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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1894
Page
7
Notice emphasizes choosing The Weekly Sentinel for court and estate notices to gain the widest circulation at the same price. It urges readers to instruct their attorney to order publication in The Sentinel for readable public notices.
Local items report Harrod of Hoagland gravely ill and newborn girls born to the Munroe and Diether families on Melita and West Wayne streets. Multiple notes cover marriages, visitors, a cafe venture plan, church events, a boating mishap, a freight-car robbery in Florida, and various travels and social visits across Fort Wayne and nearby towns.
Judge Adair presided in a cola city hearing for Dr J McDinnen versus Allen County Medical Society, postponed to a future date. Milo Funk versus Fred H Rogers heard by jury after bicycle collision. Rogers acquitted of selling liquor. Christina Krauter divorce Abandonment action filed. Restraining order granted for Rudisill and Sturgis against Cenilivre and Fort Wayne Electric, in force to July 17. Replevin Dickie versus Yage settled. Ostman v Nickel Plate verdict 4000 to plaintiff. Several licenses to wed issued. Publicized European trained Dr Fricke opens office at 9 East Wayne Street and promotes women’s health. John Johnson fastest rider to perform at Centlivre’s Park July 6-7.
Albert Rauhaus, Omish farmer near Leo, was shot three times by three masked white caps in his kitchen Saturday night. He fought back, wounding one assailant. eight shots fired. Mrs Rauhaus alerted neighbors. doctors said recovery unlikely. Police scoured the area but found no clue. A neighbor cited prior vandalism to Rauhaus’s potato patches and rumors tie the attackers to those incidents. A divorce case involving a railroad man and his wife was noted.
Residents of East Butler street are stirred by a domestic incident last evening. A well known railroad man found a prominent local businessman with his wife in his home about 6 o clock, ordered him out, and forced the intruder to leave with a chair.
Fort Wayne enjoyed a large opening night crowd estimated at 4500 as the Last Days of Pompeii delivered a faultless pantomime. Spectators praised lights costumes and music with Davis Bros Roman boxes Le Bruns and Gyon Brothers among entertaining acts. The Lotz Bros acrobats showcased feats while fireworks and a dramatic Vesuvius eruption provided the highlight. A set piece featured a likeness of H. C. Graffa to close the performance.
A group of city ministers met at the City Y M C A to organize a Ministerial association. J M Boggs E A Schlaman N W Bloom A W Ballinger H M Johnson and H Baumgartser J S Nelson J W Paschall Rev Super P J Rice attended. J W Paschall elected president and P J Rice secretary treasurer. A next meeting is planned for Monday morning to present a paper and inaugurate the work. It is hoped all city ministers join.
J. A. Armstrong takes into partnership GC I Pidgeon and W. S Turner to form J. A. Armstrong & Co. Pidgeon has been a traveling salesman and Turner a credit manager. William Woebtbaking, longtime colleague, becomes buyer and departs for New York City Friday to stock fall merchandise, boosting the firm’s status as a leading wholesale millinery house.
Rev Stephen A Northrop pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle attended an Auburn council of ministers Friday to install Rev Hart as pastor of the local Baptist church. Northrop was elected moderator and preached the ordination sermon in the evening, then returned home Saturday.
Mrs Jane Edsall Coombs wife of Judge W H Coombs died at 356 West Washing ton street last Friday after a long stomach cancer illness She was born in 1818 at St Marys Ohio and came to Fort Wayne in 1824 She married William H Coombs May 25 1837 and had eleven children now only three living Funeral was Monday at 10 o'clock from her residence A Baptist member with high esteem stands among Fort Wayne pioneers Also reported is the death of S N Shirma former Fort Wayne resident in Los Angeles and other local obituaries including Leora Young Carl Henry Rennekamp Wilhelmina Rolf Mary O Ryan Mary Jones Alice Baldwin Elizabeth Sanders Catharine Fleming and others in brief notices across town, with death causes and funeral details.
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