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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1907
Page
2
Reports from Hopkinsville to Denver and New Orleans cover saloon prosecutions and Sunday closures, rail guard details, fatal shootings, gas explosions, school closures, wage recalls, political actions, notable deaths, and a Lipton statement. Names include W H, Col W B Haldeman, Myrtle Craig, Charles Talsk, Gen Skallon, Dunne school board, Busse, Augustus Ringling, and Thomas Lipton.
A Yolande Alabama coal mine explosion at about 10 80 Monday morning trapped many workers. Rescue efforts moved quickly as air was forced through the mine and fourteen men escaped within an hour. Officials noted the mine had been declared gas free and suspected coal dust sparked the blast.
Specialists in mental and nervous diseases plan a year of work to craft a uniform definition of epilepsy and a universal cure. The National Society for the Study and Treatment of Epilepsy, after a Richmond convention, seeks humanitarian progress, moving away from confinement toward integrated mental and physical care with clearer causes and standards.
Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema, daughter of the famed artist, travels from England to lecture on Happiness. She says true happiness requires self development and effort, not wealth or marriage, and thrives by curtailing desire and denying excess. She notes happiness cannot be told in minutes but earned over time through self discipline and growth.
A synthetic health creed promoted by Dr Daniel S. Sager in a new Stokes book echoes Kellogg Yale Metchnikoff and other pioneers. It champions the simpler life with a vest-pocket creed: breathe deep chew long drink enough eat little. Bathing exercise early sleep and cheerfulness are urged.
A Central Hotel blaze in Colon Panama caused 3000 dollars in damage. In Boston the York building fire inflicted about 100000 dollars on several manufacturers and the building owner. Sir John Roger, governor of the English Gold Coast colony, told a Philadelphia audience that the negro posed a major civilizational problem, growing acute in English colonies as in the United States.
A London rent roll worth 2.5 million dollars and estates valued at 5 million are at stake in a sensational British suit over whether the fifth Duke of Portland was really T C Druce. Claimants contend Druce was the duke in disguise. the duke’s cousin would then lose the Portland estates. The case hinges on one alleged fact about Druce’s life and death, with burial under a lead-filled coffin thwarted by court refusal to exhume the tomb.
Short news notes report Countess of Warwick arriving in London urging socialism for America. Also, William Budd Furniture Co in Petersburg Va burned, loss 75000 with partial insurance. In New York County a man convicted for attempted murder for hiring a hit on Luigi Favata to wed his wife, photographer Peter Giannone. In Oakland a grand jury refused to indict Harry Kleinschmidt for murdering Frank Bellows. the boy released. Hopkinsville residents prepared to thwart night rider attacks on tobacco factories. Allan Corey reconciles with William Ellis Corey.
A report to the New York Academy of Medicine describes a serum found by Dr. Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute that cured 72.3 percent of meningitis cases. The disease often terminated within forty eight hours after serum injection, with cases treated across various parts of the country.
Chief Shippy grants 22 year old Dorothy Stewart a special police permit allowing her to wear the star and act with full police authority. She will serve in uniform at the Auditorium Theater to safeguard women and children. Brazil has no middle class with two classes the rich and the poor.
The Senate opened with debate on whether department heads may send im bills for passage and referred the issue to rules. Secretary Carneiion information request adopted. Tillman’s speech drew interest. Culberson’s financial inquiry moved or tabled. Alabama’s new senators sworn in. committees appointed. House not in session.
Representative Coadrer of Missouri introduces a bill making it a penitentiary offense to publish false advertisements. A Chicago Association of Commerce petition for better postal facilities is presented by Senator Callom. The War Department hopes to raise the quarantine against Cuba's ports soon. Senator Hopkins introduces bills for federal buildings at Doguein and Merpaystera. President Roosevelt sends William H. Grimshaw’s nomination for U S marshal in Minnesota. Leupp reports two Special Officer Johnson’s men and one posse man killed in Indian Territory skirmishes with beeckkeepers and liquor-law violators meet similar fates.
Harvard professor Hego Maunsterberg developed devices to reveal hidden emotions and truth. The automata graph, pneumograph, and sphygmograph allegedly measure involuntary writings, breathing, and heart rate under emotional stress, claimed to expose lying in trials.
In Wilmington, thirty eight of forty three defendants answered the government charges of conspiracy and trade restraint by denying the allegations. The defense argues the business is lawful due to size and right to purchase common stocks, while admitting smaller concerns were absorbed by voluntary consent.
In Chicago the volume of business dips below normal but hints at recovery. Bank payments show a smaller decline, commercial defaults are below last year, deposits rise, and discounts in mercantile paper renewals quicken. Currency shipments to the interior aid corn marketing, while December maturities settle with less trouble. Quiet industrial activity contrasts with rising demand in distributive trades as winter goods move faster.
Bradstreet's Commercial Report notes generally easing financial conditions with warmer weather boosting distribution and price concessions in some areas. Wholesale and jolting trade quieted while manufacturing slackened, and collections remained slow with rising failures. Buyers limit activity to avoid stock buildup. jobbers reinvest by resales. U S failures total 284 for the week ending Dec 12, vs 272 prior week. Canadian failures 30, up from 26 last week.
A broad ran d of price quotes across multiple cities outlines cattle hogs and sheep values, plus grain futures. Chicago cites cattle from 34.0 to 4.15, hogs 4.00 to 4.75, wheat No 2 range ic to Goc, corn ic to Goc, oats ie to Dic, and hay up to 18.50. Other cities list similar spot prices for beef, sheep, and crops with varying grades.
A Tay lor Texas farmers Union warehouse containing about 2 000 bales of cotton burned, causing losses estimated below 125 000 dollars with full insurance. Five hundred people planned to sail from New York City on January 15 1908 to establish an industrial colony on a volcanic island? rock the Southern Pacific ocean. A sale of Stanford White's effects in New York featured a carpet measuring 21 feet by 10 feet chased by Miss Elsie De Wolf.
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