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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1907
Page
2
S J Small arrives in New York as telegraphers strike spreads. He outlines optimism and a peace mission while unions claim many new members join. Government and company officials seek protection for offices amid clashes and violent incidents across multiple states.
Waldo Merrill of Boston and Erick Landstrom of Washington were killed when their car overturned into a wall on a curve to Narragansett Pier. Benjamin Franklin Rees of Chattanooga died in a collision after his auto went over a 15 foot embankment. The Panama Canal appropriations study for 1909 will be prepared by the next Congress as part of the sundry civil bill. Brig Gen James Allen urged strengthening the army signal corps in his annual report. European powers seek U.S. coal for growing navies as Anarchist congress opens in Amsterdam. Fire at Moreton Truck and Storage in Toledo causes $150000–200000 loss. panic injures women and children at a Cleveland resort during a lion incident. Ten killed and 25 injured when a Denver Rio Grande train wreck occurs near Pueblo. Col W A Farren, alias M D W Adams, arrested in Kansas City for embezzling Taylor Iowa school funds. Kentucky farmer Algin Thomas shoots at Mrs Bru met. she kills him. A head on collision between express from Bordeaux and a freight train kills ten, injures twenty five. Artist Marion Story commits suicide at Brook Farm, Port Chester. Earthquakes felt in Guadeloupe and Dominica. shocks reported from St Lucia. Columns of warring tribes near Casablanca complicate French and Spanish efforts to restore order. Drude seeks reenforcements. troops sent from Oran.
The itemized briefs report on threats to property rights from trust magnates, Papal honors for Mrs. Thomas F. Ryan, a Syracuse contractor critically ill, French forest fires near Toulon, and Interborough Metroponli tan book-keeping disputes. Also noted are a Chicago contractor murdered, a child burned in La Crosse, a sheriff removal suit, Nelson Morris leasing Standing Rock land, a New York grocery firm receiver, Della Fox illness, Illinois distillers tax, and more terse police and court actions across the nation.
At Luna Park in Pittsburg a lion attacked Mrs. Anna A. Huske injuring her as crowds fled. Chief Downing and rescuers fired repeatedly, killing the blood hungry animal with a 38 caliber shot, after the beast died in a final charge near the Mystic River. Mrs. Huske hospitalized in precarious condition.
Berlin reports a remarkable spectacle as the military dirigible balloon and the Parseval airship spent most of Tuesday aloft. Both ships showed strong maneuvering, with the military airship making multiple short voyages and a long test to Spandau while the Parseval conducted a two hour journey against a strong wind. They landed together at the same spot, sailing briefly side by side for a final moment.
Secretary Taft was aboard passenger train 102 on the St. Louis and San Francisco line when a switch opened and the mail car derailed after the engine and baggage car passed. The derailment dragged the car 500 feet. no injuries were reported. Taft helped reassure frightened passengers as the train moved slowly.
A Clover Leaf passenger train derailed at Bowman twelve miles north of Charleston. One man died and seven passengers were badly hurt when two cars jumped a switch and collided with a box car. Details from the accident scene are limited.
Nelson Morris long time Chicago packer died Tuesday. Born in Germany in 1840 he came to the United States at age 11 landing in Philadelphia without a cent. The obituary notes his immigration and rise in the packing industry.
Acting Secretary Newberry reports after Oyster Bay talks that Admiral Evans will lead the battleship fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. The voyage, planned for early December, will cover 13 772 knots with ten knot speed and require extensive coal and support ship arrangements, including colliers and supply ships to accompany the fleet to Trinidad Rio Janeiro and Magellan.
Three men are dead and a fourth injured after a boiler explosion at a timber tract lumber camp eight miles north of Hagerstown Maryland. Foreman George W Beard of Middlesburg Pa died from the blast with legs severed and body flung 400 feet. Samuel Shirley of Lancaster Pa Elmer Stevens of Smithsburg Md died at Hagerstown Hospital. Edward Ridenour of Cavetown Md was badly scalded and had a skull fracture and was not expected to live. The blast likely stemmed from low boiler water. Nearby Scranton Pa a Robbins Spencer flour and feed mill boiler exploded causing a blaze injuring four and destroying plants including Armour Co. proprietors Charles Robbins likely fatally hurt. Fred Stevens Hilda Zeigler seven year old and Samuel Seimalla also injured.
Lynching of Loris Higgins near Rosalie Neb. ends pursuit over the murder of W. L. Copple and wife. Sheriff Young of Thurston county transported Higgins from Omaha after capture, and twenty men seized him from the sheriff and hanged him from a tree in Bancroft.
In South Bethlehem Pennsylvania last night George Schuman, a policeman, was struck and fatally wounded by a Black suspect named William Jones during a confrontation on the railroad tracks. Three rounds were fired at Schuman at close range and Schuman returned fire, shooting two rounds at the suspect.
Fire destroyed about seventy percent of Hakodate in its Monday blaze. Rapid spread engulfed flimsy native structures, but authorities fought the flames to bring it under control.
Alfred Mosely's 200 teachers sent to study US schools aim to reform English systems. Observations from the teachers' commission influence educational policy across Europe. German and French scholars praise the general system but call for better female teacher use and more technical training with trade schools deemed essential for future workers.
An officer's wife at an army post reports that mosquitoes rarely bite through white stockings, while black hose attract them. She says white hosiery repels bites, a lesson learned in the Philippines, and advises visitors to wear white stockings during outdoor mosquito times.
Edinburgh and Glasgow push rival plans for a ship canal across Scotland's narrowest point. Glasgow proposes a $40,000,000 route while Edinburgh eyes an $85,000,000 scheme. An expanded Forth and Clyde barge canal was once suggested at $70,000,000. The project could greatly aid commerce and may become reality in time.
Mr Foolish asks why sheep seem dissipated. Mr Silly responds that they gambol their lives on the turf, many have black legs, and all are fleeced in the end.
A man who believed himself rich after receiving a fortune declares he will have no trouble. He then hastily purchases an automobile, foreshadowing potential later disappointment as reported by the Detroit Free Press.
The edition lists farm and commodity prices for Aug 28 1907 across New York Cleveland and Toledo. It covers flour wheat corn oats and butter eggs cheese potatoes hay cattle calves sheep lambs hogs and dairy prices with ranges and regional quotes for Minneapolis Minnesota York city Cleveland and Toledo markets.
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