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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1894
Page
8
Local society details include a white satin bridal party with guests and decorations, jail terms, and various moving plans. Reports cover legal business in Galveston, families visiting physicians, births, illnesses, political candidacy, property transfers, railroad expenditures, and police actions with several local residents noted in daily life.
William Howard of Kendallville was approached at Indianapolis Union depot by two polite men posing as locals. They claimed a Kendallville home and offered a $500 bank check as security for a $40 loan to ship a relative’s body. Howard aided them. the men were later arrested as William Thompson and M Hs Graham.
A 15 year old girl, Bessie Schuster of this city, lost her ticket from Fort Wayne to Centralia and was refused further passage. She was placed at Exchange hotel, Fort Wayne was asked to verify ticket sales, and later returned there on the 10 12 train after her brother confirmed the ticket was bought from a scalper. Following day she was sent back to Fort Wayne. The report appears in a Huntington Democrat item. Also includes an ad for Syrup of Figs and a medical remedy story.
At Newmarket on May 1 Amiable the Duke of Portland's filly by St. Simon out of Tactic won the Rowley mile race for three year olds carrying eight stone twelve pounds.
May 11 12 Tip the big Central Park elephant failed to die from cyanide attempts as guards and doctors watched. The animal persisted for hours before dying May 12 at 4 pm after a public safety meeting appointed James Liggett police superintendent.
Jamean Liggett named Superintendent of Police and Simonson qualifies with a $25 000 bond. Indianapolis delegation inspired new admin plans as boards meet to set city work procedures. Chief Wilkinson stays until a new captain is chosen while twenty five new firemen are to be hired.
C W Edgerton bicycle dealer suffers serious injuries after a runaway horse team crashes into his bicycle on West Main street. He was carried home in unconscious condition and remains under physician care with hip injuries.
County Superintendent Felts at the county poor farm reports six boys in the infirmary awaiting adoption into families. Ages range from four to twelve years, with three younger children among them, and interested parties may adopt. Also notes a testimonial ad for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
James Maher, inmate at Pridewell in Chicrze California, was killed by his cellmate George Dunlap during a sudden relapse into insanity on May 11. Guards battled the assailant as he overpowered, and the incident prompted a swift security response. Also included is a testimonial from Dairy man W B Denny praising Chamberlains Pain Balm for muscular rheumatism with sale details.
An advertisement touts Sezamberlain Eye and Skin Ointment as a cure for chronic eyelid sores and skin conditions. The copy notes a price of 5 cents per box and describes its use for eye and skin ailments.
Australia to West Australia news reports a new mining camp near Cool Garda in the northern part of Gippys county, New South Wales. By March 30 the ground swelled to about 8,000 hopefuls, many inexperienced and destitute, with water shortages and rising hardship as the government contemplates aid. geology suggests a long volcanic reef system with uncertain payable gold, requiring strenuous labor to confirm productive sections.
Walcott Cambell's Diablo leads a morning workout with a 1 1/8 mile in 1:18 and 1 3/4 mile in 3:12. Ajax breezes 3/4 in 1:18, Dr. Rice goes 2 miles then 1/4 in 2:43, Shelly Tulley 5 furlongs in 1:09, Integrity 7 furlongs in 1:33, Now or Never 1 mile in 1:50.
A fragment notes an 1893 apportionment act assigning the Sixteenth district to Jetterecon Samul towns and White counties under paragraph 872, indicating a legislative boundary decision.
An unexplained walkout by workers at the Pallinan Palace Car Company halted operations as 1390 employees quit amid a demand for a 33 percent wage cut restoration. Company officers investigated the sudden action, while unions claimed the broader workforce may join a strike by night.
Indiana reports detail party conventions across Eleventh Fifth and Rushville. George W. Steele captured the Eleventh district nomination on the fifty-eighth ballot. In the Fifth district Jesse Overstreet led on the eleventh ballot amid four contenders. Rushville adjourned without a judge nomination after two days and seventeen ballots. Goshen named W C B Harrison for joint representative with Kosciusko and Elkhart after a split Kosciusko vote.
A set of brainteasers includes a Byron quote based 36-letter word, numbered clues yield a religious term a number an insect false hair and pronouns. It moves to No 150 a geese money riddle and fractional divisions culminating in a statement about American expositions and progress.
A description of interlaced cardboard slips and straw variants used to lift objects with no contact, then a sequence of beheadings yielding boy names and multiple word puzzles, plus a San Francisco to New York train riddle and final acrostics and word games.
H C Homan of Indianapolis named superintendent of building and property clerk in the printing department. W S Edmunds promoted to foreman of the second division in the document room at 2000 dollars salary. W Downey former Butler Review editor to receive a printing office assignment July 1 via Representative McNagny. Herman S Borbeck seeks divorce from Mary W Borbeck. Justin Wies and Barbara Sorg obtain a marriage license. Telephone exchange destroyed by fire in Toledo causing evacuations. several female employees escaped unharmed.
The Trish National league of Great Britain will hold a convention in Liverroot tomorrow with a demonstration planned for Sunday and a banquet scheduled for Monday.
A New York woman, EB VinkRam, led the Pinkham Vegetable Compound effort for twenty years aiding sufferers of chronic female weakness and kidney diseases. The ad claims widespread relief, praising the product as life changing for tired, ailing women and recounts testimonials of improved health and renewed mobility.
Mrs. Lease has recovered from a recent illness and, after detainment in Kansas City, resumed her duties in Missouri. In Waco Texas, the Cottonseed Oil industry formed the Cottonseed Crusher Association of Texas to unite independent mills and curb anti trust concerns. J Kittson of Philadelphia, heir to Commodore Kittson, plans a breeding farm near Lexington with a stock of thoroughbred mares including Spinaway.
A long list of names announces candidacy for various Allen County offices subject to the Democratic county convention June 2. Included are candidates for state senator judge positions prosecuting attorney county clerk auditor recorder sheriff and more with notes on convention reliance and term details.
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