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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
2
The Bessemer Herald reports on diverse events: Franco-German and American tensions with Cuba and Haiti, Roosevelt defending Panama canal integrity, and naval movements by Sperry’s fleet near Singapore. Domestic items include New York gas costs, congressional adjournment, notable trials, crimes, and political reform debates amid a looming deficit.
President Lord Alexis of Hayti declares Gen. Timon a rebel and dispatches a large force against him. In Indiana, a bill will unite Gary and Tolleston into one municipality in the next General Assembly. In Pittsburg, Reuben Crown shot his brother John and then killed himself after loan denial.
The 1908 fiscal year shows disbursements exceeding receipts by 58 million dollars, with a 1909 10 deficit estimated at 143 million and a 114 million projection for the current year. Treasury Secretary Cor telyou notes improvements since 1907 panic, cash balance at start, and rising monetary stock amid withdrawals.
A Philadelphia woman, widow of George Wood, is found dead in her North Broad Street residence. Inventory shows rare jewelry valued around 75,000 dollars, a 15,000 dollar masterpiece copy, Paris gowns and opera cloaks. Death likely from valvular heart disease per coroner Dr. Morton.
A Washington bureau of navigation report shows forty two steam and thirteen sailing vessels completed in November. All steamers and seven sailing ships were steel, totaling 9166 gross tons. Vessels destined for Atlantic and gulf total thirty. Pacific eight. Great Lakes eight. western rivers nine.
President Theodore Roosevelt issues an absolute denial of graft in the Panama Canal purchase and any payment to American citizens. He calls charges “willful perversion” and “slanderous mendacity,” defending the records as open to the public. He also rebuts New York Sun articles on the Prairie Oil case.
More than seven million Britons face hardship due to unemployment. The General Federation of Trade Unions urges union members to refuse overtime and calls for mobilizing surplus labor through national and municipal work. It recommends a national department of labor with a cabinet portfolio head.
The steel steamer D. M. Clemson, owned by A Bolvin of Duluth, is lost with all twenty four men aboard. She passed up the Soo from Lorain, Ohio on her last trip of the year. The crew are believed dead after a terrific storm at the lake’s lower end or on the north coast.
Reverend William R. Huntington of Grace Church New York faces a unanimous plea to withdraw his resignation and a voluntary contribution exceeding 40000 from his congregation as a sign of high regard for his service.
Charles Stevens, a Black man accused of stealing a registered mail pouch with $50,000 from a train at Kansas City on July 6, 1901, was sentenced to ten years in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth Kansas.
Carnegie Steel orders two large furnaces at its Mingo Junction Ohio plant and begins restarting the facility after a thirteen month idle period. The rest of the plant will soon be put in operation, restoring work for about 8000 men.
National Rivers and Harbors Congress opens in Washington for its fifth annual convention with Senators Governors and finance leaders in attendance. Vice President Fairbanks Ambassador Bryce and others deliver remarks. President Ransdell urges $50,000,000 for waterway improvements and notes broad bipartisan support for liberal national policy.
Albert Douglass of Chillicothe Ohio representative from the Eleventh Ohio district was struck on the head by opera glasses fallen from a balcony 100 feet above at the Metropolitan Opera House New York. He escaped with a severe scalp wound due to his heavy hair.
The Soo City steamship, sailing from Chicago, is believed lost with all aboard in a Gulf of St. Lawrence gale. Wreckage washed ashore at Cape Ray confirms the disaster. Captain John G. Dillon, previously of the Missouri, commanded the vessel. Crew size cited as eighteen to twenty eight. no passengers were aboard. The ship had operated between Chicago Benton Harbor and later between Texan ports after being sold to Felix Jackson for service to New Orleans.
Charles A Ekstromer Swedish vice consul in St Louis and ex exequatur holder died at his home by drinking prussic acid after a public dispute with President Roosevelt over his statements. He managed West Disinfectant Co at 1507 Olive Street and faced accounts shortfalls. Survived by a widow.
The December Department of Agriculture report shows winter wheat area at 20,584,000 acres and rye at 1,935,000 acres. Newly seeded winter wheat drops 1,762,000 acres 5.6 percent from 1907 fall estimates, while rye seedings fall 80,000 acres or four percent. Wheat condition stands at 85.3, rye at 87.6, compared with last year and ten-year averages.
Governor Haskell proclaims the Oklahoma dispensary system abolished by the recent election, leaving residents without any lawful means to buy liquor for medicinal use within the state.
Adolph Schultze, 40, shot and killed Mark Killgalen, 17, after being goaded by persistent snowballing from local youths. Schultze was arrested following the fatal confrontation in Schenectady New York.
Mrs Ellen Hushour aged 48 of Akron Ohio collapsed and died of heart failure after receiving a postal card from Indiana announcing her father's death. The shock of the unexpected news precipitated the fatal event.
The week shows stronger business with fewer trading defaults and record bank deposits. Official data indicate ample reserves and potential ease in discount. Demand remains steady as year end approaches, while leading industries extend operations and hiring in iron, steel, factories, and electrical lines, with notable forward orders and growing production.
New York reports irregular weather followed by a cold wave boosting retail trade in many regions while cotton prices and belt buying show restraint. Collections mirror trade variability with notable complaint, especially in the South. Heavy wearables and holiday trade rise. year over year comparisons moderately favorable. Bradstreet notes US weekly business failures at 222 versus 193 prior week and 272 in 1907. Canada failures total 34 versus 35 previous week and 26 last year.
A string of market quotes lists cattle hogs and grain prices across multiple cities. Chicago prices show prime cattle $4.00 to $8.00 and hogs $4.00 to $5.85, with sturdy figures for sheep, wheat, corn, oats and related commodities. Other cities such as Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York Toledo present varied values for cattle hogs sheep and grains including No. 2 wheat around $1.00 to $1.49 and corn around 60 to 72 cents per bushel.
John Cooper of the University of North Carolina, injured at football practice in September, died at Clinton. A boiler explosion on the steamer H. M. Carter north of New Orleans killed ten and injured twenty. The British schooner Hugh G. sank after collision off Boston. five men including Captain Obed Knowlton drowned. The Pool mine near Hibbing, Minnesota, reopened after lease. five of ten state lease mines operate, royalty 25 cents per ton.
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