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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1899
Page
12
Local notes report several births to families including Mr and Mrs W H Rohan and Mr and Mrs George H Allen with sons. Legal actions feature Margaret S Brooks suing Orlando Brown for 150 dollars and appeals in Ryan v Clutter. A bank of town events includes marriages, injuries, and a charity reading by Conrad Nixos.
Mrs. Overmeyer at the Allen County Orphans home reports five boys fled yesterday. Names are Joe Edger, Clarence Stout, Leonard Gaylord, Clyde Bush, and Floyd Bury with Gaylord about fourteen. Superintendent Gorsline also seeks Clarence Young, twelve, who vanished from 72 Murray Street yesterday at 5 PM.
The Fort Wayne Amusement association met at city hall to set October 4 5 and 6 for a barbecue and race meet. A grand band concert is planned on the court house square with Mardi Gras festivities on Friday October 6 ending in a ball at Princess tink. An operator for a Streets of Cairo act is being arranged along with other attractions. Committees named include Soliciting Track and Grounds Barbecue and Advertising with members such as Frank Purcell Harvey Stites Gottlieb Haller J A Scott and D J Shaw.
Baron Albert Grant promoter of the Emma Silver mine dies in London. He earned a title from King Humbert in 1868 for services to the Victor Manuel Gallery, but the Emma Silver scheme collapsed leaving few shareholders with value. The report details the mine’s promoters, alleged payouts, and ensuing legal actions.
A roundup of disparate Indiana items includes Laporte county farmers fined for seed dispersal of Canada thistle, the identification of a Lafayette policeman shooting victim as foster son of Jacob Frick, and Zella Nicholas returning to Wabash after an injury. Also noted are the suicide of George Kring at 75 in South Bend, Rev. A. M. Laird’s resignation from Elkhart churches, a jail break attempt in Peru, a divorce suit by Frederick Luking, vaccination controversies in Elkhart schools, a quiet Elkhart wedding, and a Decatur breach of promise suit by Louise Bradley against David Studabaker.
The secret service uncovered a new counterfeit two dollar treasury note from 1891 series of D Bruce, Roberts treasurer, McPherson portrait. The seal is dark red instead of pink and the lathe work and ruling are crude. Silk fibre in the paper is closely imitated in this photo etched production.
Caroline Rushman married William DeLong August 29 at the home of the bride’s parents Mr and Mrs John Rushman Williamsport. Rev A B Hill performed the ceremony before about fifty invited guests who afterward shared a wedding repast. The couple are well known and popular with many friends offering congratulations.
A Danville incident on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois line claims Engineer Ed Tilton and two firemen, one a traveling fireman, all killed as Tilton’s locomotive crashed into freights on the main track. The engineer, a former Wabash passenger locomotive man until 1894, leaves a wife and several children in Danville. The elder Tilton, Josiah, bore news via telegram and was not yet located at press time. Remains expected to be buried in Danville tomorrow, with possible interment there if the father directs otherwise.
Wanted. Butts or small timber of any kind by the Paul Ming Co located at Cox Gilt and North Calhoun Bloomingdale. Advertisement indicates supply needs with minimal identifying details and a postal-like listing.
E H Bookwalter, longtime Gazette associate, has joined The Sentinel and is authorized to receive subscriptions and receipts for The Daily and Weekly Sentinel. He will be in Roanoke Indiana on Saturday Sept 0th to collect payments.
An advertisement from D. Shordon & Co promotes a special fertilizer claimed to benefit wheat crops and other crops, insisting that money invested yields large returns and urging investment as the only way to achieve these gains.
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