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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
2
The Warren Mail reports President Taft approved the court martial sentence against Lieut. Thomas A. Jones of the coast artillery at Fort Baker Cal for fraudulent conduct in official duties. The piece also mentions various other national items from prison bonds to cyclones and political events.
A compact digest highlights key events and personalities shaping the week, with emphasis on notable figures and upcoming public or cultural moments. The report sketches evolving stories across regions, outlining anticipated developments and turning points.
The Supreme Court upheld the Hepburn interstate commerce act as valid though railroad interests secured a larger victory than the government. Rep Murphy of Missouri seeks an inquiry into Judges Philips and McPherson. Oscar Straus named ambassador to Turkey succeeding Leishman. Senator Borah pushes income tax while Roosevelt praised. Cavanaugh tours Alaska navigation aides. Nagel denies a successor to Watchorn. Tillman and McCumber clash over tariff. Nelson urges free lumber. Cummins and Culberson doubt income tax amendment passage.
Col Owen J Sweet at Fort Snelling ordered to retire from active service. Cipriano Castro leaves Paris for Santander awaiting wife. Count de la Vaulx sustains leg fracture in Arles balloon accident. Milwaukee Mayor Rose and Albion College Dr Dickie debate liquor policy in Chicago. Queen Wilhelmina’s birth celebrated nationwide. Judge Sloan to take Arizona governor oath. George Young to become territorial secretary. Rock Island president Winchell says Missouri fare settlement complete. Rev Hale falls ill on Washington to Boston train.
August Rhoesie of Hancock Wisconsin reports he was kidnapped and held for ransom near Chicago. Roosevelt shows marksmanship by killing a lion charging his escort. Thirteen murderers hang in Constantinople as authorities crack down. Abdul Hamid connected to Adana massacres and mutinies. Nebraska Eastern Star meets in Lincoln. Knights of Pythias session in Chickasha. Brazil and Panama sign arbitration treaty. Mrs. Thew fined for contempt in New York. Two Chicago firemen die in blaze at an Illinois Central elevator struck by lightning. Maj. LEnfant buried at Arlington after exhumation from Digges Farm. Explosion at Reynolds Pennsylvania powder plant kills four.
Dispatch reports ten days of slaughter by Muslim mobs in Tarsus district with at least 10,000 dead and up to 25,000 total casualties. Villages wiped out, women abducted, and chiftliks burned. Armenians, Greeks, and Syrians harmed. Adana province faces 30,000 dead and 385,000 homeless as 4,000 soldiers loot and terrorize.
Cambridge, Massachusetts Chester S Jordan was found guilty in the first degree of murdering his wife after a 19 hour jury deliberation in Middlesex Superior Court. The body was found dismembered in a trunk moved to a Boston lodging house amid questions of epileptic insanity.
A severe storm sweeping the upper waters of Long Island Sound and parts of the Connecticut coast resulted in four fatalities. Capt Marshall A Percy of the barge Susquehanna, his wife, their 11 year old son, and a deckhand were drowned. Four barges sank off Branford, one ashore near Branford, and three driven onto rocks near Faulkner's Island.
A revolver duel between two Frenchmen from Mountain View near Little Falls New Jersey leaves one man dying in General hospital Paterson and the other wounded and spirited away.
Washington reports the Supreme Court's ruling in the commodities clause cases affecting anthracite coal carriers. The decision, read by Justice White, holds Congress did not exceed its powers but that the government’s interpretation was too broad, allowing railroads to own stock in producing companies while transporting their products. The ruling notes the act requires divestiture from transported commodities, not stock ownership, and warns the law risks evasion via subsidiary stock.
Mendel Weinstock a 22 year old New Haven tailor shot and killed 16 year old Rosie Cohen after a shipboard romance from Roumania. He then killed himself, ending a pursuit to wed she refused, after visiting her Seventh Street home.
In Stafford Springs Connecticut Mrs Bernard Rister allegedly driven by a memorial card for her daughter Elsie attacked Charles Emory of Boston with an axe, fatally wounded her two year old son Bernard, and killed herself at Jacob's Hollow.
Paris reports French scientist M Deparville predicts seismic disturbances will occur at principal decelensions of the moons. He cites this year’s earthquakes, including Messina and Portugal, and warns shocks may occur in May on the 2nd 3rd 6th 7th 12th 13th 17th 18th 20th 23rd 26th 27th 30th and 31st.
In the anthracite coal regions the pact between miners and operators to maintain industrial peace for another three years has been signed. In Philadelphia Dr. E A Spitzka of Jefferson Medical College reportedly holds the brain said to be removed from Dr Persifor Frazer the handwriting expert and chemist. Tyrone John Schuman the self proclaimed world champion walker and wager challenger nears New York arrival with five days left to complete a cross country wheelbarrow trek from Chicago for a $1000 prize.
Washington report notes Waynesburg capitalists secured 20 day options on 1000 acres of coal in South Franklin township just south of Washington at 200 dollars an acre. The move follows plans to project a trolley line from Waynesburg to Washington through the area.
At a conference of trolley promoters from Waynesburg the group decided to start building a line to Claysville via Prosperity with a spur to Washington. Surveys are done and rights of way secured.
Pittsburg businessman I B Ackerly, currently in Florida, is expected to return soon bringing the skeleton of an eight foot shark. Near Mayport he hooked the monster and five shots ended the battle, with few other details available.
In Washington the results show eight of 26 candidates for first class mine foremen were successful and 13 of 65 candidates for five bosses. The winners include James R. Black Anson B. Nedrow Thomas J. Kane James C. Smith John Shultz Robert M. Charleton Thomas Skillorn James A. Conway A C Gunter Robert Carleton John Brown George F. Young James McGill John Shultz John J. Clover Andrew Minford Arch John J. Clover Archie Gordon William H. Gillie Martin Thompson Isaiah Luckle BE Callaghan.
Harrisburg announces appointments for the Pennsylvania Reform School at Morganza and the Valley Forge commission. Appointees include Alexander J. Pentecost Pittsburg William S. McKinney Pittsburg John T. Iams Waynesburg Hay Walker Pittsburg William D. Wallace New Castle F H Skelding Pittsburg John W Crawford Pittsburg Samuel S Hartman Norristown Martin G Brumbaugh Philadelphia John F Nichols Philadelphia J P Hale Jenkins Norristown William A Patton Philadelphia Richmond L Jones Reading to the boards.
Gov. Stuart says hearings on pending appropriation bills cannot be held. The Townsend-Grim automobile act mandates horsepower based registration with fees 5 to 15 dollars and chauffeur licensing at 2 dollars. It sets highway speed limits of one mile in 2 1/2 minutes open country and one mile in five minutes in towns, with fines from 10 dollars to 200 dollars and up to 80 days in jail for violations.
Harrisburg Gov Stuart signs a resolution directing the state treasurer to settle with the bondsmen of the defunct Allegheny National Bank. Bondsmen owe about 250000 of a 523000 state deposit. court decision held liable. Settlement offers 2 percent interest on the balance due, reducing by four points from 6 percent.
Five men were killed when dynamite exploded demolishing a steam shovel outfit on the Northern Pacific railroad east of Missoula Montana yesterday. The disaster occurred on the railway line damaging equipment and prompting investigations.
The Monongahela Valley league adopts a six club schedule. The season opens May 15 with Brownsville at Roscoe Fayette City at Bellevernon and Monongahela at Monessen. The season closes September 18 after 40 games two per week with holiday games pooled receipts.
Guidance for painting a year round job covers timing surface condition and materials. National Lead Company offers free Houseowner's Painting Outfit No 49 from the 1902 Trinity Building New York with a color book and adulteration tester. Ensure white lead kegs bear the Dutch Boy Painter trademark as purity guarantee.
A child suffers severe rash all over the body with crusted and oozing sores. Physicians report many treatments tried without success, highlighting the case as a troubling example of difficult dermatologic illness.
A parent recounts a severe eczema case in a child treated with Cuticura Remedies. After many doctors failed, use of Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent led to visible improvement within weeks and full recovery in about two months. George F. Lambert of Mahanoy City, Pa., cites the treatment in 1907. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. promotes Cuticura products.
A youth aims to learn from Henry James and uses Wings of the Dove to study. After two weeks he grows thinner yet remains absorbed. A frivolous friend asks if the work is stories or a single narrative. The reader answers it is one long story.
Attor ney Charles Pettijohn urged leniency for a client who pleaded guilty to larceny saying he stole to feed twins. Judge Pritchard replied he would consider the argument if Pettijohn himself were father of twins. Indianapolis News.
A Huntsville Alabama woman describes long term coffee use causing stomach trouble and insomnia. After years of illness and unsuccessful medical treatment she stopped coffee, tried Postum, and four months later reports marked health improvement and better sleep. She endorses Postum with the motto There’s a Reason.
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