Fort Wayne election notes and political shifts debate
Fort Wayne observers discuss Oakley selection for board of public safety and the city election results with a 473 to 315 plurality for Gr and Mr. Jeffries. The Ledger and Journal dispute candidate fit and party control amid broader scrutiny of electoral integrity and suffrage debates.
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Political musings and local election notes across Indiana
The article surveys political maneuvers around McKinley era factions, tariff talk, and senator nomination debates. It notes shifts in press plans, a Plymouth mayoral timing dispute, and the Indian Territory population report with citizenship limits for whites. It condemns political maneuvering while praising right conduct in politics.
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Indian Territory
Oakley Elected Fort Wayne Mayor After Democratic Dissatisfaction
Col Chauncey B Oakley wins the Fort Wayne mayoralty with about fifteen hundred Democratic votes amid calls to upholding law and order and to appoint capable city officers. The Sentiver urges prompt, reform minded governance and removal of spoils politics to ensure effective administration.
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Fort Wayne
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Fort Wayne urged to bar Coxey army tramps from city
An editorial warns Fort Wayne to keep Randall’s tramp army from entering the city. It lauds Oakley’s forthcoming administration and stresses support for law enforcement, while urging safe routes around the town to prevent disease and depredations from the marchers.
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Board of Public Safety
Fort Wayne
Hobart
Ind
Des Moines
Indianapolis
America
Spring Chickens Hoax in Hartford City Tale of Diamond
The Hartford City Telegram recounts how Diamond the Fort Wayne fruit salesman tried to buy spring chickens in Portland. He overpaid eighteen cents a pound for a dozen hens only to learn the birds were eighteen year old bantams, leading him to flee town and conceal the misstep.
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Fort Wayne
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The Young Women Work to Organize a YWCA Branch
Miss Price of Chicago and Miss Shank of Indianapolis outlined the four fold YWCA plan at Third Presbyterian Church. They described physical social intellectual and spiritual aims and answered questions about organizing in Fort Wayne for the city’s young women.
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Women’s Christian Association
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Chicago
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Indianapolis
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Rome
Misa Shank
Fort Wayne Women Mustered In Numbers Seek Help
City census shows 752 women under thirty five and 2 600 unmarried residents. Among them 1 800 are working including 130 teachers 100 stenographers 354 factory workers 270 clerks 500 domestics 140 waitresses 360 seamstresses and more. Call for aid to the young women of Fort Wayne.
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Confirmation Classes Led at Two Churches
Sunday large confirmation classes were held at St. Patrick and St. Peter Catholic churches. Rt. Rev. Bishop Rademacher confirmed children at St. Peter's in the morning and at St. Patrick's in the afternoon, listing many names including Thomas Cook, Florence Reilly, William Vachon, Nellie Dalton, and others.
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Florence Reilly
William Vachon
Nellie Dalton
William McGbennett
May DeTurk
Thomas Connelly
Alice Carroll
William Corcoran
Annie Miller
John Sweeney
Viola Doyle
Louis Zoeller
Alice Speer
Frank McKendry
Mary Mulhern
Charles Benedict
Mary Kennerh
Leo Yann
Katie Urbine
Charles Hausbach
Charles Magers
Frank Morris
Charles Hunt
John Banks
Mary Cramer
Joseph Shaley Dies at Stony Inland
Word arrived that Joseph Shaley of this city died at Stony Island from consumption. His remains were shipped home for interment Monday afternoon. He was a railroad man and well known locally. The Week's Deaths lists several other local deaths with ages and causes. A Chicago Herald excerpt comments on Randall army marchers, questioning their motives and suggesting delusion rather than political aim or work.
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A. M. Lockard
State Bank Examiner
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Drummond
Joseph Swindell
Washington
Coxey
Ohio
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Stony
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Chicago
Kankakee Asylum
Bolivar Church Split Over Heresy Ruling
In Bolivar Missouri on May 6 the Baptist church expelled two ministers Higginbotham and Boltz after they preached man is born pure and sinless. The majority claimed church property and sought a restraining order while the minority filed suit. The judge ruled the majority must rule and could not review returns.
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Bolivar
Waltemath Divorce Suit Filed in Superior Court
Bethna Waltemath seeks divorce from William Waltemath on cruel and inhuman treatment in a ten year marriage. J M Robinson, attorney, also requests custody of their youngest child. The couple reside in the city and have three children.
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Bethna Waltemath
Superior Court
William Waltemath
Negotiations Pressure Stock Clearance Before Bank Surrender
A note warns of an imminent peaceable surrender of rooms to the Bank and urges rapid liquidation of stock. It claims leases may end, stock moves to New York or Chicago for auction, and shares may be tiny in the proceeds. The appeal urges readers to buy now to avoid loss and worse outcomes.
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