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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1911
Page
1
A factory disaster on Saturday evening led to identification of victims and initial casualty counts. Local authorities and emergency crews organized a rapid response as investigators began outlining cause and securing the scene.
In New York 86 of 141 victims identified from the Washington Place fire. District Attorney Whitman opened an inquiry, Fire Marshal Beers began an investigation, and relief efforts mobilized as officials examine causes. The Triangle Waist Company faced questions over locked doors and a single fire escape.
Results from Indiana local option elections show wets gaining city votes while most rural townships stay dry. Notable results include Washington and Princeton going wet, Elkhart cities carrying wet majorities, and Greensburg and Bloomfield voting dry in their counties. Montgomery County votes forthcoming.
Columbia City shows strength as a local report highlights solid development and community resilience with emphasis on civic growth and ongoing projects noted by officials and residents.
Three men boarded the Lake Shore freight caboose at Auburn Junction and stole a small sum. An engine pursued the robbers toward Fort Wayne but they fled off the right of way into darkness. Farmers joined the chase but the thieves escaped. the value taken did not exceed eight dollars.
John G. Brenner, 72, discharged from Hope hospital after minor head cut and bruises from a north bound city car as he crossed Calhoun Street near the tunnel. He walked to the hospital with a bystander and planned to take the 12:15 train home to Geneva. He said several southbound cars hid the approaching northbound vehicle.
Elizabeth Cook a 21 year old from Clearwater Michigan known as Mrs Richard Muir killed herself with carbolic acid after watching a melodrama that reminded her of her life and lack of a mother. She told her husband I never knew what it was to be without a mother.
A Marion Indiana report states Van Buren trustees plan a new school building before fall at an estimated cost of 40 thousand dollars. The article notes action to dissolve the school corporation on May 1 and lists trustees involved in the move.
Governor Marshall announces 12 reappointments to state boards and two new appointments. George D. Gaby of Noble county will join the state school for feeble minded youth at Fort Wayne, and John W. Weathers of New Albany becomes a trustee of the state reformatory at Jeffersonville. Both new appointees are Republicans and will begin terms March 27 and March 31.
Washington March 27 Chief Yuke oma a thin Hopi from the Moqui reservation in Arizona appeared at the White House and appealed to President Taft for several hundred tribesmen to be left alone He asked to live as in old days without schools or teachers and to roam freely without white interference The plea stressed Hopi desire to preserve traditional life and autonomy
Dr J N Hurty spoke on tuberculosis at Library hall as part of Health Week, citing 30000 people in the state condemned to death by consumption. He used films and charts to show disease spread from unsanitary housing and the common house fly, urging a sanitary lifestyle and anti tuberculosis measures.
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