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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1906
Page
15
A quarrelsome husband in a domestic farce abandons his wife for a week in a boarding house. He endures cramped rooms, odd references, and a shattered bed before sneaking back home to find his wife unbothered, while sparking a comic lesson in domestic reform.
The Cape Times prints a cryptic reminiscence of Stuurman, described as an old resident of the Caps Colony. The fragment hints at a long life and a prominent role, noting ages and past deeds in a topsy column style.
A fragment notes Mrs George Cornwallis-Weat, once Lady Randolph Churchill, allowing a gift on a voyage to India described as a gold bracelet. The item’s exact provenance and recipient are unclear in the text.
Dublin May 31 Michael Davitt died last midnight after a long illness. He passed peacefully with his eldest son Michael and his two daughters at his side and John Dillon among his visitors. Lord Hemphill and the Earl of Aberdeen’s party sent condolences as Davitt’s death ends a life of Irish land agitation. He was 60, born March 26 1846 in Straide Mayo. a cot ton mill worker who lost an arm, Davitt became a leading agitator, founder of the Land League, and long-time MP for multiple Irish constituencies before resigning in 1899 in protest of the Boer War. His legacy includes tenacious advocacy for landlord reform and Irish independence.
Memorial Day services at St. Louis Catholic Church Besancon drew thousands. Rev. A Adam led high mass with Rev. John R. Quinlan and Hon. William P. Breen delivering addresses. Besancon’s French settlement history is recounted with past pastors and parish growth noted.
G A R committees thanked Fort Wayne city officials and Commercial club reps for support in landing the next state Grand Army encampment. The meeting passed a resolution to express gratitude to Mayor William J. Hosey Postmaster Robert B. Hanna and council members William C. Schwier Robert H. Harrison Walter Cook and Michael Kinder for their interest and assistance.
New York May 31 The Equitable Life Assurance Society board reappointed Gage E B Tarbell as second vice president. Paul Morton also formed a finance committee including E B Thomas T DeWitt Cuyler Frank B Weatherbee and James McMahon. The board reelected Morton and named William A Day as vice president and approved a charter amendment allowing a majority of directors who are policyholders.
An advertisement explains nerves as live wires linking body and brain and asserts neuralgia from pressure or strain. It touts Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a remedy, with claims of pain relief and safe use, sold by druggists with a money back guarantee. The Miles Medical Co. of Elkhart Indiana is cited.
A Fort Wayne Commercial Club group and other business leaders, with wives, traveled by special car to Auburn via Huntertown and Garrett on the new Toledo and Chicago interurban line. The return trip will be brief, with the line now serving the Pearl Harrison terminal after earlier limits to Sixth and Wells. C McCabe is station agent and F C Lux leads the clerical staff at the interurban station.
Burglars robbed another Indiana post office on Wednesday night at Denham in Pulaski county. The incident was reported to Post Office Inspector Burr by telegraph this morning, but details and the loss were not disclosed.
Ed Kruse, a city resident and Indiana Medical College graduate, has been appointed interne at the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Philip Titus, also a local graduate, was chosen as interne at St. Joseph Hospital. Fort Wayne’s Kimsey Evans and C. K. Hull were among the other graduates this year.
Miss Marguerite Crawford and Mr James A Liggett Jr wed at the bride’s home 830 St Marys Ave at 4 pm on Tuesday May 29 Rev Campbell officiating Attendants were Miss Sophia Roth and Walter McGhee A steel gray silk gown with lace yoke and sleeves and American Beauty rose bouquet were features Dinner for about sixty guests followed. A male quartet led the music with members Holman Walter and others from surrounding towns in attendance.
The Woman's club league aims to launch a fall and winter lecture series in Princess Rink with four to six talks for one dollar. Prominent speakers such as Mrs. Phelps Stokes and Booker T. Washington are sought. The league president, Mrs. I N Taylor, heads a committee drawn from multiple clubs to organize the project.
City Court records show Henry Hoffman Niel Monahan and Jim Cartwright in a morning altercation outside Frank Gruber's cigar factory on Calhoun street. Hoffman and Monahan fined $1 plus costs each while Cartwright received 23 days and escaped. Monahan allegedly insulted Hoffman. Cartwright struck him. A later clash left Cartwright with a broken head from a brick. Patrolmen Dickson and Spiliner intervened. Hoffman resisted and broke a whisky bottle. Hoffman has prior trouble including a Lafayetter street shopbreak. Henry Luers received $5 and costs for loitering and suspicious name questions. A man and a woman, Fay Johnson of Decatur and Henry C. Brown, were fined $5 and costs each for immorality at 1344 Calhoun street.
L. N. Hines is named super intendent of Hartford City schools after five years at Union City. S. J. Peters sues L. B. Walters for 5000 as slander over reports Peters swindled him out of a piano. Angola high school graduates ten students, led by H J McKinley and Mildred Hauver. Commencement Friday. Rev. Thomas Whitman, Whitley county pioneer, dies at 83 after a long ministry. Charles Whitman of Fort Wayne is related to the deceased. Christian Engleman, Huntington County resident since 1850, dies at home. his wife Archangel LaFontaine born in Huntington. Engleman family remaining in the original LaFontaine homestead after May 1862 marriage union. Eleven children born to the couple. five survive with widow.
Two valuable horses belonging to St. Vincent's home were recovered by Sheriff Grice Thursday morning several miles north of the city on the Goshen road. The wire fence around a structure housing the horses had been cut and bent back, indicating an attempted theft.
Major John E B Miller, a deputy sheriff in Wayne County, has resigned from his post to canvass for the Republican nomination for Justice of the Peace. His resignation takes effect tomorrow as he pursues political wide public service.
A Wednesday night congregational meeting extended an unanimous call to Dr Henry T Sell of Chicago to become pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church Fort Wayne succeeding Rev J Webster Bailey who left for Ottawa Newfoundland. Sell aged forty is married with one child and is praised as a Bible student and earnest preacher by Dr Newell Dwight Hillis of Brooklyn and Rev Dr Creegan of New York City.
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