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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
2
A concise digest of international happenings compiled from all quarters of the civilized world. Prepared for the busy reader, this weekly roundup highlights notable developments across continents and regions.
A 12 member House committee on foreign and interstate commerce departed Charleston for Colon to examine conditions under the present Panama Canal Zone government and consider desirable changes. The move accompanies other national notes from the era, including mine rescue efforts and a set of White House announcements.
The era's headlines report William Powell sentenced in Los Angeles for vagrancy while heir to fortune and society claims his right to a half million. Lloyd Griscom resigns as ambassador to Italy as H W Poor risks creditors with a large assignment. Jack Johnson defeats Tommy Burns in Sydney after 14 rounds. Cipriano Castro signals Venezuela presidency setback. Thomas F Ryan resigns from 31 corporations under physician advice. Bank arrest in Oklahoma and leadership shifts touch New York Central and Wall Street.
Virginia City Montana endured the severest shock in a week long tremor sequence. Elsewhere the Rhine wrecks near Frankfort Michigan with three drowned. H M Cox dies after fall in Hot Springs hotel. Jeanie Lippitt lost off Hog Island with five crew dead. Pan-American Congress opens in Santiago with L S Rowe supervising social science section. Little Rock board of trade destroyed by fire causing 740000 dollars in losses.
Reports from Rome detail an immense earthquake striking Gosenza Catanzaro and Reggio di Calabria with Messina and Catania heavily damaged. Thousands killed many injured as telegraph and phone lines fail. Italian government mobilizes troops engineers and Red Cross to aid response.
New York jeweler Oscar C. Jackle reports a bold weekend burglary at 866 Third Avenue. A stealthy crew entered via a cellar window, failed to breach the safe by force, but pried the dial to release bolts and levers. Police suspect outside signals aided the operation and warn of accomplices waiting to hide during patrols.
Denver report says Bert Edward Dewey known as Byron Allenton was shot in a rooming house Monday by Bert Bell who was arrested. Mrs Bell fled to a third floor fire escape and was jailed in a hysterical state. Dewey a Cincinnati native and married to Mrs Bell since 1906.
Harrisburg reports that the William Penn party name was pre empted for the 1909 elections by James F Campbell Robert R Wallace Jacob H Yorkum Jr Lee Belmont and George Elliott all of Philadelphia Altoona J Levan Metzgar aged 72 a retired businessman and former state legislator dropped dead from heart failure while walking near his home He served in the general assembly in the 1892 session.
Washington report states that the Monongahela river water is wholesome and unpolluted with sewage as the Charleroi Water Co answers an equity suit by Frank Riva Charles Schmeiler and Joseph A Hepler seeking pure water.
Principal Geist orders students to stop affections such as walking arm in arm and acting in love on streets. The school enforces a closed season for Cupid, forbidding spooning among pupils.
Harrisburg reports the state dairy and food division found most milk samples pure in November. Of 45 milk samples three were preserved and one skimmed. Four adulteration and three misbranding cases were found in over 90 food samples. Vinegar crusade shows all 14 samples pure. Oleo licenses bring in $34,000 so far this year.
Harrisburg reports the state railroad commission will hear arguments January 6 on applying the 1849 act and the 3 percent per mile cap for railroads over 15 miles. Several lines contest the limit arguing higher rates are needed to cover costs. Seth T. McCormick represents Pittsburg Westmoreland and Somerset.
Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad directors authorize Vice President J M Schoonmaker to buy 10090 tons of rails for 1909. The shipment will arrive early next year and much of the rails will be used for bridge work over the Ohio river at Beaver. Additional increases may follow as improvements are planned.
In Harrisburg observers doubt a brief winter session, expecting a lengthy run similar to the prior session which ended May 16. The January 20 Senate election and the Knox vacancy delay work, with Penrose reelection also risking postponement.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court in Fayette county cases finds the corrupt practices act from the special legislative session constitutional. The audits involved John R. Byrne, Republican county chairman and treasurer, and John Q. Van Swearingen, a county judge candidate. Citizens’ petitions were dismissed by the county court, which ruled the act unconstitutional for not being designated by the governor in the call for the special session.
Molly Hillman aged 92 died in Greenfield poorhouse. For five decades up to 1880 she toured the United States and Europe as a leading equestrienne, starring in Barnum and Forepaugh shows. She married four times. each husband died violently. Daughter of William Cook of Newark and a Oneida descendant mother.
The Iguazu Falls far exceeds Niagara in scale, where the river splits at a small island into Brazilian and Argentine arms. A 213 foot cliff creates a two and a half mile wide spectacle, with the Brazilian arm forming a horse shoe and the Argentine side a grand leap of about 229 feet.
The London barge once common on the Thames is fading away as coasting trade declines. The Express notes the vessel's economy and simple rig, with two men and a boy guiding a 200 ton barge through shallow channels and leeboards, a craft that once thrived in river commerce.
World sugar output is about 2,000,000 tons annually with nine tenths from sugar cane. About 25,000,000 tons of cane are needed for that quantity of cane sugar. Saccharine content in West Indian cane ranges 18 to 21 percent, but only 8 percent is commerce usable. If all cane sugar could be extracted, value would reach $230,000,000, but half is lost in processing.
An 11 year old boy, George Herbert Foster, from Spalding, England, who was practically dumb, has partly regained speech after sustaining a shock from falling into a copper of boiling water.
Japan will showcase a complete silk plant at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Seattle. The display traces the process from worms on the trees to looms, illustrating silk production as a key feature of the Japanese exhibit.
Financial notices show New York rates for money and mercantile paper, and sterling exchange at 4 86.95. Grain and livestock prices vary by city: Minnesota flour patents 5.25 6.65, wheat No 2 red 1.07 1.08, oats 54 54c, cattle steer prices 5.65 7.00, hogs around 6.25, lambs 6.25 8.00. Regional quotes include Cleveland wheat 1.05, butter 33c, eggs 33c, hay 13.00, and Buffalo hogs 5.50 6.05, lambs 6.00 8.15.
Navy blue serge dress with attached waist and skirt, center-front closure, optional buttons, small left breast pocket, removable lace chemisette, princess back panel for lengthened lines, available in seven sizes 32 to 44 inches, cost 10 cents by mail to Pattern Department.
Pattern description for a five size child dress featuring a square yoke waist, box-plait center front, gathered short skirt, belt, gathered sleeves with wristbands, and optional collar with soutache trim. Requires 3% yards 27 in, 2% yards 36 in, or 2% yards 42 in fabric plus 6% yards braid.
A Ruskin quote notes every person holds a unique gift, however small, that can enrich humanity when used with purpose. It argues that even the weakest among us possesses a peculiar talent, and when valued, this talent benefits the entire race for eternity.
A composer greets a caller who asks to hear a new song but asks to skip the chorus citing a waiting taxicab and modest means. The exchange frames a social moment where art meets practicality and class cues.
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