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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1909
Page
1
A confrontation over county option laws drew attention in township meetings. Residents debated state policy, with officials urging careful consideration of potential impacts on local governance and public safety.
Indiana legislators push repeal of county option and propose township and ward local option. Sweeney introduces repeal. Kleckner backs township and ward approach. Faulkner targets Metropolitan police law. Twenty bills in the Senate and House, committees announced, adjournment set for tomorrow.
An eye witness describes a fatal shooting of C. Walter Thornton at a bar with bartender providing related details. The account focuses on the events leading to the shooting and the immediate aftermath.
In a case tied to a fatal shooting at the Har rison and Main streets saloon, bartender Kenneth Swift gave a detailed account of the event. John B. Scot t was involved with C Walter Thornton and a Toledo man as witnesses and Thorn ton’s wife Irene Scot t faced bond as a witness while the arraignment was postponed for investigators.
In Indianapolis on January 19 the House backed B F Shively for United States senator and James A Hemenway for the same post in the Senate. The joint session will vote tomorrow at noon to determine the winner. The afternoon session heard nominating speeches as Shively led 60 to 40 in the House tally.
Fire roared through quake wreckage in Messina as Pennesi palace remains collapsed. Soldiers and warships strained to control the blaze amid burning flesh odor and fear of survivors trapped. The Baron Pennesi coin collection is safe at Acireale after years of bidding against Morgan.
In Rome an ambassador presented Archbishop Ireland with 5000 dollars from the balance of the fund subscribed in America for relief of earthquake sufferers. The American committee which managed the fund was dissolved yesterday. The Archbishop will forward the money to the pope's fund.
After eighteen days trapped in Messina ruins, Arthur S. Cheney American consul and his wife are found dead in what was their bedroom. Identified by a deformity and a locket, they are placed in coffins wrapped in flags and sent to Naples aboard Culgoa. American sailors guard transport to Hartford as Major Landis seeks authority for shipment.
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