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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1901
Page
23
A physician and surgeon in Huntertown Allen County Ind operates a hotel infirmary in the old Hunter homestead for treating chronic and acute diseases. Located ten miles north of Fort Wayne the clinic offers board nursing and treatment free until cured with no exam charges. Patients will be met at local depots by carriage. wk31-tf
Local lines report births at East Main and Fairfield avenues, a scarlet fever case at Lafayette street, a wedding trip return for Mr and Mrs Edward Tancey, and a Fort Wayne resident joining the Wallace circus. Other items note hunting fines, a trunk deer incident, market cabbage trends, a barb wire injury, two marriages, a closing liquor shop, and a Fort Wayne Dayton Cincinnati traction meeting with rail line prospects.
In accordance with relatives wishes the remains of May Fosbinder who died Wednesday from morphine overdose in a personal crisis were interred Saturday at the Catholic cemetery. The body was moved Friday evening from Superintendent Study's home to Schone & Veith undertaking parlors.
Pastor Rev Gross of Emanuel Lutheran Church on West Jefferson Street is convalescing after an operation in St Louis. He expects to return home within two weeks and resume services on Thanksgiving Day after an absence of many months.
Dr Samuel F George of Dayton president and W H Driver of Bradford Ohio of Fort Wayne Dayton and Cincinnati Traction Company met Mayor Berghoff in the city to discuss a Greenville to Fort Wayne electric line. The plan includes links to Bluffton and a cross country route via Union City Portland Pennville and Decatur with no county franchise requests. The company has funds available and has bought options on rights of way while pursuing negotiations with Fort Wayne Traction.
Two Boston capitalists, likely worth about seven million dollars, visited Huntington on Tuesday to study a traction line project linking the city with Fort Wayne and with Warren. They later went to Fort Wayne and planned to return for more inquiry in a couple of days.
Charles S. Bash testified before the interstate commerce commission in Chicago that several large grain firms admitted a grain pool among eastern roads. He said representatives claimed firms were required to route grain in specific ways or face penalties, triggering the investigation.
The city of Fort Wayne now owns the Lewis and Barr streets property for a new high school. Five thousand dollars was paid down and last week Trustee W. W. Rockhill delivered twenty thousand dollars to Miss Margaret Hamilton as the remaining balance. Construction will begin as soon as weather permits in spring and summer.
Police located the room where Antonio Natali was killed and recovered the horse and wagon used to move the body to the prairie burial site. The room’s location is kept secret as investigators act on a lead from a suspect in custody. Blood on walls and two bloodstained hatchets and a knife are tied to the crime.
The Indiana state board of education will annually inspect all high schools. A list of 118 schools to be visited next year was prepared. Each member will visit and report, guiding decisions on new or renewed commissions, as the most thorough inspection yet in the state.
Judge Neely in the circuit court denied the Chicago board of education’s request to dissolve an injunction preventing free textbooks for first four grades. The court held that special legislation is needed before public funds can be spent on such books. The injunction was originally granted at the urging of local Catholic educators led by Peter Kil tam.
Peter Mataczko of Cleveland a Notre Dame student shot himself in South Bend Indiana after a fright over a friend's injury from a wrestling session He believed his friend was fatally hurt but the friend was not seriously hurt and Mataczko died instantly
General Manager S L Nelson of the Fort Wayne and Southwestern Electric line announced that ballast work between Fort Wayne and Huntington is finished and workers are now filling up the switches.
Mrs. Luella Boles Lanier, formerly of Fort Wayne, died in Statesboro Georgia after throat trouble and long illness. Her death followed the loss of her daughter last spring and a son born in August. Relatives in Fort Wayne mourn her passing. funeral is expected at her southern home.
Mrs Charles York and her infant narrowly escaped asphyxiation when gas filled their Monroe street home Thursday. A neighbor found them unconscious and Dr Kesler treated them after difficulty reviving them. Mr York works the night shift at the Bass foundry.
John L. Gronau and his wife were injured when a City Trucking wagon struck his buggy at Calhoun and Wayne. The tongue trapped the buggy and overturned it, spectators freed them, and Gronau received medical care for a badly contused shoulder and an exposed elbow wound.
A new through service via Muncie will connect Fort Wayne to Indianapolis with trains leaving Indianapolis at 8 am and returning at 1 pm. The Big Four and Lake Erie and Western officials Warren J. Lynch and Charles Daly announced the agreement in Indianapolis. Parlor cars will be provided. no dining car is planned. Business leaders hailed the faster, direct route for travelers and merchants.
A door is covered with crape and a card explains a death in the business district. The scene draws curious pedestrians who reflect that death comes to all, interrupting daily routines and underscoring mortality.
The Berghoff Brewing company of Fort Wayne has signed a five year lease for the four story and basement building at Adams and State streets Chicago. Rental set at 30000 dollars yearly. Keebler Co. brokered for R B and C H Stark. Under new agreement Berghoff takes full property previously leased on ground floor with expiration next May. Property fronts 42 feet and runs 100 feet deep.
The article argues Roosevelt’s southern alignment by birth, noting he is half Georgian and claiming Lincoln was born in the South through his parents and Mary Todd Lincoln’s Kentucky birth. It contends Lincoln’s marriage and lineage made him closely allied to the south since Tyler’s era.
Mrs. Dr. A. J. Rauch, her daughter Miss Clara, and granddaughter Miss Elsie Pierce return from Tennessee where Elsie’s health improved. They will stay in Fort Wayne. George W. Jones of 13 West Main Street advertises ready, low cost title work on short notice.
C F Pfeiffer offers loans secured by real estate or personal security. Rooms 6 7 Bass Block 1711.
On farms at 6 per cent interest to commission at Heller's Abstract Office 32 East Berry Street. Four 40 acre tracts 25 acres 7 miles from city 10 acres 3 miles from city 10 acres 7 miles out 13 acres 5 miles out 10 acres 6 miles out VT acres 2 miles out one 5 room house No 7 Summit St $1250 Inquire B C Niswonger Co 18 Harrison St
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