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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1907
Page
6
Readable fragments indicate a brief local item mentioning McCALLUM with related headings. No clear event or actions are specified in the accessible text.
Telegraphic dispatch says four loaded freight cars derailed from the Grand Trunk bridge at Niagara Gorge. The cars tumbled into Whirlpool Rapids while the engine stayed on the rails. No injuries reported.
The three sisters of Mrs Albert Swarm are linked to separate fatal incidents at Elkhart Indiana. Amelia Ott was killed by lightning at J P Heasley’s home west of Elkhart in 1896, Pearl Ott died after being kicked in the abdomen by a calf, and Sadie Ott died from an abscess in the head caused by a fall.
Several hundred employees were thrown out of work when a four story warehouse and factory housing the New York and Baltimore Coffee Company and other firms on Furman Street Brooklyn burned. Loss is listed at 200000 dollars. Four firefighters were overcome by gas while battling the blaze.
Four year old Ralph Whitbeck of Detroit dies after his older brother Cecil, age unspecified, fires a 22 caliber rifle while the child sits on his mother's lap. The bullet strikes the brain in the accidental shooting.
New York dispatch reports Robert A. Pinkerton head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency died aboard the steamship Bremen on August 12 while traveling to Germany for his health. He was accompanied by Mr. Florence Sullivan.
A Wa bach accident injures seven people with several seriously hurt. Attorney Arthur N. Mc Cer mn drove the car, which was one of several donated to a church festival.
Application filed in the Federal court at Utica New York for a receiver for the Curtis Legcett Company maker of shifts coarse and juffs assets nominally 5 619 000 liabilities 11 000 000 The company employed 14 000 workers.
Tyrooine plague has broken out in San Francisco California with one death reported. The first intimation of the plague was received by the Marine Hospital Service in Washington DC.
An auto carrying five Bristol Connecticut residents collided with a New York and Pittsfield Express train at the Ashley Falls crossing near Great Barrington Massachusetts. Three were killed instantly and two were injured.
Fire devoured twenty two dwellings four stores a hotel the post office and coal sheds in H bell near Hancock Michigan nearly destroying the village. Loss pegged at about one hundred thousand dollars.
An aeronaut named French plunged to the ground at Sabin Rock Connecticut as his parachute failed to deploy during a descent. The tragedy occurred during a planned aerial descent, and authorities noted the fatal outcome.
Warsaw Indiana reported that Captain Hirjah Blackford, 82, died suddenly after making funeral arrangements. He collapsed in Warsaw following the completion of services.
Fire destroyed the Cumberland Steel Company's plant in Cumberland Maryland and caused an estimated loss of 250000 dollars. The blaze origin is undetermined. Local authorities investigated the fire's cause and scope.
Five miners were killed and six injured when an elevator cage overturned at the Sonman Coal Company tipple near Johnstown Pennsylvania. The men plunged four hundred feet.
A Washington correspondent reports that the immunity granted to the Chicago and Alton railroad in rebate prosecutions may extend to other lines that aided Standard Oil. The government focuses on Standard Oil, with immunity framed to secure evidence, suggesting railroads were compelled by leverage rather than willful wrongdoing.
Mrs. Thomas Cooper of Jefferson Pennsylvania fought an armed intruder who demanded money. With a baseball bat she knocked the revolver from his hand and secured $1,000 hidden in the house before he fled. Her husband arrived to find her exhausted and near fainting.
In Union City Pa during a funeral for Thomas Welly who died in Galveston Texas the mother of the deceased realized the body in a metallic casket was not her son as the undertaker opened the coffin for viewing the error became evident before services concluded.
Joseph Armstrong a prominent Boston Christian Scientist is ill at his residence after six weeks of medical treatment for pleurisy. Armstrong, former manager of the Christian Science Journal, has been absent from duties and may not return soon. Court Upholds Church Union confirms Cumberland church union authority and civil recognition of property action.
A grisly discovery under the Randolph Street bridge in Chicago reveals a crushed, unidentifiable man found amid massive machinery. A Grand Rapids YMCA card bearing the number 763 is the sole clue, as police pursue theories of robbery or murder by adroit disposal.
At Winona Lake delegates of the National Reform Association discuss rising divorce rates and lenient marriage laws. Rev J S Martin of New Castle Pa cites government data and decries tainted rites and trial marriages among actors and actresses.
NEW BATTERY A MARVEL, A Milwaukee company, with a capital of $5,000,000, formed to exploit Frank Curtis’s invention promising to revolutionize light and power. The battery uses electricity from chemical decomposition with newly discovered alloy electrodes. Cost per cell will not exceed FA cents. A four cell battery powered eighteen sixteen candle lamps for seventy eight hours. An eighteen cell battery ran an electric run about 2K hours. The same battery lit twenty four lamps eleven days.
The government orders changes to several American coins after approving Augustus St Gaudens designs. The penny will resemble a real Indian head more closely, Liberty remains on the eagle and double eagle obverses, the $20 gold piece shows an erect eagle, and the $10 gold coin reverses feature a flying eagle modeled after older dollars.
Severe disorder erupted in Belfast on Sunday with mass strike meetings and clashes in the dock quarter. Police and troops faced violent crowds in Queen's Square and Grosvenor Road, with bayonet charges and casualties among soldiers sailors and constables.
The Insulaar line steamship Brooklyn arrived from Vorte Itica amid a remarkable voyage. A school of fourteen whales trailed the ship for miles and one bumped the vessel, necessitating coal pelting to deter it. Captain McLean sighted a comet at dawn on Saturday, and later that afternoon a waterspout formed miles ahead of the steamer.
A group of Omaha church women urged police to remove plaster log leg displays in shop windows. Police declined, then the women appealed to fire and police commissioners who have not acted. The women vow to pursue removal, calling the displays immoral and disgraceful.
Report that outlaw Quantrell is alive on Vancouver Island is questioned by former band members. Frank James claimed Quantrell died in a Louisville prison after being wounded and captured by federal troops.
J F Gaynor, convicted with Greene of Savannah harbor frauds, lies critically ill in Macon Georgia jail. They await the outcome of their appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
Three members of the Columbia Yacht Club narrowly escaped death when they drifted for forty hours on Lake Michigan in a disabled boat. They were tossed by heavy seas before rescue.
Syracuse University Chancellor Day called Judge Landis a demagogue over the heavy fine imposed on the Standard Oil Company. He criticized what he termed an overbearing ruling affecting corporate power and public trust.
United States Ambassador Leishman says assurances from the Partes confirm American missionaries at Urumiah in Persia face no danger from Turkish forces who recently crossed near Urumiah.
General Coxey announces a new pilgrimage to be started soon but keeps its destination and aim undisclosed. The former head of the 1894 Washington march aims to mobilize supporters again though details remain secret.
During a violent thunderstorm at the Missouri National Guard headquarters in St Joseph Sergt Mejor Miller of Battery A St Louis was struck by lightning and instantly killed Privates Thomas and Ulrich were severely shocked The event occurred as the guard was reviewing and Gov Folk oversaw the proceedings.
President Small orders a general strike of all commercial telegraphers in the United States and Canada after a conference with President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and other labor leaders.
A head on collision on the Western and Atlantic railroad one mile north of Dalton Georgia left four dead and three seriously injured when a south bound focal freight struck an extra freight train. Police and railroad officials investigated the wreck and the cause was not immediately known. Fire officials aided survivors and cleared debris from the tracks as ambulances transported the injured to area hospitals.
All telegraph operators in major cities including New York Washington Philadelphia Pittsburgh Buffalo Baltimore and other East Coast cities joined the strike. The walkout spread to the South and West and reached Canada as Associated Press circuits also quit, halting newspaper service nationwide.
David Keys, Civil War veteran and longtime Milton resident, is arrested for complicity in multiple robberies. Representatives of three Keys generations are in jail, totaling eight members of the ring. authorities anticipate further arrests.
At Albany George C Drumm picked up a roll of greenbacks on the sidewalk. An automobilist exiting a store claimed he had dropped the money and Drumm handed over 5990 dollars before realizing the find.
The second trial of Harry K Thaw for the Stanford White murder is not expected to proceed until the January term of court, delaying the long awaited courtroom confrontation.
Governor Deneen offers 200 dollars for the capture of the Williams murder suspect at Mount Vernon. Citizens add 100 dollars, increasing the total reward for the case.
W D Bosinger sought government authority to kill a man at Brimfield near Ravenna Ohio. He was arrested and adjudged insane by the authorities.
The British House of Lords moved major amendments to the Irish evicted tenants bill, critics say will wreck the bill’s usefulness. The government replies that the Commons will not accept the changes.
Sergeant Wesley Merritt of the U S hospital corps in Havana dies as one of the first soldiers infected by yellow fever, marking a fatal early case in the outbreak.
Kansas City Circuit Judge Seehorn refused to grant a mandatory injunction compelling the Adams Express Company to carry C. O. D liquor packages into Towa. The decision shapes liquor package delivery duties in the region and affects local commerce and carrier obligations.
The Pope Manufacturing Company, an automobile maker with a capital of 21 million dollars, was forced into receivership due to inability to float its loans amid tight money markets.
A general strike order by President S J Small of the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America affects about 15 000 workers in the United States and Canada. Chicago shows little disruption with only six Western Union workers leaving and minor activity in the LaSalle street district. The union seeks higher wages eight hour day and better conditions, while railroads pledge support but no strike action.
Despite a telegraphers strike and adverse factors, trade shows cautious recovery with strong bank reserves and rising freight movements. Bank clearings exceed last year by 11.8 percent as corn and spring wheat progress support agriculture and farm outlays rise. Total grain movement at the port reaches 6,617,1638 bushels, while failures in Chicago district number 22.
Growth in crops toward harvest and expanding commerce in western jobbing centers. Cotton fabrics in demand, especially bleached goods, while some coins varus face lower prices. Woolen fabrics cover high-grade sales but slower for others. leather and hides show life with good shoes, while low grades lag. Iron and steel prices ease with mills turning more profitable. overall weekly failures up from prior year.
A scattered list shows regional price quotes for cattle hogs sheep and grains across multiple cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover seed with ranges and limits per standard market lots.
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