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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1903
Page
8
Mrs. E Weichman returns home after a two week absence visiting friends in Defiance. Dr and Mrs Neville, newly married here, have moved to their new home in Seattle Washington.
South Bend agents of Equitable Life and Fort Wayne counterparts dined at the Wayne hotel last evening to celebrate Fort Wayne agents for writing the most insurance in September. N. J. Dilday acted as toastmaster with H. V. Sweringen H. N. McKee and others speaking. Guests included George W. Reid George H. Payne J. Leonhardt and A. L. Osborne among South Bend attendees.
The twenty fourth annual tournament of the Omaha Gun club began today in Omaha Nebraska and will run three days. Two days are for target events ten each and the third day features a live bird handicap of 25 birds with top crack shots from across the country competing.
Miss Jessie Fleming has returned from a visit in Chicago detailing her travels and experiences during the trip.
Four military prisoners from Alcatraz, James H. Darling, Joseph White, Cornelius Cokes, and John L. Moore, were released on pardons later found to be forged. The documents bore fake signatures and stamps of high officials, with investigations ongoing to identify the conspirators.
Elwood Indiana October 13 The Pittsburg Plate Glass company brought in another good gas well on its claim northeast of Elwood Saturday evening. While there is no assurance yet that the well will prove a gusher it is one of the strongest yet.
Chicago markets show December wheat slipping to 78% and rallying to 79% as cash demand improves and traders await a possible December option deal. Corn weakness from shipping demand and shorts covering leaves December near 45% with rations of other listed grains and livestock prices steady to mixed across hogs cattle and sheep.
Butter market steady with creameries at 14 to 20 cents and daisies 14 to 18 cents. Cheese market steady with varieties like Jitske twins lic and Young Americans at 11 cents. Eggs market steady at 18 to 19 cents.
Toledo reports oil prices on Oct 13 with North Lima at 1.26 dollars, and both South Lima and Indiana at 1.21 dollars.
In Fort Wayne Indiana on October 10 prices for spring wheat flour ranged from 4.80 to 5.20 dollars per barrel for winter flour at 4.20 to 4.60 dollars. Graham meal was 1.75 dollars per cwt and bolted corn meal sold from 1.35 to 1.50 dollars per unit.
The Glasgow grounds hosted the second Benson Golf Cup round with F C Blanchard defeating F I Brown. Otto Peters beat A S Bond by default as Bond was absent. Will Peters defeated George Waldschmidt and W F Geiger beat C E Bond. Next Saturday Blanchard faces Will Peters and Geiger faces Otto Peters. The two winners play October 24 to decide the cup. This marks the season’s final major golf event in the city.
In Greensburg Pennsylvania today a collision of two trolley cars on the Greensburg and Southern street railway killed H G Hirsch the motorman and injured three others including E E Rowe W B Parks and A J Maxwell. Dense fog contributed to the crash with two motor men crushed legs and other injuries.
A motion was filed in the U S Supreme Court in Czarnikow MacDougall Co vs Collector Bidwell New York to move the hearing beyond November 1. The case challenges the 1900 act taxing imports from Puerto Rico and raises the insular questions. It seeks recovery of 18500 dollars in duties on Porto Rican sugar. Hearing is on the early call unless reassigned.
Patrolman Spillner reported a man claiming to be a detective stopped a goods driver at 420 East Wayne Street. The man was about fifty with a large white beard. No motive or further details were obtained.
Louis Delegrange assumed the active superintendency of J C Peters Spring Grove farm in Abolt township succeeding David M Fyffe who held the position earlier. Delegrange takes charge as the farm management changes hands in the local agricultural operation.
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