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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1882
Page
3
Local item column lists community events, business notes, church activities, social calls, and upcoming services. Includes library and school construction progress, sleighing and ice reports, church notices, charity events, and selections from residents and merchants.
A recent oil market plunge under 90 cents triggered widespread ruin for small dealers while major manipulators are seen to gain. Five million in regional losses cited. production wanes as winter approaches and demand remains steady. Bank stability praised amid dealer failures.
Last Friday at about eight, a hanging lamp fell in S. M. Cogswell’s sitting room. The hook broke under Cogswell’s weight tipping the lamp onto the center table, spilling oil and igniting a flash of fire. A 20 month old boy Stewart A. was burned severely and died within hours. Mrs. Cogswell rescued the child while a young man smothered the flames with his coat. Other children were briefly in the room. quilts and furniture were burned. The house escaped total destruction.
The report details rail line completions from Salamanca to Olean and an expanded Niagara shipping network. It notes the Nickel Plate adding a third track to Lake Shore and P and E lines selling excursion tickets. Erie's new mile tickets for families. 9,000 miles of track built this year, with higher earnings. It also covers work by R D McCreary with 800 men, freight traffic pressures, new locomotives, and 300 Brooks boys urged to attend night school. Additional items include B P W extension toward Toledo, Sheffield Junction, and a new patent coupler for air brakes by D A V and P firms, invented by Rev William Martin.
The December term juror list includes grand jurors from multiple townships such as Glade Pine Grove Mead Triumph Brokenstraw Freehold and Sugar Grove plus traverse jurors from Glade Columbus Youngsville Sheffield Farmington Mead Warren etc. The roster covers dozens of individuals with surnames like Branch Clark Clary Dullhousen Vintin Gregg Garver Green Green Gunning Hodges Hartrup Hunter Harris Mead Mix Marble Page Starr Schnell Sharp Wantz Ames Ayling Albro Arters Barber Branch Frank Sheffield Burger Cramer Coleman Courson Carrier Cogswell Dougherty Davis Farnsworth Fay Fletcher Gross Gilson Green Haas Henderson Johnson Jones King Lord Longbauch Ley McKelvy Morris Morningstar Marsh QO feare Porter Sweet Seichrist Samuelson Sutton Simmons Underwood Weuess Valentine Wilson Weaver Walling Young Young with numerous names listed for grand and traverse juries.
A clerk dropped a lit match in a cellar at O H Hunter And Son causing cotton batting to flare. Quilts were tossed on the blaze and fire was quickly extinguished with little damage. The incident recalls Mr Tanner's warning that cold ashes can burn buildings.
A brisk sales note highlights Ball & Co offering fine window shades and tailored goods with a guaranteed fit. Pictures framed to order are advertised as a service, inviting customers to customize their displays.
Jacob Keller the Tailor reports a vast arrival of Fall Suitings Overcoatings Pantaloons both imported and domestic ready for the latest fall and winter styles. He employs skilled workmen and warrants satisfaction. Location upstairs Second street near Liberty.
News items note Chautauqua Lake navigation shut for the season while Clarendon reports a bustling skating rink and Warren lacks one. The piece also mentions local pursuits, appointments, and regional developments including Dunkirk’s steel mill inducement and library gifts to Allegheny College.
Coroner Siggins held an inquest on Jonas Hazel who died after being struck by a southbound train on November 20 near Warren on the Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburg line. Jurors G H Higgin(s) A C Lacy T P Chapman R F Valentine W H Lincoln H R Keen returned an accidental death verdict.
Warren residents anticipate opening Variety Hall holiday stock with items from Johnson & Siegfried. Expect dolls for girls and velocipedes for boys, along with toilet articles, patent medicines, paints, oils, putty, and fine stationery. A broad assortment includes books, wallpaper, glassware, and toys for all.
News from Jamestown reports the death of Rev Erastus J Gillette aged 82 83 in Council Bluffs Iowa a former pastor who arrived in 1831 and served multiple congregations. Also noted is the passing of Charles Butler born 1800 aged 82 a longtime Jamestown resident found dead in bed from possible paralytic stroke.
Mrs I M Crase from Russe i BureG asks on Nov 26 1882 that the Lodge of United Workmen at the place pay $2 000 due on her husband Theodore Chase’s life policy. She seeks formal acknowledgment of payment.
A list of names appears in a notice requesting letters and asks that the advertiser provide the date of advertising. The item reads as a roster of individuals including Adams Wilson Jackson Harry W ann A L Love Arthur Bates Miss Dela Larson Gust Crosby Manley Lewellyn Mary Carey Johnson Laufenberger A Clark Miss M H McCormick Wm Conley Mrs J C Myers J W Dunham Maud McAskill N Fair Joseph Martin O W Howard tW Mowry Kate D Henschel F Norton Nettie Hollabaugh a Ogden H P Hamilton A B Olson Ida Josefina Johanson A Pickett Augusta Johnson Hulda Pierce Elbridge Johnson Lina Ring August Janson Klara Wilson A P Yaun Christ.
Fragmentary notices advertise wall paper from A. Davis & Co, cigars at L. G. Noyes drug store, diamond setting engraving and gold smithing at Merck Bros, and affordable underwear across the range.
Tidioute and nearby towns report visiting relatives and travel to cities like Buffalo and New York. The Catholic church wedding of Eva Gorman and Peter W. Martin occurred with reception at Shaw House, followed by a trip to Cleveland for the couple’s spring plans. Local commerce, schooling, and social events are noted alongside weather and political notes.
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