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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1890
Page
2
The Illinois state convention platform urges raising required revenue through internal taxes on luxury goods, exempting essential items for the masses. A New York law bans under sixteen from smoking and using tobacco in public places, with misdemeanor penalties. The author notes Fort Wayne boys smoking cigars at a young age.
Rev.8 A. Nurraor delivered an interesting sermon Sunday morning at the Tabernacle to a large audience of old soldiers and government building employees by special request. His subject was Under a Cloud.
The Warder Bushnell Glessner Company buys all rights from Whitely interests to the Champion harvesting machines. Springfield Ohio factory and Chicago offices become sole manufacturers for the United States, consolidating Whitely Fassler Kelly and related firms. The firm pledges full production to meet demand as demand grows.
An old newspaper ad touts Dr King New Discovery for consumption and chest ailments with a trial bottle at Dreier & Bro drug store. It also promotes English Spavia Liniment claiming to remove blemishes from horses and offers a warted blemish cure sold by F J Miller in Fort Wayne.
An order from the war department directs Colonel Arnold at Fort Custer to send two companies of the first cavalry to the Little Big Horn area after a massacre by Cheyennes this week. Four settlers were killed near the Custer massacre site, and a band of braves struck toward the Tongue River valley, killing two more and scalping a man named Bowman among the dead. A white agent’s stories of Christ and promised riches spurred the expedition.
In broad daylight on St Catherine Street Montreal Eugene H Cowles of Cleveland Ohio was shot by his brother in law E C Hale. Cowles wife and a bystander were present. Hale is charged with shooting to kill. The victim survived and Hale was arrested.
A 4000 strong Denver crowd witnessed a disputed baseball game against Minneapolis. The crowd mobbed umpire Blogg after the game, with police and deputies intervening to rescue him from possible serious harm. Blogg fled town that night following advice from friends.
In Courueus Ontario at noon today about a thousand workmen blocked Long street derailed a street car, halted another after lifting it off the track at High street, and forced a pursuit of the driver who escaped. No injuries reported amid widespread excitement.
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