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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
2
The Northern Pacific battle for control triggers a New York stock exchange panic with shares soaring to extreme highs and broad losses across securities. Several fortunes are wrecked as creditors scramble amid the turmoil.
A concise roundup of Industrial field news personal and political items and notable happenings at home and abroad across the week.
New Jersey prohibitionists nominate Joel W. Brown of Jersey City for governor. Charles G. Seymour a Chicago journalist dies in El Paso Texas at age 39. John M. Carroll former Forty second congressman dies in Johnstown New Jersey at 78. Evan Williams ex governor of Nevada dies in San Francisco. Joseph Hush near Mishawaka Indiana marks his 108th birthday. John Fitzgibbon dies at his Bloomington Illinois home at age 100.
The insurgents in Infanta province surrendered ending the war in north Luzon. The move concludes active hostilities and signals a shift toward stabilization in the region.
In Rome Pope Leo XIII is believed to have named a successor in his will. London financial editors forecast that the United States will become the richest nation. New York judge rules that Italian statues are not works of art. John D Rockefeller notes over 700 million dollars in wages paid in 25 years. H M Hanna donates 12000 to Western Reserve University. Rev Dr Frederick Z Rooker named chamberlain to the pope, first American in the pontifical household. Chief Tenawashie of the Yakimas assassinated in Washington. England and Wales population reaches 32 525 716, up 3 523 191 since 1891. Ambassador Choate says English beef use won’t dent U S trade with British islands. Oil springs found in Fossil fields Wyoming offering lubricant quality. Miss Helen Gould of New York ordered to rest due to nervous prostration. Col William P Hall ordered to Manila as adjutant general of the Philippines. August Waller imitates Carrie Nation by attacking Racine saloons. fined or jailed. Prof Nichols at Yerkes observatory measures star heat radiation.
Reports describe a stove explosion injuring Mrs. James Miller in Waterloo Indiana as eight Italian laborers die in an avalanche at Campo Delcine Switzerland. Other items note mine disputes at Ebervale Pennsylvania and Union iron works San Francisco workers funding a gold tablet for President McKinley before the Ohio launch.
A Brooklyn widow watches Dinah the maid cry over a colored friend, a black man, sailing away on a three year navy cruise. The scene contrasts the mistress and Dinah as both feel deep sorrow at parting.
A devotee of the bicycle started southward on his wheel at winter’s start. Weeks later he reached Florida none the worse for the journey. When he could not ride the machine he walked by it, showing there are multiple ways to travel by wheel.
The Klamath Republican reports huge mullet schools near Klamath rapids five minutes from Main street. Fish weigh two to six pounds and crowd every nook, bay, and tributary creek. Ordinary methods are slow. pitchforks or bare hands can haul a backload in minutes.
A country customer bought fish at a village grocer and later complained the taste resembled English breakfast tea. The grocer replied that the fish were caught in Boston harbor, a remark noted by a western correspondent as perhaps exaggerated.
A compact spoof collection cites a penny cure for obesity and quips about quitting jobs. Mentions Hale’s Honey of Horehound, Pike’s Toothache Drops and Hoxsie’s Croup Cure with brisk adlike tone and pithy maxims about adversity and wit.
A 1898 99 letters page notes chronic menstrual pain and womb issues. Testimonial letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief after long illness. The notices invite women to write for free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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