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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1904
Page
2
F H Leland and William Closson organize a 1200 mile relay for cowboys from Albuquerque New Mexico to the gates of the world’s fair grounds in St Louis with a $1500 purse. The event opens to riders in New Mexico and Arizona.
The Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co. steamer Canada bound Quebec to Montreal sank after colliding with the Cape Breton six miles below Sorel. Ninety-five passengers were saved after swift crew actions while five were lost. Passengers were transferred to Cape Breton and other vessels, with rescue aided by Prefontaine and Colombian.
Washington June 13 The agriculture department issue details plant diseases across the country in 1903. It notes coffee leaf blight reaching Porto Rico along with cocoa rot orange scab and tomato blight. cotton root rot in Texas. corn leaf blight in northeastern states. rice blast and alfalfa rust. and widespread apple diseases including bitter rot and black heart.
A Yonkers division train of the New York & Putnam railroad struck the Noakes auto at Van Cortlandt Park. Frank B. Reed, a New York paper maker, was killed. Noakes daughter lost a foot, chauffeur John Spencer was severely injured. The Noakes family survived.
June dispatches report Japanese probing near Siuyen and Wafangon with Cossack resistance and Russian artillery counterfire. New Chwang notes a spy reveal Russian ship repairs at Port Arthur and a 30,000 man force. Reports also cover Pu-Lan-Tien ambush rumors and ongoing skirmishes along the Liao Tung rail line.
June 13 report from Hai Cheng describes a Japanese push along the Feng Wang Cheng Hai Cheng road on June 9. The Russians held a ravine position 30 miles southeast of Hai Cheng and decimated two advancing Japanese battalions, while the main Japanese force failed to outflank and withdrew with no Russian losses. Also noted is the Kin Chou Nanshan Hill battle death toll report finalized by the Russian military commission.
In Muscatine Iowa Robert Morrison son of County Clerk Joseph Morrison and Charles Stoker both 19 were arrested by federal officers on charges of sending letters to Peter Musser the lumberman threatening to kill him and his daughter unless a large sum was deposited in a secret place. The first letter demanded 3000 dollars followed by two more letters demanding 4000 dollars after prior inaction they confessed.
A telegram from Lieut. Gen. Stackelberg describes a noon battle 44 percent miles south of Varangon station with repeated Russian left flank resistance and heavy losses including Col. Khayastounoff and Sub-Lieut. Nadotchinsky killed, Gen. Geerngross wounded. The conflict expanded to a broader front per Central News. In Port Arthur, Taihoku mine explosion killed one officer and seven men, Lt Commander Oda among the dead, while the vessel endured heavy Russian fire.
John Alexander Dowie and his wife and son were pursued by a frenzied mob after leaving the Zion tabernacle in London. Dowie allegedly obtained hotel rooms by concealing his name but was asked to leave the Hotel Cecil following the chase by reporters and crowds.
Denver and Cripple Creek report 87 warrants for murder tied to the Independence station explosion and Victor riots. Some suspects have left for Butte Montana to avoid arrest as deputies prepare to serve warrants. A Cripple Creek committee demands no union doors in Teller county and vows drastic measures to preserve peace. Thirty six prisoners deported from the bull pen by train, destination reportedly Mexico.
Frederick Warren of Buffalo traveled to New York with five thousand dollars to gamble in an English faro game. He and Peter Forrester, also of Buffalo, met with seven other men and played. Warren lost all his money in ten minutes. Forrester admitted losing three thousand five hundred dollars. Warren assaulted Forrester with a cane after the loss, but the court discharged Forrester, saying Warren had no legal remedy.
Washington reports that the secretary of the interior approves an opinion by Assistant Attorney General Campbell on Thomas Edison versus two patent office examiners. The opinion finds no basis in Edison’s petition for supervisory action and advises against leaving any patent commissioner to decide the matter unilaterally.
The cruiser Tacoma departs San Francisco to locate the missing Conemaugh, a merchant steamer last heard from after leaving a Chilean port bound for New York. Orders send the Tacoma to Coronel Chile and then Santa Lucia West Indies to trace the probable route. The mission aims to rescue the 40 aboard, though the search is regarded as nearly hopeless.
New York June 15 Mrs Nan Patterson former actress an indictment for murder in the first degree in the death of Bookmaker Ceasar Young was returned by the grand jury yesterday. She pleaded not guilty before Judge Newberger in the court of general sessions.
Acting Governor Wakelee signed a 21 day reprieve saving Mrs. Anna Valentina of Lodi from the gallows. The stay delays execution and grants time for further review of the case in Trenton New Jersey.
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