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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1912
Page
6
Daisie Ulrich Opie Grace stands trial in Atlanta, accused of attempting to kill her husband in March. The case features an incapacitated Eugene Grace, testimony from Policeman R A Wood, and Grace's mother and nurse assisting in court as jurors are seated.
In Baltimore on Sunday the rush for ice clashed with blue laws. Citizens prepared to petition the police board to allow Sunday ice sales during heat spells, while questions arose about park sleeping rights in congested districts and marshal Farnan pointed to the park board for park sleeping permissions.
Dr H A Duemling appointed acting head of the city health office while Dr F E Crull, secretary, takes a week off with his family on a northern Indiana lakes trip.
The piece reports a wedding under the so called first new idea concept with legal and medical oversight. John Cartier Jr and Rose Antoinette Renault seek marriage aided by lawyer Morrell and judge Forbes. Dr W W McKibben approves, and the couple wed after magistrate Pinch and Putnam ceremony.
Ed. F. Perrey, returning from the National Association of Photographers meeting, says Fort Wayne could host the gathering with proper hall facilities and accommodation for two thousand delegates over five days. He notes Philadelphia hosted lavish events and Kansas City will host next year, while Indiana has supplied several national presidents. He urges measures to secure the convention for Fort Wayne and its delegates.
At the Indiana district Turnerbund convention in Indianapolis all former national officers were re elected for two years and Indianapolis will host the national headquarters. The event opened with remarks by Adolph Roggen and George Schmidt chaired the meeting with Walter Fischer as secretary. The anniversary program followed with toastmaster William Barth and performances by Concordia Saxonia and German Singing societies and speeches by Ferdinand Berthel and J Agne.
In Mishawaka Indiana about 6005 residents belong to churches out of a 12500 population. Roman Catholics lead with St Joseph’s church listing 400 families or about 2000 souls. Rev L A Moench is rector. St Bayo Flemish Catholic follows with 330 families or about 1650 members and 360 young men. Rev Charles Stuer is pastor.
New York July 29 The old Standard Oil Company of New Jersey stock, including all subsidiaries, traded on the curb today at a record $1000 a share. The price of the baron Nabata of the old company stood at $675 a share.
Washington reports Gustave A Manther, former navy yard worker, answered a widow's matrimonial ad and married her hoping to claim $3,000. He learned the amount equaled three children valued at $1,000 each. The court released him on a promise to send his wife $8 weekly.
Kansas City Aero club president says America will be represented in the international balloon race by Uncle Sam Kansas City II and Drifter as other balloons report landings from Manassas Virginia Nora Illinois and Belleville Michigan point to distances up to 425 miles along the national elimination route plus a romance angle as Mrs Milo Hartman recounts a honeymoon balloon flight that ended in a pig pen near Smithville Michigan
Captain H E Honeywell and Roy Donaldson of the Uncle Sam balloon landed about a mile from Manassas Virginia after a 36 hour flight covering about 1200 miles. They crossed the Mississippi at Waterford had storms over Indiana and Ohio and aimed toward the Atlantic before landing. The balloon was shipped back to St Louis.
A letter from a self-proclaimed king in Curryville Missouri asks Secretary MacVeagh to confiscate money in circulation to trigger general panic. Treasury officials filed the letter and said they would risk disobeying the royal command.
Oyster Bay N Y July 20 Former Senator Albert J Beveridge is predicted to be the progressive candidate for Indiana governor by Senator Dixon after talks with Colonel Roosevelt The plan aims for independent tickets in most states a clean break from the old parties and a lasting new party formation Dixon Kirchwey and Davis accompanied the visit to Sagamore Hill and the Roosevelt camp
Indianapolis leaders weigh the Indiana progressive state ticket as Former Senator Beveridge, now a national convention chairman, is urged to seek the governorship. Senator Dixon predicts Beveridge may accept. Delegates are being chosen and district meetings set in the state house to appoint convention delegates and presidential electors with Frederick K. Landis as temporary chairman.
Columbia City Indiana July 29 Mrs Catherine Smith aged 63 longtime Kosciusko County resident died Saturday at her son W W Smiths home near Etna after a year long illness due to heart trouble and dropsy Since her husbands death six years ago she lived with her children in Etna area
Common Pleas Judge E B Dillon of Columbus republican nominee for governor declares he cannot unite the party and will resign the nomination. He says the party central committee will decide next Wednesday whether to fill the vacancy or reconvene the convention.
J Howard Wagner, longtime Auburn educator and former business manager of the Auburn Daily Courier, has been elected city superintendent of public schools in Santa Fe New Mexico, starting with the upcoming school year. He moved to New Mexico four years ago to run a newspaper. He is regarded as scholarly and accomplished and has many friends in Auburn and DeKalb county.
Miss Henrietta Loeffler of 601 East Wayne and Robert Learmonth Jr. of 2323 South Calhoun were rushed to Hope hospital with appendicitis over the past two days. Both underwent immediate operations and were reported recovering this afternoon.
The wedding of Miss Olga Weseman and Rev. Phil L. Fiess occurred Thursday at St. Pauls Lutheran church with Rev. Jacob Miller officiating. After the ceremony the couple, plus relatives, hosted a dinner at 736 East Jefferson before departing for Rockingham South Carolina where Fiess will lead a Lutheran parish.
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