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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1906
Page
2
A compact international roundup presents notable happenings across continents and nations. Key items provide quick highlights on economic, political and social developments from various regions without detailed narratives.
Chicago votes to oppose municipal operation of street railways but supports issuing 75 million Mueller law certificates and rapid acquisition of traction properties. The decent element gains city council control with 42 aldermen backing high license. In Milwaukee Sherman M. Becker defeats David S. Rose for mayor. Kansas City tilts Republican with Beardsley winning and Beardsley leads Gregory. Kansas towns largely favor municipal ownership.
Anthracite miners offer to refer the dispute to the present arbitration board with Judge Gray or an appointee as umpire but operators may veto. Ohio Bituminous Operators propose arbitration across Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois. Illinois Operators vow to fight on all summer unless restrictions are lifted. A 175,000,000 ton shortage looms if the strike endures. Chicago schools cannot receive Illinois Indiana coal during the strike. Coal production in eight western states is suspended per Illinois Operators.
Reports note New Rochelle police trapping autoists after two women were killed, a magistrate stopping pickpockets on a streetcar, and Chicago deaths from consumption dropping 54.4 percent in fifty years. Other items cover Zionist loyalty in San Antonio, olive oil in court skin care, a Russian governor killed by bomb, labor unrest in France, a Chicago murder verdict, a New York garage fire, and notable public figures and notices.
The House committee reported the post office appropriation bill setting a 1907 budget of 191 378 848, up 10 351 755 from 1906. The House passed the national quarantine bill 202 to 26, while a White House rate amendment sparked a lively Senate clash. Representative Pou proposed prohibiting corporate campaign contributions without stockholder consent. The postal bill bars free franks for congress members mailing household furniture. Nine election reform bills await action as Chairman Gaines faces criticism. Speaker Canon’s 70th birthday May 7 is planned amid boom talk for a president.
John D. Rockefeller Jr told his Bible class that wealth alone offers no happiness. The item surveys varied public concerns from Calvo Drago doctrines to graft cases, Vesuvius dangers, political reforms, and notable death stories across several cities, highlighting the era's wide social shifts.
A wide-ranging notice lists executions, fires, deaths, political moves, court rulings, international tensions, shipping and trade disputes, and notable crimes. Items include George Easton hanged in California, a Portland fire killing Homer H. Haleck, Vassar president Edward Tathrup’s death, Senator Alger not seeking reelection, Kansas City mayoral ouster, boycotts in the orient, refugees aid to Japan, Rhode Island women’s suffrage passage, Dowie’s polygamy plans, a deadly German hotel collapse, insurrection reports in San Domingo, and various other political, legal, and societal updates.
New York reports the anthracite operators refuse to arbitrate all grievances and propose Roosevelt era 1902 commission to assess if changes in hard coal conditions require modifying its award. They limit inquiry to wages and complaint procedures while miners ponder Thursday reply. Baer releases a letter from independent operators stating arbitration would amount to surrender to anarchy and mob violence.
Dr John Alexander Dowie postponed plans to enter Zion City after a Chicago meeting with lawyer Emil C Wetten. He warned there would be no compromise with Voliva and insisted on leading Zion or nothing. Meanwhile Voliva loyalists ordered church branches to stop funding Mexican land warrants.
The flageolet fascinates Americans as a distant courting flute among Indians. Apache version uses a cedar body with six finger holes, a lead lip, and a wooden cap, reflecting white influence. English double flageolets and 17th century notes show the instrument's versatility and historical interest.
Joseph G Knorr alias Joseph Blanchard, 27, former bookkeeper at Columbia Savings and Trust Co, was seized by city detectives at 6 30 am in the bank while allegedly rifling the books. He confessed to forged checks and to copying depositor signatures to issue fraudulent checks through smaller banks. Police call the scheme one of the boldest bank robberies known.
Corporal Alexander B. Stanberry testified that Charles F. Jones admitted lying on the stand in Albert T. Patrick’s trial and would flee if assured only a light perjury sentence. Stanberry’s testimony, brought from the Philippines, supported Patrick’s bid for a new trial in the Rice murder case where Patrick is under death sentence.
Congress in Washington reports Senator Bailey from Texas spoke at length on the railroad rate bill. The House dedicated the day to debate over the post office appropriation bill.
A five story brick building on Liberty avenue in downtown Pittsburg collapsed during razing work Tuesday. One laborer was killed and two others were slightly injured in the incident.
Smuggled goods of considerable value brought to San Francisco on the battleship Oregon were seized by Inspectors Tuesday at a freight shed. The seizure involves a valued shipment detected by customs officials amid maritime operations.
The Peking and Tientsin Times reports broughams now dominate streets in Peking, used by Chinese officials and families. They clog macadamized roads and narrow alleys, forcing carts to yield and risking collisions. police are notably absent in these areas.
Fat policemen and whiskered officers grow scarce as Commissioner Bingham ponders a rule urging efficiency through weight limits. Active, sharp officers fear retirement and strive to shed pounds while maintaining smart appearance, with a two day old board prone to censure.
Observer of Events and Things notes an echo near Niagara Falls as a person asks if the falls will ever dry up, and the response is a blunt dry up. Yonkers Statesman quotes the remark as a playful exchange about enduring natural forces.
An exchange from the Cleveland Leader shows a cheerful man claiming trivial motives to visit, while a busy man insists there is nothing he needs killed that day. The humor hinges on blunt dialogue and irony between the two speakers.
Weary Waddles notes a man who just passed in an automobile is worth ten million dollars. The Detroit Free Press quotes him adding the speaker believes wealth came from hard work.
New York markets show flour steady with futures at 89 1/2 cents for No 2 red wheat, 55 1/4 cents corn, and 39 41 2 cents oats. Livestock values range with sheep at 5.75, lambs 5.50 to 6.00, and hogs unsettled. similar figures appear for Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo and Pittsburg reports with price spreads for cattle, veals, and butter eggs and cheese.
The fiftieth anniversary of the invention of aniline dye will be celebrated with a portrait of Dr. Perkin in the National Portrait Gallery and a bust at Burlington House London. Gas detects scents, says Dr John Aitken. Two European science groups study the sun, the Solar Commission and Solar Union. Prof Spring notes ferric hydrate in water turns green at high depth and blue at lower depth. organic mold shifts blue color.
A new prize of 10000 dollars is offered in France for inventing a dirigible balloon. Sir Patrick Keith Murray presented to Britain an old cushion once supporting the crown of Scotland, now kept in Edinburgh Castle’s jewel room.
A collector of curious notes recalls raindrops that are hollow and a six foot Cape Colony earthworm. It notes miners death by own action as least among workingmen, Queen Elizabeth’s 3004 dresses on death, a mahogany log value up to 10000, and a cashmere shawl needing ten goats fleece and three men six months of work.
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