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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1904
Page
2
A compilation of diverse 1904 items from the United States and abroad. Highlights include a Japanese warship incident at Yokohama, jail break at Sheboygan, labor union movements in New York and Illinois, a fatal aeronautic ascent in Tuscola, railroad and factory news, a cemetery accident in Gravesend, underwater signaling experiments, a London firm fined in Massachusetts, and multiple fires, crimes, and disasters across states.
Maine returns show Cobb lead Davis as 300 of 522 locals report with Cobb around 59,705 to 38,399. Early results indicate Amos L. Allen and Charles E. Littlefield win in first districts, with Powers re-elected in the fourth, while Democrats gain slight in both houses but Republicans hold Senate. Weather aided turnout and Portland shows Democratic sheriff win by 1,900.
A. L. Hicks a fireman and an unidentified man were killed when a westbound Southern Pacific passenger train at Lawton seven miles west of Reno collided with an eastbound train carrying a Knights Templar party. Four locomotives and multiple cars were wrecked and several passengers injured. The crash resulted from disobedience of orders.
At Chicago Stock Yards on Sept 13 two savage attacks on non union workers sparked clashes leaving eight injured four seriously enough to require hospital care. Police report the assault on seven Black workers aimed to force non union employees to quit.
The Red Men of the United States elected officers yesterday in St. Joseph Missouri. A heated debate produced a new law to bar saloon keepers bartenders and liquor dealers from membership. acceptance by state councils remains optional.
Boston news reports Guy C. Stillings treasurer of Preferred Mercantile Co arrested for running a diamond lottery business violating postal laws. The firm formerly operated from Kansas City and allegedly wrote 1,655,030 contracts in five months.
A fire that began yesterday in the Butte cafe burned seven hours and destroyed nearly all of Idaho Falls business blocks. Losses are estimated at $300,000 with only small insurance to cover damages.
The twelfth conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union opened at Festival hall in the world’s fair grounds St. Louis on Sept 13 with 226 legislators from England and Europe and an American group led by Congressmen Bartholdt and Burton. Dr Gobat of the Swiss national council called the meeting to order and introduced Bartholdt as president.
Five masked men dynamited a Chicago Rock Island & Pacific train near Letts Iowa not demanding money. The safe contained merchandise and company papers but no money. A large manhunt with special trains, bloodhounds, and officers followed, with $1000 reward offered by the Rock Island railroad and U S Express for capture.
Three or more prisoners including Roland B. Rigor attacked jail guard H A Lecron in a cell strike. Brewer fled toward the outer gate before capture. Brewer confessed a conspiracy to disable the guard and seize his pistol to break out. Rigor, linked to the Lakeside car robbery, was arrested last July in Columbus Ohio.
A report to the American board by Rev. J. S. Porter from Schemmel Bohemia notes severe drought across Bohemia and Moravia. Potatoes and crops fail, sugar beet harvests delayed, prices rise for flour and milk, frequent forest fires, and the Elbe running unusually low preventing steamers for six weeks.
El Paso Texas reports the Mexican state department approved a court order extraditing Vance Fulkerson a United States customs inspector accused of embezzling funds. Indicted on 40 counts a grand jury charged him, he fled to Mexico where he was arrested. He will be brought back to El Paso for trial marking a first for a government official extradition.
The Rio Grande has risen to Carrizo Texas and is inundating areas on both banks to Brownsville, a 200 mile stretch. The valley between Carrizo and Presidio Del Norte remains largely underwater, with the river still rising and extensive property losses anticipated beyond those already reported.
The horse Hans, trained by Herr Von Osten, impressed a Berlin commission of physiologists psychologists pedagogues naturalists and animal trainers with handwriting comprehension musical color discrimination and mathematical work shown under conditions excluding trickery. The report says the trainer uses pedagogic methods.
Telegraphs from Manchurian headquarters say Japan holds the Yentai coal mines and Russian losses exceed 25 000 up to the fall of Liao Yang. Japanese casualties in the Liao Yang battle are estimated at 17 539. The Baltic fleet sails to the far east as Russia mobilizes reserves across multiple circuits.
Washington reports Japan formally asks the collector of customs in San Francisco to require the Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena to depart within 24 hours. In Manchuria Russians retreat to The Pass with shrinking units and dire shortages as civilians scramble for food amid ruined roads. Tokyo notes Kuroki led intense fighting from Aug 28 to Sep 5.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg notes anxiety over Kuropatkin amid scarce official updates. Rumors of Japanese advances in Manchuria unsettle readers about Chinese sentiment toward Russia. Reports from London and Berlin debunk sensational claims while Roosevelt considers Lena’s status. New York holds the McAlpin Trophy match with New York state leading.
Mrs Elizabeth H Thompson of Lillydale New York a Grand Worthy Wise Templar and W C T U member recounts recovery after six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She notes cure of womb trouble backache and bearing down pains and cites her niece also healing with a baby and urges others to try the remedy with a stated $5000 forfeit for nonproduction of the original proof.
Britain carries about one third of the world’s merchant marine tonnage and leads in vessel count. The total world tonnage is 33,643,000 tons with 24,854 ships, while 16,006,374 tons fly the British flag among the largest ships. Other major carriers follow: America, Germany, Norway, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, and Japan. A separate report notes Gerald Hardie of Elizabeth, New Jersey, injured when his foot was caught in a train coupling, yet expected to recover.
A Danish scientist reports a method to make a typewriter operate from another room using a new electric wave. The Chicago Record-Herald notes this could end private reading by the boss in his office.
A woman credits Postum with restoring her complexion and health after years of indigestion palpitations and sinking spells. She stopped coffee and began Postum and reports lasting improvement for two years, noting friends saw her as younger and rosier. The testimonial adds the company address and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
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