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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1904
Page
3
The speaker argues that religion must guide a commercial era without retreat from daily work. From Luther to Christ’s command to follow him, wealth and power should be used for the kingdom, shaping character and society while avoiding moral ruin. The path is to integrate faith with vocation.
The author finds baccalaureate sermons uniformly hopeful, rejecting pessimism. Despite concerns about modern problems, there is a persistent belief in upward human progress, divine guidance, and the promise that better days lie ahead for society and the world.
The speaker asks how to honor ancestral faith while allowing changes in practice. He notes Sabbath observance shifts and Bible study evolution, acknowledges concern over questioned truths, and urges reliance on the core body of faith rather than last century arguments. Religious experience remains constant even with doctrinal differences.
Reports from Tokio Che Foo Shanghai and St. Petersburg detail the Russian cruiser Novik’s defeat by Japanese ships Chitose and Tsushima and its run ashore at Korsakovsk. Port Arthur forts near Golden Hill and Tai pangtze positions change as Japanese advances continue.
Gen Wilmon W Blackmar of Boston was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic by acclamation at the national encampment in Boston with Denver named for the 1905 gathering Place. Other officers named include John R King George W Patten Warren R King J H Bradford and appointments to Adjutant General and Quartermaster General.
Rome August 22 The pope will supervise St Peter s preparations for coronation of the statue of the Virgin crowned by Pius IX in 1854 when the dogma of the immaculate conception was proclaimed. The first of 12 crown stars was inspected. it is five inches wide, houses 209 diamonds and cost 2000 dollars. The full 12 stars with settings will cost 10000 dollars.
Chicago reports a riot at the stock yards where a strike breaker killed one man and eight others were shot. Police say union No 213 planned slugging squads led by James Devins to attack non union workers. Victims include Alexander Brezosky who was beaten and robbed. Arrests include Christian Byron Albert Allison Marius Debusek and John Petrosky.
A wind storm sweeping Hamlin county South Dakota Sunday night killed Mr Erickson of Willow Lakes and Mrs H Schilling of Bryant and injured 30. The storm wrecked every Willow Lakes building, leveled three churches a schoolhouse and all elevators and livery barns. The Great Northern depot lay across tracks and 17 box cars overturned. The Methodist church rested upside down on the parsonage.
Montague Holbein began another bid to swim the English Channel at 4 35 p m Saturday west of Dover. He swam until darkness then suffered violent sickness and sea water intake from cold water and waves causing intestinal catarrh. By 2 30 Sunday morning he abandoned the effort after a determined struggle.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson announced post west tour plans to establish a wireless telegraph fire alarm network in government forest reserves. The system would auto alert when flames or heat are detected. Prof Willis Moore of the Weather Bureau will inspect the Black Hills area.
Washington reports a chemical laboratory for testing imported foods will open Sept 5 in New York under the agriculture department. Five chemists will be installed and more labs planned in Boston Philadelphia New Orleans San Francisco and Chicago as part of enforcing the pure food law.
Emperors text promises wide reforms across Finland and empire. It abolishes corporal punishment for rural classes and first offenses in sea and land forces, remits state arrears, sets aside 1.5 million for landless Finns, grants amnesty to emigrants, forgives fines for non submission to conscription, and offers general sentence reductions with broad amnesty for political crimes except murder cases.
Banks file petition in bankruptcy against Thomas E. Waggaman real estate and insurance agent and Catholic university treasurer. They seek to set aside a $876 000 deed of trust in favor of the university, alleging it as preference by an insolvent debtor. The three banks claim overdue notes totaling over 40 000, with 30 000 due the Metropolitan bank. Proceedings likely mark the start of extended litigation.
In Rochester on August 24 six Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad Co employees were hurt when a hand car began moving with crowding aboard. Andrew John fell from the car near the edge and was crushed under the wheels, tipping the car into a ditch. Two men are thought to be fatally injured.
For the year ended June 30, 1904 the public land office disposed of 16,258,892 acres, down from 22,650,928 acres the prior year. Cash received totaled $8,795,893 with 172,857 entries. Indicates the land boom is subsiding after a record year.
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