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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1908
Page
24
Fragmentary OCR notes show mentions of a nighttime education effort linked to a hospital setting. Key entities appear as Aro pita and ATOR amid garbled text, indicating a local program or class aimed at adults or staff, but specifics remain unclear.
The College of the City of New York on Washington Heights now nearing completion after a 1903–costly project of 5 to 6.1 million dollars. With five connected halls and a vast great hall, the campus along St. Nicholas Park expands facilities, gymnasium, labs, and a planned May dedicatory ceremony. Three thousand students already attend in the new structures, while preparatory classes remain at the old Twenty third Street building. A night college potential is under review by trustees and the aldermen.
George F. A. Kronenberger, a Fordham high school student, recorded a large sun spot last Saturday using a homemade tin telescope. He notes the spot is rapidly shrinking as it nears the sun’s rim and plans further observations when time allows during exams. He sketches the spot and keeps careful records since May 1905.
Fort Wayne furnished two companies of state troops to report to Muncie amid a street railway strike. Warsaw and Columbia City units, 78 officers and men, traveled via Pennsylvania and Lake Erie and Western railroads. Transfers were made quickly at the Fort Wayne junction to deploy southward, with no immediate orders for use and no involvement of interurban lines.
In Hartford City Indiana Mrs Albert Bjerke returned home to find her husband accusing her and Earl Wolfe of eloping after she sought forgiveness. Bjerke, angry, hired a housekeeper and ordered Wolfe to quit. The wife has gone back to Indianapolis denying any elopement.
English missionary C Polhill, after twenty years in China, reports from Kai Tsien in Szechuan that Boxers reacted to heavy boat and opium taxes with riotous attacks. No deaths, but five mission buildings were destroyed before authorities quelled the disturbance.
Polhilt heads for London amid warnings of broad unrest in China. Imperial agents report large quantities of small arms smuggled inland from this port, prompting a viceroy edict making weapon import a capital offense to prevent another Boxer outbreak. Sun Sze Yee reports to the consul.
In Liberty Indiana a temperance canvass led to a remonstrance filed in the county commissioners court placing Center township on the city list. The 420 signers out of 680 total votes claim a majority of 50 after withdrawals, affecting all five local saloons. Accidents from liquor sales aided the drive.
Speiipate ah P eeahahl are Pit tole Aesthies ae reported in a local column. The text references a person or group named Suntessak and an individual or entity titled Te EE Be Sewossnerrt in an unclear context.
A statement by Kansas Attorney General assistant C W Tricklett argues closing saloons, gambling dens and disorderly houses transformed Kansas City Kansas. He cites population around 100000, bank deposits up, school enrollment up, fewer criminals, and widespread public support for no-license policy as proof cities can prosper without vice.
Viscount Aoki the retiring Japanese ambassador to the United States arrived in San Francisco on his way home. He said Japan would restrict emigration of its subjects but would deem any U S attempt to exclude Japanese from America an offensive action.
Indianapolis January 4 Union B Hunt chairman of the Indiana railroad commission will travel to Roachdale to hear the Monan Railroad company appeal against Roachdale town order requiring crossing gates The railroad contends gate protection is unnecessary An earlier appeal by the C H D was filed over Roschdale crossings but dismissed
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