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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1899
Page
2
We announce William McCray of Warren as a candidate for Register and Recorder of Warren County subject to nomination at the Republican County Convention.
The Mail urges every Republican voter in Warren County to attend the caucus for nominating borough and township officers. Careful selection yields good officers, especially for Town Council and School Director, who handle most taxes and borough funds.
The joint ballot at the capitol shows Charles Quay leading with 112 votes against a field that includes G A Jenks and John Dalzell. Quay needs 12 more votes to elect, while opponents warn of possible deadlock. Quay predicts victory or naming his successor.
U S banks report improving business with foreign firms and strong demand from Europe. National banks note total resources rose from 4.003 to 4.313 billion dollars by December 1, with individual deposits climbing to 2.225 billion and loans and discounts up 58.4 million to 2.214 billion.
Pennsylvania lawmakers face changes to school laws with urgency for a longer term. Lancaster county School Directors pledge to meet for at least seven months to push high school benefits to country districts and address the growing demand for lasting rural education.
General Henry's program to station American school teachers and policemen in Porto Rico aims to begin soon. Teachers will primarily teach English to island children, creating a significant opportunity for American women to work abroad as teachers on the island.
The party showcases Roosevelt for Governor Depew for Senator and Choate for Ambassador to England Each is described as strong and brainy and a credit to constituents Choate’s appointment as Minister to England is praised as a grand success for the country
The passage notes the death of Hon Nelson Dingley, praising his practical work in tariff and money matters. It highlights his lack of oratory but steady value, his impact in his native state and Congress, and the Nation's mourning for a truly great and useful man.
Gen EaGAn faces court martial for alleged abuse of Gen Miles amid a tense Washington scene as President McKinley weighs public unrest. War ends yet friction lingers and the phrase Let us have peace frames a charged political mood.
An Atlanta Democrat told the Washington Post that a united solid South North East and West should renominate McKinley in 1900 and elect him with no platform beyond the greatest good and full justice to all. The remark is described as having strong sense.
Letters from the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers now at Manila state the men want to come home after all service. They report no fighting in prospect and urge their release from the army without delay.
Governor Stone starts with a solid slate appointing W. W. Griest as Secretary of the Commonwealth J. P. Elkin as Attorney General I. W. Dorham Insurance Commissioner T. J. Stewart Adjutant General and C. K. Gerwig Private Secretary All selections were promptly confirmed by the Senate yesterday.
Col. Wm. A. Stone succeeds Daniel Hastings as Pennsylvania governor. He vows to discharge duty honestly with public cooperation, advocates a businesslike administration, and warns of overextended finances and growing debt. He calls for revenue growth, spending restraint, and prudent governance.
Senator Gray introduces a resolution in the U S Senate to strike a government gold medal and present it to Miss Helen Gould for patriotic devotion and benevolence during the war. New York Assembly resolutions praise her, while critics say a tribute to Gould honors wartime women nationwide.
Distressing kidney and bladder diseases are relieved in six hours by the New Great South American Kidney Cure. The remedy quickly eases bladder and kidney pain, backache, and water retention in both men and women. Sold by Hertzel and Saner, Warren PA.
A digest of 1899 1900 era items notes severe prison strain in Pittsburg bids to expand Nebraska legislature support for Bryan among forty five states a claim of fraud in a Lincoln memorial rebuild and a rush of copper exports with strong production figures. Also reports lynching counts 1898 and a bright outlook for American locomotives and a rash of court appointments and public notices including a Denver Labor Bureau head and a French divorce spree and rising births of boys in parts of Pennsylvania.
Jan 12 14 18 reports show Otis in Manila and Spain’s cabinet debates while gunboats sail to Manila and Havana. Battles, assassinations, resignations and reorganizations touch Manila Washington Havana Amsterdam and Boston with deaths fires and avalanches of dispatches.
The Buffalo Courier reports on Russia weighing calendar reform. It notes Russia still uses the Old Style Julian calendar tied to Orthodoxy, contrasts with England and the United States that adopted the New Style in 1752, and mentions Nicholas II may pursue reform following Alexander II.
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