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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1903
Page
2
A compact weekly roundup covering home and foreign items and the industrial field. Personal and political news are included along with notable happenings at home and abroad.
The item summarizes a wide range of events from abroad and at home. It notes crimes including abductions and lynching, fires, floods, storms, and explosions. It mentions political and economic items such as debt figures, trade, and diplomatic tensions with Russia and Japan. It also covers military movements and notable achievements in sports and science.
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles is elected to succeed Admiral Dewey as president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial association. Other items note frog skin graft experiments at Michigan university, a fatal fire in Oakland, cloudburst damage near Latrobe, quarantine changes in Massachusetts, Dobson mill workers voting to return, and a miner fatality in Sandy Creek. John Donoghue identified after suicide linked to rejected memorial design for McKinley.
Ex congressman Thomas J. Clunie dies at his San Francisco home from acute kidney trouble. Iowa Republicans renominate A B Cummins for governor and list successors for lieutenant governor Supreme judge railroad commissioner and schools superintendent while backing Roosevelt and tariff policy. Ohio editor Clark Waggoner dies in Toledo aged 80. Cleveland builder Charles Hathaway dies. Iowa socialists plan an automotive campaign to seek 12 000 votes.
A protest opposing the invasion of Core Russian troops is reported along the Yalu River as Britain issues a statement while the United States under Rear Admiral Kiel asserts naval action. Dan Godfrey, famed Grenadier Guards bandmaster, dies in London at age 70. An international car race in Ireland for the James Gordon Bennett cup sees Jenatzy of the German team win after a 270% mile course in six hours and nine seconds. Japan faces ships and naval moves as cotton ships sail toward Portsmouth, England.
The item notes a six year bubonic plague presence in India, a German American teachers convention in Erie Pennsylvania, and Rev J W Cross of Lawrence Massachusetts celebrating his 95th birthday. It mentions Postmaster General Payne awarding a government printing contract to Paul Herman of Rutherford New Jersey, a Pittsboro death considered murder, St Louis expo commissioner Barrett becoming US minister to Argentina, Senator Hanna praising Salvation Army dedication, and plans for a 45 story 50 million dollar New York bridge terminal. It also cites Count Cassini in Washington, a chemist poisoning, railway building powers, and engineers in demand amid global industry. It ends with Marshall Field in Sailings for Europe noting labor danger and precarious conditions.
Rome July 7 reports say Pope Leo XIII shows amplified depression and weak pulse with normal temperature, yet retains mental clarity. He has instructed clerics on disposal of his writings and received relatives as doctors consider possible two day remain.
William Rudolph of Union Missouri, jailed for the Union bank robbery and the killing of Detective Schumacher, escaped from the St Louis county jail by climbing to the roof and skylight. Rudolph and partner George Collins had been held after being captured following the Hartford Connecticut Union bank heist. Rudolph remains at large.
Last evening a Pennsylvanian railroad passenger train struck three men at Brushton crossing in Pittsburg. Wallace Wallace, 22, and his nephew Harold Sterling were killed instantly. Wallace Sterling was fatally injured and later died. The men, with a small ice wagon, failed to see the approaching train. The accident underscores dangers at grade crossings.
The National Educational association convened in Boston beginning Monday with over 15,000 teachers registered for sessions across 16 departments. Officials estimate up to 79,000 attendees may participate by week’s end as general meetings run nightly and business sessions occur midweek.
Hanna Wyoming July 2 262 men entered Union Pacific Coal Company's No 1 mine Tuesday 235 killed by black damp blast at 1030 am. Many victims are Finlanders and negroes. Rescuers describe pitiful scenes on the seventeenth level with survivors driven insane. Families grieve as exhausted rescuers struggle to reach survivors. mine unlikely to be cleared for a month.
Greensburg Greensburg July 6 flood from Oakford dam breach caused extensive damage and deaths. Reported fatalities include Gertrude Keefer Edward OBrien Joseph Overly Lucy Crum and councilman John Light and family. Rescue efforts and relief fundraising followed in Jeannette and Irwin as towns faced mounting losses.
A tornado near Heron Lake Minnesota killed ten people including Daniel Gallagher and his daughters Ella and Nettie whose bodies were not found. Property damage topped one hundred thousand dollars with farms at Westerman Kendall and Habberman destroyed or damaged. In Lewistown Pennsylvania a group of men are jailed amid a robbery and murder investigation of an unidentified victim found near Lewistown Junction.
In Austin on July 1 W G Hill an attache of the state comptroller’s office shot and killed State Comptroller R M Love in Love’s private office. Hill was wounded in a scuffle with Chief Clerk Stevens and died an hour later. The event is noted as the first assassination in the Texas capitol.
In Michigan City Indiana on Tuesday afternoon John and Felix Day aged 11 and 8 and Louis S. Ritenour aged 10 drowned in the harbor. Felix went beyond his depth and the elder boy tried to rescue him. they sank clasped in each other’s arms. Ritenour later drowned in the upper basin after crying for help as companions watched unable to assist.
A fragmentary note mentions a person named Ofer, a July date, and a lakefront location on a street. It references Marshell PF pledging or securing 5,000,000 dollars to build and establish an educational institution.
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