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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1906
Page
7
Michigan State News reports a trial of a large water wheel at the Oneida dyked farm near Saginaw, reclaiming 1200 acres. In 110 hours it displaced water previously moved by a centrifugal pump in sixty days, signaling potential for extensive, low-cost reclamation of Michigan farmland with minimal maintenance.
Secretary Shumway of the State Board of Health issues a statement on deaths from tetanus linked to toy pistols and cannon crackers. He notes the 1883 law making sales of certain explosives to under 13 a misdemeanor and urges enforcement and local ordinances to ban explosives known to cause tetanus.
The passenger steamer Carrie Ryerson was nearly cut in two by the big Goodrich steamer Georgia half a mile beyond Whitehall pier. Twelve passengers and crew were rescued as the Ryerson, valued at 15000 dollars, sank on the beach after reaching shore.
Leonard Hunt aged 7 found the body of his father Abraham Hunt hanging in a Clinton area barn. The man, 40, died from strangulation after a despondent act joining a rope to a beam. He leaves a widow and three children.
Mrs Charles Taylor of Wayne watched her 2 year old son Georgie light his clothes on fire after striking a match and imitate his father lighting a pipe. The locked screen door prevented her from reaching him in time. the boy died shortly after.
Kir Valade a Hungarian employed at the Ida stone quarry near Carleton was drowned while swimming at the quarry. He was about 30 years old and leaves a wife and three children in Austria.
At about 4 a.m. C F Kennedy, a private detective, tried to arrest John Link at Charles Cross farm in Wright township. Kennedy was shot with his own revolver, the ball entering his left arm below the elbow and breaking the bone. Link resisted with a large monkey wrench and escaped.
One hundred and fifty men from West Branch joined a night search for eight year old Violet Hennessey who had been missing for hours. A barking dog in a swamp guided the group to a tree where Violet sat with her dog Rover. The dog tracked the child and accompanied her back to safety.
O. J. Sparks, an elderly inmate at Kalamazoo County Home, left to seek his dog. Worried about the animal’s welfare, he is going to check on it himself.
Roy Kathan, 17, an errand boy at Muir Drug Co., Grand Rapids, stole 250 dollars from daily receipts. He deposited the money, made false bank-book entries, and pocketed the funds. The crime was uncovered when the bank notified the employer that accounts were short.
Twenty Michigan postmasters gain raises in the annual readjustment while four see cuts due to reduced receipts. The affected towns include Albion, Algonac, Alma, Belding, Bellaire, Berrien Springs, Bessemer, Big Rapids, Birmingham, Blissfield, Boyne, Brighton, Bronson, Brown City, Buchanan, Cass City, Charlevoix, Coldwater, Comma, Crystal Fall, Dundee, Eaton Rapids, Elsie, and Fennville with varied salary changes from modest bumps to reductions scheduled.
Vern Martin and Joseph Bauerschmet, 12 year old Corunna boys, plunged into the swollen mill race to rescue Glen Youngs, 15, who had been swept over the cam and was drowning. Youngs struggled, pulling the boys under, but the youths persisted for a half hour, brought him ashore unconscious, and he recovered consciousness after resuscitation by the boys.
Feared for his sanity, William Darbell of Kalamazoo aged 40 hanged himself in a barn after attending a large family reunion. He had long ill health and recurring fits of insanity, feared for years he might become violently incurably insane, and he worried over this.
Charles Nelson a 12 year old boy living near Allouez mine Calumet was dragged nearly a mile over rocks and stumps after the cow bolted when frightened by something. He was leading the animal home with a rope around his waist when the tragedy occurred.
An insane man terrorized Perrysburg and Spring Lake township in the afternoon brandishing a huge revolver and threatening passersby. He was captured, jailed, and identified himself as John Trainer from Detroit, about 30 years old.
Frost caused serious damage to crops across the northern peninsula district. In Escanaba a forenoon low reached 35 degrees above zero, the coldest June reading since 1875.
Ilolly may secure a piano factory, Bancroft plans an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration,Umbrella livery promotes in large Michigan cities, Howell closes schools and churches for smallpox concerns, Pinconning reports a graduating class of 30 the largest in its history.
Washington correspondence notes a great highway from tidewater to the Mississippi with forks to the Pacific via Denver and to Puget Sound, and a bill in Congress to restore the Cumberland road monuments. The National Pike linked buffalo trails to early roads, hosted presidents, and life along taverns, coaches, and vast caravans long before railroads.
A San Francisco correspondent details massive aid to quake victims. Donations of gold, food, and clothing flow from multiple states and nations. A central fund of about $6 million, plus promises, finances relief through the Red Cross and mayor, overseen by James D. Phelan and a committee of prominent businessmen. Meal and medical costs, sanitary work, and small loans support refugees as they rebuild.
Saginaw reports a grand G A R parade with over 1000 veterans from the state and J B Griswold of Grand Rapids winning the post of Department Commander after a lively contest. The session notes 33,000 Civil War survivors in Michigan, about one third members of the G A R, and a treasury near $5,000.
A Sunday School reflection on Matthew 18 1 14 contrasts religious pride with childlike humility. It argues that true greatness comes from serving God humbly, emulates children’s purity and teachability, and stresses compassion, avoidable stumbling, and dependence on divine guidance under the Shepherd.
A census bulletin reports American steel and rolling mills produced goods valued at $73,965,026 in 1965, marking a 13 percent increase since 1900. The notice ends with a promotional line encouraging advertising in the paper.
In a New York girls technical high school a practical course in hospitality accompanies housekeeping. Classes have already hosted receptions for wives of city officials and they held an all class appreciation day to honor teachers and principals. A plan to ask 15 million US school children to donate 1 million for San Francisco school rebuilding is proposed. A national school day would urge pupils to contribute five or ten cents each. William Abbott, a St. Louis poolroom keeper, was arrested for killing an unknown man in a dispute over a dollar.
Rabbi Abram Simon of Washington delivered a Jerusalem model and a relief map of Palestine to George Washington University for Mrs. A Worley Wilcox who was unable to attend.
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