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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1909
Page
3
Rescue crews battled to reach miners after a deadly gas flood at Cherry mine. Reported bystanders saw many bodies and hope lingered that some may still be alive as rescuers heard possible signs of life from the maze of tunnels.
Twenty one miners, believed dead after seven days entombed in the St Panal Cherry mine, are rescued alive. Fire breaks out again at midnight halting further rescue and prompting water to be sprayed into the mine as the town celebrates the miraculous survival amid Sunday-friendly reports.
Vespasian Warner United States Commissioner of Pensions has submitted his resignation to President Taft and the acceptance has been received in Clinton Missouri. He was named to the post by Roosevelt in 1904 and reappointed by Taft. Warner returned home due to his son C M Warner’s illness and pressures of work.
Secretary Wilson acts after millers refuse to halt bleached flour production. An order directs inspectors to seize all bleached flour nationwide. Reported shipments totaling thousands of carloads were moved west, with substantial stock in the east, notably around New York.
Police Captain Michael Casey of Toledo confronted a burglar in his home at daybreak. The intruder woke Mrs Casey by pulling an anger ring and fired two shots as Casey sprang from bed. bullets lodged in the bed near Mrs Casey. The burglar escaped.
Hundreds of letters from veterans nationwide pour in urging Mr. Warmer to remain in his post as he is currently at West Baden.
The report cites H. Rockwell claiming an ever bearing strawberry after twelve years of work. St Paul officials deny planned freight-rate hikes in the Northwest. Lyman Budlenz, a wealthy truck gardener, died after cultivating 700 acres in Chicago. Immigration data show 13 811 arrivals from the United States last quarter to Western Canada districts with monthly gains. Michael Ryan of the American Packers Association warns of meat shortages without more cattle, rejecting price declines. James J. Hill plans 2500 in prizes for Montana grain exhibit at the mana corn event. Montana will showcase mining and cattle heritage in a seticultural display.
An unidentified fugitive who held Harry Garrett captive for 24 hours in a Garrett ranch upstairs room near Boise Idaho was shot and killed at daybreak after the boy escaped. The outlaw slept briefly while guarding the boy until he leaped from a window. a volley from below followed when he refused to surrender.
A family and two sailors endured eighty four hours of storm and sixty hours without food after a gaso line launch was torn in a gale on Lake Superior. They reached the south shore near Duluth thirteen miles away with no injuries reported. Robert Oberg, age 12, and a sailor described the escape as the boat drifted twenty miles off course after cargo washed overboard and fuel flooded. Axel Oberg and others started from Duluth for Two Harbors when capsizing occurred.
Pennsylvania Railroad completes a major subterranean route linking New Jersey to Long Island with a test run Thursday through the new tunnel. Officials anticipate full use by June with remaining work to finish before regular traffic begins.
Albany merchants Andrew Klein and Joseph Bolts bought an old trunk for 2.75 at an auction of effects from murderers and accidents. The trunk held bonds of a French traction line, believed worth 95 each with interest since 1903.
In New York, while Recorder McGovern and witnesses waited for Justice of the Peace William C Budenbender, the man who claimed to have married Anna Gould and the Prince de Sagan shot himself. Budenbender faced charges of obtaining money by fraud.
The body of I. B. Bor land, former County Treasurer and local politician, was found in a dense thicket near Franklin Pennsylvania. A note read accidental slipped and missing since Friday. He bled to death from a gunshot wound in the leg.
Four craters on Ten eriffe erupt ejecting incandescent matter and explosions. Lava has buried nearly four miles of land and continues advancing, with ground conditions preventing damming off fertile areas.
Three men from Leadville Frank Loftus William Hasty and James Hays were found frozen to death four miles west of the Hill Top mine in the Horseshoe district after a blizzard.
Dr Haldane Cleminson was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife Nora Jane Cleminson at their home 6823 Wayne Ave Chicago. A jury of 12 deliberated under three hours on the Rogers Park physician who claimed burglars drugged him and his wife before finding her dead.
Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, a Labrador missionary, wed Miss Anna McClannah in Chicago on Thursday evening. Rev. William O. Water officiated. The bride expressed eagerness to join the northern post and meet Grenfell’s people.
The New York board of superintendents voted to abolish football as a recognized sport in public schools. The decision, made at the Board of Education Building, aims to end the game across many institutions and is the broadest action yet against football in schools.
A fire at Georgetown University in Washington DC destroyed the library after a boiler room blaze. A hose cart team and fire horse led a dash down a bank to the scene as a horse died. about fifty students slept in the dormitory above but escaped. Rare books valued at least $10 000 were lost.
Wilbur and Orville Wright acquire 700 acres of farmland northwest of Springfield Ohio near Tippecanoe City for a park to conduct aero plate experiments. Howard B Phillips noted Pennsylvania trainer and driver of light harness horses dies at Pottstown after more than forty years in the sport.
Congressman David A. De Armond and his six year old grandson Waddie burned to death in a blaze that consumed the Butler Missouri home early Tuesday. Bones believed to be the congressman were found as other relatives escaped and a neighbor tried to aid. The cause is unknown and the body of the elder and the boy were not recovered. De Armond was born in 1844 and served in Congress from 1891 until his death.
The United States demanded a full 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 the scene as the note was delivered to Felipe Rodriguez, Nicaragua’s chargé d affaires. The move followed a prior dispatch seeking protection from insurgent interference.
Richard Watson Gilder editor in chief of Century Magazine died at 9 West 16th Street New York from angina pectoris. Surrounded by his wife and children he had been slightly indisposed for two weeks and grew worse Thursday afternoon. He retained his faculties until the end and bade farewell to his family.
A group of 122 Chippewa Indians from Reaving Cheppewas, said to be roaming from Canada, have been rounded up in Montana under the Blackfeet Indian Reservation superintendent.
Three miners are entombed by a cave in at the Leonard mine of Empire Steel and Iron Works in Mount Hope New Jersey. Only one body has been recovered while the men lie under thirty feet of earth and rock in a drift 500 feet below the face.
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