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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1901
Page
2
Treasury officials investigate alleged large scale fraud at New York customs. Importers are accused of bribing officers to evade duties, cheating the government of thousands of dollars across shipments and duties.
A scrambled OCR summary reports multiple events: an explosion injuring Mrs. Louis Peterson in Datach avang e. General A D Hagen dies in Washington at 60. Engagement news from Mrs Armour at the Netherland Hotel. Massachusetts voters shift to HAN, Fitchburg noted. Remains of Maj Wake Bond found near Phillipsburg Que. British ship Nelson turns turtle then reaches Port Townsend. AFL holds 21st annual convention in Scranton with delegates from over a million and a half workers. War Dept finds explosive shattering armor plates and usable as bursting charge. Train wreck near Malvern Ark kills three, injures thirty. Race riot after Pete Atkinson and J Wy Dorfour killed at Opp Ala. Two Black men found dead. Boston bank directors discuss restructuring. Documentary on Naseeh S N death in Syrian colony. Omaha reports Saidy killed while attempting peacemaker role.
A jumble of incidents from New York and surrounding areas recounts fires, drownings, and wrecks. Names like Belvidere Hotel, Stanford University, and Payne Whitney appear alongside accidents at mines and rail lines, plus a few court actions and personal misfortunes.
A lengthy, chaotic 1900s style bulletin reports multiple fatal incidents including a husband killing wife and himself in St Louis, drownings from ferryboat collisions near San Pirates, a hanging in Wir Warnt and killings and robberies across Nebraska Ohio Kansas and Missouri. It also notes shipwrecks, a fire at a Kansas City birthday, a bank safe robbery in Colorado and arrests of outlaws in the Cherokee Nation.
The Charleston exposition opened with greetings from President Roosevelt and an oration by Senator Depew. Reports from the era note heavy Southern traffic, cotton moved on flat cars, and substantial losses due to rail disruptions. Also recounted are a series of tragedies including a Louisville student’s suicide, a depot wreck in Alexandria, a drowning of cotton, a rural shooting accident in Kentucky, a Raleigh fire at Wantaga Hall, and an Apache attack near San Bernardino in Mexico with casualties.
The Fifty seventh Congress convened with many absent Senate members and House changes. 1908 appropriations total 161,010,827,088, down 818,000,000 vs 1902. cables report Liberals defeated in Panama, Colon in government hands. US cotton yield projected at 9,074,000 bales for 1902 over 26,802,259 acres. President emphasizes tariff protection reciprocity anti trust aims and isthmian canal plans. Supreme Court declares Philippine Islands US domestic territory since the Spain peace treaty ratification in Pekpers case.
News from Honolulu reports two deaths and ten bubonic plague cases as authorities warn of the health menace while residents react with concern and officials urge precautionary measures amid the outbreak.
Chief Jimmy Harry reports all Indians drowned in the north arm after a sudden wind gust capsized their boat. An authority on anthracite coal pricing states no fuel price rise expected this winter. George Bancroft's estate, valued at 600000, will be distributed soon after ten years tied up. A stowaway from Germany found alive but near death from deprivation in a packing case on a slow freighter to New York. Amalgamated Association sublodges reject extending the current wage scale through three years, expiring June 30, 1902. Railroads Pennsylvania Company and P C C C St L Railway plan over 1500000 in upgrades and bridges, to be finished next year.
A description of William Howard Taft as the first American governor over the Philippine Islands. The piece notes Taft’s mission to substitute American methods for Spanish bribery, organize courts and municipalities, and extend voting rights to qualified citizens. Taft, Ohio native, Yale graduate, son of Alphonso Taft, and former judge, steps into the governorship as the office is created.
Elizabeth Howe Dale of Hoboken New Jersey is charged with murder in the death of her three year old daughter Emeline. Her husband Harvey S. Dale of Chicago accuses her after she left with Bert Wadler and the child for Philadelphia. Authorities say Emeline died after being given medicine by a doctor summoned to their Hoboken hotel. The case stems from the couple's two year separation and the custody dispute.
Sparks from the Wires reports robberies and notices across states. Robbers busted Sam Smiths safe in Dell Rey Ohio and took 1100 dollars. The Chapman Kansas post office to become presidential on January 1 and other local notices include postmasters, proclamations, zinc ore finds near Fort Scott and political moves in Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Treasury reports total proposed appropriations of 610,527,088 for the next year, down 50 million from Tel and up 34 million from last year. Departments show increases in public works and specific items such as foreign affairs and internal revenue, with District of Columbia and some pensions or miscellaneous items declining.
Charles Curtis, representative of Kansas’s First District, is described as the only Indian in Congress. Praised for public questions mastery and debating skill, he is a young Kaw lawyer serving since the Fifty third Congress, held in high esteem by colleagues and his people. He draws annual government payments and is noted as a brilliant speaker and important committee member.
Rey SP states Slack pleaded guilty to bigamy at Hatler Missouri and received six months in county jail. Leniency was shown due to sympathetic appeals from both wives.
Work has started on two new flour mills in Kansas City and nearby Rosedale Kansas. The plants will together yield over a thousand barrels of flour daily, boosting local production and employment.
The post offices at Eufalia I. T. and Lexington O. T. will become presidential on January 1, marking a notable change in local postal administration. Officials urge residents to note the transition dates and updated service points.
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