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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
9
A crazed woodsman named Lawrence Vassan terrorized homes injuring several women and children. He attacked Mrs McDonald at the Borville House and Mrs Charles, leaving others fleeing and worrying neighbors as police moved to detain him.
A Beaverton resident named Kenyaconevious Forty Eight Hours was reported missing after a hunting outing. Searches spanned nine days before his body was found in the woods with injuries to the right and left eye, the cause and details of death unclear in the fragment.
Fragmented text from a Detroit area page describes Alma College corner stone ceremony at the Hood Viet site and a presbytery involvement. Separately a Calumet Youth case exonerates Anes Katies and reports a shooting near Houchton with Patrick Murphy wounded. recovery possible.
The lesson explores Psalms 120 and the Songs of Ascents as themes of Jewish deliverance after exile. It traces how the post exile poets framed God’s mercy and guidance, the omnipresence of God, and the link between righteousness and prosperity. It connects these themes to later prophetic and gospel teachings and notes Nehemiah’s prayer as the next lesson.
Advices from Cape Town recount heavy fighting around Mafeking with 300 Boer casualties claimed as Col Hore repulsed the Boers. An armored train engaged 500 Boers, yielding heavy losses. British casualties were two killed and fourteen wounded. Mafeking’s water supply was cut, and efforts to surrender were resisted.
A water main twenty four inches in diameter and about a mile long was scraped in Plymouth England. A go devil passed through the main removed material and increased discharge from 2 000 000 to 3 000 000 gallons per day.
Reports say Pilar offers to surrender his army and hand Aguinaldo to the Americans for 250000, and to stop attacks for 50000. He is believed near San Mateo with about two thousand men. Aguinaldo is said to be at Tarac with a strong force. Gen Lawton moves from Aray with 24100 troops including the Twenty-fourth Infantry and Mackabebe scouts toward San Isidro.
Quartermaster General Whiteline distributes a consignment of new Lee rifles for state troops with an additional lot due shortly. rifles resemble the Blake design and are lighter than Krag Jorgensen. full equipment waits until all units receive weapons. Hverggan factory tests noted. Labor and mortgage statistics updated by Labor Commissioner Cox show fewer filings and more discharges this year. Michigan railroad grades separation planned near Orchard Lake. Gov Pingree appoints seven medical registration board members across schools. State crop yields projected with state estimates for wheat oats corn potatoes beans and buckwheat. Attorney General Orenius rules county treasurer and justice of the peace cannot hold both offices.
A second message to Parliament signals militia call outs amid suspicions of continental hostility. The piece notes 182 403 militia and reserve members as part of the force and reports ministerial disputes over policy while detailing various local incidents and appointments.
Memphis growth cited as linked to better sewerage systems. Baltimore charges a coachman fined for delay. Berlin to oversee city street hue controls. Philadelphia press crusades to close shops. Hartford police to receive mobile patrol wagons ambulances and prisoner vans.
Violent clash erupted outside Dowie’s tabernacle on Chicago's West Side as medical students assaulted evangelist Alexander Bowie during a lecture on doctors drugs and devils. Police hauled away a dozen demonstrators after arrests on charges. most were discharged on payment of costs.
Anti imperialists from thirty states gathered at Apollo Hall Chicago to denounce expansion. Edward Burritt Smith opened the meeting with Professor Tolman delivering the opening address. Speakers framed independence and free government as sacred, calling for strong disapproval of the administration and critiquing war rhetoric and imperial ambitions.
The article lists freshmen counts and enrollments across numerous institutions. It notes Smith College Hoy class size, Brown smaller than last year, 100 freshmen at Williams marking a centennial year, Bryn Mawr dormitory plans, and 240 women at Illinois. MIT faculty changes and Rochester presidency, Vassar and Cornell library use rise, and plans for public school nature study in Philadelphia.
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