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Newspaper
Daily News Record
Location
Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1902
Page
4
Three men died when a boiler exploded at Schmid and Steinbrecker's sawmill three and a half miles away. Victims Henry Steinbrecker Henry Haas and William Kind resided in Caspersville Wisconsin. The mill was new and low water likely caused the blast.
Charles H. Thompson of Hammond Packing company pleaded guilty in Kalamazoo circuit court to offering a bribe to State Food Commissioner Snow last spring. He paid a $1000 fine tied to enforcement of the state law banning colored butterine sales. James Sate, longtime Union Stock Co. employee, left for Detroit to spend the winter.
A. H. Rolph of Escanaba, after weeks in the county records, asserts injustice in tax assessments. He claims data shows wide property value disparities and urges equalized taxation, promising to present findings to supervisors. Rolph plans further reviews in Merominee, Schoolcraft, Alger, Luce, and Mackinac counties.
Washington officials reject a proposal to shift harbor control from Mackinaw to neighboring districts. Naval officers debate motives as Commander Winslow and Commander Young dispute boundary lines amid plans tied to Mackinac Island access and strategic moves along the Chicago river.
Berlin reports extreme cold gripping Germany and worsening hardship. Many sons have frozen to death in western industrial and northeastern provinces as a severe winter persists. Funeral planned for Tony Peri, a Taljan laborer, buried Riverside tomorrow after coroner rules no inquest needed into his dynamite related death.
Reports confirm the barge Celtic broke from the steamer Runnels near Detour on Lake Huron during a gale on November 30 and foundered with eight men aboard. Capt Jeffery, a respected mariner, is survived by his wife and family in Detroit. The Celtic, built in 1866 at Bay City, was 190 feet long with 34 foot beam and owned by W. G. Spencer & Bro of Cleveland.
London reports in the Commons that Britain has no official word on the Caracas arrests of British and German subjects and vessel seizures by Venezuela. Berlin and Paris dispatchers cast doubt, while Venezuela moves to arbitration over burned homes and destroyed plantations. A Naval note demands immediate cash and a mixed tribunal, with tensions mounting as ships are seized near LaGuaira.
Sheriff Roberts raided Escanaba saloons after complaints to Judge Swone. Poker and gambling devices were seized and future music was banned to curb gambling in businesses. Saloonkeepers warned of prosecution if gambling resumed.
Prominent delegates from Canada and the United States gather in Devon for the Aegiprogy Convention to discuss warseed means and broader reciprocity. Detroit Chamber of Commerce president F. D. Smith opens the session as Judge Nathaniel French urges educating the public to gain support in Congress.
Three Finnish workers at Granite Quarry near the Algoma Central, three miles from the Canadian Sea, were badly injured by a dynamite blast while thawing frozen dynamite. One had a leg blown off, another lost a hand and toes, and the third suffered severe head injuries with possible loss of sight. A special train carried them to the general hospital with Dr. Shepard aboard. injured workers could not be identified due to language barriers.
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