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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
8
An extended digest from the Telegraph-Latest from Foreign Shores covers notable events of the week. It highlights gusts of weather, international incidents, and brief notices of crimes and fires.
The State Department says friends asked the Berlin Embassy about Baroness von Ketteler condition. The German Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin reports no special news but assumes she was well on the 4th as German legation members in Peking were in good health. Baroness von Ketteler is the daughter of President Ledyard of the Michigan Central Railroad Company.
The American Window Glass company, known as the trust, orders all its U S factories to start fires to prep for next season on September. After a summer idleness closure from June 30 plants will reopen. Workers gained a wage increase and expect a smooth return. The trust runs thirty factories employing around 35,000 workers.
A Lehigh and New England passenger train struck an omnibus carrying twenty five people three miles east of Slatington Pennsylvania. Fifteen were killed instantly and eleven injured, many in grave condition. The party was returning from a funeral. only three escaped uninjured.
Bob Fitzsimmons fought Gus Rublin, Akron giant, before the Twentieth Century Club at Madison Square Garden. Fitzsimmons knocked Rublin out in the sixth round after a fierce, bloody battle, despite Rublin’ s moments of dominance.
Mrs. Nettie R. Craven again loses in court over the late Senator James G. Fair estate. Judge Troutt rules she is not the widow and not entitled to any allowance, and declares the pencil deed and the alleged will forging documents.
An autopsy on Ralph Miller who died after a boxing match with Victor Baldwin in Richmond Hill S I found death caused by a clot of blood on the brain. The physician declined to say if the clot resulted from a blow in the ring.
Two men who held up a Union Pacific train near Hugo Colorado last week killed passenger W. J. Fay and looted passengers, were cornered by a sheriff s posse at the Bartholomew ranch near Goodland Kansas and shot dead. The ranch house was burned.
The East St. Louis electric railway strike ends after a unanimous vote by employees. The existing boycott against the company is also lifted, ending the labor action that began when the strike started on May 10.
In Janesville Wisconsin a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train crashed into coal cars in the yard killing engineer Albert Schlater and fireman August Abendroth. Their cab was demolished and all passengers were unharmed. Sultan orders warship construction after Turkish envoy visit
The document asserts the United States government would accept Count Waldersee as commander of an international army in China if necessary upon his arrival and deployment to manage the foreign forces.
fragmentary note indicates coal operators may strike in September over wage disputes. The text suggests tensions rising among coal operators and union leadership as of early September.
Nebraska couple George H. Cutler and Anna C. Hansen, once separated by desertion and a farm mortgage, reunite after Cutler strikes it rich in the Yukon. He sends $58,000 in gold from Cape Nome, they marry again in St Paul, and head to Seattle with their sons for the winter.
Gulf grain shippers from Kansas City discuss shipping wheat to Europe via southern ports of Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Delegations from New Orleans Galveston Louisiana Texas inspectors join Missouri and Kansas inspectors to set grading standards before launch.
Rival women clash after a Cinderella party at a summer garden in Oak Hill Massachusetts. An aged shoe maker awarded Mrs Adonis L Camlin the winner of the pretty slippers but another contestant disputed the judgment claiming the smallest foot. The shoe order for Camlin was countermanded triggering internal quarrels within the Royal Tribe of Joseph lodge.
At a Bessemer Association meeting in Cleveland an important step was taken to halt pig iron price decline. All furnaces producing Bessemer pig will go out of blast on Sept 1 except the Brier Hill Iron and Coal Company furnace and H S Andrews Witchcock Company at Youngstown.
A passenger train collided with a light engine at South Raub Indiana killing three passengers and engineer James Hudson instantly. Several passengers were injured and names of the deceased were not released. Engine driver Henry Whitsell suffered severe scalding.
C A Peterson a Chicago master mechanic at the Monterey brick works was shot through the neck and killed by Louis Heder of San Antonio. Heder then shot himself and died minutes later.
In Boston a tomato plant cluster appeared on Grace Savage’s grave in Holy Cross cemetery. Rev. D W Savage, Grace’s father, offers a reward for the thief after plants and flowers were stolen. Grace loved tomatoes and a birthmark on her head matched the fruit. The child died about a year and a half ago and the mystery of the plants remains unsolved.
Isadore Stasiulis tried to shoot Annie Rakaszis near St. Casimer's Church in Pittsburg just after the ceremony. He claimed she promised to marry him after nine years together. Bystanders wrestled the revolver from him as the couple left the sacristy. He threatened to kill himself in the Monongahela River.
Mrs Watkins, an elderly resident of Hamilton Township Michigan, died by self immolation after leaving home to pick berries. Her clothing was saturated with kerosene and she set it afire. matches and kerosene tins were found nearby. Authorities consider the act intentional and speculate insanity.
In Beaver Falls Pennsylvania a fire totally destroyed the Shelby Steel Tube Company and the Boston Electroduct Company causing about 300000 in damage. Firemen prevented spread to Union Drawn Steel Works. origin unknown.
The Harper & Brothers property, a large publishing plant, was sold under foreclosure. Colonel Harvey acted as receiver’s agent for the Morton Trust Company and bid in the entire property as part of the firm’s rehabilitation plan.
Victor Baldwin was arrested in Queens on a charge of taking part in a prize fight that led to the death of opponent Ralph Miller. Panic during a funeral cortege in King's Bier area causes injuries as fears of an assassination rise.
Two burglars stole 500 dollars worth of jewelry from B Winegerter in Akron Ohio and then via long distance call from Cleveland offered 300 to return the items. They provided a correct list of stolen articles and sought a meeting with attorneys. The jeweler insisted on seeing the jewelry before paying any ransom.
Grand Rapids balloonist John Drew died when his parachute failed to open during a ascent over Black Lake between Hotels Macatawa and Ottawa in Holland Michigan. He fell into shallow water and was instantly killed. life-saving crew recovered the body.
A 13 year old Fred Wiines confessed to poisoning his father in Fresno California claiming years of cruelty and denial of driving his team. The boy and his younger brother bought the poison and Fred mixed it into his father's coffee.
A condensed report lists live cattle hogs sheep and grain prices for markets in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more. It covers cattle hogs and sheep price ranges wheat corn oats rye and secondary items like creamery butter eggs and clover seed with varied quotes per city.
The State Department released a note to China through Minister Wu demanding immediate cessation of Imperial troop attacks on the legations in Peking. It urges cooperation with the relief expedition and cites risks of leaving the city, calls for protection of foreigners, and restoration of order.
William J. Bryan and Adlai H. Stevenson were formally informed of their nominations at Military Park in Indianapolis. Crowds estimated 20 000 to 30 000 packed the procession route as a sweltering heat set records and marked the opening of the 1900 campaign with anti imperialism as the keynote.
Russian forces fought a fierce battle with Chinese defenders at New Chwang, stormed fortified trenches, and overwhelmed numerically superior Chinese lines. After breaching the forts the Russians seized the city and destroyed it by fire, ending the siege with heavy casualties on the Chinese side.
A compilation notes alleged dum-dum bullets by Chinese forces and a mass Boxer gathering south of Tien-tsin. Gen Miles sought China service but was rejected. Reports claim mass casualties around the river near the area and talks of a US Russia alliance to deter China’s dismemberment.
Union Pacific train raiders attempting to flee after the Colorado to Hugo Colorado heist were cornered east of Goodland Kansas. In the gunfight J B Riggs and George Cullins were wounded while one robber was shot dead and the other burned in a kitchen fire set by pursuing men.
The August report from the Agriculture Department lists condition averages as of Aug 1 for corn, spring wheat, oats, barley, spring rye, buckwheat, potatoes, and timothy hay with state ties to Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa Missouri Kansas Nebraska and Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and others. It notes July changes and year over year comparisons, including declines in corn oats potatoes and barley and mixed gains in spring wheat and other crops.
British officers were targeted in a clarified Boer conspiracy to capture Lord Roberts and shoot officers in Pretoria. About fifteen conspirators planned arson and forced entry into officer homes, with marked houses to trap the troops. Arrests followed as reports tied the plot to Johanесnesburg unrest and De Wet’s moving forces.
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