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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1901
Page
2
A weekly digest covering home and foreign items in industry, politics, and notable happenings. The compact survey highlights personal, political, and economic developments from the past seven days.
A round of world news reports include: New York Central shops in Rochester burned. Archbishop Keane invested at Dubuque. racial labor tensions halt Jackson work. teens jailed in Missouri for train wreck plot. Massillon coal engineers’ strike settled. Tarpon Springs post office robbed for over $1,000.
The Iowa Republican State Committee set August 7 in Cedar Rapids for a state convention. Obituaries include Rev. Justin D. Fulton of Somerville Mass. and Richard P. Rothwell of New York. Other items report birthdays and engagements, plus deaths of Ex-Gov Charles Stockley and Col Alfred Belo.
The budget reveals Boer War expenses at 325 million dollars, adding 275 million to the national debt with a further 300 million dollar loan needed. Also notes on Cuban convention and potential statehood, MacArthur on insurgent surrender, Hague Peace signing by Mexico, and Manila fraud claims exaggeration. Aguinaldo urges peace and submission to American rule citing majority support.
Minnesota game warden hatches 100 million wall-eyed pike. Rio de Janeiro population about 650000. England leads in building commercial ships. Annapolis naval academy cost 3000000 dollars. New Zealand sends most youth to Africa. GAR mortality surpasses 10000. Rural delivery extension gets 3000000 dollars in three months. Montreal archbishop bans cremation. Minnesota public printer issues laws within two days. North Pacific fir timber favored for bridges. East Conference of Methodists rejects constitution over women powers. 1901 Texas sees 65 national banks start with over 2 million capital. U S tobacco output about 725 million pounds with half for home use. Chicago woman develops emergency ration awaited by nations. Foster says Diaz supreme in Mexico, republic stability after death uncertain.
A skiff capsized near Legionville Pennsylvania on the river claiming three occupants. W H Barnhart and Thomas Holsinger were drowned while two others survived. Elsewhere, a wave of labor strikes and other events dominate the day with mine idle in the Ohio sub district and West Virginia panhandles, a granite workers threat at Cape Ann, a Sparta Wisconsin mill fire, and various weather notes.
Rivers across Ohio Pennsylvania Kentucky and West Virginia burst banks with widespread damage from flooding. Cities like Cincinnati Pittsburg Huntington and London report heavy property losses, displaced families, and railroad disruption as water levels peak and then recede after days of rainfall and snow.
Dr H L Nie tert, head of St Louis City Hospital, reports a rare operation on Philip Gunn after a saloon brawl stabbing. Three stitches repaired a knife wound entering the right ventricle and piercing toward the heart cavity. The opening to the pericardium closed lip shaped on both sides.
A New York artist notes a shift in humor pages from text driven "he and she" sketches to bold caricatures. The evolution reflects higher artistic standards and reader preference for images, with occasional "he and she" pieces aligning to lines.
A visitor recalls an eccentric method used at an asylum to judge when an inmate is fit for discharge. In a yard with several troughs and running taps, patients bail water to drain the troughs. Those who keep bailing continue while water runs, but those who aren’t idiots stop the tap.
A collection of brief aphorisms and quips including lines about telephoning across oceans and a man in love. Extracts touch on marriage happiness and virtue, attributed to Harper's Bazaar Philadelphia Times Hamerton and Chicago Daily News.
The narrator argues against stereotypes of Chinese people as liars or thieves. He claims personal experience with truthfulness from Chinese servants and notes selective caution with valuables, citing anecdotes from his life in China and a rare robbery incident involving a thief at an inn.
An advertisement offers a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease powder for foot discomfort. It claims to cure chilblains sweating damp swollen aching feet and eases new or tight shoes and bunions. The offer requests a mailed sample from Leroy Olmsted in N Y.
Promote Grain-O as a coffee substitute for all ages. Claims rich mocha like color from grains, easy on delicate stomachs, and suitable for children. Priced 15 and 25 cents per package and sold by all grocers with a hokey closing line from the New York Herald.
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