15 Mar 1889
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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1889
Page
1
An anonymous Warren writer recounts community life after Prohibition talk, noting a stalled public library, crowded tailors, and temperance debates. He predicts June amendments pass, contemplates political moves, and lampoons reformers while detailing local tavern closures, travel nuisances, and daily life observations.
New Hampshire voters rejected the prohibitory amendment to the state constitution amid seven proposed changes. Officials announced the prohibition amendment failed to reach the two thirds required, losing by about 3000 votes, while other measures stood aside.
March 11 Wasutootox reports the president sent to the Senate nominations for ministers including Thomas W. Palmer to Spain John F. Swift to Japan and John D Washburn to Switzerland George Tichenor to Treasury as assistant secretary succeeding Isaac H Maynard. The text also includes a childlike question about a toad's tail and a sleepy aside.
A young woman from Corry unnamed in early reports gave birth weeks earlier and fled with her infant to Warren. Detective Magee traced the buggy and horse to Youngsville, learned the mother had gone away, and she admitted the deed. The baby was placed with a nurse and later sent to Youngsville for care, with efforts underway to find a good home. In Renova, Phillip Paul, Warren police chief, was murdered during an arrest of Charles Clarey. Clarey escaped.
The Decatur Daily Herald praises young American actress Maude Banks for a Pauline in The Lady of Lyons at Library Hall next Saturday. It lauds her grace, elocution, magnetism, and suggests future appearances, praising supporting players and the production. Also noted are Worth dresses, reserved-seat sales, and local merchants Keller Ball and wallpaper arrivals.
Informa tion from Ensenada confirms extraordinary gold richness with a camp population around 500. Professor Anthony reports fifteen smooth nuggets, the belt stretching 200 miles from copper to gold, and placers yielding $5 to $20 daily per man. Provision teams fetch $50 daily. flour trades at $300 per sack. Martial law issued as guards arrive. many dig with horn spoons, few wash. Excitement wanes in Los Angeles as land-company rumors swirl and a San Francisco foreman urges investigation.
William A Mead of Brokenstraw township Warren County Pa dies of heart disease aged 71 years 4 months and 9 days He was a surveyor and model farmer and a leading spirit in the grange His wife Margaret Gip Stranaham is noted along with three sons Benjamin G P Chester and a daughter Louise who died in youth Funeral at home March 15 1889 with Rev Douglass officiating and burial in Odd Fellows cemetery
A fragment notes St Peter denying entry to a person who used a side door. The line “We have no use for people who frequent side doors” is attributed to Phillip H. Welch. The item ends with a tag about cash grocery savings for close buyers.
A citizen committee calls a Warren County convention at Library Hall Warren on April 16 1889 to organize support for a constitutional amendment prohibiting intoxicating liquors. Delegates from townships and boroughs elected by April 13 vote two per township plus one per 100 votes. The meeting opens 11 a.m. with convention at 1 30 p.m. and an evening rally planned.
In Treesville Pennsylvania on March 14 Mike Moran a police officer trying to arrest Thomas Marnan was badly cut about the face and head with a knife. He was not fatally injured but will bear the marks for life.
In Franktin Virginia March 11 a well on the Rynd farm at Oil Creek revived interest in a previously exhausted oil field. The well began at forty barrels daily with signs of decline, yet prospectors foresee further drilling this week as new wells will be added near Pleasantville Shamburg Pithole Walnut Bend and other Rockland Cranterry township sites. Several abandoned wells are being cleaned and some yield nineteen to twenty five barrels per day.
The 1885 inaugural pilgrimage to Washington saw 105 thode and excursionists conveyed in 210 trains of ten cars each, averaging fifty per car. No accidents occurred and delays were minimal amid packed stations, with peak flows Monday night and Tuesday. Revenue from this service approached half a million dollars. the feat is likened to Philadelphia’s 1887 constitutional centennial.
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