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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
2
A concise weekly digest compiling home and foreign items from the industrial field, along with personal and political notes. It surveys happenings at home and abroad, presenting a compact view of recent events.
President Roosevelt designates Thursday November 27 as a day of thanksgiving. The report notes Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans takes command of the squadron, various political and labor news, a fatal railway wreck near Oxford, and numerous other national events and incidents from the period.
The text notes the death of Old Tabby, longtime Uintah Utes chief, near White Rock agency at age 104. It mentions the funeral of Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York. John Sherer, oldest settler, dies at Hammond Indiana aged 100. His parents died at ages 103 and 101. Charles H. Miller, renowned landscape engineer, dies in Philadelphia at 73.
Lord Charles Beresford foresees a peaceful era and urges stronger friendship with America. The Philippines army cuts from 17 000 to 10 000. The cable from British Columbia to Australia is finished. Paul Kruger will take an oath of allegiance to Great Britain. General Miles reaches Manila aboard the Thomas. Colombia delays canal talks as the US presses forward. Russian desertions and Mani conversions noted.
Reports from Goy Taft note cholera in the Philippines is exaggerated while Santa Maria eruptions destroyed Guatemala's coffee zones. Foreign news mention the White Star Line price paid by IMMC and General Miles in Manila.
Reports recount J M Hutchings killed while guiding visitors into Yosemite Valley and a mass escape attempt by 250 boys from a New York juvenile asylum with 50 fugitives free and 23 recaptured. Also noted are a fatal assault in Charles Town with robbery, Italian forebears plotting to return home, a dying New York sewer worker, vast public land disposals tallying 19,488,535 acres, a wage rise for metal workers, and a fatal fall of an iron girder in Philadelphia.
Brief items note the empress elevation in Corea, Berlin claiming Bernhardt as German, indictments in a grave robbing case in Indianapolis, Botha's ally stance highlighted, Dawes’ eighty seventh birthday, Herbert awarded damages for plagiarism, a Manila legal action against a Spanish paper, large colonist migrations in late year, a Cold Springs Harbor apple shooting, Dora Martin pardon, Panama crisis delays, Chinese labor import recommendation, Chicago University president urging church openness.
President Roosevelt issues a proclamation designating Thursday November 27 as a day of general thanksgiving. He notes a century of growth, prosperity, and moral uplift, urging national reflection and acts of duty in gratitude to God. The proclamation is signed by Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay.
The nineteenth annual Civil Service Commission report covers the last fiscal year, noting growth in the competitive system to include rural free delivery, war department field work, census and Spain war workload. It records 62,029 examined for places and 14,983 appointed, reinstated or transferred, and outlines standards restricting political activity by classified and patronage appointees to prevent coercion or public scandal.
Case No 84520 Walter Mee Laughlin of 3022 Jacob Street Wheeling West Virginia a machine hand at J A Holidays planing mill says Dean's Kidney Pills saved his life after doctors and other medicines failed. He recovered after half a box and complete cure with a free trial offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Available from Logan Drug Co and other druggists for 50 cents a box.
An anthology of clipped editorials and ad blurbs mocking industry talking points. It includes lines about “Little Colds” and thousands of sacrificed lives, plus claims for Dr Wood’s Norway Pine Syrup and Piso’s Cure for coughs. Also notes on frankness, happiness, and Diphtheria relief.
Washington reports the new executive offices are nearly complete and the president will move from the temporary white house on Jackson Place to the adjoining building early next week while the president is away at Oyster Bay to vote. Mrs. Roosevelt plans to join from Oyster Bay next Tuesday as repairs progress. The remodeling will take several weeks to finish overall.
New Orleans authorities issued warrants for Alexander M. Odendahl, secretary of the F. J. Odendahl company, as banks suffer suspected fraud involving forged bills of lading and unindorsed notes. Victims include Hibernian Bank & Trust, Louisiana National, State National, and Compteor National D Escompte De Paris, with bogus warehouse receipts and grain lodgments forming part of the alleged scheme.
The funeral for Elizabeth Cady Stanton took place at her New York residence on Wednesday with only family and a few close friends in attendance. Susan B. Anthony Lilian Dev ereaux Blake and Mrs Wilbur attended representing Sorosis. Rev Martin D Conroy and Antoinette Brown Blackwell spoke, and interment followed at Woodlawn Cemetery with Phoebe Hanaford giving an address.
Cincinnati Hamilton and Indianapolis train No 36 departing Hamilton at 9 57 collided with a freight cut two miles east of Oxford Ohio. The passenger train was wrecked. Engineer Conn and two unknown men were killed. Mail Clerk John Connor of Hamilton was badly hurt. Telegraph lines were damaged and casualty details were unclear.
Mrs Crowder left her three children aged five seven and ten alone in a Guthrie Oklahoma home. The children started the blaze and perished in the fire. Roosevelt on the Presidency reports Roosevelt stating the president's power and accountability in a New York article from October 30.
In Lafayette Indiana on Friday three Watseka youths, Stanley Buford 14, Dan Neals, and William Raush, attempting to ride a freight to Kentucky were killed or seriously injured after being struck by a Big Four train. Buford was beheaded while Neals suffered scalp loss and severed limb damage. Raush survived with serious injuries and all were taken to a hospital.
R C Randall a Carth real estate man was shot to death by his wife in a Joplin lawyer office during a quarrel that followed a divorce suit. Mrs Randall was arrested after the shooting.
A new direct steamship link between New York and China and Japan is planned. The first vessel Hero, a 6000 ton ship, will sail December 15 for Shanghai Tsingtau Tientsin and Yokohama.
The Reedsburg Wisconsin post office was robbed of 1600 dollars in cash plus registered letters and stamps. The safe was shattered by dynamite and no crew was captured.
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