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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1906
Page
12
Descriptions from Indo China report King Thanh Than of Annam executing wives and cooking one for dinner. His entourage forced to eat. women abused, mutilated, and cast into cages with beasts. French authorities arrested him as insane. palace guarded by native troops. survivors rescued.
Fort Wayne will host the next State Fire Underwriters association convention about this time next year with an estimated 300 to 500 delegates. James E. Graham announced the city’s success after returning from Indianapolis where local agents Ed Wilson Charles Gumpper Delmer Fitch and W. P. Walsh helped secure the event yes. The group is pleased with the achievement and members remain at the national agents’ convention.
Attica Indiana October 17 A thirteen year old boy Will Layton left home to seek a reseate life in the wild west after reading dime novels. He rode a Wabash freight to Danville before returning, failed to find work, and the police helped him back home where he resumed school.
The Improved Order of Red Men in Indiana elected George I Kis ner of Terre Haute as great junior Sagamore and declined to raise the great sachem’s salary. A per capita tax of 2 to fund a 100000 building in Indianapolis was approved to be paid over eight years. Three representatives were chosen to join Dr. John H. Coffman, retiring great prophet, with Wilson Rose Elk hart W. B. King Lafayette and John A. McGaw. Charles L. Bartol Warsaw was named great trustee.
More than 300 delegates gather in Portsmouth Ohio for the twelfth annual Ohio Valley Improvement Association convention. Governor Harris welcomes the assembly as representatives from several improvement groups discuss amalgamation and joint efforts.
Three treasury department accountants counting more than 20 million in the United States sub treasury vaults report a 61200 shortage. John E Wilkie, chief of the secret service, is in St Louis for an unrelated bankers conference. Sub treasurer John Akins says no statement until Washington completes its review.
Washington reports confirm a probable $61,500 shortage in the St. Louis assistant treasurer T. J. Atkins accounts. Treasury experts are auditing the accounts at his request and Chief Wilkie of the United States secret service has been dispatched to St. Louis.
Frederick C. Fairbanks and his bride Helen E. Scott returned to Pittsburg from Indianapolis after a secret ceremony. James Scott, her father, forgave the match despite plans for a formal wedding. A lavish reception and dance are in planning with invites for the vice president and President Roosevelt. The couple will undertake a six months European and Egypt trip.
A gasoline explosion at Meinerding hardware store in Fort Recovery collapsed buildings and trapped injured crews. Four people, including cashier Cleo Weis, are dead and several others are missing as rescue crews from Coldwater and Portland battle the blaze and search the ruins. The Fort Recovery Journal office was destroyed in the blast.
In Lima Ohio on October 17 a gas explosion engulfed a home killing Mrs Clinton Bryan and her two young sons aged eight months and two years. Firemen found the house in flames and could not save the family as the bodies were badly burned.
In Dana Indiana on October 17 Mrs Roy Nichols was burned to death when gasoline she was using to clean a stove exploded. The incident occurred today.
Rev Cephas Shelburne pastor of Central Christian church in Huntington declined a call to become pastor at West Jefferson Street Church of Christ in Fort Wayne after visiting Huntington and hearing him preach. The Fort Wayne church had offered improved salary but Shelburne said his work in Huntington was just beginning and his usefulness there could grow.
In Oshkosh Mrs Bowser watches as her husband Bowser debates a governors bid for a new party. wheel horses crowd options and demand loans, a photo finish collapse follows, and a patrol clears the scene as Bowser returns home humbled.
L H Jackman of Huntington organizes a Trade-at-Home club in the city. Minor crimes and local incidents include Fred Rettinger denied new trial and sentenced to life for second degree murder, Henry Besser’s death near Os sian, Edna Doty’s suicide attempt in Elkhart, Asa Aldrick’s hand injury, Henry O Eldridge fined for contempt, Richard Lambert’s prison term for burglary, and the death of six year old Laura Salter from a jack o lantern accident in South Bend.
Harry A Ross and Miss Helen Gill join Mrs F Culbertson to form the Ross Concert Company. The five musicians plan to provide musical entertainments this winter in the surrounding area. All members are capable and expected to succeed in their undertaking.
William Chance, a farmer near Up land, surprised a burglar at work in his home early Tuesday. He covered him with a shotgun and compelled him to throw up his hands, then guarded the premises all night.
An unclear dialogue discusses whether a writer earns money and references a practical dad. The text is fragmentary with misplaced punctuation and nonsensical phrases. No clear news event, person, organization, or place is identifiable.
Fragmentary ad text shows a health remedy claim promising rapid relief. The readable portion emphasizes a product or method aimed at curing a cold with bold wording and minimal context.
The lesson recalls the Bethany anointing at Simon the leper’s house six days before Passover. Mary’s act of worship with spikenard is contrasted with Judas’s greed and the disciples’ misgivings, urging self-denial and faithful service to please Christ. Mary’s insight and readiness stand as a model for earnest Christian living.
Greenville South Carolina October 17 report says incendiary black residents burned the entire business district of Seneca after dynamiting the local Negro college. Rev J F Williams president of the college is named as chief instigator. Two hotels and a hardware store burned while the hotel staff were saved. Firefighting wasn’t available. Loss estimated at 150000 with 50000 insured. No arrests yet.
Concordia college asks the War Department to relieve Captain Ivers W. Leonard from Cuba service and allow him to resume work as a military instructor in the city. He was sent to Cuba as his work here had begun, after the college spent about 3000 for cadet uniforms and 500 for a college band. The college hopes Cuba affairs quiet and persistence may secure a recall when sessions resume.
Administrator John S. Baker will sell at public auction at the late residence in Pleasant Township Allen County Indiana on November 9 1906 the estate personal property incl plow dray mower drill buggy wagon harness beds bedding gun sausage grinder livestock hay corn and more Terms: cash for sums $5 and under and credit up to nine months for amounts over $5 with note interest six percent and attorney fees Atty S Morris listed as attorney.
Oliver Hackel an 80 year old structural iron worker fell fifteen stories to his death atop the New Commercial Bank building at Clark and Adams streets. A crowd watched as his body descended, women fainted, and onlookers heard his scream during the swing of a loaded beam. He had worked in iron for years and was married.
Pomeroy Ohio October 17 E C Cox former president of the Middleport bank which failed a few days ago was indicted by the grand jury today He was accused of complicity with causing the banks failure
New York Oct. 17 The director of the Western Union Telegraph company at a meeting today re elected all the old officers with the exception that W E Atkins was made vice president of the construction department The executive committee has been reduced in number from twelve to nine
Reports from New Orleans and the eastern Caribbean coast indicate a hurricane struck Pearl Lagoon, near Nuevaagua, on Saturday. The village was said to be entirely destroyed with loss of life, according to advices received today.
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