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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1903
Page
2
The Bessemer H Herald reports a major blaze at Bennett Lumber and Manufacturing in Millvale Pa. destroyed the planing mill and lumber yard, leaving about 100 people homeless and causing estimated losses around 40000 dollars. The incident is one of many national items including robberies, fires and political moves noted in brief.
A roundup of early 1900s U S events reports fines for tail docking in Cleveland fires in Guthrie and Krebs bank robberies rail incidents and train wrecks across Midwest summaries of political conventions and local crime plus notable personal tragedies and legal cases in Ohio Iowa Illinois and Kansas City with brief outcomes and context.
William Jennings Bryan and his son were received in private audience by Pope Pius. An epidemic of cholera rages at Kerbera south of Bagdad with 176 deaths in four days.
The Senate passed the Cuban reciprocity treaty by 57 votes to 18, with one Republican opposed and nine Democrats in favor. Other actions include Rev. Edward Hale chosen Senate chaplain, W. S. Buchanan named special minister to Panama, and Secretary Root taking responsibility for General Wood’s Cuba acts. Also noted are a rail of speed gains by Western Union, rising Jewish emigration from Russia, a dip in infant baptisms in the Living Church Annual, and Canadian plans to purchase ships to enforce laws against American whalers.
The Senate spent days debating the isthmian canal and the Cuban reciprocity treaty, with speeches by Bailey Teller Lodge Simmons and others. Bills expanding mail law enforcement and a highway bureau were introduced. House activity touched rural delivery and pensions as lawmakers pressed appropriations and investigations.
Secretary Shaw sent to the House a request for fifteen thousand dollars more for the Department of Justice to enforce anti-trust laws. Representative Hepburn reintroduced the pure food bill based on the national pure food congress resolutions. Interior suspends Special Agent Thomas McNutt of the General Land Office after a land fraud probe in Oregon. A naval board examining the Iona Island magazine explosion unable to fix the cause but recommends regulatory changes for unloading black powder charged shells.
In New York trading, cotton spinning is weak while iron and steel show improvement and retail trade gains as holidays approach. Grain pressure delays freight handling at some western points, but overall railway earnings rise about 4 percent year over year. Pig iron output dips to about 1,000,000 tons in November even as furnace stocks climb to 655,107 tons.
The report lists bid ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains by market from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee New York Toledo and Buffalo with price bands for wheat corn oats rye barley butter and eggs. It notes the Baltimore probate of philanthropist William Wyman transferring his estate valued over 500000 to Johns Hopkins University on the death of his daughter Helen Wyman Rollins.
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