20 May 1896
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1896
Page
1
A satirical society note contrasts country living appeal with city stress and noise. It rails at urban transport, calls for country escape, and jokes about both society observers and the harsh realities of metropolitan life.
A vivid monologue on urban life recounts police overreach, crime fears, and social tension as transportation advances reshape streets and daily routines In Harlem and New York the author contrasts crowded tenements with bucolic suburbs while lamenting noise, danger, and rising alienation.
Tremont Temple in Boston, costing 541000 dollars, recently dedicated as a major Baptist hub. The six story Florentine renaissance style structure sits opposite Park Street, with three entrances leading to the main auditorium seating thousands. The immense interior, designed for large congregations, reflects its role as a centerpiece of eastern Baptist life.
The STW Tremon Temple hall showcases a paneled dome, a sprawling organ loft, and no interior pillars, with 500 lights, stained glass windows featuring the 12 apostles, and a marble baptistry of 8,800 gallon capacity. Leather chairs replace pews, and Lorimer hall and Chipman hall complete the building.
A dated quote depicts a harsh vision of a mother scolding a child for incompetence. The speaker suggests violence and implies social judgment about gendered ability, reflecting period attitudes in a Detroit Free Press fragment.
Mozaffer-ed-Din, aged around 18 to 20, ascends as shah of Persia after Nasr-ed-Din’s assassination. He must subdue elder brother Zil-es-Sultan, who seeks the throne and allegedly influenced the late king’s downfall. The new ruler, once governor of Tabriz, is said to be pious, unpopular abroad, and closely tied to hardline Shia clerics and Russian interests. He has little Western experience, having never left Persia or Teheran, and may rule more conservatively than his father.
Democratic Joseph Johnston named for Alabama governor while Republicans nominate General J W Burke in Alabama and Joby R Tanner in Illinois. Tanner, veteran and former state treasurer, has long been active in Illinois politics and was recently named chairman of the Republican state central committee.
Dr William H Whitsitt president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary asserts in a recent study that Roger Williams was sprinkled rather than immersed and that immersion as a practice is comparatively modern This finding shocks orthodox Baptists worldwide and Whitsitt faces denunciation from colleagues while trustees consider formal rebuke His career spans Union University Confederate service Berlin studies and leadership at the seminary in Louisville.
The Scott Jackson murder trial ended after a two hour jury deliberation with a guilty verdict in the first degree and a death penalty. Spectators remained silent as the clerk read the sentence, while deputies guarded the courtroom. Jackson maintained innocence saying Walling committed the crime, and both men faced transfer to the state penitentiary.
Two workers, Gus Purdy and Val Jebley, were killed at Elliott square building when a steel jack and a five pound iron bolt dropped from ten stories above. The jack fractured Purdy's skull and the bolt fractured Jebley's skull, with both men dying soon after arrival at the hospital.
A widow near Ripley Ohio reportedly went insane this morning and altered her four children. The incident appears to involve sharp change in behavior and prompted police and local observers to question the mother’s mental state.
Report notes a commission received a bribe allegation linked to the O'Brien murder case to shield a saloonkeeper from indictment. The article also covers Red Lake lands entry at Carooxyrox Minnesota with lines of hopeful settlers, police under control, about 2,000 attendees and a long queue despite weather. Observers recount the first claimant being denied entry for arriving early, while L. D. McCall and Tennis Cunningham were among early registrants.
Reports from Cotemata Missouri May 15 describe University of Siste electrical lab experiments using Roentgen rays on diphtheria bacilli. In a live animal test two guinea pigs were inoculated, one exposed to rays for four hours and remained healthy after 72 hours, the other unexposed died within 28 hours from diphtheria.
Louis, a 23 year old lineman from a Convoy area farm, left home to visit his brother in Decatur. He rode a freight train to the city and fell beneath a moving wheel at the Pittsburg depot, limbs crushed and body badly mangled. He died at Hope hospital after surgeons failed to save him. His mother and younger brother depend on the 160 acre farm. his father died in a runaway accident ten years prior. The body was taken to Peltier’s for burial. uncles and city relatives arrived by night.
A woman, identified as Miss Armstrong, forged checks drawing from guards and guardians in multiple towns. She signed a guardian’s name to bank drafts, cashed several, including a $30 check, and was jailed briefly in Richmond before being moved toward trial. She previously lived in Rushville and Fort Wayne and claimed a pattern of criminal history and prison time. Police anticipated transporting her to Richmond for proceedings.
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