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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1909
Page
3
Joseph Linebaugh bartender at Mecosia Saloon, Me costa village, was arrested for selling liquor to 16 year old Joseph Stephens and sent to May term court. The case implicates a group of minor boys over six months and points to other outside involvement in liquor purchases.
The Anti-Saloon League predicts Michigan will push for a state wide prohibition amendment in 1911 if local option efforts succeed next spring. Attorney Pliny Marsh says the move hinges on the local campaign and prefers constitutional change for lasting effect rather than relying on statute.
An 11 year old named Clyde Murray led police to a Mus kegon hoboes camp where men lived off money he earned selling needles. He claimed to have walked from Pennsylvania toward the copper country and stirred public sympathy that funded the camp with steady revenue as officers found a large stew boiling over a camp fire.
Discovery of a seine net near Long Point may shed light on the white lake drowning deaths last fall of Deputy Sheriff Hazelstine and Game Wardens Julius and Martin Salmonson who were killed while stopping illegal fishing. A man named William Brace found the net, parts rotted and others seemingly removed by officers.
Charles Charlewood and George Smith faced examination over the murder of John Smith whose body was found near Buchanan. Smith testified for the State, saying he saw Charlewood strike John in the neck, causing a fatal break. Justice Batchelor bound Charlewood over for April Circuit Court.
Halvor Anderson of Fruitland and his brother John Anderson, who left Norway in 1850, were reunited in Muskegon after more than half a century apart. Both had long sought each other since Halvor left at age one to seek fortune in America. John had moved westward until reaching Muskegon, with no prior news of his brother.
Judson E. Rice of Grand Rapids was elected commandant of the Soldiers' Home at a special Lansing board meeting to succeed Col. George di. Turner whose resignation has been with the Governor for months.
Looming crime report states Michigan Savings Bank in Harrisville was robbed. Burglars forced the rear door, blew the safe using tools stolen from the Detroit and Mackinaw Railway car house, escaping with about $5,000.
Harry Flatt aged 17 died at his home in Point Mills after nosebleeds lasted nearly a week. The death followed a prolonged nasal bleeding episode and is being investigated as a natural cause.
A shed holding sixteen barrels of kerosene crude and lubricating oils caught fire at the Lake Shore Railroad Company yards in Hillsdale. The blaze was kept from spreading by nearly twenty workers and the local fire department, though the shed was partly burned and the barrels badly charred.
HICCOUGHS WHOLE WEEK. Farmer near Morrice, H H Lanckton, 64, baffled local police and physicians as hiccoughs persisted for a week with varying violence after an earlier inflammatory rheumatism and severe cough began days later.
Lewis Truhn a Lake Township farmer attacked his father in law and other family members with a knife while intoxicated. He barricaded in the house with dynamite and guns and defied arrest until Sheriff Johnson and a posse overpowered him and jailed him. He was known as a peaceable farmer when sober.
Agnes Phillips age 11 Ilelen Phillips age 10 and Gareth Carpenter age 11 were locked inside a closet of a vacant Bay City house for over twenty hours after entering to play. A search party found them this afternoon when the door released after the wind shut it with a spring.
Two Laingsbury boys discovered a body in the woods suspected to be James McClintock, who vanished from his Woodhull township home two years ago. Shoes, a cap, a jack knife, and spectacles found in the clothing pockets aided the identification by his son.
Auke Kampen, 61, fell as he alighted from a moving inter urban car at Holland missing his footing and was thrown to the pavement. He struck his head hard and remains unconscious, with the accident likely fatal.
Mrs Gerrit Schut of Beaver Dam dies at 62 from grief over the death of her husband two months earlier. She had enjoyed good health previously and is survived by nine children.
I F J Wubert the alleged absconding treasurer of the St Jean Baptist Society of Marinette was captured in Montreal and returned by Sheriff Smith. He faces embezzlement charges for siphoning a substantial sum from the society where he served as treasurer.
A. W. Wright of Alma donates $500 to the St Pauls Episcopal Church Lansing building fund. Plans for a handsome new structure are prepared and work is to begin sometime this year.
Suttons Bay fisherman Lars Stangvik pleaded guilty to taking a perch under four ounces with a net. He was fined 25 dollars and five dollars in costs, marking a first enforcement under the new local law and making him the second victim cited.
Charles F. Greeley a Hillsdale baker died from blood poisoning after a minor hand scratch weeks earlier Initial hopes the poison was checked proved unfounded and the death was attributed to the infection.
Robbery at Wilker and Co jewelry store in Flint totals 300 dollars in goods. Joseph Kerredge, longtime Hancock resident and Suffolk native, dies at home. F S Winch, 54, born Ravenna Michigan, dies in Chicago after fall from streetcar. George Logan of Deerfield found dead in bed possibly from heart failure, 52, survived by wife and five children. Rev and Mrs William Bruins of Marion New York travel to Holland with twin babies’ bodies after similar mission a year earlier for a son who died of cancer. Elizabeth Ketcham, 97, blind for 15 years, renowned Alpena observer of national affairs, dies of pneumonia. born New York State, in Alpena 25 years, survived by five children.
Governor Warner named former State Senator Townsend A. Ely to replace Horatio Earle. The Senate held a sharp debate over confirmation rules, voting 8 to 2 to confirm before MacKay challenged the procedure. The lieutenant governor was shown the law, ruling declared out of order, and the matter referred to executive business.
A legislative committee report on state water power resources urges rapid action. It cites the need for permits conditions to safeguard counties through royalties or similar provisions and addresses flowage rights and franchise regulations to ensure maximum public and state benefits.
The House, after long debate, fixed the price of advertising descriptions of delinquent State lands at 20 cents each, rejecting calls to base it on circulation. Rep Ward Copley highlighted a defect in the Andbut way car bill, noting corporations cannot be charged with misdemeanors and warning the title may clash with the text, risking an unconstitutional ruling.
A Senate committee on railways reported a bill to impose a cash fare penalty of 10 cents in direct opposition to the Hlouse. The committee recommended passage after one of the session's bitterest fights, but the House had previously defeated the measure.
Speaker Campbell remains optimistic that the House can finish business by adjournment in May. Members show determination to advance key bills for immediate passage once agreed upon in the committee of the whole.
A party led by W. B. Mersten of Sag inaw travels to Lansing with a new game bill backed by the Michigan Association for the Protection of Game. The measure mirrors a Pierce draft and is pushed in the House by Nlarris, though supporters claim it is more scientifically drawn.
Washington dispatch reports rising bread costs spark calls to curb futures trading led by Rep. Scott who proposes banning all means of communication for grain and cotton dealings and requiring affidavits for purchases. Lawmakers note state laws may be the only practical check as fears grow over the Patten wheat corner and flour prices climb.
A London exhibition by Charlies Urban and Albert Smith demonstrated colored moving pictures using the sun light to color the film. The kinemac method splits colors into two spectrum groups via filters guiding color reproduction as films are recorded. Inventors continue refining the device to improve results.
A $220 stick pin was discovered in the nest of Reosey the crow owned by John Gambin of East Norwalk Coan. The pin had been missing from neighbor James P. Morris's room several days earlier. William Jennings aided in mounting the crow’s perch, where the pin was found amid a growing collection.
The International Sunday School Association Executive Committee meeting in Chicago ends America's controlling role over global religious study. A reciprocal system begins with alternating leadership by American and British committees. The 1911 course covers Solomon’s death to the temple’s end. 1912 centers on the life of Christ using the synoptic gospels.
United States Great Britain and Germany grapple with deficits as Britain liberals estimate 50 million dollars and conservatives 70 million while Germany seeks 1188 percent more revenue and the US faces over 160 million in red ink. Military spending drives excess in all three nations.
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade reports sustained payment volume and credit improvements boosting business optimism. Manufacturing shows progress while rail and freight activity rise. farming expands with rapid spring work and higher moisture. Bank clearings rise 11.1 percent vs 1908, with 21 Chicago district failures and five liabilities over $5,000.
NEW YORK reports irregular weather affecting general business with slight overall growth. Retail trade expands where weather allows. cotton prices lift confidence in the South and Atlantic seaboard. Pacific coast shows modest expansion. iron and steel activity rises. staple goods prices stay firm. US weekly business failures total 201, with Canada at 27.
Market report lists livestock and grain quotes by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Buffalo New York and Toledo. Cattle hogs sheep and lambs prices alongside grain values such as wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and clover seed are shown with No 2 grades and bid ranges.
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