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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1904
Page
2
The Senate examined the army appropriation bill and fortifications funds while the House handled private claim bills and the post office appropriation. News notes report on Cleveland becoming a Mason, a mass arrest in Buffalo, and various rail, labor, and maritime items.
News wires outline nightly engagements near Port Arthur on March 10 11 and 12 with Japanese torpedo boats clashing with Russian forces. Reports describe sunk enemy torpedo boat destroyers damaged Russian ships and evacuations rumors from Jokio to Dalny amid conflicting broadcasts.
Chris Evans financial manager of the United Mine Workers of America was severely beaten on a Colorado & Southern train bound for Pueblo by three masked men with revolvers. The men abandoned the train a mile east of Trinidad and fled. Evans was sent to Colorado by President Mitchell. Earlier, guards killed Michuel Calabae, a striker who reportedly fired at a Black man before barricading himself in his house to resist arrest.
In New York on March 12, the Hudson river tunnel under Fourteenth street Jersey City to Morton street Manhattan Island reached completion after 30 years of work and several suspensions due to accidents and finances. Chief Engineer Charles M. Jacobs oversaw a flawless alignment as the Jersey and New York headings met with perfect accuracy.
A Daily Mail correspondent reports that after removing the battleship Retvizan, four Russian steamers the Harbin Hailar Ningata and Sungari anchored at Port Arthur’s mouth were sunk leaving a narrow channel. Makaroff reportedly kept the fleet outside to save coal. A Tokio dispatch cites Russian concentration at Vladivostok. Minamisawa receives top Japanese honors for heroism on Kasumi.
Gustav Marx, condemned along with two others for the Chicago & North Western express train robbery at Tower W near DeWald four years ago, says he was one of the robbers. He claims his accomplices are dead and won’t name them. Rail authorities report a $102,000 loss.
The U S Supreme Court affirms that the Northern Securities merger violated federal antitrust law. Justice Harlan writes the majority, upholding the Minnesota circuit decree that the combination of Great Northern and Northern Pacific into Northern Securities restrained interstate commerce and must dissolve. Four justices dissented.
Secretary Taft testified before the House Committee on Insular Affairs on the bill to improve administration of civil government in the Philippines. Before the hearing the committee read a cablegram dated March 2 from Taft abrogating the Bates treaty with the Sultan of Sulu and his dattos.
A Kansas City Southern freight train derailed six miles south of Joplin while running rapidly down Saginaw hill. Three men were killed and three injured as seventeen cars of merchandise were demolished.
Dramatic scene at the American theater on March 15 as a man in a stage box fired a shot during the third act. Edward Cain, the theater treasurer, tried to intervene but was knocked down. one assailant then fired at him but missed. Two men fled the box.
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