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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
1
A brief notice from Exchange Block in Water Street Warren Pennsylvania mentions Joan Still and F Fe Sill in a fragmentary entry. The readable text provides names but no clear action or date. Further context is unavailable in the fragment.
Burgess Frank Barnhart heads town council with members Borchers Brann Hill Masterson Smith Schimelfeng Hazeltine Beaty Frantz Lewis Harmon Clawson and clerk Beshlin. Treas Hazeltine auditor Meacham Perry Meacham collector Peirce Lehnar attorney Wheelock and constables ward officials listed along with school directors Ball Leffard Cowan Magee Keegan Hinckley Arird Chase Tucker Craft Morrison Blair.
A brief verses feature transports Elsie admiring a butterfly in a garden and notes a poetic reflection on nature. The second piece Trekking presents a Boer War era lament on homeland journeying, family pain, and national resolve voiced by a speaker in a New York Sun excerpt.
A urging exhortation rebukes ease and urges action with a call to work today. It emphasizes that while human help may be distant, God is near and will guide and sustain his children wherever they go.
A poetic meditation on snow covering distant graves and weary hearts. The speaker pleads for snow to hide sorrow, quiet pain, and earthly stains while offering solace and a vision of purification. The piece frames snow as a gentle guide to spiritual rest.
Georges Harmois, owner of a new Paris dog cemetery, expects 20000 dogs die yearly in Paris with about one sixth buried there at $6 per grave. Projected receipts exceed $20000 plus several thousand from monuments and ongoing grave maintenance fees.
A London Telegraph quote warns that German influence spreads through the Balkans and the Asia Minor region as the Bagdad railway extends to the Persian Gulf. It claims Germany becomes the strongest power on the direct route to India, surpassing English ambitions for a Euphrates railway.
Recap of notable events: Barrow in Matteawan asylum, train crash near Sunbury, child death in Ridgebury from a gun accident, plague cases in Honolulu, bubonic plague deaths in New Caledonia, Cronje’s surrender celebrations, Alfred Morrison indicted, miners entombed in California, fire damage in New Jersey, and multiple military and political updates across the United States and abroad.
William H. Stoddard, 66, of Hartford, a farmer, hanged himself in a barn on Sunday. The death follows financial trouble cited as the cause. Local authorities report the incident occurred in Sandy Hill, New York.
Market report from New York outlines money market rates including call money at 3 percent, prime mercantile paper between 4 and 5 percent, and sterling exchange with bankers’ bills around 4.86 to 4.89 for demand. Posted rates show $4.84 to $4.87 for a pound, with commercial bills at $4.82. Silver certificates at 4 1 8 cents, bar silver at 59.5 cents, and Mexican dollars at 47 cents.
Market quotations for flour cornmeal oats rye hay pork butter cheese eggs and potatoes show varied regional values. Prices cover winter patent and straight flours Minnesota patents cornmeal oats and rye hay pork butter cheese eggs and Jersey and New York potatoes with freight and origin references.
Buffalo market report shows No 1 hard wheat 76 cents f o b afloat No 1 northern 75 4 40 cents winter wheat red 72 cents corn yellow prices 38 39 cents oats No 3 white 26 28 cents flour spring patent 4 00 to 4 25 per barrel butter creamery western extras 26 cents cheese fancy full cream 11 to 12 cents eggs state 17 1 2 cents western 17 cents potatoes state No 1 white 55 cents per bushel fair to good 41 to 48 cents Jerseys red box 8 00 to 3 25 dollars
Corrected returns from last Saturdays Republican primaries show insurgent anti-Quay candidates crushed in counties including Lancaster Mercer Union and Lawrence while stalwarts pledge to follow caucus majorities. Lancaster reports a large vote with Keller defeating Bausman and a full pro-Griest-Quay ticket elected. Union Snyder share the seventeenth district nomination for Focht and Snyder control. Lawrence and Mercer exhibit strong Quay support with multiple winners including McConnell Morrison and Emery.
In Armstrong county Flinn followers fought hard but George McNees, a Quay man, was nominated for state senator. Insurgents backing one candidate, regulars six, produced a split vote. Bradford county GOP primaries sided with stalwarts over insurgents. Delegates to the county convention will be chosen. Wright is slated for renomination and E B Hardenbergh for auditor general. Edmiston ally loses decisively in Milan county.
Congressman Joseph C. Sibley former Democrat turned Republican divides his full term salary among Warren Venango district hospitals. Franklin Kane Bradford Warren and Oil City each received 1000 dollars now, totaling 2000 dollars per hospital by term end. He previously directed his Twenty sixth district salary to Erie and Crawford labor groups.
Olga Nethersole and Hamilton Revelle along with Marcus Meyer and Theodore Moss were held on $500 bail for trial on charges of producing a play that offended public decency. The Sapho cast and theater officials were ordered to appear again as authorities threatened arrests if changes were not made. Miss Nethersole seeks a jury trial with a show cause order returnable today.
A Harrisburg dispatch notes United States Senator Boies Penrose gains national recognition as a deft parliamentarian in managing Colonel M. S. Quay’s senate challenge. The piece states he blocked a caucus move to politicize the case, arguing it rests on constitutional grounds to represent every state. Penrose’s handling draws praise as insurgent attacks and rumors are labeled unfounded. Penrose also receives mention of declining invitations as he rises in national prominence and is credited with honors to Hawkins.
Elmira New York voters elected Dr. Frank H. Flood Republican mayor by 576 plurality over Frank E. Bundy Democrat. Republicans also captured 10 aldermen giving them a council majority ending over two decades of Democratic control.
George W. Lane, Democrat, was elected mayor of Corning New York by about 300 votes in yesterday’s city election. Republicans won three alderman seats while Democrats took two. Local issues dominated the contest with little party impact.
In Ithaca New York on March 7 the regular city election produced a Democratic win. They elected two of four aldermen the justice of the peace and three of four supervisors. The water works company proposition was defeated.
General Corbin delivered to Mrs. Lawton, widow of Major General Lawton, the national fund contributed by the people. The total amount reached 298 4227.
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