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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1902
Page
2
A compact weekly digest compiling key home and foreign items from the past seven days. Includes industrial field updates, personal and political items, and notable happenings at home and abroad.
The Senate spent sessions on the Philippine tariff bill with Burrows for and Money against. the House debated Indian appropriation and considered statehood bills for New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. Contempt actions followed a Tillman McLaurin clash over the tariff measure.
President Roosevelt announced his decision in the Schley controversy blaming the admiral for the retreat and the loop, stating neither Schley nor Sampson commanded at Santiago. Also reports of Milwaukee fire deaths, Chicago swimming records, smoking in Komo Schools, Manchuria policy, labor tribunal talks, and other national events.
Weekly exchanges total 2.18 billion dollars, up from last week. H J Avery sets a three cushion billiards record in Chicago. Hay Pauncefote treaty ratified signaling canal work. various political, military and disaster items tied to 1900s era events include Roosevelt health, Prince Henry visits, and Philippine and Balkan tensions.
James Alexander 103 dies in Springfield Missouri. Gen Edward S Bragg celebrates 75th birthday in Fond du Lac Wisconsin. James E Watson renominated for Congress in Indiana's Sixth District. Joseph Jefferson marks 73rd birthday at Palm Beach Florida. Kansas populists split from Democrats after Topeka session. Rev Calvin Holman pioneer Methodist preacher dies in Topeka Kansas at 85. William Emerson Redmond known as Billy Emerson dies in Boston at 56. Louisa de Champ first white Wisconsin-born woman dies at Prairie du Chien aged 104.
Reports note Miss Stone’s release is unconfirmed while liberation is anticipated. Insurgent bands in Batangas surrender to Americans. Africa yields copper and gold quartz discoveries. Barcelona riots kill 200 and wound 100. A Mexican bank robber dies after shooting a cashier. Spain faces revolutionary unrest with Barcelona as focal point. 500 killed. Boers defeat Scots Greys with 2 dead, 6 wounded, 46 captured. Earthquake casualties in Shamaka total 5,000. DeWet breaks through British defenses with 400 followers. Rosebery’s Liberal party fallout and Tsilka arrest denial in Sofia.
In Michigan a suburban Detroit line wreck near Jackson injures all 12 passengers after entering a curve at high speed. A New York vault looting attempt wounded a night watchman on the night of the 23rd. John T. Davis reports a large arsenic deposit southeast of Tacoma, claimed as America’s first major find. A farmer near Anthony New Jersey awoke after ten hours among coffins, seemingly dead but later fine. An explosion in Aplington Iowa injures three, caused by a lantern in a gas basement. British freights drop. shipbuilding prices fall about 20 percent from 1900 highs. Two Reading railroad trains collide near Bridgeport Pennsylvania. conductor Delaney killed, brakes injured. Philippine tariff bill passes Senate after debate. DC business dominates House.
The story bundles short items: Lackawanna pension plan for old workers. Miss Shaw to paint Queen Alexandra portrait. Elkins son profits $12,000 from coal land sale. Brewers Association meets at Saratoga June 10–12. Cleveland approves 3¢ streetcar fare ordinance. New York girls equestrian style shift to divided skirt. British naval estimates total $75 million. London census shows suburban growth and female population rise. Wu condemns Phelan over anti Chinese immigration stance. Va. twelve youths convicted for Christmas murder of Jack Osborne. editorial writers face fitness exams per Gen Oates. domestic animal value hits $3.2 billion. Iowa leads in holdings, Texas in numbers. Mrs. Helmuth on true gentleman emphasizes kindness. explorer Borehgrevinck returns from near south pole voyage with data.
Madrid reports claim improving but still dangerous conditions as Friday plans aim to resume life. Martial law in Tarragona, widespread arrests of anarchists, and heavy fighting raise fears while Madrid's workers support strikers. London dispatches dismiss sensational fatality claims, noting 40 deaths through Thursday.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr who has pneumonia for two weeks at the Groton school infirmary will travel to Washington Friday night. He leaves with Mrs Roosevelt and Dr P M Rixen while Miss Roosevelt goes in another conveyance. A light snowfall falls as the special train departs. The plan was decided during lunch after the school physician opposed the move earlier in the day.
Washington birthday riot in the senate as South Carolina senators Tillman and McLaurin fought after Tillman accused McLaurin of improper influence. Blood drawn, assistants and guards separated them, and both were held in contempt. Expulsion considered after two hours of debate.
A Winnipeg dispatch reports a dynamite mishap at a Pigeon River Boom Co. pump near Port Arthur. One man, Joseph Roleau of St. Gregoire Quebec, was killed and two others injured while thawing dynamite.
General De Wet with about 400 followers slipped northward through the blockhouse line on the night of February 10 ten miles west of Lindley in the Orange River Colony. Fire from blockhouses killed two Boers, while the rest escaped to their old ground near Reitz.
F. C. Andrews was arraigned Friday afternoon in Detroit on a complaint charging falsification of the City Savings Bank condition in February last. Bail was set at 50000 dollars but was not furnished.
On his plea of guilty Thomas Johnson was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of James Ryburn by Judge Hartzell of the Madison county circuit court at Edwardsville Illinois on Friday.
James Mc Glashan 35 foreman for Michigan Telephone Co and an unidentified woman were found dead from gas suffocation in a Park Place rooming house. Gas seeped into an adjoining room where Marguerite Stevens slept. she was revived and expected to recover.
Mrs Jennie O'Donnell credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing eight years of female troubles and falling womb after using a book found in her hall. The letter claims a powerful curative effect and urges others to seek the remedy with Mrs Pinkham offering free advice. A $5000 forfeit claims authenticity of the testimonial.
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