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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1909
Page
20
Secretary Knox pursues peacemaking in Central America while Taft orders a merit based reform of diplomacy. Reports cover strikes, finance, fires, politics, and notable incidents including a Bremen gas blast, hypnotic revival, and prison escape.
Congress opens its sixty-first session amid crowded galleries and a steady stream of bills. Vice President Sherman and Speaker Cannon prepare for full houses as Johnson, Lassiter, and DeArmond deaths are mourned before votes and swearing in. Sulzer introduces a resolution urging use of military to restore order in Nicaragua and punish President Zelaya.
Phenix State Superintendent Hotchkiss charges George P. Sheldon, president since 1887, with misappropriation of funds forgery of reports to the Insurance Department and wash sales of doubtful assets. Loss to the company pegged at $1,000,000. Sheldon reportedly dying at home from dropsy and general breakdown.
A report claims Arctic explorer Dr Frederick A Cook is in seclusion at a sanitarium near White Plains New York where statesmen and actors seek rest A man resembling Cook has been seen riding away at dawn and returning on foot at night Officials say they would be unaware if he is indeed there
Deputy Sheriff Conway Crowley was wounded when he defied strikers near the Colonial Steel Company plant at Monaca near Pittsburgh. Striking workers had pulled down the American flag and raised a black flag as a challenge to police.
Testimony from the coroner's inquest into the Cherry mine disaster centered on alleged delays in rescue attempts and failures to provide and maintain proper life protection for miners by the mining company.
Mrs Dora E Doxey is charged with murder in the first degree for allegedly poisoning William J Erder with white arsenic in St Louis. A posthumous organs analysis by William H Warren supported the claim. Doxey, under guard in Columbus Neb, faces extradition fight while a bigamy charge remains the active warrant.
Judge Cabaniss ordered the release of Abraham Ruef from custody on a 300000 bail after reports by three court appointed physicians on his health. Ruef had been in county jail since November 13 last year, with his prior bail forfeited the day Prosecutor Heney was shot. He remains sentenced to fourteen years in the state prison for bribing a supervisor to vote for a United Railroads trolley franchise.
A deadly blaze in Connellsville Pennsylvania claimed the lives of Myrtle J Johnson five and her mother and two younger brothers. The child was cremated in the tragedy with the home destroyed by flames.
Local capitalists of Chicago back a company to build a 250000 motor speedway in Chicago. Kentucky tobacco output in 1909 projected near 400 million pounds, announced by Louisville banks compiling county data. Snowed out corn harvests around Huron South Dakota threaten large losses as workers are scarce. James Wilson cites US corn total 2,767,316,000 bushels with 25.4 bushel average. farmers hold 79,799,000 bushels. Last year 2,668,651,000 bushels with 26.2 average. farmers held 71,124,000 bushels by Nov 1.
The State Department announced in Washington that William J. Calhoun of Chicago will serve as minister to China. Calhoun, born in Pittsburgh in 1848, has accepted the post as the Chinese government expressed pleasure in receiving him.
Illinois figure Calhoun emerged as a commanding influence guiding McKinley’s Illinois delegation in 1896. He could have entered the 1900 gubernatorial race, held a Danville bar admission in 1875, and later served on the Interstate Commerce Commission until 1900. In 1905 he advised as a special commissioner to Venezuela, shaping U.S. Monroe Doctrine policy thereafter.
The body of Max Cohen was recovered from the Chicago River near Loomis street bridge, confirming his fate alongside his fiancée Beatrice Shapiro who is still missing. Authorities believe Cohen died trying to save his fiancée after a car plunged into the river at the Jackson boulevard bridge on November 7. His coat and overcoat were found draped over his head, suggesting an effort to remove them during the rescue attempt.
A large blaze struck Baltimore's wholesale district near Lombard and Sharp streets, causing at least 1 million dollars in damage. Five firemen were badly injured but the fire was controlled by 9 p.m. There was no need to call for help from sister cities, unlike the 1904 catastrophe.
William J. Bryan travels weeklong to Arizona to visit his son then plans Texas property checks on the Gulf Coast before Panama for a personal Canal inspection. He will tour South America, return to fulfill a Scotland engagement next June, leaving only one statement on Sena torship: he would not refuse nomination if urged. Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court, writing in the Ladies World, predicts women’s votes come in steps, citing education and business familiarity while arguing the home will not be degraded or weakened by suffrage.
In Portland federal court fifteen Umatilla County residents pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of land. They paid total fines of 45000 dollars with Col. J. H. Raley, a prominent eastern Oregon attorney, contributing the heaviest at 10000 dollars. The group included stockmen ranchers and businessmen.
A Canadian farmer near Regina, James Bailey, bought 640 acres at $18 an acre and earned 17 550 from grain plus a land value increase of 10 889 in two years. Wheat yielded 19 875 bushels at 84 cents and oats 4 750 bushels at 28 cents, with land value rising to 22 400.
The Rev. Clarence Godfrey, retiring, sought to telepathically project a phantasm of himself to a city woman. After about ten minutes of mental exertion he slept, and hours later the woman awoke unsettled. She found his phantom form on her staircase for several seconds before it vanished.
An English boy visits his two Scotch cousins in summer. His morning oats bore him, and he asks if porridge is served with milk. Jack and Tom reply with humor, noting the boy’s view of Christmas.
A reader from Indiana recounts a lifelong coffee habit causing dyspepsia. After switching to Postum, she reports improved health and no coffee cravings. The piece touts the product with a testimonial format and references The Road to Wellville and the slogan There's a Reason.
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