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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
2
A roundup of domestic and international developments from The Industrial Field era featuring notable business, political and social notes. Highlights include market shifts, policy moves, and civic happenings shaping both local and global landscapes.
William Bateman Leeds gave his bride in Cleveland presents worth over 500000 dollars. The census shows Providence at 175000 people, Chicago at about 1697000 with 54 percent growth. Yellowstone expects more visitors. U S and Canada fire losses reach 116908000. Fort Sheridan troops head to China. Hawaii ends native language schooling. A fire at Crivitz, Wis. cost 150000. a Chicago couple dies after a double suicide. Train robberies, rail news, finance data, and heat records accompany a wide update of events across cities and industries.
Reports include Havana yellow fever cases with 18 Americans, a fatal train omnibus crash in Slatington Pennsylvania, a confessed murder on a Pennsylvania train by ex Adams Express employee, a fatal train wreck in Iowa Louisiana, multiple storm deaths near New York, congressional spending totals, bank note circulation rise since March 14, Seattle’s 1964 world’s fair plan, wheat forecasts and corn feeding advice, 78 Sunday marriages in St Joseph Michigan, tornado damage at Pittsburgh Aluminum Works, and a Toledo murder suicide by S C Reighard over jealousy.
William J. Bryan and Adlai Stevenson were notified in Indianapolis of their Democratic presidential and vice presidential nom. In Illinois Ninth District H A Brooks was nominated. Wisconsin Republicans chose La Follette for governor by acclamation. Prohibition party named V V Barnes for Illinois governor. Various regional nominations and notable deaths follow, including centenarians and scientists.
London financiers react to rapid American capital shifts as Boer plans and battles raise alarms. Reports note ruined garrisons, massacres of Armenians, Chinese allied advances, and political maneuvers by Kruger and Li Hongzhang amid the Philippine pacification and growing global tensions.
Baron Russell of Killowen, lord chief justice of England, died in London at age 68. A broad international note reports unrest from Paris strikes, Washington edicts, and ongoing conflicts in Asia and the Philippines.
English army tests a bicycle corps as a defensive force succeed. Germany expected to win more Paris prize awards than any nation. Alaska plans a 400 mile railroad through gold fields. Iceland marks nine centuries of Christianity. A Topeka woman seeks divorce after 41 years with her husband. Massillon residents head to Oklahoma to claim land and start a colony. Stage actors named Herbert Standing and others debuting. World revival efforts planned by Methodist leaders for early century. Augustine of the Sequoias dies in San Diego after a 100 year rule, age 133. Forty six navy recruits depart Chicago for San Francisco aged 15 to 17. Two new life saving stations planned for Lake Michigan. Leprosy in the Philippines prompts a military board to choose an isolation island. Treasury comptroller says common carriers liable for lost goods without bill of lading. Baltimore works on a silver service for Rear Admiral Schley costing about 8000 dollars.
The latest dispatch notes 138 Methodist missionaries in Pekin remain at risk though none are reported killed. In Lahore a Afghan ameer mobilizes forces and may advance on the Russian frontier. In Michigan seven hot days ended with a July 13 thunderstorm, while California forest fires increase county damage.
A Lehigh & New England passenger train hit a funeral party omnibus near Slatington, killing fifteen instantly and fatally injuring ten others. The omnibus carried 25 people, most of them relatives of Sophia Schaeffer. The accident happened around five o'clock on a sharp curve with no warning watchman.
In maneuvers off Cape St. Vincent the battleship Brennus collided with torpedo boat destroyer Framee. Framee sank. 4 officers and 58 men saved. At least 50 feared lost amid limited details. France, a 313 ton newer vessel, involved in counts.
George Landers alias George Brennan, wanted in Kansas City for swindling on cattle deals, has been adjudged insane and ordered sent to the state asylum. Former wealthy banker, he disappeared after a prior failure, was arrested near El Paso while traveling from Mexico and confessed identity. The Kansas City sheriff was driving him back when the court ruled his reason gone.
In Cincinnati on August 13 William Doepke a steam engineer his wife and four children were returning from a picnic at Fairmount. The Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railroad crossing with an Indianapolis northbound excursion train led to Doepke's 4 year old son George trying to dash across. He was killed along with his father who attempted to rescue him carrying his two year old daughter. The infant cannot recover from injuries.
In St Louis on August 138 the East St Louis electric railway strike and the related boycott were declared off by unanimous vote of the employees. The stoppage on the St Louis Transit lines began May 10 and ended with this vote.
Samuel M. Clark editor of the Gate City for 36 years died in Keokuk on a Saturday. He served in the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses representing the First Iowa district and was United States commissioner of education for the 1889 Paris Exposition. Born in 1842, he was a native Iowan.
In Sylvania Georgia on August 13 gunmen described as two Negroes named Alexander fatally shot R F Herring ton and Milton Mears after a quarrel. Local authorities report the victims died Saturday night from their injuries.
Charles R. H. Ferrell a former Adams Express employee was arrested after confessing to killing Messenger Charles Lane and robbing the way safe on a Pennsylvania east bound train. Police recovered $1000 of stolen money from Ferrell who planned the crime for his upcoming marriage to Miss Lillian Costlow.
In Toledo on August 13 Cal Reighard aged 55 killed his wife 28 in a candy store she ran then shot himself at home. The jealous husband died, leaving three of their children and a stepchild from his prior marriage.
Berlin reports the death of Franz Betz, renowned Wagnerian tenor, who passed away Saturday in Berlin. Betz held a prominent place in opera, celebrated for roles in Wagnerian works and concert performances across Europe.
The advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as preserving form and facial freshness by keeping the female organism healthy. It cites letters from women published in the paper to support its claims and promotes the product as a safeguard through natural health crises.
A classified style pitch urges readers to explore Nebraska’s grain, fruit, cattle, and cheap land. It touts healthful climate, churches, and schools, offers illustrated booklets on The Corn Belt and West Nebraska grazing country, and announces cheap excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month via the Chicago Great Western Railway. S. Eustis Dont Passr Agt. C. B. & Q. R. Re. Chicago Illinois.
The advertisement promotes Burnham's Cream Custard with instructions to dissolve in hot milk and chill. It claims healthful nourishment for children and invalids. Grocers offer a 10c free package of Burnham's Hasty Jellycon with a purchaser of jelly preparations.
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