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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1888
Page
2
The notice renews a one year subscription for the Mail and the Philadelphia Press at $1.75 in advance. It touts the Press as a premier Republican journal with full daily news and urges readers to begin now, offering favors to those forming local clubs.
Representatives from 150 clubs attended the Republican Clubs Convention in Lancaster. John H. Weiss Jr. presided. A. F. Thompson was temporary chairman. Officers elected included A. C. Robertson as president and a secretary team from Dauphin and Allegheny. The body adopted a constitution and by laws and set four delegates at large for the National League in Chicago. An initiation fee of $10 was authorized for joining clubs. The next meeting was scheduled for Pittsburg at an undetermined date.
Walker Blaine told a reporter last Wednesday that reports of his father's illness are a nuisance to his family. A Rome letter dated April 10 claims the father is in excellent health, enjoys social invitations, and is touring Europe for pleasure, not health reasons.
Gen. D. B. McCreary of Erie is announced as a candidate for the Senate representing the Erie district. He is described as an experienced Republican with a record of political and legislative service. The piece urges his nomination and election, praising faithful service and urging the Republican electorate to honor him.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention elected Gen. Jacob M. Campbell as permanent chairman and James T. Mitchell as Supreme Judge on the fourth ballot. Electors at large were chosen, with Quay and Hastings among delegates to Chicago. The platform demanded fair elections, protective tariffs, civil service reform, and a prohibition referendum. The session adjourned after six p.m.
Chairman Knapp announces the Republican Congressional Convention will meet May 4 at the Carver House in Warren. Delegates are allotted five for Warren Venango and McKean counties and three for Cameron. Candidates include Col Watson Warren E W Smiley Venango and Senator Emery McKean. The body will also choose delegates to Chicago.
The sixty fifth anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant's birth was marked with a Delmonico's dinner in New York City and a Americas Club reception and banquet in Pittsburgh. Gov. Beaver and Hon. C. W. Stone attended, reflecting the enduring respect for Grant's name.
The article notes ongoing talk of reducing the Treasury surplus while actual internal revenue collections rise. For the first nine months of the fiscal year ending June 30, receipts show an increase of about 6 million dollars over the same period in the prior year.
Albany dispatch reports officials deny Gov. Hill has withdrawn from the Democratic race for president. Meanwhile a weather prophet predicts earthquakes this summer as a sign that no withdrawal occurred.
The House passed a pension appropriation of 80 million 280 thousand dollars this year and the nation now totals one billion dollars paid in pensions since the Civil War. The Senate backs a plan to add about 700 million more, while the House committee proposes 800 to 1,000 million for future generations. The Times notes gratitude to soldiers amid civilian views.
The Pittsburg Times notes 14,000 new names added in the last quarter to the Grand Army of the Republic. Missouri provided the largest numeric contribution while Kentucky led in percentage growth.
An advertisement claims rheumatism is rapidly cured by Grand Oil Liniment with endorsements from B. Morris and N. C. Allen.
The list covers diverse items: Conkling's estate valued at 250 dollars, W Irving Bishop in a San Francisco asylum, New Haven's 250th birthday celebration, a heavy snowstorm in Minnesota Wisconsin, the President attending Decoration Day events in New York, Pennsylvania state Democratic convention at Harrisburg on May 23, and General Rea's Southern tour with Col Ingersoll’s memorial address May 9. Also mentions a bill on Agriculture Cabinet status passing Senate, York State marriage loophole news, Methodist Episcopal General Conference in New York with 500 delegates and 2 million communicants, Abby H Corner Christian Scientist arrested in Medford MA on manslaughter charges in her daughter's death, held on 5000 bonds.
Philadelphia’s James T. Mitchell emerges as a leading, well known jurist. Born in the city, he rose from Philadelphia High School to Harvard, UPenn Law, and a long judicial career as District Court then Common Pleas Court judge. He edited major legal works and long served Republican interests in municipal elections.
The article warns housewives about adulterated baking powders containing lime and alum. It cites health harms from long use, urges choosing Royal Baking Powder as free from harmful ingredients, and advises personal checks to avoid substitutes that threaten family health.
Reports detail the 1848 Seneca Falls meeting led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the formation of the Women’s Suffrage Society, and the 1852 Syracuse convention. It notes plans for an international council, the Washington council in March, and speeches by Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Frederick Douglass, Prudence Crandall, and others.
An 19th century promotional piece extols sea travel and tourism across the Atlantic stressing the dangers of sea-sickness. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive and remedy for seasickness dyspepsia and related ailments. It also claims benefits for emigrants to the West against malaria and urges use to safeguard vitality for travelers and merchants.
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