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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1899
Page
4
The Weekly Sentinel notes growing colonial expansion in Ohio and hints at Senator Beveridge trading words for silence as a new reputations strategy. It also reports the first automobile elopement in Berlin where a couple fled parental pursuit, aided by an engineer who guided them to a preacher for a wedding.
John B. Branch of Waterville Maine asserts he is the Messiah and will evangelize the world in ten years. He has twenty five followers baptized secretly amid threats of lynching.
The president elevated after Heureaux’s assassination resigns. The revolt spreading nationwide would have forced abdication, but stepping aside may avert widespread disorder and bloodshed. Gen Isidro Jiminez expected to assume the presidency as the uprising gains popular backing. Heureaux’s firm repression had prevented the revolt for years.
Dr. Nicholas Senn of Chicago just back from the Hawaiian islands compares natives to American Indians and warns they are dying of leprosy and tuberculosis, predicting near extinction in thirty years. He calls Hawaii a hunters paradise and recalls hunting on Molokai, including deer, wild turkey, quail, pheasants, peacocks, pigeons, and goats.
John R. McLean, long a Democratic supporter in Ohio and owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is urged as a gubernatorial candidate amid a high stakes political clash with Marcus A. Hanna backing the Republican nomination. McLean, though primarily based in Washington, is praised as a wealthy, capable businessman and loyal party worker. The Ohio campaign is cast as a historic contest with echoes of past cross state nominations.
John H Holliday plans a new Indianapolis Press likely launching November 1 as an independent afternoon two cent paper. He founded the Indianapolis News, sold in 1892 to William Henry Smith Delavan Smith and Charles R Williams with Richards minority. Richards sued for dissolution and the property sold at public auction in July to Delavan Smith and Williams.
A movement in Amazonas to secede and form a separate republic is reported, with claims the state alone has wealth while bearing national debts. The piece warns that secession rarely pays and Brazil’s size makes survival of any breakaway state doubtful in international competition.
A Chicago manufacturing firm has sent 35,000 reapers mowers and harvesters to Europe this year and export contracts remain unfinished. America raises no objection to this machine rule. Max Nordau comments on Dreyfus noting a straight Semitic nose as genuine, while a crooked nose is linked to Armenian ancestry.
Manila dispatches report General Otis suffers insomnia and melancholy from worry. Rumors suggest his possible replacement as commander of the expanding army. A second tale claims Otis plans to publish a newspaper in Manila with soldiers as typesetters, a move seen as shifting his concerns.
The article highlights rapid expansion of trust companies, noting their role in replacing private sureties across business sectors. It points to administrators contractors and some officials providing bonds, reducing reliance on personal sureties, while warning of potential credit strain and risk to surety agencies.
An old lady in a New York area town kept a fuss book to note needed reforms and agitate for change. Her entries led to sidewalk bicycle bans, faster school routes, hill grading, and marsh drainage, inspiring civic action and safer streets. The piece then shifts to politics and mentions Mr Beveridge in Indianapolis, hinting at a Washington visit to see the president.
The Indiana senator Beveridge returned from the Philippines with a firm vow of silence about his impressions. Public interest swells as supporters recall his aggressive earlier expansionist stance and rhetoric like the March of the Flag. Citizens seek his views after extensive travel and interviews with insurgent leaders and islanders, but he remains uncharacteristically reticent.
The piece proclaims Labor Day as a fixed national holiday honoring workers. It credits labor organizations as pivotal educational forces that have driven laws to protect workers, shorten public work hours, and promote arbitration, urging harmony between labor and capital to end strikes.
Harries and Anderson wed at the bride’s mother home at 6 pm with Rev. Gross officiating. Mrs. Harries hosts a reception. Smith and Chambers marry quietly at the bride’s home with Rev. McGaw. they plan a visit to Douglas, Michigan, then reside with the bride’s parents. A farewell for William T. Clay, headed to join the Sixth Heavy Artillery in the Philippines, features about sixty guests and a music-filled evening.
Indiana Log Rollers convention at Robison Park drew about 3 000 attendees, mainly city residents, with smaller than expected out-of-town delegations due to rail rate issues. Forty five lodges were represented, silk flag awarded to Auburn camp, and next meeting slated for Anderson in August 1900. Officers elected include Dunlap as president and Nichols as vice president. field events drew a large crowd with races and pole vault results listed.
Marriage license entries include Martin Schmidt with Marguerite Scheller George A Treece with Mary Eiler Charles M Chambers with Mary J Smith John B Mills with Dora D Stover A T Anderson with Lydia M Harris David Lemle with Katy Blutz Charles C Bremen with Pearl G Stephenson Charles Miller with Sophia Kammeyer Charles A Davis with Hareta Herring
Judge O Rourke convened the circuit court in the regular September term and fixed Wednesday as claim day. He appointed George A Hermsdoerfer as administrator of the estate of Frederick C Hermsdoerfer, deceased, and Jacob Auer as guardian of Edward Felger who was declared to be.
George P Lade was admitted to citizenship and filed his naturalization papers at the court. John Bueter deputy clerk recently returned from a month's vacation and appeared at the courthouse to resume his duties.
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