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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1904
Page
3
Advocacy groups urge President Roosevelt to use his good offices to mediate and adjust affairs in the Congo Free State, appealing to the U S government for direct involvement and oversight. The appeal stresses humanitarian concerns and calls for presidential action to address alleged abuses.
Washington Sept 30 A memorial petition asking presidential intervention in Congo Free State affairs was presented to President Roosevelt. It is signed by notable figures including Aberdeen, the bishop of Liverpool, Sir Gilbert Parker, Earl Norbury, and W P Stead. The Congo Reform Association backs the petition with support from the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society and the Aboriginal Protection Society.
George Bolinger was arraigned before United States Commissioner T W Logan on charges of misusing the mails in a fur business scheme run as Bolinger and Sam in Andrews He posted bond and faced a pile of complaints from at least two dozen sources across multiple states He allegedly graded consignments and set values below actual worth delaying remittance while defending differences of opinion in grading as the cause of complaints
Chicago September 30 Secretary of State John Hay will stay head of the state department if President Roosevelt is elected in November, a statement attributed to Benjamin I Wheeler president of the University of California during his Chicago visit on a return from the east.
The Indiana state pardon board adjourned to meet again in December to consider the petition for W. E. Hinshaw. Today no action was taken on Hinshaw and no one appeared before the board on his behalf.
Janet Brackenridge, two, of 182 Brackenridge street, inserted a safety pin into her windpipe while playing. The pin slipped into her trachea, causing alarming distress. An unsuccessful attempt to remove it preceded a surgical operation at Hope hospital, performed at 6 o clock, with a successful outcome and the child expected to recover.
Mayor Henry C Berghoff, as a private citizen, filed with county commissioners a remonstrance against granting a saloon license to Charles Hunt near South Calhoun and Lewis. The remonstrance labels Hunt unfit to hold a license, citing ten prior municipal court convictions since January 1900 for selling liquor to minors, selling on Sundays, and keeping a house of ill repute. The issue follows a city effort to remove questionable establishments, a move preceded by Willis Doolittle’s failed application amid mayoral opposition.
An old advertisement urges readers to avoid unsafe cold remedies and to seek Foley's Honey and Tar as a lung remedy. It promotes a bank and trust company with a $400,000 security for depositors, mentioning Dreier & Bro and a post office location.
Worcester mourns United States Senator George Frisbie Hoar who died at 1 95 a m as bells toll and Plymouth church chimes played Nearer My God to Thee. Hoar, a long time Massachusetts leader, had served in the Senate since 1877 and held multiple local and national posts. Funeral set for Monday at 2 30 from the Church of the Unity with Rev Edward Everett Hale to officiate.
Washington Sept 30 The president pro tem of the senate designated senators to attend the funeral of Hoar Lodge Hale Depew McComas Spooner Foraker Beveridge Elkins Dryden Stewart Cockrill Bacon Blackburn Gorman and Morgan in the senate committees and at the funeral arrangements.
A Chicago incident reported a 191-year-old girl from Ferry Hall missing since a banquet day. United States troops from Fort Sheridan aided a large search of Snake Forest for Florente Parkhurst. The body was found in Lake Michigan. suicide believed. Eugene Zimmerman announced Cincinnati as the company headquarters.
GC. E. Pfeiffer offers loans on real estate or personal security. Rooms 6-7 Bass Block at Atte Citizens' Trust Co. located opposite post depositors.
Massachusetts Congressman Charles S. Hamlin addressed a large audience at Saengerbund hall in Fort Wayne area Allen County. He urged tariff reform, attacked Republican finance and tariffs, praised Democratic unity, and warned of deficits and imperialism while naming Beveridge, Kern, Parker and other figures.
Indianapolis, Sept 30. Indiana sold large parts of the grounds and buildings of the institution for the deaf and dump in the eastern city area. Seventeen acres across from the institution sold for 50000 to J J Appell and E L Cothrell, fifteen acres with most buildings sold to the city for 45000 to become a park. Nine acres by the railroad sold to Pennsylvania Railroad for shops for 135010. Three acres sold for 5000. a seventeen-acre parcel not sold. Thirty-three acres held for a buyer. one half acre sold to W B Wasser for 1640. New grounds and buildings planned nearby.
A two story brick gas distributing station at Fleet street and Independence Road was demolished by a gas explosion. Two men employed there were probably fatally injured and buried in the ruins. The blast shut off natural gas to a large city area, causing widespread inconvenience while the cause remains undetermined.
An Indiana Kentucky elopement culminates in a hurried marriage in Evansville after a night of planned avoidance. Miss Nora Beswick, 18, fled with William T Highland and Edward Pemberton of Henderson Kentucky, crossing the Ohio river to Scuffiston and Rockport for clothing and a license. Justice Schrader performed the ceremony, followed by a return to Henderson to seek parental forgiveness.
George B Forgy of Wabash sold a mining claim in Alaska for 265000 after paying 88000. Oliver Fletcher of Mexico near Peru nearly fatally injured by a fall from a second story window. Skeleton of Taeper Matthews found near Angola. body likely moved years after murder. J B Workman seeks court order to force banks to reveal deposits for a Wells County taxables survey. Dr F Mr Dickason sued for 5000 over jaw injury from alleged malpractice. William Siders of South Bend dies from blood poisoning after toe injury led to infection and fatal surgery.
Jamone Dalton was assassinated today near Fairdale in Harrison County. The shooter fired from a second story window at the Jones house amid a feud over land use and a pending $5,000 civil suit from a during a past quarrel Dalton shot Jones in the hip. Dalton, a married man of sixty eight, leaves a large family. Jones is a bachelor living with his brother and sister.
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