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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1911
Page
5
In Kuey Texas a woman Maude McCrary killed her three children aged 3 5 and 3 with glass then hanged herself in a vacant house after a heat drenched day. A search found the bodies and a note blamed no one but herself and cited the heat as a possible cause.
Mark Dubois and Joseph Pawelski were en route to the Plainfield state school for boys when Dubois slipped from a moving Indianapolis bound train near Kokomo Junction. After riding along the top of cars and the tender, he disappeared among freight cars as the train slowed. Police and officers searched the area as Zaharek continued toward Plainfield with Pawelski.
SPF Deputy Revenue Collector L. P. Sharp solves a months old mystery of missing revenue stamps from beer barrels at Avilla. Rats inhabiting the Baltimore and Ohio freight house reportedly ate stamps after barrels were unloaded and stored. The case prompted reports to brewers and the revenue department, leading to replacement of stamps after red tape. More stamps later disappeared but were intercepted as damp barrels revealed stamp remnants.
Mrs Ella Mulford of 602 East Lewis street reports a missing garbage can during a health officer search for households without cans. The theft occurs as a nearby flying squadron visits the neighborhood to inspect waste disposal.
Nearly a hundred guests gathered at the Bible Training school to honor Superintendent and Mrs. D Y Schultz as they prepare to leave for Toccoa Georgia. They presented a purse of money and shared ice cream and cake, praising the couple for their work and wishing success in their new role. The Schultz family will visit Pittsburgh before moving to Georgia where Dr Schultz becomes a professor. The superintendent position will be filled at the August conference meeting in Pendora Ohio.
Fort Wayne Electric Works volunteers dominated the Northern Indiana Volunteer Firemen’s Association tournament in Winchester. They won first in uniformed corps water battle and band contest and hose laying, with Berne protest leading to Fort Wayne taking second in hose. Fred G. Duryea was elected president with Gust F. Rogga as vice president. Dunkirk and Winchester named officers and site for next year. Attendance was large. Fort Wayne claimed top honors despite Berne’s protest.
Rev. Daniel Y. Schultz founder and longtime superintendent of the Bible Training School at South Wayne and Rudisill avenues has resigned to become principal of Tocca Bible Institute in Tocca Georgia. He guided a six professor faculty and oversaw a highly successful year.
Dante Conner's hat blew off prompting his father A F Conner to brake suddenly causing a vehicle rollover. Five occupants were injured two seriously including Mrs Conner Wm Palmer and daughter Miss Palmer who were pinned under the car. Ernest and Dante Conner were thrown clear and all were treated locally before being sent home.
Wabash Indiana signed a contract for a major carnival week of July 10. Charles A. Klunk president of the Northern State Base Ball league and Wabash owner teamed with Riley Wagner of Aiken Amusement company. Aiken claims to be among the largest on the road and will bring 850 people for the event.
Fort Wayne and Northern Traction Co paid about 17500 to Mrs. W. D. Burgan of Bluffton for damages from the Kingsland wreck. Her husband was killed and she was severely injured, later serving as administratrix of his estate. Several more adjustments remain in the Kingsland claims.
A noon Friday crash at Lafayette and Wayne streets involving a Main street car and a Hartzell ice cream wagon left driver Geo. Schrumm with a fractured left forearm. Schrumm, of 1130 Division Street, was bruised but walked home after dressing. The wagon damaged and the horse knocked down but unhurt.
Emma Moellering driving the car that struck and killed Emanuel Strasse, former justice of the peace, is absolved of blame. Coroner A J Kesler returns a verdict finding the machine was carefully baled driven at under five miles an hour and the accident unavoidable.
An expansive thirty year civic plan for river improvement and sewage disposal, led by Harrison P. Eddy, will determine how wide an area around Fort Wayne is included. A Saturday auto tour with city officials surveyed the Maumee, St. Marys, and St. Joseph rivers to shape the system for future growth.
Thomas Warner pioneer resident of the county met sudden death Wednesday in an automobile collision incident while turning his buggy on the public road near Metz six miles east of Angola Indiana. The neck injury caused instant death. he was about seventy and survived by his wife and two daughters. He was a leader in the Christian church at Metz and well regarded locally.
Huntington Indiana plans a July 4 celebration at the new country club home. Workmen race to finish the house with the tennis court nearly done and the golf course complete. Siding arrived Tuesday and roof work is underway while floors await completion. Directors and the house committee held meetings but postponed due to absences.
Ligonier Indiana June 30 George Bryan of this city arrested and taken to the South Bend police station for traveling without lights on the Hupmobile roadster and for lacking a license tag or number on the car.
The judge laments unemptied garbage cans and fines for noncompliance as the city fails to collect trash. Four cases heard. one suspect promised to buy a can, three bought new cans, and others face varying outcomes. John Turner fined for theft. assault case continued. child neglect case postponed. another warned over decayed fruit disposal.
Baltimore observer notes Cardinal Gibbons marks fifty years as a priest and twenty five years as cardinal. He led a private mass at a home chapel then plans a cathedral celebration in October following a nationwide June sixth m event with President Taft and officials.
Six priests were ordained for the Holy Cross at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame Indiana by Rt Rev Herman J Aledring bishop of Fort Wayne. The new priests William Burke Chicago William Bolger Clifford Michigan Paul Folk Stratford Canada Patrick Durkin Memphis Wendell Corcoran Chicago and William Cunningham Belvidere Ill will join the colleges as professors and celebrate their first masses in their home cities on Sunday July 2. Notre Dame president John Cavanaugh will preach at the first mass of Rev Thomas Burke at St Columbkille church.
The remains of Mrs Harriet McMillen wife of Dr W W P McMillen died in Decatur were brought to Fort Wayne on an inter urban car and sent east over the Pennsylvania Line at noon for burial in Massillon Ohio. She was born in Fort Wayne June 27 1847 and her mother Mrs Lucien P Ferry is living in Decatur at 92.
In Buffalo six died on site and four more perished later after a roof collapse at the Buffalo water department dump station at Parker avenue. About 200 feet of the roof failed while workers installed machinery fifty feet below the first floor. Dozens were injured. many remain trapped beneath debris as rescue teams attempt to reach them.
Inter-State Mill Supply company has acquired a controlling 60 percent stake in Fort Wayne Oil and Supply for 125 per share. Edward Baltes becomes president, Mark T. Cocherl vice president, E W Puckett secretary and manager, and W A Hobson treasurer. Fort Wayne Oil and Supply will continue under its existing name with Puckett back in charge after years as manager.
Pittsburg, June 30. One man, unnamed, died in a collision near Braddock after a speed run of six aboard a 40 horsepower car. Ede Ward Ward and Charles Irvin, both of Pittsburgh, were fatally hurt. three riders escaped and are missing. The car left an East End club at 1:38 AM and skidded toward an embankment on the McKeesport road. The dead man is believed to be J. F. Trueman of Wheeling, West Virginia.
Col R G Thompson, who Friday retired as district passenger agent of the Wabash, returns to Indianapolis tonight after finalizing affairs tied to severing relations with the road. He may accept a western line position with headquarters likely in Chicago and is regarded highly in railway passenger circles.
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