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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1903
Page
2
A roundup of industrial field news, personal notices, and political items covering happenings at home and abroad. Includes notable activities and brief reports on people and events across regions.
President Hadhey of Yale criticizes dorms as danger to campus life. At Atlantic City, League of Press Clubs reelects M. P. Curran as president. Illinois Typographical union elects B. S. Chambers and supports municipal ownership. Ed Driggs indicted on 34 counts in New York. Beloit College receives $50,000 library gift from Andrew Carnegie. World’s fair prizes total over 26,000 across animals and products. Equestrian statue of Gen. Joseph Hooker dedicated in Boston. Race tensions, strikes, and political shifts mark events from Milwaukee to Wilmington.
Reports describe Thomas Thornby a Brooklyn butcher choking to death on steak in a restaurant with possible meat from his own shop. Chicago trolley crashes kill two and injure many after a crowd taunts women observers. A gunned confrontation at Lincoln Park leaves A J Webber dead and bystanders scattered. Six shot on a trolley near Media and Chester as a lone gunman targets riders. William J. Benkett calls a United Christ party convention for May 1 to 4 1904 in St. Louis. A US cruiser wins a prize at Kiel while US shipyard crews resume work after concessions. The tangled dispatches sketch violent incidents and political moves of the era.
Brief notes report on a wide mix of items including executions in St Peter I Servi awaite, Queen Alexandra reviving the bonnet, ink orders by a Chicago cereal firm, and earnings figures for an American company. Also mentioned are Santos-Dumont in Paris, Guam births, and library donations totaling 10.3 million dollars.
Frederick Hartman, the driver in Illinois, aged 88, tied for the first stage at Eureka Illinois, as reported in local notices.
Emperor William saluted the United States battleship Kearsarge at Kiel, conversed with its sailors, and President Roosevelt sent congratulations on the ship’s appearance. Pope Leo’s Rome consistory conferred new cardinal hats amid global diplomacy.
President Roosevelt arrives by special train to Oyster Bay after visits to Long Island City. He unveils a Civil War trophy gun, greets schoolchildren, and attends a public address before returning to Sagamore Hill. Officials and committees coordinate friendly, rival receptions enhancing community spirit.
Vienna editors note U.S. petition to the czar over the Kishineff massacre may influence eastern affairs with President Roosevelt praised for humanitarian stance. In Tacoma crops suffer army worm invasion. Walla Walla county reports unknown worm origin damaging fields. Christian Scientists report large Boston service. Ravenna plant fire destroys Riddle Co. facilities causing substantial loss.
Zurich reports a Swiss college excursion group of sixteen led by Prof Groebli was struck by a snowslide in the Alps. Seven young men died, nine survivors reached shelter, bodies buried under snow. The tally of fatal Alpine accidents rises since 1860 with many named victims noted.
A Bilbao train derailed on a bridge over the Neferilla river. Officials report about 90 killed and 100 seriously injured among 300 passengers. Only six escaped unharmed as couplings failed and the engine and cars plunged into the river. Rescue teams arrived with nurses and soldiers. bodies and wreckage scattered.
A shaft break at the Heinz plant in Allegheny released an elevator cage from the fifth floor to the cellar injuring 23 people. Injuries range from broken legs and spinal injuries to concussions and sprains amid reports of intoxicated men crowding the car. Most victims were visitors from Cleveland and East End Pittsburgh, tended by doctors and rushed to Allegheny General Hospital.
Ammon was given an indeterminate prison term of four to four and a half years after being convicted of receiving stolen money from Miller. The ruling was delivered by Robertson, attorney for William of the Franklin syndicate, on June 30 in New York.
John Claar an aged farmer near Bakers Summit attacked his wife with a butcher knife as she slept, stabbing her four times and causing fatal injuries. He then killed his son’s would be attacker with an ax, but the son overpowered him and he hanged himself to a tree near the house after neighbors were alerted. Mrs Claar is 72 years old.
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