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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
2
News from around the world is summarized in brief form, highlighting notable items and developments from various regions. The dispatches cover politics conflicts economics and international affairs with concise notes suitable for quick reading.
The House votes to raise vice president speaker and cabinet salaries to 12000 while denying pay rises for congressmen. Roosevelts bid for simplified spelling fails as the House opposes the plan. Roosevelt urges citizenship for Porto Ricans and keeps native troops, while San Juan harbor dredging is urged. Senate confirms Moody Bonaparte Metcalf Straus to top posts. Reed Smoot controversy flares as Taft cited in Idaho. Taft cites army recruitment struggles.
The report chronicles disturbances from Rome to Paris with mobs in the French embassy and provincial unrest. It notes significant artillery shortcomings in General Murray's assessment and reports severe unrest in Russian Poland. The piece also covers ship sinking findings, a throne claim in Victoria, a Burlington fire, a Washington death, a Paris duel threat, Portland strikes, a bank robbery in Petersburg, and other assorted incidents.
Freight train collision near Canton Ohio fatally injures crew. Bomb explodes harming Col Plotta in Ra don Russian Poland. student arrested. Will Bywaters in Virginia forced to marry then killed by relatives. Several crimes, political alignments, and scientific advances marked the period.
In New York City a massive election for trustees at New York Life and Mutual Life drew an estimated 800000 ballots, about 500000 in New York Life with bitter contest. Officials expect weeks to confirm results while grand jury probes NY Life affairs.
William Madison also known as McPherson shot himself in the breast three times to avoid capture after a Mount Vernon robbery. He had seized about 500 in jewelry, fought with officers, and, after eluding a pursuing mob, turned the revolver on himself and died en route to a hospital.
President Roosevelt dispatches a special message to Congress on the San Francisco Japanese situation. He cites Secretary Metcalf's final report and states that if local authorities fail to protect Japanese, the federal government will act to enforce the treaty as the supreme law.
Washington notes the senate on the 18th passed several minor measures including a bill authorizing the government to loan 1,000,000 dollars to the Jamestown Exposition Company. The house also approved the Indian appropriation bill.
One man killed three fatally injured and several others hurt when a motor car derailed inside the Bellaire steel works mine of Carvette Steel Co. crushing supports and causing a cavein in Wheeling West Virginia.
A fire that began in the Butler opera house in Paterson New Jersey today swept the opera house and two adjoining structures causing an estimated loss of 250 thousand dollars. The blaze marks a major disaster damaging multiple properties in the city.
Elizabeth Freeman of Madison township marks her 113th birthday. Born near Connellsville in 1793, she has lived through multiple presidents and three centuries. She married at 23, has 11 children, 55 grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren, and remains active and healthful, a Presbyterian reader of the Bible.
A globe trotter cites Humboldt and a South American cow tree or palo de vaca that supposedly produces rich milk. The milk reportedly flows from a stone-rooted tree at sunrise, is rich in fat sugar casein and phosphates, and is claimed superior to ordinary milk. Canary islands Memerara, Ceylon are listed as places with cow trees.
A Boston Herald writer recalls a crowded Salem to Derry train where a poke bonneted passenger asked a railroad official how long the stop at Canobie Lake would last. The brakeman answered four minutes, prompting the lady to exclaim that the man thinks he is the whistle.
New York price notes show flour dull and steady with No. 2 red wheat at 79¾ to 84c and corn at 53c. Cleveland lists Minnesota spring patent flour at 4.15 to 4.20, wheat 77½c, oats 38½c, butter 32c, eggs 32c, potatoes 40 to 45c, cattle $5.50 to $5.75, calves $7.25 to $7.50, sheep $5.25 to $5.60, hay $18.00 to $18.50. Toledo cash wheat 76½c, corn 44½c, oats 37c. East Buffalo cattle $5.20 to $6.00, veals $8.50 to $9.00, sheep $5.50 to $5.85, spring lambs $6.00 to $7.75, hogs Yorkers $6.50. Pittsburgh cattle $5.75 to $6.00, sheep $5.50 to $5.05, veals $5.00 to $7.65, hogs $6.50 to $6.00.
Pattern No 5678 offers a seven gored walking skirt design with hip shaping and ripple fullness to the hem. It uses broadcloth and is trimmed with strapped bands and buttons, sized for 20 to 30 inch waists, requires five and three quarter yards of 44 inch fabric for 24 inch waist, and costs 10 cents plus paper mailing to Pattern Department.
Prof Edward S Morse, renowned for astronomy and Martian canal studies, is cited as an authority on Japanese art. He has taught at Tokio Imperial University and now directs Japanese pottery at the Boston Museum.
The will of the late Prof. James M. Hoppin of Yale is filed naming $60,000 for the Yale art school to establish a professorship in architecture along with other bequests to institutions.
A Chicago Daily News snippet recalls a marriage born from daily proximity at a boarding house. After three years of facing each other at the same table, the couple tied their vows, with commentators noting the love that grew from routine encounters.
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