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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1903
Page
2
A local court report details John Pulz fighting a Wayne hotel board bill after a recent firearms incident, plus allegations of illegitimate funds via a fake telegram. Divorce and protection requests include Josephine Figel seeking alimony and police protection from Edward Figel, while other actions cover a neighbor dispute, a second divorce suit, and restraining orders amid property disputes.
Mrs. Amelia E Bruebach files in the circuit court seeking 2500 damages against the city for injuries from a winter slip on a convex iron piece set in the sidewalk at Wayne street near Clinton Calhoun. She alleges it was there over a year. confined to bed three months and incurred heavy expenses. Nora Worman cites two year failure to provide and cruelty. claims her husband threw a hammer at her. Paul Harris appeals a liquor license revocation. bond set at 200. Golerick filed appeal.
Mrs. Josephine Figel receives a decree of divorce from Edward Figel on cruelty and habitual drunkenness. She cites his lack of bathing and seven week old socks worn in summer, while he worked as night watchman at the city crematory. A separate case sees Matilda and Jacob Boehner obtain a receiver for Standard Blank Boot Manufacturing Company amid insolvency claims and patent concerns. Dr. Charles W Archer held on contempt for unpaid attorney fees in a divorce case, with proceedings adjourned to Wednesday.
The World’s Dispensary Association offers $500 in U S currency for any case of leucorrhea female weakness prolapsus or falling of the womb not cured by Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery. Testimonies praise cures and health gains with free Common Sense Medical Adviser offered upon mailing stamps.
W F Dinnen sues company claiming an employe pass allowed him to visit Ypsilanti and that a coach crash at Hillsdale caused head injuries. He, a 20 year old telegraph operator, spent $15 on medicine and was off three weeks. Dinnen seeks $500. In a separate matter Oliver Engleman swears William Dile climbed his porch and Dile pleads guilty, fined $5 and costs.
William A. Spindler and Henry Hid filed jury lists for the September term. Grand jurors include Henry Fox Adams Twp and George Diffendorfer Lafayette. Petit jurors feature John Burkhart St Joe Twp and Philip Stemmer Monroe, with other names from Jefferson Springfield Perry Pleasant Lake and Cedar Creek. A court settlement saw William H. Mabee take $50 judgment and $500 settlement against Lak a Shori and Michigan Southern. An affidavit seeks change of venue in Nettie M. Brunner vs Fort Wayne Traction. Applications to set aside a receiver order for Stannard Blank Book Co. filed. case heard this afternoon.
A modest Pennsylvania schoolteacher investors' tale shows she bought land for 10 dollars in a mountainous area. Locals mocked her yet the land now sits at the center of a summer settlement in the Alleghenies. She built a cottage cheaply using abundant timber and spent summers entertaining guests at high elevation.
Wheat retreats at the open with September at 79 80 cents and December at 81 percent. Corn opens near unchanged with September at 50 54 50 cents and December at 30 50 4 cents, both rising to 51 on cash demand. The corn pit features shorts covering in September pushing to 44 cents over December, settle near 51 1/8 cents. Oats steady with September 34 34 1/4 cents. December 36 1/4 46 cents. Provisions rise early with pork around 12 27 1/4, lard 8 45, ribs 7 45. Close figures show mixed gains across wheat, corn, oats and fats with various September and December quotes.
Cattle receipts 6000 with slow market. good to prime steers 5.40 to 6.10. cows 1.50 to 4.60. Texas fed steers 3.25 to 5.00. western steers 3.25 to 4.45. Hogs receipts 11000 with calm to weak demand. price range 3.40 to 6.05. bulk 5.25 to 5.60. Sheep receipts 28000. sheep and lambs lower. wethers 3.10 to 3.75. native lambs 3.50 to 5.75.
Chicago market overview for September 1 shows butter steady with creameries at 14 19 cents, daisies 13 17 cents. Cheese steady with daisies 10 10 and a half cents, twins 9 10 cents, young Americas 10 10 and a quarter cents.
New York market report shows butter receipts of 14 5381 pkgs firm with 14 18c in state dairy and creamery stock at 12 14%c. Cheese receipts 10 081 pkgs firm with state full cream at 103%¢ and 10%¢ for white and colored varieties. Molasses in New Orleans at 21 42c.
Fort Wayne markets list grain feed and live stock prices for September general goods. Wheat, corn, oats, and hay show varied midwestern prices. dairy and butter rates noted with per pound and per dozen units for local buyers and sellers.
William B. Hord, former Indianapolis lawyer now in New York, sues the State of Indiana in superior court to recover 80000 dollars as 10 percent of Indiana's 800000 war claim against the federal government. He alleges he secured the claim through Michener and that Taylor, then attorney general, interrupted his work and the claim was diverted. The case notes that the federal payment was made and applied to state debt last year.
New York reports that Signor Marconi claims malicious interference can ruin wireless telegraphy and render wired Morse transmissions useless. He cites experiments at Poldhu where power could disable a distant telegraph station for 24 hours and warns that a nearby building could permanently obstruct all lines from a telegraph office.
Secretary Shaw arrives in St. Louis from Chicago to inspect progress on world’s fair buildings and begin disbursement of 5 million dollars. He is met by world's fair directors and tours the administration area before appointing a disbursing agent to handle a six million dollar government fund.
Pittsburg Sept 1 A large can of bensine exploded in the shop of Joseph Mukloskey at Homestead Pa killing Lada Louchey 21 and fatally burning Siniusky son Athon Condusky a mill man who was trying to help.
A lengthy York City feature skewers a certain breed of New Yorker who misjudges distances and places West of Philadelphia. The piece cites examples from misunderstandings of St Louis and Chicago to Canton Ohio, plus a tongue in cheek reminder of evolving postal card phrasing.
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