A Week's Recond Condensed News Summary
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
2
A condensed rundown of home and foreign items spanning the past seven days. Industrial field developments, personal and political items, and notable happenings at home and abroad are highlighted.
The senate continued opposition to the Philippines government bill as Senator Rawlins and Carmack spoke at length. In the house, pension bills for Gen. Lawton widow and Parson Brownlow were proposed, meat and poultry duties were debated, and the oleomargarine bill moved to conference. The agricultural appropriation bill received scrutiny and tributes paid to late representatives Stokes and Crump.
Striking dyers in Paterson silk mills raided multiple works smashing windows throwing chemicals and firing on police. Fire destroyed 35 businesses and 50 homes at Marienville Pennsylvania and Clinton dale Pennsylvania with total losses reaching 1.5 million. Brigadier General Funston will not speak on the Philippine war again without presidential order. The Port City article notes post office inspector uncovering a Chicago postal card plant and Louis Smith arrest. The National City Bank of New York plans to raise capital to 25 million dollars, the largest in America.
Weekly totals at leading U S exchanges reach 2 685 159 526 dollars, down from 2 541 841 707 the prior week with a 0 6 percent drop from last year. Fire devastates Hobbs Indiana and Custar Ohio. Several states face windstorms and loss of life.
Robert R. Hitt is renominated by acclamation for Congress in Illinois Thirteenth district. The Republican slate includes Joseph W. Jabcock Third Wisconsin Charles H. Hildebrandt Sixth Ohio and W A Reeder Sixth Kansas. Indiana GOP names Daniel E Storms for secretary of state and backs Roosevelt administration. J Sterling Morton dies at Lake Forest Neb aged 70. Champ Clark renominated for Congress in Missouri Ninth district.
Lieut Col Baldwin issues encouraging reports on the American campaign on Mindanao Island. London officials express renewed optimism for peace in South Africa. The Cuban congress will meet in Havana on May 5, with May 20 declared a special Cuban independence holiday.
Alexander Cook, longtime commercial editor of the New York Evening Post, dies in Brooklyn from heart trouble. Lizzie McCarvey, a Brooklyn teacher, is burned to death. her aunt Lizzie Lambert fatally burned in Williamsburg. Constable Charles Engelbrecht shot dead on Secaucus road near Snake Hill. Wright named head of Clark University collegiate school in Worcester. Wright remains in Washington. William Pratt, alias Charles Daniels, confesses to killing Ida Collins near Laurel Delaware. motive robbery. Historic ship Vermont to be burned for metal in Brookyn yard. Navy pay director Henry Wright dies of typhoid fever. Three youths killed at Joliet crossing after train collision with a buggy. Senate approves oleomargarine and Chinese exclusion bills. agricultural bill under discussion.
Vienna warns about danger to world commerce from Morgan steamship combine. Kaiser Wilhelm backs motor fuel from potato alcohol to aid German agriculture. New York court allows theater owners to reject tickets not sold by them. U S Steel to reorganize to operate absorbed plants directly. World circumnavigator Joseph Haworth completes complete circuit in 49 days after landing in New York. Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate railroad immigration bureau and immigrant business. Ellen Stone lecture injunction denied in Boston. Sir Charles Dilke predicts Boer War ends before coronation. Boer leaders depart to meet burghers. Faneuil Hall hosts Irish supporters denouncing renewal of coercion in Ireland. Joaquin Miller builds a California park for children. J Pierpont Morgan says London papers over shipping trust. plan is mutual benefit. Massachusetts Gov. Crane signs medal bill for Lincoln era volunteers. Harry Kirschopf and Solomon W Hilles held on anarchistic literature charges. Nine Wirtz brothers form Forest Grove basketball team ready to challenge any family nine.
Manila reports Maj Waller and Lieut Day of the marine corps acquitted after a court martial over killings of Samar natives. Gen Jacob H Smith’s court martial began with Gen Lloyd Wheaton presiding. Witnesses offered limited new testimony and preparations for further prosecutorial testimony continued. A separate Washington memo notes Mindanao operations and planned interviews with Dattos as U.S. forces move toward Lake Moros and Malabang.
A fast east bound Chicago and Grand Trunk passenger train wrecked near Haskells Indiana after wind blew two empty freight cars onto the main track. The engineer and fireman are missing and a wrecking crew with surgeons rushed to the scene while Grand Trunk officials withhold details. In a second incident near Tedens Illinois the Santa Fe express hit a box car. several cars derailed but injuries among passengers are not believed serious.
Amsterdam reports no improvement in Queen Wilhelmina’s health. Doctors acknowledge poor sleep as a negative sign while royal dispatches differ from medical bulletins. The queen resists liquid diet and demands solid food, but doctors remain firm on treatment.
Dallas Texas April 26 the twelfth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans ends at five o clock Friday afternoon. The boom of a cannon and taps by buglers marked closing as the last delegations filed out of the fair grounds and workers began striking the tents.
The Sunrise steamer, Capt. Frank Scovell, of the Red River line, burned to the water's edge at her New Orleans wharf just before daylight. Most passengers were Louisianians. Mr and Mrs Jerry Davidson of Ironton Ohio survived. No lives were lost. Mother and three children killed in Oklahoma dugout collapse in Roger Mills County.
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