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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
2
Chinese factions clash as police deploy nearly 500 officers to curb a tong war in San Francisco's Chinese quarter. Two men killed Wednesday were misidentified, with warrants issued for Gee Kong Ong and Tong King Chong amid tensions among On Yick, Bing Kong, and Chinese Free Masons.
President Taft ends a three month tour of the West and South returning to the White House amid cheers. He alights briefly to wave farewell to aides and quickly departs in a fast automobile. The report also covers trials and sentences including a judge’s condemnation, suffragette actions in London, a senate appointment in North Dakota, and a Portland murder trial.
In Somerville New Jersey a self styled professor of hypnosis performed a trance test at the hospital lab. William Davenport secretary to the mayor of Newark and a student of hypnotism attempted to revive the man Sim son who was declared dead after the autopsy. Davenport asserts the man was alive during the autopsy citing cases of suspended animation. Physicians reportedly resisted the autopsy and a signed statement attributes death to rupture of the aorta.
Mrs U Grant wife of the late President Ulysses S. Grant died Wednesday from apoplexy. She had been an invalid for years and was the daughter of the late Senator and Mrs Chaffee of Colorado. In Salt Lake City a separate report notes a daytime hold up on a Wandamere car where two masked robbers looted 24.50 from conductor Aiching and motorman B Miching before escaping into the darkness.
L R Glavis accuses Secretary Ballinger and others of fraud in a Collier's Weekly article triggering denials from Ballinger and Dennett. Reports also note a fatal house fire in War Road, Minnesota, a Cairo, Illinois assault case, and New York speed law violations amid a spate of vehicle deaths and injuries in October.
A British India steamer Onda bound for this port collided with a Seyne of the Messageries Meridiennes. Passengers including Barca and Baroness Benicski were aboard. sixty-one were rescued from shoal waters amid a chaotic evacuation as sharks surrounded wreckage.
Storms devastate culverts and water system infrastructure in Jamaica. ongoing heavy rain prevents repair work as authorities assess damage and plan emergencies. Murder mystery in Madison emerges from confessions. Clare Brodenbeyer implicates herself in the death of Chicago jeweler Henry Brodenbeier. police recounts details of motive and location.
New York reports indictments and arrests in a major sugar weighing fraud case. James F. Bondernagh, longtime superintendent of Havemeyer and Eider refinery in Williamsburg, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the government by false weighing. His resignation from the post is noted as significant.
The feud between the Yeo family and the On Yiek tong ends with the murder of Yeo Yip Wo in Gee Gong, a Chinese quarter. Gee Gong, not known as an On Wiek man but from another family, was arrested near the scene and charged with the murder. Prevention of infant mortality New Haven Conn. conference ends Friday, with the newly formed society for the study and prevention of infant mortality passing resolutions urging work on the issue.
A catastrophic gas or dust explosion at the St Paul mine killed and injured numerous workers. Witnesses say a pile of hay near timbers ignited, sealing the shaft and trapping miners. Rescue efforts failed as flames spread, leaving many missing and long time residents fearing the worst.
Mme Margherita Gretnhel was acquitted by a jury in Paris after a muttering incident at 13:66. The court discharged her of the charges amid a hush in the courtroom.
Detroit reports a farm manager Samuel F. Mariey shot on a large Indiana Se Pi Rene estate. Hank is under arrest after the incident. A misread confession notes conflict as Marley says the victim refused her advances and she shot him.
The murderer Hasin, a Hasin, received a death sentence from Judge C. H. Pan for first degree killing of Jom Allem and two other shearers in April. The judge noted the sentence is subject to a petition and possible commutation by state authorities.
Firefighters battled a riverfront blaze that killed three unidentified men and left two women and several others injured. Fire crews removed victims and cleared debris from a stairway as Sunday afternoon rescue operations continued.
An unclear OCR segment mentions Merlid Avenes Baptist church and references to children, employers away, and committees. The legible portions describe local activity without clear events, names, dates, or outcomes. The text is damaged and contains many misspellings and incomplete phrases.
The fragment recalls Mr. Rockefeller's boyhood on a Cayuse county farm in New York. It notes a 1902 visit to a bourse and distant sites, mentions farm laborers and village life, and hints at a party to purchase Waited Sect Meent. The text references Auborn and Grraсuss and a milestone in metropolitan travel during that era.
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