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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1878
Page
2
Warren Ledger notes Catharine E. Beecher, sister of Henry Ward Beecher, dies at Elmira at Thomas E. Beecher residence. Also reports Rochester and State Line Railroad opened to Salamanca with plans to extend to Warren.
The Harrisburg convention placed Henry M. Hoyt for Governor and Charles W. Stone for Lieutenant Governor with James P. Sterrett for Supreme Court and Aaron K. Dunkel for Secretary of Internal Affairs. Resolutions oppose Free Trade and support industry, settlers on public lands, and railroad freight protection. The ticket faces a tough path as Cameron’s control looms, and the platform is seen as weak. Philadelphia exhibition reopened with Blaine defending protection.
The author argues hard times stem from Republican laws favoring the rich, hurting farmers and workers. It critiques income tax plans, treasury actions, and debt policy, urging voters to choose candidates who will ease burdens on the poor and revive industry. It condemns party loyalty over genuine relief.
The Communist and Greenback factions met in Philadelphia last week and after two days of work produced a platform with clashes between the groups. Notable candidates collapsed as Bent ley and Shearer withdrew and Agnew was expected to replace Bentley. Mason of Mercer headed the ticket amid efforts to court Democrats and retain Republicans. The platform calls for fiat money issued by the General Government, widespread public works, equitable taxation, regulation of transportation, and the resumption of specie payments not to be enforced.
The item analyzes the Greenback-Labor platform, noting cross purposes and shifts from the Toledo platform naming the party National, then National-Greenback-Labor. It critiques calls for equal taxation and tariffs, warns of centralized power, and argues the plan risks despotism and harm to individual citizenship.
Washington promises action on a people’s demand for full exposure of the alleged 1876 frauds in Florida and Louisiana. A House select committee will investigate electoral misconduct, fraudulent canvasses, and votes altered by officials, with broad powers and possible subcommittees and deadlines.
Dispatches from seventy five points report ice and frost on recent nights severely injuring vegetables and early fruits in Ohio and Indiana. Peaches harmed especially in the north while the wheat crop also shows some damage though not devastating.
From the Lan ton Journal a senator Don Cameron has six children. The eldest daughter is 21 and governs a farm and business herself. The Orthodox Friends number 200000 and the Hicksites 50000 in this country. The Chicago Times comments on Packard appointment to Liverpool, saying the wages of sin is office.
A county reads the Philadelphia proclaimed platform of the National Greenback Labor Party. It argues public lands should be held in trust for citizens homes, money should be currency free of private control, work and wages protected, and taxation reformed. It presses eight hour days, education reform, anti corruption, and equal rights for women, with other political and economic demands. The notice also mentions political tensions around Grant and Tilden, and crop data for Pennsylvania.
Ben Taylor, a colored inventor, has returned from Washington after seeking a patent for a rotary steam engine. He claims his design applies steam at the wheel circumference, delivering triple the force with a single wheel and two steam boxes. If validated by experts, production could be a quarter of current costs, potentially widening steam use beyond existing limits and elevating Taylor among leading inventors.
Daniel Conroy a leading communist figure in New York was sentenced on Saturday to eighteen months in the State Prison for assaulting Andrew Gallagher with a knife in a recent incident.
An 1878 notice shares a testimonial praising Hop Bitters for restoring vitality to a septuagenarian, followed by a sheriff sale of a Glen state property in Warren County. The sale, under a Levari Facias writ, lists land in Glade township with a 33 acre 131 perches tract and associated machinery and fixtures, to satisfy Lester Kinsman’s claim against multiple owners.
A historic Warren County public sale notice lists multiple sheriff sales by writs of Fieri Facias and Levari Facias. Properties include a half-acre Vine Grove parcel with a stave and shingle mill, a seven-acre reserve tract in Conewango, a Sugar Grove village lot with hotel and outbuildings, and a Warren Borough interset lot with a two-story dwelling. Dates span June 3 and June 8, 1878, with executions to Mr Spaulding, Porter Pemberton, and Christin Leohirt estates, under Henry Brace and Henry Brack sheriffs.
In the Western District of Pennsylvania a bankruptcy warrant was issued May 6 1878 against Joh A Weible of Tidiouse Warren County. He is adjudged bankrupt on his petition. Debts and property transfers to him are forbidden. A creditors meeting to prove debts and elect assignees will be held at Allen & Thompson Tidouse Warren County Pa before 5 BE Woodruff Register on June 2 1878 at 6 PM. Pittsburgh May 11 1878.
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