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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1909
Page
12
A preacher expounds a sermon from the Emmaus story, urging spiritual clarity through Jesus joining travelers on the road. He warns against letting luck and fate define life, praises biblical study under Christ, and urges believers to seek comfort and renewal through divine illumination and resurrection faith in daily life.
Former Congressman James E Watson announced he would retire from public life and focus on earning money. After a White House meeting about a Cuba ambassadorship, he declined the post, preferring to return to Indiana to pursue legal work and provide for his family.
A devotional reflection urges belief in Jesus joining believers on their journey. It promises answers to weary prayer meetings and empty churches, and to cold barren lives. The message frames Jesus as a companion who travels with people, bringing light and spiritual renewal to their experiences.
In West Denver robbers boarded train No 4 and robbed six passengers and the conductor and porter of about 400 dollars. The only woman passenger, Mrs N R Hussey, was not molested. Victims included N R Hussey 89, W N Wallace 142, Y W Griffey 110, A W Forrest 100. The attackers escaped after locking occupants in a compartment.
Rising Sun Ind March 25 temperance forces win by 32 votes under local option in Ohio County the state's smallest county with less than 1200 votes cast four saloons all in Randolph township Two wet precincts Pike and precinct 4 Randolph were counted with fifty votes disqualified by clerks Weather rain kept many home and counties quiet. W C T A ran a snack stand and meals to boards while campaigns formed early morning prayer and rival optimism remained high.
Indianapolis reports the death of William C. Nagel, aged about 62, veteran engine driver of forty years. He was struck by a water crane while peering from his cab twelve miles east of Greensburg Indiana. Nagel, born in Prussia in 1842, served as a Civil War soldier and once quipped about envy.
Dr. C. W. Fry secretary of the Huntington county health board has begun a close inspection of Huntington county conditions with emphasis on butcher shops and slaughterhouses. Ralph Menges of near Garrett has recovered from a severe sled accident after being thrown from a tree limb. The limb passed through his body and his recovery is deemed miraculous.
Indiana News reports Indianapolis superintendent E M Barney of the Anti Saloon League refuses to sign a local option election petition in this county. He says conditions are not favorable for a campaign now. Sumner W Haynes and other temperance workers push petitions to proceed without the ASL. Church meetings will form a nonpartisan option organization.
Logansport Indiana March 26 Dragging the bottom of the Wabash river to locate Arthur L Boyer of Boyer Brothers Chicago who jumped in early yesterday failed. Authorities suspect he may have waded to the opposite bank and vanished rather than drowned. He was engaged to marry Agnes OConnor. His family suspects illness and possible despondency due to nosebleed medicine and quarrel with Miss OConnor.
In Sullivan Indiana on March 26 a jury found Mrs Belle Hinkle guilty of burning the McCammon hotel on August 12 1908. She testified yesterday denying all charges and many expected an acquittal.
Washington November 25. President nominates John C A Leishman to Italy Henry Clay Ide to Spain and Charles H Sherrill to Argentine republic. Senate hears Tariff debate as Payne bill looms. Senator Shively approves Charles W Miller for district attorney after committee inquiry and praise of Miller's ability.
John Elliott of the Hagenbeck Wallace shows trains a 400 pound polar bear at the winter quarters in Peru. He handles lions tigers leopards and jaguars, while also teaching the bear to ride horseback despite difficulties.
Indianapolis, March 25. Governor Marshall received a resignation letter from W. W. Ross, Evansville editor, as a trustee of the state institution for the education of the deaf. Ross declined the resignation after a request by the trustees for about 275000 to complete new buildings. Marshall questioned Ross over claims that the governor misled the legislature about state finances. Ross said he did not believe the state bankrupt and described his alarm at Indiana’s fiscal view as the first in twelve years.
Richard Johnson, eighty, a leading Indiana manufacturer and a prominent Madison figure, died at his home. He presided over Eagle Cotton Mills, Johnson Cordage, First National Bank, P. and M. Insurance, Indiana Lumber, Madison Packing, and was a director at American Starch, with ties to several other enterprises. A native of Ireland, he was among the city’s wealthiest men.
Arthur R. Boyer, a Chicago harness dealer, rushed from Agnes O Connor's home in Logansport and threw himself into the Wabash River after a quarrel. He had been in town a week, divorced from his Chicago wife. His father and brother were visiting. Dredging teams have not found a body.
In Simsbury Connecticut Mrs Amos Miller and her two young children died in the Farmington River. A note left by Mrs Miller suggested she took their lives and then her own. The bodies were found after dawn. Mrs Miller, 30, a native of France, leaves a husband and two children aged five and three.
Jesse Rondarmel of Richland township, a well known Whit Jey county figure for years, died Monday night at Longcliffe asylum in Logansport where he had been an inmate for about four years. He became demented over a ditch construction and will be removed by many pleas wandering with a violin.
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