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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1904
Page
3
The piece argues college training aids many business careers yet acknowledges poverty can force youths to choose work over study. It asserts exceptional natural power often trumps formal schooling, while stressing the sacred right of boys to play and the risk of political corruption when rights are denied.
The piece argues the labor movement rises from a universal morality beyond patriotism. It reframes workers’ solidarity as a duty not to take another’s job, likening it to a wolf’s pack instinct shaping a collective strength. It claims neighborliness among workers rivals religion in influence.
In Findlay Ohio on May 23 two drying rooms at the Lake Shore novelty works plant exploded injuring 12 to 15 and killing seven workers. The dead include Joseph and Jay Sherwood Edith Dillon and others. survivors suffer severe injuries from flying debris and burns. The plant, a major local employer manufacturing railroad torpedoes and explosives, faced the catastrophe as inspectors search for the cause amid widespread debris and shattered homes.
The General Conference of Methodists in Los Angeles reports seven of eight bishops chosen with a likely eighth, plus appointments for missionary bishops to Africa and Southern Asia. Later notes announce Day’s removal from bishopric and new selections including Japan and Korea, with residence decisions and editors for church publications.
One man, Steve Boltrich, was killed and three cousins Peter, George, and Nicholas Boltrich were seriously hurt in a Saturday night altercation at a shanty in Enola opposite Harrisburg. The Boltrich family members were workers on Pennsylvania railroad improvements at Enola and shared the dwelling.
In Rising Sun Indiana on May 25 the fate of James S. Gillespie Myron Barbour Mrs Carrie Barbour and Mrs Belle Seward charged with Elizabeth Gillespies murder hinges on jury deliberations after direct examination of James Gillespie concluded and cross examination yielded little new detail Mrs Belle Seward testified denying involvement and the defense rested.
Secret service agents, after three months of work led by Frank Burke, seized $20,000 worth of opium and arrested S. B. Stevens alias Tuttle W. S. Cree and Alfred Larsen of Seattle. Stevens named principal, scheme used fake piano boxes and safes to move opium from Victoria to Portland and back to Seattle for distribution.
An explosion at the Jose Scalona fireworks factory on the outskirts of Camden New Jersey on Monday killed one man and two boys and seriously injured six men and two girls. Three sheds and one brick building were wrecked. Fifteen girls and fifteen men worked at the plant. Joseph Scalona the proprietor was arrested and held for investigation into the cause.
Chicago May 24 Mrs Kate E Herbert daughter of the late Kasper G Schmidt wealthy brewer yesterday asked the circuit court for an injunction to stop her relatives from interfering with erecting a monument over her husband Martin B Herberts grave at Graceland cemetery He died last February and is buried on the Schmidt family lot His death did not change the relatives former feelings toward him.
Edgar A. Walz of New York, head of the National Hotelkeepers Protective association, visited Indianapolis and led notices in major Indiana hotels stating proprietors will cash only letters of credit issued by the association after September 1, leading to a cooperative security measure for guests.
A message from the Oromocto Lake south branch reports John H. Thomson, a wealthy vessel owner, E. P. Stavert, Bank of New Brunswick inspector, and R. P. Foster, Royal Bank of Canada manager, all of St John, are believed drowned while fishing in the Oromocto river.
Grand Rapids Mich May 24 The trial of Eugene D Conger in superior court began Monday on a conspiracy charge connected with the Lake Michigan water deal. Conger allegedly received 10000 dollars from Lant K Salsbury for influence in support of the Grand Rapids Herald where he serves as manager.
In Carthage Missouri on May 24 the Dunkards convened with over 100 delegates and voted to change the group’s name to German Baptists, dropping the Dunkards label.
New York May 24. At a meeting of the Teamsters and Freight Handlers unions it was decided that if New York New Haven Hartford officials refuse to meet a striker committee today the teamsters will go out in sympathy with the freight handlers.
News from Manila on May 24 confirms a Moros led massacre on May 12 in Malabang Mindanao killing 53 Filipino workers under military government. The incident highlights sectarian violence in the region.
Reports from Victoria indicate the Corwin, a Seattle to Nome steamer carrying 89 passengers, has wreckage found on Vancouver Island. The ship was to sail a week prior but inspectors halted loading due to overloading and freighting. Tacoma traders fear the vessel is lost.
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