Births and marriages in a bustling Indiana county
Gart Shober resides in New Orleans. A son born to Mr and Mrs Jokyl of 49 Force street. Eliza DeGrattery named administratrix. Clark Beaty and Anna Swank licensed to wed. numerous suit filings including quiet title and notes. several deaths, births, and local business changes noted amid county developments and upcoming events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gart Shober
New Orleans
Hugh Gordon
Billy Stewart
New York
Betsey Shaw
State Insane Asylum
W. V. Douglass
Schmitz Block
Edward M. Kramer
Lizzie Kauffman
Frank X. Schuler
A. J. Kesler
Bethel church holds Wednesday meeting and plans revival
Wednesday evening at Hoagland avenue Bethel a church meeting closed due to fatigue. Fifteen to twenty persons joined the church and a band of Christian workers was formed to resume preaching in the area. Rev E H Shanks of the Indiana eldership will lead permanent work. Repairs to the church property are hoped for soon with a second church of God to be organized at a convenient time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoagland Avenue Bethel
E. H. Shanks
Indiana
Church of God
Veteran Burns Crushed by Falling Tree on Farm
Patrick Burns, Civil War veteran living on a farm south of town, was crushed by a falling tree while chopping. He suffered a fractured leg and other serious injuries, with wartime gunshot wounds hindering recovery. Known by old Wabash shops workers as a boiler inspector, he has a family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Burns
Mr. Burns
Wabash
Local Weddings Feature Potter and Solon Families
Last week at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Potter the marriage of their daughter Susie to M. L. Foss of Chicago was performed by Rev. C. H. Murray. The couple left for Chicago to reside. In Arcola Rev. Father Quinlan joined Miss Maggie Solon of Arcola with Mr. Thomas Clark of Dunfee in marriage, with attendees from the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph F. Bricker
Dunfee
Ind
Jennie Snider
Arcadia
Ohio
Thos. J. Loring
Allen County
M. E. Argo
Equitable Insurance Company
William Fleming
W.S
W. B. Bush
Minnie B
Luella
Cambridge City
Dr. Long
Rockhill Bros. & Fleming
Pindiay
Joseph B. Rothschild
Mr. Rothschild
Internal Revenue
Hayes
John Potter
North Side
Susie
M. L. Foss
Chicago
C. H. Murray
Milford
Arcola
Father Quinlan
Maggie Solon
Thomas Clark
Fort Wayne Letter Shares Missionary Brings Briggs Abroad
A personal letter in the city reports Rev. A. T. Briggs of DePauw university has been called by the missionary league to serve in Chili South America. Briggs may accept as he finishes ministry studies at DePauw. He previously graduated from the M. E. college here and led Simpson M. E. church for one year, leaving many Fort Wayne friends surprised by the summons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T. Briggs
DePauw University
Missionary League
Chili
South America
Briggs
DePauw
M. E. College
Simpson M. E. Church
Fort Wayne
Hugh Dyer & Co
Toledo
Ohio
M. McDonald
Pingree & Smith
Ludlow & Co
Gray Bros
John Kelly
Reynolds Bros
E. C. Burt
Suit Over Alleged Property Impropriation by Pennsylvania Railway
Wednesday a suit for ejectment and $10,000 damages against the Pennsylvania Railway Co was filed in the circuit court. Plaintiffs Andrew H Hamilton Montgomery Hamilton Henry M Williams Mary Hamilton Williams Samuel Wagenhals Ellen Hamilton Wagenhall and Margaret V Hamilton claim ownership of land unlawfully used by the company for track and other purposes from the southwest corner of Lot 55 Hamiltons Second Addition east to Clinton Street then south to Culhown Street and back west to the line. They allege twenty years of possession and seek ejectment and damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. G. Wheelock
Lee
James P. Godfrey
Henry Buhr, Jr
A. H. Bittinger
Birdsell Manufacturing Company
Jamey S. Barr
Wm. A. Ober
Mary Trainer
Lafayette Township
Jno
W. Trainer
Wm. Goshorn
Land and Improvement Company
Javis Shaffer
Maysville
North Robinson
Ohio
Manford E. Bellamy
Robena L. Orvis
Henry Buhr
Hiram Porter
Charles Freese
Misses King
Clinton Street
Fort Wayne Land and Improvement Company
Billy Stewart
New York
Angola
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Colerick & Oppenheim
Andrew H. Hamilton
Montgomery Himilton
Henry M. Williams
Mary Namilton Williams
Samuel Wagenhals
Ellen Hamilton Wagenhall
Margaret V. Hamilton
Emerine J. Hamilton
Pennsylvania Company
Hamilton
Culhown Street
Court officials and local deaths fill notices in Fort Wayne
Portraits of three county commissioners Brannan Bullerman and Jones are interspersed with biographical sketches of their careers. Reports of pneumonia deaths and other obituaries include John Grimm, John Liggett, Elizabeth Daulby, Mary Weber, and Mrs. Sarah French with funeral details. Local civic figures and early settlers are mentioned along with recent illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Grimm
Emanual Lutheran
Ilagrippe
Prussia
Broadway
Emanuel Lutheran Church
John Liggett
Lafayette Township
la Grippe
Lancaster
Presbyterian Church
Robert
James
Belle Wilson
Illinois
Charles
Logansport
Samuel
Roanoke
Daniel
Elizabeth Daulby
M. F. Miller
Taylor Street
Mary Matilda Weber
John Weber
West Main Street
Sarah French
McClellan Street
Appointment of James OBrien as New Mexico Chief Justice
A Warsaw Daily Times report notes the vacancy from E V Long and the president's choice of James OBrien of Minnesota over local candidates. It cites political debate and questions of residency and party alignment influencing the appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James O'Brien
New Mexico
Rend. Williams
Warsaw Daily Times
Lus
E. V. Long
James O’brien
Minnesota
Hiram
Biggs
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Harrison
Deaths reported by city undertakers for week ending February 8
The city undertakers list 14 deaths with ages and causes including Percy Wefel three months brain inflammation and Maria Davis 42 pneumonia. Other ages range from one day to 78 years with causes such as exhaustion bronchitis asthma heart failure and lung fever for several individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Krueckeberg
Percy Wefel
Mathias Hensler
Samuel Foltz
Kent Wefel
Homer Wilson
Maria J. Davis
Mary Ann Schele
Lulu Lahmeyer
Ellen O’neal
St Patrick’s Church Site Chosen for DeWald Webster Corner
City engineers stake ground at DeWald and Webster for St Patrick’s church and schoolhouse to face Webster and DeWald respectively. Church to cost 50 000 to 60 000 dollars, school 10 000, both brick with church 60 by 160 feet. Rev Father Delaney to lead the English speaking Catholic flock. St Paul Lutheran splits into north and south districts under new pastors Rev Sauer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brackenridge
Father Delaney
DeWald and
Webster Streets
St. Patrick’s Catholic
Webster Street
DeWald Street
F. B. Kendrick
St. Patrick’s Church
Pittsburg
Wabash
Ferocious Gorilla Caper Wounds Exhibitor in Van Wert
Billy Stewart's Angola the gorilla, advertised as a bulldog slayer, grabbed J. H. Carson while crowds watched on Court street. Carson suffered deep hand lacerations and required fourteen stitches from Dr. E. J. McOscar after the beast lunged. The exhibit was closed as risk of a more serious injury looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Stewart
Angola
van Wert
J. H. Carson
Court Street
Angela
Carson
E. J. McOscar
Workplace injuries reported on Fort Wayne line
A. Primm, a switchman, mangled the middle finger of his right hand while coupling cars. the finger was amputated. J. A. Ginder sprained an ankle jumping from a train. Mr. Reinewald, a machinist, had his left foot badly cut by a sharp instrument. 8. Payne in a lumber yard was struck on the back by a board. Edward Leach, a car carpenter, had his right hand badly mashed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Primm
Fort Wayne
J. A. Ginder
Broadway
Reinewald
Indiana Machine Works
Payne
Pittsburg
Edward Leach
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Sentinel
Eliza DeGrattery
James DeGrattery
Rose Liebenguth
Chas. Liebenguth
O’rourke
Charles F. Haiber
High Street
Lawrence Haiber
Father Cooney
Crawford County
Louis Schmidt
B. BR. Noll & Co
Calhoun Street
McKee
Schmitz
Columbia City
the Comeouters
First Presbyterian Church
E. H. McDonald
A. E. Hoffman
John Moritz
John Jacobs
Samuel M. Foster
James Cole
Jesse Cole
Wm. Blakely
Washington Township
Bing Sing
N. Y
Petoskey
Mich
Conrad Stevens
Huntington
Dennis
Lake
California
United States Fish Hatchery
Northgile
Detroit
State Board of Health
County Board of Health
City Board of Health
Louis Martin
Louis C. Martin
Chicago Street
Perry Forman
Greensburg
Anna Lowry
F. D. Casanave
Henry Grothalt
Fred Brase
Chapin Friday
J. Smith
Morgan & Beach
Pierre
Dakota
J. M. Robinson
Olds Wagon Works
Brutus A. Bourne
Jonas Emanuel
Andrew Hemerick
Morris & Barrett
Cheorge W. Brackenridge
William Gaffney
Barney Tibbets
Joseph Stutz
George S. Williams
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Muskegon
Louis Shoppell
Standard Oil Works
Solomon Rothschild
Hiram Parent
Will Wilson
Nashville
Tenn
Flint & Walling Windmill Manufacturing Company
Kendallville
Mary and
Andrew Sullivan
Ellen O'Neil
St. Joe Road
Mary Traynor
John W. Traynor
W. J. Hamilton
Grand Rapids
Hanna Street
Herschel Myers
John and
Fred Gerke
Maumee
Portland Sun
Charles A. Munson
Sun
Charley
George Streicher
Frederik
United States
Washington
Fred H. Meyer
East Wayne Street
A. C. Perrin
William Meyer
Thomas Baker
Bluffton Road
Nelson Olson
Germany
America
Olson
Massachusetts Shoe Company
Schiefer & Davenport
Massachusetts Spec Company
E. W. Lewis
Louise Andrews
Auburn
Peru
A. Klingenberger
Clay Street
Miss Andrews
Mr. Klingenberger
John Sorg
Hesse Cassel
John Bank
James 8. Murphy
N. C
Dr. Bull
Heaven and Earth
Horatio
Salvation Oil
Louis Centlivre
Rev. C. F. Kriete
Wm. Gerke
St. Joe Township
John C. Belat
Ettie M. Gump
Dixon Edgerton
Mayflower Mills
Columbia Street
Charles A. Stockbridge
H. C. Taylor
John V. Hiler
Levi Griffith
William Heit
Organ Factory
Nirdlinger Avenue
al Lipes
Newspaper Union
Seattle
Prospect
George Anspaugh
Edgerton
Here
D. I
A. S. Barrett
Salt Lake City
Leopold Wolf
John Leikauf
Henry Pfeifer
Joseph Vieland
Robert Lowry
L. Morris
Columbus
Fred Helling
Bob Swann
J. W. Hanley
J. H. Bass
Tony Trentman
A. 8. Lauferty
Clothier
Elizabeth Mayer
Charles Mayer
Allen
Adolph Geismer
Thomaston
Scribner’s Publications
Geismer
McNutt
H. A. Read
Monroe Township
St. Joe
William Blake
Krueckber
Adams Township
Zschoche
Grandma” Carroll
Cumberland
Marion County
Gustave Gocke
B. BR. Noll
Huntington Herald
William Bishop
Fred Barthold
Bishop
A.S. Lauferty
Trentman
Mr. Bass
East Berry Street
Pixley-Long Block
Kohl & Middleton
Stewart
St. Paul M. E
A. E. Ludwick
City Hospital
Goshen Road
D. H. Wolf
East Wayne
Hatfield’s Cemetery
Marion L. Bowen
Cedar Creek Township
Sarah J. Geriy
George M. Bowen
Martha E. Freeman
Marion
Nancy ©. Myers
Lucy M. Carnahan
Louis A. Bowen
B.S. Woodworth
Andrew J. Glutting
George Richards
Decatur
Wm. GC. Young
Pape Furniture Company
Fred Helling, Jr
Cadillac
D. W. Louder
Spy Run Avenue
Sarah Updegraf
Douglass Avenue
Fred Scheiman
al. Merchings
West Wayne Street
Wilkinson
T. E. Streator
Allegan, Mich
Elmer Reeder
DeKalb County
Reeder Vs. Barr
Lewis Bayless
Gustave
Franklin Avenue
Harry Z Oppenheim
Sherman Oppenheim
Jesse H. Young
T. BE. Ellison
J. M. Coombs
Walnut Place
South
Wayne
McDonald, Et al
Markey & McNiece
Chapin
A. H. Hamilton
Warsaw
W. T. Dennis
Richmond
Rev. Shanks
Chile
Rev. Briggs
Ishes
Todiana Millers
Oeers
P.M. Hawks
Goshen
Ed. M. Servoss
C. W. Tuttle
Columbia Citys
A. B. Manning
An. C
Hawks
M. Servoss
W. Tuttle
Dehu
Bb. Manning
W.S. Paneesh
Elkhart
David Thompson
O. W. Tresselt
Millers Association of
Tudinauia
Millers’ Association
Ilinois
Michigan
State Association
Northern Indiana Association
Casylvania Company
Oond
Court House
Board of Vanity Commissioners
John H. Brannan
Lake Township
Ify
St. Joseph Township
Jasper W. Jones
Jones
Mourneville
Jackson Township
Hartman
St. Joe Hospital
Bley
Renub
Williams
President Morrison
Willionaire
Cass County
George W. Ewing III
Maury C. Ewing
George W. Ewing II
William A. Ewing
Nognusport
Young Ewing
Davepsoas Thlal
Thomas David
Rha Spurder
Son Set
Thomms Davidson
Charerd
Viliere
Orourke
Davidson
Yver
Joseph Bley
Poder
Fort Wayne Road
East
Earth
Louisa Andrews
St. Patrick’s
St. Paul
James Byrneae
Sam, Pete
Max
Hun
Dreds
Etter
PHA
Pixley & CO
the Manufacturing Clothiers
E. Berry Street
George Dewald & CO
Chattel Mortgage Sale
Calhoun St
Fort Wayne, Ind
M. M’donald
Infem
Langtry Medicine Company
Detax Sm
Davi McCay
Brookside Farm Co
Box Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Inc
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