A Weeks Record of Home and Foreign News
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1901
Page
2
Condensed seven days of news covering industrial, political, personal, and overseas items. Highlights include notable events at home and abroad and summaries of key developments across sectors.
Long list of 1900s news items reports Dr. Charles O Day of Boston elected president of Andover Theological Seminary. Other items note mine disaster in Fairmont West Virginia casualties, Rockefeller pledge to Oberlin, McKinley illness, and various international, industrial, and violent events.
Rev William H Connor believed oldest colored preacher in the country dies in New London Conn aged nearly 101 E J Pinney Cleveland nominated for Ohio governor Robert D Wagstaff marine editor Free Press dies in Detroit age 34 Edwin F Uhl former assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Germany dies Grand Rapids age 60 Weston Howland discoverer of petroleum refining method dies Fairhaven Mass aged 86 Mrs Lyman Gage wife of treasury secretary dies Washington residence after a month long illness aged 58
The report covers Porto Rico exports to May with 5 284 311 dollars sent to the United States. It notes a landslide near Acerenza Italy burying ten houses and 18 deaths. Other items include Carnegie's 500 000 gift for Glasgow libraries, Danish West Indies sale for 4 000 000, and a Filipino insurrection surrender in Zambales province.
John D. Rockefeller transfers charity oversight to his son while Indian Territory coal lands are praised as valuable. Santa Fe Railway orders 125 locomotives for this year. A Cuba reciprocity clash is forecast in Congress as Swiss railways and factories hire American coal. The American Museum of Natural History plans a China ethnology expedition. High cotton prices buoy the South’s prosperity and trade growth. Black leaders from Haiti back emigration plans to settle there. Twenty English machinists arrive to study American methods. Grand Duke Michael of Russia eyes a U S visit if events permit. Twenty torpedo boat destroyers to be handed to the government in months. Yale’s Prof. Ladd brands U S a lawbreaking nation due to corporate laws. Speculators buy railroad stocks after a Wall Street flurry. French makers seek government help to block American railway material orders. White Earth Indians threaten logging countermeasures over timber reserves fraud claim. Edwin H Conger urges U S commerce expansion in the Orient and congressional support for ships and cables.
About 800 machinists in Baltimore, 490 with Maryland Steel and 200 with Dietrich & Harvey, quit on the 20th along with 1,600 in Milwaukee and several hundred helpers. Lockouts affect Derby and Scranton shops. total workers leaving reach around 3,000. Separate note on Cuban Platt amendment debates in Havana with majority and minority reports and annexation speculation.
Copenhagen reports that the Danish West Indies have not been sold. Negotiations continue on details but a treaty is unlikely to be concluded before the Rigsdags and congress meet.
Yokohama May 20. The government announces the issue of 6,000,000 yen in exchequer bills at 7 1 4 4 per cent repayable in six months to defray China campaign expenses.
A newspaper advertisement portrays women suffering backache and tiredness from menstrual issues. It claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound can relieve pain, restore health, and warns readers to heed the warning signs of womb derangement. It cites Mrs Mor ton's letter as a guiding testimony.
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