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Local summary notes brief domestic and foreign items arranged for quick digestion. The Warren Mail presents concise world happenings for busy readers in a compact Thursday edition.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1905
Page
2
Local summary notes brief domestic and foreign items arranged for quick digestion. The Warren Mail presents concise world happenings for busy readers in a compact Thursday edition.
The house passed the post office appropriation bill worth 180000000 and the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill of 2107047 while the senate debated the agricultural and statehood measures. The statehood plan for Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state and New Mexico as another moved forward.
A blaze at Pauber & Co stock ing factory in Wilkesbarre rapidly spread, wiping out four dwellings and Au cher's large planing mill, with losses around 200000 dollars. Across the nation, new anti cigarette laws, arrests, crimes, and disasters fill the news with murders, accidents, weather, and legal actions.
Amid reports from St Petersburg and Lodz on February 8, authorities curb education and urge students to resume studies by February 28. A radical Russian social democratic proclamation calls for armed action while police uncover a draft inciting revolt. Poland sees manufacturers offer a 10 hour day and wage hikes to end strikes.
Rev C E Bentley a Lincoln Neb candidate of the Liberty Party for president in 1896 died in Los Angeles after a lodging house incident. A veiled woman accompanied him to a room. Bentley collapsed unconscious. A lodger named Haines left to fetch a doctor and vanished. Bentley’s gold watch was missing and only $1.05 remained. Autopsy says heart disease.
A National Grange backed proclamation to be issued from state capitals declares Washington's birthday should be observed as farm home and factory day. It urges citizens to focus on home and industrial improvements and lists reform targets backed by labor and agricultural groups.
A Russian detachment conducts a bold raid across the Taitse River threatening lines between Liao Yang and Feng Wang Cheng. The action causes panic among Japanese forces with over 50 casualties reported.
Senator Johnsson and Finland’s procurator general was killed in his Helsinki residence. A suspected assassin disguised as an army officer gained entry with a card bearing the name Alexander Gadd, fired four shots, killing Johnsson and wounding his son. The attacker was arrested.
The ocean steamer Damara of the Furness line ran on rocks at Musquodoboit during a 24 hour gale and blizzard. Fourteen of the crew and passengers are feared dead, while the first officer and 18 crew survived in a lifeboat and reached Pleasant Point. The rest of the crew and the captain and passengers in another lifeboat are missing. Survivors reached Musquodoboit Harbor and notified Halifax agents.
August W. Machen, once head of the post office free delivery system, along with Diller B. Groff and Samuel A. Groff, were moved from Washington to the Moundsville West Virginia penitentiary to serve two year sentences. They rode in a special car guarded by four guards, separated from 11 other inmates. George Lorenz, convicted in postal fraud, is sick at home in Toledo and has not been seen for days.
John F. Felix, alleging a wire tapping scheme, has led to the arrest of Lawson Crane and a search for two other men. Felix, a German musical instrument dealer, claims he lost $50,000 and $36,000 from roulette losses since arriving from Germany last June. He says a stranger urged a New Orleans horse race bet secured by wire tapping, with Crane alleged to be involved.
Mount Holly New Jersey February 8 A family of three Shinn O Ballinger his wife and the wife sister Miss Mary Taylor Medford New Jersey were crossing a pond at Oliphant's mill when the ice under two inches thick broke. All three disappeared into the deep water and were drowned.
Joseph H. Manley aged 62 died suddenly at his Augusta home on Tuesday. He served as private secretary to James G. Blaine and led Blaine’s presidential campaign, becoming a widely known figure in the Republican Party.
Gettysburg Pennsylvania February 8 1919 The entire student body at Gettysburg College was placed under quarantine following the discovery of smallpox. The board of health deputized a large guard to seal dormitories as more than 100 students fled before guards could arrive.
New York police arrested a man who gave the name William Gresch in Julius Oehme's Fifth Avenue art gallery. Officers say he gathered around 40 600 dollars worth of oil paintings in preparation to remove them, and he is held on burglary charges.
New York District Attorney Jerome said on February 8 that he has begun a crusade against pool rooms in the city and intends to close all of them. The announcement signals a broad crackdown aimed at shutting down establishments he deems undesirable.
Sidney Justus a 78 year old Ohio fruit dealer from Mentor says Deans Kidney Pills cured his decade long kidney trouble. He suffered backache rheumatic pains dropsical swelling and painful urination with discolored secretions. He reports half a box gave relief and three boxes produced a permanent cure. Trial free address Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents.
Austrian railway mechanic finds a method to hide warship smoke from view. Munich professor Hirth debuts a hospital clock with a button illuminated dial shadow on ceiling for invalid patients. Englishman proposes moustache spoon aids. French electromotion firm markets live-axle electric carriages cutting gear drives, claiming 20 to 30 percent longer range.
A man’s quiet midnight ascent is disrupted when his wife turns on the light at two in the morning, turning a private moment into a comical clash. The scene highlights domestic tension and the universal awkwardness of sneaking around at an hour when sleep should prevail.
In a testimonial Mrs. Ella F. Stone credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing years of indigestion nervousness headaches and weak blood. She details relief after trying two boxes and regained weight color and energy. The pills are sold by druggists with a free booklet for women titled Plain Talks to Women.
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