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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1904
Page
3
An analysis based on about 10 000 American achievements estimates education strengthens life success. It shows common school yields one chance in 8800, high school one in 404, and college one in 42, with higher schooling greatly boosting lifelong outcomes and capability.
The New York Department of Labor bulletin notes in the first half of the year employment was poor due to strikes and bad weather but June and July exceeded 1902 records. It cites about 157 per 1,000 idle among 100,000 wage earners, with construction fueling improvement.
An opinion piece argues specialization in college sports harms overall student values. It claims few students gain from athletics while a select few distort university ideals, urging sport to remain recreation and champions fair play.
A harsh critique denounces gambling as theft from the world and a ruinous vice. It argues gambling yields no wealth or development, corrupts minds, and destroys the capacity for honest work, likening its lure to deadly hydrophobia and a black flag of ruin.
In Fall River on September 19 the 37 million dollars of mill capital and 26 thousand mill workers remain deadlocked. Owners demand a 12 percent wage cut to resume operations, while workers resist. Unions brace for winter strain as many foreign skilled workers depart. rumors of a restart on October 3 prove unfounded for now.
Fire at Black Brothers naval stores warehouse in Halifax spread to adjacent Pickfort & Black wharf. Explosives and powder stored inside exploded in succession, forcing firefighters to retreat as blasts rocked the scene.
In Curwenville Pennsylvania on September 18 a railroad speeder collision killed William Houlton aged track foreman and his 1-year-old son. The foreman died from injuries and the child was killed instantly.
Survivors of 13 Pennsylvania regiments that fought at Antietam on the forty second anniversary dedicated monuments to each regiment. Prominent participants included Gov. Samuel W. Pennypacker and Gen Robert Shaw Oliver, acting secretary of war. Thousands of veterans attended the exercises. Col. Joseph W Hawley presided over the event.
In Junction City Kansas on September 20 a Pullman section of the eastbound Atlantic express derailed after tracks spread. Six of 32 injured in the rear car include Fred Coburn A Johnson H W Rice and Mrs Peek all Providence R I and others from Rhode Island Connecticut and North Carolina.
Bath Missouri date September 20 United States Shipbuilding Co assets Bath iron works and Hyde windlass works sold by decree New Jersey district court June 30. Reorganization committee represented by Francis D. Pollock secured both plants in separate sales. Receiver James Smith Jr and Charles M. Schwab arrived to oversee the sale.
In the Seventh ward during a city convention primary, engineer Albert Rabasa fought officers William Anderson and Adam Arnould after arrest. Rabasa was shot ten times and died, while two policemen were wounded. The confrontation followed Rabasa’s razor attack on Anderson and Arnould's abdomen wound.
Mrs. Fannie E. Minot, national president, issued her first general order announcing staff appointments. Named roles include Secretary Helen M. Ayers of Concord New Hampshire Inspector Jennie L. Berry Cedar Rapids Iowa Counselor Calista Robinson Jones Bradford Vermont Instituting and Installing Officer Alaseba M Bliss Saginaw Michigan Patriotic Instructor Kate E Jones Hion New York Press Correspondent Mary Sherman Allen Dallas Texas Chief of Staff Mary L Gilman Roxbury Massachusetts
Towanda news from Macedonia reports Mrs. Bigler Johnson and her 10 year old niece Annie Benjamin burned to death in a late Sunday fire that destroyed their home. Bodies found in the bedroom area near an oil can, with a blood trail leading from the doorstep. Authorities suspect murder and seek an investigation.
Gen Russell Hastings aged 69 of Bermuda died in Petersham Mass on Sunday. He lived in Ohio when the Civil War began and enlisted with the Twenty third Ohio three year regiment which included Rutherford B Hayes and William McKinley.
A special grand jury report on the Horace Maples lynching recommends impeachment of Sheriff Augustus Rodgers Mayor Thomas W. Smith and Chief of Police David D. Overton and calls for major police force reorganization in Huntsville Alabama.
The Iroquois Theatre in Chicago reopened as a vaudeville venue after extensive refitting costing nearly 100000 dollars. The redesign aims to meet all legal safety requirements following the December 30 1903 disaster in which about 600 people died.
Five hundred delegates of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners gathered in Milwaukee at the West Side Turn Hall for the biennial convention held yesterday.
The weekly crop summary notes favorable conditions for harvest in most areas but drought in the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys with frost in southern sections causing limited damage. Late corn ripening varies by region. apples disappointing in central valleys but plentiful in Michigan Ohio and New England. potatoes show frost damage in Wisconsin rot in Pennsylvania and Minnesota with blight in Michigan. fall plowing delayed by dry soils and rain needed in Michigan.
The Society of the Army of the Cumberland met in Indianapolis with Gen. H. W. Berrington presiding. Officers elected include Gen. Henry V. Berrinton as president and Maj. John Tweedale as corresponding secretary. Chattanooga chosen as permanent meeting site and mid October set for future gatherings.
In Susquehanna Pennsylvania 300 boilermakers and helpers were locked out with a placard stating their services are no longer required. Non union workers were moved in and a detective squad picketed the boiler shops while food and lodging were arranged inside the plant. In New Bedford Massachusetts the inner wall of St Anthony’s church on the north side collapsed killing Gilbert Tremblay a 60 year old mason and seriously injuring six workers.
Vacancies on the Republican state ticket were filled in Philadelphia after four nominees for presidential electors were declared, three of whom were disqualified for connections with national banks as directors.
Concord New Hampshire September 2 John Mc Lane of Milford was nominated for governor by the Republican state convention yesterday with no other nominations made since all other state offices are appointive.
New York Special profile of James Farley head of a large strike breaking operation. He recounts early Brooklyn car strike work in 1895 and claims more than 30 000 men have worked with him in nine years. He recalls a near fatal Scranton Mudtown confrontation where a mob attacked a coal train, culminating in a dramatic escape aboard a coal car.
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