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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1875
Page
6
Governor Hartranft argues for repealing occupation taxes and replacing them with a county poll tax, urging uniform voter qualifications. He reviews National Guard discipline, police powers, and the need for law and civil authority, citing Westmoreland clashes and the Warren hospital project. He also notes fisheries, insitutions, and Ohio river navigation as priorities. The address honors Justice Thompson and Judge Read, urging legislative unity.
The measure to forbid creditors from waiving the exemption did not pass final approval at the last Assembly session. It faced little opposition yet stalled due to inattention, though advocates argue it would prevent injustice toward innocent and helpless families.
Walter A. Wood & Co. of Troy New York won an order for eight thousand mowing machines valued at $100,000 to be shipped to England. The contract and related orders will employ over five hundred workers through next July.
An elderly Chicago man courts a Corry maiden aboard a Buffalo to Brocton train. He offers wealth for marriage, but Jane refuses, choosing love over riches. At Brocton she aids blind children, and he parts vowful, blessing her. Oil City Derrick reports.
Washington cor respondent recounts a Maine printer youth from era seeking an easy government job. Secretary Tom Ewing rebuked him, urging departure rather than aid. The tale ends naming James G. Blaine as the nephew who avoided a doomed bureaucratic path.
A mutiny aboard the Mercury, a floating training ship for unruly youths off Hart's Island, New York, ends with the boatman shot and wounded while two crew members flee. Police recapture most suspects as the ship’s officers pursue them along the gangway and into the Sound.
Sweetman risked his life to save a house on Fourth Street during a Saturday blaze. He alerted occupants, moved furniture outside, tore apart a crib and bedstead, summoned multiple alarms, and helped evacuate residents while others fought the flames from the roof and nearby street.
The piece notes rising railroad securities in the West and strong iron rail demand with declining money rates. It reports growing activity in New England mills and optimism in Ohio Indiana markets. It argues revived railroad purchases after revulsion and a Western trade upswing as mills open indicating confidence ahead.
A 19th century piece argues celibacy harms social standing and links early treatment to high cure rates for insanity. It notes 68 percent cured within a month, 17 percent if admitted after two years, and records cases in Quebec where most patients were drunkards or driven to drink by toil.
A Vienna proposal would use a pneumatic subterranean railroad to move coffins from central chapels to cemeteries. Coffins on small platform cars would travel through tunnels at about 40 miles per hour to reach the graves, ending the funeral service.
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