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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1900
Page
5
Kokomo Indiana January 29 Alice Brobst wife of Frank Brobst gas well driller died Saturday evening under odd circumstances. He tapped the window and entering found her on the bed edge and dead from fright and heart trouble. The husband is distraught. They had married recently.
In Decatur Indiana on a Saturday morning Julia Loser age 12 daughter of Jacob Loser was helping her brother with horses when a vicious horse jerked its head. Her hand was drawn through a manger strap hole and the animal bit and ate the entire hand before help arrived. The horse appeared to revel in the act as the brother finally intervened.
During a Miller family reunion west of Muncie Indiana a house burned. The 2 year old daughter of Frank Miller of Napolean Ohio died from the fire while the father was badly injured in the rescue attempt. Frank Stephens and his wife in a passing buggy were struck by runaway horses. Mrs Stephens was fatally injured and one horse was killed.
Goshen Indiana January 29 James Sailor of Elkhart was indicted for larceny and embezzlement of nearly $1000 of merchandise from the Lake Shore yard in Elkhart. The jury returned a verdict of embezzlement, leaving larceny unresolved, and a new trial was granted on the embezzlement ruling. The silence on larceny means acquittal on that charge. Sailor is effectively acquitted.
Bluffton Indiana January 29 oil men are excited by a deep strike in the Geneva field. The Illinois Oil company with Frank McFadden as a stockholder completed its No 8 on the Charles Pontius lease. A crevice at twenty seven feet in sand was shot and the well now yields 300 barrels per day. Oil in casing stands at 400 feet and cannot be lowered. Pontius owns sixty acres and has already realized 15000 dollars from his oil.
Rabbi Max Wertheimer formerly of Dayton Ohio publicly renounced the Jewish faith and wed Miss Hannah Affelder a Peru city figure now deceased. One of Wertheimer’s children resides here with grandparents Mr and Mrs Louis Affeldet.
Warsaw Indiana January 20 The Indiana Portland Cement company plans a mammoth plant at Milford to become one of the nation’s largest with an initial daily capacity of 1500 barrels. Machinery will be arranged to allow easy expansion with minimal car additions.
The text notes strong shipping facilities with four railroads and superior mail beds near Milford, claiming unmatched nationwide capacity. The company plans to have the factory running by September 1 with building construction starting as weather allows.
William Jarrett of Chester township died recently and in tribute to his Odd Fellows loyalty the pallbearers carried his casket around his home three times before the hearse. The procession then proceeded to Montpelier for services. Jarrett was a devoted Odd Fellow who often provided food for lodge brethren and was fondly remembered as Uncle Billy.
The afternoon papers debate the Ladysmith siege and Tugela front, urging manpower boosts and universal service while criticizing General Buller’s reports. Editors forecast naval and military expansion, warn against false hopes, and call for a stronger, broad-based army to press the war.
London dispatch notes Boer claims re capturing 150 men at Spion Kop while Buller mentions only maintaining British traditions. British critics fear Ladysmith will fall as garrison endures food shortages and three months of rations near done. Telegraphs report missing correspondents and a looming Boer move as Parliament prepares for pressure on government.
The fragment notes that the war office the admiralty and the generals have been mostly neutralized in the cited context. It presents a fragmented statement without clear events, dates or names to anchor a fuller report.
General Buller reports from Spearman's Camp that January 24 at Spion Kop caused twenty one officers killed twenty wounded six missing in the fifth division and mounted brigade.
Logansport Indiana January 30 citizens of Kewanna have formed a patrol system for protection against robbers. Several nearby towns Reynolds Flora Silver Lake Burr Oak Walton Burrows and Lucerne report robberies in the past year with no arrests.
A digest from Northern Indiana reports a Cedar Lake nonagenarian, a Laporte appeal by a Transvaal agent, Adams county’s $30,000 infirmary funding, and the death of Whitley county pioneer Thomas Elliott aged 79. Local birthdays, industrial moves, horse losses, a Michiana electric railway bond issue, Albion’s James Hyde, Chaplain Medbury’s Angola visit, Auburn saloon canvassing, and a smallpox warning from Indiana’s state health board are included amid varied regional notes.
Lorenzo Marques Delagoa Bay reports on good Transvaal authority that Mafeking was relieved on Tuesday January 23. The note notes it as a rumor from the frontier town.
Dr. Leyds, diplomatic agent for the Transvaal, arrived in Berlin for the German emperor's birthday events and met with Count von Bülow. He said his trip is social, not political, and discounted mediation prospects while asserting Boer independence and future property returns by Britain. He called Ladysmith Mafeking and Kimberley prisons, noting British provisioning.
Mrs. Harry Dogget of Logansport Indiana reports a letter from her brother James Sullivan who left twenty years ago at age thirteen. Sullivan writes from Napa California that he has made a fortune in the Klondike and now runs a pool and billiard room in Dawson City where he believes he has more money.
Laporte Ind Jan 30 Silk thieves hit Herman Zeese store in Michigan City Sunday night securing silk valued at 450 The robbers have looted shops in Goshen Elkhart South Bend Valparaiso and this city with total plunder estimated at 5000 as details unfold across the region.
Goshen Indiana January 30 Charles Russell tagged as Vanderlip diamond robbery accomplice at Elkhart has been released on $500 bond and is described as in failing health.
Editor Sentinel announces Edward O Rourke as a candidate for judge of the Allei circuit court subject to the Democratic nominating convention decision. He seeks the seat through party nomination and election.
John H. Aiken named as a candidate for judge of the Superior Court subject to the decision of the Democratic nominating convention. Thomas E. Ellison also named as a candidate for judge of the Superior Court.
Frank H. Whitney announces his candidacy for sheriff of Allen County subject to the Democratic nominating convention. The Sentinel notes Whitney's bid and invites convention selection.
The article lists candidates for county assessor awaiting the Democratic nominating convention. William Eggemann and Jos Toneel are named as individuals seeking the post subject to the party decision.
President Steyn of the Orange Free State and A. Fischer arrived in Pretoria to be greeted by President Kruger and officials. They were cheered as they drove to the Transvaal president's residence. The Volkestein lauds the Free State for its steadfast stance in the ongoing struggle.
Wayne Township Democratic nominating convention hears candidate names for trustee and assessor. William Gaffney and Louis Schirmeier listed as contenders subject to party decision. Thomar & details incomplete in notice.
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