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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1903
Page
3
After an overnight search, Rose Lee of Cross Village was found dead near her home. Fear of foul play grows as clues point to possible involvement by Kenneth Showman, a local bartender. Police also pursue a thumbprint bloodstain link to Gus Adams murder at Nathan.
A blaze at Alfred Sutliff’s Flat Rock home killed Mrs Sutliff and her four year old son. The fire likely started from an exploding lamp. Firefighters found the pair near the door as they reached the burning house, overcome by smoke before the building was destroyed. Alfred Sutliff, a sailor, was away at Wyandotte when the fire occurred.
A. Johnson of Orleans returns from six years in Brazil seeking gold to find his wife married another man. He learned of the marriage in St. Louis and Fort Smith, Ark. He has her arrested for bigamy and plans suit against his mother-in-law to recover about $000 advanced to pay estate claims.
Lydia Wiedelman, a 15 year old from Calumet, weighs 365 pounds with rapid growth in recent years. She appears healthy and cheerful despite her size, attracting attention. Her parents report no family history of large size and physicians cannot explain the case. Museums have offered to exhibit her but her parents refused.
Statewide items include roller skating craze in Manistee and new skating rinks. court in Grand Rapids reads Lant K Salsbury Lake Michigan water deal confession covering 288 pages. Local incidents include death of a 2 year old from burns in Jackson and a suicide attempt by Oscar Larkins in Detroit while studying pharmacy. Manufacturing and investment news cover Campbell Williams Co talcum powder health foods and brushes, Durand creamery stock suits, Saugatuck water bond vote, and Mason County road improvements.
A company backed by Grand Rapids capital seeks to obtain a gas franchise in Ludington. The area reads like a busy Michigan front, with ventures including a pickle plant in Midland and a new factory plans for Laingsburg and Keokuk Canning Co. deal to establish operations in Dayton region.
The Cuban reciprocity measure cleared the Senate 57 to 18 with one Republican, Bard of California, joining 17 Democrats in opposition. Nine Democrats including Bacon, Clay, Blackburn, McCreary, Cockrell, Stone, Overman, Simmons, and Gorman voted with 46 Republicans for the bill. The convention with Cuba goes into effect in ten days, promising duty reductions for Cuban goods and U.S. exports to Cuba, with projected annual revenue loss of about $7 million.
The annual Interior Department report covers fiscal year duties across branches. It cites 22,824,800 acres of public lands disposed, widespread frauds, and calls repeal of homestead commutation and desert land assignment clauses. pensions, education, and Indian affairs are also updated with figures on pensioners, schools, and forest reserves.
Boreas sweeps the middle West with a blizzard and sleet turning to heavy snow. Chicago records 13 below zero with three deaths as the cold wave spreads to Michigan Wisconsin Iowa Missouri Nebraska North Dakota and South Dakota. Trains halt. a miner dies from the cold in Indiana. Lowest figures include Unity Michigan 28 below and St Paul 23 below.
The death of the Duke of Richmond ends Wellington’s aid de camp era. Dr B Grimmich is named rector of Prague University. Henry W Lucy MP visits the United States and stands under five feet tall. J W Ryder age four from Devonport recalls Napoleon in 1815 at Plymouth. Prince Eitel Fritz attends theater in Budapest. M Jacques Lebaudy seeks to build an empire and buys supplies in London. Dr Charles Steggall, 77, retires from Lincoln’s Inn chapel organ after half a century. King Edward gifts Loubet Windsor herd stock. Violet Langham, sister of the German ambassador’s wife, joins the ambassador’s family this year. Prince Khilkoff shows Yankee spirit. Rudolf von Gottschall, German playwright, marks his eightieth birthday in Leipzig.
Republican National Committee selects Chicago as the site for the national convention, defeating Pittsburg and St. Louis after cash offers and speeches. The date is set for June 21, with weather concerns dismissed by committee member assurances. Also notes leadership moves at University of Cincinnati and a fatal fall in Dobbs Ferry, plus estate talks for Henry Plant.
One hundred years ago reports detail foreign gunboat plans brought to Washington for naval inspiration. The Postmaster General lists 1,159 newly opened post offices nationwide with 159 in New York and 199 in Virginia. A 16 year old enslaved girl advertised for sale in New York City. The twelfth amendment was sent to states for ratification. Kentucky grants 150 acres to officers and privates for Mississippi River expedition veterans. The State Department’s annual cost, including 40,550 for diplomatic service, totals 150,900.
Fifty-year old reports recount the Long Bridge over the Potomac collapsing under a cattle-driven weight. Other items note Thomas Lyman’s libel indictment in Boston against Daniel Webster, sugar-making attempts from watermelons in South Carolina, and a 20,000-signature protest in Congress against auction sales of imported goods.
The naval affairs committee of the House proposed a bill authorizing 3,000,000 dollars for the construction of six steam frigates. The annexation of Hawaii was urged in Washington to end the slave trade. Senator Stephen A. Douglas presented two Egyptian pasha commissioners to President Pierce. Robert M. McLane, the new U S commissioner to China, sailed with instructions to secure trade privileges to the heart of the empire.
Twenty U S warships pursued the Cromwell line steamer Chesapeake after rebels seized it in Portland Maine. Halleck, U S Army chief, exonerated Grant in his annual report from disobeying orders. Wood’s peace commission bid failed in Congress with 59 votes, all Democrats. The first House committee to plan Southern Reconstruction was appointed on Winter Davis’s motion.
A national Negro convention in Washington appeals to Congress for equal privileges with white travelers in hotels and sleeping cars. In Chicago, Rev. Charles Edward Cheney is consecrated bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church. The Senate fails to confirm Williams as chief justice and sends the nomination back to the Judiciary Committee. Destitution rises among new Iowa settlers blamed on land speculators and railroads. Capt. Gen. Jovellar orders surrender of the Virginius to avoid war with the United States.
Twenty years back at Washington Representative Ebenezer Hoar introduced the first bill to create an interstate commerce commission. Claus Spreckels controlled 80,000,000 pounds of Hawaiian sugar, dominating Pacific coast markets. Frank James was released on bail in Kansas City and rearrested for murder in Gallatin while federal agents pursued him for further bank robberies. President Arthur condemned arctic exploration as cruel and useless and hoped Greely’s rescue would end such ventures.
The report notes Richard Croker's public stand against surrendering Tammany Hall leadership after Rev Parkhurst exposed vice in New York City. It also mentions a bridge collapse across the Ohio River near Louisville and Jeffersonville killing six and wounding twenty, and the Chicago murder trial of Patrick Eugene Preddergast for Mayor Carter Harrison's death.
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