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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1894
Page
9
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Local items report the Fort Wayne Grays planning a June 14 excursion to Rome City. Other notes include residents ill or traveling, police court matters, business moves, church anniversaries, and small town society updates across the area.
Helen Sylvers a noted fortune teller of 9 Montgomery street was declared insane by a lunacy commission. She claimed powers to reveal past and future and to contact departed spirits and alleges enemies with false faces. She will be sent to an asylum. Other items note arrests, marriages, licenses, and local real estate plats in Bloomingdale.
The Lutheran Young Men's societies plan a concert at the Masonic Temple on June 18 with the Fort Wayne Grays and an excursion to Rome City on the 20th. The city band and Reineke's orchestra will accompany. Delegates from many states are expected. A settled dispute between John H Bass and COD Clothiers is clarified by a published agreement. Montpelier faces a smallpox scare with a tramp found ill and isolated.
The Fort Wayne board weighs Major J. E. Miller as captain of the police under the new charter with five finalists set for medicals. Miller, ex captain of the Fort Wayne Rifles and state militia major, leads a field of Democratic and other officers. Other named candidates include Robert Phipps, Robert Dickson, James A. Richardson, Jacob N. Bower, and A J Hines, all praised for qualifications.
The city canvass for Sunday school scholars neared completion with districts split over two days. An afternoon meeting at Berry Street M E church reported many incidents, noting Fort Wayne has more churchgoers than expected and seventy homes lacked a Bible. Miss Nelson oversees card review. a full report is expected soon. August Racine visits friends in the country.
A group of 66 rebels under General Sullivan split from General Randall and seized an eastbound Lake Shore freight train near Ligorer, holding it until Butler arrived 50 miles away where the men were dismounted.
Notice to the creditors heirs and legatees of George Eagy deceased to appear in Allen circuit court at Fort Wayne Indiana on June 10 to show cause why final settlement accounts should not be approved heirs to prove heirship and receive distributive shares Administrator Ju Eagy Witness the clerk of the court May 3 18a Dantle W Souder Clerk Allen Circuit Court J E Graham Attorney for Estate
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