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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1909
Page
12
A gas leak blocked rescue attempts at the Cherry mine where many bodies were seen and hope lingered for survivors. Other items note congressional probes into irrigation waste, U S demands of Nicaragua over American deaths, canal commission cost estimates, and political shifts abroad and at home.
Wason Gilder dies suddenly in New York and Taft demands satisfaction for the shooting of two Americans in Nicaragua. Illinois Governor Deneen ousts Sheriff Davis as Cairo mob seizes Frog gy James. Consuelo, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, dies in London. Federal court allows coal companies to refuse sales and set prices. UMWA to investigate Cherry disaster and assign blame. Leeb purges nineteen more customs officers, total 125. Dr Haldane Cleminson convicted of wife murder, life imprisonment. Standard Oil dissolution ordered as illegal monopoly. German steamer near Nourmahal wreck. Astor yacht reportedly safe at San Juan. Twenty-one rescued from Cherry mine. others remain buried. villagers react. News from Willemstad says the Astor yacht is safe in San Juan on Nov 15.
A panic of relief swept Little Town as twenty one entombed miners rose alive after seven days in the St Paul mine with 319 others. Fire broke out again at midnight stopping rescue efforts and forcing water to be used to douse the flames. Coffins lined the village scene as survivors emerged to cheering crowds and a community shaken by the near tragedy.
United States Commissioner of Pensions Vespasian Wasner has resigned his post, with President Taft accepting the report. Appointed by Roosevelt in 1904 and reappointed by Taft, Wasner’s resignation was delivered to Washington and received by Mr. Warner in Clinton, NL. Warner, in Clinton for several months, returned home due to his son's illness. The elder Warner came home to ease the burden on the son who managed two large estates, hoping for a temporary relief and possible resumption of duties later, but the son's ailment has hindered medical progress.
In a long confinement, trapped workers recall hearing sounds suggesting others may still be alive, their first words giving hope that hundreds of fellow men in the mine could be living despite the grim ordeal.
Secretary Wilson acts after millers refuse to stop production seizing all bleached flour in the country. Inspectors report fourteen consignments seized, including several hundred carloads in the west. About $10,000 worth produced last year, most remaining flour in the east around New York.
Michael Casey, captain of police in Toledo, confronted a negro burglar at daybreak in his home as he protected his wife. The intruder woke Mrs. Casey by tugging a finger ring. two shots were fired, bullets lodging in the bed about an inch from Mrs. Casey’s head. The burglar escaped.
Hundreds of letters from veterans nationwide have been arriving in recent weeks urging Mr. Warner to remain in his post, despite reports of his potential resignation and current location at West Baden.
H Rockwell, after twelve years of effort, claims to have produced an ever bearing strawberry in Iowa. St Paul officials say no freight rate advances are planned in the Northwest. Lyman Baudlenz, millionaire truck gardener, dies in Chicago. he farmed 700 acres near the city. Immigration arrivals to Western Canada total 12 811 in three months, with monthly increases. Michael Brann of the American Packers Association warns meat prices may rise unless more cattle are raised domestically. James J Hill to award 2500 in gold prizes at the Umsula corn exhibit in Montana to show agricultural progress.
An unknown tramp who held Harry Garrett captive for 24 hours at the Garrett ranch near Boise Idaho was shot and killed at daybreak after the boy escaped. The desperado shot at the rescuers, refused surrender, and was killed when shots were fired from below.
Axel Oberg his wife and two children along with two sailors endured an eighty four hour storm in a dead gasoline launch on Lake Superior. Stranded thirty miles south of Duluth after the boat ran into a gale twenty miles off course they faced hunger exposure and exhaustion but all escaped unharmed. A 12 year old Robert Oberg and another sailor recounted the ordeal.
The Pennsylvania Railroad launched a test trip through the new tunnel from New Jersey to Long Island completing a major rail feat. Full underground route work continues with an expected readiness for regular service by June.
Andrew Klein and Joseph Bolts purchased jointly for 2.75 an old trunk at an auction of effects from crime and accident victims and found it contained bonds of a French traction line. They later learned the bonds are believed to be worth 95 each with interest since 1903.
In New York, as Recorder McGovern and witnesses waited for Justice William C. Budenbender, the man who claimed to have married Anna Gould and the Prince de Sagan killed himself by a gunshot. Budenbender faced charges of obtaining money by fraud.
I B Borland former County Treasurer and prominent Franklin politician had been missing since Friday. A note found near his body in a dense thicket described an accidental slip and stated he bled to death from a gunshot wound in the leg.
Four craters on Teneriffe erupt sending incandescent matter and explosions. Lava flow covers nearly four miles and continues advancing. Ground conditions prevent damming the lava from fertile land.
The bodies of Frank Loftus William Hasty and James Hays all of Leadville were found four miles west of the Hill Top mine in the Horseshoe district Colorado. They perished in a blizzard likely from exposure.
Dr Haldane Cleminson was convicted of murdering his wife Nora Jane Cleminson at their Rogers Park home on May 30. A jury of twelve returned a life sentence after deliberating less than three hours across four ballots. The case hinged on the burglary story later disproved by police and doctors who found Cleminson feigning illness.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, Labrador missionary, married Miss Anna McClannah in Chicago Grace Brgy Mirch. Rev. William O. Water officiated. Knighted explorer spoke of his nerves facing the Arctic ordeal as his bride expressed eagerness to join him in the far-off northern mission.
The board of superintendents of New York public schools has abolished football as a recognized sport. The decision, made at the Board of Education Building, aims to eliminate the game from many institutions and marks a sweeping departure from previous actions against football.
A fire at Georgetown University in Washington D C destroyed the library, with flames starting in the boiler room. A heroic team and hose cart raced down a fifty foot embankment as a fire horse fell dead. about fifty students slept in the dormitory but escaped unharmed. Rare volumes valued at least ten thousand dollars were lost.
Wilbur and Orville Wright purchased 700 acres northwest of Springfield Ohio near Tippecanoe City to establish a park for aero plate experiments. Howard B Phillips a famed light harness horse trainer in Pennsylvania died at Pottstown after a long familiar career spanning over forty years.
Congressman David A. DeArmond and his grandson Waddie, six, were burned to death in a Butler Missouri house fire early Tuesday. The two bodies were not recovered, bones believed to be the congressman’s were found. James A. DeArmond and Mrs DeArmond escaped with other family members as neighbors tried to help. DeArmond, born 1844 in Blair County Pennsylvania, had practiced law in Butler before entering Congress in 1891 and remained in office until his death after a career marked by notable floor battles including a fistfight with John Sharp Williams in 1907.
The U S government Thursday night demanded a full and satisfactory explanation from Nicaragua for the execution of two Americans Leonard Grace and Le Roy Cannon by order of President Zelaya. Two warships were ordered to scene. The demand was relayed in a peremptory note to Felipe Rodriguez charge d affaires. An earlier dispatch to Bluefields Steamship Co sought State Department protection from insurgent interference.
Richard Watson Gilder editor in chief of Century Magazine died Thursday night at a friend’s home in New York. Surrounded by wife and children he suffered a sudden angina attack and passed away after a brief illness.
A band of 122 Chippewa Indians termed as roaming nomads have been rounded up in Montana under the Blackfeet Indian Reservation superintendent. They were said to belong to Canada and were living at large across the country prior to capture.
Three miners were buried alive in a cave in the Leonard mine of Empire Steel and Iron Works Mount Hope New Jersey. Only one body has been recovered while the entombed men lie under thirty feet of earth and rock in a drift five hundred feet below the surface.
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