The Bessemer Herald from Bessemer, Michigan • Page 7

FAITHFUL RECOUHTiHG CF HER LATEST HEWS FIUE CAL'SICS II13AVV LOSS. Ontonnson County Korexin Swept by Several persons hud narrow escapes from death and ntueh -property was de- stroyed by forest iires in the southern part oC Ontoiuiijon county. Fanned by heavy winds and fed by old slashings, the fire swept over thp greater portion of the territory 'between Lake (losebie and Kenlon, destroyed a few buildings, con- siderable tiinber and creating cousierna- lion aniony the set tiers and much appre- hension for the safety of some towns. Ewen had a close call and had it not been for the excellent water system it would have 'been swept off the map. Two Finnish settlors near P.rucc's crossing bad their buildings destroyed.

The Holt Lumber Co. of Oconto, stiffer- i 1,1) AS SACRIFICE. a heavy loss at Its logging camps. The Xester estate also suffered heavily at its ramps, the men being forced to flee for safety and some having their hair singed. a a Stone and family had a harrow- ing experience.

They have a small clear- ing and were hemmed the fire. It was a life struggle. Several times their bouse caught fire, but they succeeded in saving it. DAM IS A A A Detroit Mini i HclifUous Mania Throtv.oi lit 111 vcr. Albert Slemmeltm of 270 Buldwiu ave- nue, Detroit, bookkeeper for the Wesson estate, became insane and.

taking Ir.s 2- year-old daughter, Helen, to the liellc Isle bridge, threw her into the Detroit river and watched Use little one drown. Steimnoleu's insanity is of the religious order, and he believed he was making an acceptable human sacrifice to Uod. for the siiis of the world. Leaving the bridge he went to police headquarters and calm- ly announced to Lieut. Detective High what he had done.

He had no souner been locked in a coll than the prisoner's wife telephoned the police that, the little girl was missing. I then developed that Stemmi'len had been a i queerly for about a month and thai that day at din- ned he began to show symptoms that alarmed his family. There is one more child surviving. The body of the child was found floating six miles below the Belle Isle bridge. Stremmeleu was given a preliminary examination as to his san- ity in the Probate Court and will prob- ably be -sent io an asylum.

I A TRAINS. (irjst i Xilc.s Power Furnished 14. The Clyde clam on the I'okngon creek, -where it empties into the Dowagiae creek, a few miles from Niles, has washed out and is a total loss. For over seventy years i dam bad furnish- ed power for grist mills. For many years I.

P. Hurt on operated a grist mill there. but a lire d-stroyed it and the power went tn waste for a time, until hist December. whcu Clyde Meiidenhall eroded a mil! (here, siri'-e which time lie has ground over bushels of corn, besides doing much commercial work. Upper F1V13 HOUSES I FIUE.

Fenton Has a. Bad Blase Insurance Very Small. Five Lorses were cremated, a number of rigs destroyed and a hoy. Clarence Osgood, LS years old, narrowly escaped with his i when Fred F.uti.-her's livery barn burned in Fenton. Osgood ran through the flames to reach the open.

The fire was a hot one and one time was very threatening. Welsh's elevator and tlu-'Oenesi-e hotel ignited, the storehouse of the hotel being destroyed. The loss is and but $300 insurance was car- ried. I A MAX I I PcniiiNuIn. Man Itnnn 3Iilc ittul Quarter.

What would have been an expensive and possibly fatal train wreck on the Son line in Sehooleraft county was avert- ed by ,1 decidedly narrow margin. The faet that David Cousiueau is an old-time ball player and of athletic build saved the railroad company many thousands of dollars. Local freights Nos. 41 and 40 wore involved. The former left White- dale without waiting for a clearance and would have met No.

40 on a curve near the Rubles farm had not the heroic ef- forts of the Manistiquc depot telegraph operator and Mr. Cousineau been effec- tive. The White Marble Lime Co. plant at Marblehead has telephone con- nection with the city, and the office there was at once called up. The situation wa? explained to Supt.

Cousineau, and, drop- ping the telephone receiver, he ran at top speed to the railroad track, a mile and a quarter away. The train was passing as he reached the track, but the engineer caught his signal and stopped. A fev minutes later No. 40 came in sight. Dry Loses All I Effects.

W. S. Pearce. representative for a Chicago dry goods house, mourns the loss of an extensive wardrobe, the result of one of the boldest robberies ever recorded in the Michigan copper country. His steamer trunk, containing his per- sonal belongings, was taken during the ni-lit from a truck at the Houghton pas- seager station, dragged to a lonely spot: 100 yards distant, and there was broken into with an ax and looted.

CHICAGO CROOKS' CHIMEFKST. Urief State Happenings. Work has been started on the new fac lory of the Ihvosso Mattress Co. to re- place the one which was recently bnrne' to the ground. The body of Earl Stevens, midshipma 1 on the battleship Iowa, drowned in Chcsa peak bay several weeks ago, reache DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI.

1 rent Paffcant to Honor Rowevelt ISnrly in October. I'or the Crst time in history a Presi- of the Ui'ited States is yoiuj; to ike a journey on the Mississippi river, ot for the uurjHse of get tint: from one oint to another, but to see the ver, to meet the people who live alonst banks to himself as they exist at the resent time In a territory adjuceut the -father of True to his rincii'ie of seeing things for himself nsload of through the eyes of others. resideut Roosevelt Is coming to the i naval ihe cti'iiereiire wish the prosuiea or- dors woro iss uy i of lls vy STEEL TRUST'S CITY. GA51Y, WILL BE THE PARA- DISE OF CAPITALISTS, U'oiult-rful Town Spruits: I on Short- of Will SS- Corpora lion Owned It THCWEEKLY RON to uaslea lln" nsudi battle-ship ikvt to the valley in October to Tocist. He said thai the ut what the i -evils of this jrivat water- 1 ou Roads le- anil tljose tributary to it really rti re, aird the members the Lnkes-to- 1 for San to he-(iulf Deep Waterway Association arrivo i April 10.

a ope to so Impress him with the im- i The war- ortance of their project that before he I bo mulin eaves the middle west he will be sing- tlays fifty-two days iar- ng "14 feet through the valley" I oti 1O pai-e will be ustlly as the rest of them. lea knors The entire river from Keokuk, I Kvon i 10 ci'lliers part the way. tons of will to Memphis, where his i Slini04l- A on onrney ends, will be eu fete to rcreet lll): uv pamhor will I'e mnsta'itly vhere he embarks on the river boat hi iim, but at St. Loui-s the most ela'oor- ite reception will oeeur. Here the liar 3or and the city will combine to do him at hand for repairs.

sharp attacks on Honor, and the decorations as well as 5o ot Constructors in ihe program of events will be ou the i Xavv a nust elaborate scale possible- Tlie UV on all cinct-rs sor will leave Keokuk ou Tues- KJW to the elavieacy day morning, Oct. 3, and will 1:0 down je W( batilesiiips. the river on the river Com- Itnva an I iilssion's steamboat Mississippi, arriv- ag enders." at St. Louis about 9 o'clock in the nomine of the lM. Here he will he by the Governors of 20 Mississippi ami ilreidy Juio the of frliw to Hv 4oVt ti.

TI's- iiiwu of is be- ing busli at file beiiest ot" liie inagnates i of tlio stvvl is com- j'leu-il. The gigantic steel plan; which is i i dwarf every i i a plant that has ever existed Is raising Its a t-I'iiiineys against the sky, and the great furnaces in whose How thousands of joih'rs will lind a living are standing i greedy mouibs a i i for their i focd. on the sand dunes of In- diana, on i neck of land stretch- the southern end of Lake Mich- ihe new is rising. Only The oiher day there was there iuit i he dreary mounds of sand i a sparse an.l Inmgry vegetation accentu- iiie dreariiu--ss. Even the drowsy which river liows through the IKHV city, had a forlorn and lifeless as- All thai Is now changed.

The sand dunes have been leveled. The reedy of the river have been tilled in. and in place of the few scattered trees modern buildings have arisen, ami thousands of laborers have turned the desolate place into a great camp of industry where pick son's trowel and are busy all day of Mexico taken by Corlez. ir2r--Turks defeated Hungarians at Moliaez. lGo4--Swedes defeated at Nordlingen.

works burnt by the liang- de FeuquU'rcs as- sumed oflicc as Viceroy of New Fra nee. 10(H--llaron D'Avaugour took omce as governor of Canada. IGCi-l--Xcw Amsterdam surrendered to t)ie English and became New York. 17H1--The city of A root, India, taken by Lord Olive. attacked by the P.ritish.

cans defeated by the British tho "'1, 1770-Ainori, neasure ltl i island. 1781--French fleet, arrived in Chesapeake bay to help the Americans. Executive Committee ot WOTtW 1M ke IW whle 0 (t vslItot 1 treaty between Eng- i On every side stores, banks, hotejs and valley States the oncers of the Lakes- moan haTitss 5 IX'J'i) M)W stfrn nrt jjsvicetea by tho St. Louifl Men's. League, to It is als-j who arc his hosts on this occasion.

He iVit onguii's in sev- will remain in St. Louis a few h.urs.! er; i lea departing thence fur Cairo aud Mem-1 ov navai t-rs. Other slir oilice buildings are rising to comple- tion. Two hotels, at a cost of over are under way, while a bank land and the I'nited States signed at hundred pewons lost in the sinking of the "Royal George" at Portsmouth. departing thence lor auo by I I Otner n- completed and a newspaper ascent, of a balloon tilled pins.

Along the nver every tlius aro a i h) IroRen at Tans, be decorated honor ot tae uisun- hu tl Kentucky and a Hammond, first minister traveler, and every I i I from Great P.ritnin, received by Pros- one end of tlu river ro the is ex-1 a-i'ionnce-! id Washington take of a ionr-dav Tjacrcanr. sfrnerinn i A I i SO frur.i AI.O'V.\;M::. and that r- Corporation the houses that they will lS-fc-Con ivss chan-ed the bogirmms live in will be owned by the same body, the fiscal year from Jan. 1 to July 1. aro rarnegie.

and Japan. Van Veliio 1 ann Mi'tvaie lilaiit-. of the International Socialist lUiivau. at the operiing of Tbf: The of was nuido by l-. i Sur-v-y to Navy Ceniiany.

He laid stress IMI t'u So- on tie exlr.ru: cialist i the past yea- i subinarine and on the u-ct ilia: i lir.d b---en cie: they will pay their taxes and receive their light and water at the will of 1852-- Samuel D. of Connecti- cut became postmaster general of the United States. and essayist, their enmlovers. Such is the plan, at i least, at present, and those who JS30--Loi Hunt, poet and in the great experiment are 1 1 i to what Exiles Blow Three Safes at St. Joseph.

Driven from Chicago by Chief Shippy's anti-criminal crusade, the crooks are to St. Joseph and other Michigan lake towns. As a result, safes jn three business houses were blown up by a rang of professional burglars. Fearing a raid on the banks, armed guards '-lave been South Uiiller is infested with firebugs. Many attempts were made to fire build- ings and guards are posted at night to prevent destruction.

Theodore Headtke. 17 years old, fell forty feet from bis father's 'barn, which he was shingling, near Alpena. He was partially paralyzed and is unconscious. While filling a burning gasoline stove in Adrian, Mrs. Ella Copeland was bad- ly burned about the arms and her son, ISert, about the legs, by the explosion which resulted.

A cow belonging to Will North, care- taker of the Cheboygan Country 'Club golf links, tried to make a brassie shot at i fly on its head and impaled its hoof on a horn. The animal was foimd dead from exhaustion. Donald McMillan, a toddling Long Rapids babe of thirteen months, sta: to investigate the mystery of the expanse of water in wnshtub. which sat on the kirchoii floor. The child fell into the tub uii i il' A I ii A I placed in charge of the vaults.

An em- firi domic of hold-ups aud robberies is 'y 1" Joseph Tennanf declared that lie lias received advices that scores of crooks exiled from Chicago have readied the iocaiity, ami in a conference with full corps of deputies he has urged redoubled vigilance to prevent serious deprod itions. If the situation grows worse the authori- ties declare they will resort to deporta- tion of the crooks if necessary. PRIEST SEEKS WATER CURE. for France, Believing; He Will Return Better. In the belief that he will receive a cure through the miracle working waters of the grotto of Lourdes.

the Rev. Father Theodore Locubiler, priest of St. Augus- tine's parish of Kalarnazoo. has sailed from New York for France. He was ac- companied by Francis Carroll, the 17- year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Carroll, who also expects to receive bene- fit. Father Lochbiler 'has for several years suffered from progressive impair- ment bis eyesight, which at one time approached total blindness. lie has de- termined to seek the cure at Lourdes, aud has faith that he will return permanently cured. Francis Carroll, who accompanies him, is suffering from too rapid develop- ment and over-study.

He lias been in col- lege in Berlin, Out. Man Wins Medal. The Photographers' Association of New England has" awarded the gold medal in rand ortrait class to E. C. Dotel, New Hospital Bon ton Harbor's new $25,000 hospital has thrown open its doors and patienU transferred from Mercy hospital The foundation for the hospital fund was- laitl by George F.

Sommers by a gift $5,000. The remainder was raised In public subscription. Child Drowns in Cistern. Robert Madden, the 2-year-old son John A. Madden of Lansing, fell into cistern at the home of a neighbor and was drowned.

Albert Gully, a bachelor. GO years old, ving i his widou-ed mother and sis- er, fell from the loft of his barn to the oor. a distance of fifteen feet, while he unloading oats and was instantly "died, his neck 'being broken. Mrs. Eunice W.

Crocker, aged 82 years, mil mother of Theron B. Crocker, a well- aiown Muskegon county politician, died liter thirty-six years" residence in Mus- ogon county. P. G. Corey, 77 years old, who was seriously burned and scalded in the rc- explosion of a mangle at the City Steam laundry in Owosso, owned by his on, died.

Corey's death makes the sec- ond victim claimed by the accident. Miss Wiswe'l, the other, was terribly njurccl by flying pieces of iron and sur- vived but a few hours. A movement -has been started to intro- lace the county road system iu Hotigliton county. The roads of the county are, in nany instances, a disgrace to a county the size and wealth of Houghton. owing to the inability of many of the townships to keep them in repair, and steps are being formulated whereby the county will take entire charge of the highways.

William L. Allison, 35 years old, a miller employed in the Elkton Flouring mills, owned by his father at Elkton, terribly injured when his clothinj became caught in a shaft. His right arm was pulled out of its socket, one of his ribs torn out and his right leg broken in two places. He cannot recover. Alli- son was married and has a family of sev- eral children.

Daniel Archer. 65 roars old, was drowned in a well at the home of his brother. Pierce Archer, in Temperance, where he been living since May. Ar- cher had been suffering from dropsy for some time. The manner in which he fell not known.

Fred Eckort, 70 years old, living at Bridgeport, was found in a stupor in -bed. and though medical aid was summoned he could not be revived and died. Eckert had been taking laudanum for some time so that he could sleep 'better, and it is thought that he took an overdose by mis- take. Octopus. Viper.

as to innk ec; test for the Painters at work on the of tho Ierhy ten hats, siuhiishhig by law m.ix'.uuna wor thlrtoou now inquiring curiously as unique conditions tl' living will mean. i There are persistent rumors that the 7i-. packing houses in Chicago will move Gary and interests allied to the Steel Trust are already beginning to lloek to the new city. Foundries, ship yards, manufactories of bridges, sheet structural iron, tiuplate. wire and wire 1 products, and other concerns into whose business steel enters largely, have a.1- ready squired or are seeking sites on which to erect factories.

The initial i below 20.000 and may be more. Guarding Against Strikes. Gary Is intended to fulfill the dream (lou. Fromout proclaimed martial law in Missouri. 2 Forts llatteras and Clark, on the North Carolina coast, taken by Union forces First tmiu run on the Underground railway in London Garibaldi defeated and taken prisoner at battle of Aspromonto, Naples.

Gen. Sheridan resumed offensive operations in the Shenandoah valley Gen. McCIellan nominated for President by Democratic national convention at Chicago Battle oi: Georgia. iin, Ga. 1871)--Cetewayo, King of Zululand, cap- of many corporations siul the particu- rolk VC(1 Kandahar.

lar dream of the rnst-a town wt in flic vreck 1Vuton from Cape Town lo Natal. iiiir have a corner in marker, for no hou sparrow three dozen eirgs wirh any where labor agitation will be unknown and where capital will have full swing. The United States Steel Corporation is Fh oal)lo roil(1 operations leaving no stone unturned to have its ha 13.1s sullieient power to quell In- The shortage of fndt this a sort of canned-goods sinr.iuer. The summer sitaes this year stop nearer to the Schniitz. -of San Fr.uu-is-o.

is to run for Mavor far us the stantly any attempt at a strike. The steel plant Is located on or.e side of the Calumet river, which divides the town miser ton. whk-h has two parts. Fronted i)y the river 'out ret-c-ntly had her iinal siniorvislou the- Trial of the Navy with most rosuUs. sv-rcu recoru over York City, quake at Charleston, S- C.

backed by the lake, It will bo al- V'nve'- lost impresnablo to riotius Swin-Iuz bridges across the Calumet iho erulser The T'niU'd Stales at last sue- ceodod in shedding itself lis Hyde. Uncle Sar.i. i in the 1891--Santiago taken by insurgent Chileans Balmaceila's army final- ly defeated at Vina del Mar, Chile persons killed and injured in wreck" on the Western North Car- olina railroad. will turn it into mediaeval fortress Opera House, N'cw about which the drawbridges may be upward and the enemy cut off while the castle can obtain fresh sup- plies of defenders and ammunition from the lake steamers. Then, again, i when tne striker faces raised rates for his ii-hr.

fuel and transportation, lie Astrono-ners have found a on Mars. Hut the one on still subjr-'-t to delay. Rockefeller's knowledge the af- fairs of his own company is as profe.v.ud as bis silence. i T'ncie Sam a tiarr. suur.uer i in a American money out.

Most of the wouhl lv think twice before strik- i ing, or at least such is the hope of bis iu employers. Workers Xearly AS1 Poles. An interesting feature of the whole It has been agreed liouveen ti ernuvenis of ana of tiie States that rb owners all build! ou the- hoiiuaary-Iine rsuist decide which ihoy shall live. OI project is that almost the entire popu- and iation will be Polish. In the new town English will be at a discount, and the Pole, with hi? habitual dislike for de- parting from his native tongue and cus- toms, will a unique opportunity York, almost destroyed bj fire.

lg House of Heprcscufatives voted to repeal the silver-purchasing clause of the Sherman act. rejecting all free coinage amendments. l( Fresh outbreak oE the rebellion Spanish rule in the Philip- cTuptiou of Mont i C.i-oat i i i i in New York in honor of i i a -T. P.ryan on his around tine return world. a i PuMIc Primer has ordered iat i all employe? of the gov- iie another with the formal desigiia- ar.d la eoatradis- I'latt KenJios to CrHic.s.

Senator Plait, as president of tlie Unit- ed' States Kxprr-ss Company, in a circu- lar 'to' stockholders, shows that the carn- and income for the first half of present year have fallen off. compared i the first "naif yf Hie. pivtwlmg city he will meet only his own Til: not 0 from rill sources for T-XiT eonntryinen. where the natives of the at 7 per cent. A New York child MI throe la ed on its si tiffed pet, and was urihurt.

The Iving of Spain is a very happy feeling to i-e a Just wait. till tivthie.g time It was a woman xvlio a resul'v of tho wires miglit. from rust. Men who have been to whisky in I enabled to live ills life under the tra- 5 ns ai -d of his native land. vo: in.

must have on their noilee that the lr Ilarrisbi-rg and San Antonio Is derived. r.oar Seabrook. Tfxas. i Sachem Hall, the new dormi- lent ims approvwl Col. 'Joe- tor Yale university New Haven, sr for autliurlty to expend was so badly damag-d iire that it will Noic-s of Cni-: cr.t 5-v-cat, Several jjorsons were injured when two passenger trains collided head on on the vision of surplus and their charge that Plait family and iheir associates have ju-'-ied the books to hide tin- profits from owners of stock.

The minority faction al- tbat rival coiispanies have been rep- resented the board and a business lias been diveried to competitors- A for- mal demand has been made reform in the management of the company. to v.v.4. than was los(l were evj- the Si: wh.it would it make if John I. Uocko- fdler was in and tiiis aotioii was believed to be in Effective war. it is announced, is being at of true economy and might wa? od ogsinst the Hand save a year's time sn completinst the out Pennsylvania by the State constabu- Congress requested to lary and the indications are that the mnke an appropriation to sever this i The doatii of Dr.

Seneca 1. Powell, a member of tiie faculty of fne Post C.rtdu- Medical School of New believed to have been directly due ft his in the cause of medical sci- ence In bis efforts to demonstrate ileohol was an antidote to carbolic acid the doctor frequently swallowed what would nave been a fatal doso of poi- son and then took alcoliol. Many of these were rnadc sn the presence: troops will soon rid tho commonwealth of asses a the school where he was aa this murderous orsaoization instructor..