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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
1
The Bessemer Herald of Bessemer Michigan lists Sherman and Mand as publishers. The brief notice confirms the local newspaper's leadership and origin.
Sunday coverage spans murder trial in New York mother of John W Gates dies in Texas battleship reception in Colombo and Taft Roosevelt vote estimates growth of anti trust enforcement Panama canal controversy shown by World charges. News notes altitude: Venezuelan seizure defense decree, Harriman case, Ik Marvel death, and major political shifts.
A London traveler estimates President Roosevelt will spend 28050 dollars on an Africa hunting expedition. California fruit growers dispatched 12917 cars of fruit as the season closed. Rear Admiral Roddley D Evans, retired, declined a gift home in Los Angeles. Mrs Elizabeth Johnson Mariani, daughter of Cleveland Mayor Tom I Johnson, secured a divorce in a Cleveland court.
President Roosevelt urges government prosecution over libelous Panama sale claims linked to Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer replies naming Roosevelt a reckless demagogue while The World defends its coverage and accuses the president of political overreach.
Author Donald Grant Mitchell known as Ik Marvel died at his Edgewood New Haven residence after a recent indigestion attack. He rallied briefly then worsened Sunday and passed away just before 9 o clock Tuesday night. Survived by sons Harold and Walter and daughters Mrs Walter Hart Mrs Mason Hoppin and three Mitchell sisters. His works Dream Life and Reverses of a Bachelor popular worldwide.
The dispute between President Roosevelt and Congress escalates after the President accuses lawmakers of hindering secret service reform. A four member House committee is formed to vet objectionable parts of the annual message. Representative Perkins announces the rebuke plan and defends the House’s duty to act on the dignity of the body.
The piece lists numerous items including over 100 Passionist priests in the U S and a Fairfax Minnesota conference condemning temperance slurs toward Germans. It notes Canon Moynihan dying at 100, Chandler proposing a belief about post mortal life, and a Minneapolis war on saloon ownership by brewers. It cites world Protestant and Catholic counts and Charles City Congregational’s fiftieth anniversary program.
The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed life sentences for John Wooley and Robert Sassman. Wooley killed his stepdaughter Pearl Smith, 3, and Sassman killed a traveling companion Carl Miller, taking his wagon and horses. The latter crime remained undiscovered for years until a woman accomplice revealed it.
The Dutch battleship Jacob van Heemskerk arrived at Willemstad towing as a prize the Venezuelan coastguard vessel 23 de Mayo. The capture occurred near Cumana on the Gulf of Carasco. The prize crew took control while the Venezuelan crew was left ashore.
Eight men tied to the Reelfoot Lake night rider band stand trial in Union City Tennessee for murder in the killing of Capt Quinton Rankin a leading Trenton attorney. Judge Joseph E Jones presides with Attorney General J S Caldwell prosecuting and Rice A Pierce leading defense. Indicted defendants include Garrett Johnson Sam Applewhite Roy Ransom Bud Morris Fred Pinken Arthur Clear Tid Burton and Bob Huffman.
The University of Minnesota regents voted to require faculty contracts to end at age 65. Beginning next year all members aged 65 or older will leave at the end of the current college year. Several senior professors have reached 65, stirring faculty reactions.
President Roosevelt submitted to the Senate the War Department investigators report on the Brownsville Texas shooting of August 13 1906. The findings name identified leaders and show negro soldiers committed the killings and shootings while all charged soldiers were discharged. He calls for nonparticipants who aided the cover up to be restored if they reveal knowledge and assist in fixing responsibility.
The Post Office annual report shows fiscal year 1908 costs from free transmission of departmental and congressional franked matter totaling 12.534 million dollars. Added to this is 57.1 thousand dollars for uncompensated handling of second class mail for publishers.
A satirical crowd of observations spans oil, Panama canal, post cards, navy life, Japan and China, marriage woes, bad checks, bank wreckers, the German Emperor, independents forming a trust, a 12 year old Indiana author, and cradle safety concerns.
In Deep Water Missouri James M Pigg 53 a real estate dealer shot his wife in a jealous act then locked himself in a room and killed himself with a self inflicted bullet. He is believed to survive.
Official announcement declares the engagement between the Earl of Granard Bernard Arthur Forbes and Miss Beatrice Mills of New York. Forbes serves as lord in waiting to the King and Master of the Horse.
A Paton Iowa town fire destroyed eleven buildings with protection efforts failing. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars. Fire crews battled the flames through the night as residents assessed the damage to homes and businesses.
Congress wrestled with multiple measures as the Senate debated district boundary issues and alien protection while the House rejected an employers disputes bill and advanced a Panama canal inquiry. The Brownsville affair dominated the session with Foraker proposing a three officer panel to quash scapegoating.
Report notes a plan to add bloodhounds to the Washington police force for suburban work. A Delware plant fire at F Blu menthal & Co glazed kid manufacturers caused near total loss. A Centralia Pa fire left sixty five families homeless over three blocks. Mrs Lillian Hi Doty, recently divorced at Sioux Falls, died by suicide in a Brooklyn hotel.
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