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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1903
Page
2
A recap of domestic and foreign items including a Lake Shore train colliding with a freight car in Conneaut Ohio fatally injuring Arnold Kentler and Ed Dennis. California fruit companies raise prices. Incidents in Indiana and Missouri, battleship Alabama marksmen, floods and ship news, labor and finance notes.
The Supreme Court refuses to overturn a Texas Pacific Railway ruling after Abe Behmer’s 10000 damage award. looming strikes loom across trades in New York City and nationwide. garment workers may join a May 1 action while other unions threaten later walkouts.
Bank deposits rise eighty five percent in ten years. Sir Thomas Lipton courted for peerage and American Cup. Dr L Gideon Archambault leaves forty thousand to found a home for aged poor. Carnegie and others promise endowments for a Pittsburg university. Cleveland mayor Tom L Johnson declines Democratic governor bid. John K Lincoln, relative of Abraham Lincoln, dies in Kansas City aged eighty two. Pope’s health praised by Dr Lapponi. Siam king warns of eventual English French domination. Illinois Steel buys 33 acres near Indiana Harbor for 1.5 million dollars cement works. British labor delegates critique American methods and morality in London. New York post office handles 450 tons daily with 2 stations and 159 substations. 14 stamp-canceling machines process 28 thousand letters hourly. Indictments voted by a Porto Rico grand jury for alleged smuggling. Dowie invasion advance guard quarters in New York boarding house. 4,000 mission aries expected from Chicago in October. Amelia Higginson condemns Roosevelt word on race death by action and urges baby question to women.
Chicago lawyer and politician Lester Legrand Bond dies of pneumonia. Moses Waterman, longtime Times-Republican editor in Marshalltown, passes at 58. Ohio Democrats set convention dates August 25 and 26 in Columbus. Colonel James Powell, U.S.A., veteran, dies in Peoria after 20 years illness. Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons dies of pneumonia in Bensonhurst. Former Congressman A. S. McClure dies in Wooster at 64. J Pierpont Morgan marks 66th birthday in New York. Jesse G. Hawley founder and proprietor of Reading Eagle dies at 63 in Reading. Rev. Edward J. Drinkhouse, 73, former editor of Methodist Protestant, dies in Baltimore.
Ensign Hussner of the German navy faces court martial for killing an artilleryman who failed to salute him. Porto Rico officers’ smuggling charges, ordered dropped by Attorney General Knox, will be ignored by the island court. France's President Loubet arrives at Algiers to a grand ovation. King Edward arrives in Valetta Malta to cheering crowds. King Alexander of Servia warns Belgrade of ready strike as Balkan tensions mount.
President Roosevelt arrived at Fort Yellowstone in good spirits after an eight day horseback tour in the park. Secretary Loeb said the party including Maj Pitcher John Burroughs and a mule train reported no accidents and planned visits to geysers falls and elk herds. They will proceed to Norris and Edgemont for brief stops and a cowboy reception.
An angry mob seized Tom Gilyard from Joplin jail and hanged him on a telegraph pole after he was charged with murdering Officer C Leslie. The crowd later rioted in the negro district burning houses and driving blacks from the city as police failed to stop the violence.
A blaze at Spindle Top Beaumont Texas began at 1 a.m. Wednesday and swept three blocks. It destroyed 265 derricks and 200 rigs with damages estimated between 800000 and 1000000 dollars. The lantern from Caldwell Oil Company’s well ignited the flywheel starting the fire. no attempt to fight it as flames reached 36 37 and 38.
The weather bureau’s weekly crop summary notes winter wheat across the belt east of the Rockies remains promising with excellent growth though the California outlook is favorable while Oregon and Washington show less favorable results and parts of one third in Washington may be resown. Corn planting extends north to Kansas and Tennessee with progress in several regions. Spring wheat seeding nears completion in Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota with limited sowing in North Dakota and Minnesota. Oats look good in southern states and central valleys.
A fierce northeaster battered the Jersey shore for 24 hours and the Atlantic coast, with waves washing to the first floor of Coney Island and wrecking the new bulkhead at Ocean Parkway. Seabright reports damaged houses and boardwalks as railway tracks were washed over and traffic halted.
Milwaukee reports from Tomah Wisconsin describe a Thursday fire that destroyed the home of Miss Phoebe Heeley and Miss Libbie Heeley at Bear Creek. The sisters aged 75 and 86 died in the blaze and authorities suspect robbery and murder to cover the crime. A coroner inquiry is set for next Saturday. A separate note from Little Falls Minnesota records Mrs. Rose Poissant burned to death at her daughter’s home in Ripley county.
Dublin officials report the Irish national convention voted unanimously to support in principle the Irish land bill. They tasked John Redmond and his party to push for amendments in the House of Commons that address vital points. Redmond says nationalist amendments will be accepted by landlords and tenants, easing passage of the bill.
Orakeqa dington and his wife plus three children with two neighbors drowned near Clinton Indiana after leaving a road and entering deep water on the Wabash bottoms. A relief boat arrived late while Exdington escaped on a horse and his wife was saved by a 12 year old boy. Three bodies were recovered as floodwaters from recent rains swelled the river.
St Louis April 18 Lieutenant Governor John A Lee is missing and accused by city officials of distributing a 27000 baking powder trust doodle among state legislators in return for votes. Six more indictments have been voted. Gov.
The Minnesota House killed a bill to cede Barren Island opposite La Crosse to Wisconsin after Wisconsin refused to cede the island opposite Red Wing to Minnesota. The dispute centered on territorial boundaries and island ownership.
Newport April 15 The marriage of Reginald C. Vanderbilt of New York to Miss Kathleen G. Neilson also of New York took place at Arleigh at noon Tuesday. The private villa ceremony drew about 150 guests, mostly New York society members, marking an early social season note for 1903.
An experimental iron ore smelting at Valley Iron Works in St. Paul, Minnesota, used titaniferous ore from northern Minnesota to produce pig iron rivaling Bessemer steel. Demonstrators claim vanadium and chrome in the ore grant extraordinary strength, with the new product said to be tougher and as cheap as hematite steel.
United Mine Workers districts 1 7 and 9 convened in Wilkesbarre to interpret the nine hour workday amid a coal region strike. The Reading Coal and Iron Co shut down most Schuylkill collieries leaving about 30,000 men idle and Coxe Brothers alleged to block a check weighman. A three-person miners’ conciliation board will be appointed at the meeting.
New York police announced that the murdered man found in a barrel last Tuesday was Maduena Benedetto, 40, of Buffalo New York. A brother in law of Benedetto, Joseph De Prima, now in Sing Sing prison, positively identified the victim from a photo. Three of 14 prisoners questioned in court Monday faced charges including counterfeiting and perjury in relation to the case.
Twelve convicts fled the stockade six miles from Wilmington on April 21 as they were being moved. One black inmate was killed and a white man and a black man were wounded. The wounded escaped, four captives were taken, and officers believed the seven remaining were cornered in a swamp.
Vincennes reports the Wabash river at 18.6 feet and still rising. Flood fears grow as residents in the Illinois lowlands relocate to higher ground amid ongoing high water.
In Rome on April 21 Ricciotti Garibaldi head of Italian volunteers in Greece reports letters from many nations offering to join his expedition to free Macedonia from Turkey. Offers include forming a yeomanry and cavalry battalion in South Africa and volunteers may come from the United States. He believes no serious uprising is likely this year.
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