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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1894
Page
2
The report notes Coxey was fined and jailed for walking on the capitol grounds despite signs banning trespass. It also mentions tax council actions on the McHugh bill, disputes over local offices, and a broad mix of political and economic commentary from the era.
The Warren Independent changes hands under Cuamusas and Finkle while Coxey and populists figure in national politics. Tax frosts hurt crops countywide as county conventions loom. Michigan and national race talk includes popular election of senators, calls for reform, and plans to align terms with elections.
The Princess Cash store, relocating from East Wayne street, signs a ten year lease for the Trentman building at Calhoun and Washington streets. The firm plans a large four floor department store with interior renovations and an elevator, aiming to open in early July with about twenty thousand dollars of stock and new employment in Fort Wayne. Nearby items note a two winged four leg broody turkey at Hiram Allison’s place and a gas leak scare involving J H McClung of Muncie Times.
Treasury analysis outlines average ad valorem rates for the compromise tariff bill against the McKinley act and House bill. It lists present law and proposed rates for chemicals, earthware, metals, wood, sugar, tobacco, agriculture, spirits, cotton, flax, wool, silk, pulp, sundries, and totals, noting oils and paint in chemicals. It also reports Henry C Berghoff's stance on tariff reform and party alignment.
A demented elderly woman, Wilhelmenia Henkel, age seventy four, wandered from the Paulding County poor farm to the woods near Koeblinger farm and died from exposure. Her body, found in a swampy pool, was identified by dress goods and later examined by undertaker Peltier and Coroner Harrod. The case, once sensational, remains a somber, nonviolent death as details unfold.
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