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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
4
The Bessemer Herald summarizes global and national events with Yuan Shikai fleeing Pekin to Tientsin, Italy earthquake relief, Standard Oil case retrial, and naval aid to disaster zones. It notes storms, riots, physician tuberculin progress, and political shifts including Roosevelt comments and Illinois House speaker election.
A Sicilian earthquake survivor crisis described by a press correspondent shows famished residents in Reggio begging authorities to move them or shoot them to end suffering. Soldiers distributed bread and meat tickets as mobs fought over scraps amid ruined streets and injured, with witnesses recounting miraculous escapes and brutal hunger.
Fear of pestilence drives royal decree to evacuate Reggio and Messina leaving them under martial siege and surrounded by troops. Ships moved terror-stricken residents to safer areas as authorities fear deserts of the dead and ongoing search for survivors amid stench and grim scenes.
President Roosevelt sent a message requesting a direct appropriation of funds for the earthquake stricken region. The aid aims to supplement relief ships Celtic and Culgoa already dispatched to Messina with essential cargoes for Italian victims.
A statement from the National Cycre Association estimates cotton sinned on December 13 at PLSTZ.0n bales. The Kentucky Court of Appeals barred completion of the Gaiety theater in Louisville for not meeting city building codes. Ida May Hughes of Calpell, AT and AQ were arrested in AL on a charge of theft. The Borses Avery man.
Judge Broaaush sentences James A. Finch to hang on February 2 for the murder of Ralph BR Fisher, the former prosecutor for the Oregon Bar Association, in Portland.
Convictions in a conspiracy to smuggle Chinese nationals into the United States were handed down in the district court. Plaintiffs include Harves Daly of the baron er Frdda W. Alton and Parilip M. & rinses, a Boston florist, with sentencing to be pronounced later.
Resolutions introduced in Washington seek a $500000 appropriation for Italian relief to fund provisions clothing medicines and other essentials. The President would use Navy ships or charter suitable vessels to transport aid and supplies.
Rev. Johnston Myers of Emanuel Baptist Church in Chicago denounces Christian Science as a fabric of lies and error. He calls Mrs Mary Baker Eddy and her former physician ally responsible for deaths and says he conducts at least one funeral monthly tied to the movement.
George Davis, a blind shoe string peddler in Prosperity, was found unconscious from alcohol and taken to St. Louis City Hospital. He recalled selling strings with a sign I am blind and earning about 200 a month after expenses. He claimed assets totaling 250,000 including his wife’s 50,000 in her own name and occasional sums of five dollars per string.
An explosion five miles away at Wood River shattered windows in Benbow City and caused fires in a 10,000 gallon oil tank. Watchman Henry Johnson was burned to death as residents feared an earthquake.
Yuan Shi Kai, chief statesman and commander in chief, was dismissed from office in Peking by imperial edict. Na Tung named grand councillor in his place. Article warns of reactionary moves, potential revolutionary outbreaks, and impact on foreign interests amid high officials' precarious positions.
Typhoid fever has broken out among earthquake victims in Messina. Officials say drastic action will be taken immediately to dispose of the dead as hopes of rescuing more survivors fade. Attention has focused on removing human bodies from the streets while animal corpses from the quake remain unburied.
The United States Atlantic battle fleet arrived at Suez from Colombo after a 3440 knot run and prepared a rapid passage to Messina. The Illinois seaman drowned in Colombo and was later replaced by a quick search at sea. Yankton and Culgoa followed into the canal with doctors and supplies for urgent aid.
The Seventy-eighth General Assembly met in Columbus to elect a successor to Senator Joseph B Foraker. The session also covers state appropriations, penitentiary reforms, the Wertz convict labor law, and an inheritance tax measure due to revenue declines.
A box of home made candy mailed to Denver residents sickened three people and nearly killed them. Police pursue the sender as a deliberate attempt on life is suspected and investigated.
Descriptions of dogs and cats shot by patrols and left to decay raise disease fears. The narrator notes severe care shortages with 4000 wounded on one ship hospital and no nurses available.
An attempted poisoning was carried out on a family in Miles City Montana. Mrs Marie A Smith divorced wife of A Smith a local merchant and Violet and Osie Smith her two young children are seriously ill after eating the candy used in the act.
In Dayton Ohio Harry Crooks condemned to electric chair requested to visit his wife's grave. The sheriff granted the request with a strong guard. Crooks refused new trial appeals claiming sanity and justice of the verdict. His wife had been divorced for cruelty. North Dakota Bank Closes. Rugby bank shut by directors and comptroller. Receiver George W. Swords named. bank capital $25,000, deposits $249,408.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson urged the unemployed to travel from large cities to farms where labor is needed. The reply to an invitation for the convention in St. Louis on January 22 met with little favor. President Roosevelt could not attend, per a letter signed by William Loeb Jr.
Former Venezuelan president Castro underwent kidney surgery in Berlin on Monday performed by German specialist Dr Israel. The operation addressed a chronic kidney complaint and the patient is reported in stable condition.
A 1908 testimonial from Mrs. J A Darling of Carthage Ohio praises Cuticura products for curing her daughter's dandruff and milk crust on a baby's head after trying other remedies. The piece also includes a brief, unrelated quip about political tricksters and a dean's reaction to a dissection-for-sale joke, citing the New York Tribune.
An older woman from Mitchell, South Dakota credits Doan's Kidney Pills with ending a decade of kidney trouble, backache, dizziness, and irregular secretions after a doctor warned against lasting relief. The ad cites Foster Milburn Co as the supplier.
A reader praises Grape Nuts with a wife’s recovery from stomach illness after milk and water nutrition failed. The letter, attributed to a Battle Creek Postum Co. endorsement, claims strong health return and urges readers to try the product with the slogan There’s a Reason.
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