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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1851
Page
2
The Warren Mall project in Warren Pennsylvania shows renewed momentum as the Kere Gazette notes the Philadelphia board meeting spurred action. Edward Miller is named Chief Engineer with assistants to begin work soon, obstacles cited as removed and wider regional support anticipated.
Clergymen push street preaching to reach those outside houses of worship. The New York Times notes the movement as a revival of primitive evangelism aiming to recruit the urban poor and distracted from sin. Also included are census figures from Pennsylvania for 1849 and a note on editorial office seating etiquette and coal prices in Cincinnati.
The Warren Dime Society to meet at Rev. John Sailor's home on Thursday evening for religious exercises led by Rev. Sailor. A Presbyterian assembly will follow, after repairs to the Presbyterian house. A new association, Wannes Lycrom, aims to hold debates every two weeks and lectures weekly starting next Monday.
In New York a new public school on Greenwich Avenue suffered a deadly accident when a fire alarm caused a panic crowd to flood the stairs. Students on the 2d and 8d floors reportedly tumbled to the 1st floor from about 40 feet, with at least 20 dead and around 40 more feared dead or injured.
At 2 pm a fatal accident occurred at the new Public School on Greenwich Avenue New York. An alarm of fire caused panicked children to rush for exits. bannisters collapsed dropping a large group from the second to the first floor about 40 feet. About 20 bodies were recovered and reports say at least 40 children killed.
Local brief notes that the firm Harnlen and Company has failed in Bostos, dated November 20, with no further details provided.
The Philadelphia County Court holds that a defendant in a levari facias fur mortgage sale is not entitled to the $300 exemption of the April 1849 act. The ruling notes the exemption applies to judgments on contracts and does not cover mortgage liens or ejectment actions. The decision emphasizes the legislature intended exemptions for contract judgments only.
The Africa arrived and Kossuth was warmly welcomed in New York. A correspondence on Kossuth’s reception in England surfaced, Lord Palmerston denying his government’s involvement. France’s National Assembly reopened as Da pin was elected president, Napoleon’s lengthy reply urged preserving institutions while seeking universal suffrage.
An office report says Caravajal receives large reinforcements to defend Matamoros as Gen Canales arrives with 200 National Guards. Urega expected with 800 Regulares. recruiting parties sent to the United States and a declaration of independence alleged. The Georgia brings mail and 81 million in dust, plus several hundred passengers, while trials in Havana report Thrasher guilty of treason and to be sent to Spain.
Hundreds of citizens suffer debility and liver stomach derangement and loss of appetite. The notice urges using Dr. C. M. Jackson’s Hoofland’s German Bitters, claiming cure and superiority to common patent medicines.
Report listing foreign and domestic goods ware and merchandise within Warren County 1850 returned to the Treasurer by Nathan Whitney mercantile appraiser for the Borough of Warren.
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