Fort Wayne Attorney Benjamin Harper Ends Life at Home
Benjamin F. Harper a Fort Wayne attorney and former U S auditor of the war department killed himself with a pistol at his Beaver and Wildwood home about 9 am after months of ill health and despondency. He had planned a Chicago move to resume his practice, leaving a widow Laura Gorhant Harper and siblings James B. Harper and Miss Aida Harper. funeral services with Lindenwood family lot burial to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Harper
Fort Wayne
War Department
Wash
Ington
Beaver
Wildwood Avenues
Harper
Kesler
Peltier Undertaking
Mrs. Harper
Allen County
James B. Harper
Beverridge
United States Treasury Department
Washington
Harner
Laura Gorhant
Chicago
Snoaff
van Kahlden
Beaver and
Mr. Harper
Aida Harper
Lindenwood
Southside Baptist Church Denominational Recognition
The Southside Baptist church is recognized as a Baptist denominational body after a council meeting of Bluffton Decatur Garrett Columbia City Warsaw South Whitley and Fort Wayne pastors at Beaver chapel Indiana avenue. The service featured scripture reading by Dr Jd F Vichert Fort Wayne a prayer by A D Whitney Garrett an address by Rev C E Real Decatur greetings by Rev H H Ferris Columbia City E W Lewis spoke for the church and Mrs L C Yupo sang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southside
Garrett
C. £. Real
Decatur
H. H. Ferris
Columbia City
E. W. Lewis
L. C. Yupo
Two Lads Held In Watch Theft Case At County Jail
Charles Lasure and Earl Schwab are jailed as witnesses may add testimony on the theft of a watch from William Eldridge at the Anthony hotel where Schwab worked as a bell captain. Lasure held the watch. Schwab admitted theft and passing it. Lasure faces receiving stolen goods charges and has prior trouble over bad checks. Austin Holloran is held for drunkenness until tomorrow and John Hawn is sent to eleven days on the same charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lasure
Earl Schwab
William Eldridge
Anthony
Schwab
Lasure
Austin Holloran
John Hawn
Michael J. Maroney A Nickel Plate Pioneer
Michael J. Maroney helped build the Nickel Plate railroad and piloted a construction engine until line completion. He joined passenger service in 1893 and now runs trains 3 and 6 between this city and Bellevue. previously fired on the Pere Marquette in Grand Rapids. He lives at 429 Fourth Street and is active in railroad veterans and fraternal circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael J. Maroney
Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Maroney
Bellevue
Grand Rapids
Pere Marquette Railway
Nickel Plate
Brown, Howard & Co
Nickel Plate Veterans’ Association
Bel
Townships in Allen County omit poor fund levies
The report lists townships Jefferson Cedar Creek Ahoite Lafayette among those not levying for the poor fund next year. Jackson shows the largest levy at 0.61 dollars per hundred, Springfield the highest with 2.03, and Adams the lowest at 1.30. Eleven townships have varied levies totaling 1.44 per hundred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ffour
Allen County
Jefferson
Cedar Creek
Ahoite
Lafayette
Jackson
Scipio
Adams Township
Springfield
Brown
Wayne
Washington—Peoor
Towniship
Springfield— Poor
St. Joe—Poor
Perry—Poor
Marion
Maumee
ake—Pooor
Jefferson—Pool
Cedar Griak-Pool
Adams—Poor
Aboite
Scipio—Poor
Jackson—Poor
Works Says Taft Not a True Republican Leader
Senator John D Works told Union League members that President Taft is a reactionist not representing the people and urged support for Senator Robert M Lafollette as a presidential candidate. He warned Republicans face a choice to build the party or split. Works endorsed woman suffrage and said Taft and Lafollette would clash for the nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Orl
Taft
Robert M. LaFellette
Congress
John D. Works
Union League
LaFollette
Works
Fort Wayne Boys Bag 37 Pounds Of Flies In Seavey Contest
Twenty two Fort Wayne youths finished the three week Ay killing contest by Seavey Hardware, turning in thirty seven pounds of flies. Carl Amstutz won first prize a Savage repeating rifle, with Lewis Horn second and Leonard Schonent ing third, plus four more prizewinners. The Seavey company plans a larger scale contest next season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Seavey Hardware Company
W. R. Seavey
Carl Amstutz
Fairmount Place
Lewis Horn
East Wayne Street
Leonard Schoneting
Hugh Street
Edward Knock
Phenie Street
Lloyd Horner
Masterson Avenue
Seavey Company
Purdue to Send Exhibit to Bluffton Street Fair
Bluffton Ind Sept 14 The Bluffton street fair committee received no tification that Purdue university agricultural experiment station and school of agriculture will send to the street fair to occupy space in the agriculture department an exhibit specially prepared by the experimental station for county fair exhibits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluffton, Ind
Cullud Club exposes exclusivity and gaming house case
In city court Judge Frank Mungovan acquitted John Turner of keeping a gaming house after testimony showed Turner's group barred Walters and Boyer. Rover claimed a gunplay incident during a money bet, but most witnesses denied it. Separate actions fined John Primevara for provoking Charles Haag and ordered Jacob Soliday to pay six dollars weekly for family neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison Street
John Walters
William Boyer
Frank Mungovan
Joh Turner
Turner
Walters
Boyer
Rover
John Primevara
Fair Ground
Charles Haag
Jacob Soliday
Fine Fowls in Allen County Poultry Talk
Poultry Judge A B Hamlin of Ansela praised Allen county poultry as far above average in a talk to about twenty five Poultry Fanciers association members at the Nelson shoe store. Plans for a January 17 to 22 show were discussed. two new members joined and P M Griffin was initiated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen County
A. BE. Hamlin
Ansela
Poultry Fanciers’ Association
Nelson Shoe
Columbia Street
Judge Hamlin
P. M. Griffin
Pipefitter Hurt Saving Fellow Worker From Falling Pipe
A pipefitter at St. Joseph's hospital, A Habberstock, suffered a badly mashed right foot and ankle when a heavy pipe, dislodged from a boiler twenty five feet up, began to fall. He stayed at his post to shield a coworker, narrowly preventing a second worker from being crushed as the pipe struck him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Habberstock
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Haberstock
Manitoba Schoolteacher abducted by fugitive Bill Wilson
Elenor Brice, a young teacher from Snow Flake Manitoba, was seized by Henry Bill Wilson alias Bill Miner of Hanna North Dakota. A 300-man posse chased the suspect across the border while Brice, battered and dazed, was kept under guard in the bush for over a day. She escaped to John Rinn’s farm after Wilson planned to flee with her and severed telephone lines to avoid pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manitoba
United States
Elenor
Ladys Brice
Henry Bill Wilson
Bill Miner
Hanna
N. D
Canada
Miss Brice
Patterson
Frank Patterson
Ripa Farm
Henry
Bill” Wilson
Wilson
Het
John Rinn
Won by wireless first on record
Indianapolis businessman James Guy Haugh proposed by wireless to Marguerite Castagn aboard the La Bretagne after meeting in June. He received a cablegram acceptance in New York and the couple planned a local ceremony this afternoon with Marguerite Castagn, daughter of Col. Jean Castagn, in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Guy Haugh
Indianapolis
Haugh
France
Marguerite Castagn
Mr. Haugh
Auburn seeks pardon for Frank H. Nicolai at Fort Leavenworth
Auburn Indiana reports a formal effort Tuesday to secure clemency for Frank H. Nicolai from the federal board of pardons now in session. Local friends say there has been no lobbying but note he has been a model prisoner for two years and may be paroled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ind
Frank H. Nicolai
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Board of Pardons
Pretty nurse is a skilled thief in New York case
Helen Watson a 24 year old trained nurse from Chicago is held on shoplifting charges after police found jewelry silverware and silk dresses valued at 5000 in her room. Walter Deveraux a mining operator said silk gowns and jewelry valued at 3500 were stolen from his Mamaroneck home and identified by his son. Watson, who sought to be a professional violinist, was arrested yesterday and held on 500 bail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Helen Watson
Chicago
Miss Watson
Brooklyn
Walter P. Deveraux
Mamaroneck
N. Y
Car Plunges Over Bank in Hartford City Narrow Escape
B C Storms of near Hartford City Indiana had a thrilling escape when his touring car left the road Tuesday night. Driving about 35 miles an hour it plunged ten feet into an embankment, but the vehicle stopped against a fence and Storms escaped with only slight injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford City
Ind
Storms
Marton
Sixty-One Years in Railroad Work with Titus on Retired List
Engineer Theodore Titus, longtime railroad man and Fort Wayne veteran, began as a water boy on the Cincinnati Bloomington and Dayton line, rose to fireman and finally engineer in 1868. He spent two war years away, returned to yard work briefly, and has been retired for six years. He and Mrs. Titus live at 1506 Buchanan Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Titus
Pennsylvania
Titus
Cincinnati
Bloomington
Dayton
Columbus
Cincinti
Marietta
Fort Wayne
Érizinger
Trent
Filea
Buchanan Street
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B. F. Harper
Northern Michigan
Anhey
M. J. Maroney
Senator Works
California Statesman
LA Follette
Purdue
Cullud
Boyer and
City Court
Allen
A .E. Hamlin
Brute
Posse
Wireless
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