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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1912
Page
3
Federal Building for Franklin would cost up to 150000 with 25000 for site. Jamestown Odd Fellows plan a temple on their lot. petition seeks through passenger service on the Franklin and Clearfield railroad. various local incidents and notices from Sharon to Punxsutawney, including crimes, accidents, and civic actions.
Abner Hammond and his wife, 89, arrive in San Francisco from Lyons New York seeking new opportunities. They rush through the ferry station with crowds, carrying a battered suitcase and clinging to each other. They had $120 but sold or spent it to travel west. Hammond hopes to reach Los Angeles for farming advice via a contact there. The Travelers' Aid Department of the San Francisco YWCA will assist their journey southward.
Miss Marriet Avery, 28, of Naples, arrived in Hornell for nervous-treatment week. She left her boarding place at 10 pm and did not return by midnight. Her body was found near the Steuben Street crossing of the Erie Railroad and later identified. Authorities believe she wandered onto the tracks and was struck by the New York train. The Avery family is prominent in Naples.
Theodore Wenzel and Chester Price, both 16, were paddled in city court by Judge K. O Connor after pleading guilty to vagrancy. The judge lectured them and warned they must seek work, using a paddle he crafted himself. They vowed to find jobs. The piece also notes no auto racing at the New York State Fair in Syracuse due to course reconstruction after a prior accident. Officers elected: Raymond A. Pearson president, Stanton C. Shay er secretary, Albert F. Brown treasurer.
Bath New York dealers pay 90 cents a bushel yet few sales occur as farmers hold out for a dollar market. Thousands of bushels sit in storage and may flood the market regardless of price trend to avoid spring slump. Hospital janitor Charles Snyder found with smallpox at Olean General. He worked at the hospital last week and has been quarantined at his Henley street home. hospital staff and patients are also quarantined.
Harrisburg announces a 372 delegate Republican State Convention to meet in late April or early May. Delegates will be chosen April 13 and will nominate auditors general and state treasurer, four at large Congress members, and 38 presidential electors. The delegation summarizes district allocations.
The 1911 census shows a slight population rise in France as reported from Paris. A Bermuda dispatch reports the torpedo boat destroyer Mc Call is safe after the recent storm. The Indianapolis grand jury probes Ortie McManigal's activities across New York and New Jersey. W. Morgan Sinster bids farewell to the shah and departs Tehran. A St Petersburg paper touts a possible appointment as minister to Persia. Judge Carpenter excludes contested beef packers letters from evidence in Chicago case. The government plans to press for their admission later.
At the Columbian school in Hornell William Jacobs, aged 11, slipped while sharpening a knife, the blade pierced his abdomen an inch below the heart. He nearly bled to death before aid arrived. doctors say his condition is critical but hopeful for recovery.
Representative Ayers of New York introduces a bill to suspend tariff duties on potatoes for six months. The measure cites market scarcity and elevated potato prices as nearly prohibitive.
Miss Mary Schweda daughter of Mr and Mrs Stephen Schweda of Brigham Road Dunkirk has departed for Pittsburg to enter the convent of the Flasgionist Sisters an order of enclosed nuns.
Four year old Mary Milczek perished when flames destroyed the Milczek residence in Olean New York. Her mother Mrs Michael Milczek suffered serious burns while attempting to rescue the child.
The calendar lists key dates for petitions and registrations for the 1912 spring primary and November election. It includes March 16 and 23 deadlines for nomination petitions, September 24 certificates, October 11 nomination papers, March 13 and 27 local registration deadlines, September 4 assessment, October 5 city registration, and April 27 and December 5 expense filings. A table explains terms of office affected by constitutional amendments, noting elected officials from 1907 and 1908 serving until the first Monday of Continued from 8th Page.
The steamer Russ was found to have sunk in the Black Sea with 172 people on board. Other items note W. Morgan Shuster leaving Tehran for Europe to testify about hostility from the Persian cabinet, and legal and political updates including a former alderman held on arson charges and French leadership discussions over a successor to Premier Caillaux.
Two men die in a political clash in Santiago Cuba as Ice sinks a river steamer in Arkansas two drowned and fourteen frozen. Counsel for C V T Richeson notes the confessed murderer will not detail. Chicago beef packers probe by products sales. English coal price rises after miners vote for strike. President Taft accepts Ambassador Bacon resignation in a letter of regret from Paris.
Bishop Doane and Chief Judge Cullen oppose death penalty abolition in Albany interviews. Dr Sun Yat Sen reiterates readiness to yield presidency to Yuan Shih Kai. Fifty injured in a Bis Four railroad wreck near Carey, Ohio. Senor Canalejas resigns as Spanish premier amid backlash over King’s reprieve policy. Postmaster General Hitchcock to urge Congress to place national telegraph lines under the postal service.
Wednesday reports McDonald, a Democrat, sworn in as governor of New Mexico. News confirms massacre of 10,000 Man firus and abdication plans for the Chinese imperial dynasty discussed but unresolved. England's largest Dreadnought keel laid at Portsmouth. US Supreme Court upholds employers liability act. Dr. McFarland, ex Pittsburg High head, abroad for missionary work, sought in Miss Coe death.
Thursday reports describe a wire destruction in Osaka leaving over five thousand buildings damaged and thirty thousand homeless. In Chicago retail price forecasts expect ter to rise to sixty cents per pound. A bomb in Pei Kin failed to strike Premier Yuan Shih Kai but killed two military guards. Lawrence mill strikers agree to arbitrate, militia maintains order, mayor orders saloons closed. Willian Barnes Jr. external questions to senate panel ruled non answerable while code section cited as constitutional.
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