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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1907
Page
17
Beziers France June 24 mutinous soldiers of the Seventeenth infantry were moved from Agde with no notice. Three other regiments entered the town quietly, surrounded the barracks, and escorted the mutineers to a train where they were locked aboard.
Marcelin Albert, leader of the wine growers revolt, met Premier Clemenceau at the interior ministry after being searched by guards. The interview ended with Clemenceau urging surrender to the law while Albert vowed to return to the south. Authorities doubt an accord but expect further disturbances and troop movements.
A famed hobo known as “A No 1” visited the Baltimore and Ohio offices on a Saturday grievance. He complained that rods and trucks under the roaches are not as comfortable as they should be for traveling fraternity members. The mysterious tramp has traveled widely, including Europe seven times and Alaska once, and has crossed continents by beat of rail.
The article profiles a well-dressed tramp who has roamed nearly 600,000 miles over 26 years, living on charity while carving potatoes for tips. He carries a box of poison for emergencies, eyes charity workers with scrutiny, and notes that Cambridge Springs holds a paid cemetery lot for his future remains.
Yale President Arthur T. Hadley tells the senior class that liars are the most despised and urges a broad, positive standard of morality. He warns the unseen stains of character can destroy a man’s life and soul more than overt sins. Meanwhile St Peters and St Rose councils plan an ice cream social at DeWald and Hanna streets on July 24.
London June 24 Premier Campbell-Bannerman moves a resolution to curb Lords power, seeking final Commons supremacy within one parliament. He notes the plan tests public will and follows historic precedents, with government discretion on timing. The crowded chamber reflects high stakes in constitutional reform.
The Pittsburg coroner reports 2,660 deaths in 1906 with 919 from mill mine and railroad accidents. Through five months in 1907, 1,095 deaths, 344 sudden in mills mines and railroads. Per 50,000 tons of coal, one life. per 3,800 cars, one life. steel and rails produce fatalities as industry grows.
Philadelphia dispatch reports Irwin A. Lewis, stepfather, under arrest for the killing of 5 year old Mary Newlin near Avondale. The child was strangled with tarred rope and buried in a yard with a burlap covering. District Attorney MacElree leads the case aided by investigators tracking Lewis’s past relationship with Mary’s mother Edna Newlin.
The Improved Order of Red Men Meshecan Nodhowa tribe celebrated its 17th anniversary with about five hundred attendees. A parade along Calhoun street preceded nineteen Fort Wayne youths being initiated. The Mississinewa tribe conferred the third degree. Decatur and Wabash teams could not attend.
Three tornadoes smashed Medicine Lodge Kansas late last night injuring six seriously and leaving one missing. Homes and the Gypsum mill, rail facilities, and the senator long residence suffered damage as heavy rain and hail disrupted communications.
A tornado struck Recreation Park in Kalamazoo Michigan early today killing three valuable race horses and a man. William Widmeyer aged thirty nine died after contact with a telephone wire.
Mrs. Emma Kaufmann of Sioux Falls was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for the death of her maid Agnes Poireis. The trial's second venue followed an earlier disagreement, with the body exhumed for further examination revealing additional wounds. The minimum sentence is twenty years in the penitentiary.
Details follow the death of a girl from wounds and bruises. Mrs. Kaufmann, whose preliminary hearing concluded on June 20 last year, has been at liberty on bonds of 26 000 after being admitted to bail by the state supreme court.
In New Orleans two weeks after the Black Hand abducted eight year old Walter Lamana for a 6000 dollar ransom, he was found headless in a swamp. Ignazio Campisciano confessed, leading to arrests of five Italians including two women. guards surround the Orleans parish prison amid fears of lynching as investigators tie a broader Black Hand operation to the region.
Ambassador Whitelam Reid and Mrs. Reid hosted a luncheon in London June 24 for the duchess of Albany and Princess Victoria. Attendees included Count Wolff Metternich, Lady Evelyn Moreton, Sir Robert H. Collins, Major St Aubyn, Alfred Tarleton, John R. Carter and Mrs. Carter, Courtland Barnes, Justice Holmes, Louis Webb, Neill Campbell, the Barkers Gummere pair, Mrs Ogden Mills, the Misses Brice, and others.
Five persons were killed and about twenty injured when a passenger train struck a freight train on the New York Central Auburn branch near Pittsford. The dead include Emmett Lyons 14 of Rochester son of the freight train engineer and Miles S Cuing station agent near Pittsford. The smoking car collapsed and four others died at once. Lyons died later in a Rochester hospital.
Hartford Conn June 24 Seven killed and many injured in a wreck east of the Sigourney street crossing after a passenger and work train collided. At least two more victims are beyond hope of recovery. Of sixty five teleian workmen on the train only a few escaped unhurt, with about forty injured.
Dan A. Hanna son of the late Senator Hanna wed Mary Stuart at the bride’s mother’s home on East 82nd Street. The ceremony was performed by a justice of the peace with few witnesses. The couple plans to live at Hanna’s country residence near Ravenna after returning east. Hanna has been married twice before and a divorce followed each prior marriage.
Two hundred passengers on Continental Limited No. 4 escaped injury with only minor hurts to the fireman, head brakeman, and a woman. The engine toppled after derailing at Magee, near Laporte, as the train sped sixty miles an hour. Fireman John Listley trapped, badly scalded. brakeman J. E. Conkling injured. one woman passenger treated for light wounds. Train halted after crashing through tower and roadbed debris. wreckers moved in and passengers were sent on. Compositor Frank J. Kappel travels to Chicago for printer’s course.
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