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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1907
Page
12
Mr Bowser plans a two day fishing trip to Green Lake but finds the lake a duck pond and the club a mock setup. He causes chaos at the depot after misreading the invitation and is detained by the station agent to return home, much to his wife's amusement.
A captioned note from Harper's Weekly notes a relic of the past, describing an old Fifth Avenue balloon observed by a visitor in the New Yorker. The tag highlights a nostalgic glimpse of street life and urban display.
At a political gathering the chairman invited questions after a candidate's speech. A man asked a mild critical question when a politician rose and struck him. The chairman then repeated the prompt asking if any other gentleman had a question.
August Wittlinger dropped his pocketbook in the courthouse. J Frank Butt of Maumee township found it and turned it over to the sheriff who later delivered it to the owner. Contents included eight dollars in cash a deposit certificate for two thousand two hundred fifty dollars and a promissory note for eight thousand.
Virgil A. Geiger editor of the Churubusco Truth and former postmaster suffered a fractured wrist and other injuries when his Cadillac skidded on loose stones two miles north of Fort Wayne, rolled down an embankment, and caught fire. He was hospitalized. four companions escaped with bruises and shock. The party, en route to Churubusco, included Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly and a couple from Churubusco.
Bluffton July 29. May LaPointe a Chippewa held in county jail for last night’s murder of Mrs. Florence Besancon says she regrets not killing Johnson, planned to shoot him first, and was jealous over his betraying her with Besancon. Johnson, a witness, claims he followed Besancon after the shooting. LaPointe and Johnson had lived as partners since March. Besancon had come from Fort Wayne to work in a local restaurant. Four children are mentioned, with one in Detroit and others in care or schooling.
Mrs. Besancon first drew public notice here when police arrested her husband Henry Besancon a Thorpe saloon bartender for failure to support their children. She was aggressive in court, reflecting a heated family case.
Margaret Moore arrived at the county court in a striking white plumed gown and Titian hair to serve twenty five days unless she pays fifteen dollars to settle with the state. Her partner Chris Raquet, eight months into marriage, remains jailed as part of the estrangement case. Julius Cerota from Hungary, drunk and disruptive, received fifteen days for drunkenness after scaring a bookkeeper and delaying rail travel. Ed Bailey, Joseph Ertel, and John Van Allen faced circuit-court referral for $100 brass theft from Maumee Brick. bonds set at $500 each, with Robert Person fined one dollar for drunkenness. John McNulty released.
A Sunday mishap involving Hartzell Ice Cream wagon driven by W Bloemert and Dr H W Blosser s rig caused the horse to collide with a Belt line car. The horse toppled the Blosser rig, breaking its top and bending an axle while tossing Harry Ruby from the wagon, but no injuries occurred.
Charles F. Brandt, a city police officer for a few months, resigned through Chief Ankenbruck to the board of public safety to engage in private business. Otto Fuelber plans to enter the University of Michigan law department this fall. The young man is son of editor Anselm Fuetber of the Staats-Zeitung and is a Fort Wayne High School graduate.
Thomas Black a leading Kenton attorney and two term mayor, surrendered to sheriffs for forgery involving about $28,000 over nine years. He acted as agent for Dr F W Sapp of Columbus, executing mortgages from 1899 to this year with forgeries tied to those loans.
In McGregor Texas on Sunday a record heat event lasting about an hour and twenty minutes produced 179 degrees in the sun and 117 in shade. The area three miles by two miles saw scores overcome as livestock and poultry died from the extreme heat. The phenomenon remains unexplained.
Caleb Powers faced a fourth trial in Georgetown Kentucky charged with complicity in the murder of Senator William Goebel. Special Judge J E Robbins presided as Judge James Simms moved to have the sitting judge removed, with court adjourning to allow state attorneys to review the motion.
A handsome new two story custodial building for low grade boys at the state school is finished. Located east of the hospital it faces white stone and houses 150 patients. The fireproof structure contains offices, reception, kitchens, and a dormitory on the first floor with a crippled dormitory and four second floor dormitories. Groundwork is being leveled for a playground. Contractors were Grotholtman and Irmscher Westhoff.
Miss Ruth Ridenour daughter of Mr and Mrs Co Ridenour of Fort Wayne has won a College of Liberal Arts scholarship at Northwestern University Evanston Illinois. A faculty committee selected her from about seventy five schools reflecting strong high school work and a brilliant placement in a demanding course.
A madman struck in northern and eastern Berlin today injuring five girls with a knife. One girl is dead. The assailant, who escaped capture, is described as dangerous and the entire police force is pursuing him.
Berlin awoke to a manhunt after a serial child stabbing spree left five young girls wounded or dead. Police, aided by 7,000 to 8,000 patrols, hunted a caped, well dressed man seen with candy and a note warning of another murder. A lynch mob formed before police protected a suspect awaiting confrontation with two surviving victims.
B C Gensberger of Milwaukee attends to a government mandated pipeline lay at the Centlivre Brewery. He remains during his stay at the Rich hotel while the inspection proceeds.
Berlin July 29. Nervous city reports a new ripper attack as a man struck a 11 year old girl. A woman at her doorstep frightened the assailant who fled. Locals in the same district beat a harmless man who offered a child candy amid heightened fear and panic.
Coroner J E Stults nears completion of the Samuel Ruch investigation, likely ruling the death an arsenical poisoning self-inflicted. No evidence the poison was taken as a remedy, and July records show five personal crises with two from carbolic acid, one suicide by hanging, one by self-inflicted gunshot, totaling seven for the year.
Henry Krauskoff, a farmer from Adams township near the city, was thrown from his wagon on Superior street at about 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. He sustained painful bruises and a slight head cut after his wagon was struck and overturned by an incoming park line car as he turned near Flynn’s blacksmith shop. The frightened horses then ran to Calhoun and Columbia streets before being stopped.
A collection of old time recipes including Eggs a la Buckingham Toast Shad Ree and Cucumber Salad Blueberry Cake Baked Chicken Nut and Cheese Sandwiches and Creamed Chicken. Instructions cover toast with cheese sauce omelet style eggs on toast and salad with cucumber and roe garnishes plus a blueberry cake and savory chicken dishes.
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