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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1903
Page
2
Industrial field notes and personal political items summarize happenings at home and abroad. The column highlights notable developments in industry, governance, and world events with concise updates and names of key figures.
September post office receipts reach 5.5 million dollars with a nine percent rise. Notable incidents include a Philadelphia boxing bout call, bank robbery in Berwick Illinois and mob lynching in Hamilton Montana. Declared presidents Patton and Cleveland address reforms while Dowie leads Zion City pilgrimage to New York.
A long catalog of 1904 era items shows unsettled finance and labor issues with 203 US business failures in a week, robberies across several states, refinery and canal disputes. It mentions Dan Patch’s mile record, fires in Aberdeen and Washington, and political shifts including navy funding and Cuban reciprocity.
Obituary notes the death of Mrs Eliza Stewart known as Mother Stewart at her Auburn Park home near Chicago. Also reports Holtzman leads Indianapolis mayoral unofficial returns by 9388, and other political and public notices from the era including deaths of Henry L Mitchell and governor, Bryan remarks, postal fraud trial jury split, and various public figures events.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena of Italy arrived in Paris and received a royal greeting. A British bark Loch Long was wrecked off Chatham island with 24 lives lost. A special correspondent says the Macedonian revolution is racial, not religious. A steamer capsized on the Lai Chow river in south China, killing over 100. Report from Wei-Hei-Wei says Japanese troops landed at Ping Pang outlet, Corea.
Reports describe H. S. Canfield's death at a West Chicago sanitarium by suicide while temporarily insane. Cheybogan city hall destroyed by fire with $50,000 loss and $25,000 insurance. Harrisburg lays off 250 at Middletown iron works amid weak orders. 800 workers total. Jacob Baer breaks the weightlifting world record in Denver by three minutes forty seconds, winning the western title. Mahonoy City's William Penn colliery resumes after ten days, employing 1,000. New Jersey's second special session adjourns, passing three school bills and two resolutions. Chicago Burlington & Quincy reports big earnings gains. rail length 8,324 miles. British battleship Prince George damaged and beached near Ferrol after collision with Hannibal. Eight Halle prison inmates escape after smothering a guard and firing on pursuers. Grand Rapids man William Dockery survives a six-story fall due to a rope coil.
A roundup of short notices: Mrs. A D T Whitney aged 79 near Boston writes for girls. Mrs Emma D Lemon cousin of Buffalo Bill named matron at Pittsburg jail. Britain aims to beat records at St Louis expo with exhibits and costs. Dr Belisario Sasa of Lima, Peru visits New York for medical advances. William Morgan resigns as U S district court clerk in St Louis after 30 years. Arkansas experiences a boom as railroads reach new districts and northern capital flows in. Plan to replace Mexican money in the Philippines with US pesos coins is said to succeed. International Harvester plans consolidation to save payroll costs. US consuls seek higher pay after London tour. Lieut Sheridan returns from the Philippines aboard Sheridan. Ex Gov Samuel Albright of Dakota, long Ohio editor, moved to Dayton soldiers' home. Booker T Washington says American blacks are generally better off than Europe’s poorer classes. Henry C Jarrett dies in London at 75, famed for The Black Crook. Mississippi to feature a colossal King Cotton statue at its World’s Fair agriculture palace.
Washington October 16 President Roosevelt attended the unveiling of an equestrian statue to William Tecumseh Sherman. A revelry of dignitaries the diplomatic corps and veterans filled the ceremony as Sherman’s grandson pulled aside the drapery. The address praised Sherman as a model American and fearless patriot.
In Lincoln on October 17 W. J. Bryan rejected a statement attributed to him by Prof. Bradshaw that silver would not be an issue in the next campaign. He said he was misquoted and that silver is not now or always the paramount issue, though the money question remains before the country. He added no one can say when the silver question may become acute again.
John Alexander Dowie travels from Zion City to New York by eight special trains to preach the Christian Catholic church. At Madison Square Garden thousands gather as 14,000 fill seats and 600 Zion choir members lead the processional in his first New York appearance.
Gordon Allen 22, a well known mining operator, was shot and killed Friday afternoon at the Aylor mine near Prosperity. Benjamin Aylor of Webb City, who foreclosed a mortgage on the Allen mine years ago, was involved after long standing ill will between them.
Shad Down Providence Oct 16. An attachment for a quarter of a million dollars on the Household Sewing Machine company plant by trustees of the William J. King estate has halted operations for an indefinite period.
George Duncan a lawyer from New York City was accidentally shot and killed near Russellville Kentucky on Thursday morning while deer hunting. He was a nephew of George B Edwards president of the Deposit Bank.
In Hamilton Montana on October 15 Walter Jackson convicted of murdering six year old Fannie Buck was seized from the county jail by a 75 man mob. They overpowered the jailer and hanged him from an electric light pole without a shot fired.
James H. Tillman was found not guilty of the murder of N. G. Gonzales, editor of the State, in Columbia on January 15. The lengthy trial drew intense public attention in South Carolina, with over 100 witnesses and a large defense and prosecution. He left for Edgefield with his wife and supporters after the verdict.
In Berwick near Abingdon Knox County four men entered the Farmer's state bank just after 2 AM on Wednesday took the lock from the front door drilled the vault and forced the combination securing 2800 dollars.
London reports the arbitration treaty between Great Britain and France was signed on Wednesday by Foreign Secretary Lansdowne and French ambassador M. Cambon reflecting a step toward accord between the two nations.
Browning Montana October 13 seven people killed and two wounded in a drunken row on the Blackfoot Indian reservation, Montana.
The bodies of 83 American soldiers who died in the Philippines were interred at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday. A platoon accompanied the remains and appropriate religious services were held.
Alexander Haff, a 29 year postal employee at the New York branch, was arrested by postal inspectors and arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Shields on a charge of embezzling letters from the mails.
The Alaskan boundary commission ruled by a 1 vote majority that the United States gains about 20,700 square miles plus control of bays and inlets, except the Portland canal which Canada keeps as its sea outlet. Canada protests in Toronto as Dominion leaders urge annexation to the United States.
A work train collision near Washington's Crossing, Pennsylvania, leaves fifteen laborers dead and about 40 injured. Most victims are Italian workers and colored men. the wreck involved four cars and two flat cars. Investigators consider possible signal failure or flagman error as causes.
Private Kennedy was killed in a quarrel at Fort Missoula on Sunday. John Tulley, another private, fled into the mountains and is pursued by a sheriff's posse and fort guards.
The fifth day of the trial in Cincinnati focused on arguments for defendants D. W. Miller and Joseph M. Johns. Families attended as informal pre proceedings suggested the jury might hear the case by about five o clock.
In New York on October 19 a laborer named Thomas Kenney is in a hospital dying after a shooting in a Harlem saloon during a political argument. His alleged assailant James Hennessey is held awaiting the wound outcome.
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