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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1915
Page
1
Returns from thirty two counties show race totals for Superior Court candidates with Head at 105,824 and Orlady at 104,136. Suffrage amendment totals stand at 94,934 for and 77,119 against, while compensation amendment shows 98,980 for and 44,142 against.
Fred Streicht aged 35 died after a tank of picric acid upset at the Mt. Aetna Explosive Co plant in Emporium Kane County. Streicht lived only a few minutes. several men were carrying the container when the accident occurred.
Mrs. E H Harriman has funded the American Museum of Safety to run a campaign against illness in New York City shops and factories. The first noon lecture with moving pictures attracted several hundred workers at the museum on West 24th Street, focusing on the steel industry. Today’s lecture will cover railroading.
Indignation over Entente ally oppression of neutral commerce prompts U S lawmakers to consider an embargo on munitions exports. State department stance on blockades and recent non recognition actions shape debate as Senator Chamberlain urges firm terms with Britain.
Readable fragments indicate a historical note on Thomas Mott Osborne and Sing Sing Prison. The text references Werden but lacks clear context or actions. no events, dates, or outcomes are identifiable from the fragment.
A Milwaukee delegation plans to meet Secretary Houston in Chicago on Nov. 15 to urge an embargo preventing Chicago packers from shipping to Scandinavian ports. They ask Houston to halt efforts to persuade England to stop seizing ships carrying American meat, warning that opening the market will spark an American meat shortage.
Col J M Schoonmaker president of Pittsburg and Lake Erie railway states six months ago 240000 idle cars existed nationwide and now a severe car shortage drives rapid new car production. He notes steel buyers from Australia and other countries seek Pittsburgh district supply as demand grows and some of this will be permanent business.
Washington reports that Representative Hay of Virginia will introduce a military bill in the coming session to pay enlisted men and officers in state militia units. Proposed pay begins at 50 dollars per year for enlisted men with increases by rank, aiming to raise militia strength from 128000 to about 260000. The bill, supported nationwide, could cost about 6 million dollars initially and up to 20 million annually later, with administration cooperation to pass Hay’s measure.
Edward Hodgson aged 37 from Dormont Pennsylvania was killed at the Chester West Virginia American Steel and Wire plant when a 250 pound iron damper rod and framework fell 20 feet from a smoke stack while Arch Ingram and Hodgson worked on it. Hodgson warned Ingram to flee but hesitated and died. Hodgson had been foreman at the plant for two years.
Edison voices a stark warning that future warfare will be driven by technology. He urges readiness, doubled ammunition output, fortified coasts, advanced submarines and aircraft engines, and a naval board to mobilize inventors and engineers. He cautions against complacency, cites rapid European slaughter, and urges rapid industrial and military preparation.
Washington reports the British blockade of Germany is embarrassing to United States Ambassador Gerard and embassy staff. In Berlin and London officials may be asked to arrange purchases for American personnel as Gerard cannot buy suitable shoes neckties or apparel in Germany. He also lacks gasoline since it is government commandeered.
Joseph McHugh state game warden for Carbon county was shot dead by a hunter during an attempted arrest near Hazecreek. A gunman fired as the group of five fled toward Drifton, while officers conduct a systematic search for the five suspects.
Kenneth Wood Triest, nineteen, son of Kenneth Triest of Snare and Triest New York contractors, was reported by British authorities to be allowed to return to the United States. He disappeared in January and had been under arrest in the Tower of London as a spy. His father, Wolfgang Guntay Priest, had traveled to London to seek clemency after the estate department postponed the trial and presented evidence of his son's lack of responsibility for the alleged acts.
William Hatch of Constableville New York was shot through the heart and killed by his hunting companion Charles Merriam also of Constableville. The incident occurred near Dee pond in the Adirondacks about sixteen miles from Lyons Falls. Merriam had shot a buck and when pursuing the animal fired on a movement in the bushes finding the ball had struck Hatch in the wrist and then the heart.
William Jennings Bryan's latest book British Rule In India was ordered excluded from mails to India by Postmaster Charles W. Fay. The British government of India asked the United States not to accept the book in any language for shipment into India citing Hindu rebellion against British rule.
Mrs. Sara Bard Field advocates a "motherhood strike" by women in non suffrage states as a protest until voting rights are secured. She says some women have forgone motherhood to protest limits on their franchise and praises the sacrifices made for the suffrage cause.
R. Porter of Anoka Minnesota won the right of first choice from 100 acres in the Fort Berthold land drawing. The first envelope drawn by a girl at the Minot North Dakota theater contained Porter's name. Most of the initial 100 winners hailed from Minnesota and North Dakota.
Judge Munro of Thorford Ontario fined William and Mahlon Miller of Pelham ten dollars plus costs for cruelty to animals. The pair kept a horse in a cellar for five years its hooves grew twelve inches and curled upward like horns. The animal never left the cellar. They claimed the horse was placed there as a colt and grew vicious, preventing removal.
Fred Streicht, 395 years old, died after an acid tank upset in the picric acid department at the Aetna Explosives Company in Emporium, Pennsylvania. He was covered by the fluid, burned head to foot, and lived only a few minutes.
Mrs Amos Regonlsd aged 59 leaped into a large bonfire at her residence near Wabash Indiana after building it herself. Her body was discovered by three of her young stepchildren.
Pittsburg November 16 The 600 machinists in the 12 inch shell department of Westinghouse Machine company end their strike after a granted 18 percent wage rise. For turning rough boring and finished boring of each 12 inch shell the men will earn 1.20 to 1.60 dollars 1.60 to 1.56 dollars and zero to zero cents respectively.
Tan Shi Yan a Chinese convict died at the Atlanta Georgia federal prison of starvation after nearly two months without food. Relatives said he feared execution by a tong if he served his sentence and he had testified against other Chinese in the New York smuggling case.
The American Locomotive Company of Dunkirk receives an order for 15 Mallet engines for the Baltimore and Ohio. Pekin Kelgan road orders four Pacific and two Mikado locomotives, while Bethlehem Steel plans two new engines.
The large Erie Foundry, part of the Erie Engineering Company, was sold to the New York based Wm Malleable Company. Announcement came from President William Hardwick. Sale price not disclosed though believed to be around 500,000 dollars.
The 1915 farm crops are valued at about 5.5 billion dollars, topping 1914 as the previous high. Corn leads value with 1.913 billion, wheat reaches 932.9 million, oats 32.6 million, barley rye hay and tobacco near record levels. Potato prospects drop to 359.3 million with prices rising to 60.8 cents per bushel.
William Stanley Ayers, a young Syracuse chauffeur who eloped with Mrs. Frederick E. Foster, faced a false pretense charge in Pittsburg after being arrested for passing a bad check. Reprimanded by Magistrate Sweeney, Ayers blamed Mrs. Foster, claiming she persuaded him to run away. he was remanded to jail.
In Atice New York on November 10 Evangeliste Silvain aged seven died after a brother aged eleven loaded a revolver with a cartridge and fired during play. The bullet struck near the heart as the mother held the wounded child.
In New York a call is issued for a meeting from November 38 to December 2 to reorganize six women suffrage organizations. The purpose is to elect officers analyze recent election returns and formulate a campaign program.
The London Daily Mail correspondent reports Mme Marino wich widow of Lt Martane wich forming a Servian women’s battalion to be called the platoon of death. Ninety to nine hundred eighty nine women have answered the call and are armed with Mauser rifles revolvers bayonets and daggers.
A dialect verse laments the vanished barroon and notes prohibition shaping the South. The piece recalls Disteland and proclaims a heritage in a folksy, regional voice with nods to Penn and local names.
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