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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1906
Page
6
Dispatches from Pollock Louisiana report a fierce all night fire causing about 300000 dollars in damage. 12000000 feet of lumber destroyed along part of the Iron Mountain trestle across Big Creek, plus eighteen homes one hotel and forty nine freight cars. Standings of the four major baseball leagues follow.
A portrait of John Slay presented to Brown University by Five Newark alumni. Five Newark ice dealers bound over for forming an ice trust. Massachusetts Senate passes eight hour public employee day. Severe frosts hit Wyoming crops. Bentley Lumber plant in Zimmerman Texas housing 500 workers destroyed by fire at a loss of 100000. Newark Circuit Court denies new trial to Linga felter for forgery. Wife of Westmaster Bigelow fends off eight burglars with a rifle. Ohio Supreme Court won't hear Hamel murder appeal. Will of Senator Gorman filed valuing estate over 1 million to family. Senate votes 36 to 31 for lock canal on Isthmus of Panama. construction to proceed. Peruvian troops invade eastern Ecuador region under arbitration by King Alfonso. Alderman Breininger of Easton Pa found dead. Thomas W Evans Museum sues Paris executors for 700000. Pearls valued at 200000 may incur 120000 duty. Trans-Niagara Bridge Co incorporated in Ottawa with 1 million capital. Montana reports heavy sheep losses from flood. rain also benefits range. Pulajanes attack Buranen Leyte. five policemen killed and wounded. leader Pastor killed.
In Bialystok, a city with 60 000 residents and 35 000 Jews, a coordinated anti Jewish outbreak began with a bomb set during the Corpus Christi procession. The blast sparked a pogrom as mobs looted Jewish shops on four streets, killed many, and pursued Jews to the railroad station where several were killed or thrown from windows. Soldiers fired on the bomber’s house and the crowd. The city, northeast of Warsaw, is known as Versailles of Poland and is a major manufacturing town and garrison point.
The statehood bill for Oklahoma and Indian Territory passed the House without opposition, earned President Roosevelt’s signature the same day, and unifies Oklahoma and Indian Territory into a single state while Arizona and New Mexico join as one state contingent on voter ratification. The plan reduces four Indian Territory districts to one Federal district with one set of officers.
Mrs Louisa N Bullard endows a $52000 chair of neuropathology at Harvard Medical School. Judge Harvey R Keeler considered for West Virginia University law dean. Ambassador Whitelaw Reid donates to Miami University library for his 50th graduation anniversary. Dr Esther B Van Bemmen to hold Carnegie Rome fellowship. Columbia Law Dean Kirchwey comments on class dismissals with a quip. Columbus salaries rise for teachers. Hoboken salaries set. age limits for child workers in several states. Hebrew technical school for girls in NYC dedicates facilities to teach cooking dressmaking typewriting bookkeeping and other crafts.
International Harvester Company surrendered to Arkansas authorities pled guilty to anti trust violations. A Chicago representative agreed to pay 10000 dollars on each of two counts totaling 20000 dollars plus approx 5000 dollars in costs. The case centered on exclusive contract clauses restricting agents to selling only agricultural implements. Both the International Harvester Company and its American subsidiary admitted violating Arkansas law for fifty days. Attorney General Rogers, who collected the 20000 dollar fine, vowed further action against other trusts.
The Chicago News notes that the 50th anniversary of the first Republican national convention in Philadelphia is called a golden jubilee. It recalls the 1856 gathering that nominated John C. Fremont and brought Northern states into national politics, though some Republicans question whether it marks the party’s birth.
A violence outbreak amid a Corpus Christi procession leads to roughly 100 Jewish deaths and about 157 Christian victims, with 150 Jewish and seven Christian wounded. It notes a bomb's verified occurrence and questions who threw it, while soldiers pursue and fire on Jews hiding in cellars and attics, with many Christians killed during the ensuing chaos.
The Keep commission upholds the bureau figures and moves to probe Interior Department affairs as ordered by the President and urged by Secretary Hitchcock. They will ignore land frauds while more indictments target western lumbermen and cattlemen using dummy settlers to claim homesteads for grazing in South Dakota and beyond.
Representatives of New York insurers deny liability for losses caused directly or indirectly by earthquakes in the San Francisco disaster. San Francisco merchants doubt the quake clause will be permitted, arguing a building untouched until flames reached it cannot be destroyed by the quake.
A historical account notes that a Jackson Michigan celebration two years earlier marked the first formal state Republican convention. It explains how fusion parties formed the early movement, with Ripon Wisconsin first muttering the name, and Michigan finally establishing a state organization. By 1856 Philadelphia’s national convention, the party held a plurality in the House and eleven Senate seats. Represented states included the North and border states Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. The Philly gathering is described as the party’s official birthday.
In Mississippi near his home John Sharp Williams is often called John Sharp due to his mother’s Sharps. Richard Pettigrew of South Dakota seeks the first socialist Senate seat after two terms, having shifted from Republican to Demo Populist to now socialist. Bob Taylor, Tennessee’s ex governor, has just won a U S Senate seat. The piece also lampoons Senators Knox Spooner and jokes about Alger, Dolliver, and Spooner.
The Senate approved the Lake Erie and Ohio River ship canal bill by 41 to 11 after a contentious debate on Walsh banks of Chiago and campaign contributions. It insisted on amendments to the naval appropriation bill and scheduled a new House conference. John G. A. Leishman nomination to Turkey was confirmed after delay. Gen. Edward Bragg of Wisconsin was granted a $50 monthly pension.
The leading industries show no activity loss with heavy deliveries and new demands boosting future operations. Pig iron, steel and car building run at high capacity while construction, building, and lumber demand rise. Borrowing ease spurs investment. retail traffic improves with vacation season. Grain at port totals 8,676,634 bushels. lumber receipts rise. livestock receipts disappoint. Bank clearings reach $207,235,853. Chicago area failures fall to 21. New York mood is satisfactory with robust summer fabric demand, strong fall orders, and optimistic robber outlook. Machinery use up nationwide. pig iron tone improves. hardware demand remains high though yellow pine weak. San Francisco conditions improve.
In Washington the Senate sent the railroad rate bill to conference with instructions to insist on Senate amendments. Gif ford Pinchot may replace Secretary Wilson as head of the Agricultural Department within months. The army retirement law grants three-quarters pay after thirty years. a bill to credit Navy or Marine service in computing retirement is favored by the House military affairs committee.
Regional commodity table lists cattle hogs sheep and grains from Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York with price ranges for each commodity and grade such as No 2 wheat No 2 corn and No 2 rye across multiple cities and markets. Prices vary by destination as shown for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats and rye along with dairy and egg notes.
Mrs Albert Sorrs of Monrovia California was cleared of the charge of murdering her husband. The Nebraska State board voted to raise the assessed valuation of the THI and Harriman systems to five million dollars.
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