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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1906
Page
2
A compact weekly roundup summarizes major global events with succinct foreign coverage. It highlights political developments, conflicts, economic shifts, and notable diplomatic exchanges from multiple regions, offering a quick snapshot of worldwide happenings.
Government reports say the revolt is weakening as rural guards and volunteers crush the last rebel band in Matanzas. Thousands of insurgents in Pinar del Rio and Havana provinces grow restless while 2,000 armed fighters support Guerra in Havana. Government and rebel accounts clash over Estrampes and Pino Guerra as support for arms rises.
The Union Pacific plans to install its own refrigerator cars, breaking Armour private cars monopoly on California fruit trade. Five thousand two hundred eighty eight counts appear in ten indictments against Standard Oil in Chicago. A New York Stock Exchange seat sold for ninety five thousand dollars. Mrs. Douglas Robinson, 83, died at her summer home near Little Falls New York. her son is married to Corinne Roosevelt. In Iowa the Thirty seventh district GOP nominated Charlies IF Peterson for state senator after four deadlocked conventions, while Nebraska Democrats nominated G. L. Shumway for congress.
A sweep of brief items includes Earl Grey’s near injury in Winnipeg after an exploding bulb, a Missouri farmer’s daughter assaulted by a farm hand, two men and four mules killed by lightning near Kenna, and Judge Wolverton denying a new trial for J. T. Carroll in a land fence case. Also noted are the Pan American Conference in Rio, ship wrecks, executions, refugees, and various deaths, trials, and political shifts worldwide.
Philadelphia s Real Estate Trust Company collapses with 10 million liabilities and 3.5 million quick assets. President Frank K Hipple who died last Friday is blamed for falsified reports and unsafe loans totaling about 5.3 million to Adolf Segal. George H Earle Jr named receiver as doubts linger over collateral tied to Segal ventures.
Circuit Court Judge Chester A. Fowler in Fond Du Lac finds the boycott contract illegal and bars the trades labor council and members from the unfair list. Otto B. Schultz, a Racine baker, may recover 2500 for lost profits and 3500 for injury to business value. The decision declares the union’s closed shop demand an unlawful contract.
Returns from Tuesday's Democratic primary show M. F. Ansel leading for governor and Frazer Lyon with a strong lead for attorney general. Ansel and Lyon victory would defeat the state dispensary and target Senator Tillman.
William Randolph Hearst announced on Tuesday that he would not seek the governorship on the Democratic ticket in the next election. He cited no candidacy plans but refused to run under the party banner.
At A town docks two trunks hold a massive valuable snake in a misdelivered case. Mr G retrieves his trunk finds only clothes, the snake escapes at night to Fountain Square before being recaptured and sent to the zoo. Miss Pippin later receives the correct trunk as Mr G recounts the near loss of his prize reptile.
A Chicago News quip jokes that dogs will evolve with transport advances from coach to automobile to airship. The playful line ponders what a dog of the airship era might be called, answering with a pun that nods to the skye terrier.
The article discusses both precocious figures and those who were backward. It cites Dante composing a sonnet at nine, Mozart performing at six, and Tasso writing at ten, while naming Alfieri Wren Humboldt Linnaeus Flaubert and Domenichino as examples of late starters.
The article notes that early top buggies frightened horses more than modern automobiles, reflecting on the transition from horse drawn carriages to motor vehicles and the public’s reaction to new transport. It mentions the era when buggies were first introduced and public perception of their novelty.
New York prices show flour steady wheat No 2 red 78 cents corn No 2 at 56 cents oats 39 42 cents hogs 6 7 dollars, cattle and sheep mixed. Cleveland quotes Minnesota spring patent flour 4 5 dollars wheat 74 cents corn 56 ½ cents oats 3 ¾ cents butter 25 cents eggs 21 cents. Toledo cash wheat and corn rates listed, East Buffalo cattle and hogs values, Pittsburg cattle and sheep prices also recorded.
J A Haywood of Lufkin Texas reports a back injury from a sawmill job with long lasting pain and gravel in the urine. After using Dean's Kidney Pills the gravel passed and the back and bladder trouble ceased. sold 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Historians say the first striking clock reached Europe around 800 AD as a gift to Charlemagne from Abdalla, Persian king, carried by two monks of Jerusalem.
Frederick Townsend charged with malicious wounding James Ridley in a London court pleads justification that Ridley called him a Glasgow Irishman.
Dr Herman Reinbold German chemist says pure alum baking powder is healthier and less injurious than cream of tartar powders. He claims a proper quantity in bread or cake is harmless even in a single mouthful, and notes Missouri repealed a law banning the wholesome powder.
The well-preserved body of a young woman was found about 16 to 17 feet underwater in the Priddy lead mines, with hair intact in its plait and five large blue and green glass beads nearby, dating to centuries before Roman times.
At the Army and Navy club in Washington veteran officers recall Gen. Carr who died in New York. He led a regiment at Big Bethel and, under ambush by confederates, cried I am firing on my regiment and asked what is to be done. The anecdote comes from Harper's Weekly as told by Gen. Chaffee.
A Michigan woman credits Postum Food Coffee with reversing years of coffee caused health issues for her and her husband. She reports heart palpitations and stomach trouble improved after substituting Postum, noting long boiling enhances flavor and recommending it to others.
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