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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1912
Page
3
A Swan Island wireless operator, connected 420 miles to a ship, summoned a surgeon to perform an amputation after a tram accident. The ship’s doctor guided the operation by wireless instructions, arteries were tied, the wound dressed, and the patient recovered, even thanking the operator.
The archbishop warns that socialism imperils freedom and stability by undermining constitutional government. He argues direct rule risks political chaos, recalls threaten social order, and singles out recall of the judiciary as the gravest danger to democratic institutions.
Norman Boenker aged one month died Tuesday at family home in Marion township from complications. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 1 p.m. from the residence and 2 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church in Bingen.
The Fruit Crest Farm cooperative near Independence plans a 35 acre tract with a 4 acre lake, common improvements, and forty tracts for families. Prices run 725 to 1000 with 50 down and 10 monthly. Twenty eight tracts sold. 28 members from Kansas City and Independence. The project funds 20000 in improvements and rejects mortgages or foreclosures. It is nonpartisan and nonsectarian.
Chicago authorities and university police are puzzled by a supposed attack on Marion Dorecki, a Chicago University High School student bound and gagged on campus. She has not yet explained the incident, and initial reports misidentified her as Countess Goreski.
Willis Brock 35, a painter and paper hanger, died from carbolic acid after three suicide attempts. Authorities cited excessive cigarette use as a likely factor. He spent the morning with his wife and children, kissed them goodbye, then upstairs he drank acid. his wife found him moments later as he collapsed and died within minutes.
Bay City Michigan mayor says no saloons after May 1 as common council reviews license applicants. He asserts the licenses granted to certain men are undesirable and will veto the entire list until a better slate is chosen. Police chief instructed to close all saloons and hotel bars when licenses expire.
Fort Wayne Trust to Lewis A Grodman transfers lot 391 Avondale Wayne township for 175 dollars. John C Helmkamp to Pearl L and Lot tie M Coakley transfers lots 1 and 2 Interurban Acre Wayne township for 1000 dollars. Fort Wayne Trust to Emerson IL Brentzen transfers lot 287 Avondale Wayne. Charles R Boerger to Orion O Ross transfers lot 21 Boerger addition Springfield township for 150 dollars. Henry Waltemath to Sophia Waltemath transfers part Randall subdivision southwest quarter section 31 and west half portion section 31 St Joseph township.
Lawrenceburg Ind April 30 Charles J Junker aged man reported to have a date seed sprouting in his appendix. Doctors say no harm and encourage observation. The incident highlights unusual foreign body cases seen in local clinics.
George R. Succop of Chicago locates a brother and other relatives after a Fort Wayne visit and a published photo. Robert Isett, born at Hope hospital in Fort Wayne twenty two years ago, will travel to Iowa where two brothers await him. Patrolman A C Adkins aided his search and receipt of letters from Des Moines and Iowa.
Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon daughter of the late Maj. James J. Gordon files a caveat to set aside her father's will seeking control of the $500 000 estate. She wants $25 000 annually claiming $3 600 is insufficient for clothes and society life and asserts she must support herself and entertain with horses cars and a home heired from her father.
A brief item notes fever cases affecting students in Bluffton Indiana with school activities disrupted and health measures advised for staff and families.
A passenger train struck an automobile on a surface crossing near North Riverside Illinois, killing Robert Puffer 25 and his wife Mrs C M Zebree and seriously injuring H E Puffer and W V Logan both Studebaker salesmen. The engine arrived shortly after 9 o clock and witnesses believe the vehicles did not see the train.
Albert Dae Brahms killed his wife more than ten days earlier and planned dismemberment. He committed suicide yesterday in his West 35th street apartment, leaving a note confessing the crime. The wife’s body was found in a bath tub packed in sawdust and plaster. Brahms’ body was found hanging with a bullet wound.
Huntington Indiana April 25 The Home Savings and Loan association of Huntington was incorporated Tuesday. Notice of filing received from Indianapolis. A meeting may be called by the board of directors Wednesday evening for a general business discussion and the election of officers.
Miss Sylvia Pence of Thorncreek township district 8 won first prize of 5 dollars for the Corn Booklet contest. Milford Yant of the Collins schools took second prize of 3 dollars, awarded by Farmers' Loan and Trust.
The list records several marriage licenses including Charles E. Vought, 36, painter, with Helen Hering, 19. Raymond F. Schatzman, 28, civil engineer, with Myrtle M. McKee, 19. Henry J. Reed, 32, grocer, with Augusta Timme, 27. George F. Janney, 22, barber, with Luckey Emigh Wibiger, 21. Clement C. Schiefer, 27, salesman, with Margaret E. McArdle, 25. Frank Dennis, 32, bartender, with Minnie M. Collina, 28. Jared S. Woors, 24, farmer, with Alma E. Larson, 25.
Auburn Indiana April 30. Mrs P I mhoff died at her home after a four year struggle with progressive anemia at age fifty five. She was born in DeKalb county two miles east of Auburn and spent most of her life in Auburn and DeKalb county including eight years in Columbia City after her marriage.
Bluffton Ind April 20 Architect Charles Houck has received the contract to furnish plans and specifications for a large new opera house to be built at Montpelier this coming summer by a local company. The facility will seat about 1,400.
New York detectives probe a letter to suffragist leader Mrs C H Belmont claiming a death threat and urging a cable to Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst. The case ties to reports of Christabel Pankhurst in New York and mentions a typed coded message and a $1 cable fee.
President Taft wrapped up a 12 hour swing through Massachusetts with speeches from Attleboro to Melrose and Lowell. He defended his record, denounced Roosevelt’s vocabulary, urged constitutional reform for longer presidencies, and appealed for a “square deal” as supporters claimed he would gain votes today.
Colonel Roosevelt addresses in Pittsfield urging voters to reject Taft and his alleged backers. He labels Taft indecisive and tied to crooked bosses and financiers, warns of class hatred if policies persist, and emphasizes Massachusetts should lead in the campaign despite primaries. He completes twenty speeches in the state.
David B. Weaver, 73, sole survivor of three discoverers of Emigrant Gulch rich placer mines in the Yellowstone valley, is gathering material for a Yellowstone history. He left Iowa City April 25, 1864, with Shorthill and Garrett, reached Shorthill district near the park, and helped locate a famed mine. Weaver seeks a Wier portrait in Topeka for his book and may attend Bozeman Montana’s 1914 semi centennial.
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