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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1903
Page
2
A compilation of recent events including fires in Gardenville New York and Ayreshire Iowa, post office robbery in Baxter Springs Missouri, and other incidents across the United States. Notable items cover treasury bond renewals, Garfield’s son joining Princeton, strikes in Minneapolis mills, and legal actions involving bankers from Burton Ohio.
A collage of brief items covers politics and society from the era, naming figures like Grout for comptroller and Fornes for president of the board of aldermen, Col John L. Clem and Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, a San Antonio heiress, plus indictments, crimes, and political exchanges. It notes Roosevelt returning to Washington, a Ohio GOP chair declining a debate, populist threats, and various court actions and local incidents.
The porte withdraws ships off Beirut and Constantinople amid rejection of consent. Britain faces Edward VII's bold leadership as he tightens grip on cabinet, Africa war, and army scandals. Lord Milner at Carlsbad declines colonial secretary post, signaling shifting imperial priorities. It is thought in United States.
Letters from women ruined by stock upheavals circulate as Morgan letters. Mississippi prepares a Black emigration to South Africa amid anti Negro policies of Vardaman. A northern Portugal storm hits the coast as two fishing boats with 72 men are wrecked and 16 drowned. A Minneapolis pastor dies after a stroke post sermon. Explosions injure workers and destroy mills, varnish plants, and railroad lines, with multiple fatalities and heavy losses reported in Pennsylvania Illinois and Connecticut.
News briefs report women taking messenger roles in Kansas City due to labor shortages, troops in Omaha halt child labor in packing houses, a Chattanooga flyer pursues sixth attempt in San Francisco, railroads dismiss drinkers, an Omaha clubman James Wallace vanishes, Roosevelt upholds labor stance, war department notes rifle proficiency, Salvation Army plans a nine day NYC invasion, saving $51000 on money order bids, a Canary Islands to Atlantic airship flight next May, Columbia University elevates Miss Margaret R. Maltby to professorship, German economy in depression with high unemployment, and a Dexter murder linked to Adirondack natives wealth hatred amid Rockefeller house shooting rumors.
A Southern Railway southbound fast mail train jumped a 75 foot trestle near Danville Virginia while at high speed. Nine crew members were killed and seven injured as four mail cars and an express car plunged. The wreck, on a sharp curve, collapsed the wooden structure and left a mass of twisted debris. Officials cite excessive speed and unfamiliarity with the curve as the cause.
Reports from Constantinople Beirut and Sofia describe the Porte seeking withdrawal of American warships, while Leishman plans talks with Tevfik Pasha. Macedonia tensions rise as European powers press reform schemes with Russia noting no support for open resistance. Bulgarian officials doubt Turkish promises amid frontier troop withdrawals and ambiguous promises.
The champion gelding Major Delmar challenged Lou Dillon’s world record at Empire City Friday. After a 2:00 mile effort, he matched the world record time of 2:00, finishing strong in a race that drew $40,000, the highest price ever paid for a gelding. Major Delmar is bred trained and owned in New York.
In Detroit on September 26 the grand jury handed up five indictments against six figures tied to the public works department. D W Moreland former commissioner faces conspiracy to defraud and misappropriation charges. Herman Wartell T J White John Hock Henry Meridian and Robert Conway are named in various counts. Moreland appears in all indictments.
A recent gale on the Grand Banks wrecked several fishing boats and cost crews their gear and catch. Six American, four French, and eight Newfoundland fishermen were found adrift in dories and rescued by other ships landing at St Johns Newfoundland.
A sensational Washington County crime near Ferguson involves a fatal attack on a Pittsburg company man and the kidnapping of his Cincinnati secretary. Four assailants on a buggy attacked as they drove along a road, exploding dynamite and tearing away money from the victims. One man killed, another shot, and a secretary severely wounded as $3,600 vanished. The incident is described as among the most brutal in the area’s history and is tied to the Wabash railroad construction site. Authorities investigate the Middletown road attack and the gruesome aftermath.
Indicted two counts against George H. Ford and P. N. Ford of Burton Ohio bankers who failed last months with liabilities about 1 125 000. They are charged with obtaining property by false pretenses by taking deposits after officials knew the bank was insolvent according to the county grand jury.
Sheriff George R. Davidson fired at a mob of about 25 men to save a black prisoner. He and his aides were overpowered as the jail was stormed. Allen Small was killed in the corridor amid the assailants. The incident occurred early Friday morning in Lynchburg Tennessee.
Mattoon Illinois mayor Francis M. Menke was indicted by the grand jury on September 26 on 29 counts alleging malfeasance and misfeasance in office.
Three men employed by the John A Roeblings Sons Co. were overcome by gas while digging in a cess pool about 43 feet below the surface in Trenton New Jersey. Two died before reaching the hospital and the third is also expected to die.
London reports Lord Balfour secretary for Scotland and Arthur Ralph Douglass Elliot financial Secretary to the Treasury have resigned and the king has accepted their resignations. The two leave cabinet positions, bringing total vacancies to four with one remaining post held by Lord Balfour.
Cincinnati September 25 Rev. David Philipson rabbi of the Mound Street temple urges the creation of a Jewish world congress as the sole method to settle the Jewish issue in Russia.
May Build his Temple Baltimore reports that the sovereign grand lodge of odd fellows approved a plan to erect a $1000 temple in Baltimore as a memorial to Washington Lodge No. 1, the mother lodge in the country, with adoption expected. Des Moines fire leveled a whole block in Ayershire costing over $50,000 with nine business houses burned.
Columbus reports the Republican State committee chairmen refuse a joint debate between Democratic nominee John H. Clarke and Senator M A Hanna. Dick accuses Clarke’s party of a wide range of principles from doctrine to dogma, and says Hanna’s side won’t debate until Clarke clarifies his specific democracy.
Washington, Sept 28. A Populist plan outlines national ownership of means of carrying on commerce and government control over money. The party aims to replace bank notes with public money and to place railroad and transmission facilities under public ownership. The discussion notes a push for state railroad control and public utilities.
A telegram from F H Clergue in New York to Superintendent Lewis states the Speyer loan of 5 050 000 to the Consolidated Lake Superior company will be paid. The message also orders preparations to restart the steen plant on October 8.
Leading manufacturers met in Atlantic City to finish details of a proposed trust capitalized at 9 million dollars. The National Car Wheel company will have headquarters in New York and include major northern firms.
Took an Overdone, De Soto, Mo., Sept. 28. Willig Allen aged 28, son of the late Illinois Supreme Court Judge Allen, was found dead at Hematite seven miles north of here. Coroner's jury finds death from an overdose of narcotic, administered by himself or by another person.
Report from Middlesboro Kentucky says Martin Green shot and killed his wife after a quarrel near Imlay close to Harlan County seat and fled but was captured. Angry locals fear lynching pending the case's handling by authorities.
May 28 Springfield reports a blaze at the Black Diamond coal shaft causing $50,000 in losses and six bins of coal destroyed. The fire may keep burning for three to four days and could close the mine for the winter. Balloon voyage sets a record from Paris to Hull in 17+ hours by Count De La Vaulx and Count D Outremont.
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