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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1903
Page
2
A compact weekly roundup of notable happenings across the globe. It covers casualties and fires, personal and political notes, business failures and resumptions, and a weather record for the period.
Walking Delegate Parks to prison for extortion from a New York contractor. Kansas cloud burst damage rises to 500000 in Nemaha and Marshall counties. Rioters tried in Danville Illinois. Sandy Lake post office robbed of about 1900. Kolb's Bakery fire in Philadelphia losses 150000. Carthage Missouri powder plant explosion kills three. H M Whitney sinks John Booth schooner near New Haven. Indianapolis steamer boiler explosion causes drowning fears. US imports near 500 million valued materials last fiscal year. Building trades meet in Indianapolis to form national federation. England champion Doherty defeats in Newport tennis. Smith family reunion at Peapack New Jersey. Government printer oath in Washington. Indian Territory land frauds to be investigated. Great rainfall hits Iowa Kansas Nebraska. Omaha records seven inches in 24 hours. Navy captures Portland harbor amid war game. Olympia damaged by reefing. Trade law committee backs drastic anti trust actions. Portland forts again save city from naval attack. Powers sentenced to death in Kentucky Goebel case. Danville rioters convicted. two acquitted. White Bear Lake drownings. Chicago riot aftermath. Chicago unionized with wage rise. Maine war game condemned as farcical. Kansas broom corn labor sought by farmers.
Washington warns of danger as uprisings and massacres reported in Harput and Beir ut. Turkey warned of accountability for lawless acts. Adrianople reported burning with Turks accused of mass killings. Admiral Cotton’s squadron moves toward the orient from Genoa. Beir ut security efforts intensify after an attempted life on Vice Consul Magersson. American settler murder near Holguin Cuba linked to robbery motive. Palma’s Cuba message to Roosevelt urges reciprocity approval.
New York newsboys under 14 must display badges with ages 10 to 14 allowed to sell. girls under 16 barred from selling. Plans announced for a million dollar five car rolling palace train between New York and San Francisco with luxuries and hotel-like exclusivity. Rev J S J McConnell of Methodist Episcopal Church dies in Philadelphia at 64 after long illness. Textile mills in Philadelphia resume work with most employees back. 2,200 returnees. In Dickinson County Virginia a 17 year old Everitt Fleming kills Constable Alfred Hall and wounds George Mullins. Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Tron Co reports price reductions on pea and buckwheat coal contracts for September.
The Ohio state democratic convention nominated Tom L. Johnson for governor and endorsed John H. Clarke a gold democrat for US senator. It reaffirmed the Kansas City platform and invited Mr. Bryan to stump the state.
A sweeping cable describes Macedonian appeals for help, Turkish village losses, and Zionist plans for East Africa. Reports note floods near Chefoo, Magerssen assassination near Beirut, and Roosevelt ordering a European squadron to press reparation. A Buda Pesth Constantinople express train bombing kills seven. Britannic ends service, Kirk-Kilissch routs, Vesuvius fissure lava flows, Iru rak Bat wreck seamen drowned.
Watanabe and Mochizuki study Pacific coast forest reserves while Thurman seeks funds to cover debts by selling his Ohio homestead. Lyon plans California retirement. Bailey and Hanna clash over an Ohio post office claim. George B. Smith alive and thriving in California stock farming. Van Horne warns Canadian grain must travel by water routes. rail-only moves unlikely.
The United States dispatched the European squadron to Beirut after Vice Consul Magelssen was reported killed. A later cable corrected the report. he was unharmed and the would be killer was sought. The move underscores American protection aims in Turkish waters.
Fights reported around Adrianople districts as insurgents besiege Malkoternovo. Autonomy reports 11 hour engagement at Ziknishor with 40 Turkish soldiers killed and Hodgetalashnan village burned for terrorizing Christians. Constantinople telegrams say Porte alarmed by uprising in Adrianople vilayet ahead of the sultan's capital.
A rail crash near Udine during a royal procession kills nineteen soldiers and one captain and wounds many others. The collision between a train crowded with troops and a freight train disrupted festivities for the king and queen on the eastern frontier not far from Venice.
Omaha records three deaths from high water. Jefferson Keep aged 10 and Edgar Hamilton aged 11 drowned while swimming in back water in South Omaha. Willie Paulsen died in a flooded Council Bluffs cellar.
Des Moines Iowa August convention nominated L H Weller Nashua for governor S T Harvey Des Moines for lieutenant governor J A Lowenberg Ottumwa for supreme court judge Walter McCullah Davis City for railroad commissioner and Hilo Bunce Stuart for superintendent of public instruction.
It is announced that the czar will pay a five days visit to Emperor Francis Joseph in Vienna at the end of September. Foreign Minister Lamsdorff will accompany the czar.
Senator Aldrich, member of the senate finance subcommittee, says advices indicate progress toward a harmonious understanding among Republican leaders in both houses on financial legislation for the coming session.
An express train between Buda Pesh and Constantinople was blown up by a dynamite bomb. Seven persons were killed and 16 injured. Revolutionists are accused.
In Nodaway Iowa on August 29 a raft overturned while rescuing the Sanborn family from their house raft. Mrs Sanborn and two children drowned while the father, the mother and two other children were saved with difficulty.
Former University of California president Martin Kellogg died at Waldeck sanitarium in San Francisco following an operation weeks earlier to relieve stomach and related ailments. The death occurred Wednesday.
Henry Winters and Andrew Bellare two prominent stockmen were convicted in district court and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for killing a steer owned by a Helena firm. Winters was valued at fifty thousand dollars.
In a brisk sailed ten mile leg Reliance defeated Lipton’s Shamrock II challenger by one minute 19 seconds on a windy Sandy Hook course. The defender widened lead in windward, run, and close reach segments, though a late start error by Capt Wringe cost Shamrock II.
The Aug 29 report from Oyster Bay details three options President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay considered for the Panama Canal question. One plan would ignore Colombia and build under the 1846 New Granada treaty, risking war but securing a quick, lasting canal sovereignty settlement. A second follows Spooner Law to pivot to Nicaragua if Colombia balks. The third defers the project pending a future shift in Colombia negotiations.
Still Under Water in Council Bluffs Iowa with lower city flooded to basement levels. Rowboats operate downtown while the area toward Lake Manawa becomes a lake. Street cars abandoned to Manawa, launches used. an artificial lake caused extensive damage. One railroad kept clear tracks. eastern mail delayed 48 hours.
Rev Don Luigi Sartoris pastor of St Josephs Midland Md resigns and will retire from ministry. He is 60, a Ven ice native and relative of Pope Pius, to live in his boyhood home near Venice. Cardinal Gibbons notified. Other item reports Ira C Bradley murdered near Holguin Cuba on June 9 motive robbery. Bradley 60, California resident.
Senator George F. Hoar, age 77, was honored in Worcester Massachusetts on Friday at a testimonial by the Father Mathew Benevolent and Total Abstinence Society praising his long public service and advocacy for Irish rights. Rain floods streams in Burlington Iowa after heavy showers flood the area. many small bridges out and crops at risk. Eleven Spaniards working on the wreck of the Irurak- Bat near Tarifa drown in a sudden squall.
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