Paroles and local Michigan notes amid late 19th century events
Gov Bliss grants paroles to John Gorman for burglary in Jackson jail and to Robert Weaver of Grand Rapids for grand larceny as a reform gesture. Elsa Bou ram also granted clemency. The column covers factory employment in Holland, Carnegie library gifts to Escanaba, and town plans in Powerville. It reports fires in Ann Arbor, a Pennsylvanian professorship, and various local developments from Mil ford to Carsonville including schools, roads, beets, and water projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Bliss
John Gorman
Jackson
Gorman
Advisory Board of Pardons
Robert Weaver
Grand Rapids
Marquette
Elsa Booram
Holland
Escanaba
Andrew Carnegie
Powlérvilis
Brach
Gowity
West Branch
Carsonville
Ann Arbor
Rolfe
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
Crooked Lake
Milford
Ogeman County
S. E. Hubbard
J. A. Kimball
Riley Townshigs
Adeline Sage
Detroit
Chicago
Northwestern
Brampton
Manistee
Michigan
Alger County
John Dow
Sugar Island
John Hansen
Seo
Gladstone
Judson FF
Selleck
Durand
Kalamazoo
Miles of
Howell
Bay City
A. T. Burr
South Boston
Carleton
Adrian Farthing Company
William Gribben
Erie Preserving Co. of
Erie
Myra
Niles
Alegro
Matrimonial Mail Sensation Ends in Escape Hitched Pair Captured
Sheriff Beasley of Allegan County returns to Michigan with Mrs Lizzie Coffee and Frank Viper after capturing them at Fairmount Minnesota. They eloped from Burnips Corners. Mrs Coffee attracted national notoriety as a matrimonial candidate who advertised widely claiming wealth and widowhood. The post office faced overload from her mail with reports of 380,000 letters over two years and requests for extra clerks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beasley
Allegan County
Michigan
Lizzie Coffee
Frank Viper
Fairmount
Minn
Burnip’s Corners
Coffee
United States
England
Germany
Philippine Islands
Burglars Battle at Keeler Store and Post Office
Burglars blew open the safe at A. C. Duncombe's store and post office in Keeler, stealing 300 in stamps and bonds. A pursuit by a large posse led to a two mile chase near Watervliet, where the robbers were wounded and captured after a running fight. 450 in cash and stamps were recovered and the pair jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Duncombe
Keeler
Plan to corner eggs and butter in western Michigan exposed
Butter and Egg Corner agents from Chicago promise 22 cents a dozen for eggs and 25 cents a pound for butter to farmers who sign season contracts to sell all their produce this year. Hundreds of farmers have reportedly signed, with goods to be consigned to Chicago in what is known as St Joseph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
St. Joseph
Chicago
Body of George Copley Found in Mitchell Lake
The body of George Copley of Hersey was discovered in Mitchell lake two miles north of Crapo after he vanished about four weeks ago. Investigators believe he was murdered and his body was dumped in the lake. A large cattle payment had been received by Copley shortly before his disappearance, but no money was found on his person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Copley
Hersey
Mitchell Lake
Crapo
Copley
Sam May
Chicago
Chinatown
Tse
United States
Far Northwest
South Clark Street
Tle
Michigan History Notes and Local Elections Digest
A collage of notes: Harmons observe their fiftieth anniversary near Benton Harbor. Kalamazoo may host a new envelope plant. A movement pushes for a new Chippewa Mackinac County with Pickford as potential seat. An Augusta man preserves a Michigan map from the early thirties and Toledo appears in Monroe County on a pre boundary map. Vicksburg loses pastor Rev Stockwell to Angola. In Tonia township Darius Stone is defeated for highway commissioner due to ballot omission. the elected man cannot qualify, so Stone will hold over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob B. Harmon
Benton Harbor
Kalamazoo
Chippewa
Mackinac
Pickford
Augusta
Michigan
Detroit
Pontiac
Gladwin County
Michilimackinac County
Jackson County
Jacksonopolis
Jackson
Toledo
Monroe County
Ohio-Michigan Boundary Line
Vicksburg
C.K. Stockwell
Congregational
Angola, Ltd
Tonia Township
Darius Stone
Btone
Tornado Strikes Iowa Injuring Six and Damaging Farms
Two tornadoes hit Iowa on Thursday night two hundred miles apart at Bayard Guthrie County and Weldon Van Meter Decatur County. The Bayard storm devastated a school and barns, damaged about a dozen farmhouses, and left David Hardin unconscious after being found hanging from a tree. Across the region a rain deluge followed, with wind speeds near seventy miles per hour blowing down houses and flattening farm buildings from Van Wert toward Weldon and Rippey. Five relatives were injured between Van Wert and Weldon. no lives lost at Woodburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Bayard
Guthrie County
Weldon
van Meter
Decatur County
Rippey
van Wert
St. Paul
David Hardin
Streunk Bayard
Coon Rapids
Woodburn
Army of Home-Seekers Drives Northwest Immigration Surge
Statistics compiled by railroads show that in the sixty days ending April 12 at least 136,000 homeseekers entered the Northwest from Europe and the Eastern and Southern States. About 50,000 settled in North Dakota, 45,000 in Washington, Idaho and Oregon, with thousands more in Minnesota, South Dakota, Manitoba, Manitoba and Montana. The movement grows weekly, aided by good crops, land affordability, and new towns boosting mercantile activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northwest
Europe
North Dakota
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
Minnesota
South Dakota
Manitoba
Montana
Scandinavia
Finland
St. Paul
Northwestern States
Missouri River
Black Hills
Federation of Clubs Holds Biennial Session in Los Angeles
Large gathering of club women from across the United States converge in Los Angeles for the biennial convention. The city dazzles with banners in red green and yellow and a Fiesta de los Flores procession. Mrs. Robert J. Burdette presides as Los Angeles host and welcomes delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federation of Clubs
Los Angeles
Cal
United States
California
Los Flores
Southwest
Women’s Club House
Los Angeles Club
National Federation
Robert J. Burdette
Sockless Simpson Emerging Rich Rancher And Frontiersman
"Sockless" Simpson of Medicine Lodge Kansas grows wealthy as a cattle rancher in New Mexico. He spoke at a livestock men’s convention in Helena Montana and mingled with rich men. He abandons his old dress, plays golf and ping pong, and moves away from his earlier frontier image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sockless
Simpson
Jerry Simpson
Medicine Lodge
Kan
New Mexico
Helena
Mont
Locust Year Warned by Agricultural Scientists
Agricultural Department scientists warn 1902 will be the worst locust year since 1885 with a sudden onslaught of seventeen year locusts expected in twenty states this month. The vast insect army has ravaged since 1715 and has never failed to reap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Department
Predicts seventeen year cycle for pears in late May
The article outlines a forecast of a pear variety event occurring in the last week of May at seventeen year intervals. States named include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Massachusetts, Vermont, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Ohio
West Virginia
Virginia
Massachusetts
Vermont
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Michigan
Wisconsin
Alabama
Georgia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Wives urged to kill husbands who beat them
Chicago judge in a divorce ruling declares a wife has a perfect right to shoot and kill a husband who beats her. He argues self defense is the natural and legal right, urging wives to act if assaulted to reduce wife beating. He cites law and natural right, praising such acts as justified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Tuthill
Canada to Stop Strikes Bill Introduced in Parliament
W Mulock minister of labor introduced a bill to prevent railway strikes. The plan calls for a three member arbitrators board with one chosen by the company, one by workers, and a third by agreement or by government if the first two fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
W. Mulock
Water from Hot Springs No Better Than Potomac River
A report to the Secretary of the Interior by Dr. Wiley of the Agricultural Department states that analysis of thirty nine Hot Springs water samples found no greater curative properties than Potomac River water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Wiley
Agricultural Department
Hot Springs
Ark
Potomac River
John Redmond Hosts Dinner With Irish Party at Commons
John Redmond the Irish leader in the British House of Commons hosted a dinner for Bourke Cockran of New York at the House of Commons. Several members of the Irish party were present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Redmond
House of Commons
Bourke Cockraar
New York
State of the Crops Across Eastern States Report
The weekly weather bureau crop report covers favorable conditions across the eastern half of the country. It notes ample rainfall in many regions, variable progress in corn and wheat, partial delays in North Dakota Michigan and Minnesota, and generally improving pastures, fruit prospects, and planting activity with regional differences and some damage from wind and drought in places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
Lake Region
Middle Atlantic
Texas
Oklahoma
Iowa
Missouri
South Dakota
Michigan
East Gulf
Middle
California
Washington
Oregon
North Dakota
Minnesota
Ohio Valley
South Carolina
Georgia
Indiana
Ohio
Hessian
Wisconsin
Marshall
Polk
Norman
Red River Valley
Nebraska
Kansas
Freight Rates Raised by Western Railways
Western railroad executives met at the Western Trunk Lines Committee headquarters in Chicago and agreed to raise freight rates on livestock dressed beef and all packing house products as well as grain and flour. The 5 cent per 100 pounds increase will push the Missouri river to Chicago rate to 2811⁄2 cents, with past rebates of 5 cents per 100 pounds paid to principal packers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Railroads
Western Trunk Lines Committee
Chicago
Missouri River
Detroit Street Car Men See Concessions Keep Strike At Bay
Detroit street car workers will not strike as companies grant concessions. The move averts a labor conflict in the city with negotiations shaping a peaceful outcome and avoided service disruption. Municipal transit officials praised the agreementkeeping essential transport running.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Long Civil War Hero Connection in Washington Move
Lieut. Col. Edmund Rice to transfer from St Thomas to Washington for promotion, with Civil War service including Gettysburg wounds and a Medal of Honor. Also notes Capt. Wynne of the Chicago’s marine guard, Sam May of Chinatown, and Henry O Slavemeyer of American Sugar Refining, plus Maj. Waller court martial and George R Carter’s Hawaii prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Rice
S*t. Thomas
Washington
Miles
Gettysburg
Pickett
Congress
Tsos
Skobeleff
Col. Rice
St. Thomas
Wynne
Marine Guard
Chicago
Venice
Italy
Walrantey
Tientsin
China
Wyane
Marine Corps
ISCC
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
Henry O. Slavemeyer
American Sugar Refining Company
Cue Han Relations
Cuba
LSOT
United States
Mie Tavemover
Greenwood
Conn
Ottawa broker indicted for over ten thousand in goods
N. P. Parker, described as a commission broker of Ottawa Kansas, accused of defrauding more than fifty wholesale merchants and manufacturers in Kansas City St. Louis Chicago St. Joseph and Leavenworth out of over $10 000 in goods, indicted by the federal grand jury at Topeka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. PD. Parker
Commission
Ottawa
Kan
Kansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
St. Joseph
Leavenworth
Topeka
Decree Ruling Triggers Tragic Death in New Rochelle
News that her former husband obtained a decree setting aside a divorce she had obtained in South Dakota caused the death from heart disease of Mrs. Annetta Gill of New Rochelle N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Dakota
Annetta
Gill
New Rochelle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mirror OF Michigan
Watervilc
Edd
Cal Hungerford
Spink’s Corners
Seattle
Schol
Jeromé
Supreme Court
Jerome
Lenawee
Hillsdale
Our
Edward
Mary M’farland
Marie M'Farland
Mary McFarland
Marie McFarland
Denver
Edward VII
McFarland
Prince of Wales
MES, Burdette
Qld
Government Weather Bureau
Apt, Rop. Wynne
Sam Moy
Maj. Waller
United States Marine Corps
Island
Samar
Col
R. L. Meade
George R. Carter
Tonolulu
Roosevelt
Carter
Hawaii
Miss Strong
Rochester
N. Y
HH. O. Mavemeyer
Major Waller
Geo, R. Carter
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