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Newspaper

Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel

Location

Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Mar 10, 1909

Page

11

Ten Persons Die in Tenement Fire on Seventh Avenue

A five story tenement at 372 4 Seventh Avenue in New York claimed ten lives, all Italians except one unidentified Frenchman, ages from four to sixty. Five people, including a policeman, and a year‑old child were injured. firefighters saved three babies from the fourth floor. Initial speculation blamed Black Hand extortion, but fire marshals found no incendiary evidence.

New York Seventh Avenue Rit Nelson Nelson Travisano Filiberti Gruppi Placia Antonio Urso

Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company Reports

The 1908 earnings totaled 1 322635.34 with expenses 737133.82 leaving net earnings 535501.52. After interest and taxes a surplus of 96830.38 remained, all spent on reconstruction and betterments. Taxes exceeded 45000. The 1907 earnings were higher for months the Logansport Lafayette extension operated. Directors reelected: J Levering Jones Howard H Henry Randall Morgan John J Collier Hugh J McGowan Charles Murdock Samuel T Murdock Henry Paul James M Barrett. About seventy five stockholders. proxies to Mr Paul. Attendees included Paul Barrett C D Emmons Henry Rainey.

Fort Wayne Logans port-Lafayette J. Levering Jones Howard H. Henry Randall Morgan John J. Collier Philadelphia Hugh J. McGowan Indianapolis Charles Murdock Samuel T. Murdock Lafayette Henry ©. Paul James M. Barrett Fort Wayne and Weebash Valley Company Ansnual Mr. Paul Barrett C. D. Emmons Henry Rainey

Gilhams Out Cline Takes Seat in Congress

Hon Cyrug Cline of Angola succeeds Clarence C Gilhams of LaGrange as Twelfth district representative in the U S House. Cline went to Washington days ago to take the oath of office. Alphonso C Wood of Angola named private secretary to Cline, a longtime Steuben county Democrat. Wood left Monday with his family for Washington to begin duties.

Cyrug Cline Angola Clarence C. Gilhams Lagrange Congress Cline Washington Alphonso Wood Steuben

Taft Cabinet Names and Backgrounds Revealed

Washington March 4 the first Taft cabinet includes only two Roosevelt era holdovers George von L Meyer and James Wilson while Philander C Knox and Frank Hitchcock join as key figures Knox, a former attorney general, returns as secretary of state and Ballinger, Dickinson, Nagel, Wickersham, and Nagel hold posts. Wilson keeps agriculture. Dickinson heads War. Meyer leads Navy. Hitchcock is postmaster general.

Washington Taft Roosevelt George von L. Meyer Post Office Department Navy Department James Wilson Iowa Philander C. Knox McKinley United States Senate Pennsylvania Philander Chase Knox Mr. Taft Matthew M. Quay Knox Mr. McKinley Northern Securities Mr. Knox Brownsville Mount Union College Alliance Ohio Pittsburg United States Western District James H. Reed Knox & Reed Homestead Carnegie Steel Co Northern Securities Company Beef Trust United States Supreme Court Senate Pennypacker Quay Mount Union ‘College Mc‘Kinley Stark Jacob McGavock Dickinson Tennessee Arbitration Tribunal London Cleveland Ilinois Central Railroad Company Chicago Mr. Dickinson Columbus Mississippi University of Nashville Columbia University University of Leipzig Paris American Bar Association Dickinson Nashville George von Lengerke: Meyer Lengerke Meyer Linden & Meyer East India Merchants Boston Common Council Meyer Republican National Committee Italy Athletic Somerset St. Botolph Boston Ames Plow Company Qid Golony Trust Company Amoskeag Manufacturing Company George W. Wickersham New York Wicker Philadelphia Chamberlain, Carter and Hornblower Strong & Cadwalader Wickersham Interborough Tallgoad Cedarhurst Long Island New York City Frank H. Hitchcock Hitchcock Massachusetts Harvard Department of Agriculture Wilson Department of Commerce and Labor Columbian University District of Columbia Supreme Court of the United States American Economic Association American Statistical Association American Association For the Advancement of Science Albert Gallatin The Treasury Ayrshire Scotland Iheir

W C T U Backs Rest Room Petition at Court House

The local Woman's Christian Temperance Union passed resolutions at a Wednesday meeting to ask the county commissioners to designate the southeast room of the courthouse as a public rest room. Mrs. C S Ridenour presided and Mrs F B Perkins spoke on America's Vision of Child Life.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Court House C.S. Ridenour The State Union F. B. Perkins Kendallville Perkins America Awe Zartman Newton Taylor Oe -Philan

Bank of Fort Wayne Founding and Guarded Vault Tale

The Sentinel reports a $5 Bank of Fort Wayne note now with Dr J A Williams. The bank, started in the 1850s by Samuel Curtis, stored its initial $25 000 silver capital in a room at the Hodekin house guarded day and night until vaults could be built. Curtis' venture soon liquidated after a few months in Fort Wayne.

The Sentinel Bank of Fort Wayne J. A. Williams Samuel Curtis E. G. Anderson Hodekin Hodekin House Anderson Curtis Bank Fort. Wayne

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