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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1907
Page
3
The season earned the title deadly with thirteen deaths and many injuries among youths and players. Debates over rules persist as colleges Swarthmore Princeton Yale report injuries, while cities like Columbus ban football after a high school fatality.
Prof Percival Lowell argues Mars drives planetary evolution in a Century essay, linking nebular origin to Darwinian theory. He cites collisions, meteoritic composition, and Mars’ low volcanic activity with maximal crustal elevations of 2 000 to 3 000 feet. Meanwhile a San Francisco fire case sets $2 500 verdict and industrial stagnation drives 5 000+ immigrants to Europe aboard ships like Pannonia America and La Tou r aine.
Foreign workers rush back to native lands as steamship lines predict up to 500000 aliens will depart before winter, taking nearly 100 million dollars with them. Fall European travel rises due to low fares and idle mills, with many Italians in rail and mine work. The panic increases emigration, affecting next year's labor supply and attitudes about America.
Anti clerical gains spark sweeping victory while Japanese camphor factories suffer carnage in Fer Mosa Island. Officials of the Pacific fleet visit Rio Brazil as the Mexican Supreme Court sentences three Americans to die for murder conspiracy. London Paris banks hike rates to guard gold reserves but fail. A British officer faces censure over Kaiser remarks. German Kaiser vows peacemaker status in London while royal Windsor banquets occur. Aguinaldo praises Taft amid Manila functions. Casablancan operations retreat after Moorish horsemen overwhelm a French column. Tokyo hosts Canada’s anti Japanese riot apology, promising cordial ties. Rockefeller adviser cites Lazarus parable. Moroccan sultan conflict tilts toward Hafid, with Sir Harry Mclean negotiations ongoing with Raisuli.
The irrigation division of the Agricultural Department will broaden its work to include practical information, scientific investigations, and reporting on irrigation conditions. It aims to aid about 5,000,000 acres of land set to water for irrigation by 1908 end, focusing on evaporation, seepage, losses, and efficient water use, with studies on crop relations, soil differences, and farm water systems.
In a trial run the Mauretania reached 26.00 knots over 1200 miles and 27.40 knots over 300 miles, a performance that could dethrone the Lusitania as the sea’s premier liner.
An article details the U.S. government as a shipbuilder with nine navy yards employing about 15,000 including officers. It notes annual wages near 10 million, materials around 7 million, and outputs in the millions, with 1905 output surpassing 17 million. It reports dock facilities on both coasts, private docks numbering 38, and concerns about battleship docking during war.
In St Petersburg the third national assembly summoned by the Czar under revised electoral laws began at the Tauride Palace with the approaches strongly guarded by troops and guns. Senator Golubov opened the session.
The Mauretania, with turbine speed upgrades, is described as potentially 10 percent faster than her sister ship, the Lusitania, making transatlantic trips possible in under three days. The vessel details include being 95 feet longer than the Great Eastern, 32,000 gross tons, deeper by 5 to 6 inches, about 300 tons heavier, and 88 feet in extreme breadth with a 37 feet 6 inch maximum draught.
A United States Express Company representative testified that United States, Adams and American Express formed a community of interests. Shareholders seek laws to end self perpetuating director control. Complainants allege the United States is effectively controlled by rivals with no director elections for years.
Secretary Cortelyou addressed the Merchants' Association of New York in its new building and urged returning hoarded cash to trade to resume business within a day. He warned against ill-considered legislation, stating that panic in lawmaking is worse than panic in business.
Nicholas Komiakoff, a former marshal of the nobility and Octoberist, won the duma presidency with support from the Constitutional Democrats and Nationalists. His rival Count Bobrinsky was a reactionary. Troops guarded the palace to deter possible attacks, and the assembly excludes avowed socialists from the electorate.
Reverend H. Allen Tupper of the Fifteenth Street Baptist Church in Brooklyn announced to his congregation that he will preach without monetary compensation. His salary will be added to the church fund. The Pope's syllabus condemning sixty five liberal doctrines prompts discussion across Catholic papers with mixed reactions in Europe and America. The Evangelical general conference in Milwaukee approved union talks with the United Evangelical church and opened negotiations with other Protestant denominations toward federation, excluding denominational differences.
State railroad commission now operates from three Lansing office buildings as the capitol space yields to the expanding agency. Chairman Glasgow handles transportation, Dickinson oversees physical condition of railroad properties and construction, while Scully addresses legal issues. Final decisions rest with the three commissioners acting together.
Mrs. William Smmons admitted setting fire to Melvin E. Miller’s barn in Fair Plain near Greenville after demanding money. Her husband was not involved. The Emmons couple were bound over to circuit court on arson charges with $2,000 bonds each. Miller’s loss is about $8,000 with $2,500 insured.
Chicago residents filing on government lands fifteen miles south of Ishpeming believe iron ore exists there. Hundreds of acres were staked under timber and stone claim laws, though farming value is low and mining experts doubt ore will be found due to remoteness. Twenty claims were taken in a fortnight with more planned.
Mrs. William Smith was found dead by her husband returning from the farm near Dundee. The two year old baby, left on the porch, had cried earlier and slept as the body lay, with trouble noted as the cause of death. The scene suggests possible foul play or accidental death during farm work days.
Walter Davis formerly of Chicago killed himself in South Haven by taking carbolic acid. It was his fifth suicide attempt after prior methods including shooting, poisoning, and gas. His wife, sensing despair, confronted him with a razor and knife but he seized the acid and died.
Rev. A. L. Heideman of Calumet shot and killed 20 year old Laidenpan, a woolfman, during a deer hunt in Trap Rock valley Keweenaw county. Heideman is prostrated. He fired after mistaking movement in bushes for a deer, hitting the man in the stomach. Laidenpan died shortly after.
In Port Ilion juvenile court Judge Graham condemned Lorenzo Barber after he had attended school only half a day. A ruler was used in court with the remark whip your boy. Barber was arrested and ordered to report daily to court or face industrial school as the father was summoned.
The Ben King Perpetual Memorial Association of St. Joseph filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. Its purpose is to raise funds to erect a monument to the memory of the poet, with any remaining funds to be given to the deceased’s aged mother.
Mike McMann a deck hand on the freighter Chemung jumped overboard in the Detroit river and was drowned. He had been bound in his bunk and believed his companions intended to kill him before freeing himself before leaping into the river.
Conrad Ellis aged 53 died after falling from a wagon load of corn in Otsego. A wheel passed over his head, crushing it badly in the tragic accident.
A fire sweeping Prattville destroyed the business section and caused about ten thousand dollars in losses. Thieves raided several burning stores and carried away Goods valued at thousands. The meat market run by Mr Cushino in a building owned by L C Thompson originated the blaze. Prattville, population 250, has no fire protection.
Wellington Chiswell and his 13 year old brother Howard were badly burned trying to thaw a farm water pump near Romeo. A can of gasoline exploded after pouring the last contents onto a frozen pump. Howard suffered a burn along a leg and Wellington sustained severe burns to the face and hands. Howard’s recovery is in doubt.
A Lake Shore local passenger train struck an open switch at Hillsdale and collided with a freight engine on a side track. Both locomotives were demolished and eight people injured including Mrs. Ella Chapman of Bronson who was in an invalid chair and suffered serious cuts and bruises.
The Michigan Cement Machine Company of Detroit filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State. A Bulgarian in Sault Ste. Marie jail cut his throat. A North Muskegon woman begins her third divorce suit in three months. A 14 year old drowned in Grand river at Wortland. A crippled man and hired help saved a Birmingham barn from a fire. A gas leak nearly asphyxiated George Daney family in Ovid. Mr. Dane may die. Calumet lumber contractors anticipate a busy season. Bay City offered $100,000 for land for a riverfront park and hotel site. An Ossineke postmaster killed himself with laudanum. Elk Rapids landlord arrested for assault on a boarder. A Covert girl shot herself and died. A 12 year old boy and an 11 year old playmate face a murder charge. Convicts Kryza and Domas sentenced for life in Marquette. Six youth choir members arrested for disturbing a church service over gum. A Wolverine mill hand was killed by a bursting saw. Alpena ex convict Tony Duley confessed to murder and robbery of John Ferris.
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