Markle Fire Devastates Center of Huntington Town
Markle, Indiana suffers a blaze that destroys the heart of its business district on Saturday. About 10,000 people visit the scene the next day as contractors begin debris removal and plan rapid rebuilding. Insurance falls short of losses, now estimated near 100000 dollars. Local residents vow to obtain fire protection and apparatus after lessons from the incident.
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Sentinel
Huntington
Ind
Markle
Zumbaugh
Tiunington
Zumbauld
Harvey
Boyd
Traction Company donation to G A R encampment noted
Judge Skelton reports a 250 dollar contribution from Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company toward encampment expenses after a Lafayette accident cost 20,000 plus and caused widespread damages. A general committee meeting at the Elektron building is set for tonight with finance and reports expected.
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Judge Skelton
Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company
Lafayette
Elektron
Skelton
Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio
Brown
Charles Sherman King
West Berry Street
Milton A. Garrigus
Sol A. Pennington
State Senate
Kokomo
H. Graham
Indiana School For Soldiers’ and Sailors
Knightstown
Henry
Seconi
Goishen
Crawfords. Villé
Jcneaeae
Smith Eats and Rides with Roommate’s Earnings
Joseph Smith spent years in Huntington then stole 13.54 dollars from roommate Carl Rode to fund rides, meals, and shows. He confessed, was fined five dollars plus costs, and jailed thirty days. Rode kept money in a vest pocket. Smith admitted the theft to police.
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Joseph Smith
Huntington
Carl Rode
Aveline
Monroe House
South Calhoun Street
Rode
Sergt
Pappert
Smith
Charles Bogenschuetz
Ankenbruck
William Lawson
Frank Wilson
Walter Lewis
Kendallville Firm to Open South Bend Branch Factory
Kendallville Manufacturing, known for gloves and mittens, plans a branch factory at South Bend. Richard Abrams, a 56 year old trusted inmate from Michigan City prison, escaped Tuesday afternoon after a three year sentence from DeKalb County. Perry F Warren, who once carried U S mail between Wabash and Warsaw fifty years ago, visits his old home in Wabash after twenty five years away. Auburn area factories reportedly ship out about two million dollars of buggies wagons and automobiles annually. An incomplete note mentions a date 877 and a count of 158.
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Kendallville Manufacturing Company
South Bend
Richard Abrams
Michigan City
DeKalb County
Perry F. Warren
United States
Wabash
Warsaw
Auburn
Clark Show Case factory to be occupied in building 10
Howell C Rockhill for Commercial Land and Improvement closes lease for the Clark Show Case factory with Wallace Lindesmith of California. Lessee makes steam electric and gasoline hoisting machinery and wheelbarrows and plans growth with an option to buy. Twenty five workers to start, with potential payroll increases as demand expands.
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Howell C. Rockhill
Commercial Land and Improvement Company
Clark
Fort Wayne Schools Praised In Indiana Superintendent Report
The Indiana superintendent of public instruction lauds Fort Wayne Manual Training and High School as magnificent and illustrative of manual training progress in the state. He highlights the normal and ward schools, urges better township facilities, notes declining scantily attended schools, and cites Adams County grading as proof of benefits fostering farm community education.
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Fassett N. Cotton
Cotton
Adams Township
Home Company Prosperous Amid Indiana Telephony Drive
The Home Telephone company pays its semi annual 24 percent dividend under directors led by Moellering. The stock, once under 50, has risen with improved financing and guides independents in facing Bell interests withdrawal plans in Indiana. Community notices report deaths of Mrs. Albert Niles Kendallville, Wesley Jackman DeKalb, Charles D. Kimball Kendallville printer, George W. Byler near Lima, and Eliza Werntz Auburn filing for divorce after 46 years of marriage. Auburn forms an Eagles aerie. D H Clymer moves Ely Medicine to Claypool.
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The
Home Telephone Company
Home Company
Moellering
Indiana
Bell
Albert Niles
Kendallville
Alvin L. Weaver
M. E. Church
Avilla
Wesley Jackman
DeKalb County
Smithfield Township
Charles D. Kimball
George W. Byler
Lagrange
Lima
Eliza Werntz
Auburn
George W. Werntz
Order of Eagles
D. H. Clymer
Columbia City
Ely Medicine Company
Claypool
Poe News Highlights In Poe Indiana April Gathering
Special correspondence reports Rev B Dougherty leaving Poe for Orland and Rev J S Newcomb filling the Poe M E B church appointment. A large crowd greeted the new minister and heard a fine talk. Local residents and visitors are listed with frequent social visits among families and friends in Fort Wayne and nearby towns. A Poe bat team has been organized for the coming season.
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The
Sentinel
Poe
Ind
B. Dougherty
M. EB
Orland
J. S. Newcomb
Robert Mercer
Fort Wayne
Clem Smith
Lucius Somers
Katie Spangler
Huntington
Dirkson
Freldhiem
Harley Somers
Huntertown
Simon’ Somers
Verba Mercer
Charles Shearer
J. Mércer
Katie. Spangler
Yerba - Mercera
Fort. Wayne
Satur- Poe ‘Bat
Ilowine
Christian Endeavor Conference in New Haven
Fort Wayne district conference of the Christian Endeavor society to be held in New Haven at the Methodist Protestant Church from May 6 to 9. Program includes sermons by C S Hansen Thomas Whittaker J F Rogers and A B Williams along with devotional sessions, missionary talks, Bible study, business meetings and evangelistic services across four days with multiple speakers and activities.
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Fort Wayne
The
Christian Endeavor Society
New Haven
Methodist Protestant Church
Serman
C. S. Hansen
J. M. Gorrell
Thomas Whittaker
M. E. Bach
J. W. Albright
J. F. Rogers
P. W. Dierberger
Ella Seert
S. S. Stanton
D. D
J. L. Barclay
M. E. Bachman
G. W. Carnes
John Jackson
T. E. Lancaster
A. T. Merriman
Word of God
J. R. Lenhart
Jesus Christ
F. M. Hussey
G. W. Bundy
Christian Endeavor
W. Dierberger
Indiana
Daniel Meyers
Elkhart
New Haven Society
A. B. Williams
Elkhart Society
PF Bachman
Ella Sebert
P. W. Boxell
Lena Shafer
Lizzie Hege
A. F. Isbel
Eisaee
Ella
Orpha King
Grace Darrow
G. C. Mishler
Alta Heininger
Fs. W. Dierberger
C. S. Hanson
W. J. Ride
President Barclay
Thieves Loot Home Then Locate Missing Child Case
A home on 2015 South Harrison Street was pried open Sunday night with an ax used to force a window, $15 and two rings taken from a sideboard amid ransacked rooms while matches marked the thieves’ path. An attempted entry next door failed. Separately, Nora Lovejoy-Bruce-Alder of 912 Michigan Street in Elkhart has found her long lost daughter Florence in Columbus Ohio and fights Abe McCann for custody as the child had been placed in Ohio Children's Home and later adopted by the McCanns. The case reveals the father is dead and the daughter was unaware of her mother’s identity due to remarriage. Miss Gertrude Sites, daughter of Albert Sites, married George Cooper in Ottawa HL, an event described as a spur-of-the-moment marriage after a previously planned trip.
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William Eckert
South
Harrison Street
Fred Meyers
Eckert
Nora Lovejoy-Bruce-Alder
Michigan Street
Elkhart
Florence
Columbus
Abe McCann
McCann
Pickaway County
Ohio
Ohio Children's Home
Gertrude Sites
Albert Sites
Ottawa
Roanoke Review
George
Cooper
Parade News Defers Street Pageant For Hagenbeck Wallace Show
Fort Wayne readers learn that several circuses drop the parade to save costs, but Hagenbeck Wallace Combined Shows arriving May 3 will stage a grand street display. The piece argues parades boost local trade, entertainment value for families, and attract 30 000 visitors, with four hundred dapple greys and royal chariots cited as highlights.
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Concensus
Fort Wayne
Hagenbeck
Wallace
Wreck on Grand Rapids Railroad at Collett
Northbound Grand Rapids and Indiana passenger train No 7 derailed at Collett near Portland and Ridgeville at 7 35 Sunday morning. Conductor Hayes brakeman Kime and baggage man Halsworth among about twenty five black passengers injured none seriously. relief and wreck trains dispatched from Portland.
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Collett
James Hayes
Hanna Street
Franklin C. Kime
South
Wayne Avenue
Portland
Ridgeville
E. J. McOscar
J. B. McEvoy
H. G. Nierman
A. L. Kane
B. H. Hudson
R. G. Casey
A. L. Lopshire
C. L. Barnaby
Hayes
Kime
Haltsworth
Goins
Colored Knights of Pythias
Plans For New Building On East Main Street
Libbing and Romy hire Griffith and Fair to draft plans for a six story addition on their East Main Street property near the Journal Gazette. If the walls prove strong enough three extra stories will rise. otherwise two will be added. Libbing plans to occupy the new building along with current quarters two doors west. Local business circles note East Main street growth and ongoing improvements.
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Libbing and
Romy
L. J. Libbing
R. L. Romy
Griffith & Fair
East Main Street
Journal-Gazette
Libbing
Move in the Thaw case denied custody of exhibits
In New York on April 29 Justice Fitzgerald refused to sign an order transferring to A Russell Peabody the defense exhibits from the Thaw trial. Peabody, Thaws attorney, sought the letters and other materials shown before the lunacy commission. The exhibits remain with the court clerk.
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Peabody
New York
Justice Fitzgerald
Supreme Court Today
A. Russell Peabody
Thaw
Murderer shoots woman who refused marriage in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on April 29 Bartha Corlas a German servant girl said she would rather die than marry Franz Andrewkaty who then shot her and turned the revolver on himself, likely fatally wounding. Mrs William Roy of Clearspring township Indiana died after a kerosene lamp accident started a fire that engulfed her and burned her husband while he tried to smother the flames. Kendallville dog poisoning and a Columbia City school enumeration are noted in brief.
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Philadelphia
Bartha Corlas
Franz
Andrewkaty
William Roy
Clearspring
Lagrange County
Roy
Kendallville
Columbia City
Polish woman dies at age 113 in Laporte infirmary
Mrs. Tena Monensko, a Polish immigrant who entered the Laporte county infirmary in 1876 at age 82, died there today at 113. She was the second Polish woman of extreme age to die there in the past year, following Mrs. David Reese who died at 117.
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Laporte, Ind
Tena Monensko
Laporte County Infirmary
Building a Sea Wall at Sylvan Lake Rome City
Jesse N. Kelsey holds the contract to construct a seawall along the north shore of Sylvan Lake at Rome City. The wall will extend eight hundred feet east from the hotel and rise one foot above the high-water mark. The project specifies the contractor and exact alignment.
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Jesse N. Kelsey
Sylvan Lake
Rome City
Receivers report seizures of saloon properties in Kansas
In Topeka on April 29 the state supreme court receivers filed their report detailing nine buildings taken in Atchison and Leavenworth, plus bars fixtures and mirrors. Most liquor remains outside the eight outside brewers and a real estate firm. actions by brewery firms await court authority. Anheuser-Busch case to be heard Thursday as the only foreign concern not listed among receivers.
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Topeka
Kas
State Supreme Court
Kansas
Atchison
Leavenworth
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company
Supreme Court
Fort Wayne Encampment Aims To Secure Next Meeting
Northern Indiana veterans plan to push Kokomo as the site for next year’s G A R encampment. Ed Mapes of DeKalb County fractures both bones of his right forearm in a wagon accident. Kendallville’s rink to become an electric vaudeville theater with Bert Weishaupt and A A Abbott backing the project. Lewis Conner, Legro township trustee, dies at 73 after forty five years in the area and a four year stint as postmaster. Frank M Cimmerman named deputy postmaster at South Bend, a businessman and Republican leader. A Rome City resident reports a five foot blue racer and four more nearby slain while he dispatched the first. An elderly man named Mirrosin dies in Warsaw infirmary. identity and friends unknown, but linked to a wealthy Chattanooga family. he was penniless yet cultured.
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Fort Wayne
Ed Mapes
DeKalb County
Kendallville
Bert Weishaupt
A. A. Abbott
Bluffton
Lewis Conner
Legro
Wabash County
Lagro
Frank M. Cimmerman
South Bend
Republican
W. C. Lane
Rome City
Mirrosin
Kosciusko County
Warsaw
Chattanooga
Tenn
Electric Bitters Prove Aiding Gettysburg Vet In Need
David Parker of Fayette New York who lost a foot at Gettysburg credits Electric Bitters with remarkable relief from long term stomach trouble and general weakness. He says he would not take $500 for the improvements they brought. The product is advertised as a grand tonic for the aged female weaknesses and a body builder with kidney relief. Guaranteed by Drefer and Bro druggists at 50 cents.
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David Parker
Fayette, N.Y
Gettysburg
Drefer & Bro
Durbin Requests Short Stop for Memorial Speech
Former Indiana Governor Durbin asks President to pause about five minutes at Anderson on his way from Indianapolis to Lansing to deliver a Memorial Day speech. the President is expected to comply and may make brief remarks as the train reaches Anderson at seven PM.
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Washington
Durbin
Indiana
Anderson
Ind
Indianapolis
Lansing
Mich
Dr Kings New Discovery cures grave coughs
A reader from Westfield Iowa credits Dr Kings New Discovery with saving his life from lung disease after a severe cough and recommends the remedy. The ad promises a trial bottle and cites guarantee by Dreier and Bro. Also notes Rev A W Lamport of Indiana has suffered mental strain in Pasadena seeking health and rest is advised to restore his mind.
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G. S. Clark
Westfield
Iowa
A. W. Lamport
Indiana
Pasadena
Cal
Archaic Patent Remedy Ad Promotes Arnica Salve
An old advertisement from Chapel Hill North Carolina touts arnica salve as a fast pain reliever for a felon wound. It credits J G Jenkins and a maker named Dreler & Bro drugstore and markets the 25 cent salve as best on earth for sores burns and wounds.
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J. G. Jenkins
Chapel Hill N.C
Dreler& Bro
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California Manufacturing
Fort Wayne School
POE News
Christian Endeavor Conference
Grand Rapids Railroad
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Laporte Infirmary
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