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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1892
Page
2
Atlanta polling of 1,239 prominent Georgia Democrats shows 849 for Cleveland 277 for Hill with many scattered votes. Other items note political ambitions in Indiana and Oregon style reform hints, plus Governor Chase hoards newspaper clippings in a large press scrapbook system.
Georgia reports 400000 paid in Confederate pensions with 200000 more due. A Deadwood divorce grants custody and alimony. New York politics show Democrats favored to win this year after six campaigns. Indiana editors meet in Warsaw March 8 to pick delegates. A Crawfordsville divorce due to breadmaking demands. Northern Indiana penitentiary earnings reach 28600.96 this quarter. City hall project abandoned. new city hall planned on Barr street. Trinity property heirs seek escheat via Clinton Roosevelt. Rev Tatnace urges Saturday shutdowns and Sunday services at the fair. Youths warned against bad habits. aging habits harder to break. Newspapers amplify crime notoriety. debates over publishing crime news. Smith and Voices push a unified dog law amid audits and dog-tax disputes.
The St Louis exposition hall hosted a vast assembly of opponents to prohibition and monoplies, including Francis Willard, A. T. Street er, Taubeneck, Powderly, Hayes, and Donnelly. Delegates from many states debated a platform limited to land, finance and transportation while other issues lingered for floor discussion. The convention opened at 2 p.m. with remarks from Waldridge and responses by Polk Powderly and Donnelly. Committees filled the day as preparations delayed substantive business to tomorrow afternoon.
An article traces the grippe to Asia and Europe, detailing its spread to America and linking illness to weakened kidneys and liver. It endorses Warner's Safe Cure as the sole remedy to fortify these organs and prevent infection, citing physicians and urging readers to tone up health.
In the Senate today, Senator Palmer argues for a constitutional amendment to elect U.S. senators by direct popular vote, not state legislatures. He contends the present method favors wealth interests and urges reforms to empower the people and protect property via the direct vote system.
A sensational rumor spreads through Cincinnati as Annie Bryant threatens to kill salesgirl Mary Megrue unless she marries Bryant. Police reported Bryant promised to cease after arrest, while gossip misreads a love triangle and recalls a famous Memphis tragedy. Florence Megrue and Bryant are named in city streets and a jewelry firm sales staff.
A major blaze in New Orleans on February 18 destroyed multiple dry goods houses on Canal and Bourbon streets. The Schwartz store suffered a 500 000 loss while others like P Wehlin, Runkle, Holmes, Krueger and Felman faced six figure damages. Insurance is put at about one third of losses.
Paris reports a deep snow cover shutting railway lines from Chartres to St. Loup with five trains buried southwest of the city. Communication to Mannheim Augs burg Metz and other eastern centers halted. travel in Switzerland suspended and avalanches feared. Severe cold and widespread destitution, some frozen to death, as tramways and buses halt.
The House conducts a special committee inquiry into the pension bureau which distributes about 150 million dollars yearly. The investigation seeks to examine administration methods without alleging misconduct by Commissioner Green B. Baum, a Democrat and Civil War veteran who later held roles in internal revenue and national politics.
Health ad touts Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. Trial bottle offered at Dreier and Bro drug store. Electric Bitters claimed to cure neuralgia rheumatism ulcerated leg and other ills with several success stories. Bucklen s Arnica Salve promoted for skin ailments and piles. Sold by Dreier and Bro.
Atlanta reporter Orth Stein is in the city. In Rochester the would be bandit who tried to rob a New York Central express car is identified as Perry, with previous robberies noted. Messenger McInery lies severely wounded and under anesthesia.
Albert M. Howard of Schenectady New York was found dead beside the railroad track at Braidwood Friday night. He was en route to Colorado Springs and was blown from the train while passing from the sleeper to the dining car. Howard was post commander of Brown Post G A R and his body was sent home yesterday.
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