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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1912
Page
8
The Brooks Locomotive Works Dunkirk plant of the American Locomotive Company produced over $1,000,000 worth of locomotives in October 1912, with 70 engines built and at least $200,000 paid out in wages. The plant has ample orders on hand to run for some time.
Gladys Myers of Greensburg faces marriage to Blair Dillar of Salem Virginia while she and her father J R Myers Sr remain in Salem. J Myers Jr will wed Bess Hood of Salem on Thanksgiving Day. wedding moved up after the shooting in a sleeping car near To ten last week.
Miss Clancy, 50, of Bath Y, found dead in a house on East Morris Street after a Friday night blaze. Firemen arrived to find most of the fire on one side. coroner John E. Hasson to hold an inquest. Miss Clancy lived in Bath all her life.
Alda Soverni, 32, proprietor of a Newark school, was found dead by her husband upon returning home. She had fainted in her room and overturned a small gas stove, death attributed to asphyxia.
W L Dubois chief of the U S Food and Drug Inspection Bureau in Buffalo spoke at the Rotary Club in the Hotel Statler on modern apple growing. He showed a box of Jewettville apples and claimed New York apples are equal to Western fruit and could fetch top prices if farmers sack honestly.
William T. Pittman Allentown Fair poultry superintendent and noted poultry expert says fresh eggs will cost at least a dollar a dozen before cold weather ends, attributing the rise to late hatching of chickens.
A gas plant explosion at a sugar grove area hotel in Pennsylvania last week caused extensive fire damage to the Sugar Grove hotel buildings. The hotel occupants escaped unharmed though personal effects were lost or destroyed.
George A. Billings of the U S Department of Agriculture met with Lockport lawmakers on Niagara county farm bureau’s $1000 request. The plan expects $1200 yearly from the federal government and $600 to $1000 from the state, with county initial support. The bureau would hire experts, run schools of instruction in Lockport, and assist in marketing farm products.
Henry Vesper, who killed Detective Sergeant John Grant of the Erie police last week, fired five shots at detectives and shot himself. He hid at his brother's house with the rifle, warned police he would use every bullet, and was wounded when officers broke down the door. He lies in an Erie hospital under guard with a police detail watching.
After a week of sensational testimony in the divorce action of Frank M. Turner against Alice M. Turner the trial ended with the jurors to render a verdict later. Mrs Turner wore a silk kimono and test showed ownership as she tried it on for the jury.
In a snowstorm more than seven hundred attended Frank Bentley’s funeral at a Johnsonburg NY church. Mrs Bentley collapsed. Prince showed emotion during jail visit and maintains the shooting was an accident as he awaits a Wednesday hearing.
Della Peck a 19 year old white girl from Pottsville Pa is in custody and to be returned to her parents. She eloped with Manuel Robinson a colored man and the pair reportedly obtained a marriage license in Lebanon under false age. They were married by a colored minister. Officer Sylvester Hogan pursued them to Lebanon where Robinson was detained for perjury and faces charges in the county.
The bureau of foreign and domestic commerce reports the United States remains the bread basket of the world as exports of wheat rise while corn and meat fall. Wheat exports exceed 100 million bushels in ten months, offset partly by declines in other farm products, while manufactured goods export value tops last year by over 150 million and nears a billion dollars, about half of total exports.
A jury in Franklin Pennsylvania acquitted H. V. West of Scranton who had been indicted for false pretense tied to a stock sale. The case involved the sale of Universal Electric Manufacturing stock from Brockwayville to M. J. Dale of Oil City for 400 dollars.
In Coatesville Pennsylvania on November 27 seven members of the Bandywine Fire Company No. 2 were severely burned when a quart jar of acid dropped from Assistant Foreman WW Miller during a recharging of a tank. The crew received splashes as the jar broke.
New York and Buffalo market notes list wheat No 2 red arriving at 1.06 4 to 1.06 4 in New York and No 2 white 1.11 in Buffalo. Also shown are oats 37 cents to 34 34 1/4, corn 53 to 50 cents, flour patent $5.60 to $6.26, butter 34 to 87 cents, eggs 46 to 50 cents, potatoes 66 to 68 cents per bushel for selected grades.
East Buffalo market reports mixed cattle sheep and hog prices. Prime steers ranged 9.15 to 9.35 per cwt with 1200 to 1400 lb animals. choice heifers 7.00 to 7.25. veals 19.25 to 10.50. Sheep and lambs showed 7.00 to 7.10 for spring lambs, hogs ranged 7.50 to 7.80 per cwt.
Timothy No 2 on track priced at 16.00. No 1 choice clover mixed hay 15.50 to 16.00. Oat and wheat straw offered 9.00 to 10.00. Market listings indicate varied hay and straw qualities with price ranges.
Dogs destroyed a full sheep herd owned by Buggs Brothers of Russell Pennsylvania Warren County. Seventeen sheep were killed and seven injured beyond recovery. The county paid damages totaling 94 dollars, the largest such claim ever paid in the county.
Miss Ada Welch of St Louis accosted a stranger in Pascagoula Mississippi and asked for a kiss before death. The man kissed her and she drank poison, dying instantly, in a case of apparent fatal despair and a public street encounter.
H Leo Sternberg once a notable Corning businessman and L C Smith Typewriter Co agent in Oneonta has been arrested on embezzlement charges for allegedly stealing 2000 dollars from the company. Authorities say he handled funds in the Southern tier area and is in custody in Oneonta.
George Smith age 83 a former Liverpool N Y postmaster and longtime village leader was found drowned in the Erie canal after disappearing from a boarding house days earlier The report notes his crippled condition and status as a notable local figure. In Albany authorities report Western New York potato belts facing black rot blight prompting consideration of restricting sales of infected tubers.
William F Trayer, a Menominee Michigan correspondent for a Chicago morning paper, wrote a letter to his editor shortly before dying advising the paper to hire K. M. Stiles to cover his assignment. A telegram after the letter confirmed Trayer's death.
George Turnbull 60 a prominent farmer near Nashville New York died last week of a stroke of paralysis. He leaves a wife and three children.
Police kill 15 dogs during local quarantine after owners failed to muzzle animals as required. Advertise in the Mail and Get Results. Subscribe for the MAIL.
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