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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1895
Page
1
Havana reports Madrid dispatches reveal Spain will launch a fall campaign to subdue Cuba. Gen Martinez Campos directs a total war with roots and branch suppression, death or deportation for rebels, and a naval siege. sixty modern warships to surround the island by November.
London reports Mrs Langtry has returned from Baden Baden and asked her bank to restore jewels valued at 40000 pounds. She deposited them before leaving London and alleges an August 24 forgery directing the bank to deliver the jewels to a person identified as hearer. Police have not traced the forger.
Why not you? Thousands take Hood's Sarsaparilla to overcome weakness and languor of the season. It claims power to cure rheumatism dyspepsia and diseases caused by impure blood. Hood's cures others why not you Hood's Pills are prompt and efficient.
Rev. M W DeVaux spoke on Prohibition under Keystone League of Christian Endeavors. A chicken thief struck Amos Higgins, and a United Evangelical church lawn fete raised funds for a new parsonage. Rev B F Feit to preach October 5. Mr C Smith noted as local teacher. weddings expected. Sabbath activities listed. bike accident reported. local shop advertises men’s furnishings at A Weiss.
Saratoga N Y Sept 18 The State Republican convention closed its session naming a full ticket for November. Secretary of State John Palmer Albany Comptroller James E Roberts Erie State Treasurer A B Colvin Warren State Engineer C W W Adams Oneida Attorney General S B Hancock Onondaga Judge Court of Appeals Celora E Martino Broome
The Spanish warship Sanchez Barcaizetegui under Admiral Delgado Parejo struck by the coasting steamer Mortera at midnight sank almost instantly off Morro Castle. Admiral Parejo and Captain Ybanez among 34 drowned. 116 crew saved. Parejo and Ybanez bodies recovered. captain’s body mutilated by sharks. Ship was 920 tons, 208 feet long, 30 feet beam, 12-foot draught with seven guns.
A fire at the Sunlight Oil and Gasoline Company plant at Forty-ninth Street and Gray's Ferry Avenue, likely caused by a lightning strike at 2 30 this morning, engulfed six acres and destroyed a warehouse, cooper shop, boiler and engine house, and 15 tanks. Night watchman Michael Murphy died from burn injuries, with losses estimated at $100,000 and only $4,000 insured.
A September storm in Jamestown region damaged homes and barns. Smith Ackroyd and Anna Teney had houses struck by lightning, John Wilson’s barn near Panama burned, and Fernando Owens’ barn and Mr Top ham’s dwelling at Dewittsville were destroyed. Totman’s barn at Cassadaga also burned, with strikes reported at Stockton.
Reports from yesterday's cyclonic storm across the state indicate several deaths and about 150000 dollars in crop and property damage. Sanilac and Huron counties suffered the worst impacts as homes were destroyed, crops ruined, and trees uprooted amid unexpected ferocity and subsequent heat.
In Milwaukee Wisconsin the chair factory paint shop and boiler house at the Milwaukee House of Correction burned last night after prisoners were locked in for the night. A wall collapse trapped fireman Ernest Olson who was rescued after thirty minutes but is in danger of dying. About 200 prisoners were guarded by fifty policemen as flames caused about 30000 dollars in losses.
MAYVILLE Sept 19 LaDur was yesterday nominated for member of assembly for the second district of Chautauqua county Walter Record of Forestville was nominated for district attorney and Fred Sylvester of Sinclairville for special county judge.
President Grover Cleveland touched a golden button at Buzzards Bay signaling the start of the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta. The throng of about sixty thousand cheered as cannons fired, flags waved, and civic and military parades accompanied officials and guests in a grand opening ceremony. Judge Emery Speer spoke, Mrs. Joseph Whomson led the women’s board, and Expo President Charles H. Collier reviewed the work before Gray Gables was declared ready and the machinery hall sparked to life.
During Rosh Hashanah services at the Kennedy Street Orthodox Hebrew church two Garfinkle brothers demanded L H Cohen surrender his seat. When refused one threatened to knife. Morrison Herron intervened and was struck, knocked to the floor. Police arrested the Garfinkles and placed them on bail.
One of Franklin’s premier social events was the McCalmont Smith wedding at St John’s Episcopal church. The bride Eleuthera Du Pont Smith is a niece of Hon. and Mrs A A Plumer, who raised her. groom J Donald McCalmont is the son of Hon. S P McCalmont and practices law with his father.
Millers Falls Massachusetts resident recounts thirteen years of his wife suffering kidney and liver complaints and stomach ulcers. He credits Dr David Kennedy Favorite Remedy with curing her each time and says it is a family medicine used by neighbors as well.
Franklin Sept. 17. A group of Pittsburg capitalists proposes to erect a £10,000 hotel and open a summer resort at Big Rock Mineral Springs, about a mile from the city. They visited the site yesterday and expressed strong approval of the plan.
Findlay Ohio September 18 The Circuit Court last evening reversed and ordered a new trial in the case of T and W Carnahan against the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company after the plaintiff won a 75000 verdict. The insurer carried the matter up on error to the Circuit Court which sent it back for retrial.
The Edam of 3080 tons en route from New York to Amsterdam foundered after colliding with the Turkestan fifty miles southeast of the starting point in thick fog. All Edam crew and passengers fled to boats and were rescued by the Vulture, with Beersford towing the lifeboats to Plymouth. The Turkestan was lost in the fog and not seen again. The Edam, 311 feet long and built in 1883, belonged to the Netherlands American Steamship Co and was commanded by Capt Brunsma.
Ross C. Vanbokelen, a receiving teller at Merchants Loans and Trust Co in Chicago, vanished with about 50000 of bank funds. He is believed to be in Mexico after most shortages, including a 15000 withdrawal last Saturday. A $5000 bond is active with Guaranty Company of Worth America as investigators search.
Spink, a girl under sixteen, disappeared Tuesday morning. She boards with John Mattis near East Side chapel and her mother is named as a troublemaker. School books and her mother’s parasol were left on the verandah. A Erie youth who wrote to her is suspected. a search continues and she may be placed in a house of correction.
In Columbia on Sept 17 reform leaders Tillman and Irby clashed openly at the constitutional convention. The dispute, sparked by George D. Tillman’s remarks on Fulton county, led to heated exchanges and frayed fraternal ties. The sergeant-at-arms intervened repeatedly to keep the peace as Butler’s character was attacked. ultimately Butler’s name was erased.
A building under construction on Kloster strasse in Gubero Brandenburg collapsed today burying sixteen workers. Nine were killed and the others seriously injured.
In Chattanooga on September 19, Vice President Stevenson led a dedicatory ceremony for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga military park. The National Park Commission, governor officials, and survivors gathered on Snodgrass Hill to dedicate the vast site, marking battle lines with hundreds of tablets and guns. Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and other states contributed monuments as the park progresses toward completion.
One half of Oliver coke workers at Uniontown struck today following yesterday's convention. More plants including Lemont near Dupbar and Wheeler and Morrel near Dupbar will idle tomorrow. The region may be fully idle within 48 hours. Miner Frank Lorence of Clayridge was fatally run over by a freight train.
The Reynoldsville Star notes S. B. Elliot of Bell Lewis Yates asserts the railroad from Reynolds ville through Clear field Elk and Forest counties to Warren will be built. Two to three engineering corps are surveying. The Bell Lewis Yates coal company seeks north shipping independence from Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg. The New Reynoldsville Fall Creek tracks will be used to Falls Creek, then to Warren. the line would boost local coal output and make Reynoldsville a terminus. A survey has occurred and talks about feasibility span years.
Michael Geary prominent Oil City figure dies in New York between 7 and o'clock Wednesday morning of congestion of the lungs. Born in Ireland September 19, 1844 he came to America at age four and built a career in iron works and local enterprises. He led the Oil City boiler works, owned stock in Brush Electric, chaired Oil City Tube and Trust, headed Enterprise Milling, the Opera House, and Arlington Hotel renovations. The obituary notes his status as a self-made man and his role in Northwestern Pennsylvania industry.
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