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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1901
Page
2
A weekly digest of home and foreign items, covering industrial news, personal and political items, and notable happenings at home and abroad. The compact survey highlights developments across sectors and regions from the past seven days.
The senate debated post office funds and civil rule in the Philippines while the house passed the sundry civil and deficiency bills. Washington’s birthday, naval and police actions, trade topics, and notable arrests or losses are noted, plus Cuba relations and global events.
A sweep of incidents includes a Prattville fire killing two sisters and destroying a home, a Minnesota normal school building lost, a minister reassigned to Turkey, a Stephenson child tragedy, and leadership changes at Chicago Burlington & Quincy. Other items note a Kansas saloon bill, a man convicted of manslaughter in Minneapolis, bank robbery in Fisher Illinois, and a deadly shipwreck near San Francisco Bay.
Ex senator Stephen M. White died in Los Angeles at 48. Dr Mayo G Smith once aided Mark Twain died in Colorado Springs at 85. John W Tower the 44 inch tall man died in Bennington aged 62. Rev Henry Blatchford missionary to Chippewa Indians died in Odanah at 93. Mrs Mary Erlenbaugh died near Andrews Indiana at 100. John H Mitchell elected US senator from Oregon.
Gen Dewet evaded six pursuing columns in Cape Colony while Boer losses totaled 16 killed and 18 burghers dead in a fresh clash. A Tokyo hospital burned claiming 21 lives and consuls in Manila face accusations. New British cruisers launched in the Clyde as China talks seek international assent on territorial concessions. Reports speak of Arab rising in Yemen, Russia sentencing 28 students, and Pro-Steyn De Wet pledge against British methods amid turmoil in Pechil and Peking. Madrid tranquility returns as chaos subsides elsewhere.
A US supreme court decision on the Leonard Gould will contest awards charitable organizations sums between five thousand and ten thousand dollars. The ruling comes as other items report disasters and political actions from Hartford City Indiana to Pittsburg gas, Birmingham fire deaths, and Senate House actions on military funding.
Minnesota Senator Moses Clapp dislikes whisky and quinine as grippe remedies saying they spoil the whisky and do not aid the quinine. Tillman coins a likely lasting jab at Beveridge with wasp of the Wabash. Teller mispronounces Cuba as Cuby due to a local Cuva saying. Vest and Harlan are longtime friends, playful but wary of pranks lingering a month.
The German empire logged 1336 strikes in 1899 and ten times more Germans abroad than foreigners in Germany, with 800000 foreigners. Munich Berlin Vienna each exceed 1000 medical students this semester. 15 million residents in 300 towns supply regular medical statistics. Bourbon and rye whisky imports from the United States totaled 411489 and 137578 gallons. Lubeck plans its own free city coinage replacing the Kaiser’s head. last coins were minted in 1801.
If oil spills on a floor or table and ignites do not throw water instead smother the flames with a rug or woolen blanket. Avoid spreading fire with water and use this method to smother the blaze.
A Pacific Mail steamer struck a hidden rock near the Golden Gate in dense fog and sank. An estimated 128 lives were lost with Purser Rooney missing and Captain Ward among the dead. only scattered bodies and boats survived while chaos and fear gripped passengers and crew.
Harold Money of Oakland New Jersey and Carteret Gun club member won the amateur pigeon shooting championship of America at Carteret Gun club groundsGarden City Long Island with 88 hits of 100. He also captured a $100 silver cup after a $15 handicap event was added following the main contest.
The article outlines how French apprenticeships were tightly regulated in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Masters fed clothed and housed apprentices, treated them as sons, and were responsible for their morals and safety, especially in Paris streets. It contrasts medieval discipline with a modern theater seating anecdote from the Chicago Record.
Sir David Gill, royal astronomer, reports a new precise parallax for Sirius from the Cape of Good Hope. Sirius, the brightest star, reaches Earth after light travels 186,330 miles per second for more than eight and a half years. If extinguished now, its light would persist for eight and a half years more.
A Chicago Post witticism shows a youth replying to an old gentleman about supporting a wife. He argues that the extra cost of a wife will be slight and no barrier to marriage. The exchange highlights practical thrift in household life with a light humorous tone.
A Detroit Journal fragment notes a Boston encounter with a parrot that weighs in on language. The bird uses terms like colonial and post bellum and prefers a plate of pork, impressing with scholarly dignity.
A Mississippi Valley reader recounts severe illness with blood in lungs and stomach, vomiting, and loss of appetite, then recovery after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Another letter from Ohio reports relief from profuse menstruation and leucorrhea after two bottles, highlighting improved energy and health.
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