love a good guess at what the future will be. Some are based on the facts as best known at the time. Others are based on a wish and a prayer (literally, a prayer in the instances where people guess at the precise timing of the second coming). Warren’s town fathers did a fair amount of ...
It appeared and then disappeared in a matter of five years. But Warren once had a soap company. The Truth Soap Company took over a smaller concern and set up shop in a Fourth Ave. factory in April 1895. The Warren Evening News hailed the opening in May 1895 - “ANOTHER NEW INDUSTRY FOR ...
From the Warren Mail on March 18, 1865: “We have not the greatest flood in the history of Warren.” While the Kinzua Dam certainly limits such activity along the Allegheny, spring floods in Warren County aren’t an unusual phenomenon. Warren was 70 in 1865 when, just weeks before the ...
John Andrews’ appeal to the state Supreme Court for a new trial in connection with the Jan. 1911 killing of Emile Amann on Tanner Hill was successful. The state’s Supreme Court “after a considerable delay... handed down an opinion deciding that he had not had a fair and impartial trial ...
So I understand that it might be difficult to feel much sympathy for a convicted murderer. John M. Andrews was convicted in county court for the killing of Emile Amann in Jan. 1911 at the city’s water reservoir up Liberty St. He received the death penalty — death by hanging — the ...
The day after John M. Andrews was sentenced to death on a first-degree murder conviction, one of the most bizarre elements of this case broke across the front page of the Warren Evening Mirror. The headline? “STELLA HODGES CONFESSES TO KILLING EMILE AMANN.” “Another sensation in the ...