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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
6
Veterans of the Philippines army marked Occupation Day with an 800 strong parade in blue shirts and khaki. A banquet followed where the Manila campaign story and battles were recounted, led by Commissioner Smith. Two thirds of the veterans now hold civil government positions.
A morning quake rattled Alton waking many as plaster loosened in the M. KE church and bricks shook from chimneys while windows broke in several locations. In St Louis the tremor lasted several seconds and stirred residents from sleep across the city.
Dispatches from Mexico City report that a large Maya force, thought subdued, attacked a government detachment in Yucatan. Sixty Mexican soldiers were killed or seriously wounded and forced to retreat, with dead and wounded left on the field. A number of Mayas also died.
James J. Jeffries, world heavyweight champion, and Jim Corbett fought nine and a half rounds at the Mechanics' Athletic Club in San Francisco before Corbett's seconds signaled the referee to stop the bout to spare their man. Jeffries landed a powerful left to Corbett's stomach as the tenth began, delivering the victory.
Pope Pius X intends to allow Roman Catholics to vote in political elections, forming a party able to influence the Italian parliament on church interests. Catholics were forbidden to vote after the pope lost temporal power.
Consul Jewett in Fort De France reports cane cocoa coffee crops total loss fruits and vegetables destroyed towns injured thousands of houses down breadstuffs provisions and galvanized roofing in short supply communication difficult deaths few but urgent relief needed.
Fourteen masked men abducted a herder from Joseph Sturgeon’s sheep camp near Dupuyer Montana. They beat him to death after tying him to a tree and whipped him. They shot many sheep and drove the rest away as Sheriff Taylor pursues the assailants.
Lieutenant General von Gosgler is relieved from the post of war minister at his own request. Lieutenant General von Einen, director general of the department of war, is appointed as his successor.
A court martial at Monastir condemned gendarme Halim to death for the murder of M Rostkovski the Russian consul at Monastir. The sentence was immediately carried out.
Mrs Stephen Wyer was killed and her mother Mrs Philip Statler and brother Charles Statler were seriously injured in a runaway horse accident at Fostoria Ohio. The incident left the survivors in critical condition with possible fatalities.
The Ottoman government has concluded negotiations with Krupp works for thirty-two batteries of quick fire field artillery. Each battery includes six guns.
In the desert mining town of Manuel, a rare cloudburst nearly obliterated the settlement. Homes were washed away and a structure burned after a lightning strike. A miner identified as Smith was killed in the disaster.
The Seashore Limited crashes after hitting an open switch at Van Wert Ohio area station. Engineer is killed and about a score of passengers injured, some fatally. Investigations begin into the switch failure and train operations.
IXent Stow, son of IF D Stow, a Merchants Dispatch agent in Buffalo, killed his wife and shot himself likely in a temporary insanity episode after returning from a drive. The couple, married about two years and with a one year old child, had no known domestic strife. the man, 24, had recently recovered from malaria.
Government plan would place all railway trains under federal protection with every trainman made a government employee authorized to handle mail. Mail would be loaded directly on trains without post office delivery, a system railways reportedly favor as it would designate every train a mail train and prohibit stopping one.
Rev J F Davidson of Tacoma organizes a colonization plan for Southern black residents. He led a party of twenty five Louisiana Negroes toward land in Washington to settle as a vanguard of a wider movement to the farming West. A separate item reports a farmer’s goat eating a pocketbook containing 470 dollars, stolen from his coat by the creature.
At the Cleveland Furnace Company's new plant nearing one million dollars, three workers inside the stack were crushed when a bell at the top crashed down seventy five feet onto them. The disaster halts building work in Chicago as contractors pause amid high labor and material costs and the Union League postpones a new club house project.
Secretary Shaw dismissed Henry Ives Cobb from his role as architect in charge of the Chicago Federal building and accepted the resignations of two government workers who wished to quit due to dissatisfaction with Cobb's methods. A congressional inquiry into the affair is anticipated.
In a letter to Governor Durbin of Indiana President Roosevelt calls lynching a form of anarchy and says mob violence is growing at an alarming rate threatening the republic. He urges speedy trials and punishment of criminals as the remedy.
The Amalgamated Brotherhood of Teamsters and Helpers, formed at Niagara Falls North Carolina, representing 150000 U S teamsters, selects Indianapolis as permanent headquarters and Cincinnati as the meeting place next August.
A dismembered headless body trunk was found floating in the Mississippi near the St Paul Boom Company dam. The corpse had been in the water so long it could not be identified.
A tornado struck Salt Fork in Oklahoma thirty miles southwest of Blackwell, demolishing the town. No deaths occurred. one seriously injured, a Frisco Road section boss.
Carrie Nation’s summary conviction for selling hatchets in violation of a city ordinance was declared illegal by Judge Newsmd at Scranton Pennsylvania, reversing the ruling. The decision cites improper procedure and frees Nation from the prior penalty.
A habeas corpus action was sustained due to a defective magistrate record. Mrs Nation’s counsel plans to file suit against the city seeking 50,000 dollars in damages for false arrest and imprisonment.
The Rock Island Texas express plunged through a bridge over Hendricks Creek near Alma Kansas. Fireman John Leggett was killed and Engineer John McSteen of Kansas City was seriously injured. Baggagemen and expressmen were swept into tree tops and rescued at daylight by fisherman William Graves. The engine lay at the creek bottom and one car hung from the bridge while another rested on the bank submerged partly. The disaster followed a cloudburst that filled the creek and weakened the bridge.
The Commercial Bank at Duluth Minnesota with 25000 capital collapses after Ernest EB Johnson defrauds the bank of 48500 through stock speculation at local bucket shops. Johnson, once viewed as a model youth, had been using bank funds and is held to the grand jury in 15000 bonds.
Edward Yockers a Broadway ferries switchman in Brooklyn avoided death when a live trolley wire snapped and wrapped around his body for five minutes. Spectators, about five hundred, witnessed the narrow escape before he was freed and treated. doctors expect recovery.
Omaha police search for Bordsall Ayres a 12 year old from Chicago who disappeared in Florence a Omaha suburb while visiting an aunt. He left with another boy after his father came to take him home.
George W. Beavers former superintendent of the salaries and allowance division in the Post Office Department is a fugitive from justice. Officials say his whereabouts are unknown and hence difficult to locate.
James J. Jeffries retains the world heavyweight championship by knocking out James J. Corbett in the tenth round at Mechanics' Pavilion San Francisco. The rugged contender used youth weight and power to prevail after a fierce bout.
Panama canal treaty died in Colombia dispute and Nicaragua route likely to be decided by President Roosevelt. Congressional committee amendments will not be accepted by the United States.
The Postoffice Department settled on William R. Spilman of Riley Kansas as the likely appointee to replace A W Machen the deposed and indicted free delivery superintendent.
Edmund J. Smith once a discount clerk at Merchants' National Bank of Newark New Jersey was arrested in Williamson Virginia after disappearing about two weeks ago with an estimated 29000 dollars stolen from the bank.
Paris Gaulois reports Jules Verne is nearly blind and needs cataract removal. The author declines surgery citing age and danger, saying he prefers to live with his remaining sight.
John D. Rockefeller and Charles Sweeney organize a merger of the Coeur d Alene lead mines. The new concern will have a capital of 30000000 dollars and will conduct ore smelting and mining operations.
The Rock Island has taken over the Seaboard Airline giving access to tide water at six or seven important points. Laden burg, Thalmann & Co announced the long-expected deal.
Twenty men died when an English boiler exploded at the Santa Iuita cotton factory in Canete Peru. The plant was insured in native companies. The battleship Massachusetts also sustained damage after striking a rock near Bar Harbor Mo. Several plates cracked and two compartments filled with water.
A hurricane battered Jamaica with widespread damage to banana plantations in the east and unknown extent in the west. Telegraphs were down, Kingston suffered property damage, the electric light plant roof blew off, rail traffic halted, and many homes lost trees. No lives reported.
A Georgia Florida financial scam reports a Northern black man named Mitchell who said he worked for Senator Mark Hanna to collect funds for pension legislation. Victims, drawn by pension hopes, gave up to $6,000. one skeptic, F. B. Wilson, wrote to Hanna and received a denial of fraud.
John I. Brown, cashier of the Union Banking Company in New Holland, Ohio, disappeared after locking the bank doors and an expert was sent from Cincinnati to aid. Brown, in the post for twelve years, is believed to have left from Pleasant Ridge in Hamilton County, while the bank remains shut pending inquiry.
Nellie McHenry has recovered securities valued around $50,000 that belonged to her late husband and herself. The papers were thought lost and were found in the vaults of two New York safe deposit companies. They are now in possession of the widow of a theatrical manager.
A mining prospector returning from four years in the Mackenzie basin brought a suspected relic of the ill fated Andree expedition to Vancouver. Believed to be a fragment of the silk used in Andree's balloon construction.
Curtis Jett and Thomas White were found guilty of the murder of James B. Marcum in Jackson Kentucky and sentenced to life servitude marking a rare punitive action against Kentucky feudists.
Chinese rebels defeat imperial forces at Hwei-Chou-Fu in Kwang-Tung province. Imperial reinforcements totaling 3,000 German-trained troops have arrived at Canton to bolster defense.
A desert mining town named Manuel near San Bernardino California was nearly destroyed by a cloudburst. One man was killed as most houses were washed away and another home was struck by lightning and burned.
W. S. Stone of Elden Iowa division No. 181 has been elected to fill the unexpired term as grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, after the deaths of P. M. Arthur and A. B. Youngson. He will serve the term in the organization’s leadership.
The Nebraska death sentence case of William Rhea highlights how a punctuation error in a 1893 criminal statute altered capital punishment outcomes. A comma change shifted discretion to juries, directing whether to impose capital punishment or life imprisonment.
The court held that the State need not prove intent to murder before robbery. The engrossed law copy was official after the Rhea appeal, denying a new trial. Rhea shot and killed Henry Zahn at Snyder Nebraska during an alleged hold up with two companions.
Curtis Jett and Thomas White are found guilty of the murder of James B. Marcum in Jackson Kentucky. Each faces a life imprisonment sentence after a trial that lasted nearly three weeks and included a tense courtroom scene. The defense signals plans to seek a new trial as the case moves toward appeals.
Colombia’s nine amendments to the Panama canal treaty jeopardize the agreement, with officials unsure of their specifics. The proposals reportedly seek a large increase in the canal strip bonus and bar U S control over the territory, pushing Roosevelt toward a Nicaragua route.
Postmaster General Payne releases a statement on rural free delivery progress across the nation. In July, the first month of the new fiscal year, about 5,000 new routes were established. Total annual appropriation stands at 12 million dollars, just under three million more than needed to sustain current service. Petitions for roughly 11,000 additional routes are on file.
Notes report a cinder twine factory to be built at the Missouri penitentiary as soon as work permits. The item in Topeka notes a 14 year old boy, Martin Deeginger, drowned in Kaw river while swimming. Conductor Bert Clay died at Oklahoma City while his train crew switched cars on a siding. An effort seeks a law for licensing music teachers in Iowa.
New York trade advices indicate favorable conditions year over year with rising volumes in many lines. Jobbers report full business with strong prospects and plants near full occupancy, except cotton mills. July wheat and corn exports show declines versus last year, while iron and steel demand remains robust and contracts rise.
A compact market roundup lists cattle hogs sheep and grain prices across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo and New York. Price ranges cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and hay with varying grades and shipping terms.
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