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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
2
A weekly roundup highlights home and foreign items from the industrial field, personal and political happenings, and notable events at home and abroad. The column surveys seven days of developments, linking institutions and individuals to current affairs.
The report recounts President Roosevelt’s narrow escape from a serious collision near Pittsfield Massachusetts when his carriage met a trolley. Secret Service agent Craig was killed and the Secretary injured. The event follows reports of other national crises including labor strife and political maneuvers.
Obituaries note Edward Eggleston dies at Lake George at 65. Deaths include Thomas Elliott aged 76 in La Crosse and Martin Ruiz aged 107 in Santa Monica. Political nominations span multiple states with Democrats nominating Lane and Bigelow for governor and secretary of state, Republicans naming Adams for Congress, and other district picks across Wisconsin Iowa Ohio Michigan North Dakota and Indiana.
The report notes the Frithjof expedition failure delaying Arctic work, a Martinique volcanic eruption with thousands dead, a statue unveiling in Posen, and Kaiser’s conciliatory Polish address. Explorer Baldwin cites open sea and dogs’ deaths as polar expedition failure causes. Hungary predicts grain yields across five cereals. Venezuelan rebel leader Matos’s commander Monagas dies, and Prof. Rudolf Virchow passes away in Berlin.
The international trades union congress in London defeats a resolution to establish a court for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes. Elections for landsthing members aim to ratify a treaty ceding the Danish West Indies to the United States.
A blaze destroyed Willis lumber yard Counsel man’s grain elevator Rollins general store the post office and a barber shop in Gilmore Iowa causing total losses estimated at 75000 dollars.
Agram Hungary reports ongoing rioting with troops in conflict as fraud epidemics spread through Portugal with robberies briberies and forgeries. Other items note a Hagerstown death of Davil Gossard at 75, and Kansas needing 5 to 10 million outside dollars for grain marketing.
Philadelphia reports the anthracite strike entering its eighteenth week with unions predicting a protracted stalemate unless concessions occur. Governor Stone may convene an extra session to pass a bill ending the deadlock.
William Nathaniel Roach former United States senator from North Dakota 1893 to 1899 died in New York after a long cancer illness. He had lived in New York since retirement and died after a relapse following a period of improvement.
Prince Francis of Nutzfeldt-Wildenberg and his American wife, adopted daughter of C. P. Huntington, faced a severe warning from country magistrates after his driver was accused of driving at 30 miles per hour near Haddon Hall as the prince enjoys motoring.
For Congress in Menominee Michigan on September 8 the Democrats of the Twelfth district nominated John Power of Escanaba.
W. E. Tribble, veteran guide at Rifle Colorado, credits President Roosevelts knife lessons with saving his life after a grizzly attacked him while he hunted away from camp. He stabbed the bear in a critical moment, receiving injuries but surviving as companions aided him.
Prices for flour wheat oats hay and livestock move within narrow ranges with steady to firm tones. Beef veals sheep and hogs show mixed results across New York Cleveland Toledo East Liberty East Buffalo and related markets with steers averaging around 4 to 6 dollars and hogs near seven to eight dollars per cwt.
Professor John C Merriam of the University of California leads field work with student Eustace Furlong at Lime Stone caves along the McCloud River in Shasta County Cal. They believe Furlong has found a fissure cave containing bone remains and ancient deposits spanning long geologic periods.
The rural free delivery postal service now places frost and cold wave warnings in the hands of 42000 country families. Common sense is the genius of our age per Horace Greeley.
A letter from Miss Eviza Beta CAINE of Fond du Lac Wisconsin praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing eight months of suppressed menstruation. She reports renewed health and regular cycles after a few weeks and invites other young women to seek free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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