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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1902
Page
2
A week’s record notes the ninth annual convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy opening in New Orleans. Other items include arrests in a Gardner Illinois bank robbery, a Honolulu election result, and Roosevelt bearing plans for anti trust reforms.
Obituaries include Uncle Lige Bledsoe at 133 in Harrodsburg Kentucky and Michael Clifford turning 100 at Baraboo Wisconsin. Election canvasses show Illinois treasurer Busse ahead by 86 771, Missouri Democrat Cook canvass 45 244, Pennsylvania governor Packer 156 410. Ohio’s Clifton Beach dies at 57. Babcock steps aside for Cannon in Wisconsin race. Morris Sheppard elected to Texas 4th district to fill late father’s term.
A Guatemala volcanic eruption of Santa Maria destroys four towns and causes thousands of deaths. Initial reports confirm extensive regional ruin and massive loss of life with continuing casualty tallies.
A Pell City Alabama freight depot fire destroys the Southern railway junction with a powder and dynamite blast. Four or five men killed and several wounded. A powder mill at Sewark station near Greensburg Pennsylvania explodes, killing Joseph France and William Norris.
Votes from 110 presbyteries favoring a creed revision. Jessie Grant earns large income from placer investments. United Irish League aims to stir sympathy for Ireland among Americans. St Joseph grocers bakers and butchers form a mutual protection merger. Czar hosts retiring Ambassador Tower at Livadia. Serum shows promise in treating deadly scarlet fever. Promotion slate set for high army officers to replace retirees. Thyroid gland drug noted as remedy for goiter and weak brains. Louisiana Purchase Exposition building contract set at 268980 dollars. American officers report on European army maneuvers. Finnish unrest grows under Russianization edicts. Roosevelt book reaches Italy via French translation. Alonzo Ryan shoots himself after favorable book reception. A $70000 government speedway project near Potomac approved. President and attorney general show interest.
Edwin C Madden third assistant postmaster general urges new postage rules to curb abuses of second class mail and create four cents per pound rate for most publications. He seeks authorization to prepay postage by stamps on bulk identical mail and to consolidate third and fourth class matter.
Washington says a summary of the Philippine commission’s report has been cabled to the War Department for Secretary Root’s annual report. The document urges currency reform to a gold basis and favors tariff concessions lowering the rate to 25 percent of Dingley. Taft supports Chinese exclusion modifications and admission discretion for Chinese labor.
In New York on November 18 Frank O Connor aged 17 died from injuries from the Madison Square fireworks explosion on election night. He is the fifteenth fatality of the accident.
Automatic station buffers are being fitted up on the underground in Berlin. Two printed forms valued at or near a farthing were lost recently at Baku on the Transcaucasian railway. The station master sent telegrams to every station in the Russian empire to locate them. Telegraph charges have reached nearly $10,000 and the official is out of employment.
Maryland representative Pearre hears a hard luck tale from a constituent who has lost two horses and his wife. The claim highlights the cost of illness and hardship in rural life. A separate ad notes Wood's Norway Pine Syrup claiming to cure coughs and colds.
A Testimonial from M. S. Gist of Hawesville Kentucky says months of sore throat vanished after using Eclectric Oil in twenty four curs. The missive appears amid rural misunderstanding and quirky product advertising.
The November 18 1902 market update lists grain prices in New York including Wheat No 2 red 77 for bread corn No 2 68 cents oats No 2 37 14 cents along with hay Reeves Steers and various animal values. Cleveland shows flour and grain prices with cattle and hog figures. Chicago quotes wheat 73 cents corn 54 oats 29 34 pork 15 14 lard 10 35 and cattle hogs and sheep price ranges. East Buffalo reports cattle hogs and sheep prices for Nov 18.
Mrs Clara J Sherbourne professional nurse of Portland Maine praises Doan's Kidney Pills saying they relieved years of kidney related back pain and overactive secretions after illness left her in constant discomfort. She notes rapid relief, confirms the cure years later, and offers to share details. Free trials mailed nationwide. Buffalo New York manufacturers and local druggists sell at 50 cents per box.
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