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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
3
The Michigan State News notes Benjamin Pearce wed Mrs. Myrtle Robinson Force De Forest Ainsworth in Kalamazoo. The union makes Pearce father-in-law to his sister, uncle to his wife's son, and grandfather to the child of his sister's daughter. The piece traces the tangled kinship created by the marriage.
Mrs. Peter Newman of Muskegon disappeared for 36 hours and was found face down in six inches of water in Little Black Creek a mile from town. Her husband made the discovery as bloodhounds tracked the area. Sheriff Clinger says she hid in woods all night then slashed her wrists with a physician’s lancet and died on a bare stone floor. Children alerted their father after she barricaded herself in the cellar.
A survey of Muskegon Oceana and Newaygo counties reports excellent prospects for peaches and fruit. Oceana anticipates a yield comparable to the banner 1907 year, while Muskegon sounds alarms over celery crops damaged by heavy rains and flooded bottom lands threatening over 100000 dollars in value.
Four wealthy youths aged 17 to 25 were arrested near Port Huron while leaving a confectionery store with candy and cigars. Pleading guilty under assumed names to simple larceny, they faced small fines with prosecutors’ consent. Names include Floyd Totter Richard Strauss Fred Williard and Scott Tuer. The latter three reside in St Louis Missouri.
Miss Georgia Leonard of Port Huron woke to a burglar entering her room. She seized a revolver, the intruder fled in fear, and the man escaped from the house.
Harry Vincent and John O Osting aged years are drowned in Fisk lake near Grand Rapids after disobeying mothers order not to swim. Both youths had been forbidden by their mothers to go swimming and the incident occurred despite the prohibition.
John Orsborn, Grand Rapids' oldest man, will celebrate his hundredth birthday on August 24. He lives with his nephew, O. F. Powell, and marks a milestone noted by the community.
A wind blown tree at Windermere near Port Huron toppled across the road and trolley line, narrowly missing a Depot-Reaches car and frightening passengers. No injuries reported.
Civil cases against the young farmers who caused a reign of terror in Scio are settled. They are bound over to the October term of Circuit Court on criminal charges.
The 1907 fruit season in Muskegon County shows a promising peach crop despite fears of rains. Celery suffers from repeated downpours washing away dams and flooding low lands while Oceana county also faced scarce fruit, and Jim Flood is noted as a local supplier in the region.
Roy W. Thompson a government teacher at Little Giomede island and former Laingsburg boy arrived in Seattle to wed Lois W. Thompson. He returns to the ice bound island with his bride, the first white woman to visit. A letter recalls a German whaler murdered by natives after liquor quarrels, while Thompson won trust of the Esquimos who vow to protect them.
Workers digging a new sewer in front of the Ilering property on South Niagara Street uncovered a large female skeleton about a foot below the surface. The find, dating long ago, sparked theories the bones belong to an Indian woman or possibly a white woman, with foul play unlikely to be investigated.
Fred Fosdick nearly died after a tooth removal. His father found him unconscious in a blood-stained bed with bleeding from a jaw socket. A physician administered restoratives, and the patient lapsed into a stupor before awakening.
A gigantic ball of fire dropped into the Flood house parlor as lightning struck the front, then exited through the kitchen roof. The occupants Mrs Willard Flood, two daughters, a nephew, and Mrs Adams were paralyzed briefly but unharmed. The event contradicts theory, yet damage to the house confirms the bolt passed through.
Heavy rains caused the Ontona gon flyer engine and tender to leave the rails and topple into a ditch. Miraculous escapes by the engineer and fireman saved the incident from disaster as passenger coaches stayed on the track.
Thomas Atkins an agent for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. of Ann Arbor died of lockjaw after injuring his thumb in a bicycle fall while returning from a cherry gathering. He mentioned symptoms to a physician and was sent to the hospital where a well developed case was observed.
James Flannery, 14, peeping through a knothole under the grandstand at Recreation Park in Saginaw, was struck in the eye by lime thrown from the opposite side. Doctors fear possible sight loss.
Sixty five creditors of Cameron Currie Co of Detroit met after the firm went into receivership and formed a four member committee to investigate the failure. The panel includes Guy A. Miller James W Chapman Harry Helfman and John J Jackson all of Detroit.
Reports describe a mob assault in Florida after alleged racial killings. Sheriff and deputies opened fire as prisoners and bystanders clashed near the jail, with several wounded and two or more killed in the chaotic confrontation. Police and guards faced a violent night as attackers overpowered authorities.
The new party chooses Hisgen of Massachusetts as its presidential candidate, with Temple Graves of Georgia and William Jennings Bryan among accepted delegates. The convention narrowly avoids disruption as Bryan is escorted from the floor after being challenged by police. The platform calls for initiative referendums, government ownership of utilities, regulated banks, eight hour workday, child labor limits, tariff revisions, and antitrust measures with a public health bureau.
Reports from Rush Medical College confirm arsenic poisoning in the Belle Gunness case. Dr Waikes examines the Gunness children and notes multiple indications of arsenic in their stools. Authorities pursue indictments as details of the alleged murders unfold.
Minnesota insurance statistics show a pattern of losses over several years with a figure of two and a half months cited. The report notes that 2,396 crows were killed and mentions the state strong box and a box of figures, while commissioners of Red Lake and Minnesota state figures imply ongoing payments of small cents on crows.
News account describes the Post Office Department service delivering marine mail to rapidly moving lake vessels on Detroit rivers. It covers tactics for reaching freighters, rowboat method, and the dangers of high speed water, noting continued operations through ice and night shifts by mail carriers aboard the Florence B. The Pilgrim.
A collage of small items: charity tag day losses in Troy due to counterfeit coins. Chinese official calls to close opium shops in Shanghai settlements. US Geological Survey progress report on mapping progress. Senora de Costa organizes South American Universal Peace Association. Sam Jett’s 1000 acre goat ranch with Mohair trade. Monceaux earns Gabrielle le Marin prize for lifesaving at Sorbonne. naval masters at arms ranks explained. Olivia Salamanca wins Agnues B Robinson Mesner prize in anatomy at Philadelphia Woman’s Medical College. Ethel Das from Himalayas also among awardees. future practice in native countries indicated.
A cynical query prompts Miss Cayenne to ask what defines an intellectual man. The exchange contrasts the man who knows things with the image of one wearing long hair and misfit clothes, reflecting satirical tone from the Washington Star.
A humorous illustrated Bits item features a waiter at a restaurant asking a guest if they are the Welsh rarebit or the sardine on toast. The cartoon mocks social etiquette with a punny exchange about giving advice after breaching trust.
Count Katsura, likely Japan's next premier if the resignation is accepted, rose from the ranks to lead as prime minister during the war with Russia and earned the rank of field marshal in the war with China. The piece also profiles Chas Bryan, W. J. Bryan's secretary and publisher, Dr. Frank Hugh Montgomery, Steve Adams, and Marie Peary, plus notes on Honduras, crops, Mrs. Shelby M. Cullom, and various U.S. political and military matters including emergency currency concerns and statue debates.
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