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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1909
Page
2
The report compiles top world happenings from various regions, highlighting dramatic political shifts, key treaties, and notable cultural milestones. It serves as a concise digest of international developments and their implications for readers.
President Taft urged Congress to amend Puerto Rico governance and support playgrounds in cities. The Commerce Bureau notes a world trade decline due to price cuts. Missouri’s Murphy threatens impeachment against federal judges Philips and McPherson. Senate tariff votes begin on lead schedules. Cummins warns the Payne Aldrich bill risks new revision battles. Taft expects no tariff passage before July 1.
Charles A. Willard of Minneapolis was appointed by President Taft to the federal bench seat vacated by Judge Purdy. John Fleming, 72, committed to Eaton county poor farm after squandering a fortune on dress. famed for replacing buttons with gold coins. Count Louis Hamon Cheiro, the palm reader, sentenced in Paris to 13 months and ordered to reimburse Count Festetics nearly 200000. Cheiro, once a Chicago palmist, is thought to be in London. C W Caldwell of Columbus, Ind., seeks to oust Secretary Knox by quo warranto proceedings.
A diverse set of items from the era notes Mehmed V in the palace lawn plowing to show burden bearing, life imprisonment sentences for James Boyle and wife for kidnapping Willie Whitla, and other notable events including crimes, marriages, and political moves across the United States and Europe.
Across America details report a deadly blast at a Columbus Kansas powder factory that killed four people. Nearby towns, officials, and witnesses described the scene as investigators probe the cause and safety measures.
Twenty one Pressed Steel Car Co. workers are missing after a gasoline launch sank in the Ohio river near Schoenville four miles below Pittsburg. Of thirty aboard only nine escaped as the boat overturned and sank without a blast, taking most men with it as they had worked overtime until 8 pm and crossed the river.
Capt. Peter C. Hains Jr. U S A. was found guilty of manslaughter in the first degree for the killing of William E. Annis at Bayside Yacht Club last August. The verdict carries a potential prison term from one to 20 years. The courtroom tension showed on Hains as his father General Peter C. Hains and brother Major John Power Hains wept.
In a Panamanian Canal Zone dispute near the dividing line, G M Abbott an electrician at Cristobal and a colored American were killed during a confrontation between Panaman police and canal workers. Police attempted arrests but were mobbed. Later Panaman police armed with rifles clashed with canal workers, with revolver and rifle fire reported.
Fire damaged or destroyed 1 500 bales of cotton owned by Bassett Nash & Co. stored in compartment 56 of the Norfolk Warehouse Corporation on Front Street.
Hastings representative William H. Schantz was assaulted on a Lansing street, his throat cut with a razor. He is expected to recover.
Altoona reports W B Ward returns to his forge job after state service. Meadville outlines receivers appointed for Meadville and Conneaut Lake Traction Co with company reorganization and line extensions. Washington notes Sidney M Hunter of Burgettstown wills funds to cover burial costs first from his children. Warrensburg covers a jury verdict of guilty on seven of twelve charges against the Pennsylvania railroad for alleged safety appliance violations.
Mrs. Jean A. Medard wins court decree as a femme sole trader with about $600,000 in property, granting absolute control and removing dower rights from her husband.
At a Uniontown meeting 79 of 81 independent coke plants in the Connellsville and Klondike fields signaled likely completion of a $65,000,000 merger. In Pittsburg the Standard Oil Co cut crude oil prices by 5 cents per barrel for all grades except Ragland, the first change since March 9, 1907, leaving Pennsylvania crude at $1.78.
Two hundred miners panicked and seven injured after a blast 2000 feet underground at the Arona mine in Arona. Black powder reportedly smuggled for use in place of fulminite caused the explosion at Keystone Coal Co.
United States revenue inspectors bring a major suit in the district court against Louis and Jacob Wesoky. They allege the defendants produced and sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of a butter oleo mixture passed off as fresh creamery butter and evaded 10 cents a pound revenue.
Miss Kate Ferris aged 19 and Mrs Luther Cobb pleaded guilty to leaving a newborn on a doorstep during a heavy snowstorm in Erie. Ferris said fear of gossip led to the act after the child was refused at a local hospital. both were remanded to county jail for a further hearing.
J. J. Stanley of a Manila area naval hospital reports natives fear Americans will steal their women. He notes soldiers obtain living permits from a justice of the peace with a simple promise to support, leaving partners behind when enlistment ends, raising risk of violence against soldiers.
Judge Koo ser ruled a lease between John Speicher and J Wilcox Brown void. Brown held a 99year mineral land lease six miles south of Johnstown dating from February 12, 1879, renewable if minerals were developed and royalties paid. The contract voids if the railroad along Stony creek is not begun within five years.
A former superintendent left a wreck of dead stock and spoiled work. The new leader issued two rules: no discharge for a mistake alone, and instant discharge for covering one. Open discussion and learning from errors restored dividends by the second year.
M Lepereq in charge of Alpreck lighthouse near Boulogne fell ill with influenza and lay in bed. His substitute could not light the lamp, so the sick man braved snow and wind to relight it. He died two days later from cerebral congestion caused by exposure. He would have earned a pension in five years.
In Lanarkshire Scotland a vole infestation has damaged vegetation including young plantation trees and various flowers. Mild winters may contribute to the plague, with history noting a similar outbreak seventeen years ago and a royal commission following farm losses. The decline of owls hawks and other predators is blamed for upsetting vole balance.
The remark asks what caused Jiggsby's death and notes it was described as a complication of physicians, reflecting a grim joke about medical blame.
A reader complains that mothers sew 50 cent buttons on gowns while fathers neglect six small buttons on trousers, highlighting unequal household duties and focus on minor tasks.
London laundries use an estimated 750 tons of soap weekly, reflecting the scale of cleaning services in the city and the heavy demand on domestic and commercial laundries.
A calculation shows that all land in England is held by fewer than 8,000 individuals. The finding highlights extreme concentration of property among a small elite.
New York markets show money on call steady at 14 2 per cent and prime mercantile paper at 3 46 4 per cent. Grain andlivestock prices vary with Minnesota flour patents at 6.20 to 6.50 and cattle steers from 5.50 to 7.00, sheep to 8.00. Cleveland reports spring patent flour at 6.70 to 7.20 and hogs at 7.35 to 7.50, while Buffalo lists cattle to 6.75 and hogs to 7.50, with sheep up to 6.50. Toledo notes cash wheat at 1.44, corn at Tilée, oats at 0.59, and Cloverseed at 5.75, and Pittsburg lists steers to 7.00 and hogs to 7.50 with lambs to 8.00.
Gardiner Maine resident Mrs A Williams reports cure from organic troubles after three months using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. Ad promotes avoiding surgical operation and urges sick women to seek Mrs Pinkham's free advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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