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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1909
Page
1
A report notes five West Point cadets will be sent home to await final punishment for hazing. The item appears amid a wide array of international and domestic events, including fires, revolutions, and political disputes.
Orville Wright completed a ten mile cross country flight near Washington in an airplane built by the Wright brothers. He was accompanied by Lt. Benjamin D. Foulois of the Army Signal Corps and surpassed the speed limits of his government contract with a record breaking heavier than air flight.
The article notes a dramatic aviation demonstration where Wrights speed exceeded 42 miles per hour. A ten mile flight took 14 minutes 42 seconds with a brief repair stop near Shuter Hill. Elevations reached about 500 feet with an average height of around 80 feet. Taft attended at Fort Myer to witness the landing and honor the aviators.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade notes stronger business activity with rising demands and money use. The discount rate holds, August interest and dividend payments strain banks, while security markets rise. Growing crops and commodity movements improve, with mills running, iron and steel contracts, and steady building operations boosting planing and sanitary goods. Failures in Chicago district fall from last week and year.
Central Mexico was rattled by a series of strong earthquakes felt across Querato to Qowea, with fourteen reported dead and many injured. Cities including Mexico City and Chilpacingo suffered significant damage as aftershocks and storms disrupted the region.
Police seek a young, well dressed woman of about nineteen who robbed Zsmund Klovber of a diamond stud valued at ten in Lincoln Park after meeting him there. He claims she lured him with a smile and conversation then took the jewel as they walked north on North Pars Avenue toward Yell Place before vanishing into an alley.
Fort Omaha soldiers Sergeant Puller and Privates Schmidt and Goodman completed a typhoid immunity trial. After initial vaccination in June they fell ill mildly, then a second vaccine failed to take, and a final test involving a gallon of stagnant water with fever germs showed no symptoms over ten days, confirming immunity.
Democratic leader William Jennings Bryan said in Bellefontaine Ohio that he will move to Texas after a South American tour this fall. He stated he would not seek Nebraska Senate and plans to continue in politics from his new Texas base.
In German Southwest Africa new diamond mines have been discovered with an estimated value of 250000 dollars. US Senator Perley of Ottawa district Ca radmin Senate is listed among names in the report. The Turkish court martial investigating the Adana massacres reports judgments and sentences for Turkish guilty parties.
Ten were killed and at least sixty injured in a head on collision of electric trains at Coldwell station between Coeur d Alene Idaho and Shokkane Washington. No. 290 west bound from Coeur d Alene collided with No. 5 east bound at about 4 30 p m. Both trains traveled roughly fifteen miles per hour. Coaches were crushed and passengers were thrown from seats. The Coeur d Alene hospital is crowded with injured. only one crew member reportedly hurt.
The Rev Joseph Bennett a Baptist minister drowned himself in Otter creek Hardin county Kentucky a note among his effects says he failed in honest business and thought to get out of the way. Floods from Empire reservoir northwest of Fort Morgan Daly broke spilling water and causing damage to ranches along the south Platte with no lives lost.
A rail obstruction halted an express train near Beinwort as workers removed steel rails. The express car reportedly carried a large gold bullion shipment to New York. Farmer Chris Berger was arrested claiming innocence and accident injuries from a shotgun discharge.
A man demanded 10600 from James McClurg by threatening to kidnap his five year old daughter Frances and dynamite the family home. Police tailed a messenger, but the suspect vanished. Meanwhile Rosella Neff, five, was reportedly kidnapped from Sharon, Pa, with clues pointing toward an older sister and a possible escape to the West. Authorities coordinated with Cleveland police and Kansas sister cases as the search continued.
A jury in Superior Court Boston found Michael J. Mitchell former city purchasing agent and Whoaas E. Maher contractor guilty of conspiracy to defraud the city of 13.50 by signing contracts for excessive costume prices. Sentence was deferred.
In Balspnoce, John Freudel aged eleven died minutes after being struck by August Krueger ten. Krueger was exonerated by a coroners jury.
New York reports cautious buying as price advances and inflation fears curb activity across wholesale trade. Industrial output grows in iron and steel while coal demand remains tepid. car building orders from railroads rise. leather prices constrain shoe trade. Weekly business failures total 223 in the United States, up from 239 prior week. Canadian failures 34.
The report lists live stock and grain quotes by city including hogs and sheep prices, wheat and corn prices for No 2 grades, oats and rye values, butter and eggs, potatoes, and shipping costs. Cities named include Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati New York and Detroit with varied bid ranges and quality notes.
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