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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1892
Page
1
Municipal results from many towns show Republicans sweeping in some areas and Democrats gaining in others. Notable notes include Michigan City GOP wins council seats, Lafayette sees Democratic mayoral edge, and complex local shifts with several towns reporting quiet or light turnout and mixed council majorities.
The Nebraska conference moves to elect an editor for the Central Christian Advocate from western candidates led by Chancellor Creighton of the Nebraska university. Debates over President Harrison’s Chinese exclusion act drew criticism, with delegates accusing the president of a political motive.
A rumor claims a gigantic wall paper trust has been formed by major manufacturers across the country. Negotiations reportedly completed and a promoters meeting held recently to finalize the plan. The trust would become the largest in the nation with a 20 million dollar capital. George K. Birge of M N Birge & Sons confirmed the scheme but offered no details.
Frederick Bailey Deeming, condemned murderer, has execution set for May 23. He is kept in irons to prevent harm as he is described as savage at times and morose when calm. Reports say he predicted his own fate, his mother having foretold he would be hanged before forty.
The Indiana bankers won their case against the new state tax test law in the supreme court. Philip Decker, president of an Evansville bank, refused to testify about deposits and was jailed briefly but released on a habeas corpus writ. John C. New sails tomorrow for New York aboard the City of Chicago from Liverpool. New, the American consul general, visits Indianapolis with his daughter and may address Indiana politics.
Paul Mossman recounts a travel letter from Coseravetsarue to Palestine and beyond. He details horseback journeys through Jaffa Hebron and Damascus, a seven day Austro Lloyd voyage to Constantinople, views of Rhodes Smyrna Ephesus and the Dardanelles, and vivid impressions of the mosques bazaars and sultan's procession with observations on Turkish governance and local life.
Six Yale students from New Haven embarked Saturday to cross Long Island Sound in a boat. A gale and a broken halyard left pumps useless until an old fruit can saved them. They endured twelve hours at sea before reaching shore exhausted after meals and rest. Noon required medical care.
Readable items recount Mrs dlenry Sayner crushed by window sash at 08 West William, a runaway injury to William Miller, and multiple cuts from glass across residents. Also details a large trotting horse stock sale at Oak Lawn farm netting over $9,000 and lists top lots and buyers. A Grand Army committee held its first meeting to plan a state home for soldiers and widows and discussed possible site donations and locations.
A city election report lists precinct by precinct results with detailed tallies for candidates Hanna Beamer Graute and others across wards. The piece notes a heavy turnout, party alignment shifts, and ends with commentary on party nomination considerations in Cleveland and New York from May 1 to May 6.
The Raf Satem Reformed church held its monthly business meeting on a Wednesday. Nine applicants were admitted as mile members and officers were elected for the next six months: President Rev. W. V. Zander, Vice President Jon Loebig, Recording Secretary Rosa Holter, Corresponding Secretary Bertha Welten, Treasurer Frieda Haller, with chairmen to be announced.
Early Saturday Judge Chapin of Douglas avenue unintentionally swallowed inhaling poison instead of internal medicine. Doctors could not reverse the effects. he remained semi conscious with danger evident while his wife feared for his life.
Fort Wayne judges hear three criminal cases against Edgerton Ind saloonkeepers Joseph Schultz William Wheeler and Hugh Cry for selling liquor on Sunday and other violations. Other items include divorces lunacy findings and a police court roundup as the community reacts to lawlessness.
A Monroeville circuit court appeal concerns a mechanics lien dispute. The case details whether the lien enforceability stands and the trial court rulings are under review by the appellate court.
John W. Muldoon, a well known painter, died this afternoon after a little over a week of illness from typhoid pneumonia. He was about thirty three, a popular and exemplary young man, and supported a widowed mother. He belonged to several Catholic societies and was single.
Mrs Adella New wife of the late Dr George New and a trustee of the Fort Wayne school for feeble minded youth died this afternoon in Indianapolis of pneumonia. She was about seventy two and had served as a nurse throughout the Civil War, saving many soldiers.
A series of deaths is reported in Allen county. Mrs. Henry Tibbett dies at eighty after a hip fracture at her New Haven home. Henry Zurbach dies at six after a bicycle accident with a spike injury. Jennie Hiker, 13, dies after illness. funeral at St. Paul’s. Catherine Wallies and Mary Miller pass away at homes in New Haven and town. William Colvin’s funeral in flooded Ninth ward district. Senry Freeh dies at 79. W. Click dies at 67 in Aboite township. Various notices follow.
William Payton and Miss Hathaway eloped after hiring a rig from Jasper's livery. The pursuit began when a sister uncovered the affair and the father chased them. The couple hid in Bloomingdale then vanished again after boarding a train at Arcola, with their whereabouts unknown.
Burglary at the Wayne Street M. E. Church parsonage during a Sunday night raid. Thief entered via a rear window, taking clothing and cash including Rev Eldridge's best pants and an overcoat worth 40 dollars. A mission fund box was opened, but nothing else valuable was found. the thief left the study key in the door.
Mrs Rebecca Little widow of 34 town street was stricken with paralysis at the Barr and Jefferson streets corner at 10 am Monday. She died or remained unconscious with recovery only partial by afternoon, leaving her case despaired of and her condition helpless.
Indiana expects to dominate the Omaha national drill week of June 13 to 20 with the First regiment artillery batallion entering free-for-all events. Indiana entries include Indianapolis Light Artillery Battery A Fort Wayne Artillery and Rockville Artillery. They plan to travel from Chicago June 12 and drill under Captain Curtis Mungen Lambert Ranke and others. Each man bears his own expenses while the companies pay commissary bills. All units train with strict military discipline.
Adjutant General Ruckle selects Frankfort as the site for this summer’s militia encampment citing economy. Forty six Indiana militia companies, seven south of the old National Road, will benefit from lower railroad fares. The camp area lies two miles north of the courthouse with a fifty acre grove, drill grounds, and Frankfort providing camp ground wood water and straw. Encampment is slated for the last week of July, repeating last year’s meeting location.
The quarterly pension payments finished yesterday with over 82 million disbursed. Four and a half days set a new efficiency record, surpassing prior times. Four thousand seven hundred seventy stragglers remain to be paid, requiring about a month and 400 thousand more dollars for final draws. Total pensioners reached sixty thousand, with forty four percent paid at counters and fifty four thousand nine hundred fifty eight by mail, totaling fifty nine thousand three hundred eighty five recipients and a total payout to date. Deeming Tells the Story of His Crimes With Perfect Sangfroid. Melnovrne, May 10. The murderer's confession claims his mother's spirit drove the crimes, described with chilling sangfroid and notes of sanity lapses.
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