Chicago council forms graft probe and security concerns rise
The Chicago city council appoints a nine member committee to investigate graft at City Hall. A would be presidential assassin is intercepted and a Calhoun street rail crossing accident highlights need for a tunnel or viaduct. Dowie predicts a $50 million New York campaign. Post office graft indictments continue, aiming to boost honesty in service. Indianapolis financier Simon Yandes dies at about eighty years, renowned for large philanthropic giving to churches and colleges totaling about $800 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Calhoun Street
Fragmented British cabinet in political crisis
The reconstructed cabinet seems thrown together to weather the crisis until a general election. The world watches as uncertainty grows and a tariff campaign by Chamberlain is awaited with calls for definite results. Also mentions an aged Gen Tyner facing conspiracy to defraud charges related to Abe event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
United Kingdom
James N. Tyner
Abe
Stricken Elder Faces Criminal Charge Amid Trust Questions
The article portrays an aged, ailing man urged to answer a criminal charge. Friends doubt guilt, suggesting betrayal by others who exploited his weakness and removed from duties. It urges withholding judgment until formal proof emerges, noting potential past oversights at the post office department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parslyste
Moe
Wild Ben
Post Office Department
Narrow escape as fire destroys barn and valuables
John Birchman, a junk dealer, woke to a blaze at his room above Mrs. Wort’s barn on East Main Street. He leaped to safety from a upstairs window, while the fire consumed the barn, damaged the Home Telephone cable, burned his horse, and destroyed papers, stamps, gold, and jewelry with several valuables later recovered from the ruins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Birchman
Rora J. Wort
East Main Street
Sbirchman
Home Telephone Company
Stevens
Birchman
Hope Hospital
Harry J. Wort
Eckart
Berchman
Death follows fall injuries of 16 year old Ernest Grosjean
Ernest H. Grosjean, 16, died at St. Joseph's hospital from blood poisoning after fracturing both wrists in a tree fall while nutting near Lindenwood cemetery. He was born August 11, 1887 in Arcola, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Grosjean of 027 Columbia Avenue, survived by parents, two brothers, a sister, and many friends. Funeral held at his home with interment at Brockson/Broxon cemetery in Whitely county. remains shipped to Jefferson township relatives.
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Ernest H. Grosjean
St. Joseph’s Hospital
John Grosjean
Columbia Avenue
Lindenwood Cemetery
Arcola
St. Joe Chapel
A. K. Zartman
Jacob Aker
Whitley County
Broxon
Jefferson Township
Brockson Cemetery
Pitiful infant death and community burial pledge
Ralph Urbans infant son of Mr and Mrs Fred Urbans died at two weeks from exhaustion in the county infirmary. The mother and baby were born there after the father vanished months ago. Scheumann undertakers prepared the body but local donors and Judge Dreibelbis along with Mrs J B White and others raised funds for a respectable Lutheran cemetery burial.
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Ralph Urbans
Fred Urbans
Scheumann Undertaking Establishment
Medical College
Schellmann
Dreibelbiss
J. B. White
Robert Romy
Mrs Nancy Bopp Dies After Brief Illness In Fort Wayne
Mrs Nancy Bopp 61 died at 1 am Monday at 615 Fourth Street after a short illness from Brights disease. Wife of Henry Bopp of Baker carriage works, she lived in Fort Wayne 32 years and is survived by husband five children Al Grant St Clair Maggie Charles and John Bopp, five sisters and three brothers. She was a devoted U B church member.
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Nancy Bopp
Henry Bopp
Fourth Street
Bright
Bopp
Baker Carriage Works
Fort Wayne
Grant St. Clair
Maggie
Charles
John Bopp
Mrs Theresa Back 70 Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Theresa Back, 70, died at 11 p m Saturday at 2116 Fairfield Ave after an extended illness from rheumatism. A widow, she lived in the city 47 years and is survived by two daughters Mrs Amos Bishop of New York and Mrs Frank Manweiler of this city, plus three grandchildren. Her husband Peter Back died six years ago. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning from St Pauls Catholic Church.
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Theresa Back
Fairfield Avenue
Back
Amos Bishop
New York
Frank Manweiler
Peter Back
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Death of Henry John Adam Good in Whitley County
Henry John Adam Good a longtime Gar Creek resident died Saturday at his son Henry Good’s home near Peabody Whitley County at age seventy four years ten months and seven days Four grown children survive his condition had declined for several years and he had visited his son recently for the last time later plans unknown
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Henry John Adam Good
Gar Creek
Henry Good
Peabody
Whitley County
Gar’ Casha
Adam Goutner Dies at 75 in County Infirmary
Adam Goutner aged 75 and formerly a blacksmith died Sunday at the county infirmary from consumption. A Virginia native he had been an inmate about two years. One son lives in Ohio. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 10 AM with burial at Concordia cemetery.
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Adam Goutner
County
Virginia
Ohio
Concordia Cemetery
Death of Miss Carrie Nahrwold at 16 in Fletcher Ave
Miss Carrie Gusta Nahrwold daughter of Mr and Mrs Diedrick Nahrwold of 1701 Fletcher avenue died Monday at 9 30 am from nephritis aged sixteen years six months She leaves three brothers Dietrick William and Charles and four sisters Mrs Sophia Clausner Mrs Mayme Holmes Mrs Iulu Kromm and Miss Bertha Nahrwold Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1 30 from the house and at 2 from Concordia Lutheran church
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Carrie Gusta Nahrwold
Diedrick
Nahrwold
Fletcher Avenue
Dietrick
William
Charles Nahrwold
Sophia Clausner
Mayme Holmes
Iulu Kromm
Bertha Nahrwold
Weers Dies of Typhoid at 22
Scott W. Weers night foreman for the Wabash freight offices in the city died at the Wabash railway hospital in Peru from typhoid fever at age 22 after a three week illness. His mother, a widow, was summoned to his bedside as relatives gathered. He had worked for the Wabash freight department for several years and was well liked. The body was brought to the city by his uncle Dayton Alderman and will be taken to the Alderman home at 1001 East Wayne street with funeral announced later.
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Scott W. Weers
Wabash
Peru
Weers
Dayton
East
Wayne Street
Pauline Loechner Die in Blood Poisoning at 45
Mrs Pauline Loechner wife of Fred Loechner saloon operator on High street died Monday at St Josephs hospital after two months illness from blood poisoning She was nearly 45 native of Germany and survived by husband six children Pauline Mary Gertrude Ludwig Walter and Harold Funeral services Thursday at 2 from 1643 High street and at 2 30 from St Johns Reformed church
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Pauline Loechner
Fred Loechner
High Street
Runion Avenue
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Loechner
Germany
Pauline
Mary
Gertrude
Ludwig
Walter
Harold
Death of Lena Dellar at state school due to tuberculosis
Lena Dellar, 15, died Monday at the state school for feeble minded youth from pulmonary tuberculosis. She was daughter of Aaron Dellar of Steuben County, and her remains will be shipped to Angola for interment.
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Lena Dellar
Aaron Dellar
Steuben County
Angola
Ask Your Neighbor Public Endorsement From Fort Wayne Readers
Fort Wayne readers share a neighborly endorsement of Dean's Kidney Pills from Meyer Bros. Drug Store. Mrs J W Hartman of 25 Jane Street testifies she suffered kidney trouble with back pain before using the pills.
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Fort Wayne
J. W. Hartman
Jane Street
Dean
Meyer Bros. Company
Wheat and grain futures swing on crop reports and demand
Chicago markets show wheat advancing on Ohio and Missouri crop optimism, then slipping as world supply grows. A late rally follows strong cash demand for No 2 red and rumors of export orders, with December wheat closing firm and corn also higher. Prices for oats, rye, flax, and other grains move with mixed gains and cash basis shifts as traders weigh export appetite and domestic demand.
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Chicago
Ohio
Missouri
Gulf By Southwest
Butter Market Causes Mixed Signals in Chicago Trade
In Chicago on Oct 6 the butter market shows weakness with creameries offering 15 percent butterfat at 20 cents and daisies at 14 19 cents. Cheese market remains firm with daisies and other varieties steady despite weak signals elsewhere.
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Chicago
Eee
Young
America
Market Report Shows Mixed Sheep and Lamb Prices
Bulk sales range from 5.60 to 5.95 with receipts near 30,000 head. Market steady to lower as good to choice wethers fetch 5.35 to 4.35 and native lambs bring 3.50 to 5.85 in varied lots.
Fort Wayne Market Prices for Wheat Flour and Livestock
Fort Wayne Indiana reports daily price ranges for spring and winter wheats, graham and corn meal, oats rye barley and flaxseed with per hundredweight and per bushel quotes. Livestock values include hogs sheep lambs calves and steers on foot and dressed, with city market figures for timothy clover straw and produce like butter lard cabbage apples onions and chickens.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Graham
Timothy
Chamberlain Starts Fiscal Campaign From Birmingham
Joseph Chamberlain leaves Birmingham amid cheers and singing as he begins a financial campaign. He voices no speeches but notes difficulties ahead, while Austen Chamberlain is praised as chancellor and Mrs. Chamberlain travels to join him in Liverpool for a Saxonia voyage to Boston.
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Birmingham
England
Joseph Chamberlain
Joey
Austen
Chamberlain
Mrs. Chamberlain
Mrs. Endicott
Miss Chamberlain
Austen Chamberlain
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Boston
Glasgow
Fatally Hurt by Airship Over Indiana Town
Indianapolis reports Charles Serogham of Brown County mailed a warning he would fly over the town with a lantern to guide residents, promising a dramatic display. The event occurred near dusk as locals prepared for evening activities.
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Indianapolis
Charles Serogham
Brown County
Nashvne
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United States
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Dowie
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Asman
Yandes
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Urbans
Dellar
Watch Daily Papers
Indiana
Wolffs
Clothiers
Manchester
Foley
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