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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1908
Page
2
The Bessemer Herald summarizes global and domestic calamities including fires at the J. S. McConnell Company in Mount Vernon Ohio and Monarch Vinegar Works in Kansas City, riverine and rail accidents resulting in deaths, clashes near Tiflis Russia, a California rail wreck near Topeka, and multiple violent crimes across cities such as Seattle and Tacoma. It notes shifting Atlantic passenger travel patterns and lists baseball standings.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson argues high prices and living costs stem from laborers desertsing farming. He says immigration and underutilized farm labor threaten U.S. agriculture, urging policies to aid farmers, boost farm employment, and ensure demand for crops and meats.
The beginning of a potential Turkish revolution is whispered as 7,000 troops in the Monastir area mutiny. Third army corps officers threaten to kill Macedonia generals if officers held for trial over the Young Turkey movement are not released or tried.
A devastating Chicago blaze started Monday afternoon at the dock freighthouse of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad at 16th street. Two grain elevators and a freight depot were destroyed along with hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain, fifty freight cars, and several buildings. Firefighters battled extreme heat and a strong southwest wind that at one point threatened a citywide conflagration.
A second major crash within 48 hours near Burlingame, San Francisco, killed five occupants and injured two others when a tonneau carrying five women and two children sped down a steep embankment after brakes failed. Miss Ethel McCormick, at the wheel, tried to halt the car with the foot brake, which failed, then used the emergency brakes which snapped, driving the car toward the right bank and a rock.
Firefighters faced a severe blaze near the riverfront as the steel fireboat Illinois sank after the east wall of elevator F collapsed. Several crew members were injured, and debris injuries were reported among bystanders while a dangerous crash halted rescue efforts. The incident followed a day of smoke and fear of crop losses.
Secretary Borland of the Signal and Train Control Board offers a $1,000,000 prize for a reliable automatic train stop at reasonable cost. After reviewing many plans the board found none fully acceptable and will trial the Rowell Potter system on the Burlington road for several months.
Judge Thomson of the Federal Circuit Court in Cincinnati grants a temporary injunction stopping enforcement of new internal revenue rules against local distillers. He finds the longtime branding system remains lawful and that marking products as spirits or alcohol is permitted, despite the department's new rules.
F A McFarland shattered the three mile open professional bicycle record in Salt Lake City with a time of 5 33. Washington Roosevelt congratulated the American rifle team for its Bisley Olympic victory. Keene plans to ship his stable to England this fall if turf conditions improve. At Latonia Will Fizer continues to lead winning owners by a comfortable margin with Pinkola the responsible horse. Allison Jack, a famed Southern athlete, died from injuries at New Orleans after a hammer throw. W Powers tops Latonia jockey standings with a 24 percent win rate. Col Milton Young of Kentucky plans to sell his McGrathlang stud and the 700 head of horses. Bryce, Columbus Baseball Club president, died of heart disease before 8 000 spectators at Columbus ball park.
U S Senator William B Allison died of heart failure in Dubuque Iowa on Tuesday ending a career spanning over three score years. Born March 2 1829 in Perry Ohio he rose from lawyer to senator and was famed as a monetary expert and long serving public official who declined several cabinet offers.
Representative Glenn, who filed in Georgia a bill to invalidate a marriage contract based on artificial enhancements by women, reports receiving numerous threatening letters from women nationwide and believes the accusations may contain truth given the anger.
The Washington office of the Panama Canal Commission reports the Culebra Cut is about half completed with nearly 47,000,000 cubic yards excavated. American workers have dug 18,445,426 yards. Chairman Goethals has reorganized the project into three geographic sections each led by a chief overseeing all work classes.
Dun's Review notes steady gains in production and demand across major industries in Chicago and the central West. Totals like bank payments exceed a billion dollars, pulp liquidations and mercantile collections improve, and July permits and building activity approach 1907 highs. Grain and livestock movements rise, though prices trend lower. Failures in the district decline versus last year.
Trade, crop and industrial reports indicate little weekly change with a tilt toward moderate improvement. Fall trade opening preparations begin in August as buyers gather. industry shows expansion in some sectors and contraction in others. Iron and steel show higher orders and production of finished goods while pig iron eases. US business failures for the week ending July 30 total 275, up from 263 prior week, with 32 Canadian failures.
A dense array of bid prices across American cities for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo entries show prices for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye and related commodities with varied quality grades and unit values.
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