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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1903
Page
10
Two Minnesota women recount years of nervous ailments and headaches ending in relief after using Dr Miles Restorative Nervine. They credit improved appetite, sleep, and strength after several bottles. Ad claims free book and nationwide druggist guarantee.
Rev. A. J. McFarland of Pittsburg preached at First Presbyterian on Sunday on the theme Our Country's Great Opportunity Shall We Use It or Lose It He urged God has prepared the world for a world wide Christian movement and presented five favorable conditions and five disqualifying factors for America urging repentance and loyalty to Christ.
Argument began in the United States court of appeals in Philadelphia on the suit of Harry C. Spinks and others against Henry Tatnall receiver of the Asphalt Company of America. The appeal challenges a New Jersey circuit court ruling that blocked Spinks and others from answering the foreclosure complaint.
All stationary engineers in East Liverpool Ohio belonging to the international union went on strike today. Every manufacturing establishment in the city including thirty two potteries is closed. The walkout followed manufacturers refusal to recognize the union. Officials expect the disruption to be short.
An ad-like fragment touts Burdock Blood Bitters as making pure blood and tease health benefits. It warns every home needs Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil against accidents and itching piles, concluding with a general call to have these products on hand.
Superintendent Gorsline learned of a man convicted here for loitering under the name Harry Livingston, later captured in New York during an August carnival. He faces picking pockets charges after forfeiting bond, with aliases Sam Harris Cohen and the Kinky Kid.
Fort Wayne military companies came home Sunday after ten days of camp maneuvers in Kentucky. Company D of the Third Regiment arrived at 8 am with Michigan troops, while battery men followed at 3 pm after leaving Howard, Kentucky late Saturday night. More than 10,000 soldiers and state militia participated, facing hard rain and rough roads. Indiana troops earned high praise from Colonel Wagner as chief U S A umpire, noting their drilling was superior to others.
The Kalamazoo company marched from the Lake Erie and Western depot to the Grand Rapids and Indiana depot yesterday morning led by their military band. They boarded a special train for their home city amid hearty cheers and good spirits with no sickness reported among the boys.
Ella Broden 26 of Sedalia, divorced wife of John Brockaway imprisoned for murder, was shot by 30 year old farmer John Meyers near Gravis Mills. Meyers is jailed at Versailles. Broden was visiting her sister Mrs. Bradshaw. Authorities cite possible objection to her returning to Sedalia.
In Paducah Kentucky on October 12 a clash occurred ten miles from the city at Kevil a small Illinois Central station between negroes and white youths arising from the negroes ordering whites off their section of the platform. About a dozen shots were fired. Tom Hall a negro was shot through the urn and a white man named Childress was shot over the heart and fatally injured. Hall is the only one arrested.
Fort Wayne Mayor H C Berghoff, after returning from the League of American Municipalities meeting in Baltimore, argued western cities do not gain from eastern models in governance. He praised western systems, cited water metering as cost saving, and noted Boston garbage disposal as a possible model. City officials Schmidt Bursley Hell and Wiebke joined him in remarks on the meeting.
Manila reports that Governor Taft has, after a customs inquiry led by Collector Shuster, requisitioned Chinese authorities in Shanghai for extradition related to the case.
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