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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1904
Page
2
A weekly digest summarizes home and foreign items from the past seven days. It highlights industrial developments, personal and political items, and notable happenings at home and abroad, offering a compact snapshot of events.
George Rooke 62 once claimed middleweight champion status dies in Newark New Jersey. Several fatal accidents and disasters across the US are reported including gas deaths in Milwaukee and a Wins ton Salem NC water works break.
The article reports Eva Booth named commander of the Salvation Army in the United States. It notes October saw the General Land Office issue 10000 land patents, the largest monthly total ever. It also covers brief political items: Senator Fairbanks denying plans to stay if Democrats win in Indiana, Vermont House voting against woman taxpayer suffrage, Ohio Supreme Court validity of election law, and President Roosevelt denying charges against Cortelyou and campaign trust relations.
Reports describe Mount Vesuvius ejecting ash and a 25 mile ash fall, while diplomatic shifts include talks on US Italy treaty, US recognition of Russian Jewish travel passports, and arbitration teams shaping the North Sea affair. Naval patrols move as Franco British accord advances.
A Charleston scaffold collapse kills a white contractor and seriously injures three colored workers. Thomas E. Watson plans New York residence after December 1, possibly shifting to law or journalism. A boiler room explosion aboard the tug Warnick at Great Lakes works in Michigan injures one dead and two seriously burned. In Evanston Wyoming Mrs. Leon Demars dies after a duel with neighbor Mrs. Nancy Richards. The schooner Challenger sinks 24 feet deep in Willapa River to extinguish a four day lime fire. Cress Unger, San Francisco port office clerk, suspended over alleged deposits misappropriation exceeding 1500 dollars. Southern Pacific wins an 18 mile right of way contest in Arizona. Mary Finger, 20 years in St Petersburg fortress, released to Archangel after Nihilist confinement.
A digest of international observations notes beggars in Berlin, army pay scales in Russia, birth rates in German cities, counterfeit Victoria crosses in English shops, and British social acts. It mentions York Cathedral memorials, animal kindness efforts, horse exports to Germany, and a Tyne fish cannery selling cans worldwide from Australia to the Transvaal.
The report notes nail polishers placed in wooden boats alongside standard wooden-handled polishers.
Chinese reports say six days of bombardment and assaults to take Fort Arthur ended Wednesday. Japanese took Fort No 8 but could not hold it. losses are described as enormous with about 40 600 Japanese killed or wounded in front of Port Arthur in three months. Rumors of captured forts are considered premature. Gen Nogi’s openness to dispatches signals strong besieging spirit.
Capt Halvorsen of the Tungus reports Vladivostok is well fortified after months of prep. Five days from Vladivostok, the Tungus carries 700 Chinese refugees fleeing food and war shortages.
A Chicago cable report details three days of heavy bombardment at Port Arthur, with Japanese assaults on Shojusan and Keekwan forts. Russians counterattacks follow fierce hand to hand fighting. Casualties total about 1100 as fortifications fall and trenches link the front.
In Hartford City Indiana on Sunday a fight between rival window glass workers unions led to the shooting death of Ollie Walker of the Phillips organization. President Paul St. Peter and Patrick McFall were arrested on assault with intent to kill charges after an accidental meeting with Walker. Streets were crowded with glass workers as the incident unfolded.
Paris physician Dr. S Ledue, of the Academy of Medicine, claims electricity can substitute chloroform and ether for anesthesia. Experiments on animals and on himself used 10 to 30 volt currents at 100 to 200 interruptions per second, producing rapid anesthesia with rapid recovery and no ill effects.
Will and Julius Sullivan leaders of the Sullivan’s Hollow desperadoes were convicted for torturing their uncle Ladi Sullivan in Covington county. The brutal act involved harnessing the old man to a plow and making him drag it while fed little. Judge Enochs presided, later sentencing Will to life for a kin killing and Julius to two years for whitecapping.
Mrs Williams, a British celebrity known for swallowing solids, dies in Bristol. She memorized scripture and hymns and once swallowed 28 dominoes and later 1.5 pounds of gravel stones plus 13 large iron screws, yet recovered each time.
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