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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1894
Page
4
A Republican shift at city hall prompts resignations and new postings. Colonel Oakley receives a key briefing as the administration reorganizes public safety and health posts. Spencer plans to stay, while Ella Spencer weighs her own Fort Wayne resignation and move to Indianapolis.
The official said he was familiar with business affairs and employed since joining the office. He stated Indiana congressmen had made requests and recommendations for appointments, with some success and some refusals, emphasizing that all appointees must be competent.
Former mayor Oakley was not sworn in as planned despite visits to City Hall. Scherer claimed the machine ignored his efforts to close saloons and pressured advisors to back him, while his sick child died. He plans to return to his carriage business.
The contract for building the Clay street school house was awarded to Wm Moellering for 21875 after twelve bids. Other bids ranged up to 26895 from Christ Franke & Co and Brooks Bros. The decision aims to have work begin immediately. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports on Michigan City prison reform efforts led by Warden French including parole discussions and education for inmates.
A Washington dispatch says Fort Wayne Times copies were seized by the post office for advertising the San Domingo Lottery company, risking criminal action against the publisher. Also in Kansas City indictments target leaders in the Catholic and American Protective Association riot, with several charged in murder and assault. Syrup of Figs, the California laxative, is advertised as widely trusted. A Missouri man, cholera morbus survivor, credits Chamberlain's remedy for relief after a Kansas trip.
A man on his knees at Archbishop Corrigan’s residence begged for forgiveness before forcing entry to seek the archbishop. Police sequestered John H. Fell, a former furniture dealer, who showed clear religious mania and vowed to see the archbishop regardless of the cost. He was placed in custody for sanity examination.
A man who called himself J. Baker arrived from Vermont Illinois with a woman he claimed as his wife. The deserted husband says Ball is a polygamist, with a first wife in Lewistown, a second wife married four years ago and now in St. Joseph Missouri, and a claimed third wife Ida Tomlinson who denies Ball's claim. Ball was arrested and remanded to jail after waiving hearing and failing to post bail. The case involves alleged drugging and forced arrival but no escape from responsibility. The children are with their grandmother.
A historic advertisement lists King’s New Discovery as a long tested remedy for throat chest and lung diseases with guaranteed relief or money back. It promotes kidney relief from Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Amica Salve for skin ailments. It notes the death of Ernest G. Smith from measles at Terre Haute and Dillaboro, Dearborn county.
Anodyne advertising verse echoes the long running Castoria patent medicine campaign. The jingle links a mother’s care from infancy to motherhood to a single product. The text illustrates historical marketing of pediatric remedies and family routines.
In the Shenandoah backward march, Jackson is beaten at Kernstown and retreats toward Winchester. Ike Baxter curses Yankee tricks while Kenton escapes captors and loyalty tests rise among troops and civilians. Captain Wyle hatches a plan to discredit Kenton through Marian Percy and manipulate frightened household servants.
The Presbyterian General Assembly in Calvetano Ohio will receive two reports from the committee on theological seminaries one by the majority and one by the minority. The majority is expected to call for fuller control of seminaries rather than voluntary schools, and the majority report will not be made public before the assembly.
A clump of public notices announces candidates for state and county positions in Allen County subject to Democratic nominating conventions. Names include John F Koda Baugh judge, C M Dawson judge, N D editor, P W Schader, and others seeking county treasurer auditor coroner and commissioner posts.
A preliminary notice lists multiple residents announcing candidacies for township trustee and justice of the peace in Wayne and South Wayne areas. Names include Chapman, ChesdRE, Michael Y, Hume, and Nortine, with emphasis on Democratic nomination processes and party conventions.
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