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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1902
Page
2
A compact weekly roundup covers home and foreign items, industrial news, and notable personal and political happenings. Includes concise summaries of events from the past seven days.
Senate passes Chinese exclusion expansion and applies it to insular territories. Cuban reciprocity bill advances in the House with a 247 to 59 vote. Senate personnel debates, pensions and public works dominate noted sessions. trade figures, university enrollment, and a wide range of international events are cited.
A Burlington train in Colorado set a speed record by covering 14.8 miles in nine minutes. American buyers invest in a British loan of £32,000,000. Cuba’s president-elect Palma says the dollar becomes the Cuban standard and reciprocity with the U.S. will follow. Maryland adjourns after 21 hours to fix a tax bill error. A fire in Wallin Michigan kills a mother, three children, and a niece. Chicago sees 20 homeless from a blaze. Four Boudrau children die in Tacoma from ptomaine poisoning after moving from New Hampshire. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage’s remains buried in Brooklyn. National Bread Co. of New England forms in Boston with $5 million capital. Illinois Central and Chicago & Eastern Illinois plan homeseekers to southern Illinois. Senate confirms James R. Garfield as U.S. civil service commissioner. Roosevelt era pensioning hits Pennsylvania amid veto disputes. Thomas F. Walter, Civil War veteran, cashiered for disobedience. National Baseball League opens its 27th season. National Association of Manufacturers elects D. M. Parry in Indianapolis and seeks anti-injunction repeal. James S. Clarkson nominated for New York customs post. Gen. Miles likely to stay as head of the army. River side Kentucky freight wreck claims Conductor Clarence Turner and Fireman John McGann. Winter wheat yield outlook improves. Nearly 2,000 coal miners quit West Pennsylvania Railroad over scale issues. U.S. weekly business totals show gains. Missouri court allows teachers to whip pupils. Milligan Nebraska bank robbed of $3,000 linked to water cure torture tales in the Philippines. The heel trust failures to correct.
In Indianapolis a Prohibition meeting decided to nominate a governor candidate and a secretary candidate with James M. of Indianapolis, Mrs. Kate Zielinski, and other figures. Obituaries report deaths of Abraham Fisher at 90 in Germantown and Frank R Stockton in Washington from brain hemorrhage.
Reports from Washington and Manila say Malvar has surrendered unconditionally and called on insurgents to cease fighting, signaling an end to the war. Britain seeks peace terms with the Boers, while Pope’s delegate is named in Canada. Royal illness, elopements, and protests color a globe of diplomacy and coercion acts.
Reports indicate three shocks leveled Quesaltenango, Guatemala's second city, with 25 000 residents, and destroyed Amatitlan. About 500 killed in Quesaltenango as relief efforts begin.
Snippets report ratification of treaties with France and a half century of service by town clerk John Adams Butts in Canaan Maine. Notes Mr Yen joining Masons in Philadelphia and Chicago stone ceremony for Orthodox Jewish home.
A socialist demonstration in Louvain near Brussels led to riot and police firing on the mob. Five people were killed and 12 wounded as civic guards faced attackers in Rue Tirlemont and Place Saint Antoin. Militants carried the dead to the Maison des Proletaires as order was restored by the military.
Havana April 19 The Audiencia court accepted a 100000 bond offered by a fidelity company for Estes G Rathbone to secure his appearance The court requires the bond to be drawn before a notary causing delay and expense Rathbone's lawyers contest that habeas corpus action and argue the bond should be drawn before the court A petition will be heard today Cuban officials ask for US pardon for Americans now under arrest in Cuba The Rathbone case has stirred Cuban sentiment and provoked talks of general pardons Newspapers criticize Gov Gen Wood's order affecting removals of current judiciary members.
Detroit on April 19 Justice Whelan refused a three weeks postponement sought by Frank C. Andrews and Henry R. Andrews for their examination on the wrecking charge. He ordered the examinations to proceed as scheduled, after hearing defense and prosecutor objections.
Detectives captured Lafayette Starks near Wickliffe Kentucky on desertion from the army post at Columbus Ohio last January. He belonged to company I twenty-ninth infantry and was brought to Carbondale Illinois by Marshal Hammond before departing by train for Columbus.
Chicago meat dealers and butchers announce an offensive and defensive alliance against the meat trust they accuse of controlling all meat products. Railroads are reported to be in league with the trust as meat and produce prices continue to rise.
Fire Capt. Charles E. Case of Engine Company No Allentown was fatally injured when thrown from a hose cart in front of a street car at Clybourn Place and North Paulina Street on Friday night. The incident occurred during an urban street scene in Chicago.
Mrs Sophie Brans of Fruitvale Balprescribes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after eighteen months of severe ovarian pain and debility. The letter promises full recovery within six weeks and urges others with irregular menstruation or related symptoms to use the remedy.
The Inter Ocean condemns pasting repetitive layers of wallpaper as unsanitary and enabling disease spread. It urges legal action to stop the practice and promotes Alabastine as a sanitary wall coating amid health warnings.
Reports from New York Cleveland Toledo Buffalo and East Liberty show similar trends with wheat and corn steady to mixed. Live cattle and hog prices vary by city with steers around 6 to 7 dollars and hogs chiefly 6.70 to 7.40 dollars per hundredweight.
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