Various News Briefs From Bessemer Area and Beyond
A long list of late 19th or early 20th century items reports deaths, legal cases, and incidents. Notable entries include A. R. Spofford’s death as longtime chief librarian of Congress, Pittsburgh fireman William Poppinger killed by a collapsing wall, and Harry K. Thaw deemed bankrupt in Pittsburgh with sanity considerations noted. Other items cover New York postal revenue decline, Bryan’s presidential nomination stance, a German mine explosion with casualties, and Chicago rainfall records. Additional notes mention census crop yields in Canada, Admiral Evans’s retirement, crimes and divorces in various cities, and several legal or financial investigations. The mix includes bank closures, defalcations, and mysterious disappearances, with regional sports standings and a Canadian lawyer’s delirious death en route to Montreal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R. Spofford
Congress
William Poppinger
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
Pennsylvania
New York Post Office
William J. Bryan
Dudweiler
Saarbruecken
Germany
Chicago
Middle West
Census Bureau
Canada
Robley D. Evans
Lake Mohonk
New York
Mary Barry
Hartford
Boston
Daniel LeRoy Dresser
Sioux Falls
XN. D
George W. Vanderbilt
United States
Washington
Mundji Bey
Turkey
Sedan
Ferdinand Conrad
St. Louis
Conrad
la Follette
Tenn
L. A. Westford
Alma
Okla
Ile
O. T. Pratt
Los Angeles
Cal
Alton B. Parker
Yousef Hassaneman
Tuffa Shishein
Garnett Royer
Independence
Kan
James Soreymer
Zanesville
Ohio
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Sidney
Piqua
Western Ohio Traction Company
John G. Lund
Northwest
Minneapolis
Grant Stevens
Elizabethtown
Night Riders
Stevens
Mary Rowdan
Rose Beckwith
C. J. Erickson
Seattle
Wash
Navy Department
Puget Sound Dry Dock
Erickson
Mitchaw Road
Sylvania
Oho
Charles W. Pohlmann
Cleveland
George Vahey
St. ‘Dumbhill’s
James W. Ryan
Daniel F. Mooney
Butte
Mont
Ryan
Mooney
Dover
N. J
Wildwood
Ferguson
St. Louis County
Ellen Lamotte
Lamotte Coppinger
Municipal Traction Company
Johnson
Frank McCormack
James Gootlove
Upper Sandusky
Goodlove
Mandan
N. D
Inter Ocean
Lemars
Lund
Robbinsdale State Bank
First National Bank of Belle Plaine
Agra
Miranda
Aruba
Fulton
Clermont
Batavia
Java
Gen
Hull
Detroit
Essex
Alert
Brock
Amherstburg
Ghent
Elisa Bonaparte
Napoleon
Syria
Baltimore
France
Barbadoes
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C
Litchfield
Marshal Bazaine
Prussia
Hawaii
William
van Horne
George Stephens
Canadian Pacific Railway
Charles F. Crisp
Georgia
House of Representatives
Wilfrid Laurier
Manila
Spain
Dreyfus
Rennes
Cambridge
England
Essex Center
Ontario
Thaw files for bankruptcy amid costly trial battles
A long list of incidents follows as the article notes Harry K. Thaw has entered bankruptcy in Pittsburg with a strategy to combat trial expenses. The item highlights court action and financial pressures shaping the case amid broader domestic and national calamities.
Eastern Europe and Asia deaths and disasters reported
Reports from Kiev and Russia note a push for using the Russian calendar in Poland and a dismissal of Grand Duke Nicholaivitch from the national defense presidency after duma criticism. A cholera outbreak prompts frontier inspections on the Vistula and Oder. Danish explorer Mylius Erichsen dies in Greenland, while a Szegedin factory collapse buries many workers. A Gloucester schooner is sunk by a German ship off Nova Scotia, with nine crew lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiev
Russia
Poland
Duma
Nicholas Nicholaivitch
Council For National Defense
European
Vistula
Oder
Mylius Erichsen
Denmark-Greenland
Erichsen
Copenhagen
Greenland
Szegedin
Hungary
Gloucester
Maggie
May
G. Dennis
Fryea
Erick McCatheran
Nova Scotia
Fire destroys Jonesville knitting mill in South.
A blaze swept the Jonesville D C knitting mill causing an estimated $350,000 in damage with $160,000 covered by insurance. Separate reports note a lynching in Tifton Georgia, and multiple fatal train accidents in Texas, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Frank P. Sargent, immigration chief, is severely ill after a fall in Shepherdstown W Va. A Birmingham Mineral Railroad train was fired on near Blocton resulting in several deaths and injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry K. Thaw
Pittsburg
William W. Sherwood
New York
Central Park
Swan Island
James Fox
Francis Urbanski
Walter Urowski
Perth Amboy
N. J
Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills ‘Company
Minneapolis
Frank Spadaro
Boston
Spadaro
Phipps Power
Harvey Bittenbender
Harvey Wieand
William Bittenbender
Elmer Keller
East Macungie
Stanley White Smith
East Orange
N. Y
Chautauqua
Annie Lee
Philadelphia
Violet Peark
Lowry
Passaic
Joseph Rendzio
Old Orchard
Christian and Missionary Alliance Convention
A. B. Simpson
Charles Emerson
Frank McDermott
Methuen
Mass
Aerial Navigation Company of
Statehouse
I. I. Bond
C. H. Bond
James L. Bruce
Waltham
Charles Luckenbill
Black Horse
Luckenbill
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Robert Heimbach
Lewisburg
Walter Cattell
Glassboro
Iris
Mabel
Rebecca Turner
Joseph Campbell Company
Camden
Jonesville
D. C
Gov. Wilson
Kentucky
Charlie Lokie
Tifton
Livingston Lumber Company
Livingston
Texas
Copeland
Littl
Sevier County
Tennessee
Imboden
Ark
Frank P. Sargent
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Washington
Shepherdstown
W. Va
Birmingham Mineral Railroad
Blocton
Collins
Battle and discovery through centuries in a single page
A sprawling digest lists battles from 1388 to 1910s, noting Otterburn, Mohács, Belle-garde, and Baltimore centennial, followed by notes on figures like Elisa Bonaparte and events from 1820 earthquakes to 1907 expos. It weaves politics, explorations, and science with anecdotes about Lydia Pinkham and a Pennsylvania home nicknamed The Nutshell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Sylvan Nook
Commodity Prices Still High Across Two Decades
A report from the Bureau of Labor notes price movements from 1890 to 1907. Prices ended the year higher than they began, with the wholesale average peaking in 1907. Farm products rose 10.9 percent, while food, clothing, fuel, metals, building materials, drugs, house furnishings, and miscellaneous goods all posted gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Labor
Department of Commerce and Labor
Powderless gun aims for 50 000 shots a minute
William Watten of New York unveils a powderless, noiseless gun powered by a large flywheel. The device fires bullets by centrifugal force as the wheel reaches target velocity, delivering a solid stream of lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Watten
New York
Circulation of the Blood Then and Now
The passage traces early ideas about blood movement from Aristotle and Greek physicians to medieval doctors and barbers. It notes the lack of a true continuous circulation until William Harvey demonstrated the heart’s role as the central mover in 1628, marking a shift in understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey
Fearfully Foxy Scheme Details Spark Curiosity
A fragment quotes a person discussing a foxlike scheme allegedly involving a boy who prefers chores over hygiene. The Louisville Courier Journal is cited as the source, but the text remains cryptic and incomplete, offering limited context about characters, motives, or outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Coffee And Postum Health Letter Claim
A reader letter promotes Postum as a coffee substitute, asserting coffee caused headaches. The testimonial claims switching to Postum cured headaches and improved health. It cites the Postum Company and invites readers to read The Road to Wellville and notes new letters periodically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Bessemer Herald
Sherman & Hand, Publishers
Pessemer
Michigan
Moses PD. Brown
Roth EF
Laughlin
Austin PL Kelly
Windes
Annie KE
Nolain
Crown
Omaha
Denver
Sioux City
Pueblo
Lincoln
Des Moines
Thomas Robinson
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Winnipeg
Montreal
John L. Smith
Minnesota
Duluth
Great Northern
National League
W. Iw
US _ AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
W. Lt
Toledo
Kansas City
Indianaplis
Milwaukee A
Louisville Columbus
St. Paul
Lake Hopatrong
York
East 112Th Street
James Sous
Western
Joseph Kneece
Correll, Minn
William Nelson
Kneece
Nelson
David James
Minersville
Missouri River
Nebraska City
Neb
James
Elmer
Charles
David Alexander
Coffeyville
William Hill
Hill
Alexander
John Tribbey
Nashville
Ind
Tribbey
Hessie Smith
South Dakota
Walworth
McPherson
Edmunds
Brown
Faulk
Spink
Clark
Ashton
Clark County
Mound City
Campbell County
St.Louis
Southern
Earl of Douglas
Hotspur
Otterburn
Cortez
Mexico
Dunkirk
Prince Charles of Lorraine
Mohacz
Lower Hungary
Doles
Wilna
Bellegarde
Maude E. Forgie
Leesburg,Va
Mrs. Am
Lydia E. Pinkham
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