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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
2
A compact weekly roundup covering home and foreign items across industry politics personal affairs and notable happenings. It surveys developments in business society and international events with brief concise notes.
Secretary Gage endorses one central bank with subsidiaries and abandons the subtreasury. Roosevelt works on his first message to Congress. Schley court credit praised. Howells store fight ends with robbers shot. Ep iscopalians defer name change. navy and education budgets noted. other leading items include Wicksford governor nominee, Chicago bureau move, and St Paul ship from Nome.
Minnesota governor John Pillsbury died in Minneapolis at age 73. Mrs. Edwin H. Conger left Des Moines for China. Gen Walter S. Payne former Sons of Veterans chief died in Austin Illinois. Gen James A Walker ex congressman and Confederate brigadier general died in Wytheville Virginia. Rear Admiral Francis Bunce retired died in Hartford at 65. Senator Hanna opened Ohio rally saying he will not retire or resign as national committee chair.
A dramatic arrest follows a fierce confrontation at Urbino as Mussolino a notorious bandit is taken into custody. The violence mirrors a wider unrest across regions including Russia and the Philippines with casualties and upheaval reported.
In Samar on Oct 19 a force of bolo men attacked 46 Ninth Infantry at Bangajon on the Gandara river. Ten soldiers died and six were wounded, with the company then routing the attackers and killing over a hundred. Reinforcements arrived as gunboats were dispatched.
Kansas City reports thefts by a gang of female footpads. Senator Hanna’s secretary notes 500 children named for him since 1896. Gov. Wood informs the secretary of war that the Cuban presidential election is set for February 24. Arrests for drunkenness in 129 U.S. cities total 312000 in the last fiscal year. At the end of fiscal year 1900 there were 76688 post offices, about one per 1000 people. John D Rockefeller donated 200000 to Barnard College on condition of an equal pledge by 1902. Walter N Dimmick, once San Francisco mint chief clerk, gets two years for misappropriation. A French critic predicts shorter skirts and removal of corsets and veils. New York Bar Association calls Mayor Van Wyck unfit for the judiciary. English electricians claim a wireless energy method and ability to guide submarine torpedoes. a federal commission will join the Louisiana Purchase Exposition board of lady managers in St Louis 1903. English, French and Hungarian wheat crop forecasts for 1901 indicate a larger yield than 1900, led by America. President Roosevelt tells a South Carolina Republican delegation he would like to serve another term but won’t join any political clique or movement.
Reports from Foo Chow China show the bubone plague raging with fifteen hundred daily cases and up to a thousand coffins carried out daily for weeks. Across the nation amid disasters and legal shifts, fires, bank consolidations, and a fatal hunting accident in North Carolina color the news.
Washington reports Maj. Gen. Henry C. Corbin outlines reductions in the Philippines Army through 1902 and urges early recruiting if rosters are to be maintained. He highlights casualties, praises rapid mustering out of volunteers, and calls for a phased officer training program from post level to a war college.
Three trainmen were crushed to death in a head on collision between an east and a west bound freight on the Detroit Grand Traven Milwaukee railroad near Birmingham Michigan five miles west of town. The deceased are engineer R Moffatt of Detroit fireman H Luce of Detroit and brakeman Otto Neurenberg of Clarkston Michigan.
Mrs. Ed win H. Conger wife of Minister Conger started her long journey to China Friday morning at 8 35 via the Rock Island route. She is joined by Mrs. J R Drake of Des Moines who will be her guest for a year at Peking.
Five workers died and two were injured when a massive rock fall from the tunnel site under construction on Broadway near One Hundred Sixty fourth Street caved in on October 19 in New York City.
A reprinted analysis cites Willett and Gray and outlines 1901 U S sugar consumption at 2 360 585 tons with a total including duty of 2 860 555 tons. It breaks down duties paid by Louisiana beet Hawaii Porto Rico planters and Cuba sugar, totaling about 84 281 060 in revenue shift to the public.
Laura Howard of Chicago testifies Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash restored her health after months of pain swelling nervousness and poor sleep. She asserts doctors guessed at cures and urges other women to seek the remedy. The letter offers $5000 for genuineness and invites others to write for advice.
A brief Detroit Free Press quotation contrasts Uncle Tom and Tommy on charity, defining charity as making excuses for faults in people we dislike.
An advertisement claims Cascarets cure a wide range of ailments by correcting the bowels. It touts natural, painless relief with easy movements, priced at 10 cents to start. The ad warns against imitations and notes genuine boxes have C. BCE stamped on each tablet.
The Philadelphia record quotes Tom and Jack discussing a woman described as a great belle. The remark mentions four silk pillows stuffed with hair from four football players, indicating gossip or sensationalism rather than a factual event.
An offer for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease powder by mail to Allen S. Olmsted in Le Roy New York. The ad claims it cures sweating damp swollen and aching feet and helps break in new shoes. Available at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents.
The Baltimore Herald notes a fashion trend linking chrysanthemum styles to football field hairdos. Advertisement promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets with a money back guarantee if they fail to cure a cold, priced at 25 cents.
An old clipping mentions Hoxsie's Croup Cure priced at 50 cents and quotes from a New York Herald on money and appearances. It adds a Trinity Springs Indiana reader note praising Piso's Cure for consumption.
A fragment shows dialogue about sensibility in a production featuring Agnes and Ethel with Puck commentary. The ad-like line announces PUTNAM FACELESS DYES praised for fast sunlight resistance while noting that rubbish is wealth in the wrong way through Elijah P. Brown.
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