wages as about 17,000 Lowell workers receive a five percent increase while Chicopee plants announce an unspecified rise. The textile council defers a ten percent demand, to be reconsidered next Sunday, amid ongoing talks at Dwight Manufacturing. By New Year, 175,000 cotton mill workers in New England are expected to gain five to ten percent.
For the first time in its history the First National bank of Fort Wayne issues bank notes of the $50 denomination. No. 1 of the new series signed today as the bank expands currency beyond the previous $10, $20 notes to meet demand for smaller denominations.
Paris reports Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris, vacated the Episcopal palace and stayed with Denys Cochin. A vast crowd, including nobles and about three thousand spectators, blocked the street as the cardinal blessed the throng. Mounted guards kept order while clerics encouraged continued support for church rights under a new law.
Rome reports Spain declined to take charge of the papal nuncio archives in Paris amid France Vatican diplomatic break. Spain would have acted if requested by the Vatican when Lorenzeni was recalled, but after Montagnini’s expulsion and archives search such a move would clash with French policy. Vatican error noted for not appealing to Count Tornelli as dean of the corps.
When a cold begins the Balm helps stop sneezing and snuffles before catarrh inflames air passages. Neglected colds may grow into catarrh, Bly's Cream Balm is claimed to cure promptly, with prevention urged. Sold by Ely Bros, 56 Warren St, New York, 50 cents and $1.
Clara E. Bell widow of Robert C. Bell had a 1902 will discovered in an old trunk after her death. Executors Arthur Wolf Brady Elizabeth Brady Ball and Winifred Adams are named. jewelry divided among six named beneficiaries. library to Edmund A. Ball. main estate left to three executors with unspecified value.
New Orleans reports three men dead and two others injured after Texas and Pacific passenger train No. 51 derailed near Waterport thirty two miles west of the city. Fireman Andrew Myers died and engineer Chris J. Link was badly scalded. Baggage master and an unknown negro were slightly hurt. The derailment occurred after the engine and cars piled up when the train struck an open switch while at full speed on December 16. Authorities note it may be the third attempt to derail the same train.
In a letter dated October 26 Judge N W Gilbert describes arriving in Malolos Bulacan to clear a backlogged criminal docket. He recounts eighteen homicide cases tried in sixteen days while noting language barriers and his goal to progress without translation, plus his improving Spanish and steady health in Manila.
The Mary Penrose Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution displays local historic relics at the Fort Wayne courthouse. A drum loaned by Charles B Lasselle is part of the collection though its sheepskin is missing. The text recalls the First Regiment marching to Fallen Timbers and the founding of Fort Wayne at the confluence of the St Joseph and St Marys rivers near Maumee.
On the evening of January 5 at 8 o'clock an auction sale of children will be held at the Salvation Army citadel on East Washington Street. Captain McKay in charge refuses to specify which children will be sold or the payment terms in food clothing lodging or money. The children attend Sunday school at the citadel.
A barn and its contents belonging to C. W. Fairfield burned Sunday evening about eight o clock. The fire started from the residence and occurred four and a half miles southeast of the city near Saha Point, destroying the structure and its valuables.
A major cabinet reshuffle prompts new roles for several officials, reorganizing portfolios and shifting leadership. Key figures move to fresh assignments as the government aims to bolster policy continuity and strategic coordination. Several ministries gain new chiefs amid an anticipated shift in priorities.
Washington reports three cabinet rearrangements and one personnel shift in President Roosevelt's administration. Moody retires to become associate justice. Metcalf moves to navy secretary. Bonaparte becomes attorney general, with Straus appointed commerce and labor head. Oaths and ceremonies occur at the departments.
PoE Indiana community notes list church services and many home visits. Residents include Mr. and Mrs. Mercer, the Shearers from Fort Wayne, the Harrods and Essigs, plus Grace Emerick departing for Arkansas and Kat Trenary returning home. A Farmers Rural Telephone Mines crew reset poles and moved the switchboard to the old Dan High property.
Professor E W Bemis, head of Cleveland water works, kissed his ill son Lloyd who had diphtheria. The kiss preceded Bemis contracting the disease and his condition is now serious. He traveled from New York to Cleveland to be with family, while the boy's illness worsened.
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