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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1905
Page
2
A compact weekly digest reports progress in the Russo Japanese War in the Far East along with news from across the union and the latest foreign intelligence. The item outlines ongoing developments, political moves, and intelligence highlights of interest to readers following national and international events.
The U S House passed the army appropriation bill on the 20th after a 19th debate. the Senate kept attention on the statehood and fur seal indemnity bills while planning night sessions over the Swayne impeachment case to finish by March 1. The 18th saw impeachment actions against Judge Charles Swayne and Stone urged probes into 1896 and 1904 campaign improprieties. The Post Office appropriation bill moved with a $180,781,993 funding.
In the Russo Japanese War the Japanese plan to dam entrance and dry Port Arthur harbor to salvage sunken Russian ships. They rush heavy artillery to Port Arthur to face Kuropatkin, while Russia threatens to invade north China and Chinese Turkestan over contraband policy. Kashgar in Turkestan, a city of 50 000, is reported occupied by Russian troops.
Reports from 1904 describe mass casualties in St. Petersburg as troops fired on workingmen, a close call for the czar at the Winter Palace, and a suspected grape-shot incident. Other items note Bryan backing Roosevelt rail legislation, Hepburn bill features, Illinois divorce stats, and a Lincoln birthday observance in New York cotton markets.
An engine exploded near Mountain Lake Park Indiana on a Baltimore and Ohio freight train causing several cars to derail. Brakeman F Johnson and Fireman J L Simpson were killed. Other items note a large anarchist demonstration in Paris and various political and criminal developments.
Philadelphia Jan 24 after a brief conference between Pennsylvania railroad general manager Atterbury and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen leaders a settlement was reached. Brakemen in Jersey City Greenville Meadows Newark and Waverly yards gain New York harbor standard rates with overtime paid as full days. Brakemen will assist firemen where necessary and be paid the firemen rate with seniority credit for the time.
Milwaukee report says a young woman died by carbolic acid after a ten day honeymoon with a man who registered as E S Terry and wife from Chicago. A note about disposing of two bodies was found. Terry has vanished. A chilling Chicago letter claimed divine happiness before departure. F A Groves notified police. Milwaukee and Chicago investigators linked the deaths.
Pasadena reports bell boys under arrest confess a scheme to rob Mrs. William S. Edey of New York of 20000 dollars in jewels at the Maryland hotel. The pair, aided by a Los Angeles friend, mailed the jewels to a Monrovia address where the Los Angeles man retrieved them and fled.
In Cologne on January 24 the coal strike swells to about 220000 workers awaiting public opinion’s influence on mine owners and government action. No disturbances are reported as police drafts arrive and coal from Belgium France and Great Britain continues to stream in. A general halt to coal use is not expected soon.
In the Munroe and Munroe investigation the receiver was informed the Dominion mine, key property of the Montreal and Boston Copper Co., had not been paid for and $400,000 was owed to Canadian capitalists, signaling a major financial dispute.
Police seek $4,900 in government bonds stolen from the rooms of Mrs. Grace Trautman matron at Grant hospital in Columbus dated January 24. Authorities ask to locate the missing bonds and identify suspects.
Chicago police review new statements from John Frick, husband of Hoch’s former sister, alleging Hoch alias Albert Muschburg killed his wife and child in 1900 Argos Indiana. Relatives of six wives suspect poison deaths, including Mrs. Marie Welker Hoch and Mrs. Mary Schultz. Inspector Shippy may send an officer to Wheeling to probe a minister who once married Hoch and whose wife died mysteriously.
George W. Watt of Watt & Co explains charges to Congress asserting Judge Henry Lacombe blocked a final decree in the 1884 case by Dubois against New York and Brooklyn over a cofferdam patent used in Brooklyn Bridge piers. Damages were $965,000. executor John E. Dubois now represents the estate after the inventor’s death.
Charles L. Tucker of Auburndale was found guilty of murder in the first degree for the March 31, 1904 stabbing death of Miss Mabel Page in her father's Weston home. Death in the electric chair is set as the penalty. Tucker collapsed after the verdict and was taken to the jail in Charlestown.
In New Orleans on January 25 the Southern Interstate Cotton Convention ended its first session with a unanimous vote declaring that reducing acreage and using commercial fertilizers are the paramount issues to be addressed before other business. The gathering drew eleven hundred thirty-five delegates from thirteen cotton growing states and territories.
Mrs. Alice Webb Duke wife of Brodie L. Duke was arrested in New York on Texas requisition papers. She and Charles L. Taylor Chicago were indicted in Nacogdoches Texas for making false statements that led a bank stockholder to indorse 20000 dollars in notes.
In Portland on January 25 Carl Phelps secretary of the federal grand jury probing land fraud cases vanished after asking to be excused from the jury room for a few minutes. He has not been seen by jurors or government agents.
Antonio Astizarian of a prominent Mexican family and two servants were killed by Yaqui Indians in the El Paso area. In the same vicinity the family of ranchman M Doane was robbed but spared. Two days earlier five Americans were slain nearby.
Ladrones attacked San Francisco De Malabon in Cavite province on Monday night. Contract Surgeon J O'Neil was killed in the assault.
Reports from St. Petersburg detail Gen. Trepoff’s appointment as governor general and a state of siege. A circulated proclamation from Father Gopon urges mobs to slay the outlaws, destroy the government, and use bombs while sparing private property but targeting shops with food and arms.
H L Smith of Bertha Kentucky will be suspended by straps in an upright position for a month in a Louisville hospital as part of a trial treatment for a broken back from coal mine injuries. The second dorsal vertebra fracture is said to be fatal in most cases, but doctors hope the procedure will aid recovery.
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