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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
2
A weekly digest of industrial field news, personal and political items, with notable happenings at home and abroad. Summary highlights include domestic developments, economic notes, and international events impacting trade and policy.
A scattered roundup reports multiple tragedies and events across the nation. Mrs Josephine Vollmer and a niece die by suicide in New York City on her sixth anniversary of her husband’s death. An automobile plunge near Long Branch, New Jersey injures several and kills two. Fires and a county custody ruling appear amid other incidents including bank thefts and political resignations.
Four Kalamazoo men J R Hunter J W Woodworth H P Kauffer and S N Bickerstaff pleaded guilty to defrauding Michigan state in military supply contracts and were fined 2200 dollars each. The district’s other items include vast US metal outputs and multiple national incidents.
Reports indicate three killed and three mortally wounded in a Tiot at Humacao Puerto Rico. Mindanao in the Philippines records 400 earthquakes since August 21 with 20 fatalities. European leaders host Adjt. Gen. Corbin Maj. Gen. Young and Maj. Gen. Wood in Berlin for an army review.
William F Hagan a renowned handwriting expert dies at his Troy New York home born 1826 in the same city. Other items note J W Coulter appointed receiver for the Mutual Aid Society of the Reformed Churches bonds 40000 and August receipts exceed expenditures by 5955812 with total 48605819 and 42650000.
George Hoadley former Ohio governor dies in Watkins New York aged 76. Anna Douglas dies at Frankfort Indiana aged 101 years five months. Illinois Democrats nominate H G Bell for Congress in the Eighteenth district. B F P Caldwell in the Twenty first. James Lin in the Fifth. California Republicans nominate George Ardee of Oakland for governor. Fred B Wood of Tecumseh named for Congress by Michigan Democrats in the Second district. Ernest Schlaewin nearing 100 dies in Milwaukee. C Scott Delay longtime Shreveport Times editor dies.
A dubious report claimed the United States sought South African veterans to fight in the Philippines, but authorities dismissed it as groundless. The London Board of Trade noted wage declines for English workers and other international events surfaced in a broad imperial-era digest.
A light compilation notes foreign birth officers in Britain’s armed forces, a hussar expulsion, Metternich and Janin’s exchange, Professor Andre’s pole crossing joke, a Capitol Jefferson portrait quip, David Turpie’s retirement from public life, and William Lovett recalling Victoria’s coronation as a Civil War veteran observer from Peru Indiana.
A Wilkes-Barre coalition asks President Roosevelt to intervene in the anthracite fallout, citing four months of paralysis and a Morgan hard line. Brig. Gen Gobin orders troops to shoot those throwing missiles as strikes flare in Tamaqua Lansford and surrounding coal regions. martial law considered in Lansford amid clashes. In Charleston, troops maintain quiet amid a broader security presence and Gov. White notes no new issues from Thurmond.
President Roosevelt visited Newport and Croydon mountain region on Friday, forgoing formal duties to hunt big game. He and Senator Proctor joined the forest expedition in the Corbin preserve and, before dusk, shot a boar. Rain drenched the party after the public square address.
Representative DeGraffenreid of Texas died in Washington due to apoplexy after a bilious attack. He collapsed at the Riggs House shortly before 11 p.m. with a hospital bed, attended by a reporter and hotel bellboy. Born 1859 in Franklin Tennessee, he served in the Fifty-fifth to Fifty-seventh Congresses and leaves a wife in Longview Texas.
A $19 600 000 mortgage by Bethlehem Steel of Pennsylvania was filed with Hudson County New Jersey on Friday. The loan secures a $10 000 000 issue of 0 year per cent gold bonds for Colonial Trust Company of New York.
Aug 30 dispatch reports military commanders say all troops except the legation guards will be withdrawn from China next spring. Details on timing and conditions not given.
London rumors claim Britain will announce the purchase of Portuguese East Africa including Delagoa Bay when Parliament opens. The plan allegedly follows a secret Britain Germany accord with Germany to compensate for neutrality in the Boer War and deter Dutch arms purchases via neutral routes.
The final sessions of the Leagues of American Municipalities convention in Grand Rapids Michigan on August 30 featured papers discussions elections and business. Officers elected include President Mayor J Adger Smythe Charleston S C first vice president M M Stevens East St Louis Ill second vice president Richard J Barr Joliet Ill third vice president J M Head Nashville Tenn and secretary John M MacVicar Des Moines Iowa treasurer named later. In Sault Ste Marie Mich John Boucher famed Indian pilot known for guiding thousands over the rapids died Thursday night at age about 50.
A blaze wrecked Wood's opera house in Bay City Michigan on Thursday night causing $100000 in damage. Eu gene Caremba a 22 year old spectator was found crushed beneath fallen walls early Friday.
In Dubuque Iowa four youths Clyde Ellis Roy Gregory Willie Edson and Frank Quinlan were arrested Friday on charges of making and passing counterfeit dimes. They confessed and surrendered crude brick molds used in the operation.
A. C. Miller of Chicago developed a Miller Signal system tested by New York Central in the Park Avenue tunnel with the Hudson observation car. It augments the block system by using rail and trackside wiring to guide locomotives with the engineer’s view direct, aiming to reduce human error.
Fragmentary report notes a small grass seed remained in a patient's eye until removal. Details are limited but the incident mentions an eye injury and a Japanese origin or association.
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