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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1877
Page
2
A sweeping labor dispute erupts on the Baltimore & Ohio and other lines causing freight stoppages, firefights, and fires in Pittsburgh and surrounding cities. Troops restore order while officials warn mob violence endangers law and economy, urging lawful resolution and continued operation.
The notice lists election dates across states Alabama Kentucky Vermont California Maine Colorado Ohio Iowa Massachusetts New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia South Carolina Tennessee Louisiana Mississippi Texas Wisconsin Minnesota Nevada. It notes governors to be chosen in nine states and legislature elections in most, excluding Pennsylvania.
Baltimore July 20. Sixth regiment under Colonel Clarence Porter marching to Camden station was stoned and fired upon by a crowd. The regiment fired back. several killed and many wounded. Four bodies to Middle District Station and wounded to drug stores. Columbus Ohio July 20. Governor Young called out four military companies to quell Baltimore and Ohio Railroad strikers at Newark and issued a proclamation demanding an end to intimidation and property interference.
In Pennsylvania sixty six counties are listed with a population of 3 521 951. Fid Bishop, by appointment, becomes postmaster at Oil City. Union City opens a turbine water wheel works. New Castle youths prosper as city pays ten cents per cat hide. Butler Court House to be repaired for 25 000. A man fined 50 for carting glycerine in Edenburg. Pittsburg trims police and fire forces by nearly half. Northwest Pennsylvania corn crop reported in fine condition. Beaver Falls reports last Chinamen left for San Francisco. St Petersburg awaits the iron horse. Western Penitentiary produces 75 000 cigars monthly. Philadelphia faces many ghost stories with 12 000 empty houses. Dixmont Hospital crowded with 530 inmates. 50 000 people sign temperance pledge in Philadelphia. Crawford County fair set for October 3 4 5 at Conneautville. Philadelphia beer sales June exceed prior months with 643 847 barrels brewed. Engineers' Brotherhood treasurer deficiency of 9300 dollars undetermined and said to have absconded.
A collage of 19th century dispatches cites Sigel fighting the Sultan, Col Ingersoll battling San Francisco clergy, Grant welcome in Germany, and Hayes as umpire in a Paraguay-Argentina dispute. It notes Custer remains repatriated, bishops forbidding picnics, and a mix of political and social curiosities from rowing to a London bridge contract.
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