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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1903
Page
2
A roundup of global and national notes includes Ruskin college moving to Glen Ellyn Illinois. Chicago Union Traction insolvent. New York stock exchange building dedication. various crimes and political developments. rail and industry news. fires, deaths, and notable endowments.
The week saw 152 business failures in the U S, with 181 the prior year, while trade reviews foresee a strong building season. Robbers stole 1 000 dollars from Burlington passengers and depot crowds in Lincoln Nebraska. Illinois delays a free employment agency act as invalid. A 14 railroad injunction in Chicago targets discriminatory rebates. Ed Walker was hanged in Centerville Alabama for murder. Meats prices rise in Kansas City amid a suspected revival of the packing trade. Roosevelt’s campaign swings through Alliance and three states. St Louis readies for the Louisiana Purchase centennial with a grand exposition. The Colorado cruiser launch in Philadelphia drew officials from Washington and Colorado. Four burglars loot Munn Sons bank in Portage Ohio for 9 000. Detroit cancels Sunday games amid law enforcement actions. Columbus Ohio endures a 500 000 fire loss. Wanamaker insures 1 000 000 with Prudential, total coverage 2 000 000. Cup defender Reliance proves fast and seaworthy. Hay cables protest Russia in China. Neill and Patterson die in a Grand Trunk collision. A 17 year old negro is lynched near Santa Fe Illinois. Openham’s body found. reward 5 000. Missouri’s Lieut Governor resigns over bribery. Yale’s Heffelfinger declines civil service post. A Manchuria sovereignty protest by U S England and Japan. Vanderbilt married in London. battles in Somaliland. German expulsion of Mormon missionaries. Japan demands Manchuria evacuation. mass protest over Chinese concessions. Pisaqua burning.
Reports say Chinese merchants retreating from Blagovechensk migrate to Manchuria amid rising tensions. A Milwaukee area robbery yields $1000 from a church trip. The Interstate Commerce Commission released a three month railroad accident bulletin ending 1902 with 266 killed and 2788 injured on trains and 938 killed 11573 injured overall. Philip Doblin committed to Bellevue hospital for sanity evaluation after congressional testimony. Charles H. Robb named assistant attorney general for post office dept. Presbyterian assembly to decide on revising the confession of faith after two thirds of presbyteries approve. A molten metal explosion at Vesta furnace Marietta Pa injures five workers fatally likely. The Lone Pine coal deal moves 7000 acres in Washington county Pa to financiers in Pittsburg Cleveland and Philadelphia at about 1000 per acre totaling just over 700000.
Washington April 24 A sensational development in the post office inquiry reports Postmaster General Payne dismissing James N Tyner assistant attorney general for the post office department. He alleges Mrs Tyner with others abstracted papers from Tyner s office safe and refuses to return them.
Alexander Ramsey secretary of War under Hayes and first Minnesota governor died at 88 in St. Paul. Milton M. Fisher, anti slavery era Free Soil leader, died at 92 in Medway, Massachusetts. Ellen Sully Fray, famed women’s suffragist and club founder, died in Toledo. James O. Putnam former minister to Belgium died in Buffalo at 84. Mrs Hannah Southwick, pioneering suffrage activist, died in Pawtucket.
Government-detected islands added to charts in the Philippines amid ongoing exploration. Reports also note Russia pressing China to cede Manchuria and exclude other powers from the region.
The National Conference of Charities will be held in Atlanta Georgia this year beginning May 6. A party of German agriculturists will tour the United States to study farming and stock raising methods.
President Roosevelt wraps two weeks in Yellowstone Park with a praised visit to Mammoth Hot Springs. He plans to resume his tour toward Washington on June 5, noting health is good and park scenery impressed him. The trip drew large crowds and Masons for a northern Yellowstone corner stone ceremony.
A report cites numerous alleged cruelties toward Filipinos and distress among troops. It notes liquor abstinence among soldiers, questions cavalry needs, and details a specific incident at Lipa where 15 locals were tortured and 65-year-old Vincente Luna burned to death, with scouts under Lieut. Hennessy blamed. Gen. Miles is referenced with multiple cruelty examples.
Advices from the orient report a mutiny aboard the American ship Edward Sewall at Woosung. Captain Quick called for help from the battleship Oregon. Marines seized the mutineers and removed them. Edward Sewall proceeds to Honolulu. Owned by Arthur Sewall of Bath Maine.
Crowds demonstrate in Paris and provinces over dispersals of religious congregations. In Marseilles Capuchins barricade inside their convent. violence erupts with stones and police struggle. Benedictines at Landerneau dispersed. Oblate visit provokes clashes. monks at La Roche-Sa arrested amid surrounding force.
An explosion at the Northwestern Star Oil Co plant on Sixth Avenue Southeast killed ten people eight men and two women and injured seven. The blast collapsed the building trapping workers with six more bodies later recovered from the ruins amid reports sparks from a switch engine may have ignited flammable fluids.
James Stanley known as King of the Gypsies died in a traveling wigwam near Haverhill and was buried from a tent in West Roxbury. His will leaves 25000 dollars in cash to his widow and eight children and a house valued at 15000 dollars for his family.
Passengers at the Burlington Union station in Lincoln Nebraska were robbed while asleep awaiting connections north and west. An immigrant sleeper on the track was also entered and robbed.
The Americas club held its annual Grant banquet at Hotel Schenly with about 300 Pittsburg business leaders in attendance. Assistant Attorney General James Beck delivered the principal speech praising Lincoln and Grant for the birth of the United Republic.
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