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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
16
Chicago June 18 delegates fill the Convention Hall as a heated fight over the anti injunction plank unfolds. Lodge presides while Hopkins and Cooper present majority and minority views, signaling disputes on railroads tariffs and campaign finance provisions.
The report asks extending the eight hour law to all government departments as the minority report is voted down 958 to 28. Lodge chairs roll calls on campaign contributions and senator direct election with Indiana’s votes shifting amid a 94 to 880 result. Final roll calls topple the popular vote for senators 866 to 114 as Hawaii splits. Lodge then moves to present presidential candidates with cheers at 12 45 pm.
Deputy Revenue Collector L. P. Sharp, on temporary duty in Hammond Indiana, slipped on a treacherous board sidewalk last week and wrenched his knee. The injury required a plaster cast and he was brought home to this city for treatment.
The annual conference of the Michigan and Indiana district of the German Evangelical Synod of North America convened in LaPorte on June 18 and will run through June 22. Rev. Paul Irion of St. John's Church Michigan City presides. The district covers all of Michigan and northern Indiana with ninety five churches and about two hundred clergymen and lay participants.
In Leesburg reports recount ongoing telephone disputes with multiple factions clashing over lines and control as residents debate method and access in a tense local scene.
Charles F. Bush of Fort Wayne urged the Indiana Grain Dealers Association to push deep water canals as essential for internal commerce. He argued lakes and river routes offer cheaper coal transport and would maintain Indiana's commercial supremacy, urging city support for the project.
Local broker T. P. Riddle surveyed twenty representatives in Indiana through New York and major markets in the South and East about hay crop prospects. Results show 13% greater tonnage vs ten year average and 10% straight timothy usage, with breakdowns of timothy and clover mixtures totaling 100 percent.
Three Fort Wayne soldiers from Company D, Third Regiment, earned spots on the Second Battalion rifle team after the Angola competition. Sergeant Dallas Willford Captain Clyde F. Driesbach and Sergeant H. W. Egley secured team places, while Private Gerald G. McSwaney ranked tenth and remains ineligible due to enlistment.
An elderly man named William McPherson, claiming to be a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, pleads for leniency on a public intoxication charge. He says he was robbed, shows signs of advanced age, and is sent to the police chief with a noon deadline to leave the city after being found near a Pennsylvania railroad site.
Ladies from Fort Wayne Bluffton Decatur Garrett Poneto and nearby towns attended the district convention of the Woman's Home Missionary Society at the M E church Auburn with district officers led by President Mrs C B Jones and speeches of welcome by Mrs George Braun and Mrs W B Freeland. The event included minutes reports music devotions and officer elections. In North Manchester Sunday afternoon Owen Shaffer son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Shaffer went insane while driving and was captured after a struggle. Shaffer is a school teacher.
Mrs Henry Gutjahr 56, wife of a Goeglein area farmer, wandered from home during illness and drowned in a creek ten yards from her residence. Her body was found by her husband at dawn after he heard nothing, Coroner Kesler investigated, two sons survive.
Wilbur Hood, son of Mr and Mrs C A Hood, 345 West Butler, was bitten in the arm by a dog from a residence above Miller's paper store at Calhoun and Butler. The incident occurred as a woman opened the door and released the dog, which leaped on the boy. Dr Pulliam cauterized the wound.
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