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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1908
Page
12
In a magazine piece Andrew Carnegie favors a revenue tariff rather than protection for most goods yet supports high duties on luxuries for the rich. The era’s news also reports a deadly rail crash near New Orleans, a Florida woman burned in her home, a Chicago editor killed by a car, and other violent incidents across the country.
Government victory in New York circuit court against the American Tobacco Company and six subsidiaries for restraint of trade. Court decisions sustain the contention of a trust. injunctions stayed pending Supreme Court appeal. Receiver petition denied as impracticable. Justice Ward dissented. Proceedings led by McReynolds and Grosvenor.
President Roosevelt replies to J C Martin of Dayton Ohio defending William Taft’s religious beliefs and opposes mixing creed with politics. He says creed is private, voting should not be affected by faith, and honesty matters most. He notes Catholics Protestants Christians and Jews sit together in his cabinet handling national affairs for 80 000 000 Americans.
Edward M. Morgan postmaster of New York City was wounded in a street shooting near his home on One Hundred and Forty-sixth Street. The assailant, Eric HH. B. Mackey, a law firm stenographer, killed himself after the attack. The motive cited was Mackey’s complaint about mail tampering and a reported electric light disturbance at the post office. Miss Dorothy Morgan, the postmaster’s 14 year old daughter, witnessed the incident.
A Marine Hospital Service report on Georgetown C I reveals a dairy milker who had typhoid eighteen years earlier continues to shed the disease bacilli. This carrier status explains an outbreak traced to milk, with Surgeon General Wyman noting some recovered cases remain carriers.
Rev Herbert S Johnson of Warren Avenue Baptist Church Boston announces he will refuse to marry anyone with consumption or any hereditary or communicable disease if he knows the facts and will not marry divorced persons except the innocent party He also opposes marrying those in poor circumstances insisting a man earn at least 15 dollars weekly before starting a family.
United States seeks rehearing of Standard Oil Indiana appeal from a 29.24 million dollar fine. Chicago circuit judges overruled the government petition and upheld the lower court opinion reversing Judge Landis. The case now heads to Attorney General Bonaparte who is expected to pursue a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. The petition signatures of Bonaparte and District Attorney Sims are largely ignored in the reviewing court.
The Laporte trial of Ray Lamphere for the murder of Belle Gunness and her three children at Brookside Farm draws a large local crowd. Public sentiment splits between belief in Gunness as dead or alive, while jurors are chosen to presume her death for a conviction to stand.
The court rebukes government attorneys for seeking another hearing of the appeal. It notes the oil company’s penalties could only arise from Chicago and Alton Railway settlements, totaling thirty six deals with a possible $720000 ceiling and $56000 floor. The opinion stresses that corporate masks do not shield crime and that methods exist to reach the offender.
Dun's Review records 1,187 commercial failures in October totaling 15,808,608 dollars, a slight increase from the same month last year. The data shows signs of progress toward recovery from the panic that began in October of last year.
United States Steel shows net earnings over 27 million for the quarter ended Sept 20, higher than 20.27 million in the prior quarter. Despite gains, critics note a drop in unfilled orders while Philippine public school strikers face expulsion per a directive from the educational board director.
The defense will present a coroner’s board statement asserting the found body was not Mrs Gunness. The body lacked its head and right arm, removing key identification. Prosecution argued a hired man set the deadly fire at the house of horror on April 28.
A mass meeting of cotton growers and allied interests will be held in Memphis. Winter wheat belt rains improved prospects west of the Missouri. New corn is being marketed freely in the Southwest with heavy shipments to Europe from Gulf ports. Plowing delayed in southern Minnesota due to drought. some wells went dry before recent rains. Under a Minnesota law, co operative creameries may merge. six creameries form a corporation with capital stock of 12500 dollars.
Former Tennessee editor and U.S. Senator Carmack was killed in Nashville on 7th Avenue by Robin Cooper son of Colonel Duncan B Cooper. The shooting tied to Democratic gubernatorial battles last June and a bitter editorial feud.
A group of Minnesota editors toured Western Canada and shared impressions of rapid development since their 1900s trip. They note new rail lines, vast land transfers to grain fields, and towns blooming, with Western Canada seen as a future bread basket. Reports cite 100 acres wheat land at $3 plus 160 acres homesteading, strong 1908 crops, Milestone yields of about 30 bushels per acre, and 600,000 bushels to be shipped, with government agents offering free land and transport information.
Governor Burke leads a 100 member North Dakota delegation to Quincy Massachusetts to christen the new battleship North Dakota. On Long Island the opening game season sees fifty deer killed and over 1000 hunters active. A mayoral graft probe in New York finds city employees involved in issuing show licenses with one suspension and two resignations already reported.
William Van Horne rose from telegraph operator in Chicago to general manager of building the Canadian Pacific Railway. Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1896 for his service, he joked that Chicago would still call him plain Bill despite the honors and his global railroad impact.
Maude asks Clara if the novel is finished while Clara says she has reached the most interesting moment. The heroine is about to elope with one man because she loves another, highlighting a love triangle.
A Tenn lady shares a Postum testimonial detailing relief from coffee related stomach and nerve issues. She quit coffee, drank hot water, then Postum, and five years later reports improved digestion, strength, and steadier nerves. The letter promotes Postum with a closing note about genuine reader letters and The Road to Wellville.
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